Lewis One is a qualitative space biosphere design. It is intended to house 10,000 residents in a cylinder large enough for a 1g rotating habitat module and construction facilities to reproduce the module. The shielding, exterior, and construction bays are non-rotating. Lewis One is compared to the Bernal Sphere space colony designed in the 1970’s. Lewis One is visualized using state of the art ...

The social value orientation (SVO) has a profound effect on the strategic decision making in economic choices and ability to succeed coordination games. With that mind, this study we wanted examine an electrophysiological measure elicited different resource allocation problems affect preferences of player. We recorded EEG from participants while they were engaged varying magnitude reward differ...

What makes virgin forests better forests? Biodiversity evaluation depends on the value systems of the stakeholders involved. Indicators for conservation value, ecosystem functions, wilderness, uniqueness, or species richness may not correlate, or even correlate negatively. Based on arthropod data from a comparative study in two types of virgin forests in core areas of the Carpathian Biosphere R...

Most of the safety, performance, or radiological impact assessments concerning either actual or potential releases, when they comprise biosphere calculations, use parameters such as transfer or accumulation factors requiring their associated values. One international example is the IAEA SRS No. 19 (2001) on the assessment of routine releases. If future assessment purposes are currently consider...

Economic factors such as audit rates and fines have shown inconsistent effects on tax payments, suggesting that they are not sufficient to explain tax compliance. Moreover, the tax compliance rate is surprisingly higher than what the standard economic model would predict. In the last fifteen years, literature aimed at solving this so called ‘‘puzzle of compliance’’ has increased and pointed out...

The central purpose of the present research is to examine the ability of social value orientation (i.e., prosocial, individualistic, and competitive orientation), as measured with methods rooted in game theory (i.e., decomposed games), to predict real-life prosocial behavior. Consistent with hypotheses, results revealed that individual differences in social value orientation are predictive of v...