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THE NECESSITY OF SPECIAL DISCOUNTING TREATMENT FOR NATURE TO ASSESS THE FLOW OF INVESTMENTS
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2010 The purpose of the paper is to justify special natural discount rates in the efficiency assessment of conservation activities. Nowadays, the social rate of discounting suggested by D. Pearce is often used.
Alexey Kotko
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The Worst-Case Scenario and Discounting the Very Long Term [PDF]
We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting.
El Hadji Fall
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop +3 more
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Social discounting task–person #1.
, 2018 Social discounting task–person #1.
Alistair Munro (5109029) +4 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Osteohistological sampling on different bones of theropod dinosaur documents discrepant age record, growth, and metabolism. This could result unprecise paleobiological inferences if samplings are based on single bones. However, multi‐bone sampling can attenuate these discrepancies, helping to infer growth dynamics and physiology of these extinct ...
Geovane Alves de Souza +3 more
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There is a growing literature considering deviations from standard constant discounting. In this paper we combine time-inconsistent (non-constant discounting) preferences with recursive utilities.
Jesus Marin-Solano, Concepcio Patxot
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Context‐centric proactive information delivery (PID) is a relatively underexplored domain within recommender systems (RS) aimed at enhancing Knowledge Workers' productivity by proactively providing relevant information during digital tasks.
Mahta Bakhshizadeh +4 more
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Discounting and Relative Consumption [PDF]
This paper analyzes optimal social discount rates where people derive utility from relative consumption. We identify and compare three separate discount rates -- the social rate (taking positional externalities into account), the private rate, and the ...
Sterner, Thomas, Johansson-Stenman, Olof
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The promises and perils about scientific team diversity are still debated in the scholarly literature, partly because the importance of underrepresented groups is not fully recognized or valued. In this paper, we summarize two perspectives on team diversity in science: horizontal differences and vertical disparity. Horizontal differences refer
Huimin Xu +8 more
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Bivalent Fears of Evaluation in Social Anxiety: Evaluation of an Extended Psychoevolutionary Model
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and EducationFears of negative evaluation (FNEs) and fears of positive evaluation (FPEs) comprise a bivalent model of evaluation that can explain the aetiology and maintenance of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD).
Glen W. Bates +2 more
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