Discrimination through algorithmic decision making has received considerable attention recently. Prior work on the topic largely focuses on defining conditions for fairness, but does not define proper measures of algorithmic unfairness. In this paper, we focus on the following practically important question: Given two unfair algorithms, how should we determine which of the two is more unfair? O...

En países como la Argentina, donde el acceso al aborto está legalmente restringido, las mujeres se autoinducen el aborto o recurren a proveedores no calificados y luego ingresan a los servicios de salud con abortos incompletos y/o complicaciones. Por lo tanto, el tratamiento seguro y efectivo del aborto incompleto tiene una enorme capacidad para incidir sobre las cifras de morbi-mortalidad asoc...

Drosha is a member of the ribonuclease (RNase) III family that selectively process RNAs with prominent double-stranded features. Drosha plays a key role in the generation of precursor microRNAs from primary microRNA (pri-miRNA) transcripts in animal cells, yet how Drosha recognizes its RNA substrates remains incompletely understood. Previous studies have indicated that, within the context of a ...

An extensive amount of data from the World Ocean Database (WOD) that covers southern South China Sea (SSCS) were analysed to study long-term trends and variations El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event. The WOD selected 1951 2010, which included area within 0–10 °N 100–117 °E. La-Nina anomaly results showed sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTa) trend SSCS was higher during offset-El-Nino ...

Between summer 1987 and winter 1988 coastal water levels and marsh inundat~on regimes in the Mississippi h v e r Deltaic Plaln of Louis~ana (USA) were anomalously low This penod of low water levels colresponded with the 1987-88 La Nina event, and we hypothesized that the low estuanne water levels were a local manifestation of large-scale cl~matological forcing related to thls unusual event We u...

One of the challenges to increase milk production in a large pasture-based herd with an automatic milking system (AMS) is to grow forages within a 1-km radius, as increases in walking distance increases milking interval and reduces yield. The main objective of this study was to explore sustainable forage option technologies that can supply high amount of grazeable forages for AMS herds using th...

Superconducting nanowires are an experimental realization of a model quantum system that features collective degrees of freedom and exhibits a host of non‐equilibrium and non‐local phenomena. The nature of the quantum states in nanowires is particularly sensitive to size and shape quantization, coupling with the environment and proximity effects. I will demonstrate how we can utilize these feat...

This paper studies complementarities between executive and firm characteristics to identify the sources of match-specific productivity. The complementarities provide a way to formalize the notion of “a good fit” between an executive and a firm. First, there is the well-known complementarity between firm size and managerial talent. Second, the degree of diversification of the firm is complementa...

Dedidcated to Nathan Ehrlich, sorry it's a little late. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I couldn't have gotten through without a lot of help from a lot of people. In particular, I received a tremendous amount of support from my advisors Nina Balcan and Jeff Shamma.