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The Synovial Lining and Synovial Fluid Properties after Joint Arthroplasty
Lubricants, 2015 The lubrication of the cartilaginous structures in human joints is provided by a fluid from a specialized layer of cells at the surface of a delicate tissue called the synovial lining.
Michael Shang Kung +3 more
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2014 Nearly all success is due to some mix of ability and luck. But some successes we attribute to the agent's ability, whereas others we attribute to luck. To better understand the criteria distinguishing credit from luck, we conducted a series of four studies on knowledge attributions. Knowledge is an achievement that involves reaching the truth. But many
Turri, John +2 more
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Luck of Outcome in the Talent Versus Luck Model
Advances in Complex Systems, 2023 This paper analyzes the Talent versus Luck model, which examines the impact of 'talent' and 'luck' on an individual's career success. The original model, based on simulations, demonstrated that the distribution of capital has a heavy tail, and the most successful individuals are not necessarily the most talented.
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The shape of luck and competition in winner‐take‐all tournaments
Theoretical Economics, 2020 In winner‐take‐all tournaments, agents' performance is determined jointly by effort and luck, and the top performer is rewarded. We study the impact of the “shape of luck”—the details of the distribution of performance shocks—on incentives in such ...
Dmitry Ryvkin, M. Drugov
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Proof of Luck: an Efficient Blockchain Consensus Protocol [PDF]
SysTEX@Middleware, 2016 In the paper, we present designs for multiple blockchain consensus primitives and a novel blockchain system, all based on the use of trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as Intel SGX-enabled CPUs.
Mitar Milutinovic +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Psychologists have identified heuristics and biases that can cause people to make assumptions about factors that contribute to the success of individuals and firms, whose outcomes may have actually resulted primarily from randomness.
Chengwei Liu +2 more
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Further Reflections on Lemos’s Indeterministic Weightings Model of Libertarian Free Action [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 John Lemos defends an indeterministic weightings model of libertarian free will that is a variant of event-causal libertarian views. Many argue that these views are susceptible to the luck problem: an agent’s directly free choices are too luck infected ...
Ishtiyaque Haji
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Acta Orthopaedica, 2018 Background and purpose — Hip resurfacing (HR) is a treatment option promoted for hip arthritis in young and active patients. However, adverse reactions to metal are a concern and the search for non-metallic bearing options proceeds.
Job L C Van Susante +6 more
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International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2012 This research1 looks at the impact of the rise of women’s non-standard, service sector employment on gender roles, identities and relations, and compares the complex task of finding and managing formal and informal non-parental child care in rural and ...
Patrizia Albanese, Tanya Farr
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Political research quarterly, 2020 Allocating health care resources based on personal responsibility is a prominent and controversial idea. This article assesses the plausibility of such measures through the lens of luck egalitarianism, a prominent responsibility-sensitive theory of ...
A. Albertsen
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