A Free-Model Characterization of the Asymptotic Certainty Equivalent by the Arrow-Pratt Index

Author(s):  
Daniel Hernández-Hernández ◽  
Erick Treviño-Aguilar
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 1181-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Baron ◽  
John A. Ferejohn

Bargaining in legislatures is conducted according to formal rules specifying who may make proposals and how they will be decided. Legislative outcomes depend on those rules and on the structure of the legislature. Although the social choice literature provides theories about voting equilibria, it does not endogenize the formation of the agenda on which the voting is based and rarely takes into account the institutional structure found in legislatures. In our theory members of the legislature act noncooperatively in choosing strategies to serve their own districts, explicitly taking into account the strategies members adopt in response to the sequential nature of proposal making and voting. The model permits the characterization of a legislative equilibrium reflecting the structure of the legislature and also allows consideration of the choice of elements of that structure in a context in which the standard, institution-free model of social choice theory yields no equilibrium.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1509
Author(s):  
Rajesh Khanna ◽  
Amol Patwardhan ◽  
Xiaofang Yang ◽  
Wennan Li ◽  
Song Cai ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2175-2194 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. El Amraoui ◽  
J.-L. Attié ◽  
N. Semane ◽  
M. Claeyman ◽  
V.-H. Peuch ◽  
...  

Abstract. This paper presents a comprehensive characterization of a very deep stratospheric intrusion which occurred over the British Isles on 15 August 2007. The signature of this event is diagnosed using ozonesonde measurements over Lerwick, UK (60.14° N, 1.19° W) and is also well characterized using meteorological analyses from the global operational weather prediction model of Météo-France, ARPEGE. Modelled as well as assimilated fields of both ozone (O3) and carbon monoxide (CO) have been used in order to better document this event. O3 and CO from Aura/MLS and Terra/MOPITT instruments, respectively, are assimilated into the three-dimensional chemical transport model MOCAGE of Météo-France using a variational 3-D-FGAT (First Guess at Appropriate Time) method. The validation of O3 and CO assimilated fields is done using self-consistency diagnostics and by comparison with independent observations such as MOZAIC (O3 and CO), AIRS (CO) and OMI (O3). It particularly shows in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere region that the assimilated fields are closer to MOZAIC than the free model run. The O3 bias between MOZAIC and the analyses is −11.5 ppbv with a RMS of 22.4 ppbv and a correlation coefficient of 0.93, whereas between MOZAIC and the free model run, the corresponding values are 33 ppbv, 38.5 ppbv and 0.83, respectively. In the same way, for CO, the bias, RMS and correlation coefficient between MOZAIC and the analyses are −3.16 ppbv, 13 ppbv and 0.79, respectively, whereas between MOZAIC and the free model they are 6.3 ppbv, 16.6 ppbv and 0.71, respectively. The paper also presents a demonstration of the capability of O3 and CO assimilated fields to better describe a stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) event in comparison with the free run modelled O3 and CO fields. Although the assimilation of MLS data improves the distribution of O3 above the tropopause compared to the free model run, it is not sufficient to reproduce the STE event well. Assimilated MOPITT CO allows a better qualitative description of the stratospheric intrusion event. The MOPITT CO analyses appear more promising than the MLS O3 analyses in terms of their ability to capture a deep STE event. Therefore, the results of this study open the perspectives for using MOPITT CO in the STE studies.


