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Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests [PDF]
We study optimal contest design in situations where the designer can reward high performance agents with positive prizes and punish low performance agents with negative prizes.
Aner Sela, Benny Modovanu, Xianwen Shi
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, 2021 Within the context of literary prizes and due to the recent rise of social media, the knowledge of a limited number of professional ‘pundits’ is challenged by the ‘wisdom of the crowd’, with lay critics taking up the mantle of cultural mediators and ...
De Greve, LoreCA200001400273788020032690370000-0002-9463-9651A0A49550-2335-11E4-AC51-F1AAB4D1D7B1 +4 more
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Beverages, 2017 (1) Background: Pediatric obesity continues to be a major public health issue. Poor food selection in the school cafeteria is a risk factor. Chocolate or strawberry flavored milk is favored by the majority of elementary school students.
Megan Emerson +7 more
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Uremic Toxins From 1991 to 2024
Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Uremic toxins are a growing area of research in nephrology, with significant implications in the progression and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the management of end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD). This bibliometric analysis aims to evaluate the global research trends, key contributors, and the impact of publications in ...
Yuh‐Shan Ho +7 more
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Accelerating innovation with prize rewards: History and typology of technology prizes and a new contest design for innovation in African agriculture [PDF]
"This paper describes how governments and philanthropic donors could drive innovation through a new kind of technology contest. We begin by reviewing the history of technology prizes, which operate alongside private intellectual property rights and ...
Masters, William A., Delbecq, Benoit
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Romanian Literature in British Translation Prizes
Translation Studies: Theory and PracticeAs a component of a larger project on translation awards, this article examines the presence of literary works originally written in Romanian in recent iterations of four prominent British prizes for literary translation: the EBRD Literature Prize, the ...
Antony Hoyte-West
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BUILDING AN INCREASING CONTINUOUS UTILITY FUNCTION
Sakarya Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2008 The paper focuses on modern analytical techniques for construction of utility functions over prizes, where the preferences of the decision maker are strictly increasing.
Dimitar Y. Dimitrakiev
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye +33 more
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The Distribution of Prizes in a Match-Play Tournament with Single Eliminations [PDF]
This paper begins to study the reward-incentive structure in sequential knock-out or elimination tournaments with matched, pairwise comparisons among players at each stage.
Sherwin Rosen
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, 2016 The use of prizes to stimulate innovation in education has dramatically increased in recent years, but, to date, no organization has attempted to critically examine the impact these prizes have had on education.
Arora, P.A. (Payal)
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