It is one of the central doctrines for ”rational” decision making that an agent should be forward-looking and not be bound by things already gone. We argue that this is not an appealing principle for collective decision making, and that things already gone have necessary and substantive roles. We consider a dynamic process of social welfare orderings explicitly, and propose a discipline which i...

In the classic Anscombe and Aumann decision setting, we give necessary and sufficient conditions that guarantee the existence of a utility function u on outcomes and an ambiguity index c on the set of all probabilities on the states of the world such that, for all acts f and g, f % g ⇔ min p (∫ u (f) dp+ c (p) ) ≥ min p (∫ u (g) dp+ c (p) ) . The function u represents the decision maker’s risk ...

UNLABELLED Compared to adult medicine, drug use in children is not extensively researched. OBJECTIVE The objective of present study is to find out drug prescribing pattern in the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry and Orthodontics in teaching hospitals in Rajasthan, India. METHODS A prospective study was conducted in June 2011. A total of 619 prescriptions were collected ran...

We investigate the relation between the complexity function of a sequence, that is the number p(n) of its factors of length n, and the rank of the associated dynamical system, that is the number of Rokhlin towers required to approximate it. We prove that if the rank is one, then lim infn→+∞ p(n) n2 ≤ 1 2 , but give examples with lim supn→+∞ p(n) G(n) = 1 for any prescribed function G with G(n) ...

This paper develops an approach to political equilibrium in a twoparty setting. The approach characterizes political resource allocation as trading o¤ the utility of core party supporters and swing voters, i.e. those who are not attached to either party. The model has three stages. First parties determine their electoral strategies. Second, an election is held. Third, policy is chosen. To illus...

V.P. Kubarovsky, N. Akchurin, V. A. Andreev, A.G. Atamantchouk, M. Aykac, M.Y. Balatz, N.F. Bondar, A. Bravar, M. Chensheng, P.S. Cooper, L.J. Dauwe, G.V. Davidenko, U. Dersch, A.G. Dolgolenko, D. Dreossi , G.B. Dzyubenko, R. Edelstein, A.M.F. Endler, J. Engelfried , C. Escobar, I. Eschrich, A.V. Evdokimov, T. Ferbel, I.S. Filimonov, F. Garcia , M. Gaspero , S. Gerzon, I. Giller , G. Ginther, V...

AIM This randomized, controlled, clinical study was designed to evaluate the adjunctive effect of calcium sulphate grafts on the surgical treatment of through and through periradicular lesions. METHODOLOGY Twenty patients each with one tooth showing evidence radiologically of a periradicular lesion wider than 10 mm, with lack of both buccal and lingual cortical bony plates and an indication f...

Due to lack of confidence, the process of decision making and planning is a difficult task. Various tools are available to help decision-makers and planners as well as risk management methods for prediction and planning. Being aware of the period and intensity of a phenomenon is the keystone of dealing with critical events in risk management, knowing that the relationships among involved factor...

N. Akchurin, V.A. Andreev, A.G. Atamantchouk, M. Aykac, M.Y. Balatz, N.F. Bondar, A. Bravar, P.S. Cooper, L.J. Dauwe, G.V. Davidenko, U. Dersch, A.G. Dolgolenko, D. Dreossi, G.B. Dzyubenko, R. Edelstein, L. Emediato, A.M.F. Endler, J. Engelfried, I. Eschrich, C. Escobar, A.V. Evdokimov, I.S. Filimonov, F.G. Garcia, M. Gaspero, S. Gerzon, I. Giller, V.L. Golovtsov, Y.M. Goncharenko , E. Gottscha...