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DECOMPOSITION THEOREM AND APPLICATIONS RAMI GROSSBERG AND OLIVIER LESSMANN Abstract. In this paper, we prove a decomposition theorem for abstract elementary classes K with the amalgamation property, under the assumption that certain axioms regarding independence, existence of some prime models, and regular types are satisfied. This context encompasses the following: (1) K is the class of models...

Gap junctions are present between nonpigmented and pigmented epithelial cells layers, as well as between the adjacent pigmented cells, but not between the nonpigmented epithelial cells which face the posterior chamber. The unusual feature of these gap junctions is a dark banding which regularly appears every three rows of subunits. This dark band is the equivalent width of two rows of facets.

Distance learning is more and more interesting to everyone. Learning Management Systems are capable to be the source of data for business intelligence software. Business Intelligence software integrated with Learning Management System can help to analyze the way student uses distance learning, what are the effects and how to improve its quality. This paper describes the design of Business Intel...

nvironmental degradation can inflict serious damage on poor people, because their livelihoods often depend on natural resource use, and their living conditions may offer little protection from pollution of the air, water and soil. At the same time, poverty-constrained options may induce the poor to deplete resources and degrade the environment at rates that are incompatible with long-term susta...

18. a) Using the results obtained in problem (2.17) above, we are to find a closed-form expression for the Green’s function for the interior of a cylinder of radius b with Dirichlet boundary conditions. From our general work with solutions to the Laplace equation with Green’s functions and from our work about in problem (2.17), we know that the Green’s function for the interior of the cylinder ...

A class of games for finding a leader among a group of candidates is studied in detail. This class covers games based on coin-tossing and rock-paper-scissors as special cases and its complexity exhibits similar stochastic behaviors: either of logarithmic mean and bounded variance or of exponential mean and exponential variance. Many applications are also discussed.

In this note we correct and improve a zero duality gap result in extended monotropic programming given by Bertsekas in [1].