Optimal Foraging Theory
When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory
... precisely. Optimal foraging theory is an explicit account of some of the selection pressures that should have shaped mechanisms for making judgments under uncertainty in foraging ...this ...
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Study of Prestige and Resource Control Using Fish Remains from Cathlapotle, a Plankhouse Village on the Lower Columbia River
... Optimal foraging theory has taken as implicit a direct connection between optimization of foraging and enhanced reproductive fitness based on the common-sense observation that caloric intake ...
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Wolf, Canis lupus , Visits to White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus , Summer Ranges: Optimal Foraging?
... We tested whether Wolf ( Canis lupus ) visits to individual female White-tailed Deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) summer ranges during 2003 and 2004 in northeastern Minnesota were in accord with ...
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Foraging
... acceptable form of carbohydrates is especially pointed. Poor ingredients - ‘wild roots of the pig nut and acorn’- are laboriously transformed into an explicitly disappointing product, ‘the miserable ash cake’. By ...
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Solving Optimal Power Flow Using Modified Bacterial Foraging Algorithm Considering FACTS Devices
... the optimal active power flow dispatch problem incorporating FACTS ...proposed optimal power dispatch for large scale power system using stochastic search al- ...
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Two topics in the theory of optimal trajectory analysis
... ie shown how well known results for the case of' a rocket operating at constant exhaust velocity may be obtained as limits of the more general results obtained in that part... case of op[r] ...
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Stochastic optimal hedge ratio: Theory and evidence
... The minimum variance hedge ratio is widely used by investors to immunize against the price risk. This hedge ratio is usually assumed to be constant across time by practitioners, which might be too restrictive assumption ...
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Measuring the utility of search engine result pages : an information foraging based measure
... Stopping Rank Likelihoods. Table 4 reports the mean likelihood of the stopping rank for each measure over all 673k query impres- sions (NB a higher likelihood is better). As shown in previous work a “shallower” or more ...
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The foraging activity and provisioning strategies of Antarctic fur seals in relation to changes in oceanographic conditions at the Kerguelen Archipelago
... Parameters such as foraging efficiency over a foraging cycle and variability in mean provisioning rates trip duration, were identified as proxies of prey availability within the foraging[r] ...
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Optimal option pricing and trading: a new theory
... Optimal option pricing and trading: a new theory Moawia, Alghalith.[r] ...
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Lifecycle-based Swarm Optimization Method for Constrained Optimization
... Based on biological life cycle theory, this paper proposed a Lifecycle-based Swarm Optimization algorithm. In this algorithm, six operators were employed: chemotactic, assimilation, transposition, crossover, ...
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A new theory of seigniorage and optimal inflation
... The lending operations of every bank are connected to risks, in particular default risk. That is the risk that a borrower goes bankrupt. Whatever the quality of the securities, every private bank demands interest, partly ...
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The Construction of Locally D Optimal Designs by Canonical Forms to an Extension for the Logistic Model
... Logistic regression models for binary response problems are present in a wide variety of industri- al, biological, social and medical experiments; therefore, optimum designs are a valuable tool for experimenters, leading ...
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Foraging behaviour indicates marginal marine habitat for New Zealand sea lions: remnant versus recolonising populations
... their foraging ranges around other sites where food resources would be less abundant or distributed farther away than the 2 sites ...during foraging trips than any other ...their foraging effort ...
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Optimal Control of a Threatened Wildebeest Lion Prey Predator System in the Serengeti Ecosystem
... difference in the predator population with optimal strategy compared to predator population without control while a little decrease in prey species. From Table 1 we see that due to application of construction of ...
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Survey on Optimal Power Flow under Security Constraints
... Dhillon et al. (2000), Simple Genetic Algorithm (SGA) for the OPF solution. The control variables modeled are generated active power output and voltages, transformer taps, shunt devices Branch flow, voltage magnitude and ...
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Optimal control problems for hyperbolic equations with damping terms involving p Laplacian
... The plan of this paper is as follows. In Section , the main results besides notations and assumptions are stated. In Section , we show the existence of an optimal control u ∈ U which minimizes the quadratic cost ...
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Approximation methods for inverse problems governed by nonlinear parabolic systems
... approximate optimal parameters to best least squares estimates for the original innite dimensional constrained ...our optimal parameter convergence theory is the theory for convergence of ...
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Optimal load frequency control in single area power system using PID controller based on bacterial foraging & particle swarm optimization
... Bacterial foraging optimization (BFO) has been investigated to determine the optimal values of PID controller for single area load frequency controller ...
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The Theory of Optimal Taxation: What is the Policy Relevance?
... ferent production sectors. In particular, most academics as well as practitioners appear to agree that if policy makers wish to tax income from capital, they should do so in a ’neutral’ manner, imposing the same effective ...
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