The experimental literature on time preference …nds that the manner in which subjects discount money (as opposed to utility) exhibits properties known as Decreasing Impatience and the Magnitude Effect. While these …ndings are often referred to as anomalies for the Exponential Discounting model, several authors have demonstrated that each of these qualitative …ndings can be explained by the curv...

We investigate the relationship between pay, supervision and employee sharing. Our results suggest an inverse relationship between supervision and pay across both sharing and non-sharing firms, although the trade-off is somewhat assuaged within the former. This would appear to contradict instrumental efficiency wage considerations, but could be rationalised within a gift-exchange context. In te...

We construct quantum mechanical observables and unitary operators which, if implemented in physical systems as measurements and dynamical evolutions, would contradict the Church-Turing thesis which lies at the foundation of computer science. We conclude that either the Church-Turing thesis needs revision, or that only restricted classes of observables may be realized, in principle, as measureme...

This would seem to contradict my earlier assessment of the 6th stage, but one should remember that in terms of the whole Australian maritime scene, it was but a drop in the ocean. Incidentally, while on the subject of the I.S.N., the reasons for its demise were improved road systems and haulage methods, but most of all, the excessive undercutting by the N.S.W. Railways. It is an indisputable fa...

The one dimensional Kondo lattice model is investigated using Quantum Monte Carlo and transfer matrix techniques. In the strong coupling region ferromagnetic ordering is found even at large band fillings. In the weak coupling region the system shows an RKKY like behavior. In recent years the Kondo lattice model (KLM) has been investigated to describe the physics of the so called Heavy Fermion s...

in islamic jurisprudence, juridical disagreement means dispute between islamic jurists to confirm a comment or proscribe another. disagreement is arising from contradict reasons or jurist concepts. whether concern other concepts is necessary or not, is a contradict matter. in the shafi'ite's jurist opinion avoidance from diversity is recommended for all jurists and followers. it means...

In general, excitation-contraction coupling in muscle is dependent on membrane depolarization and hyperpolarization to regulate the opening of voltage-dependent Ca(2+) channels and, thereby, influence intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)). Thus Ca(2+) channel blockers and K(+) channel openers are important tools in the arsenals against hypertension, stroke, and myocardial infarction,...

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of water submonolayers on Pd(111) reveal quasiperiodic and isolated adclusters with internal structure that would ordinarily be ascribed to icelike puckered hexagonal units. However, density functional theory and STM simulations contradict this conventional picture, showing instead that the water adlayers are composed mainly of flat-lying molecules arr...