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Presupposition and Policing in Complex Demonstratives
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Prethermal Floquet Steady States and Instabilities in the Periodically Driven, Weakly Interacting Bose-Hubbard Model
(American Physical Society, 2015)We explore prethermal Floquet steady states and instabilities of the weakly interacting two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model subject to periodic driving. We develop a description of the nonequilibrium dynamics, at arbitrary ... -
Prethermalization Revealed by the Relaxation Dynamics of Full Distribution Functions
(IOP Publishing, 2013)We detail the experimental observation of the non-equilibrium many-body phenomenon prethermalization. We study the dynamics of a rapidly and coherently split one-dimensional Bose gas. An analysis based on the use of full ... -
Prevalence and correlates of suicidal behavior among new soldiers in the US Army: results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Background The prevalence of suicide among U.S. Army soldiers has risen dramatically in recent years. Prior studies suggest that most soldiers with suicidal behaviors (i.e., ideation, plans, and attempts) had first ... -
Prevalence, subtypes, and correlates of DSM-IV conduct disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006)Background Prior research indicates that conduct disorder (CD) is associated with a range of comorbid mental disorders. However, the actual prevalence, subtypes, and patterns of comorbidity of DSM-IV defined CD in the ... -
Preventing Strategic Manipulation in Iterative Auctions: Proxy Agents and Price-Adjustment
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2000)Iterative auctions have many computational advantages over sealed-bid auctions, but can present new possibilities for strategic manipulation. We propose a two-stage technique to make iterative auctions that compute optimal ... -
Prevolutionary dynamics and the origin of evolution
(National Academy of Sciences, 2008)Life is that which replicates and evolves. The origin of life is also the origin of evolution. A fundamental question is when do chemical kinetics become evolutionary dynamics? Here, we formulate a general mathematical ... -
Prey Capture Behavior Evoked by Simple Visual Stimuli in Larval Zebrafish
(Frontiers Media SA, 2011)Understanding how the nervous system recognizes salient stimuli in the environment and selects and executes the appropriate behavioral responses is a fundamental question in systems neuroscience. To facilitate the ... -
Précis of fellow creatures: Our obligations to the other animals
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Price Destabilizing Speculation
(University of Chicago Press, 1986)It is sometimes asserted that rational speculative activity must result in more stable prices because speculators buy when prices are low and sell when they are high. This is incorrect. Speculators buy when the chances of ... -
Price Discrimination and Smuggling of AIDS Drugs
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2005)Patent-holding pharmaceutical companies are shown to be imperfectly able to charge differential prices for AIDS drugs due to the potential for black market exchange. Thus, greater segmentation in the international market ... -
Price Discrimination, Copyright Law, and Technological Innovation: Evidence From The Introduction of DVDs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2007)U. S. copyright law effectively prevents direct price discrimination for copyright holders that sell to different markets. In response, these firms can engage in indirect price discrimination. I derive theoretical predictions ... -
Price Dispersion and Loss Leaders
(Society for Economic Theory, 2008)Dispersion in retail prices of identical goods is inconsistent with the standard model of price competition among identical firms, which predicts that all prices will be driven down to cost. One common explanation for such ... -
The price effects of cross‐market mergers: theory and evidence from the hospital industry
(Wiley, 2019-04-10)We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct ... -
The Price of Racial Bias: Intergroup Negotiations in the Ultimatum Game
(SAGE Publications, 2013)Existing stereotypes about Black Americans may influence perceptions of intent during financial negotiations. In this study, we explored whether the influence of race on economic decisions extends to choices that are costly ... -
The price of selfish behavior in bilateral network formation
(2005)Given a collection of selfish agents who wish to establish links to route traffic among themselves, the set of equilibrium network topologies may appear quite different from the centrally enforced optimum. We study the ... -
Price Stability and Development in Mainland China (1951-63)
(University of Chicago Press, 1964)No abstract provided. -
Price-Based Information Certificates for Minimal-Revelation Combinatorial Auctions
(Springer-Verlag, 2002)The equilibrium of the direct-revelation Vickrey-Clarke- Groves (VCG) mechanism for combinatorial auctions requires every agent to provide complete information about its preferences. Not only is this unreasonable in settings ... -
Pricing the Limits to Growth from Minerals Depletion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1999)This paper evaluates the loss of global welfare from exhaustion of nonrenewable resources, such as oil. The underlying methodology represents an empirical application of some recent developments in the theory of green ... -
Pricing WiFi at Starbucks: Issues in Online Mechanism Design
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2003)We consider the problem of designing mechanisms for online problems in which agents arrive over time and truthfully announce their arrival. These problems are becoming extremely common in a wide variety of problems involving ...