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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"WTA"”.
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Subjective Assessments of Self and Competitor Expertise: Influences on Bidding and Post-Auction Product Valuation
… valuation both during (bid level), after (WTP/WTA), and over time (∆WTP/∆WTA). Generally, I find that despite normative predictions regarding bidding behavior in a competitive auction environment, bidders tend to bid higher and maintain higher post-auction valuations when competing against …
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A comparison of the costs of delivering conservation through land sharing and land sparing
… to establish their willingness to accept (WTA) payment to participate in sharing and sparing schemes that delivered the same biodiversity and carbon outcomes. I found that all but the most farmland-tolerant outcomes were delivered at less taxpayer expense with sparing. Third, combining this …
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Investigation of molecular mechanisms of biofilm formation by <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i>
… not the rhamnose decorated wall teichoic acid (WTA), showed that the decorated WTA is required for adhesion of cells to surface. Finally, deletion of rmlA can override the effect of rsbU deletion on biofilm formation. In brief, I identified that (1) removing rsbU or sigB induces biofilm …
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Experiments on consumer preferences and decision making
… a range of different types of anchor on WTP and WTA valuations of familiar consumer products, elicited through individuals’ buying or selling decisions at given prices. I find anchoring effects only when the anchor value is framed as a plausible price for the good for which the individual is a …
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Community management of wetland ecology and socio-economic costs of wetland degradation in mudaswali Wetland, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… in the region. Willingness to accept (WTA) technique was used to facilitate the estimate of socio-economic costs of wetland degradation by the local community. In addition, the use of willingness to pay (WTP) method helped in determining the value of wetland in the local community. As …
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Some new approaches to measuring willingness to pay: a case study of flood risk reduction in Roanoke, Virginia
… (RWTP) and restricted willingness to accept (RWTA). The measures RWTP and RWTA are biased estimates of willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) where the direction of the bias is known. In addition, the methods that calculate these measures, the RWTP and RWTA methods, do not …
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Probabilistic Dynamical Modelling of Spatiotemporal Cell Trajectories During Neural Development
… and cell type mapping methods for the Nanostring WTA spatial transcriptomics technology that take into account, background binding of RNA probes. I use CountCorrect to analyze a spatial transcriptomics dataset of the human developing cortex, which revealed spatial autism enrichment patterns, a …
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Game, Set, Watched: Governance, Social Control and Surveillance in Professional Tennis
… founded on a meritocracy based on the ATP and WTA rankings systems. A player’s ranking affects how he or she is governed, surveilled, controlled, and even punished. Despite ostensibly promoting tennis athletes’ health protection and wellbeing, the systems of surveillance, governance, and …
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Stereo Matching Based on Edge-Aware T-MST
… edges. Then a widely used Winner-Takes-All (WTA) strategy is performed to establish initial disparity map. An adaptive non-local refinement is also performed based on the stability of initial disparity estimation. Given the stereo images from Middlebury benchmark, we estimate the disparity …
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Great Langdale Valley, Cumbria: An Analysis of the viability of road-user charging as a Demand Management Tool for motor-vehicle dependent recreation
… were asked for their Willingness To Accept (WTA) a compensation payment for the potential impact of the road-user charging scheme on their trade. The research findings determined that a road-user charge would result in a considerable reduction in the visitor sample's intention to use a …
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Enteric methane emissions mitigation in U.S. beef production: industry adoption, public perception, and potential market impacts
… survey to estimate willingness-to-adopt (WTA) measures. Regression results are used to map potential adoption of 3-NOP given various market and policy scenarios. The survey sample is then split into small producers (<2000 head sold in last 12 months) and large producers (2000+ head sold in …
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Leadership Style's Effects on Intrapreneurship and Organisational Performance: The Case of the Resort Islands in the Maldives
… destination award from the World Travel Awards (WTA) for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, and 2022) and received several prestigious honours; however, some resorts are experiencing multiple challenges in managing their businesses. Additionally, COVID-19 has strongly affected the industry, and …
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Evaluating subsidy programmes for ecological conservation: insights from quasi-experimental and experimental evidence
… the associated minimum willingness to accept (WTA) estimates. In all, I want to investigate the role of uncertainty and risk perceptions in shaping farmers’ decision-making processes in outcome-based PES. Furthermore, the integration of an auction mechanism within the PES, aimed at optimizing …
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Three essays on environmental issues associated with broiler production in Louisiana
The increasing trends of integrated and concentrated broiler production results in a serious threat to environment through excessive litter production and lack of its proper disposal. Production concentration in limited area is a major source of surface as well as ground water pollution. Nonpoint …
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Big data technology adoption in dairy and beef production
The US plays a fundamental role in the worldwide supply of beef and dairy products, and it will continue to play an important role to meet the increasing global demand. The cattle industry has integrated sophisticated technological solutions into the production process, known as Precision Livestock …