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Models of Financial Markets with Extensive Participation Incentives

, 2007
We consider models of financial markets in which all parties involved find incentives to participate. Strategies are evaluated directly by their virtual wealths.
C. H. Yeung, D. Challet, K. Y. Michael Wong, Y.-C. Zhang   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Media Framing of Financial Mechanisms for Resolving Human–Predator Conflict in Namibia [PDF]

, 2015
The decline in carnivore populations is largely exacerbated by lethal methods used to reduce livestock depredation. Financial mechanisms are designed to limit lethal control by reducing the cost of depredation. The media can affect how the general public
Rust, Niki
core   +1 more source

Effect of Financial Incentives on Patient Use of Mailed Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests

JAMA Network Open, 2019
Key Points Question Can different forms of financial incentives (unconditional, conditional, or lottery) boost response rates to mailed colorectal cancer screening outreach?
Shivan J. Mehta, Rebecca S Pepe, Nicole B Gabler, Mounika Kanneganti, Catherine Reitz, Chelsea Saia, J. Teel, D. Asch, K. Volpp, Chyke A Doubeni   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pathogenic Neurofibromatosis type 1 gene variants in tumors of non‐NF1 patients and role of R1276

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Somatic variants of the neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene occur across neoplasms without clinical manifestation of the disease NF1. We identified emerging somatic pathogenic NF1 variants and hotspots, for example, at the arginine finger 1276. Those missense variants provide fundamental information about neurofibromin's role in cancer.
Mareike Selig, Swanhild Lohse, Sara Elahi, Nils Hartmann, Stefanie Deckert, Shutian Si, Alexander Desuki, Anja Harder   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incentives on the motivation and job performance; insights from community health workers in Iran

BMC Health Services Research
Background Enhancing workforce motivation in primary health care systems is crucial to improving both program sustainability and service quality. Given this necessity, this study investigated how stakeholders perceive and prioritize financial and non ...
Maryam Ghasemi, Sareh Shakerian
doaj   +1 more source

A Study on the Impact of Financial Incentives and Work Environment on Employee Motivation to Work: A Case Study of Employees of Paradise Estate Management Company

International Journal of Management, Finance and Accounting
The study aims to investigate the impact of financial incentives and workplace environment on employee work motivation. Individually, the study examines the impact of work allowances, employee wages, organisational culture, and internal communication on ...
Okoye Shedrach Obumneme, Farha Ghapar
doaj   +1 more source

Examining Monotonicity and Saliency Using Level-k Reasoning in a Voting Game

Games, 2014
This paper presents an experiment that evaluates the effect of financial incentives and complexity in political science voting experiments. To evaluate the effect of complexity we adopt a level-k reasoning model concept.
Anna Bassi, Kenneth C. Williams
doaj   +1 more source

The Perceived Role of Financial Incentives in Promoting Waste Recycling—Empirical Evidence from Finland

Recycling, 2019
Placing emphasis on promoting the reduction, reuse, recycling, recovery and repair of waste has been a critical aspect of the sustainable waste management agenda. Considering recycling, an environmentally friendly and sustainable waste management option,
Beatrice Abila, Jussi Kantola
semanticscholar   +1 more source

FGFR Like1 drives esophageal cancer progression via EMT, PI3K/Akt, and notch signalling: insights from clinical data and next‐generation sequencing analysis

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Clinical analysis reveals significant dysregulation of FGFRL1 in esophageal cancer (EC) patients. RNAi‐coupled next‐generation sequencing (NGS) and in vitro study reveal FGFRL1‐mediated EC progression via EMT, PI3K/Akt, and Notch pathways. Functional assays confirm its role in tumor growth, migration, and invasion.
Aprajita Srivastava, Anoop Saraya, Deepak Gunjan, Rinu Sharma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives and disincentives for improving food purchases and health through the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A microsimulation study

PLoS Medicine, 2018
Background The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides approximately US$70 billion annually to support food purchases by low-income households, supporting approximately 1 in 7 Americans.
D. Mozaffarian, Junxiu Liu, S. Sy, Yue Huang, C. Rehm, Yujin Lee, P. Wilde, S. Abrahams-Gessel, Thiago de Souza Veiga Jardim, T. Gaziano, R. Micha   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source