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Laissez-Faire: Fully Asymmetric Backscatter Communication – Public Review

Laissez-Faire is a novel design for backscatter communication that enables much higher data rates. The key idea is simple and elegant. The authors note that low-power backscatter systems, e.g., RFIDs, transmit their signal using ON-OFF keying –i.e., they convey bits by transitioning the signal between two levels, up and down. However, since their bit rate is low (tens of kbps), they have a smal...

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Faire parler les données de la recherche grâce au Web sémantique : le projet VIVO

VIVO is an open source tool from semantic web technologies, used to identify and characterize the research activity of an institution. It allows the reuse of information or data existing in several external reference bases and different bibliographic databases. The aim is to collect and use four sets of relevant data on research activity: research structures, authors, research outputs and means...

Laissez-faire versus Pareto∗

Consider two principles for social evaluation. The first, ‘laissez-faire’, says that mean-preserving redistribution away from laissez-faire incomes should be regarded as a social worsening. This principle captures a key aspect of liberal political philosophy. The second, weak Pareto, states that an increase in each individual’s disposable income should be regarded as a social improvement. We sh...

Public healthcare--welfare, market share or laissez-faire?--a Sentosa Carlsberg skytower view.

How much the Government should provide for its people in sickness and in health, till death do us part, is open to different interpretation in different societies. One of the great paradoxes is that welfare states with high taxation can be globally competitive, innovative, successful market economies, and still provide quality universal healthcare. The Nordic countries, classical welfare states...