Three ways to defend social security in Britain

Social mobility over three generations in Britain∗

We examine social mobility patterns over three generations of family members, using data collected in three British birth cohort studies. We show that for both men and women, and for all three birth cohorts, absolute mobility rates (i.e. total, upward and downward mobility rates, and inflow and outflow mobility patterns) in the partial parents–children mobility tables vary substantially by gran...

Divide to Defend: Collusive Security Games

Research on security games has focused on settings where the defender must protect against either a single adversary or multiple, independent adversaries. However, there are a variety of real-world security domains where adversaries may benefit from colluding in their actions against the defender, e.g., wildlife poaching, urban crime and drug trafficking. Given such adversary collusion may be m...

Three ways to sprinkle POWDER

In this paper, three alternative implementations of the POWDER W3C Recommendation are presented, compared, and discussed. The main issue with implementing POWDER is that POWDER inference accesses resources’ URIs in order to mass-annotate regular expressiondelineated groupings of URIs.

Three ways to politicize bioethics.

Many commentators today lament the politicization of bioethics, but some suggest distinguishing among different kinds of politicization. This essay pursues that idea with reference to three traditions of political thought: liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism. After briefly discussing the concept of politicization itself, the essay examines how each of these political traditions mani...

Three Ways to Test Irreducibility