This paper points to some elementary conflicts between the claims of interpersonal and intergroup justice as they manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted Human Development Index’ and the Su...

SUMMARY The risk of transfusion-transmitted infections has been greatly reduced by improvements in donor screening and testing. However, newly recognized blood-borne infectious agents can be threats to blood safety. In order to evaluate the prevalence some of these agents in blood donors, a systematic review was conducted. Data were obtained from published papers related to HGV, Torque Teno vir...

Acknowledgment Whose hand and tongue is capable To fulfil the obligations of thanks to Him? – Sa'di I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me in the completion of this work. Especially I am highly indebted to my advisor, Atish Dabholkar, for his guidance and stimulating suggestions throughout the work. I would also like to thank all my collaborators, Ashoke Sen, Norihiro I...

though they bear no responsibility for any of the data or conclusions. The authors thank Olav Sorenson for providing data regarding the location of biotechnology firms and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Allen Scott for comments and encouragement.

1State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems and Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 2Department of Mechanics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China 3Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanics in Energy Engineering, Shanghai University, Shangh...

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ...

This paper investigates how Amartya Sen’s capability approach can be applied to conceptualize and assess gender inequality in Western societies. I first argue against the endorsement of a definitive list of capabilities and instead defend a procedural approach to the selection of capabilities by proposing five criteria. This procedural account is then used to generate a list of capabilities for...

The year 2006 should not be allowed to pass without at least a quiet celebration that this is the first year in human history when—across almost all the world—women can expect to enjoy a longer life expectancy than men. That the trend is moving in this direction will probably be confirmed this week in the 2006 world health report. In its world health report of 2002, the World Health Organizatio...