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Veterinary Dermatology, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 418-431, August 2024.Background – Diagnosis of canine adverse food reactions (AFRs) is based on vague criteria, such as ‘>50% improvement’ during elimination diet trial (EDT) followed by ‘deterioration’ during provocation test (PT). Objective – The objective of the study was to use predefined criteria to evaluate response during EDT [i.e., Owner Global Assessment of ...
Evi I. Sofou +4 more
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Buying voters with uncertain instrumental preferences
Theoretical Economics, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 1305-1349, July 2024.We analyze a vote‐buying model where the members of a committee vote on a proposal important to a vote buyer. Each member incurs a privately‐drawn disutility if the proposal passes. We characterize the cheapest combination of bribes that guarantees the proposal passes in all equilibria. When members vote simultaneously, the number of bribes is at least
Charles Louis‐Sidois, Leon Musolff
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The Role of Replication-Invariance: Two Answers Concerning the Problem of Fair Division when Preferences are Single-Peaked [PDF]
We consider the problem of allocating an infinitely divisible commodity among a group of agents with single-peaked preferences. A rule that has played a central role in the previous analysis of the problem is the so-called uniform rule.
Klaus, Bettina
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On the Possibility of Democracy and Rational Collective Choice [PDF]
, 2004 The paper challenges the 'orthodox doctrine' of collective choice theory according to which Arrow’s 'general possibility theorem' precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be flawed.
Hillinger, Claude
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"A Characterization of the Plurality Rule" [PDF]
We consider an axiomatic characterization of the plurality rule, which selects the alternative(s) most preferred by the largest number of individuals.
Yohei Sekiguchi
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Behavioral Aspects of Implementation Theory ( The further revision was subsequently published in "Economics Letters". ) [PDF]
This paper incorporates behavioral economics into implementation theory. We use mechanisms that are strictly detail-free. We assume that each agent dislikes telling a white lie when such lying does not serve her/his material interest.
Hitoshi Matsushima
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Arrow's Theorem for One-Dimensional Single-Peaked Preferences [PDF]
In one-dimensional environments with single-peaked preferences we consider social welfare functions satisfying Arrow''s requirements, i.e. weak Pareto and independence of irrelevant alternatives.
Ehlers, Lars, Storcken, Ton
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Market survey on the traditional medicine of the Lijiang area in Yunnan Province, China. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2022 Zhang M +10 more
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Non-bossy Social Classification [PDF]
We consider the problem of how societies should be partitioned into classes if individuals express their views about who should be put with whom in the same class. A non-bossiness condition makes the social aggregator dependent only on those cells of the
Clemens Puppe, Dinko Dimitrov
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Science electives in high school will improve nutrition knowledge but not enough to make accurate decisions. [PDF]
Nutr Res Pract, 2023 Mitsui T, Yamamoto S, Endo M.
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