ON THE face of it, economics has had a dreadful decade: it offered no prediction of the subprime or euro crises, and only bitter arguments over how to solve them.
A novel integral-type Lyapunov function, which includes both system states and control input as its arguments, is constructed to solve the difficulty associated with the nonaffine control problem.
JACK HERSCHLAG Upper Montclair, N.J., Sept. 11, 2011 To the Editor: In advancing the classical supply-side argument for how to solve our current economic problems, Prof. Robert J. Barro states, "Today's priority has to be austerity, not stimulus".
The arguments used against accepting and housing refugees often elide with the arguments against taking action to solve the housing crisis.
The majority of all the health care respondents said that no form of violence by the husband or partner was acceptable or used as a tool to solve arguments among couples.
During meetings, he still challenges the person making the PowerPoint presentation, poking holes in the argument, demanding different ways to solve the problem.
Our argument is that strategies to solve this problem should be explicitly informed, if not driven, by the core causes of it -- not just on how dangerous it is.
The moderate doesn't try to solve those arguments.
'Epistemic' arguments that the only way to solve the paradox is to deny the truth of step 2 (so that vagueness is a problem of ignorance as to where the sharp boundary is between tires that are and are not bald) imply that there is always a right answer to the application of a law stated in vague language.
This may be unavoidable, but it also reflects a growing inability of any of us to think differently or accept new ideas or arguments as we desperately try to solve one of the most pressing policy and security issues of our time.
One of these was "On the Randian Argument" by libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick, who argued that her meta-ethical argument is unsound and fails to solve the is ought problem posed by David Hume.
