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The Effect Of A Single Point On Correlation And Slope, David L. Farnsworth Jan 1990

The Effect Of A Single Point On Correlation And Slope, David L. Farnsworth

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By augmenting a bivariate data set with one point, the correlation coefficient and/or the slope of the regression line can be changed to any prescribed values. For the target value of the correlation coefficient or the slope, the coordinates of the new point are found as a function of certain statistics of the original data. The location of this new point with respect to the original data is investigated.


The Doctrine Of Commercial Impracticability In A Second-Best World, Alan O. Sykes Jan 1990

The Doctrine Of Commercial Impracticability In A Second-Best World, Alan O. Sykes

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Lowering One's Cites: A (Sort Of) Review Of The University Of Chicago Manual Of Legal Citation, Mary I. Coombs Jan 1990

Lowering One's Cites: A (Sort Of) Review Of The University Of Chicago Manual Of Legal Citation, Mary I. Coombs

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Some Implications Of Cognitive Psychology For Risk Regulation, Roger G. Noll, James E. Krier Jan 1990

Some Implications Of Cognitive Psychology For Risk Regulation, Roger G. Noll, James E. Krier

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Beginning with a set of books and articles published in the 1950s, cognitive psychologists have developed a new descriptive theory of how people make decisions under conditions of risk and uncertainty. A dominant theme in the theory is that most people do not evaluate risky circumstances in the manner assumed by conventional decision theory-they do not, that is, seek to maximize the expected value of some function when selecting among actions with uncertain outcomes. The purpose of this article is to consider some implications of the cognitive theory for regulatory policies designed to control risks to life, health, and the …


Risk And Design, James E. Krier Jan 1990

Risk And Design, James E. Krier

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Risk springs from uncertainty,' uncertainty invites error, and, since error can be costly, we would prefer to avoid it (provided, of course, that avoidance is not more costly yet). While there is much in the Noll and Krier article2 about judgmental error under conditions of risk and uncertainty, there is little about ways to avoid it. So avoidance-more accurately, minimization-of error costs is the topic I want to address very briefly and partially here.


Risk, Courts, And Agencies, Clayton P. Gillette, James E. Krier Jan 1990

Risk, Courts, And Agencies, Clayton P. Gillette, James E. Krier

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Public risks are precisely the risks that have recently captured the attention of the legal community and the world at large, in no small part because they give rise to such novel problems for lawyers and such grave apprehensions among lay people. Public risks have moved the legal system to relax doctrines--regarding, for example, standards of causation and culpability, burdens of proof, sharing of liability--that were designed to deal with the private risks that once dominated the landscape. And public risks have moved lay people to intensify their demands for risk control measures. These developments suggest that public risks are …


The Two Faces Of Tax Neutrality: Do They Interact Or Are They Mutually Exclusive?, Douglas A. Kahn Jan 1990

The Two Faces Of Tax Neutrality: Do They Interact Or Are They Mutually Exclusive?, Douglas A. Kahn

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The term "tax neutrality" refers to at least two quite different concepts. In its most common usage, tax neutrality refers to tax provisions that conform to an ideal tax system. A tax provision that is consistent with such an ideal system is described as "neutral." A tax provision that cannot be reconciled with the ideal system is sometimes referred to as a "tax expenditure" item. I will discuss tax expenditures later in this paper.


The Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities: The Rationale Of The 90-Year Waiting Period, Lawrence W. Waggoner Jan 1990

The Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities: The Rationale Of The 90-Year Waiting Period, Lawrence W. Waggoner

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The Uniform Law Commissioners promulgated the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities in 1986. The perpetuity-reform efforts of the American Law Institute in the Restatement (Second) inspired the Uniform Act. The Restatement and the Uniform Act employ the so-called wait-and-see approach to perpetuity reform. Wait-and-see is a two-step strategy. Step One preserves the validating side of the common-law Rule Against Perpetuities (the common-law Rule): By satisfying the common-law Rule, a nonvested future interest in property is valid at the moment of its creation. Step Two is a salvage strategy for future interests that would have been invalid at common law: Rather …


Oversecured Creditors Under Bankruptcy Code Section 506(B): The Limits Of Postpetition Interest, Attorneys' Fees, And Collection Expenses, David G. Carlson Jan 1990

Oversecured Creditors Under Bankruptcy Code Section 506(B): The Limits Of Postpetition Interest, Attorneys' Fees, And Collection Expenses, David G. Carlson

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Exergy Analysis - A Different Perspective On Energy Part 2: Rational Efficiency And Some Examples Of Energy, Jim Mcgovern Jan 1990

Exergy Analysis - A Different Perspective On Energy Part 2: Rational Efficiency And Some Examples Of Energy, Jim Mcgovern

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The concept of exergy having been introduced in the first part of this paper, a universal rational efficiency is now defined and a number of examples of exergy analyses is given.


