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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare [PDF]
We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function.
Indraneel Dasgupta
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Consumers’ Concerns and Perceptions of Farm Animal Welfare
Animals, 2020 Simple Summary In the current socioeconomic situation, consumers’ concerns about farm animal welfare can prevent them from buying some products, and this influences the sustainability of intensive systems.
M. Alonso +2 more
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Assessment of a medical physics educational program for science teachers
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Medical physics is a fulfilling profession where physics is applied to advance human health. However, many are uninformed of the role of physicists in medicine, and students are unaware of this career pathway. This study presents a pilot 1‐year program for science teachers to learn about physics in medicine and share with students
Ashley J. Cetnar +2 more
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Extracting Actionable Knowledge from Domestic Violence Discourses on Social Media [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Domestic Violence (DV) is considered as big social issue and there exists a strong relationship between DV and health impacts of the public. Existing research studies have focused on social media to track and analyse real world events like emerging trends, natural disasters, user sentiment analysis, political opinions, and health care. However there is
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Social Welfare and Price of Anarchy in Preemptive Priority Queues [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Consider an unobservable $M|G|1$ queue with preemptive-resume scheduling and two priority classes. Customers are strategic and may join the premium class for a fee. We analyze the resulting equilibrium outcomes, equilibrium stability, and social welfare. We find that for service distributions with coefficient of variation greater than 1, there exists a
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Public animal welfare discussions and outlooks in Australia
Animal Frontiers, 2018 Australian society is characterized by a pervasive influence of animals in all aspects of human life. Although most countries use animals as companions, for production and for sport and entertainment, the scale and variety of animals in Australia is ...
G. Coleman
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Can Positional Concerns Enhance the Private provision of Public Goods? [PDF]
The social welfare effect of positional concerns over public goods is composed of two parts, a positional outcome and an outcome in terms of public goods provision.
Douadia Bougherara +3 more
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Handling rescue therapy in myasthenia gravis clinical trials: why it matters and why you should care
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.Abstract Myasthenia gravis (MG) clinical trials typically allow rescue therapy during follow‐up in the event of marked worsening of MG symptoms. Failure to appropriately address rescue therapy in defining treatment effects and planning statistical analyses may yield biased estimates, increase false positive rates, or decrease statistical power – all of
Justin M. Leach +3 more
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The effect of social welfare system based on the complex network [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 With the passage of time, the development of communication technology and transportation broke the isolation among people. Relationship tends to be complicated, pluralism, dynamism. In the network where interpersonal relationship and evolved complex net based on game theory work serve respectively as foundation architecture and theoretical model, with ...
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The evaluation of welfare under alternative models of higher education finance [PDF]
A model is developed which allows us to examine the welfare effects of alternative methods of financing access to higher education. Under an extreme specification of the social welfare function, it is shown that it does not matter whether higher ...
Geraint Johnes
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