Recent practise has revealed that conservation interventions that seek to achieve multiple benefits generally face significant, if under-recognized trade-offs. REDD+ policies present prospective win–win solutions for climate change mitigation, rural development and biodiversity conservation. Notably, protecting, enhancing and restoring forests for their carbon sequestration services has the pot...

A class of binary decision-making tasks called the two-alternative forced-choice task has been used extensively in psychology and behavioral economics experiments to investigate human decision making. The human subject makes a choice between two options at regular time intervals and receives a reward after each choice; for a variety of reward structures, these experiments showconvergence of the...

Lewis-Skyrms signaling games (Lewis 1969; Skyrms 2010) have been studied under a variety of low-rationality learning dynamics (Barrett 2006; Barrett and Zollman 2009; Huttegger, Skyrms, Smead, and Zollman 2010; Huttegger, Skyrms, Tarrès, and Wagner 2014; Huttegger, Skyrms, and Zollman 2014). Reinforcement dynamics are stable but slow and prone to evolving suboptimal signaling conventions. A low...

We study channel coordination policies for products subject to midlife price declines during their short product life cycles. Using a two-period supply chain model consisting of one supplier and one retailer, we identify policies and/or conditions under which the supply chain can be coordinated and a win-win situation can be guaranteed. We also provide algorithms to determine the win-win policy...

(b) We do several iterations of eliminating strictly dominated strategies. First, note that when v < 75, bidding 75 is strictly dominated: regardless of the other bidder’s strategy, you will win the auction at least half the time, giving strictly negative payoff, while bidding 0 ensures a payoff of 0. Second, assume your opponent never bids 75 unless his value is at least 75. Then a bid of 50 w...

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21 The words “you have cancer” are some of the most devastating words a patient will ever hear. Initially, patients are “often immobilized by fear and uncertainty” (Gentry & Sein, 2007, p. 8). Even as patients and their families are facing one of the greatest challenges of their lives, they will be asked to navigate a complex healthcare system while coordinating the multiple treatment plans the...

A competition is a contest between individuals or groups. The gain is often an award or recognition, which serves as a catalyst to motivate individuals to put forth their very best. Such events for recognition and success are part of many International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Regional Student Groups (RSGs) activities. These include a popular science article cont...

Conflict resolution is the search for an outcome that represents for some participants as improvement from, and for noparticipants a worsening of, their present situation. Group decision making sessions often leads to conflict and loss of sight in particular when the problem is hard to structure and involves qualitative and quantitative criteria. Most executive managers face on daily basis prob...