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INTRODUCTION The present study aimed to investigate the negative perceptions of paternal and maternal smoking and their associated factors among adolescents in Hong Kong. METHODS In a school-based cross-sectional survey in 2010 to 2011, 61,810 Hong Kong secondary school students (mean age 14.6 years, 50.8% boys) reported whether their parents smoked and whether they considered their parents’ sm...

This paper studies Algorithmic Mechanism Design where the bidders are “single-parameter”(have the same private value for all desired outcomes), with a focus on Combinatorial Auctions(CA). We study four variants of the CA model: where each player desires a single bundle(“single-minded”) or he desires any one of several bundles (“multi-minded”), and where thedesired bundles are pu...

Many logics for modelling beliefs, desires and intentions of agents, such as Rao and Georgeff’s BDI logic and Wooldridge’s LORA, are based on temporal logics like CTL/CTL∗ (Computational Tree Logic) in which the structure of time is branching in the future and linear in the past. Recently, many attempts have been made to define logics for BDI agents by using extensions of CTL. In this paper, we...

Professor Einer Elhauge’s provocative article, Tying, Bundled Discounts, and the Death of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory, 123 Harv. L. Rev. 397 (2009), contests two propositions on which efficiency-minded antitrust scholars have largely agreed: (1) that there should be no tying liability absent substantial tied market foreclosure (a position contrary to the legal status quo), and (2) that co...

1. Though comic books and graphic novels are earning more serious academic consideration than ever, in relation to one of the foremost goals of twentieth century art and literature, comic books may be more important and innovative than even the most open-minded of scholars have yet to realize. Comics, graphic novels, and sequential art belong to a rich artistic and literary tradition due in no ...

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