WIDER Annankatu 42 00100 HELSINKI FINLAND 1. Introduction (p.l) 2. Capabilities, well-being, agency and perceptions (p.6) 3. Social Technology, cooperation and conflicts (p.10) 4. Households economics, bargaining models and information bases (p.15) 5. Cooperative conflicts: Interests, contributions and perceptions (p.20) 6. Extended entitlements and perceived legitimacy (p.30) 7. Production, ea...

We consider the following problem of scheduling with conflicts (SWC): Find a minimum makespan schedule on a constant number of identical machines where conflicting jobs may not be scheduled concurrently. We present the first approximation algorithms for the case in which conflicts between jobs are modeled by general graphs both for unit jobs and jobs with arbitrary processing times. Previous re...

A common path for application development is to pick the COTS or legacy products, choose a middleware product, and determine what additional functionality is needed to make it all work. While this may seem the most expedient and least costly way to develop an integrated application, unexpected interoperability conflicts can surface after implementation, deployment and/or evolution of any of the...

BACKGROUND Patients with multimorbidity are an increasing concern in healthcare. Clinical practice guidelines, however, do not take into account potential therapeutic conflicts caused by co-occurring medical conditions. This makes therapeutic decisions complex, especially in emergency situations. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify and quantify therapeutic conflicts in emergency d...

The present study investigated to what extent memory of conflict and perceived threat explain the relation between religiosity supporting interreligious conflicts Muslims Christians in Indonesia. We employed data from survey 2017, involving 2026 adults five hotspot regions: Aceh Singkil, South Lampung, Bekasi, Poso, Kupang. Our confirmatory factor analysis measurement invariance demonstrated th...

in recent years, wildlife habitat needs to meet critical requirment (water, food, cover and reproduction sites) on the one hand, and human needs to natural lands for developing agricultural, industrial and residential activities on the other hand, have lead to the serious human-wildlife conflicts. attacks of wolves to human and livestock in hamedan province is an example of these conflicts. dev...

This study was conducted at Eldebeibat area, in South Kordofan State, Sudan. The aim of this study was to assess the role of competition on rangelands’ utilization on occurrence of conflicts between land’s users in the semi-arid areas of Eldebeibat, Sudan. Two target questionnaires were designed to collect data from two groups of land users namely nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers that...