The market selection hypothesis states that, among expected utility maximizers, competitive markets select for agents with correct beliefs. In some economies this hypothesis holds, while in others it fails. It holds in complete market economies with a common discount factor and bounded aggregate consumption. It can fail when markets are incomplete, when consumption grows too quickly, or when di...

Biology and medicine have become 'big science', even though we may not always like this: genomics and the subsequent analysis of what the genomes encode has shown that interesting living organisms require many more than 300 gene products to interact. We once thought that somewhere in this jungle of interacting macromolecules was hidden the molecule that constitutes the secret of Life, and there...

The data on ten SNP markers of Myostatin gene (GDF-8) was generated on nine breeds/populations of indigenous poultry and Red Jungle Fowl (RJF). The SNPs were five in promoter region, one each in intron 1 and 2 and three in exon 1. The data was analyzed to find out the genetic relationship among the indigenous chicken populations. PCR-RFLP was carried out to genotype the populations at seven SNP...

Automatic Image Tagging seeks to assign relevant words (e.g. “jungle”, “boat”, “trees”) to images that describe the actual content found in the images without intermediate manual labelling. Current approaches are largely based on categorization, and treat the tags independently, so an annotation (jungle,trees) is just as plausible as (jungle,snow). The goal of this dissertation was to develop a...