this paper will examine how muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of divine unity (taw¤hīd), the quran, sunnah of the prophet muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the west in the twentieth century. the article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philos...

The future of biology and biomedicine lies at the intersection of data gathering, hypothesis generation, and hypothesis testing. It is increasingly easy to gather large amounts of relevant data, but interpretation of that data and connection of that data to downstream hypothesis-driven experimentation is still difficult and rare. Effectively integrating large scale data analysis with “wet” biol...

The fractionation of stable isotopes in aquatic environments has been used extensively to track the movement of elements through aquatic food webs [e.g. (Stapp et al., 1999; Zanden et al., 1999)] and to understand ecological processes (Lajtha and Michener, 1994). In particular, the changing rate of stable isotope fractionation of biological and physical processes due to changing environmental c...

In their seminal paper Groves and Ledyard (1976) construct a balanced incentive compatible mechanism that solves the free-rider problem. In subsequent research, Bergstrom, Simon, and Titus (1983) prove that there exist numerous asymmetric equilibria in addition to the symmetric equilibrium. In the present paper we explicitly solve for the additional equilibria and use computational experiments ...

In this paper, we describe all interior and boundary equilibria of the GrovesLedyard mechanism and test their stability. We provide closed form solutions for the equilibria discovered by Bergstrom, Simon, and Titus and show that these equilibria fail to exist when the punishment parameter is high. We further show that the Groves-Ledyard equilibrium is the unique stable interior equilibrium for ...

Titus Simon: Wir Gassenkinder – Eine schwäbische Kindheit in den 60er-Jahren, Tübingen (Silberburg ) 2020. 271 S.