ABSTRACT This study investigates biases in tax decisions. In a series of four laboratory experiments with 303 students and 62 professionals, we document systematic tax-rate bias decisions under time constraints. Specifically, decision makers overestimate the relevance less complex information compared to more tax-base information. behavior leads suboptimal We also find that making, on average, ...

Abstract Petroleum oil contaminants have become severe ecological problems and negatively impact human health. It is, therefore, imperative to identify environmentally friendly approaches remediate oil-polluted environments. Therefore, bacterial degradation stimulated with a nitrogen source under optimum conditions was assessed in this study. Based on the 16S rRNA analysis, strain ODB H32 recov...

Using data from charitable organizations in the US, authors have established that government grants to charities largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over 6000 charities in Canada, measured for up to 15 years, to provide valuable new insights into this pheno...

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) include O157:H7 and non-O157 serotypes. The public health impact of STEC infections is high because of their ability to cause severe infections. We characterized our STEC strains isolated from diarrheal and asymptomatic persons in northern and southwest Iran. The 29 STEC strains were examined for the presence of virulence genes by polymerase chain r...

In this paper we present a finite element analysis for Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The is considered in convex closed subset of energy space H1(Ω). Most previous works on deals with either tangential or case where flux zero. This choice very particular and their formulation leads to limited regularity. To overcome difficulty, introduce outflow condition a...

Recently, considerable research has been conducted to identify suitable replacement for aluminum material used in producing lightweight car bodies, and accordingly, various welding processes have investigated. However, no optimize joining through experimental comparisons of the fastening battery cases hybrid electric vehicle. Therefore, this study a joint quality comparison nine overlap 1.2 mm ...