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Brain Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neurological disorders represent a critical domain within global health, necessitating advanced interventions to address complex pathologies such as tumors, functional disorders, and cerebrovascular diseases. Despite the proven benefits of early intervention, current treatment paradigms face significant challenges: (1) limited precision in ...
Qing Ye +14 more
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Socially Optimal Liability Rules for Firms with Natural Monopoly [PDF]
It has been shown by Polinsky and Shavell that the strict liability rule is socially superior to the negligence liability rule when firms are injurers, strangers are victims, and accidents have a unilateral nature if prefect competition among firms ...
Atsushi Tsuneki
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Carpooling Liability?: Applying Tort Law Principles to the Joint Emergence of Self-Driving Automobiles and Transportation Network Companies [PDF]
, 2017 Self-driving automobiles have emerged as the future of vehicular travel, but this innovation is not developing in isolation. Simultaneously, the popularity of transportation network companies functioning as ride-hailing and ride-sharing services have ...
Walpert, Jacob D.
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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Products Liability, Consumer Misperceptions, and Market Power [PDF]
This paper compares alternative liability rules for allocating losses from defective products when consumers under- estimate these losses and producers may have some market power.
A. Mitchell Polinsky +1 more
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Strict liability for building works [PDF]
, 1997 Two recent cases highlight the tendency of the courts locally to impose strict liability for offences in relation to building works. This article by J.A.
McInnis, JA
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms' continuous pursuit of making a profit in the competitive market may ignore the actions related to environmental responsibilities. This set of actions for financial gains constitutes environmental misconduct, which not only harms ecosystems and communities but also brings reputational damage. Negative press and social media amplification
Ashutosh Singh +3 more
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Investor Perception of ESG in Earnings Calls
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the communicator's role and the framing of ESG statements affect investor capital allocation in the context of earnings calls. Based on a virtual asset market experiment, the analysis identifies that the assurance and reinforcement of ESG messages have a positive effect of up to 8% on capital allocation, with especially
Felix Bachner
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Nash Implementable Liability Rules for Judgement-Proof Injurers [PDF]
I provide a complete characterization of Nash implementable allocations of spending in prevention by judgement-proof injurers. This characterization is used to identify the optimal rule that allows for the maximum total spending in prevention.
Gonz�lez, Patrick
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An Examination of Strict Criminal Liability Under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938: Is It Time For Change? [PDF]
, 2012 Food and drug violations have been largely governed by a strict liability standard since the nineteenth century. Use of this standard in connection with criminal sanctions has generally been defended on the grounds that the health and welfare of the ...
Holt, Breena L.
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