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    Why Jokes are Funny and the Language of the New Testament

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    Agricultural Exceptionalism in Vermont Land Use Law

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    Emergence of social networks via direct and indirect reciprocity

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    Many models of social network formation implicitly assume that network properties are static in steady-state. In contrast, actual social networks are highly dynamic: allegiances and collaborations expire and may or may not be renewed at a later date. Moreover, empirical studies show that human social networks are dynamic at the individual level but static at the global level: individuals' degree rankings change considerably over time, whereas network-level metrics such as network diameter and clustering coefficient are relatively stable. There have been some attempts to explain these properties of empirical social networks using agent-based models in which agents play social dilemma games with their immediate neighbours, but can also manipulate their network connections to strategic advantage. However, such models cannot straightforwardly account for reciprocal behaviour based on reputation scores ("indirect reciprocity"), which is known to play an important role in many economic interactions. In order to account for indirect reciprocity, we model the network in a bottom-up fashion: the network emerges from the low-level interactions between agents. By so doing we are able to simultaneously account for the effect of both direct reciprocity (e.g. "tit-for-tat") as well as indirect reciprocity (helping strangers in order to increase one's reputation). This leads to a strategic equilibrium in the frequencies with which strategies are adopted in the population as a whole, but intermittent cycling over different strategies at the level of individual agents, which in turn gives rise to social networks which are dynamic at the individual level but stable at the network level

    O.R.,Statistics,A.I.- the potential for interdisciplinary progress

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    This paper examines the need for O.R. workers to become more involved in the development of A.I. A brief outline of A.I. is provided noting problems, techniques and objectives similar to those found in O.R. This outline gives an indication of how interdisciplinary development might proceed and indicates the direction in which O.R. training should be progressin

    A miniature 1/4-inch diameter 24-pin plug and receptacle

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    Miniature plug and receptacle, which eliminates the need for permanent fixed leads, is used on wind-tunnel force balances, in the interface connections of microelectronic modular assemblies, and in electric and electronic systems where subsystems must be removed or interchanged

    Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Abstracts 2005

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    Proceedings of the Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Regional Conference held at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2005
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