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Conflict and Renewable Resources [PDF]

The economic literature on conflict employs a static game theoretic frame- work developed by Jack Hirshleifer. We extend this literature by explicitly introducing conflict dynamics into the model.
John W. Maxwell, Rafael Reuveny
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Event coincidence analysis for quantifying statistical interrelationships between event time series: on the role of flood events as possible triggers of epidemic outbreaks

, 2016
Studying event time series is a powerful approach for analyzing the dynamics of complex dynamical systems in many fields of science. In this paper, we describe the method of event coincidence analysis to provide a framework for quantifying the strength ...
Donges, Jonathan F., Donner, Reik V., Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich, Siegmund, Jonatan F.   +3 more
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Development and application of a 2-step methodology to select a reference society providing Dietary Reference Values for national implementation

Public Health Nutrition
Objective: To describe and discuss a 2-step methodology developed to select a reference society that provides Dietary Reference Values (DRV) for national implementation and to illustrate its application in Switzerland with one macronutrient and one ...
Corinne Jotterand Chaparro, Clémence Moullet, Valeria A Bertoni Maluf, Nicolas Parel, Lyvonne N Tume, Angeline Chatelan, Clara Benzi Schmid, Raphaël Reinert, Sophie Bucher Della Torre   +8 more
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The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religio [PDF]

Understanding religion requires explaining why supernatural beliefs, devotions, and rituals are both universal and variable across cultures, and why religion is so often associated with both large-scale cooperation and enduring group conflict.
Joseph Henrich, Scott Atran
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Städtische Lebenswelten in Bewegung: In Afrika und darüber hinaus [PDF]

, 2010
Although throughout the history of anthropology the ethnography of urban societies was never an important topic, investigations on cities in Africa contributed to the early theoretical development of urban studies in social sciences.
Hahn, Hans Peter
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What explains Hadza food sharing? [PDF]

Most hypotheses proposed to explain human food sharing address motives, yet most tests of these hypotheses have measured only the patterns of food transfer. To choose between these hypotheses we need to measure peopleç—´ propensity to share.
F.W. Marlowe
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Primate model offers insights into male bonding in complex societies. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014
Grueter CC.
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Conservatism

, 2011
The term 'conservative' - denoting groups as diverse and incompatible as the religious right, libertarian free-marketeers and free-spending neocons - has been lost to politics.
O'Hara, Kieron
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RELIGION AND MEDIA IN A PLURAL SOCIETY: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2015
Religion and media are two vital and indispensable institutions in society. This paper attempts a critical exploration of the relationship between religion and media in plural societies, with concrete illustrations from the Nigerian experience. Generally,
Bayo I Oloyede, Babatunde O Oni, Adefemi V Oluwole   +2 more
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The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies

Nature Communications
A major goal in evolutionary biology is to elucidate common principles that drive human and other animal societies to adopt either a warlike or peaceful nature.
K. L. Hunt, M. Patel, D. P. Croft, D. W. Franks, P. A. Green, F. J. Thompson, R. A. Johnstone, M. A. Cant, D. W. E. Sankey   +8 more
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