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  • 112Channel coordination — (or supply chain coordination) aims at improving supply chain performance by aligning the plans and the objectives of individual enterprises. It usually focuses on inventory management and ordering decisions in distributed inter company settings …

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  • 114List of cognitive biases — A cognitive bias is a pattern of poor judgment, often triggered by a particular situation. Identifying poor judgment, or more precisely, a deviation in judgment, requires a standard for comparison, i.e. good judgment . In scientific… …

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  • 115Harris-Todaro Model — The Harris Todaro Model is an economic model used in development economics and welfare economics to explain some of the issues concerning rural urban migration. The main result of the model is that the migration decision is based on expected… …

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  • 116Idiosyncrasy — Idiosyncrasy, from Greek ιδιοσυγκρασία, idiosunkrasia , a peculiar temperament , habit of body ( idios one s own and syn krasis mixture ) is defined as an individualizing quality or characteristic of a person or group, and is often used to… …

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  • 117Outdoor education — usually refers to organized learning that takes place in the outdoors. Outdoor education programs sometimes involve residential or journey based experiences in which students participate in a variety of adventurous challenges in the form of… …

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  • 118Peltzman Effect — The Peltzman Effect is the hypothesized tendency of people to react to a safety regulation by increasing other risky behavior, offsetting some or all of the benefit of the regulation. It is named after Sam Peltzman, a University of Chicago… …

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  • 119Rank-dependent expected utility — The rank dependent expected utility model (originally called anticipated utility) is a generalized expected utility model of choice under uncertainty, designed to explain the behaviour observed in the Allais paradox, as well as for the… …

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