Kinetic models using enzyme kinetics are developed for the three ways that Louie proved that Rosen’s minimal (M-R)-System can be closed to efficient cause; i.e., how the ‘‘replication’’ component can itself be entailed from within the system. The kinetic models are developed using the techniques of network thermodynamics. As a demonstration, each model is simulated using a SPICE circuit simulat...

The m-business landscape never stops to change and the impacts on the mobile market are constant as players reposition themselves on the market according to the new opportunities and threats brought by rapid technological developments. This paper proposes a conceptual tool to better understand this player arena. Its objective is to provide the researchers with an ontology for analyzing and asse...

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In this paper we investigate the complexity of m-diagrams of models of various completions of first-order Peano Arithmetic (PA). We obtain characterizations that extend Solovay’s results for open diagrams of models of completions of PA. We first characterize the m-diagrams of models of True Arithmetic by showing that the degrees ofm-diagrams of nonstandard models A of TA are the same for allm ≥...

Two types of M-estimators of the parameters of the multi-variate linear model are considered. The first type corresponds to coordinatewise M-estimators; the second is an extension of Maronna's (1976) proposal for the multivariate location case. Under some general conditions on the error distribution, on the design matrix and on the score functions, the asymptotic distribution of the coordinatew...

In empirical work on multivariate financial time series, it is common to postulate a Multivariate GARCH model. We show that the popular Gaussian quasi-maximum likelihood estimator of MGARCH models is very sensitive to outliers in the data. We propose to use robust M-estimators and provide asymptotic theory for M-estimators of MGARCH models. The Monte Carlo study and empirical application docume...

In the most recent times, mobile visitors form the fastest growing Web community. The ease with which web pages or information is retrieved from the Web using PDAs or cell phones is a result of the rapid development in wireless technologies like GPRS, EDGE, etc. Also the development of educational technologies tends to be more mobile, portable and personalized. This development is quickly chang...

We establish explicit duality transformations for systems of M q-state Potts models coupled through their local energy density, generalizing known results for M=1,2,3. The M-dimensional space of coupling constants contains a self-dual submanifold of dimension D(M)=[M/2]. For the case M=4, the variation of the effective central charge along the self-dual surface is investigated by numerical tran...

Bucket elimination is an algorithmic framework that generalizes dynamic programming to accommodate many problem-solving and reasoning tasks. In particular, it can be used for any combinatorial optimization task such as finding most probable configurations in a Bayesian network. In this paper we present a new algorithm elim-m-opt, extending bucket elimination for the task of finding m best solut...