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these steps with an empirically based BBN model of factors influencing probability of capture of northern flying squirrels …
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The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics that influence...
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Verification in results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms is one of the key differentiators between it and related …, as well as the viability of the mechanism. Verification is however a process which has thus far been little studied … the verification process, the direct and tangential effects, and the cost is scarce. Plan Nacer employs one of the largest …
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Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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) occasionally for the risk-seeking official, who subjectively underweight rare event and its probability. …
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In this thesis we consider two comparative statics questions of changes in risk. The first question concerns situations where an individual faces some risk and has no control over the uncertain environment. In these situations we ask what kind of changes in risk will cause the individual's...
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The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
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