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Who is afraid of pirates? An experiment on the deterrence of innovation by imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - 2013

In the policy debate, intellectual property is often justified by what seems to be a straightforward argument: if innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in most industries for most potential users, appropriating...

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Cereal bank as a necessary rural livelihood institute in Arid Land, Makoja Village, Dodoma-Tanzania

Msaki, Mark M.; Mwenda, Michael I.; Regnard, Irene J. - 2013

In 2012, the study was carried at Makoja Village, in Semi-Arid region of Dodoma. The aim of the conducted study was to assess the importance of Cereal Bank to livelihood of farming households. A total of 80 respondents were interviewed. Data were analyzed using SPSS 16.0 computer program. The...

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Nature Reserve Pricing : Yes, No, How? The Case for the Darga River Reserve

Becker, Nir - 2013

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Effect of Sublethal Doses of Chlorpyriphos-Ethyl on Some Parameters of Mating and Laying in the Locust Schistocerca Gregaria Forskal, 1775 (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

Ouali-N’goran San-Whouly Mauricette; Jean-Pierre, Boga; … - In: Journal of Asian Scientific Research 3 (2013) 10, pp. 983-994

The objective of this study has been to evaluate the impact of sublethal doses of chlorpiryphos-ethyl on the steps of the mating and oviposition behavior in Schistocerca gregaria and its descendants. The sublethal doses of chlorpiryphos-ethyl were tested on locust imago’s five days old...

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Study on the Land Reclamation of Oilfield of Gurbantunggut Desert in Junggar Basin

Li, Liang; Zheng, Xuezhong; Shao, Xusheng; Wang, Caichuan; … - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 05

petroleum in the Gurbantunggut Desert, the fragile ecological environment and land resource was suffering much more damage … and oilfield in the Gurbantunggut Desert, limit condition method was used to evaluate the suitability of land reclamation …. Based on the effect and shortage of oilfield in the Gurbantunggut Desert Oilfield, the reclamation of oilfield in the …

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Sustainable Tourism in Extreme Environments : Lessons from Desert Regions

Weber, Alan - 2013

environments in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the State of Qatar, the MENA region and other desert areas as a blueprint for … impact of green and ecotourism practices in some of the most extreme desert and marine ecosystems in the entire world … resources. The State of Qatar contains two of the most extreme environments in the world – an arid desert with less than 80mm …

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The adaptive role of nectarial appendages in Colchicum

Vasl, Amiel; Shmida, Avi - Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University … - 2013

A few species within the genus Colchicum of the Colchicaceae family, a small group of species native to the transitional belt of the Mediterranean and the Middle East deserts, are characterized by unique morphological traits: nectarial appendages that occur at the base of the perianth segments...

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Who is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013

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The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought Toward an Integrated Global Assessment

Nkonya, Ephraim - 2012

Land degradation has not been comprehensively addressed at the global level or in developing countries. A suitable economic framework that could guide investments and institutional action is lacking. This study aims to overcome this deficiency and to provide a framework for a global assessment...

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The Myth of Desertification of China’s Northwestern Frontier : The Case of Ningxia (1929-1960)

Ho, Peter - 2012

In imperial China, government action to rangeland at the north-western frontier was for centuries determined by defense and what can be called “turning waste into use.” For the pacification of the region beyond the Great Wall, which frequently suffered from incursions by nomadic tribes,...

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