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A Fuzzy Utility-Based Multi-Criteria Model for Evaluating Households’ Energy Conservation Performance: A Taiwanese Case Study

open access: yesEnergies, 2012
Industry and economy are developed to satisfy the needs and material desires of people. In addition to making high greenhouse gas emissions the responsibility of industry, individuals and families should also be held responsible for the production of ...
Sung-Lin Hsueh
doaj   +1 more source

Measures of obligation

open access: yesCogent Business & Management, 2022
Principled capitalism has been proposed as a replacement for liberal capitalism. Moral principles should be driving our individual and collective decisions rather than utility and profit. A new unit called an oblig is suggested as a measure of the amount
David Blockley
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Behavioural Artificial Intelligence to Record, Assess and Evaluate Human Behaviour

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2018
The context of the work presented in this article is the assessment and automated evaluation of human behaviour. To facilitate this, a formalism is presented which is unambiguous as well as such that it can be implemented and interpreted in an automated ...
Hanno Hildmann
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Quantum decision making by social agents

open access: yes, 2015
The influence of additional information on the decision making of agents, who are interacting members of a society, is analyzed within the mathematical framework based on the use of quantum probabilities.
Aerts D.   +32 more
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context

open access: yesPeople and Nature
Pathways to sustainability require a broader and fuller representation of the multiple values of nature in policy and practice. In this People and Nature special feature entitled ‘The Multiple Values of Nature’, researchers interpreted all three key ...
Kai M. A. Chan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal Payoffs under State-dependent Preferences

open access: yes, 2014
Most decision theories, including expected utility theory, rank dependent utility theory and cumulative prospect theory, assume that investors are only interested in the distribution of returns and not in the states of the economy in which income is ...
Bernard, Carole   +3 more
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Prospect Theory Goes to War: Loss-Aversion and the Duration of Military Combat [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This paper contributes to the empirical foundation of prospect theory in real-life international relations by testing two of its major implications in the field of military conflict. Using duration analysis for a data set of twentieth century battles, it
Bauer, Thomas, Rotte, Ralph
core   +2 more sources

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