Striving for a low-waste lifestyle

A Striving for Social Status

In this paper, we consider a network of agents producing a positional good; an agent’s utility for the good is a function of both his intrinsic value for the good and his status, or production level relative to the production levels of his neighbors. We demonstrate that the set of Nash equilibria of our game form a complete lattice, and that natural best-reply dynamics from certain initial conf...

Striving for correctness

ion layers, conceptually illustrated in Table 1. The security engineer must understand that the device designer, circuit designer, and operating system architect have different viewpoints. Each specialist assumes that the interface provided to him or her by the underlying layer is primitive and trustworthy. This trust is a consequence of specialization. Engineers working at one technological le...

Striving for Perfection

Among the powerful barriers to making progress in patient safety is an attitude of complacency induced by the rarity of serious events and the general human bias toward assuming that things will work as they are supposed to. Although the overall incidence figures for accidental injuries and deaths in healthcare are horrendous—more than 1 million preventable injuries and 44 000–98 000 preventabl...

Striving Toward a Cure for Prostate Cancer.

Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is essential for cancer cell proliferation throughout much, if not all, of the course of a patient’s journey through prostate cancer. Discovery of the AR in the late 1960s prompted development of antiandrogen drugs that competitively inhibit binding of androgens to the AR ligandbinding domain (LBD), leading to conformational changes in AR that disrupt its functi...

Three scenarios Striving for a Norwegian Low Emission Society post 2050