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Evolution, 2009 Sex has many costs with respect to asexual reproduction, so its ubiquity is a puzzle. There has been a continuing effort to identify general circumstances in which aspects of sex generate an evolutionary advantage over asexual reproduction. Here we focus on the generality that individuals can experience good and bad "luck" at various stages of their ...
Alistair Blachford, Michael Doebeli
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Cell, 2015 On June 5, 1944, I discovered a radiation-resistant mutant of E. coli in my first experiment at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratories. That’s where the new field of bacterial genetics was germinating. I was a Columbia University graduate student, there to learn how to handle E. coli so I could do my doctoral research with bacteria.
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Exploring the role of talent and luck in getting success [PDF]
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement 12 (2019) 17, 2018 We review recent numerical results on the role of talent and luck in getting success by means of a schematic agent-based model. In general the role of luck is found to be very relevant in order to get success, while talent is necessary but not sufficient. Funding strategies to improve the success of the most talented people are also discussed.
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John Stuart Mill on Luck and Distributive Justice [PDF]
, 2019 My aim in this chapter is to place John Stuart Mill’s distinctive utilitarian political philosophy in the context of the debate about luck, responsibility, and equality.
Turner, Piers Norris
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Reassessing False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Skill, Luck, or Lack of Power?
Journal of Finance, 2019 Barras, Scaillet, and Wermers propose the false discovery rate (FDR) to separate skill (alpha) from luck in fund performance. Using simulations with parameters informed by the data, we find that this methodology is conservative and underestimates the ...
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Philosophy Compass, 2013 AbstractLuck egalitarianism is a family of egalitarian theories of distributive justice that aim to counteract the distributive effects of luck. This article explains luck egalitarianism's main ideas, and the debates that have accompanied its rise to prominence. There are two main parts to the discussion.
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Real Knowledge Undermining Luck [PDF]
, 2016 Based on the discussion of a novel version of the Barn County scenario, the paper argues for a new explication of knowledge undermining luck.
van Riel, Raphael
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A framework for luck egalitarianism in health and healthcare [PDF]
, 2014 Several attempts have been made to apply the choice-sensitive theory of distributive justice, luck egalitarianism, in the context of health and healthcare.
Albertsen, Andreas, Knight, Carl
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The institutional determinants of CEO compensation: An international empirical evidence [PDF]
International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 2011 Corporate governance literature suggests that the relationship between CEO effort and outcomes such as firm performance is highly uncertain due to the influence of numerous organizational and environmental contingencies that are outside CEOs’ control ...
Fakhfakh, H., Singhal, P.
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Dielectric resonances of binary random networks [PDF]
Journal of Physics A 31 (1998), 3687, 1998 We investigate the AC conductivity of binary random impedance networks, with emphasis on its dependence on the ratio of the complex conductances of both phases. We propose an algorithm to determine the conductance of a finite network, in terms of its poles and of the associated residues.
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