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Ontology and Information Systems
, 2020 . The term 'formal ontology' was first used by the philosopher Edmund Husserl in his Logical investigations to signify the study of those formal structures and relations -above all relations of part and whole -which are exemplified in the ...
Barry Smith
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Culture on the Rise: How and Why Cultural Membership Promotes Democratic Politics [PDF]
, 2020 Selectively using Tocqueville, many social scientists suggest that civic participation increases democracy. We go beyond this neo-Tocquevillian model in three ways.
S Cabaço +8 more
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Evidence Gathering Under Competitive and Noncompetitive Rewards
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reward schemes may affect not only agents' effort but also their incentives to gather information in order to reduce the riskiness of the productive activity. In a laboratory experiment using a novel task, we find that the relationship between incentives and evidence gathering depends critically on the availability of information about peers ...
Philip Brookins +2 more
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Behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, and climate change policy: baseline review for the garrison institute initiative on climate change [PDF]
In spite of the increasing scientific certainty that the earth's climate is warming and that human activity is partially responsible, public willingness to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions seems to be decreasing.
John M. Gowdy
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.This review examines salt glands in exo‐recretohalophytes, in which epidermal stem cells differentiate into unicellular, bicellular, or multicellular salt glands. Salt ions are transported to the leaves via the transpiration stream and enter salt glands through symplastic and apoplastic pathways. Finally, salt glands actively secrete salt ions from the
Limin Wang +11 more
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The effect of evidential impact on perceptual probabilistic reasoning [PDF]
, 2019 For decades, works in psychology of thinking and decision making have been reporting suboptimal performance and systematic departures from the axioms of probability theory in people’s probability judgments.
Mangiarulo, Marta
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Mixing It Up: Inflation at Risk
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract Understanding how risk factors shape the economic outlook is essential for guiding policy decisions. This paper develops a flexible framework that decomposes distributional risk forecasts of macro‐economic variables into underlying contributions and supports the construction of interpretable risk measures.
MAXIMILIAN SCHRÖDER
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Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison +4 more
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, 2008 Models are of central importance in many scientific contexts. The centrality of models such as the billiard ball model of a gas, the Bohr model of the atom, the MIT bag model of the nucleon, the Gaussian-chain model of a polymer, the Lorenz model of the ...
Roman Frigg, Stephan Hartmann
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Driven by risk: Understanding reference‐dependent preferences using simulated auto racing
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract Using data from over 56,000 simulated auto races worldwide, we analyze risk‐taking at the margins, consistent with reference‐dependent preferences. We show that participants' risk‐taking changes when a desired intermittent outcome is presented, sometimes at the expense of a more favorable expected end state.
James Hilliard +2 more
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