The main contribution of this thesis is a new solution concept for symmetric games (of complete information in strategic form), the exchangeable equilibrium. This is an intermediate notion between symmetric Nash and symmetric correlated equilibrium. While a variety of weaker solution concepts than correlated equilibrium and a variety of refinements of Nash equilibrium are known, there is little...

This study evaluates the physicochemical characteristics, total and available copper zinc in soils affected by four palm oil mills effluent (POME) of Oghareki Oghara Kingdom, Delta State, Nigeria using standard methods. The results showed generally increased pH, organic matter, electrical conductivity, phosphorus, exchangeable bases cation exchange capacity (CEC), compared to non-POME-contamina...

Three different approaches have been used to characterize the state of exchanged copper ions in copper-ion-exchanged MFI (CuMFI) samples. (1) Two types of an ion-exchangeable site with different adsorption properties for N(2) or CO molecules were identified depending on the pre-treatment temperature (723 or 873 K) of a sample prepared by using an aqueous solution of CuCl(2). (2) The state of th...

In this paper, we consider the reliability of k-out-of-n: F systems and its conditional form with exchangeable components in the stress-strength setup. We assume a random stress common to all the components in the system level. Applications of these results to illustrate the reliability for the system consisting of three components with the multivariate FGM and multivariate Marshall-Olkin distr...

We compute the minimum and maximum of the probability of k or more successes in n exchangeable Bernoulli trials as a function of the correlation coefficients. This probability finds wide application in reliability and decision theory. Since the probability is linear in the coefficients, finding the minimum andmaximum requires solving linear programming problems. We show that the maximum can be ...