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Documenting baye-baye as kakanin in selected town in Iloilo
No full textFull text availableThis study investigated the experiences of Baye-Baye makers and vendors in the different towns in Iloilo, regarding different ingredients, methods and it’s significance in the community. This study specifically aimed to determine the perceptions of different ingredients, methods, and if s significance in making baye-baye as baye-baye makers and vendors in their town. The qualitative research design was adopted, and purposive sampling was used to select 12 respondents who are baye-baye makers and vendors in Santa Barbara, Pavia and Miag-ao with at least 10 years of experience. The study’s instrument was a semi-structured interview in which participants were asked open-ended questions. The study also utilized Focus Group Discussions in delving into their respective answers. The results showed that the most challenging problems the respondents have faced in business are financial and economic challenges, climate change, and personal reasons. Makers/Vendors have been financially challenged to sustain their businesses as prices have increased. Extreme heat made the products spoil easily thus increasing their prices. Furthermore, it is physically demanding because most vendors are elderly and cannot produce as much baye-baye as they used to. Government intervention has also helped these vendors promote their products. Nevertheless the innovation of products, increased government intervention, and production promotion should be strengthened not just for the baye-baye products and also for other kakanins in the long run around the Iloilo province.Includes bibliographical referencesBachelor of Science in Tourism Managemen
Aggregation and the "Random Objective" Justification for Disturbances in Complete Demand Systems
No full textMeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
A Bayesian look at diagnostics in the univariate linear model
No full textThis paper develops diagnostics for data thought to be generated in accordance with the general univariate linear model. A first set of diagnostics is developed by considering posterior probabilities of models that dictate which of k observations form a sample of n observations (k < n/2) are spuriously generated, giving rise to the possible outlyingness of the k observations considered. This in turn gives rise to diagnostics to help assess (estimate) the value of k. A second set of diagnostics is found by using the Kullback-Leibler symmetric divergence, which is found to generate measures of outlyingness and influence. Both sets of diagnostics are compared and related to each other and to other diagnostic statistics suggested in the literature. An example to illustrate to the use of these diagnostic procedures is included
Contests with Rank-Order Spillovers
No full textThis paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player’s strategy generates direct or indirect affine “spillover” effects that depend on the rank-order of her decision variable. These effects arise in natural interpretations of a number of important economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where individuals exhibit inequality aversion or regret. We provide the closed-form solution for the symmetric Nash equilibria of this class of games, and show how it can be used to directly solve for equilibrium behavior in auctions, pricing games, tournaments, R&D races, models of litigation, and a host of other contests.
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Contests with rank-order spillovers
No full textThis paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player’s strategy generates direct or indirect affine “spillover” effects that depend on the rank-order of her decision variable. These effects arise in natural interpretations of a number of important economic environments, as well as in classic contests adapted to recent experimental and behavioral models where individuals exhibit inequality aversion or regret. We provide the closed-form solution for the symmetric Nash equilibria of this class of games, and show how it can be used to directly solve for equilibrium behavior in auctions, pricing games, tournaments, R&D races, models of litigation, and a host of other contests. – Contests ; auctions ; spillovers -- Dieser Artikel entwickelt einen einheitlichen Rahmen zur Charakterisierung des symmetrischen Gleichgewichts eines Wettkampfes unter vollständiger Information, in dem zwei Spieler gleichzeitig ihren Einsatz wählen und die Strategie eines Spielers direkte oder indirekte Auswirkung auf den Gegenspieler hat. Diese Externalität hängt entscheidend von der Rangfolge der Entscheidungsvariablen ab. Solche Effekte finden sich in einer Vielzahl wichtiger ökonomischer Problemstellungen. Auch typische Wettkämpfe können in diesem Rahmen analysiert werden, wenn sie im Sinne jüngster experimenteller und verhaltensorientierter Modelle angepasst werden und angenommen wird, dass Individuen eine Abneigung gegen Ungleichheit haben oder Bedauern empfinden, falls sie einen unnötig hohen Einsatz gewählt haben. Wir geben das symmetrische Nash- Gleichgewicht für diese Klasse von Spielen an und zeigen, wie es direkt angewendet werden kann, um das gleichgewichtige Verhalten in Auktionen, Preissetzungsspielen, Wettkämpfen, Wettbewerb um Forschung und Entwicklung, Modellen für Rechtsstreitigkeiten und einer Reihe weiterer Wettkämpfe zu analysieren.
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