We examine, with the tools of economics, a fundamental tenet of some of the most recent theoretical work in sociology, which we refer to as the Postmodernist Critique : preferences are socially constructed, …rms exploit their monopoly power through advertising in order to create new (false) needs in consumers, and, as a consequence, consumer spending rises, and so does their supply of labor.

Emerging distributed multimedia applications have stringent performance requirements in terms of bandwidth, delay, delay-jitter, and loss rate. The Tenet real-time protocol suite provides the services and mechanisms for delivering such performance guarantees, even during periods of high network load and congestion. The protocols achieve this by using resource management, connection admission co...

According to Peirce a great part of mathematical thinking consists in observing or imagining the outcomes and regularities of manipulations of all sorts of diagrams. This tenet is explained and substantiated by expounding the notion of diagram and by analyzing several specific cases from different parts of mathematics.

The standard tenet that Brans–Dicke theory reduces to general relativity in the ω → ∞ limit has been shown to be false when the trace of the matter energy– momentum tensor vanishes. The issue is clarified in a new approach and the asymptotic behaviour of the Brans–Dicke scalar is rigorously derived. To appear in Physics Letters A

Can end-to-end communication performance be guaranteed by a packet-switching internetwork? This paper addresses the question by examining the feasibility of extending to an internetwork the Tenet approach to real-time communication service design. The conditions to be satisfied by an internetwork so that the approach can be extended to it are investigated. These include conditions for the sched...

We question the need for extensible methodologies. Continuing with this rationale, the basic tenet of this solution is the development of randomized bipolaritys. To put this in perspective, consider the fact that foremost steganographers continuously use Scheme to fulfil this aim. We view networking as following a cycle of four phases: allowance, location, study, and observation. Therefore, our...

According to Peirce a great part of mathematical thinking consists in observing or imagining the outcomes and regularities of manipulations of all sorts of diagrams. This tenet is explicated and substantiated by expounding the notion of diagram and by analyzing several specific cases from different parts of mathematics.

The Quality Teaching Research and Development Project (QTR&D) was funded by the Ministry of Education. The exploratory project was developed collaboratively between the ministry, university academics, research facilitators, schools, teachers, students and their communities. The tenet was that teacher inquiry, supported by productive learning partnerships, is a critical contributing factor to im...

Trade liberalization and laissez-faire economics are altering the structure of agricultural production and trade. The principle of comparative advantage, a classic tenet of economics, is a useful tool for understanding the future of world agriculture. This study employs a " Revealed Comparative Advantage " approach to investigate patterns of comparative advantage among six major wool exporting ...