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Operational axioms for diagonalizing states [PDF]

, 2015
In quantum theory every state can be diagonalized, i.e. decomposed as a convex combination of perfectly distinguishable pure states. This elementary structure plays an ubiquitous role in quantum mechanics, quantum information theory, and quantum ...
Chiribella, Giulio, Scandolo, CM, Carlo Maria Scandolo, Scandolo, Carlo Maria, Giulio Chiribella, Chiribella, G   +5 more
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Salient Rewards, Payoff Protocols and Biased Data

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Paying salient rewards to subjects is expensive. Is it worth it? We describe previous data from otherwise identical treatments with hypothetical or salient payoffs that indicate opposite conclusions about the central research question in a paper. If we are going to pay salient rewards, how should we? The answer depends on the theoretical model
James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) is a participatory problem structuring methodology grounded in Structured Dialogic Design Science. It was created to help diverse stakeholders co‐construct influence maps that reveal leverage points and support coordinated action.
Yiannis Laouris, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

Accelerating Mission Engineering: Evidence of a Stratified Landscape and a Path Toward Unified Practice

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mission Engineering is maturing as a Systems Engineering discipline, yet adoption of its common frameworks remains stratified. This study examines whether selective adoption is observable across ME scholarship and develops a framework to address identified barriers.
James Moreland, Nathaniel Ambler, Casey LaMar, Maegen Nix, Craig Sawyer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitude toward imprecise information [PDF]

This paper presents an axiomatic model of decision making under uncertainty which incorporates objective but imprecise information. Information is assumed to take the form of a probability-possibility set, that is, a set $P$ of probability measures on ...
Thibault Gajdos, Takashi Hayashi, Jean-Marc Tallon, Jean-Christophe Vergnaud   +3 more
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Separation axioms weaker than T [PDF]

, 1972
The purpose of this thesis is to briefly investigate ideas of Wilansky [2] on separation axioms between T1 and T2. In Chapter 1, preliminary definitions and theorems are stated and proved.
Bates, Robert Frank, NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro   +1 more
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Predicting the effects of milder winters on the energy and water balance of a warm‐temperate hibernator

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract At the foundation of a species' vulnerability to climate change are the linkages between its physiological capacity, microclimate exposure and behavioural decision‐making.
Sanjeev Baniya, Alice Barratt, Nicholas C. Wu, Michael R. Kearney, Christopher Turbill, Zenon J. Czenze   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decision under Uncertainty : the Classical Models [PDF]

This chapiter of a collective book is dedicated to classical decision models under uncertainty, i.e. under situations where events do not have "objective" probabilities with which the Decision Marker agrees. We present successively the two main theories,
Michèle Cohen, Alain Chateauneuf, Jean-Yves Jaffray   +2 more
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‘The Girls Themselves Are Deluded into Thinking That This Sort of Football Was Sport’: Exploring the Development of Women's Football in Interwar Scotland

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The First World War brought with it many new opportunities for women, amongst them the chance to play football. The game became popular and an important way of raising funds for charity. However, when the war ended, there was a push to return to the pre‐war social order, which ended many of the activities women had enjoyed for the duration of ...
FIONA SKILLEN
wiley   +1 more source

Inferring Social Preferences over Income Distributions through Axioms [PDF]

Numerous prior experimental studies have attempted to elicit people’s preferences over income distributions through appropriately incentivated questions asking subjects to choose between distributions.
Carmen Pasca, John Hey
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