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Beggars as Rational Choosers

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson, R. August Hardy, Paola A. Suarez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the variable side - deep fertilization control system for rice based on soil electrical conductivity. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Xie L, Mao W, Zhang X, Du Y, Fang X, Zhou C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Concussed: Unintended Consequences of the Guardian Cap Mandate in the NFL

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Guardian Caps are padded shells worn over American football helmets to cushion impacts and reduce concussion risks. In 2022, the NFL mandated their use for specific position groups during preseason practices, later expanding this requirement. While the league praised the Caps for enhancing player safety, skeptics argue they may promote riskier
Kerianne Lawson Rubenstein, Todd Nesbit
wiley   +1 more source

Eectrical grid linked to PV/wind system based fuzzy controller and PID controller tuned by PSO for improving LVRT. [PDF]

Sci Rep
El Sayed NG, Yousef AM, El-Saady G, Alanazi MD, Ziedan HA, Abdelsattar M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access to forests, farming land and the Citarum river is limited in Tarumajaya; furthermore, many do not own their own housing and are dependent on the public and private landowners in the area. The region of Tarumajaya faces significant challenges in access to crucial resources such as forests, farming land and the Citarum river, leading to a
Rudolf Wirawan, Janet Judy McIntyre‐Mills, R. Riswanda R. Riswanda, Ida Widianingsih, Indra Gunawan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive deep Q-networks for accurate electric vehicle range estimation. [PDF]

Front Big Data
Khekare U, Vedaraj I S R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

SenseBike: A New Low-Cost Mobile-Networked Sensor System for Cyclists to Monitor Air Quality and Automatically Measure Passing Distances in Urban Traffic. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Tenbeitel A, Arnold S, Rettkowski J.
europepmc   +1 more source

“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of fatigue life and active vibration control via piezoelectric elements in vehicle suspension. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Wu ZP, Wang H.
europepmc   +1 more source