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Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry? [PDF]
Risk reduction and transaction costs are often used to explain contracting in the U.S. hog industry with little empirical support. Using a unified conceptual framework that draws from risk behavior and transaction cost theories, in combination with ...
Jason R.V. Franken +2 more
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Arthropods as the Engine of Nutrient Cycling in Arid Ecosystems
Nutrient dynamics in most terrestrial ecosystems are regulated by moisture-dependent processes. In drylands, nutrient dynamics are often weakly associated with annual precipitation, suggesting that other factors are involved.
Nevo Sagi, Dror Hawlena
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Financial, business and trust cycles: the issues of synchronization [PDF]
Starting from 1920, the growing body of research has been focused on the role of psychological factors in cycle theories. Mainstream macroeconomic models are insufficient for exploring interaction among economic agents, financial institutions, and the ...
Yuriy Bilan +3 more
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The intelligent construction of coal mine driven by scientific and technological innovation is one of the main trends in the current development of coal mining industry in China.
YAN Yong, LI Jizu
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Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with excessive pleasure-seeking risk-taking behaviors that often characterize its clinical presentation. However, the mechanisms of risk-taking behavior are not well-understood in BD.
Carly A. Lasagna +5 more
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Health information-seeking behavior is the process of gathering information about health and disease and can be influential for health-related perception and behavior.
Markus Schäfer +12 more
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Risk behavior in adolescence [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: The present article reviews the methods and criteria used to assess risk behavior in adolescents. METHODS: Non-systematic review of scientific literature, as well as the assessment of the clinical and research experience accumulated by the Adolescent Outpatient Clinic of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. RESULTS: Physicians can apply
R B, Feijó, E A, Oliveira
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Background: Although risky behaviors such as educational problems and tobacco use tend to co-occur, these associations may vary across diverse ethnic groups, in part because ethnic minorities tend to reside in worse neighborhoods and tend to attend worse
Edward Adinkrah +3 more
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To punish first and reward second: Values determine how reward and punishment affect risk-taking behavior [PDF]
The current study investigated whether manipulating participants’ pre-exposure to reward and punishment affects the extent to which sensation seeking and values predict risk-taking behavior.
Athota, V Sagar +2 more
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Background: Deficient decision-making (DM) in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is marked by altered reward sensitivity, higher risk taking, and aberrant reinforcement learning.
Marcel Schulze +5 more
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