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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Our work begins with the premise that the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into firm decision making parallels the emergence of the professional manager, which prompted the birth of agency theory. We examine the evolution of AI through an agency theory lens, considering how the nature of firm control and decision rights change as AI
Beth K. Humberd, Scott F. Latham
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
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Analysis of methods for simulating character encounters in a game with RPG elements
Journal of Computer Sciences InstituteThis paper investigates algorithms that predict the outcome of a duel in a game with RPG elements and determine the losses incurred. The aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of the following approaches: based on Lanchester's laws and stochastic, using ...
Michał Zdybel, Jakub Smołka
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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A Relative Exponential Weighing Algorithm for Adversarial Utility-based Dueling Bandits [PDF]
, 2015 We study the K-armed dueling bandit problem which is a variation of the classical Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problem in which the learner receives only relative feedback about the selected pairs of arms.
Clérot, Fabrice +2 more
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State of the Field: The History of Masculinities
History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 5-29, January 2026.Abstract This State of the Field article discusses how, when and why the history of masculinities has emerged since the 1980s, and why it continues to be an important research field today. The article begins with the field's multiple origin stories and then discusses its expansion in chronology, geography and theme, as well as newer directions for ...
ERICA L. FRASER
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Rainbow: Combining Improvements in Deep Reinforcement Learning
, 2017 The deep reinforcement learning community has made several independent improvements to the DQN algorithm. However, it is unclear which of these extensions are complementary and can be fruitfully combined.
Azar, Mohammad +9 more
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Knowledge Gradient Procedure to Select the Best System Under Pairwise Comparisons
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), Volume 72, Issue 8, Page 1078-1096, December 2025.ABSTRACT This article considers fixed‐budget ranking and selection (R&S) problems where the performance of alternative designs can only be assessed through pairwise comparisons, a setting encountered in many applications, including player ranking in games, sports tournaments, recommender systems, image‐based search, public choice models such as voting ...
Dongyang Li +4 more
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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect? [PDF]
We document an increase in the scoring probability from penalties in soccer, which separates the time period before 1974 significantly from that after 1976: the scoring probability increased by 11%.We explain this finding by arguing that the institution ...
Axel Ockenfels, Wolfgang Leininger
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