One of the most popular ways to access public biological data is using portals, like Entrez (NCBI) which allows users to navigate through the data of 34 major biological sources following cross-references. In this process, data entries are inspected one after the other and crossreferences to additional data available in other sources may be followed. This navigational process may be time-consum...

In theory, many areas of the natural and logical sciences, medicine, and social sciences are inherently international, with researchers collectively attempting to understand the world and building an edifice of knowledge through their published works. International collaboration has been found to be particularly successful in terms of increased citations to publications, which may have prompted...

In this paper we study how to provide metadata for a pre-print archive. Metadata includes, but is not limited to, title, authors, citations, and keywords, and is used to both present data to the user in a meaningful way, and to index and cross-reference the pre-prints. We are particularly interested in studying different methods to obtain metadata for a pre-print. We have developed a system tha...

When multiple followers are involved in a bilevel decision problem, the leader’s decision will be affected, not only by the reactions of these followers, but also by the relationships among these followers. One of the popular situations within this framework is where these followers are uncooperatively making decisions while having cross reference of decision information. This situation is call...

Consumers share word of mouth face to face, over social media, and through a host of other communication channels. But do these channels affect what people talk about and, if so, how? Laboratory experiments, as well as analysis of almost 20,000 everyday conversations, demonstrate that communicating via oral versus written communication affects the products and brands consumers discuss. Compared...

T splashy attention and criticism of neuroeconomics is a referendum on how curious economists are about how the brain makes economic decisions and whether new insights can tweak old models or inspire new ones. At one extreme is aggressive disinterest in brain activity. This disinterest is motivated by the methodological history and convention of economists working extra hard, and ingeniously, t...

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