In this Comment, I examine Christoph Hanisch’s recent contribution to this journal. In commenting on Hanisch’s essay, I offer an interpretation of Amartya Sen’s notion of ‘commitment’ which makes committed choices both uncontroversial and quotidian. This interpretation contrasts with those which see some of Sen’s pronouncements on commitment to be obviously false, counterintuitive or psychologi...

M. Daghofer,1,* Q.-L. Luo,2,3 R. Yu,4 D. X. Yao,2,3,5 A. Moreo,2,3 and E. Dagotto2,3 1IFW Dresden, P.O. Box 27 01 16, D-01171 Dresden, Germany 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA 3Materials Science and Technology Division, ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6032, USA 4Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas...

This paper presents a framework to explore the relationship between health equity and community empowerment. It traces the progression of the concept of participation to the present term of empowerment and the links among empowerment, equity, and health outcomes. It argues that the relationship can best be described by using the acronym CHOICE (Capacity-building, Human rights, Organizational su...

THE EFFECT OF THE INNOVATIVE ENVIRONMENT ON EXIT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRMS M. B. SARKAR, RAJ ECHAMBADI, RAJSHREE AGARWAL* and BISAKHA SEN 1 College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. 2 College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. 3 School of Public Health, University of Al...

and Weinberg's definitions in general rela-tivity, we find the momentum four-vector of the closed universe based on Marder space-time. The momentum four-vector (due to matter plus field) is found to be zero. These results supports the viewpoints of Banerjee-Sen, Xulu and Aydo ˙ gdu-Saltı. Another point is that our study agree with previous works of Cooperstock-Israelit, Rosen, Johri et al..

and Weinberg's definitions in general rela-tivity, we find the momentum four-vector of the closed universe based on Marder space-time. The momentum four-vector (due to matter plus field) is found to be zero. These results supports the viewpoints of Banerjee-Sen, Xulu and Aydo ˙ gdu-Saltı. Another point is that our study agree with previous works of Cooperstock-Israelit, Rosen, Johri et al..

The land acquisition problem is an exchange problem with one buyer and multiple sellers with the buyer having demand for more than one units and each seller holding one unit of a homogeneous good. We show that under incomplete information, no mechanism designed for the problem can be fully satisfactory. Then we characterize different “second best” mechanisms to address this problem. ∗My supervi...

INTRODUCTION Mexico faces important problems concerning income and health inequity. Mexico's national public agenda prioritizes remedying current inequities between its indigenous and non-indigenous population groups. This study explores the changes in social inequalities among Mexico's indigenous and non-indigenous populations for the time period 2000 to 2010 using routinely collected poverty,...

We propose Bayesian inference in hazard regression models where the baseline hazard is unknown, covariate e¤ects are possibly agevarying (non-proportional), and there is multiplicative frailty with arbitrary distribution. Our framework incorporates a wide variety of order restrictions on covariate dependence and duration dependence (ageing). We propose estimation and evaluation of age-varying c...

Download Massive complex scalar field in the Kerr–Sen geometry: Exact solution of wave equation and Hawking radiation S. Q. Wu Interdisciplinary Center for Theoretical Study, and Department of Astronomy and Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology, Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China and Institute of Particle Physics, Hua-Zhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, People’s Republi...