Sentence examples for fixed stake from inspiring English sources

Size was also manipulated in the Boksem and De Cremer study, but size in their study was completely confounded with fairness, because they used a fixed stake and a variable offer.

As setnets they are anchored or fixed by stakes; as drift nets they drift freely or with a fishing craft.

Financial investors' expectations for returns are significantly higher — unlimited in an ownership stake or fixed in terms of an interest rate — than the average person's expectation for a care package or sample of the eventual product produced.

Some other methods are dying out: stake nets, fixed to the bottom throughout the season; haul seines, in which fish are trapped rather than entangled; and fyke nets, cone-shaped smaller nets mostly used to catch herring.

Each hatchling was fitted with a lycra harness attached to a monofilament tether that was fixed to a wooden stake attached to the top of the tank.

It has jettisoned the traditional business model, defined by heavy fixed costs and a large stake in plant and equipment.

Auto companies have a lot of leverage once they get past their fixed costs, and Kerkorian's stake could be worth hundreds of millions more if GM turns around or divests businesses like mortgage financing, insurance or its Japanese affiliates.

The stake was also fixed, and varied equally between trials of low (£3) and high (£9) magnitude.

We examine a twice-played prisoners' dilemma in which the total of the stakes in the two periods is fixed, but the distribution of these stakes can be varied across periods.

The original dry hedge consisted mainly of samples of the dwarf Indian Plum fixed to the line with stakes.

Most weevils were caught with the sticky stake design, made from a pointed wooden stake inserted vertically into the ground with a band of polybutene sticker around the circumference and a plastic board fixed horizontally on top of the stake to provide protection of the sticky surface from rain.