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Journal of IntelligenceThe present study investigated whether parents’ and teachers’ evaluations of children’s intellectual investment would predict a change in children’s need for cognition (NFC) over one year. An exploratory look at how teachers’ evaluations are predicted by
Anke Hufer-Thamm +3 more
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BMC Biology, 2020 Background Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between investment into immune defence and other fitness-related traits. Accordingly, individuals are expected to upregulate their immune response when subjected to immune challenge.
M. Nystrand, D. K. Dowling
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Mayoral views on economic incentives: valuable tools or a bad use of resources? [PDF]
, 2019 Mayoral Views on Economic Incentives: Valuable Tools or a Bad Use of Resources? explores which types of cities and mayors embrace – or reject – tax concessions and subsidies to attract or retain business.
Glick, David, Wilson, Graham
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Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour +3 more
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Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging EconomiesPurpose: This study investigates the mechanism role of investment strategies in mediating the relationship between personality traits and investment performance within the behavioral finance framework.
Tariq Mahmood Shaikh, Syed Zain ul Abdin
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Relationships between key functional traits of the waterlily Nuphar lutea and wetland nutrient content [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Little attention has been paid to how aquatic habitat characteristics affect the traits of plant species. Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm. is a keystone species distributed across temperate regions of Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia.
Charles P. Henriot +6 more
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Female Mate Choice is Influenced by Male Sport Participation [PDF]
, 2008 Sexual selection theory argues that females invest more heavily in reproduction than males and thus tend to be choosier in terms of mate choice. Sport may provide a context within which females can gain information about male quality to inform this ...
Eys, Mark A. +2 more
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Coevolution of parental investment and sexually selected traits drives sex-role divergence [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 AbstractSex-role evolution theory attempts to explain the origin and direction of male–female differences. A fundamental question is why anisogamy, the difference in gamete size that defines the sexes, has repeatedly led to large differences in subsequent parental care.
Jennions, Michael D., Fromhage, Lutz
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.General schematic of the approach. Abstract Conventional Silver/Silver Chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrodes remain the clinical standard for electrophysiological monitoring but are hindered by poor skin conformity, mechanical rigidity, and signal degradation, particularly under motion or sweat.
Nazmi Alsaafeen +11 more
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Subordinate executives’ confidence and labor investment efficiency
International Review of Economics & FinanceWe examine confidence, an important type of cognitive bias, at the subordinate executive level and provide new insights to the literature on labor investment efficiency.
Joye Khoo, Adrian (Wai Kong) Cheung
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