The paper develops a decentralized resource allocation mechanism for allocating divisible goods with capacity constraints to non-price-taking agents with general concave utilities. The proposed mechanism is always budget balanced, individually rational, and it converges to an optimal solution of the corresponding centralized problem. Such a mechanism is very useful in a network with general top...

The present study investigated the association between reported parental smoking and exhaled nitric oxide fraction (F(eNO)) in young children. In total, 78 children (24 females, mean age 51.3 weeks) were recruited. Fourteen lived with one smoking parent and eight with two smoking parents. F(eNO) was measured using the modified single-breath technique. Mean+/-sd F(eNO) levels were 33.0+/-18.9, 3...

Environmental management is becoming increasingly dependent on quantitative analysis of environmental and health risks associated with exposure to chemical contaminants. Exposure to chemical pollutants can occur via primary pathways (e.g., inhalation of polluted air or drinking contaminated water) and/or secondary pathways (e.g., ingestion of contaminated food) and therefore requires informatio...

EPA’s research-based regulations have fostered significant strides in environmental improvement in the United States and inspired analogous endeavors around the globe. Notably, air quality has improved (https://gispub.epa.gov/air/trendsreport/2017/#highlights) over North America and Europe in recent decades, and China and India are making concerted efforts to protect the health of their citizen...

The wind generates a distribution of small slope waves and sporadic steep breaking events. Such double structure of the sea surface is expected to have a strong impact on the radar scattering from the ocean surface. The signature of the double structure is in the wind speed dependence of radar returns: linear for scattering from gentle waves and cubic for breaking contribution. The composite-su...

BACKGROUND Reducing health inequalities involves the identification and characterization of social and exposure factors and the way they accumulate in a given area. The areas of accumulation then allow for prioritization of interventions. The present study aims to build spatial composite indicators based on the aggregation of environmental, social and health indicators and their inter-relations...