From 2004 to 2010 I served as a researcher and advisor in the Australian Government’s values education projects. During the task of helping schools implementing and conducting research on values education, I took the opportunity to observe the importance explorative and imaginative modes of teaching and learning might have in the formation of values. In this essay, I argue that imaginative teac...

Sustained growth in high performance computing and the availability of advanced mobile devices increase the use of computation intensive applications. To ensure fast execution and consequently low power usage modern hardware provides multi-level caches, multiple cores, SIMD instructions or even dedicated vector accelerators. Taking advantage of those manually is difficult and often not possible...

We study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. We show that it is optimal for the small country’s government to effectively subsidize capital inputs by granting a tax allowance in excess of the true costs of capital. Economic integration reduces the optimal capital subsidy and drives low-productivity firms from th...

Based on Isabelle/HOL’s type class for preorders, we introduce a type class for well-quasi-orders (wqo) which is characterized by the absence of “bad” sequences (our proofs are along the lines of the proof of Nash-Williams [1], from which we also borrow terminology). Our main results are instantiations for the product type, the list type, and a type of finite trees, which (almost) directly foll...

1 Department of Interventional Cardiology – Cochin Hospital – Paris Descartes University – Paris, France. Correspondence: Christian Spaulding, MD. Department of Cardiology – Cochin Hospital and INSERM U 970 – Paris Descartes University – 27 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques – 75014 – Paris, France. E-mail: [email protected] Received on: 13/11/2009 • Accepted on: 16/11/2009 In a movie ...

1KIRTHI SATHYAKUMAR, MD, 1ANURADHA CHANDRAMOHAN, MD, FRCR, 2DIPTI MASIH, MD, 3MARK RANJAN JESUDASAN, MS, 2ANNA PULIMOOD, MD and 1ANU EAPEN, DMRD, DNB Department of Radiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Pathology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Unit II, Christian Medical College, Vellore...

Institute for Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Hospital of Southern Jutland, Aabenraa and King Christian X’s Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Graasten, Denmark Outpatient Department, King Christian X’s Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Graasten, Denmark Institute for Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark and King Christian X’s Hospital for Rheumatic Di...

Department of Urology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Pathology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan Department of Medical Research, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, ...

Papers involved 1. Bisheng Du, Christian Larsen. 2008. Base stock policies with degraded service to larger orders. Download: http://www.hha.dk/bs/wp/log/L_2008_07.pdf 2. Bisheng Du, Christian Larsen. 2009. Investigating comparative advantages of advance demand information in presence of heterogeneous demand. (General version) 3. Bisheng Du, Christian Larsen. 2009. Comparing reservation policies...