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The discounting of professional fees has become a cause for concern among South African Quantity Surveying practitioners. These discounts are often 30% to 40% and, in some cases, substantially below the Tariff of Professional Fees published by the South A... see more

Hyperbolic discounting refers to the tendency for people to increasingly choose a smaller-sooner reward over a larger-later reward as the delay occurs sooner rather than later in time. When offered a larger reward in exchange for waiting a set amount of t... see more

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) shows first promising results in patients with severe substance use disorder (SUD), a patient group known to have deficits in self-control. One facet of self-control is the ability to forego smal... see more

The use of constant Social Discount Rates (SDR) in Cost-Benefit Analyses (CBA) has the effect of the excessive contraction of financial terms that are pro-gressively more distant in time. For this reason, the choice of SDR becomes crucial in the ex-ante e... see more

Most theoretical studies explain tuition discounting for high ability students through competition between colleges. This paper highlights an important and previously unrecognized avenue for tuition discounting – asymmetric information about student attri... see more

A method for portfolio formation, based on the logical methodological technique for configuring projects-candidates, which are represented by the S-curves of a cost flow and expected results, has been proposed. The application of the technique makes it po... see more

Nowadays, most loan transactions are contracted by using the exponential discounting as the underlying standard economic model to value this type of financial operations. In a framework of absence of fees to be paid by the borrower, the interest rate of t... see more

The literature on research evaluation has noted important differences in citation time patterns between disciplines, high and low ranked journals and types of publications.  Delays in the receipt of citations suggest that the diffusion of knowledge f... see more

The motivational basis for students’ school outcomes remains an area of great concern. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether academic self-esteem mediates the influence of grades on psychological disengagement.  Data for 453 sec... see more

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