Trustful and trustworthy behaviors have important externalities for the society. But what exactly drives people to behave in a trustful and trustworthy manner? Building on research suggesting that individuals' social preferences might be a common factor informing both behaviors, we study the impact of a set of different motives on individuals' choices in a dual-role Trust Game (TG). We employ d...

Should a rm favor a weaker or stronger employee in a contest? Despite a widespread emphasis on rewarding the best employees, managers continue to tolerate and even favor poor performers. Contest theory reveals that evenly matched contests are the most intense, which implies that a contest designer can maximize each player's e ort by arti cially boosting the underdog's chances. We apply this typ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Ten years after the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) mandate that residency programs evaluate learners' competency, research is needed to guide efforts to meet this challenge. During an innovative residency redesign, the authors developed a process to effectively measure "competence." This particular family medicine residency admits six re...

COVID-19 pandemic has placed a heavy burden on healthcare systems and governments. Health literacy health behaviors are recognized as strategic public elements, but they have not received due attention during the pandemic. vital in slowing controlling outbreak. The purpose of this research is to examine level individuals COVID 19 epidemic. sample study consists between ages 18-65 living Ankara....

one of the ways to manage human resources is performance management. with a systematic approach, this sort of management determines strategic goals, identifies indexes, collects, analyzes and reports data and ultimately improves the organization performance. performance management is a process that calls for the interaction of factors such as administrative goals, accountability standards and e...

in this paper, the concept of conjectural variation (cv) is used to specify optimal generation decision for generation companies (gencos). the conjecture of genco is defined as its belief or expectation about the reaction of rivals to change of its output. using cv method, each genco has to learn and estimate strategic behaviors of other competitors from available historical market operation da...

The purpose of this study is to seek identify the role strategic sufficiency in promoting pro-environmental behaviors workplace and suggest new Al-Haelah aimed at practicing these for enormous company under study, heading towards paths achieve all levels. included qualitative analysis data related Company Karbala Governorate sample 110 individuals working company. sought test several hypotheses...

The capacity and motivation to be social is a key component of the human adaptive behavioral repertoire. Recent research has identified social behaviors remarkably similar to our own in other animals, including empathy, consolation, cooperation, and strategic deception. Moreover, neurobiological studies in humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents have identified shared brain structures (the so-ca...

Robotic soccer is a new challenging multi-agentdomain, in which agents need to collaborate in an adversarial environment to achieve specific objectives. In this paper, we describe CMUnited-97, our team of robotic agents that we developed to enter the RoboCup-97 competition. We first discuss the challenges underlying the robotic soccer domain as a multi-agent system. We then introduce our team a...