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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Urban foraging : individual variation in inner-city graffiti writers' target preferences and specialization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Objectives: Drawing upon optimal foraging theory, we examine graffiti writers’ individual target preferences to establish the diversity in their target choices (henceforth called “target specialization”).
Lens, Luc   +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

Individual Preference Stability for Clustering

open access: yesCoRR, 2022
Accepted to ICML'22. This is a full version of the ICML version as well as a substantially improved version of arXiv:2006 ...
Saba Ahmadi   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Integrating Individual Preferences into Collective Argumentation

open access: yesJournal of Logic and Computation, 2021
AbstractIn the field of collective argumentation, multiple agents may have different knowledge representations and individual preferences. In order to obtain a reasonable collective outcome for the group, either individual frameworks should be merged or individual preferences should be aggregated.
Chonghui Li, Beishui Liao
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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

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