We endogenize the discount rate via a broad measure of wealth and provide empirical evidence that wealth affects the discount rate negatively. We demonstrate that the Pontryagin conditions require positive felicity for intuitive results, whereas the concavity of the Hamiltonian requires negative felicity for optimality. This dilemma also holds for the endogenizations of Obstfeld (1990) and foll...

theistic philosophers have special view on human nature. they define it in terms of rational faculty and thus regard human final perfection and ultimate felicity dependent on the activity of this faculty and actualization of it. there are philosophers, such as plato, plotinus, and zakariya al-razi (rhazes), who maintain explicitly that human felicity is based on his becoming philosopher. other ...

Why do some negative sentences sound strange, even when they are both true and grammatical? We explore the pragmatics of negation by examining adults’ explicit felicity judgments of negative sentences in context. In Experiment 1, we found that a pragmatically supportive context elicited higher felicity ratings for negative sentences, and that negative sentences expressing nonexistence were rate...

This paper describes a Matlab/C++ finite element toolbox, called FELICITY, for 4 simulating various types of systems of partial differential equations (e.g. coupled elliptic/parabolic 5 problems) using the finite element method. It uses Matlab, in an object-oriented way, for high level 6 manipulation of data structures in finite element codes, while utilizing a domain-specific language 7 (DSL) ...

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors selection papers published in Journal Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Felicity Sterling author on ‘ StARD9 novel lysosomal kinesin required for membrane tubulation, cholesterol transport and Purkinje cell survival’, JCS. conducted research described this article while PhD student ...

Many current pragmatic approaches to presupposition, beginning at least with Stalnaker (1974), are based on a notion of felicity. Presuppositions are requirements a sentence places upon a context for an utterance of that sentence to be felicitous. These requirements in turn are induced by the presence of certain presupposition triggers, such as lexical items like factive verbs, or constructions...