Measuring the Initial Transient: Reflected Brownian Motion

We analyze the convergence to equilibrium of one-dimensional reflected Brownian motion (RBM) and compute a number of related initial transient formulae. These formulae are of interest as approximations to the initial transient for queueing systems in heavy traffic, and help us to identify settings in which initialization bias is significant. We conclude with a discussion of mean square error for RBM. Our analysis supports the view that initial transient effects for RBM and related models are typically of modest size relative to the intrinsic stochastic variability, unless one chooses an especially poor initialization.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure

Central Limit Theorems and Large Deviations for Additive Functionals of Reflecting Diffusion Processes

This paper develops central limit theorems (CLT's) and large deviations results for additive functionals associated with reflecting diffusions in which the functional may include a term associated with the cumulative amount of boundary reflection that has occurred. Extending the known central limit and large deviations theory for Markov processes to include additive functionals that incorporate boundary reflection is important in many applications settings in which reflecting diffusions arise, including queueing theory and economics. In particular, the paper establishes the partial differential equations that must be solved in order to explicitly compute the mean and variance for the CLT, as well as the associated rate function for the large deviations principle

International circulation and local retaliation: East Asian television drama and its Asian connotations

This chapter argues that a drawback of recent scholarly focus on regional distinctiveness and pan-Asianism is that an incomplete picture has hitherto been presented of the role contemporary Asian television drama is playing in transnational cultural exchange. Emphasis on the Asian-ness of Asian television drama, this chapter proposes, has resulted in neglect of aspects of the dramas that are appealing to broad non-Asian audiences. Further, large audiences who ardently watch East Asian drama but who do not fit into very broad definitions of what it means to be Asian have been marginalised. In addition, the chapter asserts that an excessive concentration on the socially positive impacts of the circulation of East Asian drama have obscured many of the less socially desirable and divisive nationalistic discourses that have surrounded inter-Asian cross-border transmission

Alien Registration- Glynn, John J. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Glynn, John J. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Producer Technology Use and the Value of Autonomy: The Case of rbST

Farm Management, Production Economics, Productivity Analysis,