Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complement...

This study contributes to research proposing the ethics of care framework as a way imagining food system that cares for Others. We expand this exploration everyday practice home gardening and related social relationships material flows. area complements current scholarship, which mostly focuses on food-related form activism driven by intentionality knowledge about effects consumption choices. C...

Significant heterogeneity has been observed among different ecosystem services (ES). Understanding the trade-offs and synergies ES delineating ecological functional zones is crucial for formulating regional management policies that improve human well-being sustainably develop maintain ecosystems. In this study, we used Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services Trade-offs (InVEST) Carnegie–Ames...

Ecological civilization construction has become an important part of national development. We must establish and practice the idea that clear water green mountains are gold silver, adhere to basic state policy resource conservation environmental protection, form a way development life, firmly follow path civilized with production development, prosperous life sound ecology, build beautiful China...

the brush-tailed mice of the genus calomyscus are distributed in the mountains of central asia and the middle east. the genus calomyscus represents five nominate species from iran (c. bailwardi, c. grandis, c. hotsoni, c. urartensis and c. elburzensis). in total 64 specimens from four species of calomyscus were studied for morphometric analyses the morphological differences among 10 populations...

Aim To (a) evaluate whether colonization of newly emerged high-elevation habitats occurred from neighbouring highlands (allopatric divergence and niche conservatism) or within the same mountain (peripatric parapatric shift) (b) test for effect past landscape configurations in geographically structuring biodiversity (a West–East structure spanning central part Transmexican Volcanic Belt). Locati...

Eighty eight surface soil samples were collected from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) for determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), including dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and metabolites (DDXs) and hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs). The measured concentrations were 51.8 ± 38.5 ng g(-1), 0.329 ± 0.818 ng g(-1), and 0.467 ± 0.741 ng g(-...

(Lancaster University, UK) Abstract: The theory of politeness of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) has remained the most seminal and influential starting point for cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contrastive pragmatics. Yet is has also provoked countervailing arguments from Ide (1989, 1993), Matsumoto (1989), Gu (1990), Mao (1994) and others, pointing out a Western bias in Brown and Levinson’...