-dimensional graph searching problem. DP provides mathematically optimal boundaries while greatly reducing sensitivity to local noise or other intervening structures. Robustness is further enhanced with on-the-fly training which causes the boundary to adhere to the specific type of edge currently being followed

learning theory (Bandura, 1977b, in press), self-directedness operates through a self system that comprises cognitive structures and subfunctions for perceiving, evaluating, motivating, and regulating behavior. An important, cognitively based source of self-motivation relies on the intervening processes

. Qualitative comparative analysis, optimal matching analysis, and event-structure analysis are new techniques which may help advance research in these broad topic areas. To enhance the effectiveness of coping and social support interventions, intervening mechanisms need to be better understood. Nevertheless

) the structure of the market is monopolistic. In this context, the article analyses two models of natural catastrophe insurance: a model of insurance with limited liability and a model with unlimited guarantee. Among others, the results confirm the idea that the natural catastrophe insurance industry

Social insurance doesn’t stand much chance of survival to the wave of globalization. Principles, such as inter- and intragenerational solidarity or the redistribution of the national wealth are gradually replaced by completely different or even opposite ones, such as individualism and capitalism, which are closer to the mercantile spirit of the globalization movement. The principle of solidarity is dangerous to the promotors of globalization because it creates a sense of unity and empathy between people and this diminishes the effect of the “divide et impera ” policy which needs to be applied even on the individual level. Actually we are witnessing a process of atomization of the society by the autization of the individuals. We can say that one of the tendencies of today’s world manifesting itself in a striking manner in the social domain is represented by the convergence of social systems towards the North-Western social model which, in the absence of a credible alternative, expands rapidly to a planetary level. social insurance, globalization, pensions

in a weighted graph. Optimal graph searching provides mathematically piece-wise optimal bound-aries while greatly reducing sensitivity to local noise or other intervening structures. Robustness is further enhanced with on-the-fly training which causes the boundary to adhere to the specific type of edge

is on studying the response of linear elastic static structures whose properties are characterized by means of log-normal random fields. Results obtained indicate that the use of intervening variables can lead to improved estimation of second order statistics when compared with traditional approaches based

The main result (0.1) of this paper is that every atoroidal three-manifold that fibers over the circle has a hyperbolic structure. Consequently, every fibered three-manifold admits a geometric decomposition. The main tool for constructing hyperbolic structures on fibered three

magnified by a factor ∼> 10 due to lensing by intervening galaxies. The z ∼ 6 quasars appear to be as bright as 3C273, the brightest quasar in the local universe. Even if these accreting black holes shine near their maximum (Eddington) luminosity, their observed fluxes require the assembly of a mass ∼>

’ between structure and political outcomes—and turn this concept from a constant factor into an intervening and relational variable which moves along a quantitative (high/low) as well as a qualitative (conflictual/cooperative) dimension. We then place this variable at the center of an enriched version