I explore a class of probabilistic pairwise matching social settings without formal prices. I nevertheless find that they may be interpreted as implicit markets, equilibrated by probabilities. The seminar focuses on two primary examples: I first explore a perfect foresight equilibrium of a directed search model of journal rejection rates when papers have uncertain quality. I then turn to a appl...

Traditionally public health initiatives have focused on questionnaires and short interviews to identify the depth of local knowledge about a particular disease or to identify cultural barriers to health programs. Global Health by Mark Nichter (2008) demonstrates how qualitative in-depth ethnographic studies enhance our understanding of the relationship between local beliefs, rhetoric, and publi...

The problem of attribution and forgery in artwork is quickly becoming more acute with the advance of both the technology and experience of painting forgers. Sometimes even an experienced expert is not able to detect counterfeits that have been made with almost the same materials and technique as the original. Further, even the substitution of the signature of a famous artist on a painting can d...

Recent developments, from the mass release of sensitive diplomatic cables by Wikileaks to the social media–fueled revolutions and protests currently gripping the Middle East and North Africa, have underscored the increasingly vital role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in geopolitical affairs. Further, a wealth of recent research demonstrates the growing importance of digita...

Food Science and TechnologyEarly View Review ArticleFree Access Has COVID-19 caused a significant increase in observed food fraud incidents? First published: 01 March 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/fsat.3510_1.xAboutSectionsPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms Conditions of Use check box below share ve...

Semantic externalism in contemporary philosophy of language typically – and often tacitly – combines two supervenience claims about idiolectical meaning (i.e., meaning in the language system of an individual speaker). The first claim is that the meaning of a word in a speaker’s idiolect may vary without any variation in her intrinsic, physical properties. The second is that the meaning of a wor...

Wine counterfeiting is not a new problem, however, the situation in China has been going worse even after Hong Kong manifested itself as a wine trading and distribution center with abolishing all taxes on wine in 2008. The most basic method, printing a fake label with a subtly misspelled brand name or a slightly different logo in hopes of fooling wine consumers, has been common to other luxury-...

In their article "The Practice of PR and the Canterbury Pilgrims" Jay Ruud and Stacey Jones argue that the concepts of relationship management discussed by public relations scholars can be applied to the study of literary characters, specifically here to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath, and The Pardoner. Essentially, what PR scholars call the expression of communal relationship val...