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Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes
PLoS ONE, 2021 Using an incentivized experiment with statistical power, this paper explores the role of stakes in charitable giving of lottery prizes, where subjects commit to donate a fraction of the prize before they learn the outcome of the lottery.
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International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 2008 In this lucidly written, carefully conceived, persuasively argued and thoroughly researched book, Jessica Cattelino studies the ways that members of the Seminole Indian nation have reconfigured material and symbolic forms of their sovereignty in the casino-era.
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, 2017 This chapter describes the contradictory roles that weapons play in offender decision making as mechanisms that can both increase the physical harm to a victim of violence and also reduce the need for physical harm in victims of robbery. Because weapons serve simultaneously offensive and defensive purposes, the way in which offenders carry and use ...
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The High Stakes of Outsourcing in Health Care.
Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2021 Outsourcing in health care has become increasingly common as health system administrators seek to enhance profitability and efficiency while maintaining clinical excellence.
L. L. Berry +3 more
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BMC Medical EducationThe creation of high-quality multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is essential for medical education assessments but is resource-intensive and time-consuming when done by human experts.
Alex KK Law +6 more
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TRACER: A Framework for Facilitating Accurate and Interpretable Analytics for High Stakes Applications [PDF]
SIGMOD Conference, 2020 In high stakes applications such as healthcare and finance analytics, the interpretability of predictive models is required and necessary for domain practitioners to trust the predictions.
Kaiping Zheng +5 more
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High stakes on the high seas [PDF]
Science Advances, 2018 Jennifer Jacquet Jeremy B. C. Jackson Today, “the high seas” are generally understood to refer to the vast expanses of open oceans that are not under the formal jurisdiction of any nation. Legally, the high seas are defined as the 60% expanse of the oceans that lie beyond national exclusive economic zones, which are within 200 nautical miles ...
Jacquet, Jennifer, Jackson, Jeremy B. C.
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Test Review: Current options in at-home language proficiency tests for making high-stakes decisions
Language Testing, 2020 Administration of high-stakes language proficiency tests has been disrupted in many parts of the world as a result of the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Institutions that rely on test scores have been forced to adapt, and in many cases this means using
Daniel R. Isbell, B. Kremmel
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Research and Advances in EducationThe Gaokao, China’s National College Entrance Examination, is a high-stakes test that significantly impacts students’ academic futures and career opportunities.
Yu Fu
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Social inequality in shadow education: The role of high-stakes testing
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2020 Against the background of the worldwide expansion of shadow education, research shows that students from high socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds participate more in shadow education than students from disadvantaged SES backgrounds.
Dieuwke Zwier +2 more
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