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Uniform Welfare Guarantees Under Identical Subadditive Valuations [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among agents that have an identical subadditive valuation over the goods. The extent of fairness and efficiency of allocations is measured by the generalized means of the values that the allocations generate among the agents.
arxiv  

The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Poverty in the Western Countries

, 1998
The debates on how to reduce poverty and inequality have focused on two controversial questions. One is whether social policies should be targeted to low- income groups or universal; another whether benefits should be equal for all or earnings-related ...
W. Korpi, Joakim Palme
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identification of novel small molecule inhibitors of ETS transcription factors

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
ETS transcription factors play an essential role in tumourigenesis and are indispensable for sprouting angiogenesis, a hallmark of cancer, which fuels tumour expansion and dissemination. Thus, targeting ETS transcription factor function could represent an effective, multifaceted strategy to block tumour growth. The evolutionarily conserved E‐Twenty‐Six
Shaima Abdalla, Zary Forghany, Jin Ma, Johan G. Hollander, Ruta Nachane, Karoly Szuhai, Pancras C. W. Hogendoorn, Peter ten Dijke, Dipen Shah, David A. Baker   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Algorithmic Accountability in Public Services: A Qualitative Study of Affected Community Perspectives on Algorithmic Decision-making in Child Welfare Services

International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
Algorithmic decision-making systems are increasingly being adopted by government public service agencies. Researchers, policy experts, and civil rights groups have all voiced concerns that such systems are being deployed without adequate consideration of
Anna Brown, A. Chouldechova, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Andrew Tobin, R. Vaithianathan   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae amino acid transporter Lyp1 has a broad substrate spectrum

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yeast Amino acid Transporter family members mediate the import of amino acids, ranging from substrate specialists to generalists. Here, we show that the specialist transporter, Lyp1, has a broader substrate spectrum than previously described, with affinity constants spanning from micromolar to millimolar.
Foteini Karapanagioti, Sebastian Obermaier, Dirk J. Slotboom, Bert Poolman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Birds With One Stone: Fairness and Welfare via Transfers [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
We study the question of dividing a collection of indivisible goods amongst a set of agents. The main objective of research in the area is to achieve one of two goals: fairness or efficiency. On the fairness side, envy-freeness is the central fairness criterion in economics, but envy-free allocations typically do not exist when the goods are ...
arxiv  

The Visitor Effect on Zoo Animals: Implications and Opportunities for Zoo Animal Welfare

Animals, 2019
Simple Summary Research has shown that an animal’s welfare is highly dependent on how various individual animal factors (e.g., species traits, genetics, temperament and previous experience) interact with environmental features (e.g., social grouping ...
Sally L. Sherwen, P. Hemsworth
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Clinical applications of next‐generation sequencing‐based ctDNA analyses in breast cancer: defining treatment targets and dynamic changes during disease progression

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers a possibility for different applications in early and late stage breast cancer management. In early breast cancer tumor informed approaches are increasingly used for detecting molecular residual disease (MRD) and early recurrence. In advanced stage, ctDNA provides a possibility for monitoring disease progression and
Eva Valentina Klocker, Samantha Hasenleithner, Rupert Bartsch, Simon P. Gampenrieder, Daniel Egle, Christian F. Singer, Gabriel Rinnerthaler, Michael Hubalek, Katja Schmitz, Zsuzsanna Bago‐Horvath, Andreas Petzer, Sonja Heibl, Ellen Heitzer, Marija Balic, Michael Gnant   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Effects of Labor Income Tax Changes on Married Couples: A Sufficient Statistics Approach [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
This paper develops a framework for assessing the welfare effects of labor income tax changes on married couples. I build a static model of couples' labor supply that features both intensive and extensive margins and derive a tractable expression that delivers a transparent understanding of how labor supply responses, policy parameters, and income ...
arxiv  

Negotiating Socially Optimal Allocations of Resources [PDF]

Journal Of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 25, pages 315-348, 2006, 2011
A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In this paper, we study an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on multilateral deals to exchange bundles ...
arxiv   +1 more source