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First Report on the Diet of the Angolan Flying Squid (Todarodes angolensis) in New Zealand Waters
The Angolan flying squid (Todarodes angolensis) is a southerly distributed, large‐bodied ommastrephid preyed upon by many large marine vertebrates such as the southern elephant seal and deep‐sea squalid sharks. Here, we report its diet in New Zealand waters for the first time, identifying prey items from the stomach contents of 58 adults using ...
Samuel Clough +5 more
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Fiscal Regime Shifts in Portugal [PDF]
We estimate changes in fiscal policy regimes in Portugal with a Markov Switching regression of fiscal policy rules for the period 1978-2007, using a new dataset of fiscal quarterly series.
António Afonso +2 more
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Voracity vs. Scale Effect in a Growing Economy [PDF]
This paper extends the standard model of growth with insecure property rights by introducing variable labor supply and increasing returns to scale.
Mino, Kazuo
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Whose Digital Future? Civil Society and Alternative Imaginaries in Transnational Digital Governance
ABSTRACT This article investigates different visions of digital futures, examining how desired futures are discursively constructed within civil society in transnational digital governance. The analysis builds on discourse theory and a growing body of research on imaginaries in digital governance.
Outi Puukko
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Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption [PDF]
We study how natural resources can feed corruption and how this effect depends on the quality of the democratic institutions. Our game-theoretic model predicts that natural resources lead to an increase in corruption if the quality of the democratic ...
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Roland Hodler
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Invasive goldfish trigger a regime shift in experimental lake ecosystems of varying trophic state
The pet trade distributes exotic animals around the globe that enrich human lives. However, some pets become pests when released into the wild. This study provides experimental evidence that goldfish will negatively affect native freshwater organisms and ecosystems.
William D. Hintz +2 more
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From a theoretical perspective interested in the functionality of material culture and its implications for the understanding of Greek comedy, this article will analyze, in Peace (421 B.C.E.), the episode of War’s entrance and the description of his ...
Emiliano Buis
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Growth models of the Dutch disease, such as those of Krugman (1987), Matsuyama (1992), Sachs and Warner (1995) and Gylfason et al. (1999), explain why resource abundance may reduce growth. However, the literature also raises a new question: if the use of
Ragnar Torvik, Egil Matsen
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Contact and Gastric Effect of Peppermint Oil on Selected Pests and Aphid Predator Harmonia axyridis Pallas. [PDF]
Gospodarek J +2 more
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