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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (187 Seiten)

ISBN: 9783030585099

Series Statement: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being Ser

Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources , Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 What Constitutes a Good Life? -- Income -- Happiness -- Well-Being and Capabilities -- 2 Why This Book? -- Structure of the Book -- Why a New Dataset? -- Some Preliminary Methodological Comments -- 3 Is the Conventional Family Still the Cornerstone of Society? -- Which Family Types Are Found in Belgium? -- Are There Differences Between the Regions? -- Age and Family Type -- Well-being Involves Many Different Aspects -- 4 How Unequally Are Our Incomes Distributed? -- A Parade of Dwarves and Giants -- A Spoke in the Wheel? -- Inequality Measured -- 5 Who Is Poor in Our Society? -- Risk of Poverty -- Material Deprivation -- How Many Belgians Are Both on a Low Income and Materially Deprived? -- 6 How Healthy Are We? -- What Is Health? -- General Health -- Functional Limitations -- Chronic Diseases -- Emotional Well-Being -- Physical Well-Being -- Who Is Ill? -- Are Poorer People Sicker? -- How Sick Are the Elderly? -- Are the Flemish Healthier? -- 7 What Makes Us Sick? -- Lifestyle, Living Environment and Job Characteristics -- Lifestyle -- Living Environment -- Job Characteristics -- Emotional Well-Being -- The Shadow of the Past -- 8 Can People Afford Their Healthcare? -- The Use of Healthcare -- Financial Consequences of Illness -- Postponement of Care -- People with Chronic Illnesses -- 9 Do We Find the Job of Our Dreams? -- Who Works and Who Doesn't? -- Which Types of Jobs Are Carried Out? How Much Do People Work? -- The Job of My Dreams, an Unattainable Ideal? -- 10 What Do We Spend Our Money on? -- What Do the Consumption Patterns of Belgian Families Look Like? -- Expenditure Patterns per Income Quartile -- Expenditure Patterns by Level of Education -- 11 Do We Live Comfortably and in a Pleasant Environment? -- The Quality of Our Housing -- Tenants and Owners , Elderly People and Young People -- 12 How Do We Spend Our Time? -- Time Use of Men and Women by Family Type -- Time Use of Men and Women by Level of Education -- An Insight into Families -- 13 Who Forms a Couple with Whom? -- How Did Partners First Meet? -- Like Seeks Like? -- Is Like-Seeks-Like Behaviour Age-Related? -- 14 How Do Partners Within Couples Spend Their Time? -- Time Use of Partners Across All Types of Couples -- Time Use of Working Couples with and Without Children Living at Home -- Time Use of Partners by Level of Education -- 15 What Do Partners in Couples Spend Their Money on? -- Expenditure Within Couples with and Without Children -- Expenditure Within Couples According to Total Expenditure -- Expenditure Within Couples According to Level of Education -- 16 Who Wears the Trousers? -- Distribution of Time and Money Between Partners -- Distribution of Time and Money in Relation to Relative Hourly Wage -- Distribution of Time and Money in Relation to Full Family Income -- Marriage Market -- Who Deserves Special Attention? -- 17 Is Life Harder for Single-Parent Families? -- Who Are the Parents in Single-Parent Families? -- Do Parents in Single-Parent Families Have Lower Levels of Well-Being? -- Which Dimensions of Well-Being Make the Difference? -- Are There Differences When It Comes to the Children? -- 18 Which Children Grow up in Poverty? -- Poverty Is Hard -- Health and Housing Quality -- How Much Do Parents Invest in Their Children? -- As Long as They're Happy ... -- 19 A Nice Retirement? -- How Many Older People Are There? -- The Situation of the Elderly -- Towards a Measure of Individual Well-being -- 20 Who Suffers from Cumulative Deprivation? -- How Much Cumulative Deprivation Is There in Belgium? -- Who Suffers from Cumulative Deprivation? -- 21 How Happy Are We? -- Happiness and Life Satisfaction , What Makes Belgians Satisfied with Their Lives? -- (Dis)satisfaction with a Partial Aspect of Life -- 22 As Long as We're Happy ...? -- Personality and Life Satisfaction -- Level of Education and Expectations -- Poor but Happy -- 23 How Do We Measure Well-Being? -- An Example of the Alternative Approach -- Different Opinions on the Good Life: Willingness to Pay -- Equivalent Income -- 24 Who Has the Lowest Levels of Well-Being? -- How Do We Measure Willingness to Pay? -- Equivalent Incomes for Health and Housing -- 25 Conclusion -- Just Looking at Averages Can Be Misleading -- Income Is Not a Good Measure of Well-being -- Happiness Is Not a Good Measure of Well-being -- Well-being Is Best Measured in a Multidimensional Way -- References

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Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 193 Seiten)

