The search for the next Standard Model of fundamental interactions is being carried out at two frontiers: the high energy frontier involving the Tevatron and Large Hadron Collider, and the high precision frontier where the focus is largely on low energy experiments. I discuss the unique and powerful window on new physics provided by the precision frontier and its complementarity to the informat...

This paper presents a cooperative distributed approach for searching odor sources in unknown structured environments with multiple mobile robots. While searching and exploring the environment, the robots independently generate on-line local topological maps and by sharing them with each other they construct a global map. The proposed method is a decentralized frontier based algorithm enhanced b...

The fallacy that a many-period expected-utility maximizer should maximize (a) the expected logarithm of portfolio outcomes or (b) the expected average compound return of his portfolio is now understood to rest upon a fallacious use of the LawofLargc Nurtrbcrs. This paper exposes a more subtle fallacy based upon a fallacious use of the Cenfral-Limit Throrcnr. While the properly normalized produc...

‎an  oriented perfect path double cover (oppdc) of a‎ ‎graph $g$ is a collection of directed paths in the symmetric‎ ‎orientation $g_s$ of‎ ‎$g$ such that‎ ‎each arc‎ ‎of $g_s$ lies in exactly one of the paths and each‎ ‎vertex of $g$ appears just once as a beginning and just once as an‎ ‎end of a path‎. ‎maxov{'a} and ne{v{s}}et{v{r}}il (discrete‎ ‎math‎. ‎276 (2004) 287-294) conjectured that ...

the non-differentiability and implicit definition of boundary of production possibility set (pps) in data envelopment analysis (dea) are two important difficulties for obtaining directional characteristics, including different elasticity measures and marginal rates of substitution. also, imposing weight restrictions in dea models have some shortcomings and misunderstandings. in this paper we ut...

(1) An acute phagedenic ulcer, circular in outline with sharp punched out edges usually commencing on the site of some trivial abrasion not necessarily of recent origin. The rapid increase in area and depth of the ulcer was appalling. Within 24 or 48 hours a trivial abrasion might become an ulcer as big as a rupee and with deep fascia exposed in its base. Considerable swelling of surrounding ti...

A growing community of long time horizon institutional investors that includes sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other beneficiary institutions located in cities outside of the major international financial centers (IFCs), is pushing back against the misaligned incentives and power asymmetries present in the for-profit asset management industry. This expanding group of beneficiary inst...

In the use of peer group data to assess individual, typical or best practice performance, the effective detection of outliers is critical for achieving useful results, particularly for two-stage analyses. In the DEA-related literature, prior work on this issue has focused on the efficient frontier as a basis for detecting outliers. An iterative approach for dealing with the potential for one ou...