(UAC) like characteristics of an S-CSCF. To show its efficiency, the session transfer delay and the traffic cost of RSA session transfer are investigated and compared with those of existing session transfer applications, including Assured and Consultative session transfers, by practically considering multiple session transfer failures. It is shown that RSA session transfer can further improve u...

Behavioral economics tells us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavior and decisionmaking. Does this also apply to societies at large, i.e. can societies experiencemood states that affect their collective decision making? By extension is the public mood correlated or even predictive of economic indicators? Here we investigate whether measurements of collective mood states derived...

While Hall (1978) argues that the solution for consumption of a life-cycle model with uncertainty and isoelastic preferences evolves as a random walk in first order approximation around small income shocks, I show that it does not. First, I explain that the solution for consumption departs from a random walk because of precautionary behavior. A prudent household facing uncertainty allocates mor...

Accounts of mental content rooted in asymmetric dependence hold, crudely speaking, that the content of a mental representation is the cause of that representation on which all its other causes depend.1 To speak somewhat less crudely, such accounts, hereafter “AD accounts”, hold 1) that (a) any nomic relations which obtain between, on the one hand, a mental representation and, on the other hand,...

Exemplar and distributional accounts of categorization make differing predictions for the classification of a critical exemplar precisely halfway between the nearest exemplars of two categories differing in variability. Under standard conditions of sequential presentation, the critical exemplar was classified into the most similar, least variable category, consistent with an exemplar account. H...

∗ Talk given at ACAT 2000, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, October 16–20, 2000. To be published in Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, edited by: P.C. Bhat and M. Kasemann. We denote the generic two-loop tensor crossed (or non-planar) four-point function in D dimensions of Fig. 1 with seven propagators Ai raised to arbitrary powers νi as Xbox (ν1 . . .ν7;s,t) [1; k; l; kμkν; ...

Trade theories covering Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are as diverse as the literature in search of their empirical support. To account for the model uncertainty that surrounds the validity of the competing PTA theories, we introduce Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to the PTA literature. BMA minimizes the sum of Type I and Type II error, the mean squared error, and generates predictive di...

In 2010, the Venter lab announced that it had created the first bacterium with an entirely synthetic genome. This was reported to be the first instance of 'artificial life,' and in the ethical and policy discussions that followed it was widely assumed that the creation of artificial life is in itself morally significant. We cast doubt on this assumption. First we offer an account of the creatio...

In diesem Beitrag wird das Testmanagement bei Maßnahmen zur Qualitätsverbesserung in Datenbeständen behandelt. Hierbei fließen vorwiegend Erfahrungen aus Projekten bei Erstund Rückversicherungen, Rentenversicherungsträgern und in der öffentlichen Verwaltung ein. Dies sind Bereiche, in denen die Speicherung und Verfügbarkeit der Daten aus vielen Jahrzehnten notwendig ist. Naturgemäß werden diese...

Why do Knowledge Management projects fail? The managerial literature generally attempts to answer this question rather one-dimensionally and, using functional or technical criteria, assumes that the introduction of Knowledge Management is the result of a rational decision-making process and a strategy successfully implemented in the organization. But, constructivist studies of innovation have s...