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Contested Good City Stories from a North Chennai Littoral
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the wilful destruction of Ennore Creek, a littoral wetland system in north Chennai, Tamil Nadu, by a series of shifting statist good city imaginaries expressed in plans, research reports, environmental impact assessments, government orders and court judgements.
Lindsay Bremner +2 more
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons +2 more
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Nonrepresentative representative consumers [PDF]
, 1997 Representative consumers can be very Pareto inconsistent. We describe a cornmunity, with equal income distribution, where all consumers require 56 % higher aggregate income than the representative consumer requires in order to be compensated for the ...
Jerison, Michael
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Argumentation strategies in party competition
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political parties' rhetorical strategies play a crucial role in shaping public opinion and electoral outcomes. To gain insight into what kind of arguments parties present to the public, and under what conditions, we develop a model of argumentation where parties compete to persuade voters before engaging in platform competition.
Catherine Hafer +2 more
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The effects of closed loop tracking on a subjective tilt threshold in the roll axis [PDF]
, 1978 The indifference thresholds for the perception of tilt in the roll axis were experimentally determined in a moving base simulator under three tracking task difficulties.
Junker, A. M., Roark, M.
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On the Complexity of Nash Equilibria of Action-Graph Games
, 2008 We consider the problem of computing Nash Equilibria of action-graph games (AGGs). AGGs, introduced by Bhat and Leyton-Brown, is a succinct representation of games that encapsulates both "local" dependencies as in graphical games, and partial ...
Daskalakis, Constantinos +3 more
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Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
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Collaboration and Leadership in Teaching Statistics in Higher Education
Australian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Considerations of collaboration and leadership are relevant in all disciplines but are of particular significance in the statistical and data sciences. No matter how theoretical or practical, all statistical endeavours have roots or motivations in real problems linked with other disciplines and, in turn, often drive endeavours in these ...
H. MacGillivray
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Complexity of Manipulative Actions When Voting with Ties
, 2015 Most of the computational study of election problems has assumed that each voter's preferences are, or should be extended to, a total order. However in practice voters may have preferences with ties.
A Gibbard +15 more
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Mitigating the seductive details effect by topic and irrelevance signals
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Seductive details (interesting digressions in learning materials) are often integrated into learning units to make them more appealing to learners. However, studies indicate that this tends to overload students cognitively and impairs their learning performance. Aims The present study investigated whether these negative consequences
Lukas Wesenberg +4 more
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