Agnosticism has always had its fair amount of criticism. Religious believers often described the first agnostics as infidels and it is not uncommon to see them somewhat dull fence-sitters. Moreover, undecided agnostic stance on belief in gods compared with being unsure about such obviously false statements existence orbiting teapots, invisible dragons or even Santa Claus. In this paper, I maint...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1RBC Financial Group, 222 Bay St, M5K 1G8, Toronto, ON, Canada 2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3 Toronto, ON , Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Credit value adjustment (CVA) is an adjustment to an existing trading price based on the counterparty-ri...

Several lines of evidence have implicated the existence of the brain's default network during passive or undirected mental states. Nevertheless, results on the emergence of the default network in very young pediatric subjects are lacking. Using resting functional magnetic resonance imaging in healthy pediatric subjects between 2 weeks and 2 years of age, we describe the temporal evolution of th...

We extend the standard model of general equilibrium with incomplete markets to allow for default and punishment. The equilibrating variables include expected delivery rates, along with the usual prices of assets and commodities. By reinterpreting the variables, our model encompasses a broad range of adverse selection and signalling phenomena (including the Akerlof lemons model and the Rothschil...

Parallel Computing has become pervasive and the number of processors placed in computers will further increase in the future. However, software developers are struggling to efficiently exploit the computational resources provided by parallel architectures. It is thus inevitable to investigate the behaviour of parallel programs and develop methods that help improving their performance. The softw...

Sleep deprivation have shown its great influence on the default mode network (DMN). The DMN is a core system in resting state brain activity. Recent studies have focused on its subsystems and multiple functions. However, the individual specific organization of the DMN is rarely investigated. As the effects of sleep deprivation (SD) on mood are well documented, a more interesting question is whe...

This paper presents methods of default reasoning which allow us to draw negative conclusions that are not available in some of the models for inheritance reasoning. Some of these negative conclusions are shown to be logically required, while others result from an extension of the model to include the notion of a default negative assumption. The negative default assumption operator is exactly sy...