The Marching Cubes algorithm is a popular high-resolution isosurface extraction method used in volume data visualization. However, it is relatively computationally intensive making real-time operation on normal workstations a di cult goal when applied to large datasets. One solution is to transform the serial algorithm into a vector-parallel algorithm designed to exploit the potential computing...

We report the results of an experimental study of production decisions in an environment with dynamic costs of pollution and climate change. Every period, agents simultaneously decide on own level of production that generates private production revenue and emissions. Emissions lead to pollution which acts as a public bad and accumulates over time. Our main treatment variable is the emission pro...

Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In this model, the elasticity of marginal utility simultaneously reflects preferences for intertemporal sub...

This paper deals with the numerical solution of the two-dimensional transport equation on a sphere. Two diierent mass-conservative advection schemes are considered The rst is the standard rst-order scheme using forward Euler in time and rst-order upwind in space. The second scheme uses for time stepping a second-order explicit two-step method and for the space discretization a ux-limited, third...

Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other-regarding behaviors and the decision to trust in other people’s other-regarding behavior. This evidence supports the view that people derive nonpecuniary utility (i) from mutual cooperation in social dilemma (SD) games and (ii) from punishing unfair behavior. Thus, mutua...

Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is there a Hedging Problem? Belief elicitation in economics experiments usually relies on paying subjects according to the accuracy of stated beliefs in addition to payments for other decisions. Such incentives, however, allow risk-averse subjects to hedge with their stated beliefs against adverse outcomes of other decisions in the experiment. This raises two ...

The nonparametric Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test is commonly used by experimental economists for detecting differences in central tendency between two samples. This test is only theoretically appropriate under certain assumptions concerning the population distributions from which the samples are drawn, and is often used in cases where it is unclear whether these assumptions hold, and even when they...

Full cross section calculations of ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence with Landau closure are being carried out as part of the Numerical Tokamak Turbulence Project, one of the U. S. Department of Energy’s Phase II Grand Challenges. To include the full cross section of a magnetic fusion device like the tokamak requires more memory and CPU time than is available on the National Energy Res...

During the ageing process the enteric nervous system undergoes morphofunctional changes, such as enteric neurodegeneration. Neuronal death can be attributed to increase radicals free, and ascorbic acid (AA), known antioxidant, could minimize damage cause by oxidative stress. The objective of this study is to analyse the behaviour of morphoquantative myenteric neurons in the duodenum of adult Wi...

This review article takes Peter Albin’s book Barriers and Bounds of Rationality : Essays on Economic Complexity and Dynamics in Interacti6e Systems as the starting point of a general assessment of complexity analysis from the point of view of the scope and limits of human rationality. In particular, this article examines the constraints upon human rationality. In particular, this article examin...