The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a meeting of great importance. It takes place at a critical time as the entire Party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups embark on a new journey t...
These questions are posed in light of the growing prevalence of machine learning in projects investigating spatial questions, like the one that titles this paper. As noted, the trend has been strong enough to help give rise to a new field, and it is no wonder: machine learning holds out th...
16) A perfect market is one in which: A) there are no competitive advantages or asymmetries because all firms have equal access to all the factors to production. B) one firm develops an advantage based on a factor of production that other firms cannot purchase. C) one participant in the...
Our construction is based on the detailed study of a terminal-boundary value problem for the nonlinear parabolic PDE2∂te(t,x)=log(−∂xxe(t,x))derived by Aldous. We prove its wellposedness and regularity of its solution by combining PDE analysis and probabilistic tools, in particula...
Einstein noted that what we see depends on the theory that we use for seeing. Another way to think about that is that the way we see things is based on how what we value. Chris Wright’s view is based upon the value he places on the correlation between energy and...
In theory, the risk-free rate is the minimum return an investor expects for any investment. Investors will not accept additional risk unless the potential rate of return is greater than the risk-free rate. If you are finding a proxy for the risk-free rate of return, you must consider the...
Monetarism is closely associated with economistMilton Friedman, who argued, based on thequantity theory of money, that the government should keep the money supply fairly steady, expanding it slightly each year to allow for the natural growth of the economy. Due to the inflationary effects that can...
In recent decades there has been a global rise in consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to the detriment of population health and the environment. Large corporations that have focused heavily on low-cost manufacturing and extensive marketing of UPF
Particular caution is required when treating SUD patients suffering from additional psychiatric disorders, as the intervention on HUD alone, even when successful, cannot be expected to resolve the problem of polyuse. Such patients must be carefully monitored (daily alcohol test, twice-a-week urinalys...
Socialism is an economic system where the means of production are owned by the society as a whole, meaning the value made by workers belongs to everyone in that society, rather than a group of private owners and investors. It is an economic philosophy based on the principles of shared owners...