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Moose Foraging in the Temperate Forests of Southern New England
(Humboldt Field Research Institute, 2010)Moose have recently re-colonized the temperate forests of southern New England, raising questions about this herbivore’s effect on forest dynamics in the region. We quantifi ed Moose foraging selectivity and intensity on ... -
Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
(The University of Chicago Press, 2008)This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a simple method of calculating the welfare gains from UI using this evidence. I show that 60 percent of the ... -
Moral Learning: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives
(Elsevier BV, 2017-10)The past 15 years occasioned an extraordinary blossoming of research into the cognitive and affective mechanisms that support moral judgment and behavior. This growth in our understanding of moral mechanisms overshadowed ... -
Moral Support: How Moral Values Shape Foreign Policy Attitudes
(University of Chicago Press, 2014)Although classical international relations theorists largely agreed that public opinion about foreign policy is shaped by moral sentiments, public opinion scholars have yet to explore the content of these moral values, and ... -
Moral Values and Judicial Decision-Making
(2021-06-17)This paper empirically investigates the relationship between morality and judicial decision-making. I use Moral Foundations Theory as a framework for morality. Using published judicial opinions and a text analysis, I ... -
Moral Veritas - Utilitarianism 2017
(2017-11-27)Moral Veritas consists of technical & ethical analyses of revolutionary technologies on the horizon. This 2017 entry focuses on three such radical technologies under the moral lens of utilitarianism. -
Morality and the Distinctiveness of Human Action
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Morality and the Logic of Caring
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Morality as Freedom
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Morality Constrains the Default Representation of What Is Possible
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-04-18)The capacity for representing and reasoning over sets of possibilities, or modal cognition, supports diverse kinds of high-level judgments: causal reasoning, moral judgment, language comprehension, and more. Prior research ... -
Morality of Plunder and Economy of Protection: Ottoman Corsairs in Mediterranean Trade Networks and Warfare, 1574-1685
(2023-06-01)Mediterranean seafarers engaged in various forms of armed conflict throughout the seventeenth century. Among their career options, piracy existed as an alternative that bore high risks and offered attractive returns. This ... -
More Accurate and Efficient Bath Spectral Densities from Super-Resolution
(2013)Quantum transport and other phenomena are typically modeled by coupling the system of interest to an environment, or bath, held at thermal equilibrium. Realistic bath models are at least as challenging to construct as ... -
More accurate specification of water supply shows its importance for global crop production
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More Money, More Problems? Can High Pay be Coercive and Repugnant?
(American Economic Association, 2015)IRBs can disallow high incentives they deem coercive. A vignette study on MTurk concerning participation in medical trials shows that a substantial minority of subjects concurs. They think high incentives cause more regret, ... -
More on the Power of Demand Queries in Combinatorial Auctions: Learning Atomic Languages and Handling Incentives
(International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2005)Query learning models from computational learning theory (CLT) can be adopted to perform elicitation in combinatorial auctions. Indeed, a recent elicitation framework demonstrated that the equivalence queries of CLT can ... -
A More Precise Security Type System for Dynamic Security Tests
(2010)The move toward publically available services that store private information has increased the importance of tracking information flow in applications. For example, network systems that store credit-card transactions and ... -
The more the merrier? Increasing group size may be detrimental to decision-making performance in nominal groups
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-02-27)Demonstrability—the extent to which group members can recognize a correct solution to a problem—has a significant effect on group performance. However, the interplay between group size, demonstrability and performance is ... -
More-Than-People’s Communes: Veterinary Workers, Nonhuman Animals, and One Health in Mao-Era China
(2022-05-13)Long before COVID-19, global health experts and citizens perceived China as a past and future epicenter of pandemic disease. The high density of its human and nonhuman populations, the prevalence of wet markets, and the ... -
Morpheus Hand: Actively-Controlled Finger Arrangement for Soft Robotic Manipulation
(2022-06-03)As robots enter the real world, there is a need for robotic hands that can dexterously manipulate a wide variety of items regardless of shape or size. Current robotic solutions can use different finger arrangements but do ...