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Emotions And Decisions In The Real World: What Can We Learn From Quasi-Field Experiments?, Syon Bhanot, D. Chang, J. L. Cunningham, M. Ranson

Economics Faculty Works

Researchers in the social sciences have increasingly studied how emotions influence decision-making. We argue that research on emotions arising naturally in real-world environments is critical for the generalizability of insights in this domain, and therefore to the development of this field. Given this, we argue for the increased use of the “quasi-field experiment” methodology, in which participants make decisions or complete tasks after as-if-random real-world events determine their emotional state. We begin by providing the first critical review of this emerging literature, which shows that real-world events provide emotional shocks that are at least as strong as what can ethically …

Sustainability Strategy For The Riksbank, Sveriges Riksbank

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Congressional Oversight Commission Scrutinizes National Security Loans, Sean Fulmer

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Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Raghuram Rajan, Raghuram Rajan, Matthew A. Lieber

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Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Kevin Stiroh, Kevin Stiroh, Mercedes Cardona

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Suggested Citation Form: Stiroh, Kevin, 2022. “Lessons Learned Interview by Mercedes Cardona, December 16, 2020.” Yale Program on Financial Stability Lessons Learned Oral History Project. Transcript. https://ypfs.som.yale.edu/library/ypfs-lesson-learned-oral-history-project-interview-kevin-stiroh

Multi-Agent Behavior Simulation For Metro Station Passenger, Zequn Li, Fengting Yan, Zhicai Shi, Yumei Jian, Changhua Hua, Yongzhan Si, Xiang Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Metro station is a typical public place with large crowd density.The characteristics of crowd behavior and the guidance based on the characteristics of crowd behavior can effectively train the crowd for emergency evacuation.Adopting the method of multi-agent and characteristics by measuring station building scene,analyzing the influence factors of passenger behavior characteristics,based on the passenger conformity rule,the single-agent passenger route choice behavior model is established.The multiple agents behavioral decision system in the virtual metro stations is established,the WebVR experiment is used to research the influencing factors of passenger herd behavior and decision-making behavior,which provides a theoretical basis for …

Analyzing Dispatching Wave Policies For E-Commerce Logistics Based On The Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, Zhiqiang Niu, Chaoyang Li, Hongyu Dong, Zhang Feng, Lingyun Meng, Tong Lu, Shengnan Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To provide superior on-line shopping experiences and maintain sustained profitability,e-commerce logistics companies need design an effective dispatching wave policy strategy to handle the tradeoff between the advantage of economies of scale and fast-pace delivery services.A multi-agent-based simulation framework is proposed,where business processes in logistics are built as different nodes in the simulation network.Case studies are conducted to test the order delivery process with various wave strategies in the Beijing metropolitan area.Experimental results show that situation-dependent wave strategies are sensitive to different patterns of online shopping demands.

2020-December-16-Leadership Tennessee Next, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (Dec. 16, 2020) Dr. Adam S. Green, chief of staff at East Tennessee State University and secretary of the Board of Trustees, has been named to the third class of Leadership Tennessee NEXT, a program designed to offer personal and professional career development for Tennessee’s best and brightest early and mid-career professionals.

The third class of Leadership Tennessee NEXT is welcoming 29 rising professionals from every region of the state, representing a host of professional sectors and industries. Over the course of the program, participants will have opportunities to grow their professional skills and connect to a …

Self-Administered Questionnaire To Screen For Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Bronwyn S Bedrick, Ashley M Eskew, Jorge E Chavarro, Emily S Jungheim

Open Access Publications

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Tennessee Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2020, Tennessee. Department Of Finance & Administration.

Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports

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Paradises Lost? The Constitutional Politics Of “Indian” Enfranchisement In Canada, 1857–1900, Coel Kirkby

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Enfranchisement was the legal process for an individual or community to end their legal status as “Indians” under the Indian Act. The Canadian government hoped it would break up bands before assimilating them into settler society. This article aims to excavate the untold story of this attempt to extinguish special “Indian” status in the nineteenth century. It first traces enfranchisement as part of a Victorian discourse of civilization and as a specific Canadian legal process for the assimilation of “Indian” subjects. It then uses new archival sources to tell the untold story of the politics of enfranchisement over the second …

Industry Of Anonymity: Inside The Business Of Cybercrime, By Jonathan Lusthaus, Robert Van De Mark

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

In Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime, Jonathan Lusthaus attempts to demystify the increasingly sophisticated business of cybercrime and examine how it has matured into a large, profit-driven industry. Through interviews with hundreds of subjects involved in the cybercrime industry in varying capacities, Lusthaus has sought to draw a map that, by showing how seemingly disparate elements in the industry relate to one another, can better explain how the cybercrime industry functions. In particular, Lusthaus strives to produce a better understanding of the people behind cybercrime and the contexts in which they operate. By doing so, the book …

State Of Utah, Plaintiff/ Appellee V. Bakar Mberwa, Defendant/ Appellant : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from convictions for rape and aggravated burglary, both first-degree felonies, in the Third Judicial District, Salt Lake County, the Honorable Adam Mow presiding

