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Fiscal federalism and procyclical spending: the cases of Argentina and Brazil
Económica, 2006 This paper studies the sources of procyclicality for the spending of subnational governments in Argentina and Brazil. We find that tax sharing schemes explain only a marginal share of the prociclicality of revenues, with most of the prociclicality ...
Federico Sturzenegger +1 more
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Newcomer and Incumbent Exit After Comobility Hiring Events
Personnel Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Newcomers comprise substantial portions of modern workforces, yet they represent high exit risks due to their lack of embeddedness in their new firms. Organizations often source new employees via comobility, wherein newcomers join simultaneously from another firm.
Luciana Zheng Manroop +2 more
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, 2016 Results of statistical tests for the effect of plant variety and aphid herbivory on aphid resistance (inverse of coccinellid voracity) and coccinellid performance (larval mass gain and developmental duration).
Sergio Rasmann (464721) +2 more
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Cryoprotectants and their changes in cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (Hem.: Aphididae) [PDF]
نامه انجمن حشرهشناسی ایران, 2013 Cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae (L.), is an important pest of cabbage, especially ornamental cabbages, due to its voracity and population build-up on these plants in wintertime. The cryoprotectants of B. brassicae and their changes were investigated
S. Moharramipour, F. Saeidi, M. Barzegar
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Prey Range and Voracity of Main Insect Natural Enemies of Pests in Corsican Clementine Orchards
International audienceClementine trees are the target of numerous pests and pathogens. To face these attacks, pesticides are intensively used by farmers, degrading orchard ecosystems and biodiversity.
Le Nan, Judith +3 more
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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A STUDY ON THE DIET OF PAMPUS ARGENTUS. IN THE MAJOR FISHING GROUNDS OF HORMOZGAN PROVINCE
Majallah-i ̒Ilmī-i Shīlāt-i Īrān, 2008 Silver pomfert (Pampus argenteus) belongs to Stromatidae family and is considered an important commercial fish found in some major fishing grounds of the Hormozgan province waters.
F. Seraji; Gh. Zarshenas; R. Dehghani
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AgronomyThe occurrence of predatory Syrphidae (hoverflies) in green areas of cities and their role as biological control agents is determined in this work. During the study, 751 adults belonging to 21 species were captured in Moericke’s traps and with sweep nets,
Elżbieta Wojciechowicz-Żytko +1 more
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In an influential article Tornell and Lane (1999) considered an economy populated by multiple powerful groups in which property rights in the formal sector of production are not protected.
Strulik, Holger
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