Atkinson’s Theorem (Atkinson, 1970) is a classic result in inequality measurement. It establishes Lorenz dominance as a useful criterion for judging whether one distribution is more unequal than another, because if distribution A Lorenz dominates distribution B, then all indices in a broad class of measures must agree that A is less unequal than B. Yet recent research shows that standard inequa...

The analysis of social reasoning is at the core of understanding how to manage social networks. Since interpersonal relations are composed of multiple factors with different nature (i.e., structural and social factors), we explore their influence on the strategizing processes in social networks. The research is based on the consideration of social networks in terms of network games. Therefore, ...

OBJECTIVES The subjective experience of aging is a relevant correlate of developmental outcomes. However, traditional approaches fall short of capturing the inherent multidimensionality of subjective aging experiences (SAEs). Based on the concept of Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC; Diehl, M. K., & Wahl, H.-W. (2010). Awareness of age-related change: Examination of a (mostly) unexplored co...

We study recurrence relations and biorthogonality properties for polynomials and rational functions in the problem of the Padé interpolation in the usual scheme and in the scheme with prescribed poles and zeros. The main result is deriving explicit orthogonality and biorthogonality relations for polynomials and rational functions in both schemes. We show that the simplest linear restrictions in...

The research aims to understand the impact of the internal factors on the formulation of a policy of selective opening of the Russian economy since the beginning of the transition. We study the politico-economic configuration in Russia in terms of (i) its "vertical" dimension (relations federal centre-regions) and (ii) the "horizontal" one (relations between state and firms). We show the fragme...

The online social networks have embraced huge success from the crowds in the last two decades. Now, more and more people get used to chat with friends online via instant messaging applications on personal computers or mobile devices. Since these conversations are sequentially organized, which fails to show the logical relations between messages, they are called asynchronous conversations in pre...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationships among perceived parental attitudes and domains of social competence in late adolescents. Forty boys and 40 girls, all aged 18, representing a population sample of high school second graders were examined. Self-report data were collected using questionnaires of parent-child relations and of social competence. Analyses detected a significant ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) has been frequently associated with facial emotion recognition impairments, which could adversely affect the social functioning of those patients. Facial emotion recognition requires processing of the spatial relations between facial features, known as the facial configuration. Few studies, however, have investigated this ability in people with PD. We hypothesized that ...

This paper presents the research framework for a new project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, called DEGEN (Data Enrichment for automated map GENeralisation) which supports two PhD projects. With a focus on thematic cartography (GIS maps, web mapping, location-based services) and the data types prevailing in these map types (polygonal subdivisons, points of interest, etc.), the ...

In the classical Projection-based Model for cardinal directions [6], a two-dimensional Euclidean space relative to an arbitrary single-piece region, a, is partitioned into the following nine tiles: North-West, NW(a); North, N(a); North-East, NE(a); West, W(a); Neutral Zone, O(a);East, E(a); South-West, SW(a); South, S(a); and South-East,SE(a). In our Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Model [9...