Organization in hierarchical dominance structures is prevalent in animal societies, so a strong preference for higher positions in social ranking is likely to be an important motivation of human social and economic behavior. This preference is also likely to influence the way in which we evaluate our outcome and the outcome of others, and finally the way we choose. In our experiment participant...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to estimate minimally important differences (MIDs) in EQ-5D and SF-6D indices and to explore the responsiveness of EQ-5D and SF-6D indices in stroke. METHODS We used observational longitudinal survey data of EQ-5D and SF-36 that were administered to stroke patients at baseline and at 10 months. A range of MIDs for both indexes was estimated using an...

A character sum analog of the Macdonald-Morris constant term identity for the root system Gi is proved. The proof is based on recent evaluations of Selberg character sums and on a character sum analog of Dixon's summation formula. A conjectural evaluation is presented for a related sum.

The following text disputes the relationship between scientific research approaches, their achievements and comparative evaluations made between them. Some measures of achievement (e.g. economic usability, number of publications, citation index) are created in a way that they systematically benefit or penalize certain research approaches. This is simply due to the structural characteristics the...

John Steinbeck's 1937 novella Of Mice and Men is one of the most popular works of American literature and also one of the most widely studied. Although deemed a failure by Steinbeck himself, this brief fable about two itinerant California ranch hands went on to win largely favorable reviews , selection by the Book of the Month Club, and successful transformation into a play and three movies. OM...

the performance of a decision making unit (dmu) can be evaluated in either across-sectional or a time-series manner, and data envelopment analysis (dea) is a useful method for both types of evaluation. the malmquist productivity index (mpi) evaluates the change in efficiency of a dmu between two time periods. it is defined as the product of the catch-up and frontier-shift terms. in this paper, ...

In this paper, the author analyzed the synthetic four dimensional evaluation index systems on risk of carbon finance in commercial banks in China. The analysis was conducted by means of an AHP-based Fuzzy Approach which builds a system analysis technique for multiple criteria decision making, and by market risk, credit risk, operational risk and project risk. The result show that evaluation ind...

With reference to the characteristics of online supply chain finance, this paper establishes a credit rating index system for the loan enterprise in the online supply chain finance that is based on the third-party B2B e-commerce platform. The system applies the multi-level gray evaluation model based on the Theil index to make a comprehensive evaluation on the credit of the loan enterprise and ...