Punishing factors and Chua's conjecture

Punishing Collective Entities

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Punishing and abstaining for public goods.

The evolution of cooperation within sizable groups of nonrelated humans offers many challenges for our understanding. Current research has highlighted two factors boosting cooperation in public goods interactions, namely, costly punishment of defectors and the option to abstain from the joint enterprise. A recent modeling approach has suggested that the autarkic option acts as a catalyzer for t...

Punishing greediness in Divide-the-dollar games

Brams and Taylor (1994) presented a version of the Divide-the-dollar game (DD), which they call DD1. DD1 suffers from the following drawback: when each player demands approximately the entire dollar, then if the least greedy player is unique, then this player obtains approximately the entire dollar even if he is only slightly less greedy than the other players. I introduce a parametrized family...

Ethnology of the Chuas of Shawdowla Temple, Goojrat, Punjab

processes are remarkably developed, and ridge upwards and forward*, overhanging the Sella Turcica. It is noteworthy that abnormal development of the cranium may take place by? (<;.) Unequal progress of ossification from centres, any one encroaching on any second normal area. (?'>.) By premature ossification of bilateral, or adjacent bones, causing a blending and limiting expansive power. (c.) B...