A Midsummer Knot's Dream

In this paper, we introduce playing games on shadows of knots. We demonstrate two novel games, namely, To Knot or Not to Knot and Much Ado about Knotting. We also discuss winning strategies for these games on certain families of knot shadows. Finally, we suggest variations of these games for further study.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures. To appear, College Mathematics Journal

Much Ado About Two: Reconsidering Retransformation and the Two-Part Model in Health Economics

In health economics applications involving outcomes (y) and covariates (x), it is often the case that the central inferential problems of interest involve E[y|x] and its associated partial effects or elasticities. Many such outcomes have two fundamental statistical properties: yò0; and the outcome y=0 is observed with sufficient frequency that the zeros cannot be ignored econometrically. Common approaches to estimation in such instances include Tobit, selection, and two-part models. This paper (1) describes circumstances where the standard two-part model with homoskedastic retransformation will fail to provide consistent inferences about important policy parameters; and (2) demonstrates some alternative approaches that are likely to prove helpful in applications.

1983 Illinois Shakespeare Festival Program

6th Season. The Theatre at Ewing. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/isf/1020/thumbnail.jp

Two Aspects of Law and Theory

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, there was much ado about law and theory, or the relationship between law and theory, or legal theory, phrases that I take to be synonymous, two aspects of which I want to discuss briefly today. With an introductory sentence like that, the normal expectation would be that the next sentence would somehow work in the phrase about nothing, and, not wanting to be unpredictable, thus casting doubt on somebody\u27s behavioral theory, I will fulfill this expectation by saying that a fair amount of the ado about legal theory was indeed about nothing. I do not mean by that statement that the discussions about and involving legal theory were not wonderfully interesting, erudite, deep, insightful, and maybe even significant at times. No, what I mean by saying that the arguments about, and fascination with, legal theory were much ado about nothing is that often it was literally about nothing: nothing corporeal, nothing real, nothing tangible, nothing, in short, that would look to a physicist, chemist, biologist, and probably not many sociologists or psychologists either, as data over which a theory could be constructed. Frankly, as I briefly discuss below, there was also generally nothing in these debates that mattered to the operation of the legal system or that bore upon significant questions of governance of the country

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623. By means of noting (which, in Shakespeare\u27s day, sounded similar to nothing as in the play\u27s title, and which means gossip, rumour, and overhearing), Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar on the erroneous belief that she has been unfaithful. At the end, Benedick and Beatrice join forces to set things right, and the others join in a dance celebrating the marriages of the two couples. Much Ado About Nothing. (2017, August 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:41, August 31, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Much_Ado_About_Nothing&oldid=794025889https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1972-1973/1000/thumbnail.jp

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623. By means of noting (which, in Shakespeare\u27s day, sounded similar to nothing as in the play\u27s title, and which means gossip, rumour, and overhearing), Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar on the erroneous belief that she has been unfaithful. At the end, Benedick and Beatrice join forces to set things right, and the others join in a dance celebrating the marriages of the two couples. Much Ado About Nothing. (2017, August 5). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:41, August 31, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Much_Ado_About_Nothing&oldid=794025889https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1907-1958/1015/thumbnail.jp

THE NIGERIAN WARS, REGIONAL CRISES AND ETHNIC DISTURBANCES:POLICY RESPONSES AND DEMOCRATIC IMPLICATIONS

Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard (First Governor General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown Colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for amalgamation was economic rather then political. It is therefore, a matter for great regret that this country (Nigeria) has sulfured as a result of the all-pervasive disunity that has characterized all government action since our accession to independence in 1960. This disunity has distorted, complicated and to a large extent stultified every development effort undertaken by government. This paper therefore argents that the much-celebrated Nigeria reform progress might be rhetoric or much ado about nothing. And that the âÃÂÃÂBB-, BB and BâÃÂàrating of the Nigerian economy might have been a baseless exercise. Consequently, the paper recommends the adoption of e-governance (development) as a therapy for a heterogeneous and divisible nation such as Nigerian (Ceteris Paribus).war; nigeria; biafra; ethnicity; trabalism; regionalcrises; disturbances; policy; democracy; governance-voting; elections; economy; corruption; coup; constitution; nigerdelta

The Nigerian Wars, Regional Crises and Ethnic Disturbances: Policy Responses and Democratic Implications

Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore, a matter for great regret that this country(Nigeria)has suffered as a result of the all pervasive disunity that has characterised all government action since our accession to independence in 1960. This disunity has distorted, complicated and to a large extent stultified every developmental effort undertaken by government. This paper therefore argues that the much celebrated Nigerian reform progress might be a rhetorics or much ado about nothing. And that the 'BB-, BB AND B'rating of the Nigerian economy might have been a baseless exercise. Consequently, the paper recommends the adoption of e-governance(development as a therapy for a heterogenous and divisible nation such as Nigeria(ceteris paribus).war; nigeria; biafra; ethnicity; trabalism; regional; crises; disturbances; policy; democracy; governance; e-voting; elections; economy; corruption; coup; constitution; niger delta

«Tirant lo Blanc» a Anglaterra. Notes de recepció literària

L'article que presente revisa les últimes aportacions que s'han fet al tema de la recepció literària de Tirant lo Blanc, de les quals es desprèn l'oblit en què va caure la novel·la valenciana en els segles posteriors a la seua publicació i fins al s. XX. En aquest context, destaca la repercussió de l'obra a Anglaterra, ja que en només vint anys, a cavall entre els segles XVIII i XIX dos erudits: Robert Southey i John Dunlop, i un novel·lista M. Lewis deixaren àmplia constància de la seua lectura. Un d'aquests, John Dunlop, fou el descobridor de la relació entre l'episodi de la Viuda Reposada i determinats passatges de l'Orlando furioso i Much Ado About Nothing.This article reviews the latest contributions made to the question of the literary reception of Tirant lo Blanc, which emphasise the oblivion into which this Valencian novel fell in the centuries after its publication up to the 20th century. The repercussion of the book in England is striking. In just twenty years, at the turn of the 18th to 19th centuries, two scholars, Robert Southey and John Dunlop, and the novelist M. Lewis left full record of their reading of the book. One of these, John Dunlop, was the discoverer of the relationship between the episode of the Easygoing Widow and determined passages in Orlando furioso and Much Ado About Nothing