Not Worth the Net Worth? The Democratic Dilemmas of Privileged Access to Information

Income-Net Worth Measures of Economic Welfare

STUDIES OF THE economic position of consumers have long recognized t,hat families with the same current income may differ widely with respect, to the amount of wealth they own. It is common pract,ice to speak of the wealthier family as “better off” than the less wealthy. Moreover, welfare programs reflect, the philosophy that assets should be taken into account in evaluating eligibility for ass...

The Behaviors and Characteristics of the High Net worth Client

Memory Bypassing: Not Worth the Effort

Memory dependence prediction establishes a read after write dependence between a store and a load instruction. If the processor accurately predicts the data dependence between a store and a subsequent load, we can completely bypass memory and forward the data directly from the store’s producer to the load’s consumer. Our simulation studies show that even in the case of processors with oracle de...

Net worth predicts symptom burden at the end of life.

OBJECTIVES To explore the predictors of symptom burden at the end of life. DESIGN Observational, secondary analysis of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data. SETTING USA. PARTICIPANTS Two thousand six hundred four deceased, older adults. METHODS Multivariate Poisson and logistic regression to explore the relationship between sociodemographic and clinical factors with symptoms. RESULT...

When Not All Bits Are Equal: Worth-Based Information Flow

Only recently have approaches to quantitative information flow started to challenge the presumption that all leaks involving a given number of bits are equally harmful. This paper proposes a framework to capture the semantics of information, making quantification of leakage independent of the syntactic representation of secrets. Secrets are defined in terms of fields, which are combined to form...