We introduce the normalized Jensen-Mercer functional Mn( f ,x, p) = f (a)+ f (b)− n ∑ i=1 pi f (xi)− f ( a+b− n ∑ i=1 pixi ) and establish the inequalities of type MMn( f ,x,q) Mn( f ,x, p) mMn( f ,x,q) , where f is a convex function, x = (x1, . . . ,xn) and m and M are real numbers satisfying certain conditions. We prove them for the case when p and q are nonnegative n -tuples and when p and q...

We present a class of algorithms for learning the structure of graphical models from data. The algorithms are based on a measure known as the kernel generalized variance (KGV), which essentially allows us to treat all variables on an equal footing as Gaussians in a feature space obtained from Mercer kernels. Thus we are able to learn hybrid graphs involving discrete and continuous variables of ...

Holly Mercer is Head of Digital Services & Scholarly Communication in the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University; e-mail: [email protected]. © Holly Mercer Academic librarians are increasingly expected to advocate for scholarly communications reforms such as open access to scholarly publications, yet librarians do not always practice what they preach. Previous research examined librar...

Keith Mercer. Rough Justice: Policing, Crime, and the Origins of Newfoundland Constabulary, 1729–1871. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-77457-016-6. An article from journal Labrador Studies (Volume 36, Number 2, 2021, pp. 171-344), on Érudit.

Este artículo reseña: Ben Mercer. Students Revolt in 1968. France, Italy and West Germany. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2020, 268 pp.

Mohan Balasubramanian is deputy director and senior principal investigator at the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore. He is also a member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore. He grew up in India and did a doctorate at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, starting work on cytokinesis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe in the laboratory of Sean...

A long-lived firm sells a good to a sequence of consumers, where the good’s quality imperfectly depends on the firm’s unobservable e§ort. To solve the moral hazard problem, the firm can promise to pay damages (formal sanctions) or facilitate reputational punishment (informal sanctions). Formal sanctions engender litigation costs and possible court error while informal sanctions involve ine¢cien...