Much of the interest in the study of sports from the perspective of an economist lies in the empirical application of contests as efficient mechanisms for eliciting effort. Contestants respond to contest incentives, and these incentives include the incentive to cheat. This paper discusses different forms of cheating: sabotage, doping, and match fixing. The paper discusses how these forms of che...

This exploratory study used the theory of reasoned action and the theory of gender and power to guide elicitation of partner-related impediments to condom use among 64 adolescent girls living in poor urban areas with high rates of HIV and partner abuse. About 53% indicated that they had experienced unwanted, unprotected vaginal sex and 25% indicated that they were unable to discuss condom use w...

The task force was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, with the NRC as its chair, to evaluate and provide recommendations on the security of radiation sources in the United States from potential criminal or terrorist threats, including acts of sabotage, theft or use in a “dirty bomb.” The task force consists of representatives from NRC; the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, E...

DDoS attacks have major impact on the affected networks viz. packet transmission delays, network outage, website sabotage, financial losses, legitimate-user blockage and reputation damage. Existing DDoS detection techniques are either implemented at the victim node (but the damage is already done) or at many intermediate routers which run DDoS detection algorithms, that adds additional delay an...

A model of dynamic networks is introduced which incorporates three kinds of network changes: deletion of nodes (by faults or sabotage), restoration of nodes (by actions of “repair”), and creation of nodes (by actions that extend the network). The antagonism between the operations of deletion and restoration resp. creation is modelled by a game between the two agents “Destructor” and “Constructo...

As machines become more intelligent, more flexible, more autonomous and more powerful, the questions of how they should choose their actions and what goals they should pursue become critically important. Drawing upon the examples of and lessons learned from humans and lesser creatures, we propose a hierarchical motivational system flowing from an abstract invariant super-goal that is optimal fo...

Tournaments provide incentives through the prize spread. Agents are predicted to work harder for higher prize spreads, and thus principals are predicted to maximize the spread. This paper shows experimentally how changing institutional environments affect the way that principals structure tournament incentives, and the degree of wage compression. While in some settings tournaments provide power...

The Aim of the Research. To identify a group highly toxic chemicals which over past decades are most often used in deliberate criminal and suicidal incidents, sabotage, terrorist act; handling, storage, use disposal must be especially carefully monitored by law enforcement agencies. In this part article arsenic compounds cyanide considered. Materials Methods. An analytical review scientific pub...