Extended Abstract The microneedle mediated drug delivery system has been developed to provide painless self-administration of highpotency drug with patient friendly manner [1]. Especially, dissolving microneedles, which deliver the target drugs as the drug-loaded microneedle dissolves into the skin, have been spotlighted recently [2]. Conventional dissolving microneedles have been mostly produc...

I study a market where agents with unit demand jointly own heterogeneous goods. In this market, the existence of an efficient, incentive compatible, individually rational, and budget balanced mechanism depends on the shares of the agents. I characterize the set of shares for which having such a mechanism is possible. This set includes the symmetric allocation and excludes the allocation in whic...

In this paper we present our approach to dissolving the learning boundaries that make it hard for IT students to adopt learn about user-focussed design and development. Traditional approaches to IT teaching minimise collaboration and reuse, favouring inflexible, sequential, heavyweight development methods that view user value as having secondary importance at best. In contrast, we use a studio-...

In financial disputes arising from divorce, inheritance, or the dissolution of a partnership, frequently the need arises to assign ownership of an indivisible item to one member of a group. This paper introduces and analyzes a dynamic auction for simply and e¢ciently allocating an item when participants are privately informed of their values. In the auction, the price rises continuously. A bidd...