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Beer evaluation methods for competitions in the Czech Republic.

open access: yesKvasný průmysl, 2001
The article brings a description of the most frequent systems in beer contest organizing and methods of result evaluation in the Czech Republic. Each of the six described models is complemented by a brief commentary on advantages and drawbacks.
F. FRANTÍK, P. ČEJKA
doaj   +1 more source

Longitudinal Study of a State 4-H Fashion Revue

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2015
The 4-H fashion revue contest gives young people the opportunity to create their own garment and present it in front of judges and an audience. To come to the conclusions reported here, the participant entry forms, participant evaluations, and judges ...
Kendra Taylor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Divisionalization in contests [PDF]

open access: yesEconomics Letters, 2001
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Huck, Steffen   +2 more
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What determines the duration of war? Insights from assessment strategies in animal contests. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal takeover contests with toeholds [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 partitioning in binary contests

open access: yesAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
AbstractIn this work we explore the opportunities presented by partitioning contestants in contest into disjoint groups, each competing in an independent contest, with its own prize. This, as opposed to most literature on contest design, which focuses on the setting of a single “grand” (possibly multi-stage) contest, wherein all potential contestants ...
Priel Levy, Yonatan Aumann, David Sarne
openaire   +1 more source

Contests for Experimentation [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2017
We study the design of contests for specific innovations when there is learning: contestants’ beliefs dynamically evolve about both the innovation’s feasibility and opponents’ success. Our model builds on exponential-bandit experimentation. We characterize contests that maximize the probability of innovation when the designer chooses how to allocate a ...
Halac, Marina   +2 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archery and target-shooting in pre-Islamic Java; What can be known?

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
In Java today, archery survives as a traditional discipline called jemparingan. Javanese archery involves targeting a pendulum-like target from a shooting distance of 35 to 50 metres.
Jiří Jákl
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting Survivor‐Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors of childhood cancer face barriers to receiving guideline‐based, long‐term follow‐up care. Two digital tools, Passport for Care (PFC) and Cancer SurvivorLink (SurvivorLink), address complementary gaps by enabling tailored survivorship care plan (SCP) generation, updating, storage, and sharing.
Jordan G. Marchak   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

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