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The Sale Sharks owner released a statement saying: "...for the avoidance of doubt, our offer is conditional on a CVA [Company Voluntary Arrangement] and the delivery of [owner] Craig Whyte's shares.
Standard theory predicts that the incentives could operate by raising the implicit price of unsafe sex (risking losing the conditional cash transfer) or by bringing the rewards of risk avoidance much closer to the present (eg, a conditional cash transfer within weeks may be more powerful for some people than the spectre of developing AIDS many years in the future) or both.
The law of conditional sales contracts came, however, in this century, to recognize that avoidance of forfeiture was more important than retention of title, so that conditional sales, like chattel mortgages, were enforced in such a way as to preserve the debtor's equity.
Conditional mutants lacking GLT-1 in VTA astrocytes fail to express the tested avoidance behaviors, but maintain preference for reward.
The singularity avoidance algorithm is implemented on a six-core CPU because it requires numerous conditional branchings and complicated data structures for the mesh topology.
It is significant that the conditional loss of GLT-1 eradicates dynamical control of inhibition in the VTA and concurrently reduces avoidance behavior, but preserves approach to reward.
Our model can be viewed as an extension of inbreeding avoidance models for the evolution of dispersal [ 13- 15], as we assume conditional dispersal of individuals carrying poor genomes – individuals that are more likely to experience severe inbreeding depression.
Adaptive survival mechanisms, conferred by evolutionary selective pressures, are necessarily tuned to avoidance of salient loss and, in this context, it is unsurprising to find such a striking asymmetry in behavior conditional on the hedonic salience of an outcome.
