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Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

by Morton, Jennifer
[2019]

“...The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourishUpward...”

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Sleep and the Price of Plasticity: From Synaptic and Cellular Homeostasis to Memory Consolidation and Integration

by Tononi, Giulio Cirelli, Chiara Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (08.01.2014)

“...Sleep is universal, tightly regulated, and its loss impairs cognition. But why does the brain need to disconnect from the environment for hours every day? The...”

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Slack Time and Innovation

by Agrawal, Ajay Catalini, Christian Goldfarb, Avi Luo, Hong Published in Organization science (Providence, R.I.) (01.12.2018)

“...The relationship between slack resources and innovation is complex, with the literature linking slack to both breakthrough innovations and resource...”

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Who does not intend to retire? Mothers' opportunity costs and compensation at later ages in Europe

by Kim, Younga Rizzi, Ester Lucia Published in Ageing & Society (2019)

“...Research investigating the association between women’s work–family trajectories and their retirement intentions is limited. Studies considering how different...”

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What a Crisis Teaches Us About Innovation

by Elsbeth Johnson Fiona Murray Published in MIT Sloan management review (01.01.2021)

“...Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention. As the COVID-19 crisis spread during the first half of 2020, organizations innovated at a much...”

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Entrepreneur opportunity costs and intended venture growth

by Cassar, Gavin Published in Journal of business venturing (2006)

“...This study investigates how entrepreneur opportunity costs influence the intended future size of new ventures. In particular, using a survey of nascent...”

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Opportunity Cost Consideration

by Stephen A. Spiller Published in The Journal of consumer research (01.12.2011)

“...Normatively, consumers should incorporate opportunity costs into every decision they make, yet behavioral research suggests that consumers consider them...”

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The financial implications of variability in decision to disposition times for patients placed in observation status

by Schreyer, Kraftin E Martin, Richard Published in The American journal of emergency medicine (01.08.2020)

“...A host of variables beyond the control of the ED physician affect ED throughput. In-process time represents the period most directly affected by physician...”

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Rich environments, dull experiences: how environment can exacerbate the effect of constraint on the experience of boredom

by Struk, Andriy A Scholer, Abigail A Danckert, James Seli, Paul Published in Cognition and emotion (02.10.2020)

“...We examined the hypothesis that boredom is likely to occur when opportunity costs are high; that is, when there is a high potential value of engaging in...”

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Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines

by Eli Berman Michael Callen Joseph H. Felter Jacob N. Shapiro Published in The Journal of conflict resolution (01.08.2011)

“...Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The...”

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Pressure injury in Australian public hospitals: a cost-of-illness study

by Nguyen, Kim-Huong Chaboyer, Wendy Whitty, Jennifer A Published in Australian health review (01.06.2015)

“...Pressure injuries (PI) are largely preventable and can be viewed as an adverse outcome of a healthcare admission, yet they affect millions of people and...”

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Opportunity cost of 12 minutes of tardiness of late first case of the day starts

by McHenry, Christopher R Published in The American journal of surgery (01.07.2020)

“...•Delay of First Case Starts.•Causes and Burdens of First Case Delays.•Assessment of Opportunity Cost...”

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A cost-effectiveness threshold based on the marginal returns of cardiovascular hospital spending

by Baal, Pieter Perry-Duxbury, M Bakx, Pieter Versteegh, Matthijs Doorslaer, Eddy Brouwer, Werner Published in Health economics (02.07.2018)

“...textabstractTraditionally, threshold levels of cost-effectiveness have been derived from willingness-to-pay studies, indicating the consumption value of health...”

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Wine and wine tourism experience: a theoretical and conceptual review

by Santos, Vasco Ribeiro Ramos, Paulo Almeida, Nuno Santos-Pavón, Enrique Published in Worldwide hospitality and tourism themes (02.12.2019)

“...Purpose This paper aims to provide a theoretical and conceptual analysis of wine and wine tourism experiences evidencing the current state of the art and...”

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Optimized modeling and opportunity cost analysis for overloaded interconnected dangerous goods in warehouse operations

by Sun, Jing Zhang, Fangwei Lu, Peicheng Yee, Janney Published in Applied mathematical modelling (01.02.2021)

“...•The main contribution of this study is the setting of temporary positions for dangerous goods.•The theoretical innovation point of this study is a novel...”

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