This paper empirically investigates the relationship between CPI inflation uncertainty, and private investment in the Iranian economy from 1988 to 2010 by using quarterly data. We employ a bivariate VAR(5)-GARCH(1,1)-in-mean with diagonal BEKK model to discover in a unified framework how are the interactions between the variables. In the model, conditional variance of inflation and private inve...

culiar behaviors manifested principally at microscopic levels. From its beginning, the new regime was symbolized by Planck’s constant h, introduced in his famous paper of 1900. Measuring the world’s departure from smooth, continuous behavior, h proved to be a very small number, but different from zero. Wherever it appeared, strange phenomena came with it. What it really meant was of course myst...

A large and important base of existing software is being left behind by emerging microprocessor architectures. Recently, fundamental issues in microprocessor technologies have led designers to increase the number of cores on a chip instead of increasing its single-threaded performance. Many-core designs with 4 to 8 cores are ubiquitous, and trends suggest that core counts will continue to grow ...

Although significant private investment is absorbed in different sectors of power systems, transmission sector is still suffering from appropriate private investment. This is because of the pricing policies of transmission services, tariffs, and especially for investment risks. Investment risks are due to the uncertain behaviour of power systems that discourage investors to invest in the transm...

/\ numl..ter of studies have divided Mcxieo into rel!ions ( 1\odril!uez, 19(10; Bnssols, 1961: Wilkie, 1970: Sl'l', 1979; Seoll, ] 9H2). Wilkie (llJ70) tlivideriiVlexico into seven re~ions usin~ poverty level indicators for the years 1910-1960. For the prcsen t analysis, we consolidated l woof Wilkie's regions, the Fede~al District and the West Central Region, which completely ~rrounds the dist...

The complexity class of Πpk-Polynomial Local Search (PLS) problems with Πp` -goal is introduced, and is used to give new characterisations of definable search problems in fragments of Bounded Arithmetic. The characterisations are established via notations for propositional proofs obtained by translating Bounded Arithmetic proofs using the Paris-Wilkie-translation. For ` ≤ k, the Σ`+1-definable ...

Title of dissertation: MICROTURBULENT TRANSPORT OF NON-MAXWELLIAN ALPHA PARTICLES George John Wilkie, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor William Dorland Department of Physics A burning Deuterium-Tritium plasma is one which depends upon fusion-produced alpha particles for self-heating. Whether a plasma can reach a burning state requires knowledge of the transport of a...

This paper studies environments where individuals allocate resources across relationships with others, creating a weighted, directed network. Value is achieved both through an exogenous factor and maintaining close connections to high-value individuals. We consider two cases corresponding to the direction benefits flow along links. In Model A (for “asking”) agents receive benefits through the l...

The paper reports micro-econometric evidence on the factors that influence self-employment choice, earnings and the ability of the self-employed to generate employment for others. It uses recent longitudinal data for the UK, and is therefore able to exploit multiple observations on the same individual to control for unobserved heterogeneity, and mitigate problems of endogeneity which trouble cr...

In this thesis, I explore Isaacson’s thesis and Wilkie’s theorem, providing philosophical and formal results on how they relate to each other. At a first approximation, Isaacson’s thesis claims that Peano arithmetic is sound and complete with respect to genuinely arithmetical statements. Using internalist notions familiar from recent work on internal categoricity theorems, I provide a formal de...