Awards and Contests [Chapter News]

News, awards and prizes

Several researchers from the Hearing Systems group have been granted a Student Travel Award to attend the 2017 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP) which took place at Granlibakken conference center, Lake Tahoe California, on July 14-19. The Student Travel Award covered stay and board at the conference center for the researchers. The Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses...

News, awards and prizes

In a new study published in Cerebral Cortex, Senior Researcher Jens Hjortkjær together with colleagues from the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR) demonstrated a method to decode listeners’ brain activity patterns to determine what sound source a person is listening to. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record neural activity while participa...

Agenda Chasing and Contests Among News Providers

We model competition among news providers as a contest where each firm chooses to publish on a topic from a large pool of topics with different prior success probabilities. If a topic is successful, firms that chose to publish on it share a fixed reward. We explore how increased competition (as measured by the number of firms and/or the share-structure of the reward) and the prior distribution ...

Chapter 3 Mathematical Models of Group or Multi - Party Contests

Book Chapter in Encyclopedia of Global Studies, Edited Prizes and Awards, International

Awards such as orders, medals and decorations are a global phenomenon; they exist everywhere in society and in all times. They serve as signals to generally indicate socially desired behavior as well as motivators for individual persons. Awards in the form of orders, crosses, decorations, prizes, and titles, are non-material, but extrinsic incentives. The realm of awards is quite vague. The sem...