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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

The Q-Exponential Decay of Subjective Probability for Future Reward: A Psychophysical Time Approach

Entropy, 2014
This study experimentally examined why subjective probability for delayed reward decays non-exponentially (“hyperbolically”, i.e., q ˂ 1 in the q-exponential discount function) in humans.
Taiki Takahashi, Shinsuke Tokuda, Masato Nishimura, Ryo Kimura   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Subjective expected utility without preferences [PDF]

This paper proposes a theory of subjective expected utility based on primitives only involving the fact that an act can be judged either "attractive" or "unattractive".
Denis Bouyssou, Thierry Marchant
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Blood‐Based Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease: Advances in Detection Technologies and Clinical Applications

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Blood‐based biomarkers are emerging as accessible tools for Alzheimer's disease screening, diagnosis, risk stratification, and longitudinal monitoring. This review summarizes major biomarkers, including Aβ42/Aβ40, phosphorylated tau species, NfL, GFAP, genetic risk markers, and exploratory inflammatory, synaptic, and proteomic candidates.
Shuangshuang Li, Lin Huang, Qihao Guo
wiley   +1 more source

Living without state-independence of utilities [PDF]

This paper is concerned with the representation of preferences which do not satisfy the ordinary axioms for state-independent utilities.Elicitation; Subjective Probability; Subjective Expected Utility; Statedependent utility; Small ...
Hill, Brian
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The Objective-Subjective Dichotomy and its Use in Describing Probability [PDF]

, 2017
This article deals with the nature of the objective-subjective dichotomy, first from a general historical point of view, and then with regard to the use of these terms over time to describe theories of probability.
Baise, Arnold
core   +1 more source

Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is There a Market for Organic Milk in Serbia? Insights From Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Model

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past growth in the global organic market has been concentrated in high‐income countries, while in middle‐income countries such as Serbia the organic market remains nascent and characterized by a sparse assortment of organic products, high retail premia and limited evidence on consumer preferences and their drivers.
Milan Tatic, Sanja Dzever, Bojan Matkovski, Danilo Djokic   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever, Marius Michels, Oliver Musshoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index Predicts Short‐ and Long‐Term Outcomes in the Oldest‐Old With Colorectal Cancer: A Multi‐Institutional Analysis of 225 Nonagenarians

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This multi‐institutional study evaluated the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) in 225 nonagenarians undergoing surgical resection for colorectal cancer. A lower preoperative GNRI was independently associated with a longer hospital stay and poorer overall survival, even after adjustment for confounders using inverse‐probability‐of‐treatment ...
Toshiaki Toshima, Fuminori Teraishi, Satoe Takanaga, Toshiharu Mitsuhashi, Ryo Inada, Tsuyoshi Ohtani, Ryosuke Yoshida, Naoto Hori, Kaoru Shigemitsu, Sumiharu Yamamoto, Tetsushi Kubota, Yuka Okano, Tetsuji Nobuhisa, Fumitaka Taniguchi, Wataru Ishikawa, Ryohei Shoji, Tatsuo Matsuda, Tatsuo Umeoka, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara, The Setouchi Colorectal Neoplasm Registration Study Group Collaborators   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source