Hansen and Singleton (1982) argue in a seminal paper that it is su cient to test the ® rst-order Euler equations implied by an economic model without having to solve for all endogenous variables. Many interesting economic models cannot be solved analytically, so restricting oneself to the class of solvable models would unnecessarily limit the scope of economic analysis. This paper argues that,...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of starters and storage temperature (4 ºC, 25 ºC) onmicrobiological and physicochemical properties, volatile compounds and sensory evaluation of kefir.Kefirs produced by KFA and Chr. Hansen starters were stored at 4 ºC and 25 ºC for 40 days. pH andacidity at 4 ºC did not change (p ≥ 0.05), while at 25 ºC pH and total solid decreased as well a...

We prove that in a class of non-equiregular sub-Riemannian manifolds corners are not length minimizing. This extends the results of [4]. As an application of our main result we complete and simplify the analysis in [6], showing that in a 4-dimensional subRiemannian structure suggested by Agrachev and Gauthier all length-minimizing curves are smooth.

We explore in this study how infants may derive phonetic categories from adult input that are highly variable. Neural networks in the form of self-organizing maps (SOMs; Kohonen, 1989, 1995) were used to simulate unsupervised learning of Mandarin tones. In Simulation 1, we trained the SOMs with syllable-sized continuous F0 contours, produced by multiple speakers in connected speech, and with th...

Landau gave a lower estimate for the radius of a schlicht disk centered at the origin and contained in the image of the unit disk under a bounded holomorphic function f normalized by f(0) = f ′(0)− 1 = 1. Chen, Gauthier, and Hengartner established analogous versions for bounded harmonic functions. We improve upon their estimates.