In After Finitude, Meillassoux asks an epoch-defining question: how can we criticize both ideological dogmatism and skeptical fanaticism if the rise of is effect Kantian critical philosophy one must employ against dogmatism? Meillassoux's answer to argue in favor thought's ability access absolute necessity contingency. Agamben Laruelle give alternative answer. Although very different style argu...

In statistical process monitoring, the CUSUM and EWMA control charts have received considerable attention because of their remarkable ability to detect small sustained shifts. practice, variation shifts are anticipated beforehand in many processes, so focus should be on detecting a moderate large shift. The aforementioned identify minor changes population parameters as out-of-control scenarios;...

Satan has captured the imagination of writers in the English language for centuries. This figure and the notion of evil have gone through many changes in English literature of the 19 and 20 centuries. Something changed Satan during this time, and made him into an arbiter of truth rather than a figure of rebellion. In The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain used him as the grand narrator of the univ...

We solve, theoretically and numerically, the problems of optimal portfolio choice and indifference valuation in a general continuous-time setting. The setting features (i) ambiguity and ambiguity averse preferences, (ii) discontinuities in the asset price processes, with a general and possibly infinite activity jump part next to a continuous diffusion part, and (iii) general and possibly non-co...

The chromatic index problem { nding the minimum number of colours required for colouring the edges of a graph { is still unsolved for indiierence graphs, whose vertices can be linearly ordered so that the vertices contained in the same maximal clique are consecutive in this order. Two adjacent vertices are twins if they belong to the same maximal cliques. A graph is reduced if it contains no pa...

We consider an economic agent with dynamic preference over a set of uncertain monetary payoffs. We assume that the agent’s preferences are given by utility functions, which are updated in a time-consistent way as more information is becoming available. Our main result is that the agent’s indifference prices are time-consistent if and only if his preferences can be represented with utility funct...

Two-stage indifference-zone selection procedures have been widely studied and applied. It is known that most indifference-zone selection procedures also guarantee multiple comparisons with the best confidence intervals with half-width corresponding to the indifference amount. We provide the statistical analysis of multiple comparisons with a control confidence interval that bounds the differenc...

An adjusting-delay procedure was used to study the choices of pigeons and rats when both delay and amount of reinforcement were varied. In different conditions, the choice alternatives included one versus two reinforcers, one versus three reinforcers, and three versus two reinforcers. The delay to one alternative (the standard alternative) was kept constant in a condition, and the delay to the ...