In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has placed increasing emphasis on the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items. Some have seen the use of COTS as the silver bullet that will allow the Services to deploy more capable systems faster and at lower cost. Others have viewed the use of COTS items more skeptically. Many in this latter group believe that COTS cannot work effectively...

BACKGROUND A limited case-load size is considered crucial for some forms of intensive case management and many countries have undertaken extensive reorganisation of mental health services to achieve this. However, there has been limited empirical work to explore this specifically. AIMS To test whether there is a discrete threshold for changes in intensive case management practice determined b...

Most major urban areas remain segregated by race, especially in terms of black segregation from whites. We replicate and extend the innovative approach developed by Farley and colleagues for understanding processes of racial residential segregation with data collected in Los Angeles. Using a large (N = 4025) multiracial sample of adults, we examine (1) actual and perceived differences in econom...

We show that a qubit can be used to substitute for a classical analog system requiring an arbitrarily large number of classical bits to represent digitally. Let a physical system S interact locally with a classical field varphi(x) as S travels directly from point A to point B. Our task is to use S to answer a simple yes/no question about varphi(x). If S is a qubit, the task can be done perfectl...

In the course of its interaction with the world, the human nervous system must constantly estimate various variables in the surrounding environment. Past research indicates that environmental variables may be represented as probabilistic distributions of a priori information (priors). Priors for environmental variables that do not change much over time have been widely studied. Little is known,...

Many philosophers endorse deterrence justifications of legal punishment. According to these justifications, punishment is justified at least in part because it deters offenses. These justifications rely on empirical assumptions, e.g., that non-punitive enforcement can’t deter or that it can’t deter enough. I’ll challenge these assumptions and argue that extant deterrence justifications of legal...

IntroductIon Hart once proposed in his book “corporate governance”: Some theory and implications that governance issue would emerge if there is any interest conflict between principal and agent with no support of a complete contract in a principal‐agent relation.[1] Governance theory developed from the governance issue believes that an effective institutional arrangement could avoid or decrease...