The aims of the contest are twofold. First, students all over the University are offered an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to communicate effectively in English. Second, the contest could serve as a forum for students from different background to share their insights and experiences. It ...
Better economic and social policies will help to translate wealth from natural resources into economic growth. Thus, a resource blessing may emerge to replace the resource curse. Fairly distributed and higher quality education will enhance human capital, thereby promoting economic growth from its ...
Like other species, we are the products of millions of years of adaptation. Now we're taking matters into our own hands.
The way resources are distributed in an apex forest, for instance, is completely different than how they were distributed in primordial soup. And so too with humans. Resource distribution in industrial societies is nothing like it was among hunter gatherers. Only when economists start thinking ...
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The researchers choose respondents randomly in restaurants, factories, large shopping malls, neighborhoods, parks, etc., ensuring that the samples are distributed across different gender, ages, education levels, and annual incomes. The informed consent form will be read on the front page of the ...
Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being. Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flood-resilient structures, but relatively little is kno...
North American avifauna declines are not uniformly distributed across all biomes; instead, they are concentrated in areas such as grasslands and arid lands (Sauer et al. 2017b; Rosenberg et al. 2019). These declines are especially alarming to conservationists as many of these species are quite ...
“The trick is,” the natural resources management officer says “to upscale the good practice of the SCRP programme.” Under the SCRP program, terraces were constructed by digging trenches and throwing the soil up the hill. Thus, local obstructions are created for water flowing down the hill...
of voles in North America are the prairie vole(Microtus ochrogaster)and the meadow vole(Microtus pennsylvanicus). Meadow voles are more widely distributed, but prairie voles are more common in grassland and prairie areas. They are very similar, and methods for controlling them are mostly the ...