Indenture as a Commitment Device in Self-Enforced Contracts: An Experimental Test [PDF]
How can a principal (an agent) ensure that an agent (a principal) will work (pay up), if payment (work) precedes work (payment)? When a banknote is torn in two, each part is by itself worthless.
Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonathan H.W. Tan
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Billiards and Brains: Cognitive Ability and Behavior in a p-Beauty Contest [PDF]
"Beauty contests" are well-studied, dominance-solvable games that generate two interesting results. First, most behavior does not conform to the unique Nash equilibrium. Second, there is considerable unexplained heterogeneity in behavior.
Burnham, Terence C. +4 more
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Are Groups more Rational than Individuals? A Review of Interactive Decision Making in Groups [PDF]
Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years ...
Edgar E. Kausel +2 more
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Garden centipede: Summer flooding has advantages in controlling pest in asparagus fields
California Agriculture, 1953 The garden centipede,Scutigerella immaculate (Newp.)—a white organism about ¼? long which lives in the soil—is difficult to control with chemicals.
A Michelbacher, O Bacon, J Underhill
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Additional County Records of Invertebrates from Arkansas [PDF]
, 2018 McAllister, Chris T. +2 more
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Multi-Level Trust Game with “Insider” Communication [PDF]
This experiment studies the internal and external effects of communication in a multilevel trust game. In this trust game, the first player can send any part of his endowment to the second player. The amount sent gets tripled.
Jingjing Zhang, Roman M. Sheremeta
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Huli yanjiu, 2018 Objective:To detect the effect of centipede oil on Vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF) and Interleukin8 interleukin 8(IL8) expression level in deep II scald wound surface tissues of rabbit,in order to reveal its mechanism on reducing scald wound ...
杨媚月 +3 more
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Bacterial community associated with the surface and inside of centipede forcipules: Identification and characterization. [PDF]
PLoS OneTanaka Y +6 more
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Legged Locomotion in Lattices: Centipede Traversal of Obstacle-Rich Environments. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciPierce CJ +6 more
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Crashworthiness Design of Bidirectional Pyramidal Energy-Absorbing Tubes Based on Centipede Structures. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Bie A, Guo X, Du D, Xie Y.
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