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There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...
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of importance for estimating the fitness of biological populations, aggregate population modeling, and studying the long …
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Given a container of fixed width, infinite height and a set of rectangular block, the 2D-strip packing problem consists of orthogonally placing all the rectangles such that the height is minimized. The position is subject to confinement of no overlapping of blocks. The problem is a complex...
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ratings that accompanied increased control over employee fitness and health risk appraisal. On the other hand , individuals …
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to monitor the corporate life cycle. The research results in the creation of a new business fitness landscape model …, introduces two new business risk parameters, creates a new business diversity fitness index, completes a macro analysis of the … business fitness landscape. In a very dynamic and changeable business fitness landscape, the largest corporations which have …
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examine whether labour market conditions affect fitness. Running times improve during recessions for men and women aged 50 and … above but worsen for men aged 20-49 and women aged 20-29, suggesting that the fall in the opportunity costs of fitness …
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preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda … groups, in order to uphold its cultural values, has supported policies that could impose fitness costs on individuals in the …
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As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child's long term development. Based on the German national...
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-specific issues. A very promising new field for suchbundles is the health and fitness industry. In this research, we designed and …
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