The field site is the retail showrooms of a fast-expanding organized company selling budget eyewear products across shopping malls and high streets urban India. Through thick description 14 months ethnographic fieldwork – arriving, forging social relations, recording writing this article traces practical, ethical epistemological paradoxes in doing ethnography. identifies these as inherent to et...

“Soft landings,” that is, cases in which the central bank tightens monetary policy to fight inflation but does not cause a recession (which would be “hard landing”, are thought difficult achieve and extremely rare. According conventional wisdom, Federal Reserve has managed only one soft landing past 60 years—in 1994–1995. This paper studies eleven episodes of tightening by Fed since 1965, concl...

BACKGROUND Here we set out to standardize long-lasting, visually-attractive devices for Glossina swynnertoni, a vector of both human and animal trypanosomiasis in open savannah in Tanzania and Kenya, and in neighbouring conservation areas used by pastoralists. The goal was to determine the most practical device/material that would induce the strongest landing response in G. swynnertoni for use ...

Seasonality is a natural feature of wild caught fisheries that introduces variation in food supply, and which often amplified by management systems. Seasonal timing landings patterns linkages to consumption can have potentially strong impact on income for coastal communities as well import patterns. This study characterizes the relationship between seasonality seafood production United States a...