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Experimental study on adsorbent of activated carbon with refrigerant of methanol and ethanol for solar ice maker

Li, M.; Huang, H.B.; Wang, R.Z.; Wang, L.L.; Cai, W.D.; … - In: Renewable Energy 29 (2004) 15, pp. 2235-2244

with similar environments and radiation intensities. Further experiments have shown that the adsorbing and desorbing …

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Feedback Information and Contributions to Not-for-Profit Enterprises: Experimental Investigations and Implications for Large-Scale Fund-Raising

Jones, Michael; Mckee, Michael - In: Public Finance Review 32 (2004) 5, pp. 512-527

Not-for-profit enterprises often rely on donors for operating funds. Through fund-raising campaigns, individual donations are solicited, and the successes of fund-raising campaigns depend on various features of the campaign. In this article, the authors use experimental methods to investigate...

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Reciprocity-based Emotions: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Experiencing Positive and Negative Reciprocity

CORICELLI, Giorgio - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 112 (2004) 4, pp. 359-379

This paper presents an experimental analysis of people’s behavior in situations involving both positive and negative reciprocity. The experiment implements sequences of two types of extensive form games called Punishment games and Trust games. The contemporaneous use of these two types of...

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Design of a virtual combine harvester

Maertens, K; De Baerdemaeker, J - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 65 (2004) 1, pp. 49-57

Separation processes in agricultural machinery are typically non-linear, complex and uncertain. On-line measurements of input and output data are not available. Therefore, black-box modelling is not applicable and other techniques to describe the system must be used. In this paper, a dynamic...

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An interaction model for livestock farming and steppe ecosystem

Demberel, S.; Olenev, Nicholas N.; Pospelov, Igor G. - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 67 (2004) 4, pp. 335-342

that the maintenance of animals damages the nature. Numerical experiments on the obtained ecological–economic model with …

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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters contained no gift, one third contained a small...

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Tax Morale and Optimal Taxation

Gueth, Werner; Sausgruber, Rupert - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

We study experimentally how taxpayers choose between two tax regimes to fund a public good. The first-best tax regime imposes a general, distorsion-free income tax. However, this tax cannot be enforced. The second-best alternative supplements the income tax by a specific commodity tax. This tax...

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The Decision Maker Matters: Individual versus Group Behaviour in Experimental Beauty-Contest Games

Kocher, Martin G.; Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Economics has devoted little attention so far as to whether the type of decision maker matters for economic decisions. However, many important decisions like those on monetary policy or a company's business strategy are made by (small) groups rather than an individual. We compare behaviour of...

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Prices as indicators of scarcity - an experimental study of a multistage auction

McDaniel, Tanga; Nicklisch, Andreas - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

case. As an example we discuss auctions for future access rights to a network. We use experiments to show that the …

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Bringing Macroeconomics into the Lab.

Ricciuti, Roberto - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2004

This paper reviews experiments in macroeconomics, pointing out the theoretical justifications, the strengths and … weaknesses of this approach. We identify two broad classes of experiments: general equilibrium and partial equilibrium … experiments, and emphasize the idea of theory testing that is behind these. A large number of macroeconomic issues have been …

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