objectives: there have been numerous attempts to construct non-monetary indices of social and economic satisfaction by combining in a single statistic a variety of different factors that are thought to influence human well-being. method: the concept of quality of life (qol) as an aggregate measure of people’s well-being in a certain country, region, or social stratum. the economist intelligence...

The exponential growth of social networks currently makes them the standard way to share and explore data where users put informations (images, text, audio,...) and refer to other contents (profiles, images,...). This creates connected networks whose links provide valuable informations in order to enhance the performance of many tasks in information retrieval including ranking and annotation. W...

In the classical theory of social choice, a theory developed by game-theorists and theoretical economists, we consider a set of agents (voters) and a set of alternatives. Each agent ranks the alternatives, and the major aim is to find a good way to aggregate the individual preferences into a social preference. The major tool offered in this theory is the axiomatic approach: study properties (te...

Japanese macaques reside in large, mixed-sex social groups in which various reproductive strategies of both sexes operate simultaneously. This report represents the first study combining behavioural and genetic data to examine the interaction of male and female reproductive strategies in primates (N=15 adult males, N=15 adult females, Yakushima Island, Japan). During one mating season, socially...