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Let $ \mathcal {B} $ be the class of analytic functions $ f $ in the unit disk $ \mathbb {D}=\{z\in \mathbb {C} : |z|<1\} $ such that $ |f(z)|<1 $ for all $ z\in \mathbb {D} $. If $ f\in \mathcal {B} $ of the form $ f(z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }a_nz^n $, then $ \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }|a_nz^n|\leq 1 $ for $ |z|=r\leq 1/3 $ and $ 1/3 $ cannot be improved. This inequality is called Bohr inequality and the quantity $ 1/3 $ is called Bohr radius. If $ f\in \mathcal {B} $ of the form $ f(z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }a_nz^n $, then $ |\sum _{n=0}^{N}a_nz^n|<1\;\; \mbox {for}\;\; |z|<{1}/{2} $ and the radius $ 1/2 $ is the best possible for the class $ \mathcal {B} $. This inequality is called Bohr–Rogosinski inequality and the corresponding radius is called Bohr–Rogosinski radius. Let $ \mathcal {H} $ be the class of all complex-valued harmonic functions $ f=h+\bar {g} $ defined on the unit disk $ \mathbb {D} $, where $ h $ and $ g $ are analytic in $ \mathbb {D} $ with the normalization $ h(0)=h^{\prime }(0)-1=0 $ and $ g(0)=0 $. Let $ \mathcal {H}_0=\{f=h+\bar {g}\in \mathcal {H} : g^{\prime }(0)=0\}. $ For $ \alpha \geq 0 $ and $ 0\leq \beta <1 $, let
be a class of close-to-convex harmonic mappings in $ \mathbb {D} $. In this paper, we prove the sharp Bohr–Rogosinski radius for the class $ \mathcal {W}^{0}_{\mathcal {H}}(\alpha , \beta ) $.
Fallacies are a particular type of informal argument that are psychologicallycompelling and often used for rhetorical purposes. Fallacies are unreasonablebecause the reasons they provide for their claims are irrelevant orinsufficient. Ability to recognize the weakness of fallacies is part of what wecall argument literacy and imporatant in rational thinking. Here we examineclassic fallacies of types found in textbooks. In an experiment, participantsevaluated the quality of fallacies and reasonable arguments. We instructedparticipants to think either intuitively, using their first impressions, oranalytically, using rational deliberation. We analyzed responses, responsetimes, and cursor trajectories (captured using mouse tracking). The resultsindicate that instructions to think analytically made people spend more time onthe task but did not make them change their minds more often. When participantsmade errors, they were drawn towards the correct response, while respondingcorrectly was more straightforward. The results are compatible with“smart intuition” accounts of dual-process theories of reasoning,rather than with corrective default-interventionist accounts. The findings arediscussed in relation to whether theories developed to account for formalreasoning can help to explain the processing of everyday arguments.
Many parameters are associated with IHC testing assays. With so many variables, it is quite easy to accumulate errors within the system. To make things more manageable, these considerations are categorized into three main groups. Pre-analytic aspects occur before the assay, analytic factors are concerned with the staining protocol and post-analytic elements relate to interpreting of results. It has also come to reason that any one variable can impact the reliability and consistency of the overall IHC assay. In this regard, standardization requirements have been enlisted to assist laboratories achieve optimal results. In addition, monitoring proficiency testing regimens and various organizations are in place to ensure high levels of standards are attained. All these endeavours are known as quality assurance and quality control measures. They are arranged under the overall umbrella of a facility’s quality management system.
Conrad eloquently wrote about his inability to write; he stuttered his way through his texts with nonlexical grunts, snarls, howls, murmurs, gurgles, snorts and hems; and he sought to stay true to “the stammerings of his conscience” (xliii), a working method alluded to in the Preface of The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897). In this chapter, I argue that distraction – usually a writer’s enemy – is another one of these unexpected features that Conrad used to propel his writing; his seemingly rambling digressions are part of a quest for verbal precision. Although he is frequently conceived of as a methodical and philosophical writer, distraction was a fundamental and serious part of his literary enterprise. By allowing distraction, inattentiveness and absent-mindedness to become part of his fiction, he was able to stay productive, steal the reader’s attention and add a level of everyday realism to his texts. Conrad, I maintain, writes in medias distractionis and consistently pays attention to those who do not pay attention.
What is 'truth'? The question that Pilate put to Jesus was laced with dramatic irony. But at a time when what is true and what is untrue have acquired a new currency, the question remains of crucial significance. Is truth a matter of the representation of things which lack truth in themselves? Or of mere coherence? Or is truth a convenient if redundant way of indicating how one's language refers to things outside oneself? In her ambitious new book, Catherine Pickstock addresses these profound questions, arguing that epistemological approaches to truth either fail argumentatively or else offer only vacuity. She advances instead a bold metaphysical and realist appraisal which overcomes the Kantian impasse of 'subjective knowing' and ban on reaching beyond supposedly finite limits. Her book contends that in the end truth cannot be separated from the transcendent reality of the thinking soul.
