Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".

Yes , Virginia , There is a Santa Claus

The bulk of this paper is a finegrained critical analysis of a single argument. Such detailed treatment, unusual though it is in a journal article, is warranted for a number of reasons, I think . First, a clear understanding of the particular argument in question demands close attention. Different arguments can, and do, warrant different degrees, kinds, and depths of analysis, and the one under...

No, Virginia, There Isn’t a Santa Claus (for Most Countries’ Growth Cycles)

Author Contact: David Giles, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 2Y2; e-mail: [email protected]; FAX: (250) 721-6214 Abstract We consider the seasonal distribution of turning points in the post-war growth cycles of sixteen economies. Using nonparametric tests for distributions on the circle, we cannot reject the hypothesis of a uniform dis...

Yes, Virginia, there will be healthcare reform.

More than 100 years ago, a young girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to Santa Claus. 1 A newspaper reporter, impressed by the girl's innocence, edi-torialized this quest to believe in a fantasy representing good in the world by penning the famous line, " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. " This story came to mind a few weeks ago, when I was having breakfast with my daughter-in-law ...

How to solve the Santa Claus problem

John Trono published a new exercise in concurrent programming—the Santa Claus problem—and provided a solution based on semaphores [12]. His solution is incorrect because it assumes that a process released from waiting on a semaphore will necessarily be scheduled for execution. We give a simple solution in Ada 95 using higher order synchronization primitives: protected objects and rendezvous. We...