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Are democracies better at winning wars and militarized disputes? Is there an advantage associated with initiating a war or dispute? Noting that pairwise contest data are the norm in applied research, we motivate a straightforward Bradley–Terry statistical model for these problems from...
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This study examines the market’s reaction to dividend initiation announcements. In particular, it considered the … magnitude of abnormal returns during the days that surround announcements of dividend initiation. This study expects to reveal … whether dividend initiation is important to investors on the Ghana Stock Exchange. It also expects to reveal whether the type …
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generation’, juxtaposing ‘their’ time of drug initiation “back then” with “nowadays”. We find that personal stories of drug … initiation, transition and career are told in relation to a meta-narrative of social transition. Whereas ‘back then’, drug use …
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This paper considers a single-echelon, continuous review, inventory system with a warehouse facing compound Poisson customer demand. The replenishment lead-time is constant. Demand that cannot be met directly is backordered. There are standard linear holding and backorder costs but no set-up or...
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The problem of the system of education will be more acute in the context of new information capabilities. Freedom of information leads to the problem of selecting relevant and reliable knowledge and competencies. Disclosure of the associated problems this article is about.
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La filière alimentaire est particulièrement sensible à la réduction des risques. En effet, l'aliment est ingéré par le consommateur, ce qui accroît la perception des risques. Les travaux présentés dans l'article portent sur la notion de l'éthique, régulièrement mobilisée par les...
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The objective of this doctoral thesis is to put forth the role of psychology in the fluctuations of production, redistribution and inequalities. Our work is centered on two axes : i) the importance of psychology with regards to inequalities in determining individual beliefs about the role of...
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L’économie et les sciences sociales utilisent fréquemment la notion de rationalité, les travaux
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A pour but d'exposer les principaux concepts permettant de décrire et de comprendre le comportement des consommateurs afin de prendre les meilleures décisions marketing. Analyse des décisions concrètes prises par les services marketing pour montrer la façon dont elles répondent aux...
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Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas’s work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution...
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