In an earlier paper in these pages, we explored the puzzling link between dispositions and conditionals. First, we rehearsed the standard counterexamples to the simple conditional analysis and the refined conditional analysis defended by David Lewis. Second, we attacked a tempting response to these counterexamples: what we called the ―getting specific strategy‖. Third, we presented a series of ...

This thesis is divided into two chapters. In the first chapter, I analyze Michael Walzer’s account of the moral legitimacy of states. In the second chapter, I analyze his account of the morality of killing in war. I begin the first chapter by contrasting Walzer’s account of state legitimacy and humanitarian intervention with that of David Luban. Next, I develop a Rawlsian account of state legit...

Levy and Levy (2002, 2004) develop the Prospect and Markowitz stochastic dominance theory with S-shaped and reverse S-shaped utility functions for investors. In this paper, we extend Levy and Levy’s Prospect Stochastic Dominance theory (PSD) and Markowitz Stochastic Dominance theory (MSD) to the first three orders and link the corresponding S-shaped and reverse S-shaped utility functions to the...

Rock–paper–scissors (RPS) game is a nice model to study the biodiversity in ecosystem. However, the previous studies only consider the nearestneighborinteraction among the species. In this paper, taking the long range migration into account, the effects of the interplay between nearest-neighbor-interaction and long-range-interaction of Levy flight with distance distribution h l (-0.3<h<-0.1) in...

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We study the effective reduction for a nonlocal stochastic partial differential equation with oscillating coefficients. The operator in this is generator of non-Gaussian Levy processes, either integrable or non-integrable jump kernels. examine limiting behavior as scaling parameter tends to zero, and derive reduced (local nonlocal) equation. In particular, work leads an data assimilation system...

Abstract Environmental perturbations and noise are source of mode mixing interferences between the propagating modes a complex multi-mode fiber. Typically, they characterized by their correlation (paraxial) length, spectral content which describes degree coupling various modes. We show that an appropriate control these quantities allows to engineer Levy-type relaxation processes initial excitat...

In recent studies the truncated Levy process (TLP) has been shown to be very promising for the modeling of financial dynamics. In contrast to the Levy process, the TLP has finite moments and can account for both the previously observed excess kurtosis at short timescales, along with the slow convergence to Gaussian at longer timescales. I further test the truncated Levy paradigm using high freq...