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A welfarist critique of social choice theory
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2015 This paper provides a philosophical critique of social choice theory insofar as it deals with the normative evaluation of voting and voting rules. I will argue that the very method of evaluating voting rules in terms of whether they satisfy various ...
Aki Lehtinen
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo +4 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Bifidobacterium bifidum establishes symbiosis with infants by metabolizing lacto‐N‐biose I (LNB) from human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The extracellular multidomain enzyme LnbB drives this process, releasing LNB via its catalytic glycoside hydrolase family 20 (GH20) lacto‐N‐biosidase domain.
Xinzhe Zhang +5 more
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Social Choice in an Islamic Economic Framework
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1991 In this paper, the decision-making character of shura, the consultative democratic concept in an Islamic social order, will be shown to clearly define the determination of both state variables (socioeconomic variables) and policy variables and the ...
Masudul A. Choudhury
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The Caenorhabditis elegans DPF‐3 and human DPP4 have tripeptidyl peptidase activity
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) family comprises serine proteases classically defined by their ability to remove dipeptides from the N‐termini of substrates, a feature that gave the family its name. Here, we report the discovery of a previously unrecognized tripeptidyl peptidase activity in DPPIV family members from two different species.
Aditya Trivedi, Rajani Kanth Gudipati
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MODELING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO CHOICE CONSIDERING SOCIAL COMPONENT
Ekonomìčnij Vìsnik Nacìonalʹnogo Tehnìčnogo Unìversitetu Ukraïni "Kiïvsʹkij Polìtehnìčnij Institut", 2015 In this article we consider the strategy of choosing an investment portfolio, which consists of commercial and social project. It is assumed that the market is inefficient (net present value can be positive) may be invested both its own and borrowed ...
Олександр Леонідович Жиров +1 more
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Public choice, social choice, and political economy [PDF]
Public Choice, 2015 Since World War II a large literature has arisen that uses the methodology of economics to examine the behavior of governments and the actors in them. Some scholars refer to their research as public choice, some as social choice, and still others as political economy. This article discusses the distinctions among these three terms.
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Empathic choice involves vmPFC value signals that are modulated by social processing implemented in IPL [PDF]
, 2012 Vanessa Janowski +2 more
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How Do Social Support and Personal Resilience Assure Confidence in Vocational Choice in Times of the Pandemic? [PDF]
, 2023 Stephanie Hirschberger +2 more
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The role and implications of mammalian cellular circadian entrainment
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.At their most fundamental level, mammalian circadian rhythms occur inside every individual cell. To tell the correct time, cells must align (or ‘entrain’) their circadian rhythm to the external environment. In this review, we highlight how cells entrain to the major circadian cues of light, feeding and temperature, and the implications this has for our
Priya Crosby
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