...This chapter presents a method for determining weights that are specific to each country and which reflect each’s relative performance across different dimensions of competitiveness. It focuses on the issue of aggregation, that is, how to select the weights to be applied to the primitive...

... monophosphate (cAMP) observed during the aggregation phase of starvation-induced development in Dictyostelium discoideum. It emphasizes the important roles played by stochastic noise in ensuring the robustness of biological oscillations. This chapter shows that the stochastic noise...

... change. The household model allows an aggregate demand function to be expressed as a sum of individual household demand functions; this aggregate function is non-homothetic and depends on the demographic projections of the population. Household optimization also generates goods demand and labor supply...

... representatives Plato Quality control Procter and Gamble Weber Max Democracy Roosevelt Theodore Endangered species Nongovernmental organizations NGOs Realism Choice-Editing Policy Recommendations Aggregation Limitations Linkages Now that we have completed our exploration of the information value...

... malus Discursive dilemma Focus groups Judgment aggregation Rationality Anonymity Completeness Conclusion centered procedure Condorcet’ s paradox Consistency Systematicity Universality Voting paradox Distributed premise centered procedure Premise centered procedure Supermajority voting...

... neuroprotection neurovascular unit NVU Parkinson disease PD protein aggregation protein misfolding therapeutics development vascular disease aging α synuclein amyloid beta Aβ biofluid assessment biomarkers cerebrospinal fluid flow chronic traumatic encephalopathy clinical trials huntingtin...

... for nonprofessional economists. There are some reasons for using an overall approach to macroeconomics that seems to give easy ammunition to critics. The chapter covers each of these four “sins”: Aggregation, Rationality, Equilibrium, and Mathematics. Colander D Hamermesh D S welfare theorems Rubinstein...

... that informational intermediaries play in the aggregation and verification of information and in interpreting low-level information for use in higher-order processes (such as by transforming narrative and financial disclosures into prices, ratings, and investment recommendations). It then surveys the traditional...

... of cloud computing are developed. One such concept uses cloud relationships: aggregation, composition and federation. Another concept is that of cloud cells, somewhat akin to cloud gears but with greater functionality from an object oriented perspective. Cloud cells provide specialization as they have only...

... of complexity competitive Fisher equation game theory general equilibrium theory homogeneity money stochasticity universality classification aggregation consumption continuum limits endowments flows physics stock capital stocks vs flows toy models Fisher R A Levy P Tippet L H C central...

...This chapter focuses on the reasons why majority-grade is presented as the most appropriate of aggregation functions. Determining the final grade for practical and theoretical reasons, middlemost aggregation functions appear to be the best-suited choice as the functions avoid manipulation and agree...