This paper investigates the nature of paths in the standard neoclassical aggregative model of economic growth that are maximal according to the Suppes-Sen grading principle. This is accomplished by relating such paths to paths which are utilitarian maximal when an increasing (but not necessarily concave) utility function evaluates each period’s consumption. Dynamic properties of Suppes-Sen maxi...

Many machine learning tasks require finding per-part correspondences between objects. In this work we focus on low-level correspondences — a highly ambiguous matching problem. We propose to use a hierarchical semantic representation of the objects, coming from a convolutional neural network, to solve this ambiguity. Training it for low-level correspondence prediction directly might not be an op...

Across languages and event types (agentive and non-agentive motion, transfer, change of state, attach/detach), goal paths are privileged over source paths in the linguistic encoding of events. Furthermore, some linguistic analyses suggest that goal paths are more central than source paths in the semantic and syntactic structure of motion verbs. However, in the non-linguistic memory of children ...

The transfer of very large files often faces the problem of performance degradation due to bottlenecks or congestions in a network. Large file transfer is typical in Grid networks [11], where multiple nodes cooperate and run a common application. To improve the performance of large file transfer and to reduce the transfer time, this paper proposes a new file transfer application, called Secure ...

Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services) This is the revised version of Deliverable 6.2 on Skill Transfer. In line with item (3) of the Y3 decision...

A new Monte Carlo technique has been developed for the direct sampling of flight paths in media with continuously varying cross-sections. This technique provides an alternative to the use of delta-tracking for problems where the material cross-sections vary over the particle flight paths. The technique is general, and may provide benefits to Monte Carlo calculations of charged particles, atmosp...

Being able to transfer addressed information between sources and destinations is the prime function of a communication network. Hence, how to find paths for the data flow between source and destinations through the network is one of the most salient issues and important functions in network architecture and operation. In this paper, the function is denoted path finding, irrespective of whether ...

When people learn that I study lethal injection, they are usually curious to know more (or at least they are polite enough to ask questions). Interestingly, the question that arises most often— from lawyers, law students, and laypeople—is why states behave as they do. In the wake of botched executions and ample evidence of lethal injection‘s dangers, why do states fail to address their executio...

Word form segmentation abilities emerge during the first year of life, and it has been proposed that infants initially rely on two types of cues to extract words from fluent speech: Transitional Probabilities (TPs) and rhythmic units. The main goal of the present study was to use the behavioral method of the Headturn Preference Procedure (HPP) to investigate again rhythmic segmentation of sylla...

Here we show the existence of a smooth complex projective curve Z P 3 of degree d and genus g such that TP 3 jZ is stable for all integers d; g such that (roughly) d 2 =9 < g < (d?1) 2 =8. Following a construction of Gruson and Peskine we will nd such a curve Z on an integral rational quartic surface with a double line. We will use in an essential way also the main properties of stable vector b...