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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers
Josheski, Dushko - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2014
the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation with earnings for which there exist and it is presented empirical …
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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers
Josheski, Dushko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation with earnings for which there exist and it is presented empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260932
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Elaborate ornaments are costly to maintain: evidence for high maintenance handicaps
Walther, Bruno A.; Clayton, Dale H. - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 89-95
Elaborate secondary sexual traits, such as the ornamental plumage of birds, may be favored by female choice because they serve as honest indicators of male quality. Elaborate traits are thought to be honest signals because they are expensive to produce and increase predation risk. Here we...
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Grooming among female Japanese macaques: distinguishing between reciprocation and interchange
Schino, Gabriele; Ventura, Raffaella; Troisi, Alfonso - In: Behavioral Ecology 14 (2003) 6, pp. 887-891
Grooming among female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) was studied to test some predictions derived from the … application of biological market theory. Contrary to expectations, Japanese macaques did not time match the duration of grooming … reciprocated and nonreciprocated grooming in different ways. However, they did reciprocate total amount of grooming received. These …
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Grooming in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) and the ghost of parasites past
Mooring, Michael S.; Hart, Benjamin L.; Fitzpatrick, … - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 3, pp. 364-371
Ectoparasites such as ticks have a negative effect on host fitness, whereas parasite-defense grooming is effective in … removing ticks. The central control (programmed grooming) model proposes that animals engage in preventive tick …-defense grooming in response to an internal timing mechanism, even in the absence of peripheral stimulation from parasites. This model …
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Uncertainties in environmental radiological assessment models and their implications
Hoffman, F.O.; Miller, C.W. - 2008
Environmental radiological assessments rely heavily on the use of mathematical models. The predictions of these models are inherently uncertain because these models are inexact representations of real systems. The major sources of this uncertainty are related to biases in model formulation and...
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Report to Congress on the Small Business Program
2008
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Small Business Program is characterized by its diligent involvement in the procurement process to enhance participation by small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, labor surplus area firms, and women-owned businesses. The DOE's primary means of securing...
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Affirmative Action Plan, October 1991--September 1992
2008
This report documents Reynolds Electrical Engineering Co., Inc., analysis of all major job groups with explanations if minorities and females are underutilized in any one or more job group. Goals and timetables have been developed and good faith efforts are directed to correct any deficiencies....
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Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity
Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
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Combination Calls in Olive Colobus Monkeys (Procolobus Verus) in Tai National Park, Cote D‘ivoire
BENE, Jean-Claude Koffi; OUATTARA, Karim; BITTY, Eloi … - In: Journal of Asian Scientific Research 2 (2012) 9, pp. 466-477
alerting conspecifics to a food source, etc. In some primates, call systems are structurally more complex because calls are …
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