Catherine H. Graham 1, Antonin Machac 2,3,4, David Storch 3,4 2 3 1 Department of Ecology and Evolution, 650 Life Sciences Bldg, Stony Brook University, Stony 4 Brook, NY 11794, USA – 2 Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History 5 Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK 2100 Copenhagen – 3 Department of Ecology, 6 Vinicna 7, 12844 Prague 2, Czech Republic – 4 Center f...

We analyse the role of state-owned banks from the perspective of competition. Focusing on the market for mortgage loans in Switzerland, we address three questions: (i) Is the state-owned banks’ policy consistent with marginal cost pricing? (ii) Do state-owned banks charge relatively customer friendly interest rates? And (iii) is competition intensified by the conduct of state-owned banks. Based...

Social network properties are applied in many research areas to help people discover the intrinsic mechanism of a social organization. The social network analysis has recently been used to study the OSS development community [Xu et al. 2004, Xu1 et al. 2003, Xu2 et al. 2003, Madey et al. 2004, Lopez et al. 2004]. In this paper, we identify the community structure for the SourceForge project net...

It was aimed to investigate the association of the synapsin III gene -196 G> A and -631 C>G polymorphisms that takes place in an encoding presynaptic protein, with adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). One hundred thirty-nine patients having adult ADHD and 106 controls were included in the study. DNA samples were extracted from whole blood and genetic analyses were performed. A...

Eylee Jung and DaeKil Park1,2∗ Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyungnam University, Changwon 631-701, Korea Department of Physics, Kyungnam University, Changwon 631-701, Korea Abstract It is well-known that entanglement of formation (EOF) and relative entropy of entanglement (REE) are exactly identical for all two-qubit pure states even though their definitions are completely different. W...

Axelrod’s [Axelrod, 1997] cultural dissemination model introduces an agent-based simulation where random agent interactions transmit culture through an agent population, and the system evolves over time to form multiple stable homogeneous cultural regions. We expand upon this work by introducing a quantum model. Agents are represented by quantum registers, and agent interactions are quantum ope...

We introduce a new class of effective actions describing dynamically broken supersymmetric theories in an essentially non-perturbative region. Our approach is a generalization of the known supersymmetric non-linear sigma models, but allows in contrast to the latter the description of dynamical supersymmetry breaking by non-perturbative non-semiclassical effects. This non-perturbative breaking m...

I N T R O D U C T I O N In the preceding paper (Knauf et al., 1978), it was found by kinetic analysis that in the dark external NAP-taur ine appears to inhibit red cell anion exchange reversibly by acting at a nont ranspor t ing site, called the modif ier site (Dalmark, 1976). Inasmuch as NAP-taur ine contains an aryl azide, which can be activated by light to form a highly reactive nitrene, it ...