BACKGROUND If presentation of a stimulus (conditional stimulus, CS) reliably predicts delivery of a reward, the CS will come to evoke a conditional response (CR) through Pavlovian learning, and the CS may also acquire incentive motivational properties. Thus, CSs can have both predictive and incentive properties. We ask here whether it is possible to dissociate the predictive versus incentive pr...

With the development of knowledge economic, the internet of things collaborative innovation is becoming an important way of science and technology innovation, knowledge sharing which as an effective operation support activity is not play a very good role. So the study of knowledge sharing incentive mechanism has the necessity. This paper which based on the principal-agent theory, constructing t...

This paper estimates the determinants of incentive schemes. Using Australian data, we analyze a relatively large variety of incentive systems using both the new economics of personnel and the literature on strategic choice to generate hypotheses. We find that monitoring issues, job security, product market competition, and the industrial relations climate rank among the most crucial determinant...

In most application scenarios for Peer-to-Peer systems, in order to achieve an overall acceptable system performance an incentive scheme is required that motivates users to share as much as possible of their free resources Today most peers use connections of asymmetric links, such as A-DSL or cable modems. Therefore, users have significantly more download bandwidth than their available upload b...

In order to improve the efficiency and utility of mobile crowdsourcing systems, this paper proposes an incentive mechanism with privacy protection in mobile crowdsourcing systems. Combining the advantages of offline incentive mechanisms and online incentive mechanisms, this paper proposes an incentive mechanism that selects the worker candidates statically, and then dynamically selects winners ...

This paper reviews the significant progress in “agency theory” (i.e., the economic theory of incentives) during the 1990s, with a special focus on applications to supply transactions. I emphasize six recent models, in three pairs: (1) new foundations for the theory of incentive contracts, (2) new directions in incentive theory, and (3) new applications to supply transactions. By reviewing these...

Objective: To compare the diaphragmatic mobility of healthy subjects during incentive spirometry with a volumeoriented device, during incentive spirometry with a flow-oriented device, and during diaphragmatic breathing. To compare men and women in terms of diaphragmatic mobility during these three types of breathing exercises. Methods: We evaluated the pulmonary function and diaphragmatic mobil...