Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad overview, particular attenti...

Prospect theory, first described in a 1979 paper by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, is widely viewed as the best available description of how people evaluate risk in experimental settings. While the theory contains many remarkable insights, it has proven challenging to apply these insights in economic settings, and it is only recently that there has been real progress in doing so. In this pap...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is the most successful therapy in treating chronic heart failure patients since the introduction of b-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and spironolactone into the therapeutic regimen. Recent studies (REVERSE, MADIT-CRT) will probably expand the indication for CRT to mild and asymptomatic heart failure patients [New York Heart Asso...

We present a new theory of decision under uncertainty: third-generation prospect theory (PT). This retains the predictive power of previous versions of prospect theory, but extends that theory by allowing reference points to be uncertain while decision weights are specified in a rank-dependent way. We show that PT preferences respect a state-conditional form of stochastic dominance. The theory ...

the purpose of this study was to compare various direct techniques of measuring attitudes toward risk. the equally likely certainty equivalent with a purely hypothetical risky prospect (elce-ph), the equally likely certainty equivalent with a hypothetical but realistic risky prospect (elce-r) and probability of winning demanded (pwd) models were used to elicit the risk attitude of a sample ...

Phylogeography is a relatively new discipline that deals with the spatial arrangements of genetic lineages, especially within and among closely related species. The word phylogeography was coined in 1987 (Avise et al., 1987). About a decade earlier, scientists had begun using mitochondrial (mt) DNA to address precisely how conspecific individuals are genealogically linked through shared ancesto...

In this report, we consider prediction of an agent’s preferences over risky monetary outcomes using Prospect Theory. We suppose that for a given agent we have data on previous prospects that the agent has accepted or declined. Based on this information, we would like to predict whether the agent will accept some new prospect X∗. This amounts to learning a value function v and probability weight...

The aim of this study is prospecting of iron and manganese in the Balvard 1:100000 sheet which is situated in Sanandaj - Sirjan structural zone utilizing Index Overlay and Fuzzy Logic methods in the GIS. In this study, the layers for integration, alterations, geological, geophysical, geochemical and structural data based on stream sediments, airborne magnetometeric and remote sensing studies. B...

In science, we look for the big picture, but in autobiography, it is details that care more about. Inevitably, my piece embodies this contradiction. The linguistic parts aim to bring out unifying themes behind what may like a hopelessly all-over-the-place curriculum vitae of research and teaching. autobiographical are mostly vignettes formative years, places where I have lived, events made an i...