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Increasing benefits in one-time public goods does not promote cooperation Open

Natalie Struwe, Esther Blanco, James M. Walker · 2024

The long tradition of research on cooperation includes a well-established finding that individuals respond to the degree of conflict between self- and collective interests (that is, the relative benefits from cooperation) in providing publ…

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Элинор Остром, Roy S. Gardner, James M. Walker, Arun Agrawal, William Blomquist · 2024

of FIFA produced by them will be FIFA 23.Afterward, the game will be called EA Sports FC and the FIFA label will revert to the international governing body of soccer to license to someone else.This book will largely refer to EA Sports FC w…

Isolation of Naegleria lustrarea n. sp. (Excavata, Discoba, Heterolobosea) from the feces of Ambystoma annulatum (Ringed Salamander) in Northwest Arkansas Open

Brian M. Becker, Idan Banson, James M. Walker, Anant Deshwal, Matthew W. Brown , et al. · 2024

The salamander, Ambystoma annulatum , is considered a “species of special concern” in the state of Arkansas, USA, due to its limited geographic range, specialized habitat requirements and low population size. Although metazoan parasites ha…

High-fidelity and Fault-tolerant Teleportation of a Logical Qubit using Transversal Gates and Lattice Surgery on a Trapped-ion Quantum Computer Open

Ciarán Ryan-Anderson, Natalie C. Brown, Charles H. Baldwin, Joan Dreiling, Clémence Foltz , et al. · 2024

Quantum state teleportation is commonly used in designs for large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers. Using Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion quantum processor, we implement the first demonstration of a fault-tolerant state teleportation cir…

A BRIEF REVIEW OF LIMB ANOMALIES IN LIZARDS AND PRESENCE OF ECTRODACTILY IN Aspidoscelis costatus (SQUAMATA: TEIIDAE) Open

Edgar De La Rosa Silva, Aldo Gómez Benitez, Daniel Sánchez Manjarrez, Edgar Oviedo Hernández, Gabriel Andrade Soto , et al. · 2023

Whiptail lizards have been reported to survive serious wounds inflicted during collection by humans and failed predation attacks. Thus, it appears that these lizards can survive a variety of limb-specific injuries, though rapid movement is…

Beyond the Meta: Leveraging Game Design Parameters for Patch-Agnostic Esport Analitics Open

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Florian Block, James M. Walker, Anders Drachen · 2023

Esport games comprise a sizeable fraction of the global games market, and is the fastest growing segment in games. This has given rise to the domain of esports analytics, which uses telemetry data from games to inform players, coaches, bro…

Considerable gene flow in troglomorphic cockroach species across a vast subterranean landscape Open

Kyle M. Ewart, Toby G. L. Kovacs, James M. Walker, Nikolai J. Tatarnic, Huon L. Clark , et al. · 2023

Aim There has been growing interest in non‐cave subterranean habitats and their influence on the evolution of troglomorphic (i.e. ‘subterranean adapted’) species. Studies on the diversification of aquatic subterranean organisms in these ha…

Beyond the Meta: Leveraging Game Design Parameters for Patch-Agnostic Esport Analytics Open

Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat, Florian Block, James M. Walker, Anders Drachen · 2023

Esport games comprise a sizeable fraction of the global games market, and is the fastest growing segment in games. This has given rise to the domain of esports analytics, which uses telemetry data from games to inform players, coaches, bro…

Power Asymmetry in Repeated Play of Provision and Appropriation Games Open

James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj, James M. Walker · 2023

Competition among public good providers for donor rewards Open

Natalie Struwe, Esther Blanco, James M. Walker · 2022

We present experimental evidence for decision settings where public good providers compete for endogenous rewards which are donations (transfers) offered by outside donors. Donors receive benefits from public good provision but cannot prov…

A Conformer-based Waveform-domain Neural Acoustic Echo Canceller Optimized for ASR Accuracy Open

Sankaran Panchapagesan, Arun Narayanan, Turaj Zakizadeh Shabestary, Shuai Shao, N. T. Howard , et al. · 2022

Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) is essential for accurate recognition of queries spoken to a smart speaker that is playing out audio. Previous work has shown that a neural AEC model operating on log-mel spectral features (denoted "logmel"…

Mask scalar prediction for improving robust automatic speech recognition Open

Arun Narayanan, James M. Walker, Sankaran Panchapagesan, N. T. Howard, Yuma Koizumi · 2022

Using neural network based acoustic frontends for improving robustness of streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is challenging because of the causality constraints and the resulting distortion that the frontend processing in…

A Conformer-based ASR Frontend for Joint Acoustic Echo Cancellation,\n Speech Enhancement and Speech Separation Open

Tom O’Malley, Arun Narayanan, Quan Wang, Alex Park, James M. Walker , et al. · 2021

We present a frontend for improving robustness of automatic speech\nrecognition (ASR), that jointly implements three modules within a single model:\nacoustic echo cancellation, speech enhancement, and speech separation. This is\nachieved b…

Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments Open

Esther Blanco, Natalie Struwe, James M. Walker · 2021

Taxonomic hypotheses and the biogeography of speciation in the Tiger Whiptail complex (Aspidoscelis tigris: Squamata, Teiidae) Open

Tyler K. Chafin, Marlis R. Douglas, Whitney J. B. Anthonysamy, Brian K. Sullivan, James M. Walker , et al. · 2021

Biodiversity in southwestern North America has a complex biogeographic history involving tectonism interspersed with climatic fluctuations. This yields a contemporary pattern replete with historic idiosyncrasies often difficult to interpre…

