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Can I Rely on You?
(2018)This paper introduces a strategic element into the dictator game by allowing recipients to select their dictator. Recipients are presented with the photographs of two dictators and the envelopes containing their allocations, ... -
Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil
(2017)As the twenty-first century gets underway, people have been experimenting with many forms of political organization. In Northeast Brazil, that experimental spirit led to the creation of the Water Pact, a process involving ... -
Careful Commitments: Democratic States and Alliance Design
(2015)Evidence suggests that leaders of democratic states experience high costs from violating past commitments. We argue that because democratic leaders foresee the costs of violation, they are careful to design agreements they ... -
Charity Begins at Home: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment on Charitable Giving
(2018)Charities operate at different levels: national, state, or local. We test the effect of the level of the organization on charitable giving in a sample of adults in two Texas communities. Subjects make four charitable giving ... -
Chemical analysis of glass beads from Igbo Olokun, Ile-Ife (SW Nigeria): New light on raw materials, production, and interregional interactions
(2018)The site of Igbo Olokun on the northern periphery of Ile-Ife has been recognized as a glass-working workshop for over a century. Its glass-encrusted crucibles and beads were viewed as evidence of secondary processing of ... -
Civil Engineering : Does a Realist World Influence the Onset of Civil Wars?
(2010)Recently, the study of civil wars has attracted more and more attention from scholars of international relations. Using a computer simulation called EARTH (Exploring Alternative Realpolitik THeses) that not only simulates ... -
Civil Reality? Simulation Experiments on the Impact of Civil War in a Realist World
(2005)The most widely used theoretical framework in international relations is realism. Realism takes many forms, and there have been hundreds of writings on the topic. In the United States, the two most popular exemplars of ... -
Cloud-based Meta-analysis to Bridge Science and Practice: Welcome to metaBUS
(2015)Although volumes have been written on spanning the science-practice gap in applied psychology, surprisingly few tangible components of that bridge have actually been constructed. We describe the metaBUS platform that ... -
Cognition and Craving During Smoking Cessation: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
(2014)Introduction: Some studies using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) have revealed an association between craving for cigarettes and relapse. It is therefore important to understand the correlates of craving during smoking ... -
Cognition, categorization and language: Cognitive Grammar meets Vantage Theory
(2009-02-11)Cognitive linguistics becomes more credible if it gains support from independent research on cognition. The study juxtaposes a cognitive linguistic model, Ronald W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar (CG), with a model of ... -
The Cognitive Neuroplasticity of Reading Recovery following Chronic Stroke: A Representational Similarity Analysis Approach
(2017)Damage to certain left hemisphere regions leads to reading impairments, at least acutely, though some individuals eventually recover reading. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown a relationship between reading recovery ... -
Cognitive reappraisal of low-calorie food predicts real-world craving and consumption of high- and low-calorie foods in daily life
(2018)In an increasingly obesogenic environment, an individual's regulatory capacity to pursue nutrient-rich, low-calorie foods over palatable, energy-dense items is essential to maintaining a healthy weight and preventing the ... -
Coins in Context: Local Economy, Value and Practice on the East African Swahili Coast
(2012-02)Coinage occupies an unusual position in archaeological research. Thriving scholarship on numismatics and monetary history ensures that the objects themselves are well-studied, often seen as an indication of chronology and ... -
Collective Security and State Survival in the Interstate System
(1994-03)For hundreds of years realists have debated idealists about the nature of the interstate system and the most effective means to promote the endurance of the system and the survival of individual states. ... -
Colloquial Singapore English never
(2013-11)Negation in New Englishes has been a topic of great interest. However, although some general features of negation in New English varieties have been identified, few have investigated specific varieties and accounted for ... -
Comparing Utilization and Costs of Care in Freestanding Emergency Departments, Hospital Emergency Departments, and Urgent Care Centers
(2017)Study objective: We compare utilization, price per visit, and the types of care delivered across freestanding emergency departments (EDs), hospital-based EDs, and urgent care centers in Texas. Methods: We analyzed insurance ... -
Competition in Business Taxes and Public Services: Are Production-Based Taxes Superior to Capital Taxes?
(2015)Although most of the tax competition literature focuses on the provision of local public services to households, several papers analyze tax competition when capital taxes are used to finance local public services provided ... -
Complex predicates in Bangla: An event-based analysis
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