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FLYPAPER EFFECT INCORPORATING SPATIAL INTERDEPENDENCE [PDF]
This paper examines the decentralization process in the state of Maharashtra. Among the states in India, Maharashtra's efforts at decentralization are regarded as a success story. Using cross‐section data for 243 urban local governments, the paper examines the flypaper effect, that is, the expenditure stimulus of grants from the state government to the
Ajit Karnik, Mala Lalvani
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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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Mengkaji Efek Flypaper di Indonesia
Untuk meningkatkan kekuatan pajak pemerintah daerah, pemerintah pusat menerapkan reformasi besar-besaran pada tahun 2010 dengan mengalihkan Pajak Bumi dan Bangunan Perkotaan (PBB-P2) ke pemerintah daerah.
Raden Muhammad Afrizal +1 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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Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Carnivorous plants adapt to variations in nutrient availability and shade by altering investment in carnivory in response to different environmental conditions. It is not clear, however, how carnivorous plants might alter investment in carnivory in relation to habitat ...
Christopher R. Hatcher, Jonathan Millett
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