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This study empirically examines the influence of intergovernmental transfers and the fall of it to local government’s expenditure in Indonesia as well as the possibility of flypaper effect occurrence over pandemic.
Sherlita Nurosidah +2 more
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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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Phenology of Kleptobiotic Sundew Bugs Tracks Peak Stickiness of Their Carnivorous Host Plants
ABSTRACT Drosera L. (Droseraceae) is a diverse genus of carnivorous plants that is cosmopolitan in distribution, with Australia its centre of diversity (ca. 160 species in Australia). Collectively known as sundews, their leaves are covered with mobile sticky hairs (“tentacles”) that serve as active flypaper‐type traps that catch small invertebrates ...
Zoe Bloesch +4 more
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Financing Local Police Spending in England and Wales: Fiscal Federalism in Practice
Abstract Since 1995, police forces in England and Wales have been able to raise revenues locally to supplement grants from central government. We analyse the variation across police force areas in locally raised police revenues over the 2000s, and we find that three‐quarters of the temporal and spatial variation in local revenues per head can be ...
Rowena Crawford +2 more
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Loopholes and the Incidence of Public Services: Evidence From Funding Career and Technical Education
ABSTRACT In 2015, Michigan increased its Career and Technical Education (CTE) funding and changed its funding formula to reimburse programs based on student progression through program curricula. Although this change nearly doubled program completion rates, student enrollment and persistence were unaffected; instead, administrators accelerated student ...
Thomas Goldring +3 more
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Epithelial‐mesenchymal transition in cancer metastasis through the lymphatic system
This article presents a review on the role of EMT in cancer metastasis through the lymphatic system. The emphasis is on the role of TGF‐beta‐induced EMT as a link between cancer and inflammation, and how EMT cells acquire properties of immune cells.
Mikael C. Karlsson +3 more
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Convergent losses of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in carnivorous plants
Summary Most land plants form the ancient arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, while carnivory is a younger trait that evolved in several angiosperm orders. The two biotic interactions similarly help plants acquire mineral nutrients, raising the question of whether they can coexist.
Héctor Montero +2 more
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THE IMPACT OF REGIONAL AUTONOMY POLICY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH IN EAST JAVA [PDF]
This study aims to determine the effect of local revenue, general allocation funds and special allocation funds to local spending and economic growth as well as to find out the possibility of Flypaper Effect on District/City shopping in East Java ...
Wahyu Kurniana +3 more
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Secretion of digestive enzymes in response to prey capture in carnivorous plants with sticky traps is regulated by jasmonates in Drosera capensis but differently by unknown factor in Byblis filifolia. Abstract Carnivorous plants from the order Caryophyllales co‐opted plant phytohormones from a group of jasmonates to regulate digestive enzyme activity ...
A. Pavlovič +5 more
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Model Misspecification as the Causes of Flypaper Effect
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the Fly-paper effect (FPE) and possible errors in the specification of econometric models used in the empirical analysis of FPE.
Siniša Mali
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