As many researchers mentioned, in addition to players’ different strategy preferences, the expectation towards other players’ behavior will jointly affect the coordination level in the weakest-link game. Then how to analyze those factors? To some extent, those factors can be depicted by players’ choices in the first round. With the data from several lab experiments, the strategy preferences dis...

This paper argues that barriers affect both the beginning date and the subsequent pace of modern growth, and taking into account this fact enriches our knowledge of cross-country income differences. The model matches the observed inverted U-shape of cross-country income differences, which implies that a substantial fraction of current income differences is transitional. Hence, the model require...

We present a scenario where brane inflation arises more generically. We start with D3 and anti-D3-branes at the infrared ends of two different throats. This setup is a natural consequence of the assumption that in the beginning we have a multi-throat string compactification with many wandering anti-D3branes. A long period of inflation is triggered when D3-branes slowly exit the highly warped in...

The purpose of this study is to test for the presence of order-effect bias in journal ranking surveys. Data were obtained from 379 active knowledge management and intellectual capital researchers who rated 25 journals on a 7-point scale. Five different versions of the survey instrument were utilized. Consistent with the cognitive elaboration model, the satisficing theory, and the Gricean maxim ...

There are N+1 players: N bidders and a seller. The stage game is the following: in the beginning of each period the seller announces an auction mechanism (set of rules) for that period, i.e. the set of bids B and functions of submitted bids Pi(b) and Ti(b) that determine the probability of player i obtaining the object and the payment of player i. Then the bidders learn their private signals vi...

The Adomian’s decomposition method (ADM) is a solution method with a wide range of applications including the solution of algebraic, differential, integral and integro-differential equations or system of equations. This method was first introduced by Adomian [1, 2] in the beginning of the 1980’s. In this method the solution is considered as an rapidly converging, infinite series. The convergenc...

1 Introduction. In this paper, two players alternate removing a positive number of counters from one of n piles of counters, and the choice of which pile he removes from can change on each move. On his initial move, the player moving first can remove from one pile of his choice at most t counters. On each subsequent move, a player can remove from one pile of his choice at most f (x) counters, w...

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) can significantly affect an individual's quality of life, the health care system, and even society. The first decade of the new millennium has seen renewed interest in this condition, but etiological understanding and evidence-based treatment availability remain limited. After the diagnosis of PNES is established, the first therapeutic step includes a pr...