Popular reactions to the transition from centrally planned socialism to a market-based economy are explored through an examination of survey data on distributive justice and injustice attitudes in Beijing, China, in 2000, and in Warsaw, Poland, in 2001. In both capitals objective socioeconomic status characteristics of respondents have weaker and less consistent associations with distributive i...

The ability to eeciently compute multiple related group-bys is critical to On-Line Analytical Processing and multidimensional data analysis. The computation of CUBE, a special case of the aggregation problem, has been well studied 1]. However, to the best of our knowledge, previous work focused primarily on computing aggregates over distributive and algebraic functions 3]. In this project, we i...

In thesauri, conceptual structures or semantic networks, relationships are too often vague. For instance, in terminology, the relationships between concepts are often reduced to the distinction established by standard (ISO 704, 1987) and (ISO 1087, 1990) between hierarchical relationships (genus-species relationships and part/whole relationships) and non-hierarchical relationships (“time, space...

Load balancing is a research area that seeks to improve the quality of services provided various clients in cloud computing environments. As users increase around world, service providers are challenged develop strategies for distributing tasks machines processing at data centers. This work collected and undertook thorough review load techniques, uncovering key limitations existing strategies. ...

Distributive justice concerns how individuals and societies distribute benefits and burdens in a just or moral manner. We combined distribution choices with functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the central problem of distributive justice: the trade-off between equity and efficiency. We found that the putamen responds to efficiency, whereas the insula encodes inequity, and the ca...

Decentralizing Equality of Opportunity and Issues Concerning the Equality of Educational Opportunity Caterina Calsamiglia 2005 This dissertation explores issues concerning local versus global equality of opportunity, the presence of inequality for education attainment and the optimality of policies addressing such problems. The literature distinguishes between two different approaches to distri...