Parliamentary Law, Majority Decisionmaking, And The Voting Paradox, Saul Levmore Jan 1989

Parliamentary Law, Majority Decisionmaking, And The Voting Paradox, Saul Levmore

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Conservative Feminism, Richard A. Posner Jan 1989

Conservative Feminism, Richard A. Posner

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Philistinism In Law, Richard A. Posner Jan 1989

Philistinism In Law, Richard A. Posner

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Mixed Modules In L, R. Gobel, Brendan Goldsmith Jan 1989

Mixed Modules In L, R. Gobel, Brendan Goldsmith

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By assuming the set-theoretic hypothesis V = L we show that, for a large class of rings R, there exist, for any regular not weekly compact cardinals K, strongly k-cyclic mixed R-modules having endomorphism algebra isomorphic to the split extension of the R-algebra A by the ideal of bounded endomorphism provided A is free qua R-module and K./Az/


Maximal Order Abelian Subgroups Of Symmetric Groups, J. M. Burns, Brendan Goldsmith Jan 1989

Maximal Order Abelian Subgroups Of Symmetric Groups, J. M. Burns, Brendan Goldsmith

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On Almost-Free Modules Over Complete Discrete Valuation Rings, Brendan Goldsmith, R. Gobel Jan 1989

On Almost-Free Modules Over Complete Discrete Valuation Rings, Brendan Goldsmith, R. Gobel

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Undersecured Claims Under Bankruptcy Code Sections 506(A) And 1111(B): Second Looks At Judicial Valuations Of Collateral, David G. Carlson Jan 1989

Undersecured Claims Under Bankruptcy Code Sections 506(A) And 1111(B): Second Looks At Judicial Valuations Of Collateral, David G. Carlson

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Poison Pills And Litigation Uncertainty, Charles M. Yablon Jan 1989

Poison Pills And Litigation Uncertainty, Charles M. Yablon

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The article argues that the legal uncertainty surrounding poison pills in corporate takeovers is not accidental but a result of deliberate strategies by judges and corporate lawyers. This uncertainty encourages negotiation between incumbent management and raiders, preventing either side from having absolute control. The analysis explores the implications of this uncertainty, particularly its impact on the balance of power and management's ability to influence takeover outcomes. It also considers whether maintaining this uncertainty is more beneficial than establishing clear legal rules regarding poison pills.


Legal Affinities, Joseph Vining Jan 1989

Legal Affinities, Joseph Vining

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Not long ago, any question of the kind "How may theology serve as a resource in understanding law?" would have been hardly conceivable among lawyers. When Lon Fuller brought out his first book in 1940, The Law in Quest of Itself, he could think of no better way of tagging his adversary the legal positivist than to note a "parallel between theoretical theology and analytical jurisprudence." Two decades later, in the name of realism, Thurman Arnold dismissed Henry Hart's non-positivist jurisprudence in harsh terms. A master of the cutting phrase, he confidently entitled his attack "Professor Hart's Theology." Two decades …


Postpetition Interest Under The Bankruptcy Code, David G. Carlson Jan 1989

Postpetition Interest Under The Bankruptcy Code, David G. Carlson

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The article examines the legal ambiguity surrounding postpetition interest for undersecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, focusing on the Supreme Court's ruling in *Timbers of Inwood Forest*. It critiques the decision as unpersuasive and highlights the need for clearer legal frameworks to balance creditor and debtor rights, ensuring fairness and efficiency in bankruptcy cases.


