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Building a kinetic Monte Carlo model with a chosen accuracy.
The kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is a popular modeling approach for reaching large materials length and time scales. The KMC dynamics is erroneous when atomic processes that are relevant to the dynamics are missing from the...
An Empirical Analysis of the Joint Effects of Shoppers’ Goals and Attribute Display on Shoppers’ Evaluations
This article develops a decision-making framework that highlights how display of numeric attribute information (e.g., display of calorie information) and shoppers’ goals (i.e., having a diet focus vs. a taste focus) jointly...
An Empirical Analysis of the Joint Effects of Shoppers’ Goals and Attribute Display on Shoppers’ Evaluations
This article develops a decision-making framework that highlights how display of numeric attribute information (e.g., display of calorie information) and shoppers’ goals (i.e., having a diet focus vs. a taste focus) jointly...
Psychosocial interventions for addiction-affected families in Low and Middle Income Countries

Aim To review the literature on psychosocial interventions for addiction affected family members in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Methods A systematic review with a detailed search strategy focussing on psychosocial...

Sentiment Analysis of Multilingual Tweets Based on Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Multilingual Sentiment analysis plays an important role in a country like India with many languages as the style of expression varies in different languages. The Indian people speak in total 22 different languages and with the...
‘He was trapped in his own web’—Dependent drinking as a poverty trap

Introduction and Aims: Of the Indian population, 2.7% have alcohol dependence, the most severe of alcohol use disorders. Alcohol use disorders have previously been found to be correlated with a range of negative economic...

Property Rights and Loss Aversion in Contests

We analyze the effects of property rights and the resulting loss aversion on contest outcomes. We study three situations: in “gain” two players start with no prize and make sunk bids to win a prize; in “loss” both the players...

Historical Geography of Vanga-Samatata and Harikela
Abhijit Datta
Feb 19, 2020
The eastern part of Indian sub-continent is known as Bengal. It carried different names in different times indicating the whole of Bengal. On the other hand, since ancient times to pre-Mughal period Bengal was divided into...
Gambling in India

Gambling has been a popular pastime in ancient and colonial India, and continues to be in modern India. Problem gambling is an important public health issue because of its prevalence, increased risk to certain vulnerable...

The Trade and Commerce in Early Bengal Till the Establishment of the Muslim rule with Special Reference to the System of Coinage
Abhijit Datta
Dec 21, 2019
Bengal has a glaring history of brisk commercial connection with different parts of Asia and Africa since long past. There are plenty of evidences in our store to irradiate important information upon that aspect of history....
Gambling in India

Gambling has been a popular pastime in ancient and colonial India, and continues to be in modern India. Problem gambling is an important public health issue because of its prevalence, increased risk to certain vulnerable...

Coping strategies and support structures of addiction affected families
Introduction: Despite the large burden of a relative's drinking on their family members, the latter's perspectives and experiences are largely neglected. The aims of this article are to assess the coping strategies used by...
Stigma towards dependent drinking and its role on caregiving burden

Introduction: Stigma towards alcohol use disorders is prevalent in India and can lead to social exclusion and hamper treatment access and outcomes. Family members of individuals with dependent drinking are often their primary...

Psychosocial interventions for addiction-affected families in Low and Middle Income Countries

Aim To review the literature on psychosocial interventions for addiction affected family members in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Methods A systematic review with a detailed search strategy focussing on psychosocial...

Stigma towards dependent drinking and its role on caregiving burden

Introduction: Stigma towards alcohol use disorders is prevalent in India and can lead to social exclusion and hamper treatment access and outcomes. Family members of individuals with dependent drinking are often their primary...

Group Size and Matching Protocol in Contests
We investigate the effects of group size and matching protocol in Tullock contest experiments. In a 2x2 factorial design we implement partner and random stranger matching protocols in contests between two and between three...
Identity and Group Conflict
We experimentally investigate the effects of real and minimal identities on group conflict. In turn we provide a direct empirical test of the hypotheses coined by Amartya Sen that the salience of a real identity escalates...
Group Size and Matching Protocol in Contests
We investigate the effects of group size and matching protocol in Tullock contest experiments. In a 2x2 factorial design we implement partner and random stranger matching protocols in contests between two and between three...
Teaching Immigration for Reconciliation
Soma Chatterjee
Sep 24, 2018
This essay takes as its point of departure the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s recommendations for facilitating understanding of reconciliation between “Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians,” specifically, the...
Identity and Group Conflict
We experimentally investigate the effects of real and minimal identities on group conflict. In turn we provide a direct empirical test of the hypotheses coined by Amartya Sen that the salience of a real identity escalates...
‘He was trapped in his own web’—Dependent drinking as a poverty trap

Introduction and Aims: Of the Indian population, 2.7% have alcohol dependence, the most severe of alcohol use disorders. Alcohol use disorders have previously been found to be correlated with a range of negative economic...

Supporting addictions affected families effectively (SAFE)

Aims: To explore the effect of the relatives’ drinking on their family members, and the preliminary impact of the 5-step method intervention on the adverse effect of the relatives’ drinking on their family members. Methods...

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