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Nonconventional Technology for Agricultural Development in Developing Countries

Soliman, Ibrahim - Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture - 1991

This paper concerns the economic assessment of a nonconventional technology to provide a cheap food and/or feed for many developing countries, using wasted resources, i.e. coastal arid areas irrigated directly with seawater to grow a halophyte crop(Salicornia-sos-7). It was cultivated for two...

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Are U.S. Consumers Tolerant of GM Foods?

Rousu, Matthew C.; Huffman, Wallace E.; Shogren, Jason F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2002

Genetically modified (GM) foods have caused many controversies. One important controversy relates to tolerance?the impurity rate that is tolerated before a commodity must be labeled as genetically modified. Currently, the United States does not have a specific tolerance or threshold level for GM...

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Should the United States Regulate Mandatory Labelingfor Genetically Modified Foods?

Huffman, Wallace E.; Rousu, Matthew C.; Shogren, Jason F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2002

Public debate continues over whether the United States should regulate genetically modified (GM) foods by imposing a mandatory labeling policy. This paper develops a model that shows that a voluntary GM-labeling policy results in higher welfare than a regulated mandatory GM-labeling policy, if...

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“It’s a black art”: “design of experiments” switches on the light

Simms, Christine; Garvin, John S. - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 17 (2002) 1/2, pp. 65-71

demonstrates the effectiveness and benefits of using Taguchi techniques and “Design of experiments” to provide enlightenment on the …

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Stability of the Cournot process - experimental evidence

Huck, Steffen; Normann, Hans-Theo; Oechssler, Jörg - In: International Journal of Game Theory 31 (2002) 1, pp. 123-136

We report results of experiments designed to test the predictions of the best-reply process. In a Cournot oligopoly …

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A Bargaining Experiment to Motivate Discussion on Fairness

Dickinson, David L. - In: Journal of Economic Education 33 (2002) 2, pp. 136-151

The author presents a classroom version of the popular research game called the Ultimatum Game. Researchers are placing growing importance on how fairness affects behavior, and this experiment provides a useful, fun, and engaging way in which a day or two of class time can be spent on the topic....

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Estimation and Inference in Social Experiments

Ferrall, Christopher - EconWPA - 2002

This paper develops a framework for analyzing the outcome of experiments carried out on forward-looking subjects …. Natural experiments, unexpected policy changes, and true experiments are all included in the framework as special cases. These … concepts are defined in conjunction with explicit notions of controlled and randomized experiments. The persistent issues of …

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Voting when Money and Morals Conflict - An Experimental Test of Expressive Voting

Tyran, Jean-Robert - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2002

Moral considerations may matter much in voting because the costs of expressing support for a morally worthy cause may be low in a referendum. These costs depend on whether a voter expects to affect the outcome of the referendum. To test the low-cost theory of expressive voting, we experimentally...

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Officers, playing cards, and sheep

Ullrich, Peter - In: Metrika 56 (2002) 3, pp. 189-204

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) to their systematic use in the design of experiments by (Sir) Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890–c1962 …

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Nonlinear characteristics of randomly excited transonic flutter

Christiansen, L.E.; Lehn-Schiøler, T.; Mosekilde, E.; … - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 58 (2002) 4, pp. 385-405

flutter (i.e. large-amplitude, self-sustained oscillations) for a high aspect ratio wing. Wind tunnel experiments performed at …

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