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Spatially-explicit estimation of Wright’s neighborhood size in continuous populations
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 Effective population size (Ne) is an important parameter in conservation genetics because it quantifies a population’s capacity to resist loss of genetic diversity due to inbreeding and drift.
Andrew J Shirk, Samuel A Cushman
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Does the unemployment benefit institution affect the productivity of workers? Evidence from a field experiment [PDF]
, 2013 We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity. We designed a field experiment to compare workers' productivity under a welfare system, where the unemployed receive an unconditional monetary transfer ...
Blanco, Mariana +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Arts et Savoirs, 2017 This paper examines the question of vision in Alice Munro’s short stories. The detailed description of everyday life seems to underline Munro’s desire to closely reproduce reality.
Claire Colin
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CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
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Debating Shirk in Keralam, South India: Monotheism between Tradition, Text and Performance
Open Library of Humanities, 2015 Inspired as much by interfaith dialogue as by ethnographic discussions of intersubjectivity, I draw some narrow debates within Indian Islam outside of their usual South Asianist and/or Islam-centric frameworks and also resist the academic injunction to ...
caroline osella
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Klasik Islâm Hukuk Doktrininde Şirk Kavramının Algılanma Biçimi ve Hukukî Düzenlemelere Etkisi
Dini Araştırmalar, 2015 The Islamic Law accepts that the religious differences of non-muslim citizens or living in the Muslim society should be taken into consideration in law-making procedure as an essential principle.
Talip Türcan
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Fairness and Contract Design [PDF]
, 2005 We show experimentally that fairness concerns may have a decisive impact on the actual and optimal choice of contracts in a moral hazard context. Bonus contracts that offer a voluntary and unenforceable bonus for satisfactory performance provide powerful
Fehr, Ernst +2 more
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