Anthony Shorrocks
Attempts have recently been made to assign inequality contributions to various components of income. This paper discusses the issues involved in such assignments and highlights the problems that follow from having a number of possible decomposition rules. U. S. data on the distribution of family inc...
Jan Dhaene, Andreas Tsanakas, Emiliano A. Valdez, Steven Vanduffel
A bstract This article develops a unifying framework for allocating the aggregate capital of a financial firm to its business units. The approach relies on an optimization argument, requiring that the weighted sum of measures for the deviations of the business unit's losses from their respective all...
APASL ACLF Working Party, Ashok Choudhury, Ankur Jindal, Rakhi Maiwall et al.
Background and aims Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a progressive disease associated with rapid clinical worsening and high mortality. Early prediction of mortality and intervention can improve patient outcomes. We aimed to develop a dynamic prognostic model and compare it with the existing...
Peter Taylor
My purpose here is to provide a coherent account of inclusive fitness techniques, accessible to a mathematically literate graduate student in evolutionary biology, and to relate these to standard one-locus genetic models. I begin in Sect. 2 with a general formulation of evolutionary stability; in Se...
Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, Md Mizanur Rahman
Using high-quality longitudinal data on 125,720 singleton live births in Matlab, Bangladesh, we assessed the effects of duration of intervals between pregnancy outcomes on infant and child mortality and how these effects vary over subperiods of infancy and childhood and by the type of outcome that b...
Sophia Etzold, Frank J. Sterck, Arun K. Bose, Sabine Braun et al.
Radial stem growth dynamics at seasonal resolution are essential to understand how forests respond to climate change. We studied daily radial growth of 160 individuals of seven temperate tree species at 47 sites across Switzerland over 8 years. Growth of all species peaked in the early part of the g...
Erum Rehman, Shazia Rehman
Environmental degradation has been identified as a major worldwide concern in recent decades, with CO2 emissions considered as one of the primary drivers of this catastrophe. This study creatively analyzes the underlying impact of urbanization, population growth, Gross domestic product (GDP) per cap...
Leela Dube
<p>This is the first sustained effort to compare South and South-East Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study overlooks at three types of kinship system, found in their carious forms i...
Sonia Akter, Timothy J. Krupnik, Frederick Rossi, Fahmida Khanam
Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to ...
Amin Mahmoudi, Xiaopeng Deng, Saad Ahmed Javed, Na Zhang
Abstract Due to mounting environmental and social challenges, supplier selection has become one of the most critical tasks of project‐oriented organizations. Because supplier selection can affect the long‐term success and profitability of the organizations and their projects, directly, embracing sus...
Jackie Abell, Abigail Locke, Susan Condor, Stephen Gibson et al.
Advocates of semi-structured interview techniques have often argued that rapport may be built, and power inequalities between interviewer and respondent counteracted, by strategic self-disclosure on the part of the interviewer. Strategies that use self-disclosure to construct similarity between inte...
Josh Hanson, Sue J. Lee, Sanjib Mohanty, M. Abul Faiz et al.
BACKGROUND: World Health Organization treatment guidelines recommend that adults with severe malaria be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). However, ICU facilities are limited in the resource-poor settings where most malaria occurs. Identification of patients at greater risk of complications m...
K. M. Ariful Kabir, Kazuki Kuga, Jun Tanimoto
A modified susceptible-vaccinated-infected-recovered (SIR/V) with unaware-aware (UA) epidemic model in heterogeneous networks is presented to study the effect of information spreading in the spatial structure of the vaccination game on epidemic dynamics. Two layers SIR/V epidemic model is considered...
Mohammad Ekramul Kabir, Chadi Assi, Mosaddek Hossain Kamal Tushar, Jun Yan
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) has prodigious plausibility in reducing green house gas (GHG). But EVs acceptance is, however, hindered by several challenges; among them is their avidity for quicker charging at lower price. This article considers a photovoltaic (PV)-powered station equippe...
Muntasir Alam, K. M. Ariful Kabir, Jun Tanimoto
Abstract Outbreaks of repeated pandemics and heavy epidemics are daunting threats to human life. This study aims at investigating the dynamics of disease conferring temporary or waning immunity with several forced-control policies aided by vaccination game theory. Considering an infinite and well-mi...