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Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data: Measuring and Assessing "Broken Windows" Using Large-scale Administrative Records
(SAGE Publications, 2015)The collection of large-scale administrative records in electronic form by many cities provides a new opportunity for the measurement and longitudinal tracking of neighborhood characteristics, but one that requires novel ... -
An Ecomorphological Analysis of Native and Introduced Populations of the Endemic Lizard Anolis maynardi of the Cayman Islands
(BioOne, 2011)Anolis maynardi is an endemic anole from Little Cayman (Cayman Islands) that is characterized by an extremely elongated rostrum in males. In the 1980s, this species was discovered on the nearby island of Cayman Brac where ... -
Ecomusicology between Apocalypse and Nostalgia
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Economic Aspects of the Cold War, 1962-1975
(Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2003)US objectives during the Cold War were to prevent Soviet attacks on the United States and its allies and to prevent the spread of communism as a political and economic system to other countries, whether by force or by ... -
The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
(American Economic Association, 2008)In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well ... -
Economic Consequences of the Peace, Social Consequences of the War
(Il Mulino, 2009)The article presents a debate on John Maynard Keynes' "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" and the social consequences of war. The article presents biographical information pertaining to the economist as published in ... -
Economic Consequences of the Peace…Social Consequences of the War
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Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)Although mutualisms are common in all ecological communities and have played key roles in the diversification of life, our current understanding of the evolution of cooperation applies mostly to social behavior within a ... -
Economic correlates of footbinding: Implications for the importance of Chinese daughters’ labor
(Public Library of Science, 2018)Background It is a wide-spread assumption about footbinding that footbound girls and women were more of an economic burden on their families than those never bound. It is often presumed that government policies and ... -
The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and Implications
(Cambridge University Press, 1975) -
Economic Development in Historical Perspective, 1945-1990
(Ilchokak, 1990) -
Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)We review recent work at the interface of economic game theory and evolutionary biology that provides new insights into the evolution of partner choice, host sanctions, partner fidelity feedback and public goods. (1) The ... -
Economic Games on the Internet: The Effect of $1 Stakes
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively. Using Mturk, we recruited 756 subjects and examined their behavior ... -
Economic Growth and the Moral Society
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Economic Hierarchical Q-learning
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2008)Hierarchical state decompositions address the curse-of-dimensionality in Q-learning methods for reinforcement learning (RL) but can suffer from suboptimality. In addressing this, we introduce the Economic Hierarchical ... -
Economic History and Nationalism
(Project Muse, 2021-02-06)In “Economic Theory and Nationalism,” written in 1934, the economist Frank Knight identified two tendencies—one towards gross inequality and the other towards new techniques of influence—that appeared to be leading to ... -
Economic Integration and Political Disintegration
(American Economic Association, 2000)In a world of trade restrictions, large countries enjoy economic benefits, because political boundaries determine the size of the market. Under free trade and global markets even relatively small cultural, linguistic or ... -
Economic Interdependence and War
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Economic Origins and Aims: A Role for Religious Thinking?
(Yale Divinity School, 2010) -
Economic Profitability of Social Predation Among Wild Chimpanzees: Individual Variation Promotes Cooperation
(Elsevier, 2008)Social predation (hunting in groups) presents a collective action problem. If nonhunters can obtain meat following a kill, it is unclear why an individual would choose to incur hunting costs.We explored this question using ...