Furthermore, the prescription to find the equilibrium distributions of statistical mechanics such as the Boltzmann distribution by maximising the Gibbs entropy subject to appropriate constraints ( the Gibbs algorithm ) can be seen as something not unique to thermodynamics, but as a principle of general relevance in statistical inference, if it is desired to find a maximally uninformative probability distribution, subject to certain constraints on its averages . ( These perspectives are explored further in the article Maximum entropy thermodynamics .)
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This means that the rate of capital appreciation of the shares in the hands of the capitalist group as a whole, for the reasons given above, is greater than the rate of appreciation of the assets in the hands of pension funds, etc . Given the difference in the rates of appreciation of the two funds of securities-and this depends on the rate at which new corporations emerge and replace older ones-I think it can be shown that there will be, for any given constellation of the value of the parameters, a long run equilibrium distribution of the assets between capitalists and pension funds which will remain constant.
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The Ph . D . dissertation addressed the following topics : ion distributions in molten salts, the structure of electrical double layers at electrodes in concentrated salt solutions, the partition functions for quantum fluids, and a particle-size-coupling formalism for equilibrium distribution functions . in In September 1959 he joined the Research Area of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ . Following the U . S . Justice Department's divestiture order for Bell Labs, Stillinger was transferred to a Lucent Technologies in 1996, where he experienced what he calls " impatient attitude toward basic research ", and later to Lucent's spinoff, Agere Systems, where his employment was terminated in 2001.
