A utility function measures a consumer’s preference and satisfaction with different goods or services. As part of rational choice theory, it helps economists analyze how consumers make decisions to ...

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The Austrian economics framework shows that subjective valuation is not shown to be arbitrary, but rather purposeful, as ...

The stock market often has its ups and downs but there are ways to mitigate risk. When the market gets rocky, many investors turn to utility stocks to hedge their riskier investments. These stocks ...

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In my conception of the Affect Management Framework (AMF; Haynes-LaMotte, 2025), affect is defined as an evaluative common currency in consciousness that is attached to the brain’s goals and can be ...

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This programme is based in the School of Economics and Finance (SEF) on Queen Mary’s Mile End campus. Applications for the September 2026 intake opens in November 2025 and closes on 15th January 2026.

Abstract: The incorporation of the cognitive radio (CR) technology as a spectrum management tool in satellite communication has attracted considerable research attention because the CR allows the ...

Each function in this library is tested thoroughly and is not deoptimized by v8 (except some logging and comparison functions that can't be implemented without deoptimizations). This library ...

Gogu is a versatile, comprehensive, reusable and efficient concurrent-safe utility functions and data structures library taking advantage of the Go generics. It was inspired by other well known and ...