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Cooperation and Wealth
No full textWe calculate the equilibrium fraction of cooperators in a population in which payoffs accrue from playing a single-shot prisoner’s dilemma game. Individuals who are hardwired as cooperators or defectors are randomly matched into pairs, and cooperators are able to perfectly find out the type of a partner to a game by incurring a recognition cost. We show that the equilibrium fraction of cooperators relates negatively to the population’s level of wealth.Equilibrium fraction of cooperators, Population's level of wealth, Single-shot prisoner's dilemma game
Malcolm Stark Correspondence
No full textEntries include typed correspondence on The Camden Herald Publishing Company stationery concerning the whereabouts of Mr. Stark, a handwritten letter from Stark on plain paper, and a typed letter on receipt of the Maine poet\u27s book Way Out and Close About for the Maine Author Collection
Inequality and Migration: A Behavioral Link
No full textWe provide an analytical-behavioral explanation for the observed positive relationship between income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, and the incentive to migrate. We show that a higher total relative deprivation of a population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in migration for a given level of a population’s income; that total relative deprivation is positively related to the Gini coefficient; and that, consequently, the Gini coefficient and migration are positively correlated, holding the population’s income constant.Income inequality, Relative deprivation, The Gini coefficient, The incentive to migrate
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A death of one's own ::literature, law, and the right to die /
No full text"To be or not to be--who asks this question today, and how? What does it mean to issue, or respond to, an appeal for the right to die? In A Death of One's Own, the first sustained literary study of the right to die, Jared Stark takes up these timely questions by testing predominant legal understandings of assisted suicide and euthanasia against literary reflections on modern death from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rigorously interdisciplinary and lucidly argued, Stark's wide-ranging discussion sheds critical light on the disquieting bioethical and biopolitical dilemmas raised by contemporary forms of medical technology and legal agency. More than a survey or work of advocacy, A Death of One's Own examines the consequences and limits of the three reasons most often cited for supporting a person's right to die: that it is justified as an expression of personal autonomy or self-ownership; that it constitutes an act of self-authorship, of "choosing a final chapter" in one's life; and that it enables what has come to be called "death with dignity." Probing the intersections of law and literature, Stark interweaves close discussion of major legal, political, and philosophical arguments with revealing readings of literary and testimonial texts by writers including Balzac, Melville, Benjamin, and Améry. A thought-provoking work that will be of interest to those concerned with law and humanities, biomedical ethics, cultural history, and human rights, A Death of One's Own opens new and suggestive paths for thinking about the history of modern death as well as the unsettled future of the right to die" -- From the publisher
Variable Length Path Branch Prediction
No full texting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Publications Dept, ACM Inc., fax +1 (212) 869-0481, or [email protected]. Variable Length Path Branch Prediction Jared Stark Marius Evers Yale N. Patt Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122 fstarkj,olaf,[email protected] Abstract Accurate branch prediction is required to achieve high performance in deeply pipelined, wide-issue processors. Recent studies have shown that conditional and indirect (or computed) branch targets can be accurately predicted by recording the path, which consists of the target addresses of recent branches, leading up to the branch. In current path based branch predictors, the N most recent target addresses are hashed together to form an index into a table, where N is some fixed integer. The inde..
American biography,
No full textA reprint of 22 of the 26 lives in the 1st series of Sparks' Library of American biography.v. 1. Jonathan Edwards, by Samuel Miller.--v. 2. William Eaton, By C.C. Felton.--v. 3. Benedict Arnold, by Jared Sparks.--v. 4. Captain John Smith, by G.S. Hillard.--v. 5. John Stark, by Edward Everett. William Pinkney, by Henry Wheaton.--v. 7. Charles Brockden Brown, by W.H. Prescott. Lucretia Maria Davidson, by Catharine M. Sedgwick. Sebastian Cabot, by Charles Hayward, jr.--v. 8. Israel Putnam, by O.W.B. Peabody. Baron Steuben, by Francis Bowen.--v. 9. Ethan Allen, by Jared Sparks. William Ellery, by E.T. Channing.--v. 10. Sir William Phips, by Francis Bowen. Joseph Warren, by A.H. Everett.--v. 11. Cotton Mather, by W.B.O. Peabody. Richard Montgomery, by John Armstrong.--v. 12. David Rittenhouse & Robert Fulton, by James Renwick.PhotocopyMode of access: Internet
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