Genome-wide association studies hold great promise in identifying disease-susceptibility variants and understanding the genetic etiology of complex diseases. Microarray technology enables the genotyping of millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms. Many factors in microarray studies, such as...

In this paper, I analyze an example in which two perfectly informed experts advise a decision maker. Each expert has private information about her own bias. I show that consulting two experts is better than consulting just one. I compare the efficiency of information transmission between...

I discuss a scenario in which second expert opinions may not benefit decision making. The introduction of a second expert s the possibility of partisan bickering, which impairs information transmission.

We analyze a psychologically-based model of voter turnout. Potential voters experience regret if they fail to vote, which is the motivation for participation in voting. Regret from abstention is inversely related to the margin of victory. Voters on the winner's side experience less regret than...

I study strategic information transmission when biases are uncertain. A perfectly informed expert advises a decision maker. The expert has biases with direction unknown to the decision maker. I show that all equilibria are of partitional form as identified by Crawford and Sobel (1982). It never...

Drawing on a survey of migrants in 12 cities across four major urbanising areas in China, this paper analyses rural migrants’ intention for permanent urban settlement. We focus on one sizeable but often overlooked group of rural migrants, that is, the self-employed. Our hypothesis is that...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship among negative media coverage, law environment and tunneling of controlling shareholders. Design/methodology/approach - Under the Chinese especial institutional background, this paper empirically test the relationship among...

Hydrogen is a kind of green fuel, and is considered as the substitute oil fuel for future. Although many of literature of photocatalyst water splitting have been presented, little of the literature focused on their energy conversions. Therefore, investigation of their energy conversions is...

In this paper, the end loss effect of arbitrary oriented parabolic trough solar collectors (PTC) is analyzed and discussed, the methods to reduce or compensate the end loss effect by extending heat absorber tube, setting a fan-shaped end plane mirror (FS-EPM) at one end of PTC and inclining PTC...

This paper develops a new class of aggregation operator based on utility function, which introduces the risk attitude of decision makers (DMs) in the aggregation process. First, under the general framework of utility function, we provide a new operator called the generalized ordered weighted...