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Hindered and compression solid settling functions – sensor data collection, practical model identification and validation
Secondary settling tanks (SSTs) are the most hydraulically sensitive unit operations in activated sludge water resource recovery facilities (WRRF). Mathematical models for predicting activated sludge solids settling velocity...
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Hindered and compression solid settling functions – sensor data collection, practical model identification and validation
Secondary settling tanks (SSTs) are the most hydraulically sensitive unit operations in activated sludge water resource recovery facilities (WRRF). Mathematical models for predicting activated sludge solids settling velocity...
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The effect of increasing Women's autonomy on primary and repeated caesarean sections in Brazil.
Caesarean section (C-section) rates continue to rise globally. Yet, there is little consensus about the key determinants of rising C-section rates and the sources of variation in C-section rates across the world. While...
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Anxiety and depression among medical doctors in Catalonia, Italy, and the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare workers have had the longest and most direct exposure to COVID-19 and consequently may suffer from poor mental health. We conducted one of the first repeated multi-country analysis of the mental wellbeing of medical...
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Anxiety and depression among medical doctors in Catalonia, Italy, and the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare workers have had the longest and most direct exposure to COVID-19 and consequently may suffer from poor mental health. We conducted one of the first repeated multi-country analysis of the mental wellbeing of medical...
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The Impact of Dissonant Tie on Innovation Performance of Digital Transformation
The acquisition of innovation performance through social network relationship resources is a common behavior pattern of organizational members. Recent social network research suggests that negative ties may also have a positive...
Private agenda and re-election incentives
Javier Rivas
Apr 01, 2016
Consider a politician who has to take two sequential decisions during his term in office. For each decision, the politician faces a trade-off between taking what he believes to be the decision that generates a public benefit...
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Using misleading online media articles to teach critical assessment of scientific findings about weight loss
Javier Gonzalez
Sep 01, 2018
In this paper, a teaching strategy that exploits misleading media articles covering peer-reviewed research is described. This task attempts to encourage university students to not take media articles on obesity physiology at...
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Private agenda and re-election incentives
Javier Rivas
Apr 01, 2016
Consider a politician who has to take two sequential decisions during his term in office. For each decision, the politician faces a trade-off between taking what he believes to be the decision that generates a public benefit...
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Using misleading online media articles to teach critical assessment of scientific findings about weight loss
Javier Gonzalez
Sep 01, 2018
In this paper, a teaching strategy that exploits misleading media articles covering peer-reviewed research is described. This task attempts to encourage university students to not take media articles on obesity physiology at...
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The effects of the market structure on the adoption of evolving technologies
Javier Rivas
Dec 01, 2010
We study the speed at which technologies are adopted depending on how the market power is shared between the firms that sell technologies and the firms that buy them. Our results suggest that, because of a double marginalization...
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Peptidergic Signaling Controls the Dynamics of Sickness Behavior in Caenorhabditis Elegans
Javier Marquina-Solis
Jan 01, 0001
Disease is accompanied by modifications to host behavior that promote recovery and survival. The neural and molecular mechanisms that rule the switch to a sickness behavioral state are an active area of research. One established...
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The effects of the market structure on the adoption of evolving technologies
Javier Rivas
Dec 01, 2010
We study the speed at which technologies are adopted depending on how the market power is shared between the firms that sell technologies and the firms that buy them. Our results suggest that, because of a double marginalization...
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Common value elections with private information and informative priors
Javier Rivas, F Mengel
Jul 01, 2017
We study efficiency and information aggregation in common value elections with continuous private signals and informative priors. We show that small elections are not generally efficient and that there are equilibria where some...
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Paradoxical second-meal phenomenon in the acute postexercise period
Javier T. Gonzalez
Sep 01, 2014
Attenuating blood glucose excursions in the postprandial state have the capacity to reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and mortality, even in apparently healthy populations. Nearly a century ago, it was...
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Mechanism design and bounded rationality
Javier Rivas
Nov 01, 2015
In this paper we study the effects of bounded rationality in mechanism design problems. We model bounded rationality by assuming that in the presence of an incentive compatible mechanism, players behave as if their types were in...
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Mechanism design and bounded rationality
Javier Rivas
Nov 01, 2015
In this paper we study the effects of bounded rationality in mechanism design problems. We model bounded rationality by assuming that in the presence of an incentive compatible mechanism, players behave as if their types were in...
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Symposium 3:The mechanisms of nutrient interactions

The objective of this review paper is to evaluate the impact of undertaking aerobic exercise in the overnight-fasted v. fed-state, in the context of optimising the health benefits of regular physical activity. Conducting a...

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Business Intelligence Readiness Assessment for a Shopping Mall
This case takes place at SCC, a recognized shopping mall located in Cali, Colombia. In March 2018, Javier Ortiz, CEO of SCC, contacted a group of researchers to identify the key success factors before the implementation of...
Jurilinguistics
Abstract: This is the guest editors’ introductory paper to the special issue “Situating jurilinguistics across cultures using translation and discourse approaches.” The introduction showcases the interdisciplinary vocation of...
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