We introduce a new axiom, the balanced contributions property for equal contributors. This axiom is defined by restricting the requirement of the balanced contributions property (Myerson (1980)) to two players whose contributions to the grand coalition are the same. We prove that this axiom, together with efficiency and weak covariance, characterizes a new class of solutions, the r-egalitarian ...

The most common reason manuscripts fail to clear the hurdle necessary for publication in leading journals is a lack of strong incremental contribution. Reviewers often compliment the exposition of a paper and praise the research design only to conclude that the paper contains nothing that is newsworthy. This is a frustrating outcome for an author. As a result, the most frequent question asked o...

This November we celebrated the sesquicentennial of the Origin of Species, a landmark in the history of biology. Yet Darwin's chief contribution to psychiatry appears in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), where he describes 'the grief muscles', later identified as a sign of melancholic illness.

satellite cells (scs) are the most abundant skeletal muscle stem cells. they are widely recognized for their contributions to maintenance of muscle mass, regeneration and hypertrophy during the human life span. these cells are good candidates for cell therapy due to their self-renewal capabilities and presence in an undifferentiated form. presently, a significant gap exists between our knowledg...

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I would like, for a moment, to consider the many-body problem in the nucleus in the light of what we now know about an analogous many-body problem, that of electrons in metals. In ordinary metals, it is found experimentally that the low-lying excitations of the system possess an essentially individual particle character. The specific heat depends linearly on the temperature, and the Fermi surfa...

From Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, and Indiana University School of Medicine, Fort Wayne, IN. Address Correspondence: Joseph D. Fortin, DO, Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, 7230 Engle Road, Suite 210, Fort Wayne, IN 46804. Email: [email protected] Funding: There was no external funding in preparation of this manuscript. The nature, type and frequency of injuries occurring at a national ...

We have implemented an improved memory model for ESBMC which better takes into account C’s memory alignment rules and optimizes the generated SMT formulae. This simultaneously improves ESBMC’s precision and performance.

The issue of convergence has been hotly debated since the mid 1980s. Only recently certain consensus has arisen around some of the most fundamental issues. It seems hardly surprising, then, to find a large variation in how those issues are taught to undergraduates. This paper is an attempt at clarifying the different concepts of convergence, and their relation to both the neoclassical model of ...

Many application domains depend on the collection of aggregate statistics from a large number of participants. In such situations, often the individual data points are not required. Indeed participants may wish to preserve the privacy of their specific data despite being willing to contribute to the aggregate statistics. We propose a protocol that allows a server to gather aggregate statistics,...