Industrial development in small islands economies. A comparative study of Mauritius and La Reunion growth performances

Small islands economic development may follow different pathways, according to the particular combination of growth mechanisms. A comparative study of the long term growth in Mauritius and in La Reunion, two islands with strong historical, sociological and cultural links, shows that they are engaged in two different process of industrialization. La Reunion has

Approaching Minimal Flavour Violation from an SU(5) x S4 x U(1) SUSY GUT

We show how approximate Minimal Flavour Violation (MFV) can emerge from an SU(5) Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theory (SUSY GUT) supplemented by an S4 x U(1) family symmetry, which provides a good description of all quark and lepton (including neutrino) masses, mixings and CP violation. Assuming a SUSY breaking mechanism which respects the family symmetry, we calculate in full explicit detail the low energy mass insertion parameters in the super-CKM basis, including the effects of canonical normalisation and renormalisation group running. We find that the very simple family symmetry S4 x U(1) is sufficient to approximately reproduce the effects of low energy MFV.Comment: 24 pages + appendices, version to be published in JHE

The Function Hub : an implementation-independent read/write function description repository

Functions are essential building blocks of any (computer) information system. However, development efforts to implement these functions are fragmented: a function has multiple implementations, each within a specific development context. Manual effort is needed handling various search interfaces and access methods to find the desired function, its metadata (if any), and associated implementations. This laborious process inhibits discovery, and thus reuse. Uniform, implementation-independent access is needed. We demo the Function Hub, available online at https://fno.io/hub: a Web application using a semantic interoperable model to map function descriptions to (multiple) implementations. The Function Hub allows editing and discovering function description metadata, and add information about alternative implementations. This way, the Function Hub enables users to discover relevant functions independently of their implementation, and to link to original published implementations

Detailed provenance capture of data processing

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Duality theory and characterizations of optimal solutions for a class of conic linear problems

Strong duality for conic linear problems $(P)$ and $(D)$ generated by convex cones $S\subset X$, $T\subset Y$, a linear operator $A:X\rightarrow Y$ and a bilinear symmetric objective function $\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle$, eventually comes down to the feasibility of the problems $min\langle z,z\rangle,\;z\in\{Ax-b:x\in S\}$ and $min\langle w,w\rangle,\; w\in\{A^Ty-c:y\in T\}$. Under the latter condition, strong duality theorems as well as geometric and algebraic characterizations of optimal solutions are obtained via natural generalizations of the Farka's alternative lemma and related (finite real-space) linear programming theorems. Some applications of the main theory are discussed in the case of linear programming in complex space and some new results regarding special forms of continuous linear programming problems are given