Employer’s Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals’ allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive activity. We consider the effect of an increase in the employer’s knowledge (information) regarding the employees’ productivity levels on the total...

Lexical representation so far has not been extensively investigated in regard to language acquisition. Existing computational linguistic systems assume that text analysis and generation take place in conditions of complete lexical knowledge. That is, no unknown elements are encountered in processing text. It turns out however, that productive as well as non-productive word combinations require ...

Despite the increasing trend worldwide of integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge in natural resource management, there has been little stock-taking of literature on lessons learned from bringing indigenous knowledge and science together and the implications for maintaining and building social-ecological system resilience. In this paper we investigate: (1) themes, questions, or problems...

In this study, we examined the role of context knowledge in data analysis tasks and investigated the interplay between students’ use of context knowledge and statistical knowledge. Findings showed that knowledge of context was an important factor contributing to students’ engagement in statistical tasks. Students used context knowledge in three broad ways: to rationalize the data or their inter...