In November 2004 California passed Proposition 63, a landmark piece of mental health and fiscal legislation. This initiative places a 1 percent tax on adjusted gross income over dollar 1 million, affecting about 30,000 taxpayers and raising dollar 1.8 billion (a 31 percent increase) in new revenues over the first three years to support county-operated mental health systems. Our analysis suggest...

Returns of an individual enterprise in the short term are usually measured through a gross margin budget, which is determined by subtracting factors such as the cost of weed control (both herbicide and non-herbicide) and other inputs (eg seed and fertiliser) from gross income (calculated as crop yield multiplied by grain price). Crop yield is directly influenced by weed density, which itself is...

In [1] we explained that partition functions of various matrix models can be constructed from that of the cubic Kontsevich model, which, therefore, becomes a basic elementary building block in ”M-theory” of matrix models [2]. However, the less topical complex matrix model appeared to be an exception: its decomposition involved not only the Kontsevich τ -function but also another constituent, wh...

We show that the massless (ultraviolet regularized) Gross-Neveu model, in d 3 dimensions and any number of avors (N = 1; 2; 3; : : :), does not exhibit the mass generation mechanism if the quartic term coupling constant is suuciently small. In particular, extending previous results (rigorously established for N = 1 1,2]) we prove that the two-point function can be written in terms of a converge...