Abstract “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it proving to be productive, not only for understanding subjectivities of sexuality gender, but also situating Africa’s position the larger economy knowledge. Otu van Klinken explore productive tensions between “queer” “Africa,” aim read Africa as queer from Africa. Thus, rather than imagining polar ...

The experimental literature on time preference …nds that the manner in which subjects discount money (as opposed to utility) exhibits properties known as Decreasing Impatience and the Magnitude Effect. While these …ndings are often referred to as anomalies for the Exponential Discounting model, several authors have demonstrated that each of these qualitative …ndings can be explained by the curv...

Globalization is accompanied by increasing current account imbalances. They can undermine the positive impacts of increasing international cooperation and trade on economic growth. By applying an economic growth model that requests for long-term compensation of short-term current account deficits, we derive patterns of international trade. Model output, however, is challenged by empirical data ...

Due to factors such as temptation, choices may not respect normative preference (the agent’s own, subjective view of what constitutes his welfare). Nevertheless, the evidence on preference reversals suggests a means of recovering normative preference from choice. A de…nition of normative preference in terms of choices between su¢ ciently delayed alternatives is formulated and studied. Mild cond...

In this paper, a recommendation system for querying web pages is developed. When users query web pages through a search engine, the query keywords, browsed web pages, and feedback values are collected as user query transactions. A clustering algorithm based on bipartite graph analysis is designed to determine clusters of query keywords and the browsed web pages, called access preference cluster...

Search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!, provide efficient retrieval and ranking of web pages based on queries consisting of a set of given keywords. Recent studies show that 20% of all Web queries also have location constraints, i.e., also refer to the location of a geotagged web page. An increasing number of applications support location-based keyword search, including Google Maps, Bing Map...

Industrial Engineering is a broad multidisciplinary field with intersections and applications in numerous areas. When designing a product, it is important to determine the appropriate attributes of value and the preference function for which the product is optimized. This paper provides some guidelines on appropriate selection of attributes for preference and value functions for engineering des...