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Motivation and volition in economic decisions [PDF]
, 2020 People face economic decisions on a daily basis. Quite often, these decisions involve high stakes and some degree of personal risk, as choices produce real consequences that set the course for future actions.
Ludwig, Jonas
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva +2 more
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The Neuropsychology of Conscious Volition
, 2017 The modern neuropsychology of conscious volition, beginning in the latter half of the twentieth century, has begun to tell a very different story -- one in which the processes in the brain that are responsible for initiating actions and the conscious ...
Schurger, Aaron
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Circulating nucleosomes as new blood-based biomarkers for detection of colorectal cancer
Clinical Epigenetics, 2017 Background Colonoscopy is currently widely accepted as the gold standard for detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) providing detection of up to 95% of pre-cancerous lesions during the procedure.
Jean-François Rahier +12 more
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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele +1 more
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This study aims to test the mediating roles of career adaptability and work-related basic need satisfaction in the relationship between employees’ work volition and subjective well-being. For this purpose, causal design was used as a research model.
Ahmet KARA
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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
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F1000ResearchBackground One of the disadvantages of the multilayer perception (MLP), which is a machine learning (ML) algorithm used in various fields, includes the uncontrollable growth of the number of total parameters, which may make MLP redundant in such high ...
Tlhalitshi Volition Montshiwa +1 more
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Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional, 2017 The objective of the present study is to describe the environment impact over the volition expression of elderly people with low to moderate dementia, who participate on a music workshop in a Nursing Home. A qualitative-descriptive type investigation was
Paola Manghi S., Josefina Carvallo V.
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