Some historical documents, especially the Einstein-Besso manuscript from 1913, an extensive notebook by Hans Thirring from 1917, and a correspondence between Thirring and Albert Einstein in the year 1917 reveal that most of the merit of the so-called Lense-Thirring effect of general relativity belongs to Einstein. Besides this “central story” of the effect, we comment shortly on some type of pr...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the principal provider of information about the evidence relating to effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in healthcare in the National Health Service of England and Wales. NICE regards quality as primarily to do with effectiveness, safety and the patient experience. In this paper we comment on the quality of evidence regarding...

In the course of ten short sections, we comment on Gödel’s seminal “Dialectica” paper of fifty years ago and its aftermath. We start by suggesting that Gödel’s use of functionals of finite type is yet another instance of the realistic attitude of Gödel towards mathematics and in tune with his defense of the postulation of ever increasing higher types in foundational studies. We also make some o...

Résumé. Appréhender, parcourir des données ou des connaissances reste une tâche difficile en particulier lorsque les utilisateurs sont confrontés à de gros volumes de données. De nombreux travaux se sont intéressés à extraire des points "skylines" comme outil de restitution. La prise en compte des préférences a retenu l’attention des travaux les plus récents mais les solutions existantes resten...

The authors comment on "Domestic Homicide and Homicide-Suicide: The Older Offender" by Bourget et al., who learned that after a domestic homicide in Canada, the older offender frequently commits suicide. The authors comment on the ubiquity of single homicide-suicide across cultures, the incidence of single homicide-suicide in various cultures, the common patterns and differences in single homic...

This is a comment in response to the request for comment on XTS-AES, as specified in IEEE Std. 1619-2007 [7]. Overall, we believe that the XTS­ AES algorithm, closely based on Rogaway’s XEX mode [5] plus ciphertext stealing, is a good choice for the purpose of block-oriented data storage encryption, and the use of an algorithm of this type is well supported by research publications. We have two...

this comment is to show that theorem3.3 of dey and chung (1991) (multiparameter estimation intruncated power series distributions under the stein's loss.emph{commun. statist.-theory meth.,} {bf 20}, 309-326) may giveus misleading results. analytically and through simulation, weshow that the theorem does not improve the given estimator.

This paper deals with the topic-comment articulation of information structures conveyed by sentences. In Japanese, the topic marker WA is attached not only to an N(P) but also to a PP or a clause, forming the information structure of a sentence, where the topicalized part represents a restriction and the remaining part of the sentence represents a nuclear scope. I propose the type-raised catego...

Gordon and Porter (2009) provide a guide to reading and evaluating the academic accounting literature aimed at Master’s students and “future practitioners.” While the article has value as a guide to the historical publishing norms of a certain type of research, this comment argues that it provides a paradigm-specific view of what constitutes accounting research and an overly stylized view of th...