Author(s):  
Sergey Shapovalov ◽  
Olga Tikhonova ◽  
Ivan Skabitsky

The investigation of the coordination chemistry of heterometallic transition-metal complexes of palladium (Pd) and rhenium (Re) led to the isolation and crystallographic characterization of tetrakis(1,3-dimethylimidazolium-2-ylidene)palladium(II) hexadecacarbonyltetrarhenium diethyl ether disolvate, [Pd(C5H8N2)4][Re4(CO)16]·2C4H10O or [Pd(IMe)4][Re4(CO)16]·2C4H10O, (1), and octa-μ-carbonyl-dicarbonyltetrakis(triphenylphosphane)palladiumdirhenium, [Pd4Re2(C18H15P)4(CO)10] or Pd4Re2(PPh3)4(μ-CO)8(CO)2, (2), from the reaction of Pd(PPh3)4 with 1,3-dimethylimidazolium-2-carboxylate and Re2(CO)10 in a toluene–acetonitrile mixture. In complex 1 the Re—Re bond lengths [2.9767 (3)–3.0133 (2) Å] are close to double the covalent Re radii (1.51 Å). The palladium–rhenium carbonyl cluster 2 has not been structurally characterized previously; the Pd—Re bond lengths [2.7582 (2)–2.7796 (2) Å] are about 0.1 Å shorter than the sum of the covalent Pd and Re radii (1.39 + 1.51 = 2.90 Å). One carbene ligand and a diethyl ether molecule are disordered over two positions with occupancy ratios of 0.5:0.5 and 0.625 (15):0.375 (15) in 1. An unidentified solvent is present in compound 2. The given chemical formula and other crystal data do not take into account the unknown solvent molecule(s). The SQUEEZE routine [Spek (2015). Acta Cryst. C71, 9–18] in PLATON was used to remove the contribution of the electron density in the solvent region from the intensity data and the solvent-free model was employed for the final refinement. The cavity with a volume of ca 311 Å3 contains approximately 98 electrons.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1293-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh Khanna ◽  
Amol Patwardhan ◽  
Xiaofang Yang ◽  
Wennan Li ◽  
Song Cai ◽  
...  
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Author(s):  
B. L. Soloff ◽  
T. A. Rado

Mycobacteriophage R1 was originally isolated from a lysogenic culture of M. butyricum. The virus was propagated on a leucine-requiring derivative of M. smegmatis, 607 leu−, isolated by nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis of typestrain ATCC 607. Growth was accomplished in a minimal medium containing glycerol and glucose as carbon source and enriched by the addition of 80 μg/ ml L-leucine. Bacteria in early logarithmic growth phase were infected with virus at a multiplicity of 5, and incubated with aeration for 8 hours. The partially lysed suspension was diluted 1:10 in growth medium and incubated for a further 8 hours. This permitted stationary phase cells to re-enter logarithmic growth and resulted in complete lysis of the culture.


Author(s):  
A.R. Pelton ◽  
A.F. Marshall ◽  
Y.S. Lee

Amorphous materials are of current interest due to their desirable mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties. Furthermore, crystallizing amorphous alloys provides an avenue for discerning sequential and competitive phases thus allowing access to otherwise inaccessible crystalline structures. Previous studies have shown the benefits of using AEM to determine crystal structures and compositions of partially crystallized alloys. The present paper will discuss the AEM characterization of crystallized Cu-Ti and Ni-Ti amorphous films.Cu60Ti40: The amorphous alloy Cu60Ti40, when continuously heated, forms a simple intermediate, macrocrystalline phase which then transforms to the ordered, equilibrium Cu3Ti2 phase. However, contrary to what one would expect from kinetic considerations, isothermal annealing below the isochronal crystallization temperature results in direct nucleation and growth of Cu3Ti2 from the amorphous matrix.


Author(s):  
B. H. Kear ◽  
J. M. Oblak

A nickel-base superalloy is essentially a Ni/Cr solid solution hardened by additions of Al (Ti, Nb, etc.) to precipitate a coherent, ordered phase. In most commercial alloy systems, e.g. B-1900, IN-100 and Mar-M200, the stable precipitate is Ni3 (Al,Ti) γ′, with an LI2structure. In A lloy 901 the normal precipitate is metastable Nis Ti3 γ′ ; the stable phase is a hexagonal Do2 4 structure. In Alloy 718 the strengthening precipitate is metastable γ″, which has a body-centered tetragonal D022 structure.Precipitate MorphologyIn most systems the ordered γ′ phase forms by a continuous precipitation re-action, which gives rise to a uniform intragranular dispersion of precipitate particles. For zero γ/γ′ misfit, the γ′ precipitates assume a spheroidal.


Author(s):  
R. E. Herfert

Studies of the nature of a surface, either metallic or nonmetallic, in the past, have been limited to the instrumentation available for these measurements. In the past, optical microscopy, replica transmission electron microscopy, electron or X-ray diffraction and optical or X-ray spectroscopy have provided the means of surface characterization. Actually, some of these techniques are not purely surface; the depth of penetration may be a few thousands of an inch. Within the last five years, instrumentation has been made available which now makes it practical for use to study the outer few 100A of layers and characterize it completely from a chemical, physical, and crystallographic standpoint. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) provides a means of viewing the surface of a material in situ to magnifications as high as 250,000X.


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