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Author Meets Reader: Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
The Economic Dynamics in Amoroso's Contribution
No full textThis paper aims to highlight the main features of Amoroso's reflections on macroeconomic dynamics to which he dedicated a large part of his scientific activity. He developed an original theory of business cycle and he formulated a dynamic generalisation of the Paretian theory of general economic equilibrium which can be considered the main achievement of dynamic macroeconomics due to its ability to extend the analysis of optimising behaviour to an intertemporal context of resource allocation. The influence of Amoroso was modest despite its undoubted analytical capacity, probably because it was too faithful to a Paretian vision of economic relations and at epistemological level too closely connected to the models of nineteenth century physics which he tried to economic reasoningbusiness cycles, growth, dynamic theory
South Thompson Valley and Pinantan official settlement plan.
No full textThe recommended policies contained in this plan provide the Thompson-Nicola Regional District with the means to protect and enhance the agricultural economic base, regulate the supply and location of rural residential growth, guide commercial and industrial development and satisfy the historical, recreational, social and environmental concerns of the settlement plan area.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
From complex to neural networks
No full textQuantitative neuroscience is trying to exploit the increasing number of large data sharing initiatives; therefore, Big Data analytics can play a pivotal role. So far, especially for neuroimaging, two different strategies have been largely explored: voxel-based and region of interest-based approaches. A common idea is that through quantitative features extracted by brain models it is possible to learn specific patterns, pathological or physiological, especially with the use of artificial intelligence techniques borrowed by Big Data analytics expertise. However, these approaches can suffer because of several limitations. This is why a third option has gained popularity: complex networks. In this chapter we discuss how brain models can be suitably designed with complex network theory and how this approach can suitably feed learning algorithms, especially deep learning ones. Accordingly, it is possible to design quantitative evaluation frameworks for several purposes as early diagnosis support systems or fully automated age prediction models
Rural Residential Study
No full textThe Thompson-Nicola Regional District has recently been grappling with some of the basic problems and conflicts of trying to provide for rural residential lot demand and, at the same tie, trying to protect the resources, aesthetics and social climate of existing rural area.Not peer reviewedstudydraf
"Who invented the Lerner index? Luigi Amoroso, the dominant firm model and the measurement of market power"
No full textThe invention of the price/cost margin (P-MC)/P as an index of monopoly power is usually credited to Lerner (1934). Landes and Posner (1981) is similarly considered the main reference for the generalized version of the index in the case of a dominant firm sharing the market with price-taking rivals. From the viewpoint of the history of industrial economics both claims are incorrect. It was not Lerner who invented the price/cost margin index and the generalized version was fully derived before WWII. In both cases, priority should be given to Luigi Amoroso, the leading Italian mathematical economist in the interwar decades. In the latter case the names of Heinrich von Stackelberg and George Stigler also deserve credit
The Role of Coordination and Cooperation for Bt-maize cultivation in Brandenburg, Germany
No full textSince 2006, several varieties of transgenic Bt-maize are approved for commercial cultivation in Germany. The German regulatory framework for growing these crops comprises ex-ante regulations as well as ex-post liability rules to protect conventional and organic farming from possible negative side effects of transgenic plants and to ensure co-existence. Public regulation is also suspected to impose additional costs to those farmers who intend to plant Bt-maize. We address the question how Bt-maize growing farmers perceive the additional costs of regulation and whether coordination or cooperation takes place in order to diminish these costs. In 2006, we carried out a case study in the Oderbruch region (Brandenburg, Germany) comprising eight Bt-maize growing farmers and six adjacent neighbours. The predominantly large farms chose intrafarm coordination to manage the construction of buffer zones within their own fields and to avoid the planting of Bt-maize close to their neighbours. Inter-farm coordination or cooperation with adjacent farmers was not regarded necessary to achieve co-existence.Coordination, Cooperation, Bt-maize, Crop Production/Industries,
A fuzzy-based system reveals Alzheimer’s Disease onset in subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment
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