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Revisiting institutional punishment in the $N$-person prisoner's dilemma [PDF]

open access: yesTheory Biosci. 144, 1-17 (2025)
The conflict between individual and collective interests makes fostering cooperation in human societies a challenging task, requiring drastic measures such as the establishment of sanctioning institutions. These institutions are costly because they have to be maintained regardless of the presence or absence of offenders.
arxiv   +1 more source

Communities of Scholars: A Conceptual Scheme of Knowledge Production

open access: yesSocieties, 2018
This conceptual paper provides a meta-theoretical synthesis describing knowledge production processes in the sociological discipline. The first part of this paper gives an overview of recent studies exploring the sociological knowledge space with an ...
Konstantinos Zougris
doaj   +1 more source

Phase diagram of mixed system of ferroelectric relaxors in the random field theory framework [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2000
We suggest a random field based model for calculation of physical properties of mixed ferroelectric relaxors. Our model naturally incorporates the different orientations of electric dipoles (related to different solid solution components) as well as the contribution of nonlinear and correlation effects of random field.
arxiv  

The Architecture of Truth [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
The theory of institutions is framed as an indexed/fibered duality, where the indexed aspect specifies the fibered aspect. Tarski represented truth in terms of a satisfaction relation. The theory of institutions encodes satisfaction as its core architecture in the indexed aspect.
arxiv  

Implicit Kripke Semantics and Ultraproducts in Stratified Institutions [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2016
We propose stratified institutions (a decade old generalised version of the theory of institutions of Goguen and Burstall) as a fully abstract model theoretic approach to modal logic. This allows for a uniform treatment of model theoretic aspects across the great multiplicity of contemporary modal logic systems.
arxiv  

Methodological tools for researching institutional influences on organizations [PDF]

open access: yesBìznes Inform, 2018
Institutional theory predicts that organizations consider social fitness and conformity to institutional environments as more important then technical and economic needs and this social conformity over time results in homogenization on the macro level ...
Zhylinska Oksana I. , Aksom Herman I.
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