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Caterpillars Cooperate to Overcome Plant Glandular Trichome Defenses

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
One common advantage proposed for group-living in animals is social facilitation of feeding, by which food acquisition by an individual is made easier by feeding neighbors.
Emma Despland, Emma Despland
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Trade Facilitation beyond the Doha Round of Negotiations [PDF]

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this paper succinctly explores three emerging (in the case of customs valuation, re-emerging) issues, drawing from recent ARTNeT working papers as well as other relevant literature: (a) trade facilitation and regional trade agreements and initiatives; (b)
Yann Duval
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The impact of human agents on spatial navigation and knowledge acquisition in a virtual environment

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality
Concepts of spatial navigation rest on the idea of landmarks, which are immobile features or objects in the environment. However, behaviorally relevant objects or fellow humans are often mobile.
Tracy Sánchez Pacheco   +8 more
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Mediating engagement in a social network intervention for people living with a long‐term condition: A qualitative study of the role of facilitation

open access: yesHealth Expectations, 2020
Background Successful facilitation of patient‐centred interventions for self‐management support has traditionally focussed on individual behaviour change.
Elizabeth James   +4 more
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The social facilitation of food intake [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2007
Perspective on the paper by Lumeng and Hillman ( see page384 ) Schools making valiant efforts to introduce the Jamie Oliver diet will have some sympathy with Oberlin College in Ohio, USA, which sought in the early 19th century to introduce the equally healthy (and more morally improving) Sylvester Graham diet, and found, I am sorry to say, that ...
openaire   +2 more sources

An Evaluation of the Need for Selected Trade Facilitation Measures in Indonesia: Implications for the WTO Negotiations on Trade Facilitation [PDF]

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As a member of WTO, Indonesia has been involved in the discussion of the WTO negotiating group on trade facilitation (NGTF). This study aims to examine the current situation of trade facilitation in Indonesia, as well to assess the needs and priorities ...
Yose Rizal Damuri
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Trade Facilitation Negotiations in the WTO: Implications for Bangladesh and Other Least Developed and Developing Countries [PDF]

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This paper provides an overview of how trade facilitation has been addressed in the WTO to date, and how this may affect Bangladesh’s negotiating strategy on trade facilitation in the upcoming Cancun Ministerial and beyond.
Wenguo Cai, Sarah Geddes
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Social information use in threat perception: Social buffering, contagion and facilitation of alarm responses

open access: yesCommunicative & Integrative Biology, 2017
Group living animals can use the behavior of others as cues for the presence of threat in the environment and adjust their behavior accordingly. Therefore, different social phenomena that modulate the response to threat, such as social buffering, social ...
Rui F. Oliveira, Ana I. Faustino
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A Comparative Analysis of Trade Facilitation in Selected Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreement [PDF]

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This study compared the treatment of trade facilitation in four selected regional trade agreements, AFTA, APEC, SAFRA and PACER, and in one bilateral free trade agreement being the Australia-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (ASFTA), with a view to ...
Institute for International Trade
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Sabotaging competitors, both real and illusory

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making
Competition lies at the heart of our economic, social, and political lives. Studies show that competitions motivate higher performance, but they can also have a dark side, by which competitors engage in deceptive, dishonest, and sabotaging conduct.
Christoph Engel, Dan Simon
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