The principle of differential marginality for cooperative games states that the differential of two players’ payoffs does not change when the differential of these players’ productivities does not change. Together with two standard properties, efficiency and the null player property, differential marginality characterizes the Shapley value. For games that contain more than two players, we show ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, global warming has been shown to affect animal populations in different ways, with southern populations in general suffering more from increased temperatures than northern populations of the same species. However, southern populations are also often marginal populations relative to the entire breeding range, and marginality may also have negative effects on populatio...

This paper analyzes recent developments in urban marginality along Mexico’s northern border. The northern border in the last two decades has undergone a significant economic transformation as well as an explosive population growth. The paper emphasizes that in spite of impressive economic indicators border cities in Mexico urban marginality continue; that is, economic gains have not trickled do...

Hierarchical attributes appear in taxonomic or ontologybased data (e.g. NACE economic activities, ICD-classified diseases, animal/plant species, etc.). Such taxonomic data are often exploited as if they were flat nominal data without hierarchy, which implies losing substantial information and analytical power. We introduce marginality, a numerical mapping for taxonomic data that allows using on...

This paper explores the characteristics and relationships of marginality in informal space and plotlander housing in the context of Homi K. Bhabha’s cultural hybridity and Third Space. To illustrate and examine the processes of marginalisation that defined informal space in the UK this paper will critically analyse the previously undocumented plotlander community at Studd Hill on the North Kent...

This article discusses findings from a case study of one elementary bilingual paraeducator, highlighting how the recognition of situated cultural capital enabled her to move from traditional to constructive marginality. I argue that her actions, the actions of others, and conditions within the school enabled her to use culturally relevant funds of knowledge in working with languageminority chil...

Although Bangladesh made some remarkable achievements in reducing poverty and in improving social and economic outcomes in recent decades, about one-third of the rural population still lives below the upper poverty line most of whom depend on agriculture as their primary source of income. One of the reasons for their poverty is the low productivity that results from sub-optimal use of inputs an...

Studying identities, the processes of their formation and the ways in which they are both shaped by and help to shape wider social and cultural contexts is a key preoccupation in many disciplines of the arts, humanities and social sciences. These fields of academic inquiry are principally concerned with human beings, their thoughts and beliefs, the ways in which they interact with one another a...