Behavioral economic analysis of law is about bringing recent research about behavior and choice together with classical law and economics. In this essay we assess its relevance for the theory of optimal law enforcement. It is our view that criminal law is an area where behavioral analysis has a role to play. Notwithstanding the results so far provided by the behavioral approach are somehow disa...

Most research in economics studies agents somehow motivated by outcomes. Here, we study agents motivated by procedures instead, where procedures are defined independently of an outcome. To that end, we design procedures which yield the same expected outcomes or carry the same information on others’ intentions while they have different outcomeinvariant properties. Agents are experimentally confi...

Object-oriented programming has resulted in the reuse of class libraries and application frameworks. This can considerably improve the productivity in software development. Black-box reuse boosts productivity more than white-box reuse. However, white-box reuse is the usual means of dealing with common parts in di erent applications, assuming that the same developers are building these applicati...

The Problem: There has been an explosion of content on the Web. In the very near future, images, video and virtual reality will be available on demand much as text is now. Somehow an interested user must be able to find the images or video of interest. For example a user may wish to scan a travel documentary for images of distinct locations and objects, like “Buddhist temples”, “Gothic cathedra...

I believe to interpret the thought of all the participants to this fourth conference on Generative Art affirming that generative art is a deep creative experience and, somehow, visionary too. This experience, in fact, anticipates the possible evolution of the fields proper of human creativeness, rediscovering paths and approaches to ideation that have been proper of one of the most fertile mome...

Mixture modelling is a hot area in pattern recognition. This paper focuses on the use of Bernoulli mixtures for binary data and, in particular, for binary images. More specifically, six EM initialisation techniques are described and empirically compared on a classification task of handwritten Indian digits. Somehow surprisingly, we have found that a relatively good initialisation for Bernoulli ...

The posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is a vessel located between the intra- and extracranial circulation. The artery is characterized by a complex embryological development and numerous anatomical variants. The authors present a case of the PICA supplied by both a hypertrophic anterior spinal artery and a hypoplastic bulbar artery. This unusual arrangement somehow completes the list ...

There are lots of results on the “random-like” behaviour of square elements in finite fields. For example, they can be used in combinatorial constructions and algorithms, as their properties somehow “imitate” a random distribution. In this paper we investigate the more general question concerning the behaviour of d-th powers in finite fields (where d is a fixed value). Surprisingly, they are di...

We analyze the action of the inhomogeneous modular group Γ(2) on the three cusps of its principal fundamental domain in the Poincaré half plane. From this, we obtain an exhaustive classification of the fractional quantum Hall numbers. This classification is somehow similar to the one given by Jain. We also present some resulting remarks concerning direct phase transitions between the different ...

Ferroresonance is a phenomenon that involves high distorted levels of overvoltage and overcurrents. During the last decades, the three-phase ferroresonance research has suffered several changes due to the continuously changing equipment and network. This paper analyses every main factor that is somehow related with the origin, consequences and the preventive decisions that may lead us to avoid ...