Old George sat on an upturned half-barrel cleaning his gun. It only ever shot blanks these days, but that didn't matter much. A fellow outlaw'd once told him the state of your gun's soul and liked sound religion as much any other he'd come across. Least it had clarity; was sure.Around corner from phony saloon he up front came sounds horses yelling. The director telling someone to fall bigger—bi...

We have been developing a Web application that will help both teachers and learners notice the crucial aspects of solving word-reordering problems. Evaluation systems most computers employ deal with only results of the answers reached by learners without looking into the process by which the answers are produced. It will be insufficient to ascertain learners’ understanding level because correct...

Lucky Search is a type of search which does not produce a list of Web page links. It directly hits the Home Page of the most appropriate Web site. Lucky Search depends on Web search string but with the conventional search engines, some times it hits the Home Page of appropriate Web site and some times it hits a wrong Web site. For this reason we propose a prototype which provides domain specifi...

In Chinese culture, certain digits are lucky and others unlucky. We test how such numerological superstition affects financial decision in the China IPO market. We find that the frequency of lucky numerical stock listing codes exceeds what would be expected by chance. Also consistent with superstition effects, newly listed firms with lucky listing codes are initially traded at a premium after c...

We propose a new method to select amongst a large group of candidate factors — many of which might arise as a result of data mining — that purport to explain the cross-section of expected returns. The method is robust to general distributional characteristics of both factor and asset returns. We allow for the possibility of time-series as well as cross-sectional dependence. The technique accomm...

There are three theories of luck in the literature, each of which tends to appeal to philosophers pursuing different concerns. These are the probability, modal, and control views. I will argue that all three theories are irreparably defective; not only are there counterexamples to each of the three theories of luck, but there are three previously undiscussed classes of counterexamples against t...