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Status preferences and economic growth [PDF]
, 1998 This paper examines the implications of status-seeking behavior for long-term growth in a competitive economy. We explore the intuitive hypothesis that the quest for enhanced economic status leads to excessive levels of production and consumption. In a Ramsey growth model in which preferences are altered to include a concern for relative consumption ...
Richard B. Howarth, Kjell Arne Brekke
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Personality preferences in laboratory economics experiments [PDF]
The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2008 Abstract Student volunteers at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) participated in one of the following one-shot games: a dictator game, an ultimatum game, a trust game, or a prisoner's dilemma game. We find limited support for the importance of personality type for explaining subjects’ decisions.
Kurtis J. Swope +3 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby +448 more
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Opinion Formation in the World Trade Network
EntropyWe extend the opinion formation approach to probe the world influence of economical organizations. Our opinion formation model mimics a battle between currencies within the international trade network.
Célestin Coquidé +2 more
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Open Psychology, 2022 To facilitate the usage and expected benefits of higher-level automated vehicles, passengers’ distrust and safety concerns should be reduced through increasing system transparency (ST) by providing driving-related information.
Hollander Cornelia +2 more
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Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Short‐Term Functional Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can accumulate functional status (FS) impairment. We evaluated the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), and FS in a national SLE sample.
Baljeet Rai +7 more
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Caregiver Perspectives on the Burden of Disease and Treatment in Uncontrolled Gout
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Uncontrolled gout (UG) refers to persistently elevated serum urate (SU) levels >6 mg/dL and ongoing gout symptoms despite use of urate‐lowering therapy (ULT). The objective of this study was to evaluate the burden associated with informal caregiving for individuals with UG.
Angelo Gaffo +6 more
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Solar energised transport solution and customer preferences and opinions about alternative fuel Vehicles – the case of slovenia [PDF]
Transport Problems, 2015 Authorities in Slovenia and other EU member states are confronted with problems of city transportation. Fossil-fuel based transport poses two chief problems – local and global pollution, and dwindling supplies and ever increasing costs.
Matjaž KNEZ, Marjan STERNAD
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What a women desire: Application of conjoint analysis for analysing the choice of menstrual hygiene products and factors influencing their consummatory behaviour [PDF]
Scripta MedicaBackground/Aim: Middle-aged adolescent girls and women experience menstruation, a normal and physiologic occurrence. Using the myths and beliefs that were already prevalent, they created their own approach of dealing with the menstrual cycle. Aim of this
Tiwari Abhay Kumar +2 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Identified through the use of statistical design of experiments and metallographic investigation, this study exposes the stochastic origins of intergranular cracks in blown powder laser beam directed energy deposition additive manufacturing of pure molybdenum. It further demonstrates a successful crack mitigation approach with direct correlation to the
Nathaniel J. Lies +2 more
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