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Commentary: All species are important, but some species are more important than others
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)Foundation species control biodiversity and ecosystem processes, but are difficult to identify. In this issue of Journal of Vegetation Science, Elumeeva et al. show that Festuca varia and Nardus stricta act as foundation ... -
Commentary: Epidemiology in Context
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Commentary: Nash equilibrium and mechanism design
(Elsevier BV, 2011)A Nash equilibrium (called an “equilibrium point” by John Nash himself; see Nash 1950) of a game occurs when each player chooses a strategy from which unilateral deviations do not pay. The concept of Nash equilibrium is ... -
Commentary: The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: Second-Generation Assimilation: Comments on Haller, Portes and Lynch
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011) -
Comments
(American Sociological Association Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, 2012) -
Comments on "Anderson Acceleration, Mixing and Extrapolation"
(2017)The Extrapolation Algorithm is a technique devised in 1962 for accelerating the rate of convergence of slowly converging Picard iterations for fixed point problems. Versions to this technique are now called Anderson ... -
Comments on "When Do Policy Reforms Work?' by Daron Acemoglu et al.
(Brookings Institution Press, 2008)Questions of the effectiveness of economic policy reform are inseparable from the political economy factors responsible for distortionary policies in the first place. Distortionary policies are more likely to be adopted ... -
Comments on 'Europe's Gamble' by M. Obstfeld
(Brookings Institution Press, 1997) -
Comments on Gorton and Metrick: Regulating the Shadow Banking System
(Brookings Institute, 2010) -
Comments on Greta Krippner, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
(American Sociological Association - Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, 2012) -
Comments on Michael Strevens's Depth
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) -
Comments on Petition of Pacific Legal Foundation, et al., for Rule-Making Under the Administrative Procedure Act (Which Aimed to Promulgate New Regulatory Definitions of “Species” and “Subspecies” Under the Endangered Species Act)
(2018-06-06)Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic submits the following comments on behalf of James Mallet, Paul Ehrlich, Frank Gill, John McCormack, and Peter Raven in response to the Petition of Pacific ... -
Comments on Plutarch’s essay On Isis and Osiris
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2013-08-28)This compressed and selective commentary, with special reference to wording about the sōma ‘body’ of Osiris, features summaries, paraphrases, and quotations of Plutarch’s key formulations. I enclose within brackets ({}) ... -
Comments on the Neyman–Fisher Controversy and Its Consequences
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2014)The Neyman–Fisher controversy considered here originated with the 1935 presentation of Jerzy Neyman’s Statistical Problems in Agricultural Experimentation to the Royal Statistical Society. Neyman asserted that the standard ... -
Comments on Weiss: The Unjust Philosophers of Republic 7
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Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen"
(Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 2006) -
Comments on ‘Alternative Models of Political Business Cycles’ by W.D. Nordhaus
(Brookings Institution Press, 1989) -
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War
(American Economic Association, 2013)We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following CIA interventions, imports from the ...