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Religion Still Matters
(Missouri Valley Economic Association, 2000)
Research by Lipford, McCormick, and Tollison and by Hull and Bold shows a negative relationship between church membership and crime rates. The results are important but do not employ the most recent available data. This ...
The Effect of Foreign and Local Visitors on Granting Park Concessions
(New Zealand Association of Economists, 1987)
If parks have particular characteristics, park managers should grant firms exclusive rights (concessions) to provide products or services within the park. The characteristics include that park development is only attractive ...
Towards an Economic Theory of the Church
(MCB University Press, 1989)
This paper employs the theory of the firm to explain behavior of the church. Churches produce a set of products including entertainment, a variety of socially valuable public goods, eternal life, and alteration of otherwise ...
Modern and Postmodern Tensions in Adult Education Theory: A Response to Jack Mezirow
(Sage Publications, 1998)
Conservation education in Madagascar: three case studies in the biologically diverse island-continent
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-05)
Few Malagasy children and adults are aware of the rare and unique fauna and flora indigenous to their island-continent, including flagship lemur species. Even the Malagasy ancestral proverbs never mentioned lemurs, but ...
Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights
(Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, 2017)
In 1119 King Baldwin II of Jerusalem granted nine French knights space on the Temple Mount over the ruins of Solomon’s Temple to create the headquarters of a new monastic order: The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of ...
The use of technology to enhance zoological parks
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-09)
Technology can be used in a zoological setting to improve visitor experience, increase research opportunities, and enhance animal welfare. Evaluating the quality of these technological innovations and their use by nonhuman ...
The trajectory of maternal and paternal fatigue and factors associated with fatigue across the transition to parenthood
(Statistics CanadaWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
BackgroundFatigue is prevalent in new parents and is associated with poorer functional performance and cognitive functioning. This can be particularly detrimental during the transition to parenthood when parents are adapting ...
Stereoselective Construction of β‐Mannopyranosides by Anomeric O‐Alkylation: Synthesis of the Trisaccharide Core of N‐linked Glycans
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016-04-04)
A new and efficient approach for direct and stereoselective synthesis of β‐mannopyranosides by anomeric O‐alkylation has been developed. This anomeric O‐alkylation of mannopyranose‐derived lactols is proposed to occur under ...