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Incentives and Discrimination [PDF]

open access: possibleAmerican Economic Review, 2004
Optimal incentive mechanisms may require that agents are rewarded differentially even when they are completely identical and are induced to act the same. We demonstrate this point by means of a simple incentive model where agents’ decisions about effort exertion is mapped into a probability that the project will succeed.
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Discriminative motifs

Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology, 2002
This paper takes a new view of motif discovery, addressing a common problem in existing motif finders. A motif is treated as a feature of the input promoter regions that leads to a good classifier between these promoters and a set of background promoters. This perspective allows us to adapt existing methods of feature selection, a well-studied topic in
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Self-nonself discrimination in a computer

Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, 1994
The problem of protecting computer systems can be viewed generally as the problem of learning to distinguish self from other. The authors describe a method for change detection which is based on the generation of T cells in the immune system ...
S. Forrest   +3 more
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OR discrimination: A new drug discrimination method

European Journal of Pharmacology, 1982
Rats were trained to respond on one of two levers for food (drug lever) after injections of either 0.04 mg/kg fentanyl or 10 mg/kg cocaine HCl, and to respond on the saline lever after saline injections. The acquisition data indicate that this OR discrimination is feasable in the rat, though it developed slowly due to a bias of responding on the drug ...
Paul A. J. Janssen, Francis C. Colpaert
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When Anti-Discrimination Discriminates

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2023
Harold, Braswell   +1 more
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Punishment and Discrimination

2010
Abstract Many statistics show that people in certain groups are penally disadvantaged. From this it is natural to infer that such people are subjected either to direct penal discrimination or to at least to some form of discrimination whether that is direct or not.
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Class Discrimination vs. Racial Discrimination

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1971
W HILE the subject of racial discrimination has enjoyed considerable attention in the literature, a careful distinction between discrimination based on color and discrimination based on economic status of one's parents continues to be a rare event. This paper attempts to render that distinction more explicit by examining the relative socio-economic ...
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ON DISCRIMINATING AND NOT DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN AFFECT AND REPRESENTATION

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1999
The topic involves two issues. They can be related either to different clinical pictures or to divergent opinions about the same clinical facts. But the above mentioned opposition can be found in Freud's work. Listening in analysis differentiates between situations where the distinction of affect and representation is blurred within the general frame ...
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DISCRIMINATION

Industrial Law Journal, 1984
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