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Operationalization of Interorganizational Fairness in Food Systems: From a Social Construct to Quantitative Indicators

open access: yesAgriculture, 2021
Fairness issues within food systems are of increasing concern for policy makers and other stakeholders. Given the topicality and policy relevance of fairness within food systems, there is value in exploring the subject further.
Ingunn Y. Gudbrandsdottir   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sonographic assessment of carotid atherosclerosis: preferred risk indicator for future cardiovascular events?

open access: yesSwiss Medical Weekly, 2019
Carotid ultrasound allows rapid and reliable quantification of atherosclerosis in humans. Although the definition of carotid plaque is not uniform, intimal thickening of at least 1.5 mm is currently defined as plaque. Plaque can be easily quantified by
Michel Romanens   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Income Redistribution Effect of Electricity Price Cross-Subsidies and Improvement of Ladder Electricity Price

open access: yesZhongguo dianli, 2023
Whether we can “properly handle the cross-subsidies of electricity price” is becoming the key problem throttling the progress of new round of power market-oriented deepening reform.
Siqiang LIU   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contracts, Fairness, and Incentives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on both the actual and the optimal choice of contracts in a moral hazard context.
Fehr, Ernst   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Unifying View on Min-Max Fairness, Max-Min Fairness, and Utility Optimization in Cellular Networks

open access: yesEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2007
We are concerned with the control of quality of service (QoS) in wireless cellular networks utilizing linear receivers. We investigate the issues of fairness and total performance, which are measured by a utility function in the form of a weighted sum ...
Stanczak Slawomir   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Fairness and Contract Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on the actual and optimal choice of contracts in a moral hazard context. Bonus contracts that offer a voluntary and unenforceable bonus for satisfactory performance provide powerful
Klaus Schmidt   +5 more
core   +1 more source

A New Reading of the Concept of Social Justice in Connection with the Quranic Concept of fairness in Verse 25 of Surah al-Hadid [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2022
The development of social justice as a significant Quranic issue has a long history. The connection of this issue with the concept of "fairness" in verse 25 of Surah al-Hadid has been considered a significant axis in the view of Muslim commentators ...
mohsen ghasem por   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fairness, Adverse Selection, and Employment Contracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper considers a firm whose potential employees have private information on both their productivity and the extent of their fairness concerns. Fairness is modelled as inequity aversion, where fair-minded workers suffer if their colleagues get more ...
Siemens, Ferdinand von   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Modular oversight methodology: a framework to aid ethical alignment of algorithmic creations

open access: yesDesign Science
Evaluating the algorithmic behavior of interactive systems is complex and time-consuming. Developers increasingly recognize the importance of accountability for their algorithmic creations’ unanticipated behavior and resulting implications.
Kyriakos Kyriakou, Jahna Otterbacher
doaj   +1 more source

A United States Fair Lending Perspective on Machine Learning

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
The use of machine learning (ML) has become more widespread in many areas of consumer financial services, including credit underwriting and pricing of loans.
Patrick Hall   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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