Human life defined, or defied?

The complexity of life: can life be simply defined?

ImpNet: Programming Software-Defied Networks Using Imperative Techniques

Software and hardware components are basic parts of modern networks. However the software component is typical sealed and function-oriented. Therefore it is very difficult to modify these components. This badly affected networking innovations. Moreover, this resulted in network policies having complex interfaces that are not user-friendly and hence resulted in huge and complicated flow tables o...

Life history trade-offs in human growth: adaptation or pathology?

Human beings growing-up in adverse biocultural environments, including undernutrition, exposure to infection, economic oppression/poverty, heavy workloads, high altitude, war, racism, and religious/ethnic oppression, may be stunted, have asymmetric body proportions, be wasted, be overweight, and be at greater risk for disease. One group of researchers explains this as a consequence of "developm...

Rationality in disorders of human life

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The Life Cycle Model with Recursive Utility: Defined benefit vs defined contribution

We analyze optimal consumption and portfolio choice when the agent takes the market as given, with applications to pension insurance. First, we recall the results for the conventional additive and separable expected utility model. We explain why this model is not viable in a temporal context. As a consequence, when confronted with real data this theory meets with several conflicting implication...