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Economics of land‐based carbon mitigation
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agricultural land holds tremendous potential to contribute to net zero greenhouse gas emission goals by providing low carbon renewable energy to displace fossil fuels and by serving as a sink for sequestering carbon in the soil with climate‐smart practices. This potential is, however, far from being realized.
Madhu Khanna
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Valuing environmental costs and benefits in an uncertain future
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2012 A central point of debate over environmental policies concerns how future costs and benefits should be assessed. The most commonly used method for assessing the value of future costs and benefits is economic discounting.
Fabien Medvecky
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A smooth model of decision making under ambiguity. [PDF]
We propose and axiomatize a new model of preferences that achieves a separation between ambiguity, identified as a characteristic of the decision maker's subjective information, and ambiguity attitude, a characteristic of the decision maker's tastes ...
Massimo Marinacci +2 more
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Since 1997 the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed) has offered medical exams to construction workers employed in US nuclear weapons facilities. The process consists of two steps: (1) a detailed work history interview; and (2) a medical exam.
Knut Ringen +11 more
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Risk Aversion and International Environmental Agreements [PDF]
We introduce uncertainty and risk aversion to the study of international environmental agreements. We consider a simple model with identical agents and linear payoffs. We show that a stable treaty with positive action always exists.
Vincent Boucher, Yann Bramoullé
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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 254-263, March 2025.Abstract The recent coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) forced pre‐university professionals to modify the educational system. This work aimed to determine the effects of pandemic situation on students' access to medical studies by comparing the performance of medical students.
José Manuel García +9 more
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Neural correlates of decision-making under ambiguity and conflict
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 Studies of decision making under uncertainty generally focus on imprecise information about outcome probabilities (ambiguity). It is not clear, however, whether conflicting information about outcome probabilities affects decision making in the same ...
Helen ePushkarskaya +4 more
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What do asset prices have to say about risk appetite and uncertainty? [PDF]
Implied volatility indices should have information about risk parameters, once they are cleansed of the influence of normal volatility dynamics and macro-economic uncertainty.
Bekaert, Geert +2 more
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Irrigation, risk aversion, and water right priority under water supply uncertainty
Water Resources Research, 2017 This paper explores the impacts of a water right's allocative priority—as an indicator of farmers' risk‐bearing ability—on land irrigation under water supply uncertainty.
Man Li, Wenchao Xu, M. Rosegrant
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims To assess the utility of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT (openly available version 3.5) in responding to real‐world pharmacotherapeutic queries from healthcare professionals. Methods Three independent and blinded evaluators with different levels of medical expertise and professional experience (beginner, advanced, and expert ...
Benjamin Krichevsky +9 more
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