Reply to Burch and Nash

Reply to Nash: Color terms are lost, despite missing data.

Haynie and Bowern (H&B) (1) use promising computational phylogenetic methods to test the standard view of color terminology structure, epitomized in the World Color Survey (WCS) (2). H&Bmatched Bayesian phylogenies for 189 Pama–Nyungan languages with the color terms in each vocabulary. Their inferred ancestral state reconstructions found the expected “general support for the WCS model of color ...

Better-reply dynamics and global convergence to Nash equilibrium in aggregative games

We consider n-person games with quasi-concave payoffs that depend on a player’s own action and the sum of all players’ actions. We show that a discrete-time, stochastic process in which players move towards better replies—the better-reply dynamics—converges globally to a Nash equilibrium if actions are either strategic substitutes or strategic complements for all players around each Nash equili...

Reply to the Comments by Nash about the Violation of Dimensional Analysis

We reply to the comments by Nash about our approach to the partial differential equations of renormalizable quantum field theory. By a simple example, the lack of content of his remarks is made more manifest, (Submitted to Phys, Rev. ) * Work supported by U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration.

Modified Burch Colposuspension

Operation Concept: Elevation of the vaginal fascia on both sides lateral to the cystourethral junction to suspend the bladder neck. Contrary to the original method of Burch the vaginal fascia will not be completely attached to the Lig. Iliopectinum (=Cooper ligament), you pull the knot only until you create a kind of hammock under the bladder neck. Use only non-resorbable sutures. If there is a...

Laparoscopic Paravaginal Repair and Burch Urethropexy