The earliest known products of human imagination appear to express a primordial struggle with thoughts of dying and death. I argue that the structures and processes of imagination evolved in that struggle, in response to debilitating anxieties and fearful states that would accompany an incipient...

The report focuses on the results of laboratory tests aimed to investigate the response to artificial rainfall of model slopes constituted by granular soils. The goal of the investigation is the assessment of the behaviour of representative slopes of the Campania Region covered by pyroclastic soils

Experimental studies have consistently shown that cooperative outcomes can emerge even in finitely repeated games. Such outcomes are justified by existing reputation building models, which suggest that cooperative outcomes can be sustained if some subjects have other-regarding preferences. While...

This paperwork relates Overconfidence and Underconfidence behavioral profiles on individuals, along with their common decisions under risk. Beginning with a psychometric stratification based on the concept of calibration and then adding simple risk choices, this paper shows results suggesting...

This paper incorporates compassion into social preferences and tracks individuals' choices over ten allocation decisions, categorizing participants' behavior more precisely than previous work. We provide important evidence relevant to the on-going debate as to whether social preferences are...

The paper undertakes a techno-economic analysis of a WiMax network in the unlicensed band (5 GHz) based on a network design for a medium sized, sub-urban community. WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) networks based on IEEE802.16 group of standards have been heralded as...