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Farmers' Cognition of Circular Agriculture and its Influencing Factors: A Case Study of Wannian County in Jiangxi Province

YANG, Ying; PAN, Xiaohua - In: Asian Agricultural Research 06 (2014) 02

Based on the current situation of agricultural development and agricultural material utilization in Wannian County of Jiangxi Province, we mainly use the form of questionnaire survey and design the relevant questions, to study the farmers' awareness of circular agriculture and its influencing...

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Organization, Evolution, Cognition and Dynamic Capabilities

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

Using insights from 'embodied cognition' and a resulting 'cognitive theory of the firm', I aim to contribute to the … 'focusing device'.Here, cognition has a wide meaning, including perception, interpretation, sense making, and value judgements …

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An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action

Cavarretta, Fabrice; Furr, Nathan - ESSEC Business School - 2014

Boundedly rational managerial actors struggling to process information often use a limited set of “theories of action,” or simple rules. However, simple rules may have a hierarchical structure, with some simple rules guiding others. Assuming the existence of such “keystone rules,” we...

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Cognitive load and strategic sophistication

Allred, Sarah; Duffy, Sean; Smith, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We study the relationship between the cognitive load manipulation and strategic sophistication. The cognitive load manipulation is designed to reduce the subject's cognitive resources that are available for deliberation on a choice. In our experiment, subjects are placed under a high cognitive...

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Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up”

Baron, Robert A.; Hmieleski, Keith M.; Henry, Rebecca A. - In: Journal of Business Venturing 27 (2012) 3, pp. 310-324

benefits conferred by DPA because at very high levels, processes that interfere with specific aspects of cognition, perception …

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The transition to market-based economic education: evaluating program effectiveness in Kazakhstan

Grimes, Paul W.; Millea, Meghan J.; Campbell, Randall C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article presents an analysis of a program designed to enhance economic literacy through teacher training in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. The cognitive and affective outcomes for high school students who were taught by teachers trained through the National Council on Economic...

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A Life-Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India

Velamuri, Malathi; Onur, Ilke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

indicate that circumstances in childhood have an impact on later-life cognition. A decomposition analysis reveals that the … predicted cognition gap is driven by differences in characteristics between men and women, as well as the asymmetric returns to … sufficient to close the gender gaps in cognition. In turn, this has serious implications for a rapidly aging society like India. …

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Heads and Hearts: Three Methods for Explicating Judgment and Decision Processes

Thorngate, Warren - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18 (2015) 1, pp. 14-14

Agent-based models are more likely to generate accurate outputs if they incorporate valid representations of human agents than if they don't. The present article outlines three research methodologies commonly used for explicating the cognitive processes and motivational orientations of human...

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Small-Business Owner-Managers' Perceptions of Business Ethics and CSR-Related Concepts

Fassin, Yves; Van Rossem, Annick A.; Buelens, Marc M. - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2011

academic definitions. This article focuses on the cognition of small-business owner-managers. Given the impact of small …

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Seeking the foundations of cognition in bacteria: From Schrödinger's negative entropy to latent information

Ben Jacob, Eshel; Shapira, Yoash; Tauber, Alfred I. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 359 (2006) C, pp. 495-524

We reexamine Schrödinger's reflections on the fundamental requirements for life in view of new observations about bacterial self-organization and the emerging understanding of gene-network regulation mechanisms and dynamics. Focusing on the energy, matter and thermodynamic imbalances provided...

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