But just about every family or friendly gathering yields a joke from someone who must think they're the first to make it.
Participants' choices were thus modeled using a logistic function, which allows dissociation of the respective impact of "expected reward" (gathering yield), "effort level" (tree height), "probability of success," and "stake" (number of apples) on choice.
Participants were instructed to perform the task as intuitively as possible, by reproducing a behavior they would have in real-life fruit gathering, where the higher a tree trunk is the less easily accessible the fruits are and therefore the harder it is to collect them (high effort level associated with lower gathering yield).
A survey by the bank, which provides grants to Haiti, found that the gathering had yielded plans for more than 10 projects worth over $5 million, said a spokesman, Pablo Bachelet.
It seems likely that women, because of the requirements of pregnancy and nursing, did not generally participate in hunting, but women's work in gathering likely yielded more food value than did hunting.
Although Bosé had helped organize the gathering, he yielded the spotlight to his colleagues, and kept his own remarks brief and self-effacing.
Doubtless, the gathering will yield more headline-grabbing initiatives.
Hopes are rising that the gathering may yield the WTO's first deal of any significance since the conclusion of the Uruguay round of talks in 1994.An agreement is expected to centre on "trade facilitation"—measures like transparent customs rules and investment in infrastructure designed to ease logistical hurdles to trade.
An experiment done to try to prove or disprove the claims of Postelsia harvesters that their gathering methods are sustainable yielded results stating that recovery from collection depended greatly on the season of collection.
A regular Tuesday afternoon gathering of the Friends of Red has yielded a coming book, "Let Me Tell You a Story," written with John Feinstein.
