We study strategic issues in the Gale-Shapley stable marriage model. In the first part of the paper, we derive the optimal cheating strategy and show that it is not always possible for a woman to recover her women-optimal stable partner from the men-optimal stable matching mechanism when she can...

The prevalence of obesity among the populations of most developed countries has increased to such an extent that the healthcare and social security/disability system will accumulate direct and indirect costs related to obesity that will be more substantial than those for any other primary...

Objective: Patients with unstable angina fall within a wide therapeutic and prognostic spectrum, and, in general, have access to specialty care and invasive procedures. Today, when hospital admissions for unstable angina outnumber those for myocardial infarction worldwide, and growing economic...