Effective Medical Surplus Recovery

MEDPILOT: integrated effective medical searches.

Biomedical searching strategies are ever more complex in the nowadays “information deluge” context. MEDPILOT is a service freely offered by ZB MED – Deutsche Zentralbibliotek für Medizin (German National Medical Library) based on an effective meta-search engine. It runs searches in Medline/PubMed and in many other biomedical sources, and allows further refinements and clustering of results.

Effective Presentation of Medical Images

Labor Surplus Economies

The labor surplus economy model has as its basic premise the inability of unskilled agricultural labor markets to clear in countries with high man/land ratios. In such situations, the marginal product of labor is likely to fall below a bargaining wage, related to the average rather than the marginal product. The reallocation of such disguisedly unemployed workers by means of “balanced” intersec...

Extracting Interaction-Created Surplus

This paper demonstrates that the economic surplus which agents produce in bilateral interactions is extractable by an outside party having sufficient initial resources. The third party achieves this outcome using a class of ‘‘exclusive-interaction’’ contracts. A basic extractability result is shown to be robust to several extensions: competition among outside parties, multiplicity of interactin...

The ‘ surplus of meaning ’ .

The late Chile born biologist Francisco J. Varela has been influential in theoretical biology throughout the last three decades of the 20. century. His thinking shows a marked development from a biologically founded constructivism (developed together with his fellow citizen, Humberto Maturana, with the main key word being “autopoiesis theory”) to a more phenomenological oriented standpoint, whi...