Genetically modified (GM) salmon is the first animal GM product approved for human consumption. Given that genetic modification in food industry a highly controversial issue, understanding consumers’ preferences vis-à-vis non-GM farmed and wild-caught important to provide insights into policy decision makings on products. We use choice experiment estimate U.S. willingness pay examine heterogene...

Neural precursors of voluntary actions appear before subjects report having decided on their behavior, leading some to dismiss a causal role for consciousness in decision-making. But the voluntary actions studied are typically arbitrary – bearing no purpose, meaning or consequence. We used EEG to directly compare deliberate and arbitrary decisions in a donation-preference task. Two NPOs appeare...

We present an elementary algorithm for deciding bisimulation equivalence between arbitrary context-free processes. This improves on the state of the art algorithm of Christensen, H uttel and Stirling consisting of two semi-decision procedures running in parallel, which prohibits any complexity estimation. The point of our algorithm is the eeective construction of a nite relation characterizing ...

With China’s imminent entry into the World Trade Organization, the deregulation of the Japanese insurance market, and the liberalization of Indian insurance regulations, Asia is poised to become a major insurance magnet over the next decade. Foreign companies able to capitalize on the recent increased openness of the Asian markets stand to reap substantial profits. However, companies entering t...

Dynamic decision-making without commitment is usually modelled as a game between the current and future selves of the decision-maker. It has been observed that if the time-horizon is infinite, then such games may have multiple subgame-perfect equilibrium solutions. We show that such multiplicity arises in an open set of stochastic dynamic programming problems with minimal non-trivial stateand a...

Proactive information sharing is a challenging issue faced by intelligence agencies in effectively making critical decisions under time pressure in areas related to homeland security. Motivated by psychological studies on human teams , a team-oriented agent architecture -CAST (Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork), was implemented to allow agents in a team to anticipate the information ...

Background: When a fetus is diagnosed with facial deformities, most Chinese couples choose to terminate the pregnancy. However, these commonly regret their decision after termination of pregnancy, display heavier degree grief, and feelings persist for long time. The purpose this study was investigate factors that influence parental pregnancy decisions regarding fetuses non-syndromic orofacial c...

This article proposes a peer-to-peer transactive multiresource trading framework for multiple multienergy microgrids. In this framework, the interconnected microgrids not only fulfil demands of with local hybrid biogas-solar-wind renewables, but also proactively trade their available and communication resources each other delivering secured high quality services. The multimicrogrid is an intrac...