Two versions of the so-called Gibbs paradox are discussed. Both of these are shown to be non-paradoxes. It is also shown that there is a different real paradox that emerges from Gibbs writings.

Neuroeconomics is examined critically using data on the response times of subjects who were asked to express their preferences in the context of the Allais Paradox. Different patterns of choice are found among the fast and slow responders. This suggests that we try to identify types of economic agents by the time they take to make their choices. Nevertheless, it is argued that it is far from cl...

Working in a complete-markets setting, a property of asset demands is identified that is inconsistent with the investor's preference being based on probabilities. In this way, a market counterpart of the Ellsberg Paradox is provided. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: D00, D80, D81. 2000 Academic Press

Electronic Patient Record (EPR) is an area of research in EHealth that is progressing rapidly due to its demand and rapid growth of Information Technology used in the Health Management Organizations (HMO). Benefits of having EPR are the timely access of critical data, inclusion of multimedia, and the ease of availability and distribution, those making it more presentable, distributable, efficie...

We investigate the relation between monotonicity and the no-show paradox in voting rules. Although the literature has established their logical independence, we show, by presenting logical dependency results, that the two conditions are closer than a general logical independency result would suggest. Our analysis is made both under variable and fixed-size electorates.

3 An Introduction to IQ 3 3.1 The Homogeneity Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.3 Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.4 Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.5 An Example IQ Deriv...

Gibbs’ Paradox is shown to arise from an incorrect traditional definition of the entropy that has unfortunately become entrenched in physics textbooks. Among its flaws, the traditional definition predicts a violation of the second law of thermodynamics when applied to colloids. By adopting Boltzmann’s definition of the entropy, the violation of the second law is eliminated, the properties of co...