Optimal Serial Distributed Decision Fusion, R. Viswanathan, S. C. A. Thomopoulos, R. Tumuluri Jul 1988

Optimal Serial Distributed Decision Fusion, R. Viswanathan, S. C. A. Thomopoulos, R. Tumuluri

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The problem of distributed detection involving N sensors is considered. The configuration of sensors is serial in the sense that the (j - 1)th sensor passes its decision to the jth sensor and that the jth sensor decides using the decision it receives and its own observation. When each sensor employs the Neyman-Pearson test, the probability of detection is maximized for a given probability of false alarm, at the Nth stage. With two sensors, the serial scheme has a performance better than or equal to the parallel fusion scheme analyzed in the literature. Numerical examples illustrate the global optimization by …


Empirical Studies In Civil Procedure: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Michael G. Chiorazzi, Barbara A. Baccari, Karen R. Cashion, Christopher R. Hart, Donald M. Nielsen, Charles M. North, William T. O'Neil Jan 1988

Empirical Studies In Civil Procedure: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Michael G. Chiorazzi, Barbara A. Baccari, Karen R. Cashion, Christopher R. Hart, Donald M. Nielsen, Charles M. North, William T. O'Neil

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No abstract provided.


United They Stand Divided They Fall: Public Choice Theory And The Tax Code, Julie Roin Jan 1988

United They Stand Divided They Fall: Public Choice Theory And The Tax Code, Julie Roin

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No abstract provided.


The Jurisprudence Of Skepticism, Richard A. Posner Jan 1988

The Jurisprudence Of Skepticism, Richard A. Posner

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The Ubiquity Of Prophylactic Rules, David A. Strauss Jan 1988

The Ubiquity Of Prophylactic Rules, David A. Strauss

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Covenants And Constitutions, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1988

Covenants And Constitutions, Richard A. Epstein

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On (3, K) Ramsey Graphs: Theoretical And Computational Results, Stanislaw Radziszowski, Donald Kreher Jan 1988

On (3, K) Ramsey Graphs: Theoretical And Computational Results, Stanislaw Radziszowski, Donald Kreher

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A (3,k,n,e) Ramsey graph is a triangle-free graph on n vertices with e edges and no independent set of size k. Similarly, a (3,k)-, (3,k,n)- or (3,k,n,e)-graph is a (3,k,n,e) Ramsey graph for some nand e. In the first part of the paper we derive an explicit formula for the minimum number of edges in any (3,k,n)graph for n ≤ 3(k-I), i.e. a partial formula for the function e(3,k,n) investigated in [3,5,7]. We prove some general properties of minimum (3,k,n)- graphs with e(3,k,n) edges and present a construction of minimum (3,k+I,3k-I,5k-5)-graphs for k ≥ 2 and minimum (3,k+1,3k,5k)-graphs for k …


Lower Bounds For Multi-Colored Ramsey Numbers From Group Orbits, Donald Kreher, Wei Li, Stanislaw Radziszowski Jan 1988

Lower Bounds For Multi-Colored Ramsey Numbers From Group Orbits, Donald Kreher, Wei Li, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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In this paper the algorithm developed in [RK] for 2-color Ramsey numbers is generalized to multi-colored Ramsey numbers. All the cyclic graphs yielding the lower bounds R(3,3,4)>=30, R(3,3,5)>=45, and R(3,4,4)>=55 were obtained. The two last bounds are apparently new.


Solving Subset Sum Problems With The L^3 Algorithm, Stanislaw Radziszowski, Donald Kreher Jan 1988

Solving Subset Sum Problems With The L^3 Algorithm, Stanislaw Radziszowski, Donald Kreher

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Ideas are described that speed up the lattice basis reduction algorithm of Lenstra, Lenstra and Lovasz [11] in practice. the resulting lattice basis reduction algorithm reduces the multiprecision operations needed in previous approaches. This paper describes these ideas in detail for lattices of the particular form arising from the subset sum (exact knapsack) problem. The idea of applying the L^3 algorithm to the subset sum problem is due to Lagarias and Odlyzko [8]. The algorithm of this paper also uses a direct search for short vectors simultaneously with the basis reduction algorithm. Extensive computational tests show that this algorithm solves, …


A Note On Coslender Groups, R. Dimitric, Brendan Goldsmith Jan 1988

A Note On Coslender Groups, R. Dimitric, Brendan Goldsmith

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The notion of a coslender group has been introduced previously by the first author. This work continues the investigation of such groups, defines coslender part of a group, proves embeddability results, gives a characterization of finite rank coslender grops, and proves a result on smooth ascending chains of coslender groups with a conjecture that every countable coslender torsion free group is a smooth ascending union of finite rank coslender pure subgroups.