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Laurent Miclo, and Chi Zhang
vol. 18, 2021, p. 1759–1771
It is shown that every spectrum of a finite irreducible Markov generator whose eigen-values are real and of geometric multiplicity 1 can be obtained as the spectrum of an irreducible pure-birth Markov process with jumps from the right-most boundary to all the other points. A whole isospectral...
Sandeep Bhupatiraju, and Daniel L. Chen
vol. 33, n. 2, 2021
Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and machine learning (‘ML’) — adaptive computer programs that attempt to perform functions typically associated with the human mind — offer new opportunities for improving the decision-making capacity and productivity of the Indian judiciary. First, the algorithmic...
Camille Terrier, Daniel L. Chen, and Matthias Sutter
vol. 118, n. 46 (e2110891118), 2021
COVID-19 has had worse health, education, and labor market effects on groups with low socioeconomic status (SES) than on those with high SES. Little is known, however, about whether COVID-19 has also had differential effects on noncognitive skills that are important for life outcomes. Using panel...
Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, Tommaso Cesari, Yishay Mansour, and Vianney Perchet
2021
We introduce a novel theoretical framework for Return On Investment (ROI) maximization in repeated decision-making. Our setting is motivated by the use case of companies that regularly receive proposals for technological innovations and want to quickly decide whether they are worth implementing. We...
Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi, Tommaso Cesari, Roberto Colomboni, Federico Fusco, and Stefano Leonardi
Marcel Boyer
vol. 18, n. 3, 2021, pp. 36–73
The CEO pay ratio, measured as the ratio of CEO pay over the median salary of a firm’s employees, is the most often quoted number in the popular press. This ratio has reached 281 this last year for S&P500 firms, the largest US firms by capitalization (as of November 21 2019). But the B-ratio I...
Sara Pisani, Jennifer Murphy, Jane Conway, Edward Millgate, Caroline Catmur, and Geoffrey Bird
vol. 131, December 2021, pp. 497–524
Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to represent the mental states of oneself and others, is an essential social skill disrupted across many psychiatric conditions. The transdiagnostic nature of ToM impairment means it is plausible that ToM impairment is related to alexithymia (difficulties...
Alexandre de Cornière, and Greg Taylor
vol. 131, n. 640, 2021, pp. 3122–3144
Hervé Guyomard, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Vincent Chatellier, Luc Delaby, Cécile Détang-Dessendre, Jean-Louis Peyraud, and Vincent Réquillart
vol. 34, n. 3, December 2021, p. 191–210
vol. 15, n. 100283, December 2021
Throughout the world, animal production faces huge sustainability challenges. The latter are exacerbated in the European Union (EU) by consumption issues linked, in particular, to the health and environmental impacts of meat consumption, and by the increasing societal concerns linked to animal...
