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Our motivation is lying on the questions "How does a food scare and information of a food scare influence the buying decision of one single agent and the changes in the aggregate demand?" and "How can we evaluate effective risk communication strategies?". Since we investigate a society of...
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Visuals are at the forefront of providing information in today's society. They are on the front page of newspapers, the evening news, the Internet, and textbooks. They are particularly important in explaining risk and scientific processes such as the intricacies of climate change or the risks of...
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Consumer behaviour in risky markets is a research field which was investigated and which is still investigated from different perspectives. Agent-based modelling is a relatively new research method which offers rich possibilities for consumer research. In this thesis a multi agent simulation was...
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The protection of private residences from wildland fire produces high levels of cost and safety risk to firefighters, especially with the expanding ex-urban settlement pattern in the wildland urban interface (WUI). Economic information on probable structure losses can help guide efficient...
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the numerical ability (numeracy) of consumers affected perceptions of intelligence forecasts. Consumers perceived … necessarily evaluable by consumers and that perceptions of likelihood are affected by supporting narrative information. Numeracy … also moderated the effects of stated likelihood and the narrative evidence summary. Consumers higher in numeracy were more …
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possible. With respect to literacy, numeracy has been understudied in economic history and its inclusion in long-run growth …, followed by an analysis of national numeracy levels introducing a large and newly constructed data set on age heaping … Entwicklung von „Numeracy“ (Zahlenfähigkeit) zu messen. Die verschiedenen Arbeitspapiere, die dieser Arbeit zugrunde liegen …
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Africa, it is also characterised by limited and selective response patterns on its schoolquality and numeracy measures. To … component of the observed racialdifferentials in South African labour market earnings. Neither numeracy nor school …
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: By understanding the costs of HIV/AIDS, businesses can understand the incentives for preventing and treating the disease better. This report primarily investigates whether there is a difference in the relationship between HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and related costs in different...
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AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Menslike immuungebrekvirus (MIV) en Verworwe immuniteitsgebrek sindroom (VIGS) is een van die grootste uitdagings waarvoor werkgewers vandag te staan kom, en behoort die stukrag te wees vir ’n deeglike ondersoek om die voorkoms van hierdie toestand in die werkplek so...
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Patient Journey Modeling, a relatively recent innovation in healthcare quality improvement, models the patient's movement through a Health Care Organisation (HCO) by viewing it from a patient centric perspective. A Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) provides a standard project management...
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