Prominent ethical and policy issues such as affirmative action and female enrollment in science and engineering revolve around the idea that diversity is good. However, a precise definition is seldom provided. I show that diversity may be construed as a factual description, a craving for symmetry, an intrinsic good, an instrumental good, a symptom, or a side effect. These acceptions differ vast...

BACKGROUND Perinatal asphyxia is, even in developed countries, one the major causes of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Therefore, if foetal distress during labour is suspected, one should try to restore foetal oxygen levels or aim for immediate delivery. However, studies on the effect of intrauterine resuscitation during labour are scarce. We designed a randomised controlled trial to investig...

Mobile applications (apps) have permeated every walk of our life. This has motivated many companies to jump onto the «mobile wave» and develop specific apps for their products and services. With the growing number of apps, it has become ever more difficult for companies to arrest attention and to motivate users to continuously use the installed apps. A strategy that frequently is followed is to...

This paper reports about a pedagogical experiment at Zaporozhye National University (ZNU) aiming at improving motivation and learning quality in Computer Science Bachelor programme. The major novelty in teaching and learning practice introduced in the experiment was the use of peer evaluation for the assessment of coursework reports in two disciplines – one in the II-nd and the other in the IV-...

The positive effects of social popularity (i.e., information based on other consumers’ behaviors) and deal scarcity (i.e., information provided by product vendors) on consumers’ consumption behaviors are well recognized. However, few studies have investigated their potential joint and interaction effects and how such effects may differ at different timing of a shopping process. This study exami...

Economic development is composed of processes of structural transformation such as industrialization and urbanization. Demonstrating Thailand's success in pursuing economic development is the increase in real GDP per capita from $985 in 1960 to $6,970 in 1990. However, this has not been without negative side effects, especially in the central node of the economy, Bangkok. Indeed, industrial pol...

Using a panel of establishments from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), I study the impact of the 1991 trade liberalization episode in India on the employment share of women. Contrary to the predictions of a taste-based discrimination model, I find that establishments exposed to larger output tariff reductions and import competition reduced the share of female workers. I also find that inpu...

Philosophical thinking has a side effect: by aiming to find the essence of a diverse set of phenomena, it often makes it difficult to see the differences between them. This can be the case with Mathematics, Programming, Writing and Philosophy itself. Their unified essence is having a shared understanding of the world helped by off-loading our cognitive efforts to suitable languages.