"Hood Politics"

Interregional Inequality and Robin Hood Politics

This paper studies the implications of interregional redistributive taxation on interregional and interpersonal inequality and on social welfare. We introduce a model of two regions, where individuals are differentiated by their ability and opportunity, the former being determined by heritage and the latter by their residence. Moreover, agents are immobile and respond to interregional transfers...

Hood Roberts And

Warren Weaver is the person generally credited with exciting interest in the possibilities of mechanical translation (MT) in the United States. (Earlier proposals came from a Russian, P. P. Smirnoff-Troyanski, and independently from a Frenchman, Artsouni.) His letter on the subject to some 200 of his colleagues in 1949 may be regarded as the beginning of this endeavor. The international confere...

The Robin Hood Syndrome:

Street gangs pose serious threats to their members, to their victims, and to communities at large. The behavior problems associated with gangs are many and varied. Suggested causes for the emergence of gangs are complicated, and many of them are interdependent. Interventions planned to rehabilitate individuals and to weaken the power of the gang are numerous. Research shows that few of these in...

Chromosomes in the ‘hood

omites, the precursors of vertebrae, striated muscle, and dermis, are laid down in a timed sequence from anterior to posterior. Now, Alexander Aulehla, Bernhard Herrmann (Max-PlanckInstitut für Immunbiologie, Freiburg, Germany), and colleagues report that a gradient and two dueling molecular clocks, all driven directly or indirectly by Wnt3a, combine to create the striped pattern of somites. Th...

Fume Hood Exhaust Stack System