16 There has been growing interest in establishing food waste prevention and recovery 17 programs throughout the world. The drive to target food waste stems from increasing concerns 18 about resource conservation, food security, food waste’s environmental and economic costs, and 19 a general trend in the waste management industry to transition to more sustainable practices. 20 Here the drivers ...

We present and test a formal framework for expressing the idea that taking account of the multiple meanings conveyed by natural language may help economists to better understand the impact of pre-play free-form communication. We model coordination games where each player simultaneously requests others to take a particular action. We assume requests include two independent features: the desired ...

The right-left dimension is ubiquitous in politics, but prior perspectives provide conflicting accounts of whether cultural and economic attitudes are typically aligned on this dimension within mass publics around the world. Using survey data from 99 nations, we find not only that right-left attitude organization is uncommon, but that it is more common for culturally and economically right wing...

Industrial and technological change and increased urbanization has altered the face of nature. And nature is being consumed in the production of material goods. Environmental crises such as the condition of Lake Urumieh in north western Iran demonstrates that unregulated use of the natural environment disrupts ecosystems that threaten the survival of plant species, animals and humans. Environme...

This study validates a survey-based measure of general risk attitude by an incentive compatible experiment among more than 900 participants in rural Thailand. The survey measure of self-assessed risk attitude provides a useful approximation of the experimentally derived risk attitude. This holds when we add various socio-demographic control variables to the survey-experiment-relation which are ...

In this paper there is a investigation of Ukraine’s contradictory attitude to reform. This attitude has seen the country characterised by hesitancy on reforms which has stifled its economic performance in areas such as privatisation and competition policy. Most notably the presence of interest and lobby groups, conflict between political institutions, and contradictory conceptions of economic r...

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income— the growing weightless economy—influence economic development? Those technologies reduce “distance” between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows how demand-side attributes—consumer attitudes on complex goods; training, education, and skills for consump...

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income— the growing weightless economy—influence economic development? Those technologies reduce “distance” between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows how demand-side attributes—consumer attitudes on complex goods; training, education, and skills for consump...

BACKGROUND Substance abuse is a serious global problem that is affected by multiple psychosocial and socio-demographic factors. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the leading factors in positive attitude and tendency toward substance abuse in terms of personality, socio-economic, and socio-demographic factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 200 college students (10...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient factors such as knowledge, attitude, motivation, perception, socio-economic status and travel time to health facilities and assess how these factors affected patients' decision to pursue cervical cancer screening with visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA). METHODS A total of 80 women of childbearing age who visited Kenjeran and B...