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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
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La CaleraEl repollo (Brassica oleraceae L.), por sus características, forma de consumo y por ser parte de la dieta de la población nicaragüense, debe de estar libre de microorganismos contaminantes que pongan en riesgo la salud humana.
Freddy Rivera Umanzor +2 more
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Robust Bernoulli Mixture Models for Credit Portfolio Risk
Mathematical Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents comparison results and establishes risk bounds for credit portfolios within classes of Bernoulli mixture models, assuming conditionally independent defaults that are stochastically increasing in a common risk factor. We provide simple and interpretable conditions on conditional default probabilities that imply a comparison ...
Jonathan Ansari, Eva Lütkebohmert
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Global Collaboration in Law Schools: Lessons to Learn [PDF]
, 2006 This Introduction to the Symposium, Global Alliance for Justice Education (“GAJE”) North American Regional Conference, discusses four articles in the Fordham International Law Journal that advance a growing goal of the GAJE: developing scholarship to ...
Cooper, Elizabeth B.
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov +2 more
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Status report on sugar cane agrochemicals management : Agrochemicals in the sugarcane industries: health and environmental challenges and solutions [PDF]
, 2009 The progress in agricultural yields resulting from the introduction of agricultural chemicals has not come without cost for human health and the environment.
Goebel, François-Régis (ed.) +1 more
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Plant Breeding, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global food demand is predicted to rise anywhere from 59% to 98% by 2050 because of increasing population. However, the continued depletion of natural resources and increasing biotic and abiotic stresses will continue to pose significant threats to global food security in coming years.
Memoona Khalid +5 more
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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.Abstract In its landmark advisory opinion on States' obligations regarding climate change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) tackled the highly contentious issue of the legal consequences of unlawful acts and State responsibility. While the Court adopted a more cautious approach on this matter than it did when interpreting States' primary ...
Yann Kerbrat, Sandrine Maljean‐Dubois
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Designing Web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards [PDF]
, 2010 The availability of building stock inventory data and demographic information is an important requirement for risk assessment studies when attempting to predict and estimate losses due to natural hazards such as earthquakes, storms, floods or tsunamis ...
Bernabe Poveda, Miguel Angel +5 more
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