EMILY ADAMS, FREYJA JOHNSON, CHERISE BACALSKI, Counsel for Appellant

DAVID A. SIMPSON, SEAN D . REYES, COLLEEN K. MAGEE, Counsel for Appellee

State Of Utah, Plaintiff/ Appellee, V. Bakar Mberwa, Defendant/ Appellant: Appellee Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from convictions for rape and aggravated burglary, both first-degree felonies, in the Third Judicial District, Salt Lake County, the Honorable Adam Mow presiding

EMILY ADAMS, FREYJA JOHNSON, CHERISE BACALSKI, Counsel for Appellant

DAVID A. SIMPSON, SEAN D. REYES, COLLEEN K. MAGEE, Counsel for Appellee

Teaching Non-Cognitive Skills For College: A Qualitative Case Study Of A Low-Income, High-Minority, Urban School District In Southeastern United States, Elizabeth Byron

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

This instrumental, multisite case study examines the role of secondary teachers in preparing high school students for the non-cognitive skills needed to persist in and graduate from college, using Bourdieu’s (1984) and Lin’s (1999) social capital theory as a guiding framework. Non-cognitive skills are defined as the “behaviors, thoughts, and feelings” of students (Borghans, 2008). Data collection for this study is based on semi-structured interviews via telecommunications with secondary educators and postsecondary student success practitioners and electronic archived documentation of non-cognitive skills found to be important for college success by the interviewees. In this study, college success is defined as …

The Trend Of Digital Currency By Mining And Analysis Of Patent, Feiyang Qu

Master of Science in Computer Science Theses

Digital currency is a novel topic. Due to the publicity of the Internet and the investment value of the digital currency itself, many people hope to participate in the digital currency-related financial market. However, many people still hold a wait-and-see attitude at this stage. The main reason is that digital currency is a relatively new field of financial investment, and there is no scientific system and rigorous data to provide investors with sufficient information. In this paper, we designed a framework based on a natural language processing model to calculate the innovative capabilities of digital currency-related companies, which can help …

Classifying Imbalanced Financial Fraud Data Utilizing Enhanced Random Forest Algorithm, Charles Gardner

Master of Science in Computer Science Theses

Imbalanced datasets have been a unique challenge for machine learning, requiring specialized approaches to correctly classify the minority class. Financial fraud detection involves using highly imbalanced datasets with a class imbalance of up to .01% frauds to 99.99% regular transactions. It is essential to identify all frauds in financial fraud detection, even if some classifications' precision is low. I developed a random forest assembly that separates fraudulent transactions into tiers of precision. With this approach, 96% of fraudulent transactions are identified, showing an 8% increase in recall when compared to standard approaches. 59% of fraud classifications' precision increases by 10% …

Accessing Unh Manchester Services Over Break, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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State V. Trappen Amended Appeal Brief Dckt. 47722

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Simulated Winter Incubation Of Soil With Swine Manure Differentially Affects Multiple Antimicrobial Resistance Elements, Daniel N. Miller, Madison E. Jurgens, Lisa M. Durso, Amy Schmidt

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Gastrointestinal bacteria that harbor antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) become enriched with antibiotic use. Livestock manure application to cropland for soil fertility presents a concern that ARG and bacteria may proliferate and be transported in the environment. In the United States, manure applications typically occur during autumn with slow mineralization until spring planting season. A laboratory soil incubation study was conducted mimicking autumn swine manure application to soils with concentrations of selected ARG monitored during simulated 120-day winter incubation with multiple freeze-thaw events. Additionally, the effects of two soil moistures [10 and 30% water holding capacity (WHC)] and two manure treatments …

Understanding Classroom Teachers' Knowledge And Practices For Teaching Reading To Students At-Risk For Dyslexia, Amanda Mccaleb

Theses and Dissertations

This mixed-methods study examined the knowledge base of 130 elementary classroom teachers for teaching reading to students at-risk for dyslexia. A multiple-choice knowledge survey included items situated in classroom contexts and assessed participants’ knowledge about the five components of reading including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Additionally, qualitative data were collected to better understand what is informing classroom teachers’ knowledge and practices for teaching reading to students at-risk for dyslexia. Overall, participants obtained the highest scores on the knowledge survey subscale involving fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension and the lowest subscale involving phonemic awareness and phonics. Mean percentages correct …

Nanoscale Material Interaction With Multicellular 3d Cancer Culture, Emilie Darrigues

Theses and Dissertations

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common form of pancreatic cancer, it is difficult to diagnose, often recurs, has high resistance to chemotherapies, and can be marked by advanced metastatic stages. There is an urgent need to fill the knowledge on nanoparticle penetration, diffusion, and cellular interaction in the context of adaptive PDAC tumor microenvironment to allow the development of new imaging and therapeutic supports. Traditionally, cancer-treating nanoparticles have been engineered and tested on 2D cell cultures, but several studies indicate that this in vitro model does not mimic tumor features closely enough. In contrast, 3D culture models offer …

