A S a graduate student in the mid-1980s, I was captivated by the full-throated scholarly debate in the American Sociological Review between Dale Dannefer and Paul Baltes over the role played by social forces in structuring adult human development (Dannefer, 1984a, 1984b; Baltes & Nesselroade, 1984). Particularly impressive was the way this exchange clarified the distinction between ontogenic an...

Financing guarantee institutions achieve capital preservation and appreciation through investment, diversify business risks by purchasing re-guarantee. In order to study the optimal investment re-guarantee purchase strategies of financing institutions, geometric Brownian motion modulated Markov chain modulation is selected describe price process risk assets, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation con...

We introduce a study of position auctions, with an explicit modeling of user navigation through ads. We refer to our model as the PPA model, since it is most applicable in the context of pay-per-action position auctions. In this model, which is consistent with other recent approaches to user modeling, a typical user searches sequentially over the ordered list of ads. At each point the user has ...

Diagnostic Sedition: Re-Considering the Ascension and Hegemony of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnosis Richard Lakeman DNSci & John Cutcliffe PhD To cite this article: Richard Lakeman DNSci & John Cutcliffe PhD (2016) Diagnostic Sedition: ReConsidering the Ascension and Hegemony of Contemporary Psychiatric Diagnosis, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 37:2, 125-130 To link to this article: http://d...

making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. the continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

Considering the set of closed shift invariant subspaces Vj j Z of L lR generated by a re nable function vector we give necessary and su cient conditions for the re nement mask of ensur ing controlled approximation order m In particular algebraic poly nomials can be exactly reproduced in V if and only if the re nement mask of can be factorized The results are illustrated by B splines with multip...