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On the uniform decay for the Korteweg,de Vries equation with weak damping

MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES, Issue 12 2007
C. P. Massarolo
Abstract The aim of this work is to consider the Korteweg,de Vries equation in a finite interval with a very weak localized dissipation namely the H,1 -norm. Our main result says that the total energy decays locally uniform at an exponential rate. Our analysis improves earlier works on the subject (Q. Appl. Math. 2002; LX(1):111,129; ESAIM Control Optim. Calculus Variations 2005; 11(3):473,486) and gives a satisfactory answer to a problem suggested in (Q. Appl. Math. 2002; LX(1):111,129). Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

The Value in Friendship

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, Issue 1 2003
Roderick T. Long
Why do we value friendship? No explanation that appeals to values external to friendship will be a satisfactory answer to this question. [source]

Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980,2002

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Issue 2 2009
Kai Arzheimer
Research on the voters of the extreme right in Western Europe has become a minor industry, but relatively little attention has been paid to the twin question of why support for these parties is often unstable, and why the extreme right is so weak in many countries. Moreover, the findings from different studies often contradict each other. This article aims at providing a more comprehensive and satisfactory answer to this research problem by employing a broader database and a more adequate modeling strategy. The main finding is that while immigration and unemployment rates are important, their interaction with other political factors is much more complex than suggested by previous research. Moreover, persistent country effects prevail even if a whole host of individual and contextual variables is controlled for. [source]

Language and the Measure of Mind

MIND & LANGUAGE, Issue 4 2010
ELI DRESNER
In his recent book The Measure of Mind Robert Matthews presents the most elaborate and convincing attempt to date to account for the propositional attitudes in measurement theoretic terms. In the first section of this paper I review earlier applications of measurement-theoretic conceptualization to the discussion of the mind, I outline Matthews' own account, and I raise two questions concerning it. Then, in the second section of the paper, I present a unified measurement-theoretic account of both linguistic meaning and the propositional attitudes, in which a variant of Matthews' position is embedded. Such a unified account, I argue, yields satisfactory answers to the questions raised with respect to Matthews' original view, and demonstrates other advantages. [source]