Are Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence

Are Some Lives More Valuable?

A theoretical model of the ethical preferences of individuals is tested by conducting a choice experiment on safety-enhancing road investments. The relative value of a saved life is found to decrease with age, such that the present value of a saved year of life is almost independent of age at a pure rate of time preference of a few percent, and a saved car driver is valued 17-31% lower than a p...

Genotypes associated with myocardial infarction risk are more common in African Americans than in European Americans.

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to describe the frequencies of multiple myocardial infarction (MI) risk-associated genotypes among different racial groups. BACKGROUND Racial disparities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are well known. Recent large Japanese case-control studies identified connexin-37 (GJA-4), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and stromelysin-1 (MMP...

When some are more equal than others.

Some Terms are more Interchangeable than Others

This paper describes the work done by the Information Retrieval Research Group at Océ Technologies B.V., for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2001. We have participated in the Dutch Monolingual task and submitted three runs. In this paper we introduce a new method for relevance computation using two new query operators. This method is meant to be applied to Multilingual Retrieval in t...

Some Set Theories Are More Equal

The proof of independence of the Continuum Hypothesis by Paul Cohen in 1963 and the avalanche of additional independence results was the trigger to a very intensive discourse about the future of Set Theory and its foundational role in Mathematics. It will be only fair to say that while the invention of forcing initiated the blooming of Set Theory as a technical mathematical discipline, it had a...