The principles for determining whether a screening test is appropriate requires several considerations [1]. A comprehensive view can be developed from considering a mathematical analysis of the costs and benefits of a clinical evaluation. A mathematical calculation of the " cost-worthiness " of a test will give a direct assessment of whether a screening test should be implemented. To calculate ...

This article investigates the determinants of generosity in an experiment on charity to real-life welfare recipients. It tests the effects of various measures of unconditional altruism and conditional or reciprocal altruism. The results show strong support for conditional or reciprocal altruism. However, people who are self-reported unconditional altruists make offers that are highly elastic wi...

As new materials and novel device designs are needed to further CMOS and memorydevice scaling, a range of advanced physical models has been added to TCAD Sentaurus Version A-2008.09 to allow users to explore these technology options. While high-k dielectrics and metal gate stacks are more widely adopted, further optimization is necessary to ensure its production worthiness and high yield. It is...

I analyze banks’ incentives to acquire expertise in judging the credit-worthiness of borrowers in an industry with uncertain business conditions. The optimal industrial organization of bank lending features several banks with industry expertise, as well as a competitive fringe of banks without such expertise. The analysis provides a foundation for analyzing the relative merits of focus vs. dive...

represent its worthiness if it is completed before the deadline. For example, consider a stock trading system of an investment consulting company that allows customers to make their orders of the stocks, each customer may set a deadline for the completion of the order transaction. The commission of the company is a percent (say 3%) of the dealed stock price for each transaction. From the standp...

We describe a sentence extraction system that produces two sorts of multi-document summaries: the first is a general-purpose summary of a cluster of related documents while the second is an entity-based summary of documents related to a particular person. The general-purpose summary is generated by a process that ranks sentences based on their document and cluster “worthiness”. The personality-...