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Size and Soft Budget Constraints [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 There is much evidence against the so-called "too big to fail" hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce socially-efficient provision, but districts can still exploit the ...
Ernesto Crivelli, Klaas Staal
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Sensors, 2023 Therapeutic ultrasound waves are the main instruments used in many noninvasive clinical procedures. They are continuously transforming medical treatments through mechanical and thermal effects. To allow for effective and safe delivery of ultrasound waves,
Shaikhah Alkhadhr, Mohamed Almekkawy
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Exploring soft constraints on effective actions [PDF]
, 2016 We study effective actions for simultaneous breaking of space-time and internal symmetries. Novel features arise due to the mixing of Goldstone modes under the broken symmetries which, in contrast to the usual Adler's zero, leads to non-vanishing soft ...
Bianchi, Massimo +4 more
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Bioengineering, 2017 The current work investigates the capability of a tailored multivariate curve resolution–alternating least squares (MCR-ALS) algorithm to analyse glucose, phosphate, ammonium and acetate dynamics simultaneously in an E.
Dennis Vier +3 more
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Soft Constraints: Complexity and Multimorphisms [PDF]
, 2003 Over the past few years there has been considerable progress in methods to systematically analyse the complexity of classical (crisp) constraint satisfaction problems with specified constraint types. One very powerful theoretical development in this area links the complexity of a set of classical constraints to a corresponding set of algebraic ...
Cohen, D +3 more
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MiniBrass: Soft constraints for MiniZinc [PDF]
Constraints, 2018 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Alexander Schiendorfer +3 more
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Soft constraints for pattern mining [PDF]
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2013 Constraint-based pattern discovery is at the core of numerous data mining tasks. Patterns are extracted with respect to a given set of constraints (frequency, closedness, size, etc). In practice, many constraints require threshold values whose choice is often arbitrary.
Ugarte Rojas, Willy +4 more
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The Soft Budget Constraint [PDF]
Kyklos, 1986 SUMMARYThe ‘softening’ of the budget constraint appears when the strict relationship between the expenditure and the earnings of an economic unit (firm, household, etc.) has been relaxed, because excess expenditure will be paid by some other institution, typically be the paternalistic State. The higher the subjective probability that excess expenditure
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On the Use of Biased-Randomized Algorithms for Solving Non-Smooth Optimization Problems
Algorithms, 2019 Soft constraints are quite common in real-life applications. For example, in freight transportation, the fleet size can be enlarged by outsourcing part of the distribution service and some deliveries to customers can be postponed as well; in inventory ...
Angel Alejandro Juan +4 more
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Observational constraints on soft dark energy and soft dark matter: Challenging ΛCDM cosmology
Nuclear Physics B, 2023 Soft cosmology is an extension of standard cosmology allowing for a scale-dependent equation-of-state (EoS) parameter in the dark sectors, which is one of the properties of soft materials in condensed-matter physics, that may arise either intrinsically ...
Emmanuel N. Saridakis +4 more
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