CONDENSED statements of Association finances for the year 1952, prepared by the auditing firm of G. P. Graham & Company, are published herewith, in order that the entire membership may be fully informed regarding the financial operations, obligations, and resources of the AAAS. The first two statements summarize operating receipts and expenditures. Once again the annuity payments to the Cattell...

We expose a theorem of Pila and Wilkie on counting rational points in sets definable in o-minimal structures and some applications of this theorem to problems in diophantine geometry due to Masser, Peterzil, Pila, Starchenko, and Zannier.

William L. Wilkie is Nathe Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame (e-mail: [email protected]). How Did This Issue Come About? For much of my career, I have been intrigued with trying to comprehend what the field of marketing is actually about (and what it might be about, what it could be about, what it should be about, and so forth). In recent years, I have joined with my colleague Eliza...

In 1981, Paris and Wilkie [21] indicated it was an open question whether IΣ0 would satisfy the Second Incompleteness Theorem for Herbrand deduction. We will show that IΣ0 will both obey and defy the Herbrandized version of the Second Incompleteness Theorem, depending on which of several equivalent definitions of IΣ0 one examines.

This study investigates whether personal taxes are related to asset valuations. The effective tax rate of investment income fluctuated considerably since federal income taxes were introduced. The main result of the paper demonstrates that there is an economically and statistically significant relationship between asset valuations and personal tax rates. Stock valuations tend to be higher when t...

Education is a long-term investment in order to fulfill Indonesia's future pattern of human life. First, education as project meant enhance the body's intellectual potential through teaching and learning procedure Second, contributes formation an ethnically diverse society transmission values it includes. Third, one guarantees better, more honorable existence. must develop evolve educational in...

In many countries, the decline in interest rates has reduced traditional participating life insurance contracts with investment guarantees and led to a shift unit-linked policies without guarantees. We design novel mixed contract splitting premium payments between fund. An additional guarantee fee is applied on return order increase of utility-based framework, using power utility prospect theor...