TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: LAWS TARGETING PRICE DISCRIMINATION .............. 1237 I. ECONOMIC CONCEPTIONS OF PRICE DISCRIMINATION: A BRIEF REVIEW ..................................................................... 1239 A. Price Discrimination, Defined .......................................... 1239 B. Arbitrage, Market Power, and Price Discrimination ........ 1243 C. Price Discriminatio...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a technique based on linear programming (LP) to measure the relative efficiency of homogeneous units by considering inputs and outputs. The lack of discrimination among efficient decision making units (DMUs) and unrealistic input-outputs weights have been known as the drawback of DEA. In this paper the new scheme based on a goal programming data envelopment an...

Recognition and classification of Power Quality Distorted Signals (PQDSs) in power systems is an essential duty. One of the noteworthy issues in Power Quality Analysis (PQA) is identification of distorted signals using an efficient scheme. This paper recommends a Time–Frequency Analysis (TFA), for extracting features, so-called "hybrid approach", using incorporation of Multi Resolution Analysis...

A procedure for analysis of experimental data and model discrimination in regression of rate data of reversible, heterogeneous reactions which uses the power-law rate expression is described. The numerical values of the power-law parameters are calculated first by regression of the experimental data. These parameters are used to assess whether the quality of the experimental data is sufficient ...

former NSW policeman, Harry Blackburn, was cleared of multiple sex charges on the 11 October 1989, and a Victorian was convicted of rape a week earlier. In both cases DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profiling was used. DNA profiling illustrates the most powerful concept in forensic science, the power to eliminate a suspect. DNA profiling has a very high discrimination power and is therefore very po...

A growing body of literature supports stigma and discrimination as fundamental causes of health disparities. Stigma and discrimination experienced by transgender people have been associated with increased risk for depression, suicide, and HIV. Transgender stigma and discrimination experienced in health care influence transgender people's health care access and utilization. Thus, understanding h...

The ability to monitor the success of cognitive processing is referred to as metacognition. Studies of metacognition typically probe post-decision judgments of confidence, showing that we can report on the success of wide range of cognitive processes. Much less is known about our ability to monitor and report on the degree of top-down attention, an ability of paramount importance in tasks requi...

The efficient coding hypothesis suggests that the early visual system is optimized to represent stimuli in the natural environment. While it is believed that LGN processing removes the redundant information of natural scenes, it is not clear whether the early visual processing can selectively amplify important signals in natural stimuli to facilitate discrimination. In this study, we examined t...