THE 97-TH PROBLEM OF F. SMARANDACHE

The main purpose of this paper is using the analytic method to study the n-ary sieve sequence, and solved one conjecture about this sequence

Concerto Competition Final Round 2

Competition Coordinator Dr. Robert Rust Jury Raymond Gniewek, violin (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, retired Scott Hartman, trombone (Yale University) Marina Lomazov, piano (University of South Carolina, Southeastern Music Festival) Piano Accompanists Joshua Cessna Feruza Dadabaeva Guzal Isametdinova Olga Konovalova Sheng-Yuan Kuan Darren Matias Kristine Mezines Marina Radiushina Canvasser Roberta Burns Finalists Shanshan Wei (violin) - Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 3 (Marina Radiushina) Yue Yang (violin) - Brahms, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (Sheng-Yuan Kuan) Camille Ripple (viola) - Bruch, Romanze in F (Marina Radiushina) Michael Puryear (cello) - Shostakovich, Cello Concerto No. 1 (Sheng-Yuan Kuan) Khosiyathkhan Khusanova (cello) - Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 (Darren Matias

Motivations and strategies for a real revaluation of the Yuan

Most Western economists and policy makers agree that the Yuan is significantly undervalued and push the Chinese government for a large nominal revaluation of the Yuan. This paper, while surveying recent research on Chinese exchange rate policy, gives some new insights into this issue. Notably, this paper defends that China is not solely responsible for the Yuan’s undervaluation, the Chinese central bank cannot optimally invest an increasing amount of foreign currency reserves, and the Yuan’s nominal revaluation is not the only way to resolve the problem. After having analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of a nominal versus a real revaluation of the Yuan for the Chinese economy, I advocate and analyze, besides a modest nominal revaluation, a multitude of alternative policies to achieve a complete revaluation of the Yuan in real terms, which allows absorbing external disequilibrium while laying down the foundation for the long-term growth of the Chinese economy.Renminbi (RMB), revaluation of the Yuan, foreign exchange reserves, external disequilibrium, measures of macroeconomic adjustment.

China’s digital yuan: Motivations of the Chinese government and potential global effects

This article highlights the key motivations behind China’s plan to launch the digital yuan and reviews the potential impacts on China and abroad. The article analyzes the digital yuan’s benefits to consumers, such as a reliable low-risk, low cost, and high-efficiency payment solution and the potential to promote financial inclusion. It compares the digital yuan with its most prominent competitors. Also discussed is how the digital yuan is expected to provide the Chinese Communist Party with a new powerful tool to monitor and control its economy and people. The article provides a critical evaluation of the potential of the digital yuan’s internationalization. This article also provides a perspective on the digital yuan to set global standards for the development of national digital currencies

Student Chamber Music Concert, November 27, 1990

This is the concert program of the Student Chamber Music Concert performance on Tuesday, November 27, 1990 at 6:30 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Quartet in B-flat major, K. 458, "The Hunt" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Duo pour Basson et Contrebasse by Albert Roussel, Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 4 by Joseph Haydn, Quartet in f minor, Op. 95 by Ludwig van Beethoven, The Wonderland Duets for two tubas and narrator by Raymond Ludeke, and Octet in F major, Op. 166 by Franz Schubert. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Types of fruits and vegetables used in commercial baby foods and their contribution to sugar content

Fruits and vegetables (F&V) are often featured in names of commercial baby foods (CBFs). We aimed to survey all available CBFs in the UK market with F&V included in the food name in order to describe the amount and types of F&V used in CBF and their contribution to total sugar content. Food labels were used to identify F&V and total sugar content. Fruits were more common than vegetables in names of the 329 CBFs identified. The six most common F&V in the names were all relatively sweet: apple, banana, tomato, mango, carrot and sweet potato. The percentage of F&V in the foods ranged from a median of 94% for sweet-spoonable to 13% for dry-savoury products. Fruit content of sweet foods (n = 177) was higher than vegetable content of savoury foods (n = 152) with a median (IQR) of 64.0 g/100 g (33.0–100.0) vs. 46.0 g/100 g (33–56.7). Fruit juice was added to 18% of products. The proportion of F&V in CBF correlated significantly with sugar content for all the food types except dry-savoury food (sweet-spoonable r = 0.24, P = 0.006; savoury-spoonable r = 0.65, P < 0.001; sweet-dry r = 0.81, P < 0.001; savoury-dry r = 0.51, P = 0.06) and explained up to two-thirds of the variation in sugar content. The F&V content of CBFs mainly consists of fruits and relatively sweet vegetables which are unlikely to encourage preferences for bitter-tasting vegetables or other non-sweet foods. F&V contribute significantly to the total sugar content, particularly of savoury foods

Comments on "New Brans-Dicke Wormholes"

It is shown that the recently claimed two new Brans-Dicke wormhole solutions [F. He and S-W. Kim, Phys. Rev. D{\bf 65}, 084022 (2002)] are not really new solutions. They are just the well known Brans-Dicke solutions of Class I and II in a different conformal gauge.Comment: 4 page