This article focuses on analyzing the neuroeconomic decisions in cocoa producers and impact of this methodology productivity fair trade organic population Nuevo Bambamarca, province Tocache, Peru. The main elements are incentive phase associativity, alignment to macro trends, prospecting country be exported to, type niche market, participation, innovation design prototype, standardization raw m...

We address the freerider problem on P2P networks. We first propose a specific participation metric, which we call a peer’s EigenTrust score. We show that EigenTrust scores accurately capture several different participation criteria. We then propose an incentive scheme that may be used in conjunction with any numerical participation metric. We show that, when these incentives are used in conjunc...

This paper discusses ways to foster cooperative learning through the integration of online communication technology. While the education experts believe constructivism produces a more positive learning experience, the educators are still facing problems in getting students to participate due to numerous reasons such as shy personality, language and cultural barriers. This paper will look into t...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether worksite wellness program participation or achievement of health improvement targets differed according to four incentive types (participation-based, hybrid, outcome-based, and no incentive). METHODS The study included individuals who completed biometric health screenings in both 2013 and 2014 and had elevated metrics in 2013 (baseline year). Multivariate...

Smart cities have become a trend with improved efficiency, resilience, and sustainability, providing citizens high quality of life. With the increasing demand for more participatory bottom–up governance approach, play an active role in process policy making, revolutionizing management smart cities. In example urban infrastructure maintenance, public participation is remarkable as condition clos...

Nowadays, the number of smartphone users is growing rapidly. Recent smartphones equipped with several sensors are convenient apps for collecting information in participatory sensing environment. However, contributing sensing data requires time and monetary cost, which hinder many people from participation. To realize active and efficient sensing activities, incentive mechanism is indispensable....

abstract the aim of this survey is to compare utilization systems (cooperative, private and governmental) methods of energy consumption in soybean production and the evaluation of energy inputs effect in yield of soybean in moghan. for this purpose, the information were collected from 54 private farmers, 14 cooperative members farmers and 14 agro-industry units by questionnaire method. the maxi...

What cartel agreements are possible when firms have private information about production costs? For private cost uncertainty we characterize the set of cartel agreements that can be supported, recognizing incentive and participation constraints. If defection results in either Cournot or Bertrand competition, the incentive problem in large cartels is severe enough to prevent the cartel from achi...