On Peer Reviewing: How To Nourish An Author’S Mind And Win A Jldhe Editor’S Heart, E Loughlin, A Syska, G Sedghi, C Howell-Richardson

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Editors and publishers of scholarly journals rarely agree on what makes for a good publication; they do, however, agree on the need for a robust peer review process as a crucial means to judge the merits of potential publications. While fraught with issues and inefficiencies, a critical and supportive peer review is not only what editors rely on when assessing scholarship presented for publication but also what authors hope for in order to improve their work. Understanding how peer review may best serve all parties involved: authors, editors, and reviewers, is thus at the heart of this article. The analysis …

Determinants Of Financial Success Of Large Law Firms, James Xu

Dissertations

Prior research has established that leadership characteristics, job equity perception, and client satisfaction are all associated with a firm’s financial performance. This study tested hypotheses about these variables based upon Upper Echelons Theory, Adams Equity Theory, and Stakeholder Theory, in the context of 110 large U.S. law firms. The analysis revealed that (1) the racial diversity of the firm’s management committee is positively associated with the firm’s financial performance; (2) the average employee salary has a positive and U-shaped relationship with the firm’s financial performance; (3) the average employee salary has a positive relationship with the firm’s client satisfaction; (4) …

Research On Dissemination And Control Of Public Opinion Based On Multilayer Coupled Network, Chen Shuai

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to study the influence of information interaction between multi-platforms on the dissemination and control of public opinion,taking Wechat and Weibo for example,a public opinion communication and control model based on multi-layer coupled network including Wechat layer,Weibo layer and control layer is constructed using multi-agent modeling method and improved SEIR model.On Anylogic platform,a simulation experiment was conducted on the event that “the use of materials by the Hubei Red Cross Society raises doubts”,and the effects factors such as single/dual platform,control range,control dynamics,control time and interaction between platforms were analyzed.The media guidance and government intervention strategies under multi-platform …

Prediction Of Epidemic Transmission And Evaluation Of Prevention And Control Measures Based On Artificial Society, Bin Chen, Yang Mei, Chuan Ai, Ma Liang, Zhengqiu Zhu, Hailiang Chen, Mengna Zhu, Xu Wei

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The COVID-19 has been controlled under the strict measures,but how to normalize it deserves in-depth study.The COVID-19 transmission model and the human contact network are established separately based on SEIR model and the artificial social scenario.With the support of the multi-agent computational experiment method,a large sample calculation experiment was performed on the Tianhe supercomputer to simulate the epidemic transmission in typical areas such as communities,schools,and workplaces in artificial cities,and to predict and evaluate the risk of epidemic spread after resumption of work and school.The results show that epidemic prevention and control must be prepared for a …

“Help Is The Sunny Side Of Control”: The Medical Model Of Gambling And Social Context Evidence In Canadian Personal Bankruptcy Law, Anna J. Lund

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

At the start of the twentieth century, people who gambled excessively were viewed as morally deviant. Now, they are viewed as suffering from a medical disorder. Legal actors incorporate this medical approach to gamblers into how they apply the law. This shift from a moral to a medical model reorients actors from punishing gamblers to helping them, and thus can be characterized as a positive, humane development. Yet the medical model has drawbacks too. The medical model can be used to justify paternalistic and potentially harmful interventions in the lives of individuals, and it obscures the social context in which …

Whipping Up A Storm: Trying To Make Sense Of Constitutional Law, Allan C. Hutchinson

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The effort to make sense out of what the judges of any Supreme Court do is all the more pressing and acute in times of political turbulence. Lawrence Lessig’s Fidelity and Constraint offers itself as one such effort to distinguish constitutional decision-making from “the ad hoc in politics” by its reliance upon principled and neutral reasons; it is the judges’ detached and professional nature that underwrites their democratic legitimacy and institutional commitment. This review challenges those claims and demonstrates how Lessig’s analysis does more to undermine that project than achieve it.

Humans As A Service: The Promise And Perils Of Work In The Gig Economy, By Jeremias Prassl, Ara Dungca

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The gig economy is “the collection of markets that match providers to consumers on a gig basis in support of on-demand commerce.” Some of the most recognizable examples in Canada are Lyft and Uber. In a September 2017 report by the Bank of Montreal on the gig economy, it was estimated that 2.18 million Canadians were categorized as temporary workers, which include people who take on term, contract, or temporary employment, such as freelancers. This report defines a gig as “any job, especially one of short or uncertain duration.” A recent Ontario Court of Appeal Case, Heller v Uber Technologies …

Implementation Of Cloud Services By Using Real-Time Analysis To Reduce Energy Consumption, Ghaith Ahmed Al Zubairi

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Through the continual application of sensors, wireless networking, network communication and cloud computing technology, vast volumes of data are increasingly collected in the energy sector which needs to be utilized for effective management. In this project, the overall perspective is to analyze energy consumption data collected from households’ smart meters in London and combining it with the application of cloud data technology. I will explore and utilize a state-of-the-art cloud service infrastructure to analyze and make smart decisions on managing energy usage. There is interest in using data mining techniques and time series for machine learning modelling to deliver a …