Department Website: http://fundamentals.uchicago.edu About Fundamentals The Fundamentals program enables students to concentrate on fundamental questions by reading classic texts that articulate and speak to these questions. It seeks to foster precise and thoughtful pursuit of basic questions by means of (1) rigorous training in the interpretation of important texts, supported by (2) extensive ...

We report the results of an experiment designed to measure how well asset market prices track fundamentals when the latter experience peaks and troughs. We observe greater price efficiency in markets in which fundamentals rise to a peak and then decline, than in markets in which fundamentals decline to a trough and undergo a subsequent increase. The findings demonstrate that the characteristics...

Geographic information systems (GIS) are being used with increasing frequency in environmental epidemiology studies. Reported applications include locating the study population by geocoding addresses (assigning mapping coordinates), using proximity analysis of contaminant source as a surrogate for exposure, and integrating environmental monitoring data into the analysis of the health outcomes. ...

This paper presents a novel combination of known techniques for building a middleware which can support service replication in a hostile environment where a node can get corrupted and fail arbitrarily and message transfer delays cannot be accurately bounded. Using localised replication and output comparison, failarbitrary behaviour is reduced to fail-signal: the middleware process of a corrupte...

Environmental context Snow albedo plays an important role in the Earth environment. Light-absorbing particles (LAPs) can significantly impact snow through complex interactions and feedbacks over global cryosphere. This study provides a unique review of fundamentals, recent advances, challenges future research directions modelling LAP–snow–radiation impacts on albedo. Abstract critical system st...

This article describes some fundamentals for an environment-responsive traffic control. It starts with a brief description of the needs to consider environmental aspects in urban traffic control, focusing on noise, particular matters (PM), and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Respective current regulations by law in Europe and Germany are explained. Comparing the regulations for the improvement of air qu...