The role of technology cooperation in international climate policy has drawn considerable attention in recent years. In this article, I examine the strategic benefits of a technology deployment agreement. I find that although technology deployment produces mostly private benefits for each country, a formal treaty can strategically increase global pollution abatement efforts. If technology deplo...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

The problem of finding a longest increasing subsequence (LIS) is a well known task in sequence processing. There are many variants of the basic task. We discuss a recently introduced variant of LIS, a minimal height longest increasing subsequence problem and propose a new algorithm for it, which improves its time complexity. Moreover, we define a family of similar problems and introduce algorit...

Let Ln be the length of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation of the numbers 1, . . . , n, for the uniform distribution on the set of permutations. We discuss the “hydrodynamical approach” to the analysis of the limit behavior, which probably started with Hammersley (1972), and was subsequently further developed by several authors. We also give two proofs of an exact (non-a...

Two-dimensional Lorentzian geometry has recently found application in some models of nonrelativistic systems, most profitably for the process of boarding an aeroplane. The duration of the boarding process is assumed to be a result of passengers standing in the isle and blocking each others’ way. According to this model, the expected boarding time is equal to the length of the longest timelike g...

New algorithm for finding longest increasing subsequence is discussed. This algorithm is based on the ideas of idempotent mathematic and uses Max-Plus idempotent semiring. Problem of finding longest increasing subsequence is reformulated in a matrix form and solved with linear algebra.

MyUniversity is a European project to foster the eParticipation in European higher education institutions and allow their members to influence the final decision making performed by the institutions’ authorities. A framework, composed of the two existing interactive tools Gov2Demoss and Pnyx.eVoting, and a methodology to manage eParticipation initiatives have been created for this purpose. This...

This study reports the impact of high sensitivity to early exchange in 11-grade, CSCL triads solving welland ill-structured problems in Newtonian Kinematics. Analysis of the evolution of participation inequity (PI) in group discussions suggested that participation levels tended to get locked-in relatively early on in the discussion. Similarly, high (low) quality member contributions made earlie...