I refer to the transformation of the valid economic necessity to contain costs into an ideology a self-justifying principle that threatens to assume quasi-moral stature. One consequence is the self-righteous pursuit of economic goals that may obscure our obligations to the sick. Another is the commercialization of the healing relationship by the growing pressure to use competition as a cost con...

on " The Prophylaxis and Treatment of Malarial Infection " by Captain Craig of the U. S. Army Medical Department. He strongly deprecates relying solely on one prophylactic measure and insists on the necessity for using, as far as possible, all available means to the end. Regarding the destruction of mosquito breeding grounds he says, " A flight of a mile is frequently observed, and even a two-m...

Entanglement is the central resource of quantum information processing and the precise characterization of entangled states is a crucial issue for the development of quantum technologies. This leads to the necessity of a precise, experimental feasible measure of entanglement. Nevertheless, such measurements are limited both from experimental uncertainties and intrinsic quantum bounds. Here we p...

Let u be a weak solution of a quasilinear elliptic equation of the growth p with a measure right hand term µ. We estimate u(z) at an interior point z of the domain Ω, or an irregular boundary point z ∈ ∂Ω, in terms of a norm of u, a nonlinear potential of µ and the Wiener integral of R n \ Ω. This quantifies the result on necessity of the Wiener criterion.

In this paper, we present some organizational aspects of building of a large corpus with rich linguistic annotation, while Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank (PCEDT) serves as an example. We stress the necessity to divide the annotation process into several well planed phases. We present a system of automatic checking of the correctness of the annotation and describe several ways to measu...

The purpose of this work is to consider an initial value problem for neutral functional diierential equations with state dependent and vanishing delays. A gener-alised version of Schauder's xed point theorem which is based on the ball measure of noncompactness is used to obtain local existence of solutions and a comparison theorem. Results on continuation, uniqueness and continuous dependence o...

This paper presents a multi-product multi-period inventory problem with random replenishment intervals and fuzzy costs under space and shortage level constraints. Since the costs (purchasing, holding and backordering) related to inventory system are often imprecise and the replenishment intervals are random in real life, the proposed model is also fuzzy-random Here, the replenishment intervals ...

We aim at clarifying the relationship between laws of large numbers for fuzzy sets or possibility distributions and laws of large numbers for fuzzy or possi-bilistic variables. We contend that these two frameworks are different and present the relationships between them that explain why this fact was unrecognized so far. A classical result in Probability Theory is the law of large numbers. If ξ...

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