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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"winner take all"”.
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The creative destruction of the "winner-take-all" society? Property rights and the economics of the long tail in the music industry
… digital revolution. The Internet and MP3s have allowed for illegal downloading and file sharing. For producers, revenue streams have run dry because consumers can get their music for free. The old property rights regime has been eroded for incumbents and a market failure is imminent. But the …
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Modeling the role of the basal ganglia in motor control and motor programming
… proposes a unified functional model of the BG, called multi-input multi-output adaptive switching (MIMOAS) model that attempts to account for the role of the BG in both higher-level rote behavior and lower-level motor control. In the model, BG circuitry effectively implements a large set of …
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The power of randomized algorithms : from numerical linear algebra to biological systems
… of randomized algorithms can be used more generally as a tool to understand how complexity emerges from low-level stochastic behavior in biological systems. We study population density- estimation in ant colonies, which is a key primitive in social decision-making and task allocation. We define …
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The Lottery Colonel Blotto Game with Draws
… of draws or ties, moving beyond the traditional winner-take-all framework. The inclusion of the possibility of a draw allows for a more realistic depiction of contests where players may arbitrarily split the value of a battlefield in the absence of a decisive victory. Our model is characterized …
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Dynamics and learning in recurrent neural networks
… the second one is a generalized network of Winner-Take-All; the third one is a model for integration in head-direction systems. One distinctive feature of neural systems is the ability of learning. The other part of my thesis is on learning in biologically motivated neural networks. …
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Computing Equilibria in Colonel Blotto by Applying Counterfactual Regret Minimization Using a Layered Graph Representation
… different battlefields, and it is scored by a winner-take-all rule. Colonel Blotto has historically been difficult to solve due to its immense action space. [2] was the first to formulate the game in a linear program and later, [3] was able to greatly improve their formulation in practice by …
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An Empirical Test of the Relative State Model with Texas Holdem Poker Scenarios
This study empirically tested predictions from a new evolutionary model of risky decision-making, the relative state model (RSM), using Texas holdem poker scenarios. The RSM suggests that risk taking is a product of one of two interacting pathways—need (desperation) and ability (affordance). …
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Industry Platforms: Case Studies to Measure Platform Capabilities for US Unicorns
… generates a ‘platform strength’ metric and allows identification of the platform activity with the most potential towards a winner take all or most case. The author further proposes combining this matrix with a system dynamic approach to identify how differing business activities can boost …
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A dynamic model of competition
… state coexistence between technologies. It allows for shifts from one mode to another during the evolution of the technologies. Lastly, it provides modifications to strategies meant to achieve "winner-take-all" scenario coveted in business.
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Effects of politicization on the regime, policy subsystem, and agency levels: a case study of the Commonwealth of Virginia
… of public administration theories that call upon career administrators to act as constitutional officers, responsive to both the legislature and the executive as well as their own constitutional duties. Executive aggrandizement also invites legislative retaliation, potentially leaving …
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Essays In Mortgage Markets And Public Investment Cycles
… inaction. The third chapter shows that a winner-take-all electoral system is better than a proportional system for economic growth-enhancing public investment since it reduces the likelihood and size of coalition governments. Chapter 1 investigates how statistical discrimination by …
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Essays on the Economics of Science and Innovation
… the impact of losing a priority race (colloquially known as getting “scooped”) on subsequent publication and career outcomes. To do so, we take advantage of data from structural biology where the nature of the scientific process together with the Protein Data Bank — a repository of standardized …
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Neural Computation Through Synaptic Dynamics in Serotonergic Networks
… Functional features of synapses are typically inferred by sampling small ensembles of synapses, yet it is unclear if such subsamples exhibit biases. I developed a statistical framework to address this question, using it to demonstrate that common bulk electrical stimulation methods for …
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Essays in dynamic general equilibrium
… an economy in business cycles with potentially imperfect financial markets. The second chapter investigates an economy in its balanced growth path with heterogeneous firms. The third chapter analyzes dynamic competitions that these firms are potentially engaged in. The first chapter, "Asset …
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Audio computing in the wild: frameworks for big data and small computers
… an event detection system running in a small device that has to process various sensor signals in real time; a lightweight custom chipset for speech enhancement on hand-held devices; instant music analysis engine running on smartphone apps. In all those applications, efficient machine …