On Some Neglected British Economists-II

Some Notes on British Bats

reed warbler here and never an icterine, a bird whose notes are firmly fixed in my head. The Norfolk coast, in addition to furnishing breeding grounds for some large colonies of terns, is a good place to see migrants, many of which find temporary shelter in the low growth on the saltings and sandhills. Sometimes, especially in foggy weather, a hold-up of migrants occurs. This autumn, for instan...

Some Neglected Pixel Problems

We have developed several improved techniques because standard reduction software was inadequate for the Treasury Project on η Carinae. Though adapted specifically to HST/STIS/CCD data, some of these methods can be useful for images obtained with other instruments. For instance, our subpixel modeling technique reduces some of the evil effects of marginal sampling, i.e., in images where the pixe...

Some Impressions of British Farming

Some Neglected Axioms in Fair Division

Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their entitlements if they receive nothing else. The “price” procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the sol...

Some Neglected Aspects of the Generation Task

Looking to the future, generators will have more knowledge of language and will have to deal with inputs which are very rich in information. As a result, several problems will become more acute, including selecting what to say at the sub-proposition level and dealing with interaction among goals and dependencies among choices. This paper explains how these problems arise and why they are hard t...