We brie‡y review two basic models of settlement bargaining based on concepts from information economics and game theory. We then discuss how these models have been generalized to address issues that arise when there are more than two litigants with related cases. Linkages between cases can arise due to exogenous factors such as correlated culpability or damages, or they can be generated by disc...

Dietary strategies to reduce discretionary choice intake are commonly utilized in practice, but evidence on their relative efficacy is lacking. The aim was to compare the potential impact on nutritional intake of three strategies to reducing discretionary choices intake in the Australian adult (19-90 years) population. Dietary simulation modelling using data from the National Nutrition and Phys...

This article contends that it is time to take a critical look at a series of binary categories which have dominated the scholarly and reform epistemologies of the sentencing decision process. These binaries are: rules versus discretion; reason versus emotion; offence versus offender; normative principles versus incoherence; aggravating versus mitigating factors; and aggregate/tariff consistency...

Internet commerce continues to grow rapidly and is expected to exceed $5 trillion in 2005. Nevertheless concern for information privacy has been identified as a major consideration constraining many from internet consumerism. Trust has also been identified as an antecedent to willingness/intent to transact, buy or purchase. This research seeks to specify and support a model that involves additi...

Food-based Dietary Guidelines (FBDGs) promote healthy dietary patterns. Nutrient-based Front-of-Pack Labelling (NBFOPL) schemes rate the 'healthiness' of individual foods. This study aimed to investigate whether the Australian Health Star Rating (HSR) system aligns with the Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADGs). The Mintel Global New Products Database was searched for every new food product disp...

When participants allocated time across two tasks (in which they generated as many words as possible from a fixed set of letters) they made frequent switches. This allowed them to allocate more time to the more productive task (i.e. the set of letters from which more words could be generated), even though times between the last word and the switch decision (“giving-up times”) were higher in the...