Reichenbach’s use of ‘posits’ to defend his frequentistic theory of probability has been criticized on the grounds that it makes unfalsifiable predictions. The justice of this criticism has blinded many to Reichenbach’s second use of a posit, one that can fruitfully be applied to current debates within epistemology. We show first that Reichenbach’s alternative type of posit creates a difficulty...

Forty five years after its publication, Ernest Gutmann’s book, “The Denervated Muscle,” still stands as a landmark publication. It summarized the state of knowledge of the time and introduced much new research that was ongoing at the Institute of Physiology in Prague. At the time, the response of a muscle to denervation was viewed primarily through the lens of the neurotrophic theory. Advances ...

A general approach to the dimensional reduction of non-linear finite element models of solid dynamics is presented. For the Newmark implicit time-discretization, the computationally most expensive phase is the repeated solution of the system of linear equations for displacement increments. To deal with this, it is shown how the problem can be formulated in an approximation (Ritz) basis of much ...

The ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposia on Solid Modeling and Applications provide an international forum for the exchange of recent research and practical results in all areas and applications of solid modeling. These symposia bring together prominent researchers, practitioners, and numerous students in the field. The sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on ...

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We consider a rank-based technique for estimating GARCH model parameters, some of which are scale transformations of conventional GARCH parameters. The estimators are obtained by minimizing a rank-based residual dispersion function similar to the one given in Jaeckel (1972). They are useful for GARCH order selection and preliminary estimation. We give a limiting distribution for the rank estima...

Peter Baer Galvin is the chief technologist for Corporate Technologies, a premier systems integrator and VAR (www.cptech.com). Before that, Peter was the systems manager for Brown University’s Computer Science Department. He has written articles and columns for many publications and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts and Applied Operating Systems Concepts textbooks. As a consultant ...