This paper argues for the necessity and potential of introducing Schumpeter’s understanding of economic development as structural change into Amartya Sen’s peopleoriented development as freedom approach. Sen and other authors on social choice, human development and inequality have effectively promoted – through the United Nations Development Programme that the expansion of human agency, well-be...

In “Global Health Justice and Governance,” Jennifer Prah Ruger (2012) presents a compelling framework for evaluating and reforming the standing global health system. The framework is in many ways an extension of Ruger’s health capability paradigm and work on domestic health governance, most fully articulated in her recent book Health and Social Justice (2009), to the global order. The two compo...

BACKGROUND Shift work disrupts the circadian rhythm and may cause menstruation disorders. This study assessed the impact of shift work on menstrual cycle in a population of Chinese nurses. METHODS Questionnaires on menstrual characteristics and shift schedules were sent to female nurses of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (FAHSYSU) and Guanghua Hospital of Stomatology (...

Philip Pettit (2001) has suggested that there are parallels between his republican account of freedom and Amartya Sen’s (1970) account of freedom as decisive preference. In this paper, I discuss these parallels from a social-choice-theoretic perspective. I sketch a formalization of republican freedom, and argue that republican freedom is formally very similar to freedom as defined in Sen’s “min...

There can be little doubt that Rational Choice Theory (RCT) with its emphasis on the 'instrumentally rational' individual as the foundation of the political process has significantly enhanced the scope of political science. This paper details many of the areas of political science in which our understanding of events has been significantly enhanced by the application of RCT. But, in the end, RC...

Hepatitis viruses (HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV and HEV) are attributed to a wide spectrum of acute and chronic liver diseases, including carcinomas. Worldwide, >250 million become chronically infected by HBV and ~150 million by HCV every year. Though, new hepatotropic viruses, such as HGV, GBV, TTV and SENV are identified in chronic liver diseases, thousands still suffer of unknown etiology. Despite a p...

Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis: How Important were Trade Spillovers? Ramkishen S. Rajan and Rahul Sen The literature on the East Asian crisis has concentrated almost exclusively on the five crisishit economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines (Asia-5). Relatively scant attention has been paid to Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which also suffered from...

Computational steering is a technique that combines simulation and visualization. The user is continuously provided with visual feedback about the state of the simulation, and can change parameters on the y. Designers can vary parameters to optimize their product, users can detect errors in the input early, researchers can do qualitative sensitivity analyses easily. The implementation of comput...

We present a method for the deenition of multiple views in 3D interfaces for computational steering. The method uses the concept of a point-based parametrizable camera object. This concept enables a user to create and conngure multiple views on his custom 3D interface in an intuitive graphical manner. Each view can be coupled to objects present in the interface, parametrized to (simulation) dat...

1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R.China. 2 Department of Periodontology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China. 3 Department of Oncological Radiotherapy, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, P.R. China. Intern...