We analyze the problem of fully implementing a social choice function when the planner does not know the agents’ beliefs about other agents’ types. We identify an ex post monotonicity condition that is necessary and in economic environments sufficient for full implementation in ex post equilibrium; we also identify an ex post monotonicity no veto condition that is sufficient. These results are ...

In this paper, we studied maximal monotonicity of type FPV for sum of two maximal monotone operators of type FPV and the obtained results improve and complete the corresponding results of this filed.

The collecting duct (CD) endothelin (ET) system regulates blood pressure (BP) and Na excretion. CD-specific knockout (KO) of ET-1 causes hypertension, CD-specific KO of the ETA receptor does not alter BP, while CD-specific KO of the ETB receptor increases BP to a lesser extent than CD ET-1 KO. These findings suggest a paracrine role for CD-derived ET-1; however, they do not exclude compensation...

Chronic pulmonary infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa is common in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. P. aeruginosa lipopolysaccharide (LPS), phosholipase C (PLC), and exotoxin A (ETA) were evaluated for their ability to induce pulmonary inflammation in mice following intranasal inoculation. Both LPS and PLC induced high levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 ...

In the present paper, nonlinear behavior of mass concrete simulated by smeared crack model is combined with Endurance Time Analysis (ETA) method for studying seismic response of arch dams. ETA is a time-history based dynamic pushover procedure in which special predesigned intensifying acceleration functions are used for analysis and estimation of structural responses in various performance leve...

We estimate the density matrix element for the pi(0), eta, and eta(') production from the vacuum in the large-N(c) limit. As a consequence, we find that the QCD axial anomaly leads to highly nontrivial corrections to the usual flavor SU(3) relations between B(0)-->K(0)pi(0), B(0)-->K(0) eta, and B(0)-->K(0)eta(') decay amplitudes. These corrections may explain why the B-->Keta(') branching rati...

Cochran, Orr and Teichner introduced L–eta–invariants to detect highly non–trivial examples of non slice knots. Using a recent theorem by Lück and Schick we show that their metabelian L–eta–invariants can be viewed as the limit of finite dimensional unitary representations. We recall a ribbon obstruction theorem proved by the author using finite dimensional unitary eta–invariants. We show that ...

where t1 < t2 are two constants, (fi(~u)) is given as above. Our new monotonicity formulae are focused on more attention to the monotonicity of non-linear terms. Our point of view is that we introduce an index called β to measure the monotonicity of the non-linear terms in the problems. The index in the study of monotonicity formulae is very useful in understanding the behavior of blow up seque...