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Wildlife management in the United States – thoughts on evolving to better address species overabundance and disease transmission

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Management options and actions are important for responsibly working to keep populations of sometimes overabundant species of invasive and native wildlife at levels that keep damage (e.g., agricultural, environmental, human health and safety) and disease (e.g., species specific, shared with livestock, zoonotic) associated with them at acceptable levels.
Kurt C. VerCauteren
wiley   +1 more source

Problem Gambling: An Exploration of the Role of Global Personal Hopefulness, Short-Term Gambling Hope, and Illusion of Control Beliefs. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The present study investigated if global personal hopefulness, short-term gambling hope (fantasy hope), and illusion of control beliefs predict problem gambling.
Ginakis, Spiro, Ohtsuka, Keis
core   +3 more sources

A Tomada de Decisão com o Iowa Gambling Task

open access: yesRevista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde, 2017
Este artigo analisa os padrões de tomada de decisão com Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) e a hipótese do marcador somático. A tarefa experimental com o IGT é apresentada e analisados os resultados obtidos com a população de controlo nos estudos clínicos com esta
Rui Alexandre Paquete Paixão
doaj   +1 more source

Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Decisional impairments in cocaine addiction, reward bias, and cortical oscillation “unbalance”

open access: yesNeuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2015
Michela Balconi, Roberta Finocchiaro Research Unit in Affective and Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy Abstract: A vast amount of research has suggested that subjects with substance use ...
Balconi M, Finocchiaro R
doaj  

Double‐Edged Bandwagon Effects in International Law—Rationalist and Behavioral Explanations

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines bandwagon effects in international law by integrating rationalist and behavioral perspectives. While the diffusion of treaties and norms has often been understood as a progressive process leading to broader participation and compliance, states also imitate negative examples, resulting in treaty withdrawals, non‐compliance,
Anne van Aaken
wiley   +1 more source

The law of AI knowledge distillation

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge distillation—the practice of training a compact student model on the outputs of a larger teacher model—has emerged as the fastest‐growing technique for replicating and disseminating frontier artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Taorui Guan
wiley   +1 more source

Decision making in euthymic bipolar I disorder measured with Iowa gambling task: empirical study

open access: yes, 2020
The Iowa gambling task is recommended as an index of reward sensitivity, which is supposed to be elevated in bipolar I disorder. We assume that bipolar participants will tend to make more risky decisions compared to control ones while performing the ...
Aga Bogdaniuk
core   +1 more source

Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how politicians use the assignment of officials to geographical posts—a personnel system found in many countries—as a system of incentives to control, and possibly corrupt, bureaucratic behavior. The argument is developed with a matching model and tested with a nationwide survey of Indian officials who administer land ...
Anustubh Agnihotri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Type-2 signal detection analysis of gambling behaviour: cognitions, metacognitions, expertise and optimality

open access: yes, 2012
Cognitive gambling research has focused mainly on the irrational beliefs and cognitive biases that differentiate problem (PGs) and non-problem (RGs) gamblers.
Carr, Sara E., Carr, Sara E
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