Human beings are an incredibly social species and along with eusocial insects engage in
the largest cooperative living groups in the planet's history. Twin and family studies suggest …

The main result of this paper is a generalization of the quasilinear mean of Nagumo [29],
Kolmogorov [26], and de Finetti [17]. We prove that the most general class of mean values, …

This paper focuses on the betweenness property of expected utility theory. We provide an
axiomatization of the class of betweenness-conforming utility theories. Subclasses of …

IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is one of the most common primary glomerulonephritis. Previously
identified genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci explain only a fraction of disease risk. …

Hope is experienced when there is enjoyment in delaying the resolution of uncertainty. The
main objective of this article is to identify the phenomenon of hope. In addition, we …

Arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT) are social hormones and mediate affiliative
behaviors in mammals and as recently demonstrated, also in humans. There is intense …

We introduce the concept of a conditional small world event domain—an extension of Savage's
[The Foundations of Statistics, Wiley, New York, 1954] notion of a ‘small world’—as a self-…

The independence axiom of expected utility theory has recently been weakened to the
betweenness axiom. In this paper an even weaker axiom, called mixture symmetry, is presented. …

Oxytocin is an important modulator of human affiliative behaviors, including social skills,
human pair bonding, and friendship. CD38 will be discussed as an immune marker and then in …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on Parkinson’s disease (PD) have mostly been
done in Europeans and Japanese. No study has been done in Han Chinese, which make up …