In tournaments in various sports that feature one-on-one competition, the trophy is sometimes prominently displayed near the athletes during the final. Based on recent research on subtle reward cues, we propose that such trophies have the potential to induce choking under pressure in the match favourites, who are known to be most at risk. To test this idea, we analysed real-life tennis performa...

Why do states persist in offering large financial incentives to firms to induce them to invest in the state, a practice commonly derided as “smoke-stack chasing”? The conventional wisdom is that while incentives may be a poor long term economic development strategy, they are a good political strategy for governors seeking to improve economic conditions and political support in the short term. U...

We investigated the livestock farms surrounding the Waterberg Plateau Park in north-central Namibia to assess farmer attitudes, management techniques, financial impacts, as well as the potential benefits of tourism and trophy hunting, with respect to leopard Panthera pardus conservation. Farmers were asked about their use of six livestock husbandry techniques and farmers who employed at least o...

Trophy quality in hunted ungulates northeastern Slovakia (Cetartiodactyla). Based on the data from trophy hunting statistics (1997–2019), this paper describes changes potential economic value evaluation of (PETV) by comparison two groups areas, (1) grounds with wolf protection (since 2014), and (2) without protection. In both areas long-term aspect PETV had an increasing trend roe deer, wild bo...

Conservation scientists are increasingly focusing on the drivers of human behavior and on the implications of various sources of uncertainty for management decision making. Trophy hunting has been suggested as a conservation tool because it gives economic value to wildlife, but recent examples show that overharvesting is a substantial problem and that data limitations are rife. We use a case st...

This paper describes the Thumbs Up! Twente system, a natural language generation system designed for the GIVE 2.5 Challenge. The purpose of the system is to guide a user through a virtual 3D environment by generating instructions in real-time. Our system focuses on motivating the user to keep him playing the game and trying to find the trophy.

Abstract Throughout much of the pre-Hispanic Andes, bioarchaeological and iconographic evidence shows that decapitation, dismemberment, display human heads were important aspects ritual practices. Researchers have debated about social identities these decapitated heads—were they revered local ancestors, non-local enemies captured in raids or war, locals injured distant combat partially repatria...