It has been recently proved in a general form [1] that no wormholes can be formed in any scalartensor theory (STT) of gravity in which the non-minimal coupling function f(Φ) is everywhere positive and the scalar field Φ itself is not a ghost if matter sources of gravity respect the Null Energy Condition (NEC). In order to construct any viable and stable wormhole solution, attempts have been rec...

When the Foo-project evolved at ZKM Karlsruhe in 1993, nobody knew how to call it. Just to be able to talk about, it got the working title “foo” according to RFC 3092. When it came to the first publicly available version, its “nickname” had got deep into the slang of the authors, and considering that “foo” may stand for the two main programming paradigms used in it (functional and object orient...

In recent literature the famous Kuznets relationship between inequality and income has been reformulated in terms of levels of inequality and subsequent rates of growth. In this paper we criticize the World Bank data set on which these studies have been based, and present contrasting evidence on pay differentials derived from the 2000 release of the UNIDO Industrial Statistics, a rich source of...

We prove that the quasiregular mappings given by the (normalized) principal solution of the linear Beltrami equation (1) and the principal solution of the quasilinear Beltrami equation are inverse to each other. This basic fact is deduced from the Liouville theorem for generalized analytic functions. It essentially simplifies the known proofs of the “measurable Riemann mapping theorem” and its ...

1 are to be congratulated on their research of the autosomal dominant Stargardt disease gene (STGD3). This study contains some extremely complex issues that require some clarification , as well as some basic and simple findings that should be emphasized. The basic issues center on gene-alogy, phenotype classification (lumping vs splitting), genotype and haplotype analysis, and statistics. Since...

This paper offers a reassessment of the socialist calculation debate, and examines the extent to which the conclusions of that debate must be modified in the light of the subsequent development of the theory and technology of computation. Following an introduction to the two main perspectives on the debate which have been offered to date, we examine the classic case mounted by von Mises against...