Problem, research strategy, and findings Responsibility for affordable housing delivery is increasingly being delivered through collaborations between private, nonprofit, state actors operationalized voluntary negotiations. Negotiation theory provides a lens understanding why outcomes are often limited by highlighting the impact of stakeholder interests, potential mutual gains, trust negotiatin...

the study comparatively identified the benefits of mobile telephone to users in selected rural and urban locations in obio/akpor local government area of rivers state, nigeria. stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting 60 rural and 60 urban phone users to have a total sample size of 120 respondents. structured questionnaire was used to generate data that were analy...

This paper develops a payoff equivalence theorem for mechanisms with ambiguity averse participants with preferences of the Maxmin Expected Utility (MEU) form (Gilboa and Schmeidler [8]). We use our payoff equivalence result to explicitly characterize the revenue maximizing private value auction mechanism for agents with arbitrary forms of ambiguous beliefs. We also show that the revenue ranking...

MANAGING AMBIGUITY: NURSES CARING FOR THE MOTHER OF A STILLBORN BABY

The article deals with the problems of political and economic processes in Kazakhstan since independence in the context of globalization. It analyzes the geopolitical situation and selfpositioning processes in the world after the end of the "cold war". It examines the problems of internal economization of the Republic for 20 years of independence. The authors argue that the reforms proceeded in...

What’s it take to interpret a physical theory? The question is ambiguous. In one sense it asks what it takes to be an interpretation of a physical theory; that is, what qualifies an intellectual offering as an interpretation of a theory. In another sense, it asks what it takes to construct an interpretation of a physical theory; that is, what resources are fair game for articulating an offering...

All 95 undergraduates in this study decided if letter strings formed real words or not. Word meaning (ambiguous, unambiguous words) was manipulated within subjects while stimulus proportion (proportion of ambiguous and unambiguous words) was manipulated between subjects. These factors interacted, suggesting that strategic factors influence word recognition. These results support the view that w...