This paper investigates, in an experimental setting, the eeect of private information on the Coase theorem's predictions of eeciency and allocative neutrality. For a two-person bargaining game, we nd signiicantly more inef-ciency and allocative asymmetry in the case of private information compared with the case of complete information. We also nd substantial bargaining breakdown, which is not p...

This paper examines the efŽ ciency of electric power generation plants in the United States. A 1996 data set from the Utility Data Institute and county-level wage data from the Bureau of Labor statistics provide the information needed to construct measures of cost, output, and input prices for 78 steam plants using natural gas as the primary fuel. This paper uses a Bayesian stochastic frontier ...

The purpose of this article is to reveal the specific features personality-oriented education and consider how a person, being in dialogue with another can declare freedom only by an act own free will. To achieve goal set, authors have used set theoretical empirical methods analysis, description, comparison, extrapolation, synthesis, hermeneutic methodology, method implication. Cross-sectional ...

In this paper a new, insightful description of the object functions of a Traac Regulator (TR)-implementing a model traac behavior (delivered to the network) and a (user) relief function-is introduced. By identifying the relief function associated with the Leaky Bucket (LB), an explanation for the inef-ciency of this widely studied TR is presented. The new class of ? relief LB TRs is then develo...

Modern Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) architectures often utilize a wholesale data transfer protocol known as “slow sync” for synchronizing PDAs with Personal Computers (PCs). This approach is markedly inef£cient with respect to bandwidth usage, latency, and energy consumption, since the PDA and PC typically share many common records. We propose, analyze, and implement a novel PDA synchroniza...

In search for general equilibrium in multi-commoditymarkets, price-oriented schemes are normally used. That is, a set of prices (one price for each commodity) is updated until supply meets demand for each commodity. In some cases such an approach is very inef cient, and a resource-oriented scheme can be highly competitive. In a resource-oriented scheme the allocations are updated until the mark...

Current research in the domain of inference networks, probabilistic as well as possibilistic, focuses on learning such networks from data. Learning inference networks consists in nding a decomposition of a multivariate probability or possibility distribution that is induced by a database of sample cases. An operation to be carried out several times during the execution of common learning algori...

Quantum computers promise to increase greatly the ef®ciency of solving problems such as factoring large integers, combinatorial optimization and quantum physics simulation. One of the greatest challenges now is to implement the basic quantumcomputational elements in a physical system and to demonstrate that they can be reliably and scalably controlled. One of the earliest proposals for quantum ...

BACKGROUND Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare lipid-storage disease. Neuromuscular abnormality and autonomic system (ANS) dysfuction in CTX are rarely examined in large-scale studies in the literature. We studied the peripheral nervous system, myopathology, and autonomic system of four CTX patients and performed a literature review of the reported CTX patients with peripheral neurop...