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Gifts as Economic Signals and Social Symbols [PDF]

, 1988
Gift-giving has often puzzled economists, especially because efficient gifts-like cash or giving exactly what a person asks for-seem crass or inappropriate.
Camerer, Colin
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Silk Investment in Gifts By Males of the Nuptial Feeding Spider Pisaura Mirabilis (Araneae: Pisauridae). [PDF]

, 1996
Adult males of the hunting spider Pisaura mirabilis wrap up prey with silk and pass these nuptial gifts to females prior to copulation. The females digest the nuptial gifts, including the silk, during mating.
Lang, Andreas
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Promoting business with corporate gifts: major issues and empirical evidence [PDF]

, 2006
Corporate gifts are an important tool in the marketing communication mix. This paper is divided into two parts. It first reviews the literature of corporate gifts and incentives, focusing on major issues in the use of corporate gifts: marketing issues ...
Fan, Y
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Should Dogs and Cats be Given as Gifts? [PDF]

, 2013
Policies that state pets should not be adopted as gifts are prevalent at animal welfare organizations, despite the fact that this belief is unfounded. Denying adopters who intend to give the animals as gifts may unnecessarily impede the overarching goal ...
Emily D. Dolan, Emily Weiss, Julie Hong, Laurie Garrison, Margaret Slater   +4 more
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Back Cover [PDF]

, 2009
Your gifts to Linfield launch dreams. Learn more about the ways gifts make a difference for our students at www.linfield.edu/giving or make a secure gift today at www.linfield.edu ...
Linfield Magazine Staff
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Functional equivalence of grasping cerci and nuptial food gifts in promoting ejaculate transfer in katydids. [PDF]

, 2014
The function of nuptial gifts has generated longstanding debate. Nuptial gifts consumed during ejaculate transfer may allow males to transfer more ejaculate than is optimal for females.
Alexander, Arnqvist, Arnqvist, Bailey, Boldyrev, Burnham, Crudginton, Dixson, Eberhard, Eberhard, Eberhard, Eberhard, Eberhard, Edvardsson, Field, Graham, Gwynne, Gwynne, Hartely, Harz, Kokko, Kuriwada, Larivière, Lehmann, Lewis, Martins, Mazzi, Naskrecki, Pagel, Pagel, Paradis, Parker, Perry, Reinhold, Rentz, Rentz, Rentz, Rowe, Rönn, Sakaluk, Simmons, Simmons, South, Takami, Ullrich, Vahed, Vahed, Vahed, Vahed, Vahed, Vahed, Vahed, Vahed, Wedell, Wedell, Wedell, Weissman, Yoshizawa, Zuur   +58 more
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“Here’s a Little Something for You”: How Therapists Respond to Client Gifts [PDF]

, 2003
Descriptions by 12 therapists of their experiences receiving tangible gifts from clients are examined. Using consensual qualitative research (C. E. Hill, B. J. Thompson, & E. N.
Hess, Shirley A, Hill, Clara E, Knox, Sarah, Williams, Elizabeth Nutt   +3 more
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The 2016 Planned Giving Study: Building Lasting Legacies: New Insights from Data on Planned Gifts [PDF]

, 2016
This study represents a first attempt to map the almost unexplored territory of legacy societies in planned giving. Existing literature has not examined planned gifts through the lens of legacy societies.

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Compensatory inter vivos gifts [PDF]

Empirical studies of intergenerational transfers usually find that bequests are equally divided among heirs while inter vivos gifts tend to be compensatory. Using the 1992 and 1994 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, we find that only 4% of parents
Hochguertel , Stefan, Ohlsson, Henry
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Patriotic Philanthropy? Financing the State with Gifts to Government [PDF]

, 2017
Federal and state law prohibit government officials from accepting gifts or “emoluments” from outside sources. The purpose of gift bans, like restrictions on more explicit forms of bribery, is to protect the integrity of political processes and to ensure
Charles, Guy-Uriel, Lemos, Margaret H.
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