It is widely argued that farmers are unwilling to pay adequate fees for surface water irrigation to recover the costs associated with maintenance and improvement of delivery systems. In this paper, we use a discrete choice experiment to study farmer preferences for irrigation characteristics along two branch canals in Punjab Province in eastern Pakistan. We find that farmers are generally willi...

Coordination to some equilibrium point is an interesting problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning. In common interest single stage settings this problem has been studied profoundly and efficient solution techniques have been found. Also for particular multi-stage games some experiments show good results. However, for a large scale of problems the agents do not share a common pay-off functi...

With the development of high speed computer networks, video service on the Web has huge market potential in that the video service can be provided to subscribers with greater time and schedule flexibility compared to the current cable TV system. Under the pay-perview (PPV) scheme, subscribers only need to pay for the programs that they have watched. A critical issue on PPV service is the capabi...

The debate of fair treatment and justice originates from the notion of social justice. Even though fair treatment may be implemented in the organizations, the employees may perceive that they are not being treated fairly by their employers. This paper analyzes the effects of perceptions of distributive and procedural justice on commitment, among the employees of Water and Power Development Auth...

My term came at the time of the New York World Fair. The Association, still of MT as well as CL, was trying to crash the club that shared profits from the annual meetings of AFIFS. These were producing something over $20,000, a sum which in those days would do more than pay a fraction of one's annual overhead on an NSF grant. ACM of course was grabbing the bulk of this, but ÁEEE wasn't doing ba...

in this study , samples of farm shrimp species paeneus indicus obtained from different stages of hatchery and rearing period and subsequent marketing , water and sediments of rearing farms and marine shrimp species paeneus semisulcatus , were analysed for vibrio spp . according to the methods described by american public health association . the identified vibrio species , were vibrio alginolyt...

The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes about human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer, and the acceptability of HPV vaccine among students, parents and teachers in secondary schools in Bangkok, Thailand. We conducted a school-based cross-sectional study at four public secondary schools in Bangkok. A total of 644 students aged 12-15 years, 664 parents and 304 ...

Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for...

Implementation of a fair compensation policy for employees in a large organisation necessitates the categorisation of all employees into pay bands or levels. The authors conducted a qualitative multiple-case study of various operating units within the same organisation employing multiple sources of evidence to determine an optimal way of recognising and rewarding the career growth of project ma...