The flight to reference is a widely-used strategy for resolving philosophical issues. The three steps in a flight to reference argument are: (1) offer a substantive account of the reference relation, (2) argue that a particular expression refers (or does not refer), and (3) draw a philosophical conclusion about something other than reference, like truth or ontology. It is our contention that wh...

I replicate Donohue and Levitt’s results for violent and property crime arrest rates and then apply their data and specification to an analysis of age-specific homicide rates and murder arrest rates. The coefficients on the abortion rate have the wrong sign for two of the four measures of crime and none is statistically significant at conventional levels. In the second half of the paper, I pres...

A two-person infinite-horizon bargaining model where one of the players may have either of two discount factors, has a multiplicity of perfect Bayesian equilibria. Introducing the slightest possibility that either player may be one of a rich variety of stationary behavioral types singles out a particular solution and appears to support some axiomatic treatments in the early literature in their ...

v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to express my deep sense of respect and gratitude towards my advisor Dr. Philip Loizou, who has been the guiding force behind this work. I want to thank him for introducing me to the field of Signal Processing and giving me the opportunity to work on this research projects. I am greatly indebted to him for his constant encouragement and invaluable a...

Philip WJ Harvey and Omar Dary Public Health Nutrition / Volume 15 / Issue 10 / October 2012, pp 1791 ­ 1795 DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012003096, Published online: 27 June 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1368980012003096 How to cite this article: Philip WJ Harvey and Omar Dary (2012). Governments and academic institutions play vital roles in food fortification: iro...