Epic Boasts and Empty Threats

EPIC Mechanisms and VCG

Empty Promises and Arbitrage

Analysis of absence of arbitrage normally ignores payoffs in states to which the agent assigns zero probability. We extend the fundamental theorem of asset pricing to the case of “no empty promises” in which the agent cannot promise arbitrarily large payments in some states. There is a superpositive pricing rule that can assign positive price to claims in zero probability states important to th...

Parsing and Empty Nodes

This paper describes a method for ensuring the termination of parsers using grammars that freely posit empty nodes. The basic idea is that each empty no& must be associated with a lexical item appearing in the input string, called its sponsor. A lexical item, as well as labeling the no&for the corresponding word, provides labels for a fixed number, possibly zero, of empty nodes. The number of n...

Epic Heroes in Ossian by Macpherson and Shahnameh by Firdausi

Nationalist sentiments characterize the Scotish James Macpherson’s Ossianic tales and the Persian Abul-Ghasim Ferdausi’s Shahnameh. Macpherson is remembered for his role in the nationalist Gaelic revival against the cultural dominance of Great Britain and Ferdausi is credited for enlivening Persian language and culture at the time of Arab dominance. However, Macpherson’s dual position, both as ...

asean and new security threats

association of southeast asia nations (asean) was created in 1967 in order to prevent the threat of communism in southeast asia. but, over time, new states joined it and goals and activities of this organization expanded to other areas such as economic, commercial, political and cultural ones. thus, over time, cooperation between members expanded in a way today this regional organization is con...