LAMININ 5 REGULATES POLYCYSTIC KIDNEYS CELL PROLIFERATION AND CYST FORMATION Dominique Joly, Sophie Berissi, Amélie Bertrand, Laetitia Strehl, Natacha Patey and Bertrand Knebelmann. From Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de Médecine ; Inserm U813; AP-HP Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France Address correspondance to : Bertrand KNEBELMANN, Department of Nephrology, Hôpital Necker-Enfan...

We introduce a new measure of the discrepancy in strategic games between the social welfare in a Nash equilibrium and in a social optimum, that we call selfishness level. It is the smallest fraction of the social welfare that needs to be offered to each player to achieve that a social optimum is realized in a pure Nash equilibrium. The selfishness level is unrelated to the price of stability an...

This paper studies real-time bidding mechanisms for economic dispatch and frequency regulation in electrical power networks described by topologies with edge-disjoint cycles. We consider a market administered an independent system operator (ISO) where group of strategic generators participate Bertrand game competition. Generators bid prices at which they are willing to produce electricity. Each...

—The aim of this paper is to explore the potential of Game Theory (GT) in extracting rules of behaviour for emerging Cognitive Radio environments. We revisit the commons approach to unlicensed spectrum and try to show that a commons can be basically regulated from the inside out. GT simulations of CR interactions reveal the emergence of certain equilibria mirroring behaviours/trends?. Once thes...

This paper shows that the cost as well as the effectiveness of technology has a differential impact on technology adoption under two alternative modes of competition. If the cost of the technology is high, Bertrand competition provides a stronger incentive to adopt technology than Cournot competition unless the effectiveness of the technology is very low. On the contrary, if the cost of the tec...