This paper constructs quantified measures of preferences for redistribution using survey data from seven OECD countries in which respondents were asked how much in taxes individuals earning given levels of income “should” pay. The resulting preferred tax rates generate reasonable budget sets, are consistent with observed tax rates, and correlate closely with conventional categorical preference ...

The Linearization of Nonlinear feedback shift registers (NFSRs) is to find their state transition matrices. In this paper, we investigate the linearization multi-valued NFSRs by considering it as a logical network via a semi-tensor product approach. A new state transition matrix is found for an multi-valued NFSR, which can be simply computed from the truth table of its feedback function, and th...

Modern Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are fundamental to many program analysis, verification, design and testing tools. They are a good fit for the domain of software and hardware engineering because they support many domains that are commonly used by the tools. The meaning of domains are captured by theories that can be axiomatized or supported by efficient theory solvers. Nevert...

Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is a new biogeography inspired algorithm for global optimization. There are some open research questions that need to be addressed for BBO. In this paper, we extend the original BBO and present a real-coded BBO approach, referred to as RCBBO, for the global optimization problems in the continuous domain. Furthermore, in order to improve the diversity of the...

• Empowerment of the poor is one ingredient in effective poverty reduction. • A demand-driven participatory approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency. • Accountability is the central lever for participatory governance. • Capacity building is necessary for making participatory governance a reality. In its research activities, the Development Centre aims to identify and analyse problems whos...

background: the objectives of an educational system in a society are based on society's requirements. since personnel knowledge and skill are not qualified with the advantages of science and invention of new tools, new needs are arisen. comparing the curriculum of undergraduate course of operating room of our country with international societies, it seems that this curriculum is not a good one ...

beside developing strategies, success of organizations depends on alignment of strategies. one of the important functional areas in which companies develop strategies is operation. alignment of operation strategies is called horizontal alignment. the aim of this article is to present a model for alignment of operation strategies. to this end, an original algorithm has been presented by which ho...