Abstract This article proposes a Subjective And Objective Evaluation (SAOE) method for equipment development priorities. By establishing the evaluation index system of priority evaluation, using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to determine subjective weights each indicator in system, and then use deviation maximization objective weight system. Finally, based on least square relative entropy pr...

This essay discusses the results of World Happiness Report 2022. There are no surprises in report. The happiest countries world have been same for years: rich and relatively egalitarian countries. But we must not draw hasty conclusions, nor convert subjective indicator well-being into an exclusive objective development. In fact, poor with marked social problems also show good happiness index. s...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence and risk indicators of peri-implantitis in Korean patients with history of periodontal disease. METHODS A total of 444 patients with 1,485 implants were selected from patients who had been treated at the Department of Periodontology, Chonbuk National University Dental Hospital between July 2014 and June 2015. A group with a history o...

Personality theory and research typically focus on chronological age as a key indicator of personality development. This study examines whether the subjective experience of age is an alternative marker of the biomedical and psychosocial factors that contribute to individual differences in personality development. The present study uses data from the Midlife in the United States longitudinal sur...

In Geng, Weiss, and Wol (2011), we pointed to the possibility that a voting mechanism may create or strengthen an entitlement e ect in political-power holders relative to a random-appointment mechanism. This comment documents that such an e ect, if it exists, is not robust.

Objectives Estimates of occupation-specific tinnitus prevalence may help identify high-risk occupations where interventions are warranted. The authors studied the effect of occupation on prevalence of bothersome tinnitus and estimated the attributable fraction due to occupation. The authors also studied how much of the effect remained after adjusting for noise exposure, education income, hearin...

Econometric Causality This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality and model the preferences and choices of agents to infer subjective (agent) evaluations as well as objective outcomes. Anticipated and...

This paper studies a principal–agent relation in which the principal’s private information about the agent’s effort choice is more accurate than a noisy public performance measure. For some contingencies the optimal contract has to specify ex post inefficiencies in the form of inefficient termination (firing the agent) or third–party payments (money burning). We show that money burning is the l...

The enhancement of human well-being is one the ultimate goals resource management; however, it not explicitly considered by forest policy indicators. Our previous studies examined how Japanese citizens in Yasu River watershed Shiga Prefecture perceived subjective related to forests (forest SWB). We found a negative correlation between SWB and ownership, suggesting dissatisfaction with low profi...