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The ethics of big data as a public good: which public? Whose good?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2016 International development and humanitarian organizations are increasingly calling for digital data to be treated as a public good because of its value in supplementing scarce national statistics and informing interventions, including in emergencies.
L. Taylor
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Buffalo Niagara at the Crossroads: How State Energy Policies can Lead Western New York to a Green, Prosperous, and Just Future [PDF]
, 2016 Buffalo Niagara stands at a climate crossroads. Looking down one road, we can see a chance to rebuild impoverished neighborhoods with quality jobs, green affordable housing, community-owned renewable energy, urban farms, and community gardens, building ...
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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2012 The paper show possibilities of introducing modern methods into public economy and finance teaching. We present in-class experiment which illustrates one of typical model from political economy – the median voter theorem.
Domenico Raguseo +2 more
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Refugees from Iraq in Buffalo [PDF]
, 2015 The country of Iraq suffers from war and terrorism on a daily basis. Currently the population of Iraq is approximately 28 million, of whom about 75% are Arab, 17% are Kurds and the remainder mostly Armenians, Assyrians and Turks.
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Conditional Cooperation and the Marginal per Capita Return in Public Good Games
Games, 2014 We investigate experimentally whether the extent of conditional cooperation in public good games depends on the marginal per capita return (MPCR) to the public good and type of game. The MPCR is varied from 0.2 to 0.4 to 0.8.
Edward J. Cartwright, Denise Lovett
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Poverty in Buffalo-Niagara [PDF]
, 2013 The combination of densely concentrated, racialized poverty with housing vacancy, abandonment, and blight is overwhelming many urban neighborhoods in Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
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Local Public Good Provision, Municipal Consolidation, and National Transfers [PDF]
, 2006 We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village.
Dur, Robert, Staal, Klaas
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Frontiers in ClimateIntroductionToday in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada, many community members are closely connected to and dependent on the land, with 68.9% of Indigenous people in the ISR indicating that they fished and harvested in 2023.
Maria Ramirez Prieto +7 more
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Why Quorum Sensing Controls Private Goods
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 Cell-cell communication, also termed quorum sensing (QS), is a widespread process that coordinates gene expression in bacterial populations. The generally accepted view is that QS optimizes the cell density-dependent benefit attained from cooperative ...
Martin Schuster +2 more
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Greening the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus [PDF]
, 2015 The Medical Campus is dedicated to improving health, and a sustainable campus will improve the health of the patients, visitors, workers, and neighbors of the campus, as well as that of the general public. Sustainability measures such as improving energy
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