Operator monotone functions play an important role in economics. We show that 2-monotonicity is equivalent to decreasing relative risk premium, a notion recently introduced in microeconomics. We also show that an operator monotone function is risk vulnerable, a notion introduced by Gollier and Pratt.

A palstar (after Knuth, Morris, and Pratt) is a concatenation of even-length palindromes. We show that, asymptotically, there are Dkα n k palstars of length 2n over a k-letter alphabet, where Dk and αk are positive constants with 2k−1 < αk < 2k − 1 2 . In particular, α2 . = 3.33513193.

The Diverse Japanese: Local History's Challenge to National Narratives in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction Jonathan Dresner 2 Community and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Re-consideration Edward Pratt 5 Lost in History: Aizu and the Meiji Restoration John E. Van Sant 14 Meiji Education and the Uses of Local History Brian Platt 20 Sacred Sites and the Dynamics of Identity Sarah T...

N. Theodoropoulou, A. Sharma, W.P. Pratt Jr., and J. Bass Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Fundamental Materials Science, and Center for Sensor Materials, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-2320, USA Mark Stiles, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6202, USA. Jiang Xiao* School of Physi...

background: the effect of ovariectomy and accompanying sudden loss of circulating gonad hormones on spatial learning performance in the young adult rats was examined. we hypothesized that spatial learning and memory in a considerable number of women who undergo a surgical menopause and estrogen deprivation before their natural menopause be impaired. methods: in this study, we used 26 wistar rat...

In 1968, Knuth posed the problem of designing a stack-free, tag-free, non-recursive algorithm that traversed the tree in in-order while leaving it unaltered in the end. Since then, numerous solutions have appeared in the literature. The 1979 algorithm by Morris is one of the most elegant of these solutions. The algorithm is clearly non-recursive, and appears, at first glance, to use neither a s...

655 In recent years, much has been written about the importance of diabetes mellitus, both as a cause of widespread morbidity and mortality and in terms of the resultant overwhelming health care costs. In an analysis of worldwide diabetes in 1994, the World Health Organization reported that the agestandardized prevalence in European populations varied from 3% to 10%, while more restricted popul...

The purpose of the present study was to translate the Roland-Morris (RM) questionnaire into Brazilian-Portuguese and adapt and validate it. First 3 English teachers independently translated the original questionnaire into Brazilian-Portuguese and a consensus version was generated. Later, 3 other translators, blind to the original questionnaire, performed a back translation. This version was the...

To be of use. To Jeremy Morris (b. 1910), writing a half-century ago in his now classic text, Uses of Epidemiology, the promise—and responsibility—of epidemiology was clear: to generate scientific knowledge about the ‘presence, nature and distribution of health and disease among the population’ (p. 96), ultimately in order to ‘abolish the clinical picture’(p. 98). Committed to improving the ‘he...