Multidisciplinary Initiatives: Recent submissions
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The relationship of shift work disorder with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress
Published 2024Shift workers commonly suffer from disturbed sleep, which is known to affect mental health in other populations. Shift work disorder (SWD) is characterized by complaints of insomnia and/or excessive daytime sleepiness ...Open AccessArticle -
Choosers Adapt Value Coding to the Environment, But Do Not Attain Efficiency
Published 2023We investigate how human choosers adapt their value encoding strategy to the statistics of the choice environment. Specifically, we ask whether the human value encoding mechanism exhibits divisive normalization only in the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Digitalization of Special Economic Zones in China
Published 2023-04-19Special Economic Zones (SEZ) have become the forefront in China to test legal and technological reforms for digital trade. This chapter explores three cutting-edge case studies in China’s SEZs: the Beijing blockchain-based ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Australia’s Response to the China Threat: The Case for Engagement
Published 2023-04-19The dominance of the China Threat discourse in Australia’s public affairs suggests poor prospects for any continued Australia-China relations, let alone positive interactions of mutual benefit. An exploration of alternative ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The Belt and Road Initiative as Ten Policy Commandments: Review of Xi’s Kazakhstan and Indonesia Launch Speeches
Published 2023-04-19In 2019 Foreign Policy described China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as “the most talked about and least defined buzzword of this decade”. Given that confusion and the importance of leader political speeches in China, ...Open AccessWorking Paper