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Federal and State Funding of Higher Education: A Changing Landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Policymakers across the nation face difficult decisions about higher education funding. Federal leaders, for example, are debating the future of the Pell Grant program. The Obama administration has proposed increasing the maximum Pell Grant award to keep

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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of need‐based financial aid on educational decisions and outcomes: Evidence from Canada

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Using administrative data from Canada, this paper presents new evidence on the causal effects of a large‐scale need‐based financial aid program on undergraduate students' educational decisions and outcomes, including the understudied institution and major choices.
Qian Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Variable social organization and breeding system of a social parrot revealed by genetic analysis

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Social organization and contributions to reproduction vary widely within and between species that breed in groups. Such variation often arises from the process of group formation, which drives patterns of relatedness and hence the degree of social conflict and co‐operation between group members.
Francesca S. E. Dawson Pell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incomplete k-Pell, k-Pell-Lucas and Modified k-Pell Numbers

open access: yesHacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 2016
In this paper, it is defined the incomplete $k$-Pell, $k$-Pell-Lucas and Modified $k$-Pell numbers, it is studied the recurrence relations, some properties of these sequences of integers and their generating functions.
openaire   +2 more sources

Human and Intellectual Capital Spending Efficiency and Efficacy: Evidence from U.S. Universities

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the efficiency and efficacy of human and intellectual capital investment to better understand the effects of social investment. Existing literature in the corporate setting lacks analysis on the impact of human and intellectual capital investment, likely due to data scarcity.
Christopher S. Armstrong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preference and In Vitro Digestibility of Leaves of Woody Plants by Sheep in the Northern Sudanian Zone

open access: yesJournal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In West Africa, trees and shrubs are important for feeding ruminant livestock during the dry season. This study aimed to determine the in vitro digestibility of organic matter from eight woody species using a gas test with and without the addition of polyethylene glycol (PEG), and evaluate their preference by sheep using a cafeteria test ...
Linda C. Gabriella Traore   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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