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Nonmonotonic reasoning: towards efficient calculi and implementation

open access: yes, 1998
Research in nonmonotonic reasoning has begun at the end of the seventies. One of the major motivations came from reasoning about actions and events. John McCarthy and Patrick Hayes had proposed their situation calculus as a means of representing changing
Furbach, U. (Koblenz-Landau Univ., Koblenz (Germany). Inst. fuer Informatik)   +3 more
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State Capture and the Limits of Human Capital: Education and Institutional Quality in Post‐Socialist Europe

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the European Quality of Government Index across 183 NUTS‐2 regions (2010–2024), this paper documents that education improves institutional quality in Western Europe but not in postsocialist regions. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reveals that 77 percent of the West–East institutional gap reflects different returns to education, not ...
Nikolaos Tzivanakis
wiley   +1 more source

Price and Non‐price Terms of Syndicated Loans to Technology Firms

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether US technology firms receive different price and nonprice terms in the syndicated loan market compared to nontechnology firms. The analysis reveals that technology borrowers face significantly less favorable terms, including 12 basis points higher loan spreads, approximately 5%$\%$ shorter maturities, and loan sizes ...
Weiting Hu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reentrant superconductivity at an oxide heterointerface. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Adv
Maryenko D   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Contractual Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining. Italian Evidence From 40 Years of Data

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study documents the evolution of minimum wages bargained in Italian collective contracts over a 40‐year period (1983–2023). Real minimum wages have grown over the last three decades, particularly among high‐skilled occupations, but the 2022–2023 inflation crisis eroded this growth.
Bernardo Fanfani
wiley   +1 more source

Feedback and Contagion through Distressed Competition

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms tend to compete more aggressively when facing financial distress. This intensified competition reduces profit margins, pushing them further into distress and adversely affecting their industry peers. To study such feedback and contagion effects, we incorporate strategic competition in a dynamic model with long‐term defaultable debt ...
HUI CHEN   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of occlusal thickness and aging on the fracture load of additively manufactured definitive crowns in different resins

open access: yesJournal of Prosthodontics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose The purpose of this in vitro study was to assess the effects of occlusal thickness and thermomechanical aging on the fracture load of additively manufactured (AM) definitive crowns made from resins with different compositions, compared with crowns subtractively manufactured (SM) from a polymer‐infiltrated ceramic network. Materials and
Burak Yilmaz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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