This paper studies an incompletely informed regulator's problem of inducing a firm producing durable pollution to adopt a socially optimal pollution storage technology. We construct a sparse, yet flexible, theoretical model that can be applied directly to concrete situations as it is stated explicitly in terms of statistical parameters. Next, we show the existence of an optimal regulatory contr...

In recent years we have observed a huge evolution of services deployed over the Internet, in particular by the World Wide Web; the development of Web Services has enabled Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships, i.e., the exchange of services over the Internet between different, possibly mutually distrustful, organisations. Unfortunately, Web Services themselves do not provide all the features...

In western countries we assist at the paradox that fertility is socially discouraged by a mindset that depicts fertility as a resource to exploit as late as possible. So, couples have high expectative about the advantages of delayed parenthood, but they are scarcely informed about its risks. Scientific data suggests to anticipate the first pregnancy, but social pressures impose to wait, though ...

This article is concerned with how social processes and social provision are conceptualised and measured in societies in order to offer guidance on how to improve developmental progress. Significant advances have been made in developing multidimensional measures of development, but they provide little guidance to governments on how to build sustainable societies. We argue for the need to develo...

background: pre-operative informed consent is an important aspect of surgery, yet there has been no formal training regarding it in pakistan. this study was done to assess the preoperative informed consent practice. methods: after taking informed permission, a questionnaire was filled in during an interview with 350 patients, who have undergone elective surgical procedures under routine practic...

Abstract. The efficient development of metal products with high quality usually requires realistic numerical simulations before the manufacturing procedure. choice constitutive model has a considerable influence on predicted material behavior’s description. Several models have been proposed to describe different mechanical phenomena. However, its selection is labored task that expertise. This l...

Increasingly, educational practitioners committed to social justice embrace trauma-informed practices and those who advocate for enact are justice. However, connecting practice requires greater conceptual clarity than is currently found, given the malleable meanings of both 'trauma informed' 'social justice'. Further, complex relationship between these aims under-examined. To address issues, an...

Sustainable environmental policies are rooted in knowledge and assumptions that decision-making authorities hold regarding specific socialeecological settings. These decision makers are increasingly informed by systems models. Diverse audiences for environmental science and sustainability policies magnify the importance of clear model communication. This essay offers a summary of best communica...

Ilona Kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...