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What determines the duration of war? Insights from assessment strategies in animal contests. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Interstate wars and animal contests both involve disputed resources, restraint and giving up decisions. In both cases it seems illogical for the weaker side to persist in the conflict if it will eventually lose. In the case of animal contests analyses of
Mark Briffa
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Three models of failed athletic contests

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Kinanthropologica, 2018
Arvi Pakaslahti’s model of failed athletic contests (the Two Ideals Model) and Mika Hämäläinen’s most recent model of failed athletic contests (the Four Items Model) are the two most sophisticated models of failed athletic contests in the philosophy of ...
Arvi Pakaslahti
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Optimal takeover contests with toeholds [PDF]

, 2008
This paper characterizes how a target firm should be sold when the possible buyers (bidders) have prior stakes in its ownership (toeholds). We find that the optimal mechanism needs to be implemented by a non-standard auction which imposes a bias ...
Loyola, Gino
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Contest architecture [PDF]

Journal of Economic Theory, 2006
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Moldovanu, Benny, Sela, Aner
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Sourcing Innovation: On Feedback in Contests

Management Sciences, 2017
Contests, in which contestants compete for a prize offered by a contest holder, have become a popular way to source innovation. Despite great interest from the academic community, many important managerial aspects of contests have received very little ...
Jürgen Mihm, Jochen Schlapp
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
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Rent Dissipation in Simple Tullock Contests

Games, 2022
We investigate observed rent dissipation—the ratio of the total costs of rent seeking to the monetary value of the rent—in winner-take-all and share contests, where preferences are more general than usually assumed in the literature.
Alex Dickson, Ian A. MacKenzie, Petros G. Sekeris   +2 more
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Sabotage in Contests: A Survey [PDF]

, 2015
A contest is a situation in which individuals expend irretrievable resources to win valuable prize(s). ‘Sabotage’ is a deliberate and costly act of damaging a rival’s' likelihood of winning the contest.
A Bose, A Chaturvedi, A Hillman, A Hillman, B Holmström, C Deutscher, C Genakos, C Grund, C Harbring, C Harbring, C Harbring, C Harbring, D Vandegrift, E Auriol, EP Lazear, EP Lazear, F Bolle, G Becker, G Borgia, G Charness, G Tullock, G Tullock, HI Grossman, I Preston, J Brown, J Corral del, J Ishida, J Münster, JA Amegashie, JA Amegashie, JA Amegashie, JN Bhagwati, JP Carpenter, JR Madden, K Abbink, K Abbink, KA Konrad, KA Konrad, KP Chen, KP Chen, L Balafoutas, L Garicano, LA Gordon, M Kräkel, M Kräkel, M Kräkel, M Shubik, MR Baye, O Gürtler, O Gürtler, O Gürtler, O Gürtler, Oliver Gürtler, P Freedman, P Milgrom, PA Curry, R Drago, R Drago, R Soubeyran, RA Dye, S Ansolabehere, S Dato, S Skaperdas, SC Salop, Subhasish M. Chowdhury, T Veblen, VL Mui, WA Friedman, WJ Baumol   +68 more
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Personalizing the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship: Adapting Training for the Next Generation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The pediatric hematology‐oncology fellowship training curriculum has not substantially changed since its inception. The first year of training is clinically focused, and the second and third years are devoted to scholarship. However, this current structure leaves many fellows less competitive in the current job market, resulting in ...
Scott C. Borinstein, Melissa J. Rose, Scott Moerdler, Richard Ho   +3 more
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Organization of creative activities of students: aims, methodology, outcomes

Вестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки, 2020
Creative activities of both students of Master’s and Bachelor’s degree programs refers increasingly to scientific creativeness although it is stated that training on Bachelor’s degree program is based on competence and practical-oriented approach carried
Dmitry A. Trischenko
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