We examine the fair allocation of the construction costs among the buyers of units located on different stories of a building. The rationale for the diverse allocation of the costs is two fold: from a supply perspective, the higher the story is, the greater the inflexibility it imposes on the entrepreneur due to the accompanying commitment to build all stories underneath; from a demand viewpoin...

The prospective, longitudinal, community-based CONTACT study aimed to improve our understanding of COVID-19 immunity, and other characteristics related SARS-CoV-2 long-term, including the assessment health-related quality life (HRQoL) at baseline over time by infection status. Participants living or working in Lake County, IL were recruited between November 2020 January 2021. At follow up visit...

BACKGROUND Relevant clinical studies have been small and have not convincingly demonstrated whether the perioperative initiation of beta-blockers should be considered in patients with diabetes mellitus undergoing noncardiac surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS In this nationwide propensity score-matched study, we included patients with diabetes mellitus undergoing noncardiac surgery between 2000 and ...

This paper proposes a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor for the IoT, which consists of Hummingbird e203 and configurable precision COordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) coprocessor. Coprocessor is used to enhance processing power system. Custom instructions are added original instruction set accelerate complex calculations. Experimental results demonstrate that coprocessor can process applic...

We analyze coalition formation problems in which a group of agents is partitioned into coalitions and agents’ preferences only depend on the identity of the members of the coalition they are members of. We study rules that associate to each profile of agents’ preferences a partition of the society. We are interested in rules that never provide incentives for the agents to misrepresent their pre...

Abstract Excess nutrientsfrom fertiliser application, pollution discharge and water regulations outflow through rivers from lands to oceans, seriously impact coastal ecosystems. Terrestrial runoff of waters polluted with nutrients (primarily nitrogen [N] phosphorus [P] compounds) point source/s, such as sewage treatment plant (STP) discharges, diffuse sourcesvia river losses, are having devasta...