Otter poaching in Palni Hills

Competitive Poaching in Unsecured Lending∗

The paper studies the effects of non-exclusivity of credit card contracts on the provision of insurance through the institution of personal bankruptcy. In our model, lenders can continually observe borrower’s time-varying creditworthiness and provide credit to them by undercutting (poaching) the existing lender(s). Contracts are non-exclusive and, to rollover their debt, borrowers may accept mu...

Elephant and Rhino Poaching in Africa

OTTER Proofs in Tarskian Geometry

We report on a project to use OTTER to find proofs of the theorems in Tarskian geometry proved in Szmielew’s part (Part I) of [9]. These theorems start with fundamental properties of betweenness, and end with the development of geometric definitions of addition and multiplication that permit the representation of models of geometry as planes over Euclidean fields, or over real-closed fields in ...

Natural radioactivity in rock samples of Aravali hills in India

Background: Natural radionuclides in rock samples, primarily 238U (uranium), 232Th (thorium) and 40K (potassium), are the main source of radiation exposure to workers and general public and their measurement is of paramount importance from radiation protection point of view. Materials and Methods: Gamma spectrometry using HPGe detector was used to measure the radioactivity and assess the radiol...

OTTER 3.3 Reference Manual

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