Who Should Pay for Interdependent Risk? Policy Implications for Security Interdependence Among Airports

We study interdependent risks in security, and shed light on the economic and policy implications of increasing security interdependence in presence of reactive attackers. We investigate the impact of potential public policy arrangements on the security of a group of interdependent organizations, namely, airports. Focusing on security expenditures and costs to society, as assessed by a social planner, to individual airports and to attackers, we first develop a game-theoretic framework, and derive explicit Nash equilibrium and socially optimal solutions in the airports network. We then conduct numerical experiments mirroring real-world cyber scenarios, to assess how a change in interdependence impact the airports' security expenditures, the overall expected costs to society, and the fairness of security financing. Our study provides insights on the economic and policy implications for the United States, Europe, and Asia.     

Spatial Variations in Church Burnings: The Social Ecology of Victimized Communities in the South*

Abstract In recent years, church burnings in the South have attracted a great deal of attention. Many commentators have charged that they are a product of strained race relations throughout the South, and particularly of severe racial tensions in Southern rural areas. In this study we evaluate these claims. We begin by mapping the spatial coordinates of recorded church burnings from 1990 to 1997, and find that church arsons indeed are concentrated in the South. Church burnings, however, are a more urban phenomenon than popular media accounts would suggest. Our analysis then explores the influence of contextual factors (population and locale, racial composition and inequality, so‐cioeconomic conditions, local religious ecology, and patterns of reported crime) on church burnings in counties located in the study region. Logistic regression models confirm that church arsons are most likely to occur in small metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and non‐MSA counties containing a city of at least 10,000 residents. Church burnings also are especially likely in counties with a higher percentage of black residents, a larger number of churches relative to the rest of the state, and a higher arson rate. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for future research and public policy.     

Towards Bayesian image analysis

Many of the tasks encountered in image processing can be considered as problems in statistical inference. In particular, they fit naturally into a subjectivist Bayesis framework. In this paper, we describe the Bayesian approach to image analysis. Numerical examples are not included but references are given. It is argued that the Bayesian approach, still in its infancy, has considerable potential for future development.     

Immigrants and alien workers

VII. Conclusion The number of immigrants now coming to the United States is proportionally only a fraction of the number that came in earlier years, and there is nothing in those numbers to suggest a difficult absorption burden. Immigrants, both legal and illegal, more than pay for the services they use with the taxes they pay, leaving a considerable net surplus that benefits American citizens. Immigrants raise productivity and do not cause an observable amount of unemployment of citizens. Admitting far more immigrants into the country than the law now allows would have positive effects on the incomes of citizens, and would enhance the continuing vitality of the United States.     

石油亚砜PSO—Ⅱ与P_(204),P_(507)萃取稀土的研究

分别用P_(204),P_(507),PSO—Ⅱ单独萃取混合氯化稀土,得到了萃取稀土的最佳条件,并对P_(204)与PSO—Ⅱ、P_(507)与PSO—Ⅱ,协同萃取稀土元素进行了初步探讨,发现P_(204)与PSO—Ⅱ,P_(507)与PSO—Ⅱ两者在萃取混合氯化稀土的试验条件下,均无协同效应。     

The Road Less Traveled: Emotions and Morality in Public Controversies: A Response to Brian Lowe

Qualitative Sociology -     

悠久而多彩的印尼华人外文文学

印尼华人外文文学发生于19世纪中叶,为印尼文学的产生带了头,在马来文学的革新中起了先锋作用。印尼华人外文文学涉及重大的政治斗争和社会问题,揭露社会弊端和邪恶势力,表现各族青年男女的恋爱婚姻生活,反映家庭生活中的矛盾和冲突问题,反映社会底层的各族人民的生活和风土人情,艺术形式多样,语种丰富,读者众多。     

BATHTUB-TYPE CURVES IN RELIABILITY AND BEYOND

Finding optimal, or at least good, maintenance and repair policies is crucial in reliability engineering. Likewise, describing life phases of human mortality is important when determining social policy or insurance premiums. In these tasks, one searches for distributions to fit data and then makes inferences about the population(s). In the present paper, we focus on bathtub‐type distributions and provide a view of certain problems, methods and solutions, and a few challenges, that can be encountered in reliability engineering, survival analysis, demography and actuarial science.     

河南高等教育高水平发展略论

"十五"期间,河南高等教育事业取得突飞猛进的发展,但与广大人民群众"有学上"、"有好学上"的需求仍有一定差距,服务河南经济社会发展的能力还不够强,根源主要在于河南高等教育优质资源比较匮乏,突出表现在重点大学、重点学科和重点实验室较少方面.推动河南高等教育高水平发展,必须有针对性地加大"三重"建设力度,在学科建设等五个方面狠下工夫.