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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Impulsivity is linked to drug dependency. Research has found that both nicotine and amphetamine-dependent individuals delay discount (DD) hypothetical monetary gains more steeply than matched controls.
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A Deeper Look at Hyperbolic Discounting [PDF]
We conduct an experiment to investigate the degree to which deviations from exponential discounting can be accounted for by the hypothesis of hyperbolic discounting. Subjects are asked to choose between an earlier or later payoff in a series of 40 choice
Sheth, Arnav, Sopher, Barry
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Gamification and motivation: Impact on delay discounting performance.
PLoS ONEDelay discounting is a phenomenon strongly associated with impulsivity. However, in order for a measured discounting rate in an experiment to meaningfully generalize to choices made elsewhere in life, participants must provide thoughtful, engaged answers
Sophie Harvey +2 more
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THE NECESSITY OF SPECIAL DISCOUNTING TREATMENT FOR NATURE TO ASSESS THE FLOW OF INVESTMENTS
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2010 The purpose of the paper is to justify special natural discount rates in the efficiency assessment of conservation activities. Nowadays, the social rate of discounting suggested by D. Pearce is often used.
Alexey Kotko
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Discounted-Sum Automata with Multiple Discount Factors
Logical Methods in Computer ScienceDiscounting the influence of future events is a key paradigm in economics and it is widely used in computer-science models, such as games, Markov decision processes (MDPs), reinforcement learning, and automata. While a single game or MDP may allow for several different discount factors, nondeterministic discounted-sum automata (NDAs) were only studied ...
Boker, Udi, Hefetz, Guy
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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ECONOMIC CORRECTION OF CURRENT DENSITIES IN THE WIRES OF THE EXISTING OVERHEAD LINES OF 110-220 KV
Известия высших учебных заведений: Проблемы энергетики, 2019 In this article, we present the methods used to date, the choice of the cross-sections of the wires of overhead transmission lines, taking into account not only the losses from the load currents, but also the corona losses and linear insulation of ...
A. A. Gerkusov, E. I. Gabdulvalieva
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Sacrifice, Discounting and Climate Policy: Five Questions [PDF]
I offer a selective review of discounting and climate policy. Analytic and numerical models show that different assumptions greatly change the degree to which decisions about climate policy depend on the discount rate.
Larry S. Karp
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study advances the literature on sustainable urban agriculture and alternative sustainable food production systems, which have gained momentum due to the need to strengthen regional food supply chains and meet the growing urban demand for fresh food. Indoor agriculture (IA) holds promise for year‐round cultivation of fresh produce even in
Joseph Seong +2 more
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