We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfi shness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. “Dictator games” with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and Miller (2002) and Fisman et al. (2007) can be used to assess individuals’ preferences, but – with the he...

As an extension of ν-support vector machine for classification (SVC), Extended ν-SVC was developed by Perez-Cruz et al. Their numerical experiments confirm the validity of Extended ν-SVC, but we need to solve a nonconvex QP problem for Extended ν-SVC. In the paper, we propose a modification for the existing algorithm of Extended ν-SVC, which makes possible to analyze the finite convergence and ...

Fluorosis from excessive exposure to fluoride can result in inflammatory reactions involving macrophages and their differentiation, a process that is rapidly followed by generation of prostanoids—products of arachidonic acid metabolism, including the pro-inflammatory factors prostaglandin PGE2 and thromboxane TXA2, which are implicated in atherogenesis and rapidly increase during acute inflamma...

Approximately 170 million people in the world are infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV). There are no published population based studies about the prevalence of HCV genotypes and the associations of genotype and Infection frequency with gender and age in WuHan. We aimed to investigate the distribution of HCV prevalence and genotypes among different gender and age patients with chronic HCV infec...

We present two catalogues of galaxies in the direction of the rich cluster ABCG 496. The first one includes 3,879 galaxies located in a region of roughly ± 1.3◦ from the cluster centre. It has been obtained from a list of more than 35,000 galaxy candidates detected by scanning part of a Schmidt photographic plate taken in the bJ band. Positions are very accurate in this catalogue but magnitudes...