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A Bertrand model with Brownian motion and behavioral errors. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Gao B, Gao X, He S.
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The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad, Dominik Naeher, Sebastian Vollmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Requiem of Olympic ethics and sports' independence: A panel-data socio-cultural analysis. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zagonari F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Population Viability Analysis to Inform Reintroduction Decisions for a Group‐Living Primate, the Barbary Macaque

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
We developed a population viability analysis to inform reintroduction strategies for the endangered Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), incorporating age‐specific vital rates, release costs on survival and reproduction, environmental and demographic stochasticity, and catastrophic events.
Elisa Neves, Sarah Le Berre, Sidi Imad Cherkaoui, Jasper Iepema, Zouhair Amhaouch, Brahim Ismaili, Latifa Sikli, Nelly Ménard, Pascaline Le Gouar   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The executive function-related learning and practicing activity analysis tool (EFRLPAAT): development of an observation system for assessing the effectiveness of physical education practice. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Shi P, Feng X, Wei B.
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons, Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, Nathalie Lavoie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralized resource allocation in UAV communication networks through reward based multi agent learning. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Shoaib M, Husnain G, Khan M, Ghadi YY, Lim S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Food without fire: Environmental and nutritional impacts from a solar stove field experiment

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Over 80% of the population in rural Sub‐Saharan Africa relies on biomass cooking fuel, a substantial source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. We use a field experiment in Zambia to investigate the impact of solar stoves on biomass fuel use and cooking habits.
Laura E. McCann, Jeffrey D. Michler, Maybin Mwangala, Osaretin Olurotimi, Natalia Estrada Carmona   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stopper vs. Singular Controller Games With Degenerate Diffusions. [PDF]

Appl Math Optim
Bovo A, De Angelis T, Palczewski J.
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Brook no compromise: How to negotiate a united front

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Negotiating factional conflict is crucial to successful coordination: Political parties, rebel alliances, and authoritarian elites must all overcome internal disagreements to survive and achieve collective aims. Actors in these situations sometimes employ hardball tactics to block outcomes they dislike, but at the risk of causing coordination ...
Elaine Yao
wiley   +1 more source