Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu. Transnational Chinese cinemas : identity, nationhood, gender

This article reviews the book Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender edited by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu

A Review on Liao’s Dissertation Entitled “The Solutions on Multi-choice Games” and Related Publications

In 2007, Liao finished his Ph.d. dissertation[18](Liao 2007) entitled “The Solutions on Multi-choice Games”. Chapter 1 of the dissertation mainly worked on two special cases of the H&R multi-choice Shapley value. One assumes that the weight function w(j) is a positive constant function for all j 6= 0 with w(0) = 0 and the other one assumes that the weight function w(j) = j for all j. If w(j) ’s are equal for all j > 0 then the formula of H&R multi-choice Shapley value can be significantly simplified to the original formula of the traditional Shapley value for the traditional games. Therefore, as a matter of fact, Definitions 1 and 2 in Chapter 1 of the dissertation [18] are simply the traditional Shapley value. Hence, in most part of Chapter 1, Liao was just writing “new results” of traditional games in terms of the notations of multi-choice games. Furthermore, the dissertation [18] did not cited [7](1994), [8](1995a) and [10](1996) which held the original ideas of its main part of chapter 1.Multi-choice TU games, Shapley value, potential, w-consistency

Quark mass density- and temperature- dependent model for bulk strange quark matter

It is shown that the quark mass density-dependent model can not be used to explain the process of the quark deconfinement phase transition because the quark confinement is permanent in this model. A quark mass density- and temperature-dependent model in which the quark confinement is impermanent has been suggested. We argue that the vacuum energy density B is a function of temperature. The dynamical and thermodynamical properties of bulk strange quark matter for quark mass density- and temperature-dependent model are discussed.Comment: 6 Pages, 5 Figures. To be published on Phys. Rev.

Entire functions sharing simple aa-points with their first derivative

We show that if a complex entire function $f$ and its derivative $f'$ share their simple zeroes and their simple $a$-points for some nonzero constant $a$, then $f\equiv f'$. We also discuss how far these conditions can be relaxed or generalized. Finally, we determine all entire functions $f$ such that for 3 distinct complex numbers $a_1,a_2,a_3$ every simple $a_j$-point of $f$ is an $a_j$-point of $f'$.Comment: v3: 11 pages, corrected a typo in Theorem 2', updated address; refereed version, but note that the journal version carries my old address and has a finer division into sections and a different numbering of the theorem