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On the joint use of liability and safety regulation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Law and Economics, 2000
The efficiency of two different means of controlling hazardous economic activities, namely ex post liability for harm done and ex ante safety regulation, is re-examined. Some researchers have stressed that the complementary use of these two instruments can be socially advantageous.
openaire   +1 more source

Effect of measurement errors in determining the heat transfer coefficient of the enclosing structures of an isothermal car

open access: yesВестник Научно-исследовательского института железнодорожного транспорта, 2019
When conducting thermal tests, the purpose of which is to determine the heat transfer coefficient of the body of an isothermal car K, the study of measurement errors affecting the accuracy of the obtained value plays an important role.
A. A. GOLUBIN   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA methylation and expression of MAPRE3 affect overall survival of early‐stage non‐small cell lung cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Both cg12821679MAPRE3 methylation and MAPRE3 expression are significantly associated with overall survival (OS) of non‐small cell lung cancer. Meanwhile, MAPRE3 expression significantly modified the effect of smoking cessation on OS. Smoking cessation benefits OS merely for patients with high MAPRE3 expression.
Chao Chen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reviving Joint Liability Contracts: Asymmetric Joint Liability Loans and Moral Hazard

open access: yes
We study the effects of asymmetric joint liability on peer monitoring, moral hazard, and default in microfinance. We develop a structural model of group lending under moral hazard and test its implications in a lab-in-the-field experiment with microfinance clients in urban Bolivia.
Burak Uras   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Financing smallholder agriculture: an experiment with agent-intermediated microloans in India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We explore the hypothesis that traditional joint-liability microfinance programs fail to increase borrower incomes in part because they cannot screen out unproductive borrowers.
Maitra, Pushkar   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Accidental death and the rule of joint and several liability [PDF]

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, 2012
Most U.S. states have enacted JSL reform, the move from a regime of joint and several liability (JSL) that allows plaintiffs to claim full recovery from any one of multiple defendants to one where defendants are held liable only for the harm they cause.
MacLeod, W. Bentley   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Shared Genetic Effects and Antagonistic Pleiotropy Between Multiple Sclerosis and Common Cancers

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Epidemiologic studies have reported inconsistent altered cancer risk in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Factors such as immune dysregulation, comorbidities, and disease‐modifying therapies may contribute to this variability.
Asli Buyukkurt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
wiley   +1 more source

Neobanks as innovative developers of financial technologies in the financial services market

open access: yesВестник университета
Digitalisation and enhancement of artificial intelligence have an impact on various areas of management, including financial market, contributing to the emergence and development of a new type of institution – neobanks, which become full-fledged ...
D. Z. Kereeva
doaj   +1 more source

Constant support of physical calculations subsystem of in-core monitoring system “Voyage” [PDF]

open access: yesЯдерна фізика та енергетика, 2018
In this study a brief description of the polynomial interpolation of few-group constants on sparse grids for VVER-1000 reactor is adduced. The calculations about various burnup instances were made for the method.
V. V. Galchenko   +2 more
doaj  

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