We discuss the relationship between various weak distributive laws and games in Boolean algebras. In the first part we give some game characterizations for certain forms of Prikry’s “hyper-weak distributive laws”, and in the second part we construct Suslin algebras in which neither player wins a certain hyper-weak distributivity game. We conclude that in the constructible universe L , all the d...

To finance basic pro-poor services, the Government of Ghana must mobilize more public revenue. But tax reform has been highly controversial in Ghana. An attempt to introduce VAT in 1995 failed after widespread protests. Although a second attempt to introduce VAT in 1998 succeeded, strong resistance to tax reform remains, and the total tax base remains narrow and over-dependent on petroleum taxe...

Purpose Described as the world‟s larges machine, large technological infrastructures embrace us with its services. Those infrastructure-based services enable communication, energy utilization, financial transactions, transportation, etc. In this paper we will label those services Infra-Services and argue that Infra-Services is a special class of services which falls into the intersection of the...

Arne Svensson1, Anders Ahlén2, Anna Brunstrom3, Tony Ottosson1, and Mikael Sternad2 1 Dept. Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden {arne.svensson, tony.ottosson}@s2.chalmers.se 2Signals and Systems, Uppsala University, PO Box 528, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden {anders.ahlen, mikael.sternad}@signal.uu.se 3Dept. Computer Science, Karlstad University, SE-651 ...