Abstract We add to our understanding of the optimal method judicial selection by exploiting an unusual feature in North Carolina: judges rotate location every 6 months. This allows us identify existence and source sentencing variation over electoral cycle. show that when elections approach, felony sentences rise. increase is found exclusively are their district election, only contested. When he...

We compute the asymptotic behavior of average-case filling volume for certain models random Lipschitz cycles in unit cube and sphere. For example, we estimate minimal area a Seifert surface model knots first studied by Millett. This is generalization classical Ajtai--Koml\'os--Tusn\'ady optimal matching theorem from combinatorial probability. The author hopes applications to topology links, map...

Background: One of the most common causes of infertility in women is ovulatory dysfunction (PCOS) and the choice of treatment is clomiphene citrate. One of the mechanism of dichotomy between the rate of ovulation and pregnancy is anti estrogenic effects of clomiphene citrate on endometrium. According to its long half life, the anti estrogenic effects probably exacerbate in consecutive cycles. W...

This study examines the fatigue and anisotropy behaviour of cold rolled AA1200 aluminium alloy for light weight automotive connecting rod application. Aluminium (Al) 1200 ingots were melted at temperature of 680 0C (after one hour of heating) cast in sand mould and cast samples homogenized for 6 hrs at 480 0C. The cold rolling process was carried out after homogenisation for 10, 20, 30, 40 and ...

Mesophilic bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes varied during composting cycles with high numbers in the initial and final cycles with maximal values in compost C and D, and sharply decreased in the heating cycles. Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis were dominated at the initial composting cycle. Whereas, at maturity Bacillus subtilis was the major followed by B.badi...

Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the effects of several financial cycles severely battered the banking system of the United States. As used here, the term "cycle" does not imply a recurring phenomenon, but rather a cycle through various phases--as in a boom and bust cycle. Most of these cycles began with a prolonged period of extraordinary growth centered in a particularly risky t...

Syphilis has re-emerged as a global public health issue. In lesser developed countries, millions of people are contracting the disease, which can be fatal without access to proper treatment. In developed countries, prevalence is on the rise and has cycled around endemic levels for decades. We investigate syphilis dynamics by extending the classic SIRS epidemiological model to incorporate forwar...

We propose a model of history dependent disappointment aversion (HDDA), allowing the attitude of a decision-maker (DM) towards disappointment at each stage of a T -stage lottery to evolve as a function of his history of disappointments and elations in prior stages. We establish an equivalence between the existence of an HDDA representation and two documented cognitive biases. First, the DM over...

We prove regularity bounds for Koszul cycles holding for every ideal of dimension ≤ 1 in a polynomial ring; see Theorem 3.5. In Theorem 4.7 we generalize the “c + 1” lower bound for the Green–Lazarsfeld index of Veronese rings proved in (Bruns et al., arXiv:0902.2431) to the multihomogeneous setting. For the Koszul complex of the c-th power of the maximal ideal in a Koszul ring we prove that th...