One rôle of labour economics is to evaluate the impact of government initiatives, such as employment and education schemes, on economic indicators such as income, the purpose being to inform the introduction of future schemes and policy changes: Should more adult training programmes be funded? Should education be made compulsory until the age of 18? Evaluating the effect of such policies is far...

A prominent explanation of cooperation in repeated exchange is reciprocity (e.g. Axelrod 1984). However, empirical studies indicate that exchange partners are often much less intent on keeping the books balanced than Axelrod suggested. In particular, there is evidence for commitment behavior, indicating that people tend to build long-term cooperative relationships characterised by largely uncon...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) can be used for decentralized and self-organizing data processing in a distributed system, like a resource-constrained sensor network, enabling distributed information extraction, for example, based on pattern recognition and self-organization, by decomposing complex tasks in simpler cooperative agents. Reliable MAS-based data processing approaches can aid the material...

The mobility of people is at the center transportation planning and decision-making cities future. In order to accelerate transition zero-emissions maximize air quality benefits, smart are prioritizing walking, cycling, shared services public transport over use private cars. Extensive progress has been made in autonomous electric Autonomous Vehicles (AV) increasingly capable moving without full...

Development of self-adaptive systems situated in open and uncertain environments is a great challenge in the community of software engineering due to the unpredictability of environment changes and the variety of selfadaptation manners. Explicit specification of expected changes and various self-adaptations at design-time, an approach often adopted by developers, seems ineffective. This paper p...

statement of problem: hemostatic agents may affect the micro-leakage of different adhesive systems. also, chlorhexidine has shown positive effects on micro-leakage. however, their interaction effect has not been reported yet. objectives: to evaluate the effect of contamination with a hemostatic agent on micro- leakage of total- and self-etching adhesive systems and the effect of chlorhexidine a...