The most important rule to determine payments in real-life bankruptcy problems is the proportional rule. Many such are characterized by network aspects, and values of agents’ assets endogenous as they depend on extent which claims other agents can be collected. These aspects make an axiomatic analysis challenging. This paper first provide axiomatization financial networks. Our main axiom invari...

This paper is a response to Brad Hooker's “Does having deep personal relationships constitute an element of well-being?” (2021). The begins with discussion the implications disagreement about such issues. After raising some general questions for account, turns key elements in relationship, according Hooker: multi-faceted understanding, and strong affection. issue impartiality discussed, it clai...

OBJECTIVE Describe the planning of contents on nursing records for use in a virtual learning environment, based on Individualized Teaching Programming, a didactic resource that uses basic principles of behavioral analysis. METHOD Final objectives were specified, after defining the intermediary components to achieve each final objective, as well as the preliminary requirements for each interme...

A prize is to be randomly assigned to some agent, so each agent designates one of his peers on a ballot. The ballots determine the lottery which selects the winner, and impartiality requires that no agent’s report impacts his own chance of winning. The primary results are (1) a characterization of all impartial rules which treat agents symmetrically as voters and (2) a characterization of all i...

In a medical milieu of extensive research, rapidly proliferating information, and a multitude of potential therapies, there has been an escalating trend toward the development and dissemination of clinical practice guidelines outlining investigative and management protocols for clinical problems. There are substantial benefits to providing educational directives and securing widespread adherenc...

We analyse the issue of justice in the allocation of resources across generations. Our starting point is that if all generations have a claim to natural resources, then each generation should be entitled to exercise veto power on the unpalatable choices of the other generations. We analyse this situation as one of bargaining à la Rubinstein, Safra and Thomson [15], which incorporates a notion o...

Tracing its historical trajectories, this article explores the preoccupation with accuracy in science communication research and explores the resurgence in the present century of concerns about accuracy, balance and impartiality in public communication of science. It is argued that many of the original insights from news and journalism research are still relevant and important if re-formulated ...

This article contributes to the debate concerning the identification of politically relevant cases of corruption in a democracy by sketching the basic traits of an original liberal theory of institutional corruption. We define this form of corruption as a deviation with respect to the role entrusted to people occupying certain institutional positions, which are crucial for the implementation of...

This paper analyzes the extent to which the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court cast votes that support the positions of the president, or more generally the Executive Branch. Can presidents count on such deference from those justices they nominate or those whom are nominated by other presidents of the same party? Or, do the justices demonstrate judicial independence and impartiality such that t...