In economics, a price mechanism is the manner in which the profits of goods or services affects the supply and demand of goods and services, principally...

In economics, the market mechanism is a mechanism by which the use of money exchanged by buyers and sellers with an open and understood system of value...

event as the cause of the event we want to explain…. [But] to cite the cause is not enough: the causal mechanism must also be provided, or at least suggested...

In mechanism design, a Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) mechanism is a generic truthful mechanism for achieving a socially optimal solution. It is a generalization...

does not feel regret after seeing the mechanism outcome. A regret-free mechanism incentivizes agents who want to avoid regret to report their preferences...

randomness in the agents' valuations. Mechanism means that we want to design rules that define a truthful mechanism, in which each agent has an incentive...

The separation of mechanism and policy is a design principle in computer science. It states that mechanisms (those parts of a system implementation that...

Flexible mechanisms, also sometimes known as Flexibility Mechanisms or Kyoto Mechanisms, refers to emissions trading, the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint...

The screw is a mechanism that converts rotational motion to linear motion, and a torque (rotational force) to a linear force. It is one of the six classical...

Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) is a family of modern, password-based challenge–response authentication mechanisms providing authentication...

approximately-optimal gain in prior-free mechanisms and prior-independent mechanisms. Suppose we want to sell some items in an auction and achieve maximum profit....

\exp(2\varepsilon \Delta q)\,\!} . We would ideally want the random draws of r {\displaystyle r\,\!} from the mechanism E q ε ( d ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {E}}_{q}^{\varepsilon...

manner of death, which is primarily a legal determination, versus the mechanism of death (also called the mode of death), which does not explain why the...

Kim; M Natter; M Spann (January 2009). "Pay what you want: a new participative pricing mechanism". Journal of Marketing. 73 (1): 44–58. doi:10.1509/jmkg...

International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) or the MICT in Kinyarwanda, also known simply as the Mechanism, is an international court...

Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO), often pronounced "spenay-go", is a GSSAPI "pseudo mechanism" used by client-server software to...

In mechanism design and auction theory, a profit extraction mechanism (also called profit extractor or revenue extractor) is a truthful mechanism whose...

The Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) connects habitable elements in the US Orbital Segment (USOS) of the International Space Station (ISS). The CBM has...

are interpreted, or compiled into machine code by a just-in-time (JIT) mechanism and executed, in the kernel. BPF is used by programs that need to, among...

The New Economic Mechanism (NEM) (Hungarian: Új gazdasági mechanizmus) was a major economic reform launched in the People's Republic of Hungary in 1968...

born 14 March 1948) is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own and, collectively, are titled...

A trigger is a mechanism that actuates the function of a ranged weapon such as a firearm, airgun, crossbow, or speargun. The word may also be used to...

action of the mechanism. In displacement-controlled applications, it usually includes a built-in encoder or other position feedback mechanism to ensure the...

coping is a mechanism to alleviate distress by minimizing, reducing, or preventing, the emotional components of a stressor. This mechanism can be applied...

by many regulatory mechanisms; it is thought to be the central motivation for all organic action. All homeostatic control mechanisms have at least three...

tough neighborhood and that he first developed roasting as a defense mechanism. In an interview with Cleveland.com, he said that his insults also got...

"Beep Beep, Richie" when they want him to stop talking. Richie's humor has been viewed as being either a defense mechanism, or a call for attention. It...

Management Mechanism, The Path Attribute. sec. 4.1.2.4. doi:10.17487/RFC6265. RFC 6265. Barth, A. (March 2014). RFC 6265, HTTP State Management Mechanism, Domain...

palm of their other hand). The box acts as a resonating body for a metal mechanism placed inside with a number of loosely fastened pins or rivets that vibrate...

to sit beside his bed and to record the circumstances of his dying. He wanted to create unique evidence of subjective experiences of this terminal phase...