We study Hamiltonians consisting of a deterministic term plus a random term. Using a diagrammatic approach and introducing the concept of " gluon connected-ness, " we calculate the density of energy levels for a wide class of probability distributions governing the random term, thus generalizing a result obtained recently by Brézin, Hikami, and Zee. The method used here may be applied to a broa...

In recent history, both a growing awareness of how scientific and societal uncertainty impacts management decisions the intrinsic value nature have suggested new approaches to forest management, with debate in science over need for paradigmatic shift from classic conventional world view, based on determinism, predictability, output-oriented towards view that has roots complex adaptive systems t...

Any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. Only determinism enables time reversal of entropy increase. A contradiction therefore arises between two statements of Hawking. A simulation of a system under time reversal shows how an intrinsic time arrow re-emerges, destroying the time reversal, when even slight failure of determinism occ...

Both biotic interactions and abiotic random forcing are crucial influences on population dynamics. This frequently leads to roughly equal importance of deterministic and stochastic forces. The resulting tension between noise and determinism makes ecological dynamics unique, with conceptual and methodological challenges distinctive from those in other dynamical systems. The theory for stochastic...

Context: A number of psychosocial theories have been developed to predict, explain, and change health behaviors. The previous studies were concerned about the pain management practices based on various underpinning theories. Some of these studies utilized the Theory of Reasoned Action and the Theory of Planned Behavior. Furthermore, other pain management studies used the KAP model to assess the...

This paper develops a theoretical model to analyse how the arrival of a new technology embodied in capital affects the variability of earnings when workers’ adaptability to new technologies is subject to random events (luck) that can be history dependent. It is argued that technological change can leverage the importance of these stochastic factors and increase earnings instability in three way...

The present study assessed university students’ views on human nature according to a standard set of theoretical dimensions, namely free will vs. determinism, causality vs. teleology, uniqueness vs. similarity, conscious vs. unconscious, pessimism vs. optimism, and biological vs. social influences. Based on the responses from 618 introductory and personality psychology students, results showed ...

We introduce the notion of regular cost functions: a quantitative extension to the standard theory of regular languages. We provide equivalent characterisations of this notion by means of automata (extending the nested distance desert automata of Kirsten), of history-deterministic automata (history-determinism is a weakening of the standard notion of determinism, that replaces it in this contex...