In various application areas, prior information is available about the direction of the effects of multiple predictors on the conditional response distribution. For example, in epidemiology studies of potentially adverse exposures and continuous health responses, one can typically assume a priori that increasing the level of an exposure does not lead to an improvement in the health response. Su...

This paper examines critically the contributions of Cournot, Jevons and Walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. Advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...

‎Several modifications of the Laplace distribution have been introduced and applied in various fields up to this day‎. ‎In this paper‎,  ‎we introduce a modified symmetric version of the classical Laplace distribution‎.  ‎We provide a comprehensive theoretical description of this distribution‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎we derive the formulas for th...

Dear Participants, We welcome you to the 18th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society in Lyon at the Palais des Congrès overlooking the Rhône River. As in past meetings, we will take the next 5 days to recount and hear recounted the latest advances in all aspects of colour vision, from genes to spectral coding, from neurophysiology to perception, from retina to cortex, from develop...

A number of authors have objected to the application of non-classical logic to problems in philosophy on the basis that these non-classical logics are usually characterised by a classical meta-theory. In many cases the problem amounts to more than just a discrepancy; the very phenomena responsible for non-classicality occur in the field of semantics as much as they do elsewhere. The phenomena o...

Dynamical representations used in physics are analysed from a "second order" viewpoint, as distinction systems constructed by an observer in interaction with an object. The creation, conservation and destruction of distinctions can be understood on the basis of a distinction dynamics. The fundamental mechanism is the variation through recombination and selective retention of closed combinations...