Although the concept of utility is fundamental to many economic theories, up to now a generally accepted method determining a subject's utility function is not available. We investigated two methods that are used in economic sciences for describing utility functions by using response-locked event-related potentials in order to assess their neural underpinnings. For determining the certainty equ...

Farming intensity and landscape heterogeneity influence agrobiodiversity associated ecological functions. The relative contributions of these agroecosystem components to agricultural production remain unclear because inter-relations weather-dependant variations. Using a structural equation modelling approach, we estimated direct indirect farming (soil management, pesticide use fertilisation) (o...

An accurate estimation of the mean annual sediment yield from basins contributes to optimizing water resources planning and management. More specifically, both reservoir sedimentation damage caused infrastructures fall within its field application. Through a simple probabilistic combination function implemented in hydrometeorological models, this can be estimated on management scale for ungauge...