Tacit knowledge, intuition, intuitive heritage are very broad concepts and sometimes too vague to provide for any practical applications (as a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush). Only some of the many possible intuitive factors in science are chosen. Indo-European mythology belongs to the heritage of humanity, but has nothing to do with the mathematical creation of set theory. It is pos...

The dark energy problem is analyzed from the viewpoint of the time-varying cosmological term. It is demonstrated that, at least within the scope of the holographic principle, an experimental value of the vacuum energy density may be derived and may be tested quite well with a new small parameter arising in a quantum theory with the fundamental length on the order of Planck’s length. Besides, wi...

Production management is a set of decisions that must reflect a compromise between customers’ satisfaction and production criteria such as cost, delay and quality. The goal of production management is to ensure the continued success of the firm. Industrial planning plays a central part in this one. The latter can be divided into three hierarchical decisional levels: the strategic level deals wi...

The problem of short-term scheduling often involves the satisfaction of variable product demands at specific due dates within the time horizon under consideration. Ierapetritou and Floudas (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1998, 37, 4341-4359, 4360-4374) presented a new continuous time formulation to effectively address the problem of short-term scheduling in batch, continuous, and mixed production facilit...

This paper examines the predictability of real estate asset returns using a number of time series techniques. A vector autoregressive model, which incorporates financial spreads, is able to improve upon the out of sample forecasting performance of univariate time series models at a short forecasting horizon. However, as the forecasting horizon increases, the explanatory power of such models is ...

We characterize the compensation demanded by investors in equilibrium for incremental exposure to growth-rate risk. Given an underlying Markov diffusion that governs the state variables in the economy, the economic model implies a stochastic discount factor process S and a reference stochastic growth process G for the macroeconomy. Both are modeled conveniently as multiplicative functionals of ...

We study the possible existence of charged black holes in the Bergmann-Wagoner class of scalar-tensor theories (STT) of gravity in four dimensions. The existence of black holes is shown for anomalous versions of these theories, with a negative kinetic term in the Lagrangian. The Hawking temperature TH of these holes is zero, while the horizon area is (in most cases) infinite. As a special case,...

We express the Noether charge entropy density of a black brane in anti-deSitter space in terms of local operators in the anti-deSitter space bulk. We find that Wald’s expression for the Noether charge entropy needs to be modified away from the horizon by an additional term that vanishes on the horizon. We then determine the field theory dual of the Noether charge entropy for theories that asymp...

We propose a trick which enables one to incorporate the Gribov horizon into the Schwinger-Dyson equation in Landau and Coulomb gauge Yang-Mills theory, using the Gribov-Zwanziger framework with the horizon term. We find a family of solutions parameterized by one-parameter wR(0) which was overlooked so far by assuming to be zero implicitly. The family includes both the scaling and decoupling sol...