The first part of this paper consists of lecture notes which summarize the machinery of filtered root invariants. A conceptual notion of “homotopy Greek letter element” is also introduced, and evidence is presented that it may be related to the root invariant. In the second part we compute some low dimensional root invariants of v1 -periodic elements at the prime 2. AMS Classification numbers P...

The mission of the Information Mining department, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, is exploring, exploiting, and enriching data mining and text mining methods to provide complex decision and product support systems. A key requirement for being able to provide a complex system lies in the different core technologies used, such as symbolic machine learning, statistical learning procedures...

In the present paper we study systematically several consequence relations on the usual language of propositional intuitionistic logic that can be defined semantically by using Kripke frames and the same defining truth conditions for the connectives as in intuitionistic logic but without imposing some of the conditions on the Kripke frames that are required in the intuitionistic case. The logic...

Observations from two freeway bottlenecks in and near Toronto, Canada indicate that the average rate vehicles discharge from a queue can be 10% lower than the flow measured prior to the queue’s formation. Absent any influences from downstream, the queue discharge flows exhibited nearly stationary patterns that alternated between higher and lower rates. These alternating flow patterns were espec...

With a predilection for market solutions, neoliberalism upholds that the individual is generally the best judge of his or her interests. Yet markets are never universally applied as a mechanism of allocation and there are reasons, in principle, why capitalism will always have ‘‘missing markets.’’ Concentrating on the application and appropriateness of neoliberal theory to the workplace, this ar...

One of the success stories in formal semantics is the analysis of NPs as generalized quantifiers, which can be traced back from Barwise & Cooper (1981) via Montague to Frege. The great attraction of this analysis is that it allows for a compositional analysis of the meaning of noun phrases that is consistent with independently motivated assumptions about their syntax. For example, Barwise and C...

The development of anything like a systematic approach to the chemotherapy of cancer began with the discovery that some chemical substances were capable of so profoundly interfering with the processes of cell division that either mitosis was prevented or else the daughter cells from the mitotic division were so damaged that they died. It was apparently because of this property that these substa...

We discuss on observations related to value-at-risk optimization. Firstly, we consider a portfolio problem under an infinite number of value-at-risk inequality constraints (modeling first order stochastic dominance). The random data are assumed to be normally distributed. Although this problem is necessarily non-convex, an explicit solution can be derived. Secondly, we provide a (negative) resu...

more apparent to other users of the roads than to the rider, but on the other hand it is so speedy and economical a means of transit that its votaries are increasing in number every year. This year's show provides ample proof of steady progress in the evolution of a satisfactory machine, and the growing popularity of the light weight machine is perhaps the most striking tendency of the year. Am...

An interplay of perturbative and nonperturbative effects in pomeron, odderon and reggeons dynamics is discussed. It is pointed out that experimental data on pion charge exchange reaction at high energies indicate to a dominance of the nonperturbative string-like dynamics up to rather large momentum transfer. Role of shadowing effects related to triple pomeron interactions is investigated. 1 Per...