Most insurance companies publish few data on the occurrence and detection of insurance fraud. This stands in contrast to the previous literature on costly state verification, which has shown that it is optimal to commit to an auditing strategy, as the credible announcement of thoroughly auditing claim reports might act as a powerful deterrent. We show that uncertainty about fraud detection can ...

In general, the realization of major principles and dimensions of citizenship, especially with regard to people’s rights, entitlements, and obligations, is largely determined by the nature of the state, which varies depending on its socio-historical context. It is argued in this article that the recent decades have witnessed a fundamental shift in the nature of the state worldwide, based on neo...

We examine whether the cosmologies with varying speed of light (VSL) are compatible with the second law of thermodynamics. We find that the VSL cosmology with varying fundamental constant is severely constrained by the second law of thermodynamics, whereas the bimetric cosmological models are less constrained.

The determination of contact forces between a grasped object andfingers of a robot hand is treated in this research. In the previous research on fingertip grasps, the underlying assumption is generally that the fingers can apply any required force. In cases of enveloping orpower grasps, the latter assumption does not always hold because some components of the contact forces may not be controlla...

During the last decade the agenda of local and global politics is heavily marked by the encounter of two powerful currents, namely democracy and political Islam. On the one hand Islam as a religion itself is facing a cultural dialectic between a modern and an authentic form, producing a synthesis which is only to be criticized again by a new radical antithesis. Within that framework political I...

We present a method to compute the interaction force during an imposed movement. First, we show how to incorporate a kinematic constraint into the equation of motion of a simple but realistic model of the arm. Second, we apply this method to predict the interaction force during an imposed movement of the arm. The results of these simulations are compared to the interaction force recorded when a...

This short article is devoted to the dynamics of controlled (and, therefore, open) systems. The internal forces, which appear only in the presence of external free controls and depend explicitely on them, are considered. Such interactive forces may be regarded as feedbacks generated in the system by the external free controls. In particular, one is able to interpret the interactive controls as ...

We prove that whenever a Kac-Moody group over a finite field is a lattice of its buildings, it has a fundamental domain with respect to which the induction cocycle is L for any p∈ [1; +∞). The proof uses elementary counting arguments for root group actions on buildings. The applications are the possibility to apply some lattice superrigidity, and the normal subgroup property for Kac-Moody latti...

In this paper, we consider different ways of generating dynamical systems on 3-manifolds. We first derive explicit differential equations for dynamical systems defined on generic hyperbolic 3-manifolds by using automorphic function theory to uniformize the upper half-space model. It is achieved via the modification of the standard Poincaré theta series to generate systems invariant within each ...

Problems of geometric probability for an arbitrary convex body of resolution in the euclidean space E3 has been investigated in [1]. In [9] Buffon’s problem is solved for a lattice of right-angled parallelepipeds in the 3-dimensional space. In this note we want to use the results in [5] for to solve problems of intersection for a particular lattice that we describe: the fundamental cell C0 of t...