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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants: An experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions [PDF]

, 2016
A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the “discouragement effect.” Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable ...
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol, Sheremeta, Roman M., Szech, Nora   +2 more
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Differences in prognosis and underuse of adjuvant chemotherapy between elderly and non‐elderly patients in stage III colorectal cancer

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 91-101, January 2023., 2023
This study analyzed data from consecutive patients with stage III colorectal cancer following curative resection and examined the reason for not introducing adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) and the differences in prognosis between completed and incomplete AC in elderly and non‐elderly patients.
Takuya Shiraishi, Hiroomi Ogawa, Ikuma Shioi, Naoya Ozawa, Katsuya Osone, Takuhisa Okada, Makoto Sohda, Ken Shirabe, Hiroshi Saeki   +8 more
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Stressful life events and passive behavioral patterns in women with major depressive disorder: a mixed method analysis nested in a clinical trial

Middle East Current Psychiatry, 2023
Background Women are more vulnerable to presenting with major depressive disorder (MDD) as they seem more sensitive to stressful life events (SLE). Few studies describe the effect of SLE on the development of avoidant/passive behavioral patterns (PBP) of
Curt Hemanny, Isabela Moura, Martha Amaral Pimenta Mello, André Macedo Figueiredo, Marcelo Demarzo, Irismar Reis De-Oliveira   +5 more
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Functional traits mediate individualistic species‐environment distributions at broad spatial scales while fine‐scale species associations remain unpredictable

American Journal of Botany, Volume 109, Issue 12, Page 1991-2005, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Premise Numerous processes influence plant distributions and co‐occurrence patterns, including ecological sorting, limiting similarity, and stochastic effects. To discriminate among these processes and determine the spatial scales at which they operate, we investigated how functional traits and phylogenetic relatedness influence the ...
Jared J. Beck, Daijiang Li, Sarah E. Johnson, David Rogers, Kenneth M. Cameron, Kenneth J. Sytsma, Thomas J. Givnish, Donald M. Waller   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bank market power and discouraged SMEs: International evidence

Borsa Istanbul Review, 2022
This study investigates the relationship between bank market power and firms’ financing constraints, indicated by the likelihood of being discouraged from applying for bank loans.
Duc Nguyen Nguyen, Anil V. Mishra, Kevin Daly   +2 more
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Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program

American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 314-326, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This randomized controlled trial examined the impact of The Connection Project, an experiential, relationship‐focused intervention designed to improve school belongingness and decrease symptoms of depression and loneliness among new college students.
Meghan A. Costello, Alison G. Nagel, Gabrielle L. Hunt, Ariana J. Rivens, Olivia A. Hazelwood, Corey Pettit, Joseph P. Allen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unemployment invariance hypothesis, added and discouraged worker effects in Canada [PDF]

International Journal of Manpower, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the long-run relationship between unemployment rate (UR) and labor force participation rate (LFPR) for men and women in Canada. Given that there are differences in the URs and participation rates of men and women, the authors perform separate analysis for them also.
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin, TANSEL, AYSIT
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Pneumatologiczny wymiar sakramentów uzdrowienia komunii

Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie, 2021
The Church is the sacrament of salvation in communion and all the sacraments are the sacraments of communion – the Trinitarian economy of salvation liturgically realized in the seven evangelical signs that are in the nature of living communion between ...
Marek Jagodziński
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The Threshold-Crossing Effect: Just-Below Pricing Discourages Consumers to Upgrade [PDF]

Journal of Consumer Research, 2021
Abstract Managers often set prices just-below a round number (e.g., $39)—a strategy that lowers price perceptions and increases sales. The authors question this conventional wisdom in a common consumer context: upgrade decisions (e.g., whether to upgrade a rental car or hotel room).
Junha Kim, Joseph K. Goodman, Selin A. Malkoc   +2 more
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A two-agent model of sequential search and choice [PDF]

, 2016
This paper extends the standard sequential search model by allowing the agent who compiles the choice set via search (the “searcher”) to differ from the agent who chooses from the set (the “chooser”). I show for a general joint distribution of the agents’
Mauring, E
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