The crowding-out or crowding-in effect of natural resource dependence on public education spending has been identified as one of the key mechanisms of the resource curse or blessing. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces, this empirical study revealed a positive correlation...
A more recent stream of research has provided subnational evidence that natural resource endowment is associated with more mixed or conditional effects. On the one hand, a number of these subnational studies have identified a modest positive relationship between natural resources and political economic ...
In reality, paleontologists have identified roughly 130 pterosaur species, ranging from the airplane-sized Quetzalcoatlus northropi to Nemicolopterus crypticus, which was no bigger than a small songbird [sources: Witton, Wang et al.]. Some had teeth, some had tails, and the head crests came in...
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Once the keywords are identified, the Python library Jieba, is used to systematically extract the relevant information from 270 government activity reports of prefecture-level cities spanning from 2010 to 2020. By tabulating the word frequency of keywords in Table 2 and removing redundant calculations...
Responses are aggregated by taking their mean. Descriptive measures We collected participants’ age, self-identified gender, and nationality to enable a demographic description of our sample. 3.2 Materials We needed some Places of Interest (POIs) in Amsterdam to elicit participants’ preferences for ...
Our current understanding of the natural number structure owes much to Dedekind’s and Frege’s studies of the principles of elementary number theory. Hence, theirs (and perhaps Dedekind’s to a greater extent) are seen as the best categorical conceptual analyses of the notion of natural number...
This approach ensures that investments are channeled into productive and socially responsible sectors, promoting sustainable economic development (Dusuki and Abdullah, 2007; Siddiqui, 2008). Within the sphere of natural resources, Islamic finance holds the potential to be instrumental in advancing ...
Such knowledge has translated to a growing number of single-vineyard labels, which hail from geologist-identified sites able to produce wines with distinctive characteristics. The influence of geologists, many argue, is changing the game for Chilean and Argentinian wineries, helping them reach new le...
Our path analysis identified a possible mechanism (people’s awareness of environmental impact) that helps explain why morality- and identity-based reasons were most associated with pro-environmental behavior. The path analysis showed many showed indirect effects for the three mediators, the six reasons...