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Optimal management in Tilmania: A competitive species assembly constrained by a limiting factor
Brock, William Allen; Xepapadeas, Anastasios P. - 1998
habitat, then the equilibrium outcome is a monoculture with the species characterised by the lowest resource requirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608436
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Economic and ecological trade-offs of agricultural specialization at different spatial scales
Klasem, Stephan; Meyer, Katrin M.; Dislich, Claudia; … - 2015
severity of the trade-offs. This paper takes Jambi province in Indonesia, a current hotspot of rubber and oil palm monoculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282624
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Effective Counterterrorism: What Have We Learned so Far?
van Um, Eric; Pisoiu, Daniela - 2011
adequate evaluations as to its actual success. This paper offers an overview of the counterterrorism effectiveness literature … of causality and proposes a working definition of counterterrorism effectiveness. We find that a main focus of the … literature lies on the impact component of effectiveness, often in the sense of a reduction of terrorist attacks in general or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335421
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Conferências nacionais: Ampliando e redefinindo os padrões de participação social no Brasil
Avritzer, Leonardo - 2012
National conferences became the most important participatory policy at the national level in Brazil. Brazil has had a tradition of national conferences since the early 40's when Vargas government called a national health conference. Since 1988 the forms of civil society participation envisioned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330693
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A que vieram as conferências nacionais? Uma análise dos objetivos dos processos realizados entre 2003 e 2010
Souza, Clóvis Henrique Leite de - 2012
multidimensional approach for evaluating the effectiveness of participatory institutions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330927
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Does Violence Pay? The Effect of Ethnic Rebellion on Overcoming Political Deprivation
Koos, Carlo - 2014
Studies have found that politically deprived groups are more likely to rebel. However, does rebellion increase the likelihood of achieving political rights? This article proposes that rebellion helps ethnic groups to overcome deprivation. I illustrate this by using a typical case (the Ijaw's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332912
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Developing career self-management skills: A study in higher education
Pinto, Joana Carneiro; Taveira, Maria do Céu - In: The International Journal of Management Science and … (2013) 8-(Apr-Jun), pp. 28-58
This study aims to evaluate the Career Self-Management Seminar, version B. This is a psychological intervention model, developed to support PhD students in the improvement of crucial skills for effective career problem solving and decision making. Sample included 63 PhD's, (49 experimental...
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An evaluation of German active labor market policies and its entrepreneurship promotion
Zöllner, Moritz; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2016
This paper reviews the results of studies that investigate the most important active labour market policy (ALMP) measures in Germany. A particular focus is on programs devoted to foster entrepreneurship which can make important contributions to a country's growth and social welfare. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580463
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A Productive Clash of Cultures: Injecting Economics into Leadership Research
Zehnder, Christian; Herz, Holger; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe - 2016
broad set of topics including the foundations of leadership, leader emergence, and leader effectiveness. At the same time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584874
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Communication and decision-making by central bank committees: different strategies, same effectiveness?
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604534