In the face of water scarcity due to climate change and population growth, cities around world, especially in Global South, increasingly provide intermittent, rather than continuous, supply. Because an intermittent supply has negative effects on infrastructure quality, literature often recommends transition continuous supply, but that may be unfeasible or cost-prohibitive for many cities. There...

Operating under limited resources poses significant demands on the cognitive system. Here we demonstrate that people under time scarcity failed to detect time-saving cues as they occur in the environment (Experiment 1a). These time-saving cues, if noticed, would have saved time for the time-poor participants. Moreover, the visuospatial proximity of the time-saving cues to the focal task determi...

Despite increasing focus on data publication and discovery in materials science and related fields, the global view of materials data is highly sparse. This sparsity encourages training models on the union of multiple datasets, but simple unions can prove problematic as (ostensibly) equivalent properties may be measured or computed differently depending on the data source. These hidden contextu...

A WWF/Oxfam discussion paper-Alex Evans Purpose This discussion paper is intended to contribute to the evolving debate on the links between resource scarcity and international development, in particular by focusing on the issues of equity and " fair shares " for poor people and poor countries that arise in the context of resource limits and environmental boundaries. It provides a short overview...

We describe a code transformation technique that, given code for a vector function F , produces code suitable for computing collections of Jacobian-vector products F (x)ẋ or Jacobiantranspose-vector products F (x) ȳ. Exploitation of scarcity a measure of the degrees of freedom in the Jacobian matrix means solving a combinatorial optimization problem that is believed to be hard. Our heuristics t...

The issue of the allocation of resources in health care is here to stay. The goal of this study was to explore the views of physicians on several topics that have arisen in the debate on the allocation of scarce resources and to compare these with the views of policy makers. We asked physicians (oncologists, cardiologists, and nursing home physicians) and policy makers to participate in an inte...

We develop a theory of news coverage in environments of information abundance. News consumers are time-constrained and browse through news items that are available across competing outlets, choosing which ones to read or skip. Media firms are aware of consumers’ preferences and constraints, and decide on rankings of news items that maximize their profits. We find that, even when readers and out...

Scarcity tactics are an essential tool for marketers. Cues that signal the current or potential unavailability of a product generally enhance its value and desirability in turn increase purchase intentions. While there have been earlier reviews, fragmented nature research to date means is no cohesion across findings. Given retailers employ variety scarcity cues diversity settings, it important ...