an active area of public health policy in the united states is policy meant to promote healthy eating, reduce overconsumption of food, and prevent overweight/obesity. public discussion of such obesity prevention policies includes intense ethical disagreement. we suggest that some ethical disagreements about obesity prevention policies can be seen as rooted in a common concern with equality or w...

This paper addresses the general problem of how to rationally choose an algorithm for phylogenetic inference. Specifically, the controversy between maximum likelihood (ML) and maximum parsimony (MP) perspectives is reframed within the philosophical issue of theory choice. A Kuhnian approach in which rationality is bounded and value-laden is offered and construed through the notion of a Style of...

Problems often arise when partners in regional integration agreements (RIA) have divergent exchange rate policies, as has happened in recent years with the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur). The January 1999 devaluation of the Brazilian real strained the relationship between Argentina and Brazil, setting off a series of events that included protectionist measures in Argentina, Argentine bu...

The acceleration resistance of a vessel advancing in shallow water is investigated. Four intensities and two depths are modelled using the CFD potential flow methods. results show pronounced peak exists near critical depth Froude number, but its location magnitude sensitive to intensity depth. Excellent agreement between obtained from methods found low high number ranges regardless or accelerat...

We have seen that additive noise technique is not (SV (γ), ε)-DP. So, the question that we explore in todays class is whether differential privacy (DP) is achievable with SV sources. Interestingly, we give a differential private mechanism for approximate arbitrary “low sensitive” functions that works even with randomness coming from SV source, for any γ < 1. We conclude todays lecture with some...