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Size Monotonicity and Stability of the Core in Hedonic Games [PDF]

open access: yes
We show that the core of each strongly size monotonic hedonic game is not empty and is externally stable. This is in sharp contrast to other sufficient conditions for core non-emptiness which do not even guarantee the existence of a stable set in such ...
Dinko Dimitrov, Shao Chin Sung
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Sense-making of consumer wellbeing in information technology-enabled services from a relational ontology position [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Information technology (IT) built into products and services have become the key drivers for service innovation. How information technology-enabled services (ITESs) affect consumer wellbeing has increasingly become a concern to service scholars.
Lloyd, Ashley D.   +3 more
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AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging an Unhappiness Lens for Smarter Policies

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traditional policy research has largely focused on enhancing happiness or well‐being, privileging positive outcomes as the primary metric of success. We argue that a systematic focus on the drivers of unhappiness—rather than solely on happiness—offers a complementary analytical framework that can uncover hidden societal deficits and broaden ...
Marine Coupaud   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Status-Seeking in Hedonic Games with Heterogeneous Players [PDF]

open access: yes
We study hedonic games with heterogeneous player types that reflect her nationality, ethnic background, or skill type. Agents' preferences are dictated by status-seeking where status can be either local or global.
Dinko Dimitrov, Emiliya Lazarova
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Fittingness and Consequentialism

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires fit their objects. Others do not. This paper considers whether consequentialist ethics can plausibly be reconciled with the fittingness of beliefs, positive and negative attitudes, and desires.
Brad Hooker
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Assumptions in Causal Thought: Poverty and Perversity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Causal attributions, framings, and ideas shape moral judgments. Sociologists have long highlighted these causality‐to‐morality processes, showing how causality underpins blame and moral responsibility. The reverse process of morality‐to‐causality, where moral assumptions influence causal attributions, has been studied less.
Lukas Posselt
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating hardship: A systematic review of the relationship between adverse life events and university students' well‐being

open access: yesReview of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract The unpredictable landscape of our times, characterized by adverse life events ranging from personal challenges to global pandemics and environmental disasters, underscores the urgent need for comprehensive insight into how such adversities shape students' well‐being in the context of tertiary education.
Veloni Malamati, Aikaterini Vasiou
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Injustice and Self‐Development

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Azizjon Bagadirov
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Canning Quality in Common Beans: An Integrated Farm‐to‐Can Framework Combining Breeding, Processing, and Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesLegume Science, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) are essential raw material for the canning industry. This article reviews recent advances in assessing canning quality and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into breeding methodologies aimed at developing genotypes with superior yield and canning‐quality traits.
Arash Ghaitaranpour   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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