Awards are non-material, extrinsic compensation taking the form of orders, medals, decorations and prizes. They have been widely used in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, they have so far not received much attention. This paper develops empirically testable hypotheses, analysing the determinants of the supply of awards. The ...

A modern web document typically consists of many kinds of information. Besides the main content which conveys the primary information, a web document also contains noisy contents such as advertisements, headers, footers, decorations, copyright information, navigation menus etc. The presence of noisy contents may affect the performance of applications such as commercial search engines, web crawl...

We show that the total variation mixing time of the simple random walk on the giant component of supercritical G(n, p) and G(n,m) is Θ(log n). This statement was only recently proved, independently, by Fountoulakis and Reed. Our proof follows from a structure result for these graphs which is interesting in its own right. We show that these graphs are “decorated expanders” — an expander glued to...

In this paper, we facilitate the reasoning about impure programming languages, by annotating terms with “decorations” that describe what computational (side) effect evaluation of a term may involve. In a point-free categorical language, called the “decorated logic”, we formalize the mutable state and the exception effects first separately, and then combined, exploiting a nice duality between th...

In this paper we describe a system for detection and correction of lexical and syntactic errors in a French text. The lexical level uses several techniques (keys, phonetics and morphological generation). The aim of the syntactic level is verification of the structure of a sentence and of relations between words (e.g. agreement). It proceeds by unification of the decorations on the nodes of a de...