ISBN: 9781849503372

Series Statement: Advances in applied microeconomics v. 13

Content: As demand to substantiate predictions from economic theory with causal empirical evidence increases, economists have more and more turned towards controlled laboratory experiments. As this field has blossomed it has provided evidence confirming some of the key predictions of economic theory and exposed some of the weaker theoretical predictions. This has resulted in a symbiotic relationship where experimental evidence not only is used to support theoretical conclusions but has pointed economists into bold and exciting new areas of investigation. In this volume, I am proud to present some of the most stimulating work in this field. The first three chapters provide a fresh look at some of the classical issues in experimental economics. These papers provide novel insights into psychology in ultimatum games, the impact of social interaction on learning, and communication in coordination games. The next two chapters look at how experiments can illuminate our understanding of what determines trust. These papers examine how monitoring within an organization influences trust, as well as examining how individual political ideologies are related to an individuals level of trust. The final two chapters show how experiments can be fruitfully applied to vertical relationships and auction design, two of the most important areas in contemporary contract theory

Note: Gain and loss ultimatums / Nancy Buchan, Rachel Croson, Eric Johnson, George Wu -- Do liberals play nice? The effects of Party and political ideology in public goods and trust games / Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo -- An economics wind tunnel : the science of business engineering / Kay-Yut Chen -- Experiments on auction valuation and endogenous entry / Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Elena Katok -- Behavioral aspects of learning in social networks : an experimental study / Syngjoo Choi, Douglas Gale, Shachar Kariv -- Communication and efficiency in coordination game experiments / Anthony Burton, Graham Loomes, Martin Sefton -- Trust but verify : monitoring in interdependent relationships / Maurice E. Schweitzer, Teck H. Ho

Language: English

DOI: 10.1016/S0278-0984(2005)13

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 315 p)

ISBN: 9783790818505

Series Statement: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 49

Content: Fuzzy sets were first proposed by Lotfi Zadeh in his seminal paper [366] in 1965, and ever since have been a center of many discussions, fervently admired and condemned. Both proponents and opponents consider the argu­ ments pointless because none of them would step back from their territory. And stiH, discussions burst out from a single sparkle like a conference pa­ per or a message on some fuzzy-mail newsgroup. Here is an excerpt from an e-mail messagepostedin1993tofuzzy-mail@vexpert. dbai. twvien. ac. at. by somebody who signed "Dave". , . . . Why then the "logic" in "fuzzy logic"? I don't think anyone has successfully used fuzzy sets for logical inference, nor do I think anyone wiH. In my admittedly neophyte opinion, "fuzzy logic" is a misnomer, an oxymoron. (1 would be delighted to be proven wrong on that. ) . . . I carne to the fuzzy literature with an open mind (and open wal­ let), high hopes and keen interest. I am very much disiHusioned with "fuzzy" per se, but I did happen across some extremely interesting things along the way. " Dave, thanks for the nice quote! Enthusiastic on the surface, are not many of us suspicious deep down? In some books and journals the word fuzzy is religiously avoided: fuzzy set theory is viewed as a second-hand cheap trick whose aim is nothing else but to devalue good classical theories and open up the way to lazy ignorants and newcomers

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783790824728

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-1850-5

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 149 p. 4 illus)

ISBN: 9783642844898

Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Engineering 66

Content: In 1984, while I was following his postgraduate course on VLSI design, my supervisor Dr. David Skellern, asked me if I was interested in investigating intelligent approaches to automatic Ie floorplanning. He told me then: "a circuit that works always looks nice, has a clever data and control flow. A fast way to look at students' Ie projects is by looking at their fioorplans.". Later, I took a course on Knowledge Engineering (KE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Professor John Gero, who encouraged me to investigate this area of design automation. The resources for such development were really poor at IS&E as KE was a relatively new field of research in Australia at that time. \'Vhatever the difficulties (a good programmmer never blames his tools as David Skellern used to tell me), I undertook the investigation of Knowledge-Based approaches to Ie ftoor­ planning as my PhD thesis subject with the help of my supervisor and John Gero and the encouragement of all researchers at IS&E , who provided an exciting environment for my research. This volume reports the results of my research during 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987. The voulme deals with Ie ftoorplanning from four perspectives: floorplanning strategy, Knowledge Engineering in the Ie domain, the development of knowledge-based fioorplan­ ning processes and new floorplanning algorithms for use in the overall strategy

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783540539582

Language: English

Subjects: Engineering

Keywords: Integrierte Schaltung ; Block-Layout ; Künstliche Intelligenz

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-84489-8

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (V, 245 p)

ISBN: 9783642580093 , 9783540637110

Series Statement: Encylopedia of Mathematical Sciences 6

Note: From the reviews of the first printing of this book, published as volume 6 of the Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences: "... My general impression is of a particularly nice book, with a well-balanced bibliography, recommended!" Medelingen van Het Wiskundig Genootschap, 1995 "... The authors offer here an up to date guide to the topic and its main applications, including a number of new results. It is very convenient for the reader, a carefully prepared and extensive bibliography ... makes it easy to find the necessary details when needed. The books (EMS 6 and EMS 39) describe a lot of interesting topics. ... Both volumes are a very valuable addition to the library of any mathematician or physicist interested in modern mathematical analysis." European Mathematical Society Newsletter, 1994 "...The authors are recognized experts in their fields and so are ideal choices to write such a survey. ...The text of the book is liberally sprinkled with illustrative examples and so the style is not heavy going or turgid... The bibliography is very good and extremely large ..." IMS Bulletin, 1995

Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-58009-3

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