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Ambiguous Solicitation: Ambiguous Prescription [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 We conduct a two‐phase laboratory experiment, separated by several weeks. In the first phase, we conduct urn games intended to measure ambiguity aversion on a representative population of undergraduate students. In the second phase, we invite the students back with four different solicitation treatments, varying in the ambiguity of information ...
Robert S. Gazzale +3 more
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2003 This paper argues that the widespread belief that ambiguity is beneficial in design communication stems from conceptual confusion. Communicating imprecise, uncertain and provisional ideas is a vital part of design teamwork, but what is uncertain and provisional needs to be expressed as clearly as possible.
Martin Stacey, Claudia M. Eckert
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Reasoning with Ambiguity [PDF]
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2021 AbstractWe treat the problem of reasoning with ambiguous propositions. Even though ambiguity is obviously problematic for reasoning, it is no less obvious that ambiguous propositions entail other propositions (both ambiguous and unambiguous), and are entailed by other propositions. This article gives a formal analysis of the underlying mechanisms, both
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Journal of Economic Theory, 2015 We analyze a market populated by expected utility maximizers and smooth ambiguity-averse consumers. We study conditions under which ambiguity-averse consumers survive and affect prices in the limit. If ambiguity vanishes with time or if the economy exhibits no aggregate risk, ambiguity-averse consumers survive, but have no long-run impact on prices. In
Guerdjikova, Ani, Sciubba, Emanuela
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Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023 We explore the deliberate infusion of ambiguity into the design of contracts. We show that when the agent is ambiguity‐averse and hence chooses an action that maximizes their minimum utility, the principal can strictly gain from using an ambiguous contract, and this gain can be arbitrarily high.
Paul Dütting +3 more
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Ambiguity and Communication [PDF]
Theory of Computing Systems, 2010 Theambiguity of a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) Nf or input size n is the maximal number of accepting computations of N for an input of size n. For a ll k, r∈N we construct languages Lr,k which can be recognized by NFA’s with size k·poly(r) and ambiguity O(nk), but Lr,k has only NFA’s with exponential size, if ambiguity O(nk) is required.
Hromkovic, Juraj, Schnitger, Georg
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The persistent appeal of the California agricultural dream in North Africa
Water Alternatives, 2023 The development of intensive irrigated agriculture in arid California has inspired many governments and people around the world. In the paper, we show how 'California' as a social imaginary influenced North Africa’s irrigation policies.
Marcel Kuper +2 more
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Gauging the Processing Times of Ambiguous Sentences: A Reaction Time Study on Persian Undergraduate Students [PDF]
Athens Journal of Education, 2016 The present study explored the differences among the process times for sentences containing one of the three kinds of linguistic ambiguities namely, lexical, grouping, and functional ambiguities.
Mohammad Salehi, Nasim Mahboob Basiri
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The Ambiguity in Immunology [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2012 In the present article, we discuss the various ambiguous aspects of the immune system that render this complex biological network so highly flexible and able to defend the host from different external invaders. This ambiguity stems mainly from the property of the immune system to be both protective and harmful.
BARNABA, Vincenzo +2 more
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L’insupportable et l’incertain
Anthropologie & Santé, 2017 This paper addresses the emerging tensions among couples with infertility problems who use assisted reproductive technologies with a third-party donor in France and Portugal.
Catarina Delaunay
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