This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by developing and estimating a probabilisticvoting model of political competition under the Electoral College system. Actual campaigns act in close agreement with the model. There is a 0.9 correlation between equilibrium and actual presidential campaign...

elso Arrais Rodriguesa,b,∗, Matheus Vescovi Gonçalvesa,c, aura Rosane Valério Ikomad, Irene Lorand-Metzee, André Domingues Pereirab, anielle Leão Cordeiro de Farias f, Maria de Lourdes Lopes Ferrari Chauffaillea,c, ony Schaffel g, Eduardo Flávio Oliveira Ribeiroh, Talita Silveira da Rochai,j, aleria Buccherik, Yuri Vasconcelos l, Vera Lúcia de Piratininga Figueiredom, arlos Sérgio Chiattone j,n...

The Retinex algorithm originally presented by Land and McCann uses random paths to explore the image. Throughout the decades, many versions of the Retinex algorithm have been proposed, mainly differing in the way they explore the image, with e.g. random paths, random samples, convolution masks, and variational formulations. In this paper, we propose a step back towards the origin, replacing ran...

Exploiting a unique data set containing information on the estimated bribe payments of Ugandan firms, we study the relationship between bribery payments, taxes and firm growth over the period 1995-97. Using industry-location averages to circumvent the potential problem of endogeneity, and to deal with issues of measurement error, we find that both the rate of taxation and bribery are negatively...

The Mystery of Pain, a little book which sets forth the Panglossian thesis that "all that which we feel as painful is really giving-something that our fellows are better for, even though we cannot trace it." It gives some idea of the tum of the son CQaries Hinton's mind to lea:rn that he wrote a piece, "The Persian King," in which he attempted to use higher dimensions and infinite series to obt...

Jennie Johnstone, MD; Mark Loeb, MD, MSc; Koon K. Teo, MBBCh, PhD; Peggy Gao, MSc; Leanne Dyal, MSc; Lisheng Liu, MD; Alvaro Avezum, MD, PhD; Ernesto Cardona-Munoz, MD; Peter Sleight, MD; Robert Fagard, MD, PhD; Salim Yusuf, MD, DPhil; on behalf of the Ongoing Telmisartan Alone and in Combination With Ramipril Global EndPoint Trial (ONTARGET) and Telmisartan Randomized Assessment Study in ACE I...

ronaldo bastos francini-filho, camilo moitinho ferreira, ericka oliveira cavalcanti coni, rodrigo lea~o de moura and les kaufman Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Estadual da Paraı́ba, Avenida das Baraúnas 351, 58109-753 Campina Grande, PB, Brazil, Conservation International Brazil, Marine Program, Rua das Palmeiras 451, 45900-000 Caravelas, BA, Bra...

Test-day milk yield and somatic cell count data over extended lactation (lactation to 540-600 days) were analysed considering part lactations as different traits and fitting random regression (RR) models. Data on Australian Jersey and Holstein Friesian (HF) were used to demonstrate the shape of the lactation curve and data on HF were used for genetic study. Test-day data from about 100 000 cows...

Henning Budde*, Sergio Machado, Pedro Ribeiro and Mirko Wegner 1 Faculty of Human Sciences, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 2 Sport Science, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland 3 Laboratory of Pânico and Respiration, Institute de Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4 Physical Activity Neuroscience, Physical Activity Sciences Post-Graduate Progr...

E-Companion of “Asset Pricing with Spatial Interaction” by Steven Kou, Xianhua Peng, and Haowen Zhong The E-Companion is organized as follows. Section EC.1 presents the mean-variance analysis with spatial interaction. Section EC.2 gives the proof of the S-CAPM theorem when there is a risk-free asset and when there is no risk free asset. The proof of the S-APT theorems is given in Section EC.3. ...