This paper argues that health transfers from an individual at a lower rank in the health distribution to a person at a higher rank may decrease the concentration index if the former has a slightly higher income. The concentration index, being mainly focused on the socio-economic dimension of health inequality, can produce such counter-intuitive results that overlook the pure health inequality a...

This paper is based on the observation that some certainties in care and rehabilitation of mentally ill people have not been and are not yet sufficiently guaranteed; furthermore discrimination and inequalities are generated by a certain kind of science and politics. So we conducted a study at a Diagnosis and Care Psychiatric Service (DCPS) located in the South of Italy. We have observed and sta...

At times, sufficient accumulated validity evidence is available for a selection procedure to justify its use in a new situation without conducting a local validation research study. In these instances, use of the selection procedure may be based on demonstration of the generalized validity inferences from that selection procedure, coupled with a compelling argument for its applicability to the ...

This talk reports on various aspects of the divergence of perturbative expansions in the context of matching QCD onto heavy quark effective theory. Implications for exclusive and inclusive decays of heavy mesons are discussed.

Mainstreaming Gender Equality: Sida’s support for the promotion of gender equality in partner countries. Britha Mikkelsen, Ted Freeman, Bonnie Keller et al. Sida Evaluation 02/01. Background Equality between women and men has been on the agenda for development co-operation since the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, where a majority of the world’s states recognized that gender equality is not o...

To make a robot that emotionally is more human-like, it should be capable of balancing simultaneously occurring tendencies of positive and negative affect. This paper is about the modeling of robot attitudes towards the user, using a fuzzy trade-off algorithm. Empirical research showed that in humans, involvement and distance are not mutually exclusive and that a range of factors contribute (e....

Knowledge management approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organizational cultures might be more receptive to the co...

Amongst 33-year olds in the UK National Child Development Study (NCDS), ill health (as measured by cardinalised responses to a question on self-assessed health) is concentrated amongst the worse off. We seek to decompose these inequalities in ill health into their socioeconomic causes. In this decomposition, inequalities in health status depend on inequalities in each of the underlying determin...

One of the greatest problems inhibiting the spread of hypertext is the cognitive overload on authors. In addition to authoring the content of each node, an author is responsible for creating information links and link anchors while also having to maintain an overall balanced hypertext document. Our work has addressed this aspect of the authoring problem by offering an author a menu of potential...

In this paper we examine the empirical findings of belief revision under two alternatives: the Bayesian framework and the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions. Bayesian theory is very stringent in its requirement that the probability of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive events sum to one. It requires that the belief be increased in light of supporting evidence, and be decreas...