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An Evaluation of Ethograms Measuring Distinct Features of Enrichment Use by Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
Environmental enrichment provides mental stimulation and minimizes abnormal behaviors in captive animals. In captive chimpanzees, individual animals may vary in the ways in which they benefit from enrichment or use enrichment devices, so investigating ...
Julia L. Greeson   +5 more
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Data Sources Analysis for Sustainable Trip Planner Development for Riga City

open access: yesTransport and Telecommunication, 2021
In today’s daily traveller world, not only the time and money became important, but climate change and pandemic raised the importance of safety and sustainability of future trip plans.
Dinko Alise   +2 more
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Social Security Enrollment as an Indicator of State Fragility and Legitimacy: A Field Experiment in Maghreb Countries

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
State legitimacy and effectiveness can be observed in the state’s approach to delivering welfare to citizens, thus mitigating social grievances and avoiding conflicts.
Walid Merouani   +2 more
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Revealed distributional preferences: Individuals vs. teams [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality is similar across decision makers.
Loukas Balafoutas   +3 more
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Drivers of smoking and physical activity in Russia: Do individual time preferences matter? [PDF]

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics, 2022
This article analyzes the relationship between individual decisions to smoke and to do physical exercises. It is assumed that individual time preferences play a major role in explaining individual health behavior.
Tatiana V. Kossova   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Evolving communities with individual preferences [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2014
The goal of this paper is to provide mathematically rigorous tools for modelling the evolution of a community of interacting individuals. We model the population by a measure space where the measure determines the abundance of individual preferences. The preferences of an individual are described by a measurable choice of a rough path.
T. Cass, T. Lyons
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The problem of securing cost and production functions. Individual and social preferences [PDF]

open access: yesBiuletyn Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej
In this article, we present two topics related to mathematical economics. We offer an intriguing proposal for securing cost andproduction functions in the face of uncertainty and risk. We discuss the relationship between individual and social preferences.
Julia Fidler, Łukasz Matysiak
doaj   +1 more source

Data on transnational ecological compensation under a ‘no net loss’ biodiversity policy

open access: yesData in Brief, 2023
We conducted surveys in Denmark, Spain, and Ghana to solicit individual preferences for national and international ecological compensation for forest cover lost in the participant's home country due to the construction of a road.
Anna Lou Abatayo   +2 more
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Measurement of Individual Time Preferences Using A Laboratory Approach [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2023
The precise measurement of individual time preferences in assessing the economic plans that individuals are involved in, in the estimation of social time preferences, in the assessment of environmental and health plans is very crucial.
Mohammad Amin Zandi
doaj   +1 more source

Should the Government Provide Jobs for Everyone? Societal Expectations and Their Impact on Labour Market Institutions and Outcomes

open access: yesGospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2018
This study explores whether and to what extent voters expect the government to provide jobs for everyone who wants to work. It examines the link between voter expectations and the labour market situation. It finds that the stronger the expectation of the
Michał Pilc
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