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Imitation, Innovation and International Trade

open access: yesEast Asian Economic Review, 2004
A North-South country model with imitation, innovation and simplified tariff structure is developed in this paper. Peculiar to this paper is that effects of change in trade policy on imitation and innovation in steady-state is analyzed. Specifically, two
Sungik Park
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Investigating the Relationship between Stable Personality Characteristics and Automatic Imitation.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Automatic imitation is a cornerstone of nonverbal communication that fosters rapport between interaction partners. Recent research has suggested that stable dimensions of personality are antecedents to automatic imitation, but the empirical evidence ...
Emily E Butler   +2 more
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Ouverture de ‘Global Networks and Local Development-2’

open access: yesSymphonya, 2013
The global boundaries of innovation, creative imitation and imitation have significantly changed the relative position of many Nation-States and their competitive positions face to global networks and local firms’ development.
Silvio M. Brondoni
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The Impact of Imitation Strategies, Managerial and Entrepreneurial Skills on Startups’ Entrepreneurial Innovation

open access: yesEconomies, 2020
The scope of this paper is to investigate whether imitation strategies adopted by startups are effective in the pursuit of enhanced entrepreneurial innovation. To this end, a literature review was carried out in order to develop a research framework with
Panagiotis Tsolakidis   +2 more
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Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, is characterised by a significant
Abercrombie   +166 more
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Cellular imitations

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2012
Synthetic biologists typically construct new pathways within existing cells. While useful, this approach in many ways ignores the undefined but necessary components of life. A growing number of laboratories have begun to try to remove some of the mysteries of cellular life by building life-like systems from non-living component parts.
Forlin, Michele   +2 more
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imitation: Clean Imitation Learning Implementations

open access: yes, 2022
imitation provides open-source implementations of imitation and reward learning algorithms in PyTorch. We include three inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) algorithms, three imitation learning algorithms and a preference comparison algorithm. The implementations have been benchmarked against previous results, and automated tests cover 98% of the code.
Gleave, Adam   +9 more
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Phonetic Imitation of Vowel Duration in L2 Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper reports the results of a pilot study concerned with phonetic imitation in the speech of Polish learners of English. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether native speakers of Polish imitate the length of English vowels and to ...
Beebe   +24 more
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A Didactics of Cultural Readings

open access: yesTeaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, 2023
This article makes a case for the effectiveness of using imitation-style teaching as a way to introduce how to write theoretically informed pieces of literary or media criticism to undergraduates. By making a case for the relevance of teaching this form
Mikkel Jensen
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Neonatal Imitation: Theory, Experimental Design, and Significance for the Field of Social Cognition

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Neonatal imitation has rich implications for neuroscience, developmental psychology, and social cognition, but there is little consensus about this phenomenon. The primary empirical question, whether or not neonatal imitation exists, is not settled.
Stefano Vincini   +6 more
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