Astronomers think that stars end their existence as one of three possible stellar remnants. In recent decades, astronomers have amassed a tremendous amount of observational data and theoretical models to support an evolutionary interpretation of stellar remnants. We survey this topic and discuss possible creationary responses to it. * Danny R. Faulkner, University of South Carolina Lancaster, L...

Following Lancaster’s (1966, 1979) own interpretation of his characteristics approach to consumer theory, this contribution focuses on the theoretical and empirical arguments questioning the smoothness of traditional hedonic price estimation techniques. Indeed, Lancaster argued strongly against “combinability”, i.e., that any efficient combination of characteristics is feasible and sensible, wh...

We consider the problem of detecting multiple changepoints in large data sets. Our focus is on applications where the number of changepoints will increase as we collect more data: for example in genetics as we analyse larger regions of the genome, or in finance as we observe time-series over longer periods. We consider the common approach of detecting changepoints through minimising a cost func...

The aim of this work is to analyse the feeding pigs problem using an operations research model with several conflicting criteria, economic and nutritional. The theoretical approach consists in adapting to producer decisions the modern consumer demand theory, the “characteristics approach” of Lancaster, which is essentially a multicriteria decision process. In this context the multicriteria deci...

M. I. Dykman, 1 D. G. Luchinsky, 2,* R. Mannella, 3 P. V. E. McClintock, 2 S. M. Soskin, and N. D. Stein 2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823 School of Physics and Chemistry, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, United Kingdom Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Piazza Torricelli 2, 56100 Pisa, Italy ~Received 15 February 19...

F. Simon,1,* V. Zólyomi,2,3 R. Pfeiffer,1 H. Kuzmany,1 J. Koltai,4 and J. Kürti4 1Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Strudlhofgasse 4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria 2Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, United Kingdom 3Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary 4Department of Biological P...