B. Fischer ([email protected]), Center for Ecological Evolutionary Synthesis, Dept of Biology, Univ. of Oslo, Norway. – B. Taborsky and BF, Int. Inst. for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, and: Dept of Behavioural Ecology, Zoological Inst., Univ. of Bern, Switzerland. BF and H. Kokko, Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. HK als...

Of the many factors which affect animal production, wildlife is one of the few which has rarely been considered by the Australian Society of Animal Production. A variety of non-domesticated mammals are closely associated with the livestock industries and those which cause production losses are referred to as vertebrate pests in this contract. In some States this definition is carried further by...

The paper raises a number of issues regarding the ethical character of the Coalition government s Australian Workplace Relations Act. While key principles such as freedom of association and freedom of choice are incorporated into the legislation, it is argued that equity is a higher order ethic. On the face of it, the language of the legislation addresses equity, but notwithstanding the Coaliti...

Deficiency Act. Under Section 9 of the Act, 23 persons found to be mentally defective were removed from prison to Certified Institutions. In the years 1924-27, the average annual number of prisoners certified as M.D. was 257; in the years 1928-34, the annual average was 251; the amended definitions in the M.D. Act of 1927 appear therefore to have little practical effect, so far as this particul...

Traditional lightning protection practices were standardized many years prior to the recent proliferation of modern electrical and electronic equipment installations on building rooftops. This paper presents an isolated down-conductor solution that combines the advantages of the IEC 623051 series or various other national standards regarding isolated and non-isolated lightning protection method...

We document that firms’ management of accounting earnings increased steadily from 1987 until the passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), with a significant increase during the period prior to SOX, followed by a significant decline after passage of SOX. However, the increase in earnings management preceding SOX was primarily in poorly performing industries. We also show that the informativeness...

Contrary to the implicit assumption motivating much of the work on the political economy of protection, antidumping, along with other forms of administered protection, is the primary form of discretionary protection for most countries. A sizable literature on the political economy of antidumping has developed in the last two decades that is distinctive in its explicit focus on institutional asp...