My Ph.D thesis focuses on the study of solution concepts for rational learning agents in extensive–form games in absence of common knowledge; specifically, on the definition of solution concepts, their search, analysis of static and dynamic property, characterization of learning dynamics. Summarily, my work is finalized to better understand how to integrate more thoroughly game theory and machi...

'Whole of government' interventions are increasingly being used in disadvantaged communities to improve safety and break the cycle of violence. This paper draws on learning from the evaluation of two whole of government interventions in western Sydney that arose in response to community violence and extensive property damage. Methods for strengthening program logic and overcoming differences in...

We seek insight into Latent Semantic Indexing by establishing a method to identify the optimal number of factors in the approximation matrix. We define some reasonable property for the approximation to hold and derive a new, un-parametric query expansion method. Extensive numerical experiments confirm the value of the new method.

In adhesive categories, pushouts along monomorphisms are Van Kampen (vk) squares, a special case of a more general notion called vk-diagram. Other examples of vk-diagrams include coproducts in extensive categories and strict initial objects. Extensive and adhesive categories characterise useful exactness properties of, respectively, coproducts and pushouts along monos and have found several app...

Stephen D. Rosenberg, Esq. is a partner in the McCormack Firm, a Boston litigation firm, where he heads the firm’s ERISA Practice Group. He has extensive experience in ERISA litigation, including breach of fiduciary duty cases and class actions, as well as in commercial litigation and arbitration, insurance coverage and bad faith, and intellectual property disputes. He publishes a blog at www.b...

By using an alternative, equivalent form of the CHSH inequality and making extensive use of the experimentally testable property of physical locality we determine the 64 different Bell-type inequalities (each one involving four joint probabilities) into which Hardy’s nonlocality theorem can be cast. This allows one to identify all the two-qubit correlations which can exhibit Hardy-type nonlocal...

This paper considers the condition of perfect recall for the class of arbitrarily large discrete extensive form games. The known definitions of perfect recall are shown to be equivalent even beyond finite games. Further, a qualitatively new characterization in terms of choices is obtained. In particular, an extensive form game satisfies perfect recall if and only if the set of choices, viewed a...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of the reduced function allele CYP2D6*10, which can be the cause of an intermediate metabolizer (IM), on tolterodine pharmacokinetics. Tolterodine is mainly metabolized to an active 5-hydroxymethyl metabolite (5-HM) by CYP2D6, and 5-HM is also metabolized by CYP2D6. Asian and white healthy volunteers (n = 108) received once daily multiple doses...

H. Imaoka*, G.M. Gauvreau*, R.M. Watson*, S.G. Smith*, B. Dua*, A.J. Baatjes*, K. Howie*, T. Hoshino, K.J. Killian*, H. Aizawa{ and P.M. O’Byrne* *Dept of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroot School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, and Division of Respirology, Neurology and Rheumatology, Dept of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, J...