Measuring global competition

Measuring global competition

The goal of this paper is to describe selected leading indicators of global competitiveness. This will be accomplished by reviewing several selected sources that focus on various metrics. The reported data was determined to be the most recent at the time of a presentation of this material to NFAIS in February 2012. The goal of this paper is to be objective and informational. Each of the selecte...

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!

Measuring Progress in Coevolutionary Competition

Evolution, as trial-and-error based learning methods, usually relies on the repeatability of an experience: Different behavioral alternatives are tested and compared with each other. But agents acting on real environments may not be able to choose which experience to live. Instead, the environment provides varying initial conditions for each trial. In competitive games for example, it is diffic...

SICS in Global Competition

Measuring global health inequity

BACKGROUND Notions of equity are fundamental to, and drive much of the current thinking about global health. Health inequity, however, is usually measured using health inequality as a proxy - implicitly conflating equity and equality. Unfortunately measures of global health inequality do not take account of the health inequity associated with the additional, and unfair, encumbrances that poor h...