In this article, I seek to find whether the type of government in a country affects the amount of education provided. To do this, I propose a model where political power is distributed throughout the population, and their choice to support a government is based on an observable factor; whether the government provides access to education. Using the results from this model, I propose 3 hypotheses...

Executive Summary Ensuring safety requires reducing the risk of incidents, faults and failures that can disrupt normal operations. This effort goes far beyond simply installing fail-safe controllers or a safety instrumented system. In fact, to mitigate the risk of serious incidents that can cause injury to personnel, equipment and the environment, it is important to consider safety from all asp...

1 Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University, Engineering Technology, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] 2 Dr. Barbara Sylvester, Western Washington University, University Writing Program, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] Abstract -In teaching the Engineering Technology Department’s new ethics course, instructors from Western Washington University’s Writing Program and ...

‎it is well known that every (real or complex) normed linear space $l$ is isometrically embeddable into $c(x)$ for some compact hausdorff space $x$‎. ‎here $x$ is the closed unit ball of $l^*$ (the set of all continuous scalar-valued linear mappings on $l$) endowed with the weak$^*$ topology‎, ‎which is compact by the banach--alaoglu theorem‎. ‎we prove that the compact hausdorff space $x$ can ...

in this paper, we introduce the cone normed spaces and cone bounded linear mappings. among other things, we prove the baire category theorem and the banach--steinhaus theorem in cone normed spaces.

In the present paper, we study some properties of fuzzy norm of linear operators. At first the bounded inverse theorem on fuzzy normed linear spaces is investigated. Then, we prove Hahn Banach theorem, uniform boundedness theorem and closed graph theorem on fuzzy normed linear spaces. Finally the set of all compact operators on these spaces is studied.

Abstract: In this project we will explore the properties of stochastic matrices in both the real and the finite fields. We first explore what properties 2  2 stochastic matrices in the real field have and then exam if they hold in the finite fields. We will prove how, given the conditions of a finite field, properties hold or fail to hold. We will extend our scope to 3  3 stochastic matrices ...

The long-term goal of this program is to develop a technology to allow EOD technicians to interrogate an electronically safe and armed munition and determine the electrical status of these devices. Determining the electrical status of the mechanism will provide EOD technicians additional options to consider when determining the appropriate render safe procedure to use against these threat devices.

There has been considerable work in AI on decisiontheoretic planning and planning under uncertainty. Unfortunately, all of this work suffers from one or more of the following limitations: 1) it relies on very simple models of actions and time, 2) it assumes that uncertainty is manifested in discrete action outcomes, and 3) it is only practical for very small problems. For many real world proble...

A action is often criticized for causing reverse discrimination and lowering the qualifications of those hired under the policy. However, the magnitude of such adverse effects depends on whether the best suited candidate is hired absent the policy. Indeed affirmative action may compensate for the distortion discrimination imposes on the selection of candidates. This paper asks whether affirmati...