A common account of the distinction between analytic and synthetic truths is that while the former are true solely in virtue of meaning, the latter are true also in virtue of the way of the world. Quine famously disputed this characterization, and his skepticism over the analytic/synthetic distinction has cast a long shadow. Against this skepticism, it is argued that the common account comes close to the truth, and that truthmaker theory offers the resources for providing a compelling account of the distinction that preserves the basic ideas behind it, and avoids the standard criticisms (from Quine, Harman, and Boghossian) facing the distinction. The thesis is that we can formulate an analytic/synthetic distinction in terms of the distinction between truths that require no ontological accounting whatsoever versus those that do. The ontological accounting required for analytic truths is trivial – any set of books will suffice. What distinguishes the synthetic truths is that they require some form of substantive ontological accounting.
What is the "subject" of attention, and what is its role in the mind? This chapter serves as an overview of the arguments in the book while also providing some motivation and background. It discusses the etymological and philosophical origins of "attention"; the recent history of work on attention; the concept of the "subject," which plays a key role in the book; and the "natural method" of combining evidence from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, which is used throughout the book. This chapter should give the reader a sense of the theoretical framework and stance of the book.
In the previous chapter, the authors argued that there is no (and possibly cannot be a) comprehensive analytic definition of ‘trust’. In this chapter they claim that even if there is no comprehensive analytic definition of a term ‘X’, we can often recognise and understand ‘X’, and that one way of doing this is by recognising the pattern of characteristic features (or ‘family resemblance’) common to different examples of ‘X’. Moreover, they argue that whereas in a definition based on necessary conditions all conditions must be met, in a pattern-based definition not all features are essential, i.e., it may still be ‘X’ if not all features of the pattern of ‘X’ are present, but the better a case fits the pattern, the more likely it is ‘X’. Not only does this approach cohere well with approaches to medical diagnosis, but as a means of approaching how to provide a definition for a disputed term it is also philosophically underpinned by the work of Frank Jackson and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Let ${\mathcal{P}}_{{\mathcal{H}}}^{0}(M)$ denote the class of normalised harmonic mappings $f=h+\overline{g}$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ satisfying $\text{Re}\,(zh^{\prime \prime }(z))>-M+|zg^{\prime \prime }(z)|$, where $h^{\prime }(0)-1=0=g^{\prime }(0)$ and $M>0$. Let ${\mathcal{B}}_{{\mathcal{H}}}^{0}(M)$ denote the class of sense-preserving harmonic mappings $f=h+\overline{g}$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$ satisfying $|zh^{\prime \prime }(z)|\leq M-|zg^{\prime \prime }(z)|$, where $M>0$. We discuss the coefficient bound problem, the growth theorem for functions in the class ${\mathcal{P}}_{{\mathcal{H}}}^{0}(M)$ and a two-point distortion property for functions in the class ${\mathcal{B}}_{{\mathcal{H}}}^{0}(M)$.
Let $f$ be analytic in $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$ and given by $f(z)=z+\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }a_{n}z^{n}$. We give sharp bounds for the initial coefficients of the Taylor expansion of such functions in the class of strongly Ozaki close-to-convex functions, and of the initial coefficients of the inverse function, together with some growth estimates.
The logarithmic coefficients $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{n}$ of an analytic and univalent function $f$ in the unit disc $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$ with the normalisation $f(0)=0=f^{\prime }(0)-1$ are defined by $\log (f(z)/z)=2\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{n}z^{n}$. In the present paper, we consider close-to-convex functions (with argument 0) with respect to odd starlike functions and determine the sharp upper bound of $|\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}_{n}|$, $n=1,2,3$, for such functions $f$.
For a normalized analytic function $f(z)=z+\sum _{n=2}^{\infty }a_{n}z^{n}$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}:=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$, the estimate of the integral means
is an important quantity for certain problems in fluid dynamics, especially when the functions $f(z)$ are nonvanishing in the punctured unit disk $\mathbb{D}\setminus \{0\}$. Let ${\rm\Delta}(r,f)$ denote the area of the image of the subdisk $\mathbb{D}_{r}:=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<r\}$ under $f$, where $0<r\leq 1$. In this paper, we solve two extremal problems of finding the maximum value of $L_{1}(r,f)$ and ${\rm\Delta}(r,z/f)$ as a function of $r$ when $f$ belongs to the class of $m$-fold symmetric starlike functions of complex order defined by a subordination relation. One of the particular cases of the latter problem includes the solution to a conjecture of Yamashita, which was settled recently by Obradović et al. [‘A proof of Yamashita’s conjecture on area integral’, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory13 (2013), 479–492].
We consider a recent work of Pascu and Pascu [‘Neighbourhoods of univalent functions’, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc.83(2) (2011), 210–219] and rectify an error that appears in their work. In addition, we study certain analogous results for sense-preserving harmonic mappings in the unit disc $\vert z\vert \lt 1$. As a corollary to this result, we derive a coefficient condition for a sense-preserving harmonic mapping to be univalent in $\vert z\vert \lt 1$.
This paper investigates the rate of convergence to the probability distribution of the embedded M/G/1 and GI/M/n queues. We introduce several types of ergodicity including l-ergodicity, geometric ergodicity, uniformly polynomial ergodicity and strong ergodicity. The usual method to prove ergodicity of a Markov chain is to check the existence of a Foster–Lyapunov function or a drift condition, while here we analyse the generating function of the first return probability directly and obtain practical criteria. Moreover, the method can be extended to M/G/1- and GI/M/1-type Markov chains.
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