BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life is a key issue in prostate cancer (PC) management. The authors summarized published utilities for common health-related quality of life outcomes of PC and determined how methodological factors affect them. METHODS In their systematic review, the authors identified 23 articles in English, providing 173 unique utilities for PC health states, each obtain...

The article studies deliberation aspects by modelling a responder in multi-proposers ultimatum game (UG). Compared to the classical UG, deliberative multi-proposers UG suggests that at each round the responder selects the proposer to play with. Any change of the proposer (compared to the previous round) is penalised. The simulation results show that though switching of proposers incurred non-ne...

Madagascar wrote a fundamentally new Water Code in 1998. It focused on maximizing the number of people with access to clean water through a process of decentralized water management and cost recovery. This paper is concerned with the policy problem this presents at the community level—is Malagasy water law the best possible for the country? Combining community-level focus group studies and poli...

New, radiatively generated, LO quark (u, d, s, c, b) and gluon densities in a real, unpolarized photon are presented. We perform a global 3 parameter fit, based on LO DGLAP evolution equations, to all available data for the structure function F γ 2 (x,Q 2). We adopt a new theoretical approach called ACOT(χ), originally introduced for the proton, to deal with the heavy-quark thresholds. This def...

We tested a large set of UNIX utilities under two popular UNIX variants, a GNU/Linux platform and a Solaris platform, for characteristics of stability and reliability. The testing methodology we employed was simple, yet effective − we subjected the utilities to input streams of random characters. Four percent to eleven percent of the utilities we tested failed, either by crashing or by looping ...

This paper aims to investigate the properties of nominal elements in bilingual speakers of Turkish and Russian learning Greek as a second language. Specifically, the data examined include the use of determiners in definite and indefinite DPs and pronominal (object) clitics. Primarily, the study seeks to identify the (abstract) morphological features which show differential development in the L2...

We show that countable increasing unions preserve a large family of well-studied covering properties, which are not necessarily σ-additive. Using this, together with infinite-combinatorial methods and simple forcing theoretic methods, we explain several phenomena, settle problems of Just, Miller, Scheepers and Szeptycki [15], Gruenhage and Szeptycki [13], Tsaban and Zdomskyy [33], and Tsaban [2...

In this article we calculate the n-string braid groups of certain noncontractible graphs. We use techniques from the work of A. Abrams, F. Connolly and M. Doig combined with Van Kampen’s Theorem to prove these results.

In this contribution, the design, collection, annotation and planned distribution of a new spoken language resource of Afrikaans (SALAR) is discussed. The corpus contains speech of mother tongue speakers of Afrikaans, and is intended to become a primary national language resource for phonetic research and research on pronunciation variations. As such, the corpus is designed to expose pronunciat...

We give several remarks on Strichartz estimates for homogeneous wave equation with special attention to the cases of Lx estimates, radial solutions and initial data from the inhomogeneous Sobolev spaces. In particular, we give the failure of the endpoint estimate L 4 n−1 t Lx for n = 2, 3 even for data in inhomogeneous Sobolev spaces.