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Venture capital financing, moral hazard, and learning [PDF]

Journal of Banking & Finance, 1998
We consider the provision of venture capital in a dynamic agency model. The value of the venture project is initially uncertain and more information arrives by developing the project. The allocation of the funds and the learning process are subject to moral hazard.
Bergemann, Dirk, Hege, Ulrich
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Perceived Stress, Resilience, and Anxiety Among Pregnant Chinese Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Latent Profile Analysis and Mediation Analysis

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a major threat to pregnant women's mental health. This study aimed to characterize the patterns of perceived stress in pregnant Chinese women during the COVID-19 pandemic, to examine ...
Zheng Luo, Yaqing Shen, Jiajia Yuan, Yifan Zhao, Zhengkui Liu, Zhengkui Liu, Fangfang Shangguan   +6 more
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Measuring human capital using global learning data [PDF]

Nature, 2021
AbstractHuman capital—that is, resources associated with the knowledge and skills of individuals—is a critical component of economic development1,2. Learning metrics that are comparable for countries globally are necessary to understand and track the formation of human capital.
Angrist, N, Djankov, S, Goldberg, PK, Patrinos, HA   +3 more
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Dissociating the Electrophysiological correlates between Item Retrieval and Associative Retrieval in Associative Recognition: From the Perspective of Directed Forgetting

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Although many behavioral studies have reported associative memory was different from item memory, evidence coming from ERP researches has been in debate.
Yujuan Wang, Xinrui Mao, Bingbing Li, Wei Wang, Chunyan Guo, Chunyan Guo   +5 more
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Expectations of immediate and delayed reward differentially affect cognitive task performance

NeuroImage, 2022
The current study used a modified Monetary Incentive Delay task to examine the neural mechanisms underlying anticipating and receiving an immediate or delayed reward and examined the influence of pursuing these rewards on cognitive task performance.
Yachao Rong, Ningxuan Chen, Jiarui Dong, Qi Li, Xiaodong Yue, Li Hu, Ping Wei   +6 more
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Does Goal Conflict Necessarily Undermine Wellbeing? A Moderated Mediating Effect of Mixed Emotion and Construal Level

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Development occurs through the process of setting and working toward goals, in which individuals are often working toward multiple goals that are likely to conflict with one another.
Wujun Sun, Wujun Sun, Zeqing Zheng, Yuan Jiang, Li Tian, Ping Fang   +5 more
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Equity Gaps in Literacy among Elementary School Students from Two Countries: The Negative Social Resonance Effect of Intersectional Disadvantage and the Dampening Effect of Learning Capital

Education Sciences, 2023
Students may be members of multiple disadvantaged groups whose negative effects may reinforce each other (intersectionality). In two studies dealing with elementary students’ literacy skills, we examine one negative reinforcing effect and one dampening ...
Albert Ziegler, Linlin Luo, Heidrun Stoeger   +2 more
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Mutual Influence of Reward Anticipation and Emotion on Brain Activity during Memory Retrieval

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Previous studies on the joint effect of reward motivation and emotion on memory retrieval have obtained inconsistent results. Furthermore, whether and how any such joint effect might vary over time remains unclear too.
Chunping Yan, Chunping Yan, Fang Liu, Yunyun Li, Qin Zhang, Lixia Cui   +5 more
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Electrophysiological Measures of Visual Working Memory in Social Anxiety

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
Socially anxious individuals are very sensitive to threatening information in the environment, so visual working memory (VWM) is of great significance for them. However, the influence of social anxiety on VWM is unclear. In the present study, we aimed to
Jing Yuan, Jing Yuan, Ningning Mao, Rongrong Chen, Qin Zhang, Lixia Cui   +5 more
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Evaluating gifted education in Palestine: A study of educational and learning capitals

Cogent Education, 2023
The present theoretical article aims to conduct a critical analysis and elaborate on the influence of educational and learning capitals on the education of gifted students in Palestine.
Anies Al-Hroub
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