PURPOSE OF REVIEW Geographic variation in liver transplantation has been the subject of extensive scrutiny, reflecting concerns that location is unfairly determinative for people needing organ transplantation. Drawing upon a number of established ethical approaches, we examine whether geographic differences in access to livers are inherently unethical. RECENT FINDINGS We posit that the ethica...

A class of parametric supports in the lattice space Z is found to be inherently improper because any rational parametrization from C to C defined on such a support is improper. For a generic rational parametrization defined on an inherently improper support, we prove that its improper index is the gcd of the normalized volumes of all the simplex sub-supports and give an algorithm to obtain a pr...

In “Are There ‘Inherently Sovereign Functions’ in International Law?”, Frédéric Mégret provides a deeply insightful reflection on “the essence of the state” from point view international law, outlining theory about inherently sovereign functions law. He carefully identifies existing norms law that articulate certain public to be performed solely by state rather than delegating them private acto...

An increasingly large part of online communication is inherently social in nature. This social interaction is limited by the modalities of online communication, which do not convey tone or emotion well. Although some solutions have evolved or have been proposed, they are inherently ambiguous. We present a system, TextTone, for the explicit expression of emotion in online textual communication. ...

In this paper we present a developmental approach toward creating intelligent systems. Although embracing an emergent paradigm, we also propose an architecture such that symbols have their proper place. To explore this methodology, we are developing our system on real robots. Robotic approaches usually invoke the so-called “symbol grounding problem” (Harnad 1990). However, our developmental app...