Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa

Review of Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa

Memorandum from Steve McSpadden

Memorandum discussing material for Geraldine Ferraro\u27s speeches in Texas and Southwest.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_materials_1984/1005/thumbnail.jp

Understanding the Internet: Model, Metaphor, and Analogy

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Introduction to Library Trends 50 (1) Summer 2001: Computer-Based Instruction in Libraries and Library Education

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On ordinal utility, cardinal utility, and random utility

Though the Random Utility Model (RUM) was conceived  entirely in terms of ordinal utility, the apparatus throughwhich it is widely practised exhibits properties of  cardinal utility.  The adoption of cardinal utility as a  working operation of ordinal is perfectly valid, provided  interpretations drawn from that operation remain faithful  to ordinal utility.  The paper considers whether the latterrequirement holds true for several measurements commonly  derived from RUM.  In particular it is found that  measurements of consumer surplus change may depart from  ordinal utility, and exploit the cardinality inherent in  the practical apparatus.

Holography for Cosmology

We propose a holographic description of four-dimensional single-scalar inflationary universes, and show how cosmological observables, such as the primordial power spectrum, are encoded in the correlation functions of a three-dimensional QFT. The holographic description correctly reproduces standard inflationary predictions in the limit where a perturbative quantization of fluctuations is justified. In the opposite limit, wherein gravity is strongly coupled at early times, we propose a holographic description in terms of perturbative large N QFT. Initiating a holographic phenomenological approach, we show that models containing only two parameters, N and a dimensionful coupling constant, are capable of satisfying the current observational constraints.Comment: 5 pages; new figure displaying predicted spectral running