Journal of economic behavior & organization / Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments Open

Esther Blanco, Natalie Struwe, James M. Walker · 2021

This study presents novel evidence showing that group payments distributed proportional to effort are as effective as payments targeted to individuals in increasing public good provision. The decision setting includes donors who make trans…

TwitchChat: A Dataset for Exploring Livestream Chat Open

Charles Ringer, Mihalis A. Nicolaou, James M. Walker · 2020

Most natural language processing research focuses on modelling and understanding text formed of complete sentences with correct spelling and grammar. However, livestream chat is drastically different. Viewers are typically writing short me…

Aspidoscelis costatus costatus (Squamata, Teiidae): high elevation clutch production for a population of whiptail lizards Open

Gisela Granados‐González, Carlos Pérez-Almazán, Aldo Gómez-Benítez, James M. Walker, Oswaldo Hernández‐Gallegos · 2020

Clutch size and number of clutches per reproductive cycle are important life history traits that can be influenced by anatomical, physiological, evolutionary, and ecological factors. This report on the clutch size and number of clutches of…

Hybridization between Whiptail Lizards in Texas: Aspidoscelis laredoensis and A. Gularis, with Notes on Reproduction of a Hybrid Open

Charles J. Cole, Herbert C. Dessauer, Mark A. Paulissen, James M. Walker · 2020

Karyotypes and allozyme data for 32 genetic loci overwhelmingly support the conclusion that Aspidoscelis laredoensis is a diploid all-female species that had a hybrid origin between A. gularis × A. sexlineatus. Comparisons of allozymes in …

Home range of the parthenogenetic lizard Aspidoscelis maslini (FRiTTS, 1969), on a beach strand Open

Oswaldo Hernández‐Gallegos, Ana Esthela Lopez Moreno, Fausto R. Méndez de la Cruz, James M. Walker · 2018

Se logró la caracterización del ámbito hogareño de una lagartija microendémica de la Península de Yucatán.

Abundance, color pattern variation, life cycle, and reproduction of the triploid parthenogenetic lizard Aspidoscelis uniparens (Squamata: Teiidae) in Chihuahua, Mexico Open

James M. Walker, Julio A. Lemos‐Espinal, James E. Cordes, Hobart M. Smith · 2018

Abundance, color pattern variation, life cycle, and reproduction of the triploid parthenogenetic lizard Aspidoscelis uniparens (Squamata: Teiidae) in Chihuahua, Mexico. We have observed the triploid parthenogenetic lizard Aspidoscelis unip…

Transforming the future of health together: The Learning Health Systems Consensus Action Plan Open

Joshua C. Rubin, Jonathan C. Silverstein, Charles P. Friedman, Rebecca Kush, Winston Anderson , et al. · 2018

The Learning Health Community is an emergent global multistakeholder grassroots incipient movement bonded together by a set of consensus Core Values Underlying a National‐Scale Person‐Centered Continuous Learning Health System developed at…

Medication Safety in Two Intensive Care Units of a Community Teaching Hospital After Electronic Health Record Implementation: Sociotechnical and Human Factors Engineering Considerations Open

Pascale Carayon, Tosha B. Wetterneck, Randi Cartmill, Mary Ann Blosky, Roger Brown , et al. · 2017

Objective The aim of the study was to assess the impact of Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation on medication safety in two intensive care units (ICUs). Methods Using a prospective pre-post design, we assessed 1254 consecutive adm…

Externalities in appropriation: responses to probabilistic losses Open

Esther Blanco, Tobias Haller, James M. Walker · 2017

Using an appropriation game setting, we examine individual responses to changes in a groups’ vulnerability to a probabilistic loss ( L ) of a public good. The probabilistic loss parameter entails losing 10, 50 or 90% of the value of the pu…

Provision of public goods: Unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders Open

Esther Blanco, Tobias Haller, James M. Walker · 2016

The provision of public goods often benefits a larger group than those who actively provide the public good. In an experimental setting, this paper addresses institutional arrangements between subjects who can provide a public good (inside…

Role of Social Networks and Individual Endowments in Meeting Fundraising Targets: An Economic Experiment Open

Simanti Banerjee, Ursula W. Kreitmair, James M. Walker · 2016

BLS Spotlight on Statistics: Union Membership In The United States Open

Megan Dunn, James M. Walker · 2016

[Excerpt] This Spotlight on Statistics examines historical trends in union membership among employed wage and salary workers. It also examines union membership by a variety of demographic characteristics.

Experimental Development of Sealed-Bid Auction Theory; Calibrating Controls for Risk Aversion Open

James C. Cox, Vernon L. Smith, James M. Walker · 2016

This article offers a brief survey of bidding theory in high price auctions, of experimental studies of behavior in such auctions, and of the interplay between the design and results of the experiments and efforts to further develop the th…

How Do Residents Spend Their Time in the Intensive Care Unit? Open

Randi Cartmill, Kara Schultz Van Roy, Pascale Carayon, Matthew B. Weinger, Jason Slagle , et al. · 2015

PERCEIVED IMPACT OF CARE MANAGERS’ WORK ON PATIENT AND CLINICIAN OUTCOMES Open

Pascale Carayon, Ann Schoofs Hundt, Peter Hoonakker, Sarah Kianfar, Bashar Alyousef , et al. · 2015

Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the contributions of care management as perceived by care managers themselves.Study Design: Focus groups and interviews with care managers who coordinate care for chronic obstructive pulmonary…

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