What is paradoxical about the " Three-box paradox " ? Abstract This paper is a comment on quant-ph/0606067 by Ravon and Vaid-man, in which they defend the position that the " three-box paradox " is indeed paradoxical.

A measurement has been proposed by B. d'Espagnat that would distinguish from one another some ensembles that are differently prepared but correspond to the same density matrix. Here, the idea is modified so that it becomes applicable to much more general situations. The method is illustrated in simple examples. Some matter of concern might then be that information could be transmitted by method...

This paper takes the Anscombe-Aumann framework with horse and roulette lotteries, and applies the Savage axioms to the horse lotteries and the von Neumann-Morgenstern independence axiom to the roulette lotteries. The resulting representation of preferences yields a subjective probability measure over states and two utility functions, one governing risk attitudes and one governing ambiguity atti...

Friction is a classical field that goes back to Leonardo da Vinci, Guilliame Amonton, and Charles Augustin de Coulomb. Amonton found that friction force is proportional to normal load, but surprisingly is independent of the area of the apparent contact surface. This observation is known as the Amonton’s paradox. The apparent contact surface is the geometric object surface projected to the conta...

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An agent’s choice between saving and immediate consumption depends crucially on the future uncertainty. In the standard model, it is generally assumed that uncertainty is identical to risk. That is, a single probability measure on the state of the world is available to guide choice. For example, according to the rational expectations hypothesis, agents know precisely the objective probability l...

Consider a viscous liquid droplet spreading on a surface. The classical slip condition at the liquid–solid interface is the no–slip condition. However, this condition lead to infinite dissipation of energy for propagating contact lines (“no–slip paradox”). For this reason other slip conditions such as the Navier–slip have been introduced. We prove well–posedness for a reduced 1–d fluid model mo...

This paper reports from a large-scale openEHR-based EPR project 2012-2016 in the North Norway Regional Health Authority. To be able to support patient pathways across the health region's trusts, there is a need for standardized routines and practices. Therefore, the North Norway Regional Health Authority has since 2011 had an increased regional focus to prepare for this new system. This include...

While organisations continue to invest heavily in IS/IT, research studies and practitioner surveys report contradictory findings on the effect of the expenditures on organisational productivity (Grover et al., 1998). Therefore, it is not surprising to see that the term “productivity paradox” is gaining increasing notoriety as several studies point toward fairly static productivity and rising IS...

Policymakers in the UK and US continue to present the electronic patient record (EPR) as a panacea for improving and reforming healthcare, themes common to many large scale IT projects which have gone before. Yet the promises of numerous EPR programmes, big and small, have been challenged by failed adoptions. Heterogeneity in methods and epistemologies presents a challenge for the traditional ‘...