Scientific realism as a challenge to economics (and vice versa)

From numbers to Numerals and Vice Versa

Universally used decimal representations, such as 5; 200; 856763; 189200000 are rendered (written, pronounced) differently in different languages. The number 5 is tllus five in English, fern in Swedish, cinq in French, ketsmala in Koyukon, biyar in Hausa and nga: in Burmese. Numbers can furthermore be written differently in different mathematical systems. The number 5 is written V in the Roman ...

How to make a fragile network robust and vice versa.

We investigate topologically biased failure in scale-free networks with a degree distribution P(k) proportional, variantk;{-gamma}. The probability p that an edge remains intact is assumed to depend on the degree k of adjacent nodes i and j through p_{ij} proportional, variant(k_{i}k_{j});{-alpha}. By varying the exponent alpha, we interpolate between random (alpha=0) and systematic failure. Fo...

Interpretation of Electrical Networks as Probability Networks (and vice versa)

Structure in Melody, and vice versa

In this paper we argue for a slightly modified conception of phonological representations along the lines of Government Phonology. Releasing C and V from their traditional, phonetically oriented connotations as consonants and vowels and promoting them into abstract phonological primitives, we show that phonological elements, melodic expressions and phonological structure can be viewed in a unfi...

Identity and transculture in Vice Versa.

Quebec's struggle between francophones and anglophones has deeply affected other immigrant communities' identitarian practices. Within Montreal's eighties and nineties nationalist environment some Italo-Quebecois worked as a bridge between the two groups through the transcultural magazine Vice Versa. The article presents some findings from a case study that looks at how Vice Versa challenged do...