We analyze task reallocation where individually rational (IR) agents (re)contract tasks among themselves based on marginal costs. A task allocation graph is introduced as a tool for analyzing contract types. Traditional single task contracts always have a short path (sequence of contracts) to the optimal task allocation but an IR path may not exist, or it may not be short. We analyze an algorit...

A k-means cluster analysis is used to summarize unfiltered daily atmospheric variability at regional-scale over the western Sahel and eastern tropical North Atlantic during the boreal summer season (July—September, JAS) 1961—1998. It employs zonal and meridional regional wind fields at 925, 700 and 200 hPa from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast Reanalyses. An 8-cluster solut...

1. The mouse protection test used for the standardization of anti-pneumococcic serum Type I and II is very unreliable. 2. The specific polysaccharide precipitation test can be used to establish the comparative value of a test serum to a standardized serum. 3. The polysaccharide used for such tests does not have to be of the highest purity.

Here we present the results of a study performed on 59 patients affected by Waardenburg syndrome (WS), 30 with the I variant, 21 having the type II, and 8 of them being isolated cases without telecanthus. These patients belong to 37 families; the main contributions and conclusions are based on the detailed study of 25 of these families, examined using standard procedures. All patients were exam...

Building on a recent paper which defined complementary array pairs of types I, II, and III, this paper further characterises a class of type-I pairs defined over the alphabet {−1, 0, 1} and shows that a subset of these pairs are local-unitaryequivalent to a subset of the type-III pairs defined over a bipolar ({1,−1}) alphabet. Enumerations of the distinct structures in this class and its subset...

different languages are classified in different types according to different elliptical positions in coordinate sentences. in the following, i shall briefly outline this typology and then show the status of persian in this hierarchy. moreover, i will demonstrate that two functional factors; ease of processing and temporal order, are in competition to specify the elliptical positions in these se...

A planning board is a planning tool that uses the Gantt chart as its main representation mechanism. A planning board generator aims at facilitating the development of planning boards; using a description of the problem type for which a planning board is to be developed and the desired representations and manipulations, the generator automatically creates a prototype of the planning board. In th...

In 1948, Hodgkin delineated different classes of axonal firing.  This has been mathematically translated allowing insight and understanding to emerge.  As such, the terminology of 'Type I' and 'Type II' neurons is commonplace in the Neuroscience literature today.  Theoretical insights have helped us realize that, for example, network synchronization depends on whether neurons are Type I or Type...

This 2-article series offers a conceptual, historical, and moral analysis of the practice of triage. Part I distinguishes triage from related concepts, reviews the evolution of triage principles and practices, and describes the settings in which triage is commonly practiced. Part II identifies and examines the moral values and principles underlying the practice of triage.

Certain basic concepts of geometrical stability theory are generalized to a class of closure operators containing algebraic closure. A specific case of a generalized closure operator is developed which is relevant to Vaught’s conjecture. As an application of the methods, we prove Theorem A. Let G be a superstable group of U− rank ω such that the generics of G are locally modular and Th(G) has f...