Would Aristotle have played Russian roulette?

Debate Would Aristotle have played Russian Roulette ?

This paper continues the debate between myselfand Peter Singer et al started in the Journal of Medical Ethics volume 21, no 3 about the ethical respectability of the use of QALYs in health care allocation. It discusses the question of what, in the way of health care provision, would be chosen by rational egoists behind a Rawlsian "veil of ignorance", and takes forward the vexed question of what...

Would Aristotle have played Russian Roulette ?

This paper continues the debate between myselfand Peter Singer et al started in the Journal of Medical Ethics volume 21, no 3 about the ethical respectability of the use of QALYs in health care allocation. It discusses the question of what, in the way of health care provision, would be chosen by rational egoists behind a Rawlsian "veil of ignorance", and takes forward the vexed question of what...

Acoustical Modeling Using a Russian Roulette Strategy ∗

One of the problems with geometric (ray) based acoustical modeling approaches is handling the potentially large number of interactions between a propagating sound ray and objects/surfaces it may encounter. A sound ray incident on a surface may be absorbed, reflected both specularly and diffusely, be refracted and diffracted. Typical solutions to modeling such effects include emitting several “n...

Variance Reduction for Russian-roulette

A Sequential Search Distribution: Proofreading, Russian Roulette, and the Incomplete q-Eulerian Polynomials

The distribution for the number of searches needed to find k of n lost objects is expressed in terms of a refinement of the q-Eulerian polynomials, for which formulae are developed involving homogeneous symmetric polynomials. In the case when k � n and the find probability remains constant, relatively simple and efficient formulas are obtained. From our main theorem, we further (1) deduce the i...