Abstract: Ising machines are expected to solve combinatorial optimization problems faster than the existing integer programming solvers. These problems, particularly those encountered in practical ...

Brazil is characterized by an unfinished agenda of health inequalities, which impact health problems in the childhood. This study aimed to evaluate the socioeconomic inequalities of health problems in ...

The concentration of wealth at the very top of the global distribution has moved from academic talking point to systemic risk driver. Recent estimates suggest that fewer than 60,000 individuals — ...

The global wealth disparity has been greatly exacerbated by the pandemic, and there is a concentration of wealth among the top 1.2% of people. We explore factors causing inequality, the role of debt, ...

There is no such thing as a society where everyone is equal. That is the key message of new research that challenges the romantic ideal of a perfectly egalitarian human society. Anthropologist Duncan ...

Addressing health inequalities is an international priority. Various approaches have gained popularity in the academic literature and policy-making documents. However, there has been a lack of ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from University of Problems Student life is perhaps the most vivid, colorful, and memorable period of life for many of us. You start your adult life, feel ...

This special installment of the Stone Inequality Book Talk series inaugurates the first Stone Inequality Debate, in which Lane Kenworthy, author of the newly released book Is Inequality the Problem?, ...

This post was updated Nov. 9 at 11:25 p.m. UCLA became the first UC campus to launch an academic department dedicated to labor studies this fall. UCLA Labor Studies – which was previously an ...

Changing course on decades of deepening inequality requires bold action and vision. The U.S. is in the grips of an inequality emergency. Decades of deliberate, regressive policy choices have rigged ...

Abstract: The paper describes several applications of information inequalities to problems in database theory. The problems discussed include: upper bounds of a query’s output, worst-case optimal join ...

Colin Mason received funding from The Regional Studies Association to undertake some of the research on Atlantic Canada's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Dr Michaela Hruskova has previously received ...