(A) In a previous paper (1) the catalytic effect of H + and OHions on the hydrolytic splitting of the C N linkage was investigated by means of quantum mechanical considerations. In this paper will be reported investigations as to the effect of foreign rigid dipoles on the energy of the activated configurations, and thus on the energy of activation. If the latter is lowered a positive catalytic ...

Recent literature on robust mechanism design focuses on detail-free mechanisms to address issues on the restrictive common knowledge assumption. However, most of the existing studies focus on the implementability of an allocation mechanism in a more robust setting, whereas very little is known regarding how these formulations differ from the revenue perspective in the context of optimal mechani...

A problematic feature of the existing empirical literature on the relationship between revenue decentralization (RD) and inflation is the use of inaccurate measures for RD. Using a newly constructed measure for RD that accounts for over-time changes in subnational tax autonomy, this paper finds that RD leads to lower inflation.

Introduction: Otalgia is one of the complaints which may occur at any age. The etiology of the pain may be in the ear, structures around the ear or other head and neck structures. This is caused by the complex nervous connections in the head and neck areas, the ear, the pharynx and the nose. Since understanding the etiologies of referred otalgia can help in the assessment and treatment of the ...

Let S be a semigroup. In certain cases we give some characterizations of extreme amenability of S and we show that in these cases extreme left amenability and extreme right amenability of S are equivalent. Also when S is a compact topological semigroup, we characterize extremely left amenable subalgebras of C(S), where C(S) is the space of all continuous bounded real valued functions on S