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Lawful Distortion of Consumers’ Economic Behaviour – Collateral Damage Under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive

open access: yesEuropean Business Law Review, 2016
The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive prohibits unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices with a view to protect consumers’ economic interests. In a market economy such regulation cannot protect the economic interests of all consumers in all situations – there must inevitably be some ‘collateral damage’.
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Consent to Behavioural Targeting in European Law - What are the Policy Implications of Insights from Behavioural Economics? [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Behavioural targeting is the monitoring of people’s online behaviour to target advertisements to specific individuals. European law requires companies to obtain informed consent of the internet user before they use tracking technologies for behavioural targeting. Other jurisdictions also emphasise the importance of choice for internet users.
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AI‐Guided Co‐Optimization of Advanced Field‐Effect Transistors: Bridging Material, Device, and Fabrication Design

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This article outlines how artificial intelligence could reshape the design of next‐generation transistors as traditional scaling reaches its limits. It discusses emerging roles of machine learning across materials selection, device modeling, and fabrication processes, and highlights hierarchical reinforcement learning as a promising framework for ...
Shoubhanik Nath   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Law and Behavioural Economics Analysis of High-Cost Lending in New Zealand

open access: yesVictoria University of Wellington Law Review, 2021
The most interesting recent developments in economics have come from behavioural economics, which attempts to model how people will behave in real life situations. The insights offered by behavioural economics can also be applied to law. This article discusses law and behavioural economics generally, and then applies it to the New Zealand high-cost ...
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Innovative Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Systems for Social Science Research: Architecture Design and Applied Practice

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioural Phenomena of Family Firm Control Diversity and R&D Investment with Moderating Role CEO Compensation

open access: yesPsychology Research and Behavior Management, 2023
Sadeen Ghafoor,1 Muhammad Zulfiqar,2 Man Wang,1 Chunlin Wang,3 Md Rashidul Islam4 1School of Accounting, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China and China Internal Control Research Center, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China ...
Ghafoor S   +4 more
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Analysis of Uncertainty Influence in the Design of Interval Type‐3 Fuzzy Controllers With Type‐3 Fuzzy Harmony Search: The Case of the Water Tank

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonlinear control systems are an integral part of complex engineering systems. The main difference from linear systems is their ability to adapt to changes and unpredictable conditions. These systems exhibit behaviors that cannot be predicted by simple linear equations, making them essential for applications requiring precise control over a ...
Cinthia Peraza   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic review of the measurement properties of performance-based functional tests in patients with neck disorders

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2019
Objectives The purpose of this systematic review is to identify and synthesise studies evaluating performance-based functional outcome measures designed to evaluate the functional abilities of patients with neck pain.Design Systematic review.Data sources
Michele Sterling   +27 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rationality, irrationality and economic cognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper contrasts the modern use of the assumption that rationality as reflected in simple models of utility and profit maximization guides individual economic behaviour to literature both between 1890 and 1930 which sharply challenged the use of such
Whalley, John
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