This paper relates national fertility rates to political factors. I first review evidence that community norms affect fertility, ethnic groups compete politically in many countries, and a group’s relative size affects its ability to compete. This evidence jointly suggests that population growth and fertility may be public goods at the ethnic group level in diverse societies. Next, I present a s...

A Three-player conflict with bounded controls is considered in this paper. Optimal pursuit-evasion strategy based on differential game with bounded control is derived assuming that the attacker, target and it’s defender have linearized kinematics, arbitrary-order linear adversaries’ dynamics, and perfect information. The obtained strategy is dependent on the zero-effort miss distance of two pur...

This paper develops a simple dynamic, non-symmetric game between two player populations that can be generalised to a large variety of conflicts. One population attempts to re-write a current (social) contract in its favour, whereas the other prefers to maintain the status quo. In the model’s initial set up, the free-rider problem obstructs the occurrence of a conflict, leading to a low probabil...

A coastal fishery brings high productivity and economic profit while supporting cultural norms. However, it also causes environmental degradation and political conflicts, which sometimes collapse a fishery. With the current global shift from capture fisheries to aquaculture, appropriate management is required for social and environmental sustainability. To identify essential factors in coastal ...

Past literature in board research has centred on board structure and company performance. Over the years, empirical studies do not reveal a conclusive relationship between these two variables (Dalton and Daily, 1999. Across the Board , March, 28–32). Until recently, the literature on board processes has been sparse. The reason for insufficient empirical work on board processes possibly is due t...

My research agenda examines the conflicts and compromises shaping the boundary between academic science and the commercial world -especially those wrought by substantial growth in the enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights over basic scientific research. In particular, while the expansion of IP rights provides many opportunities for science-based firms and universities to commercializ...

This article examines the limits of state-led norm entrepreneurship in case UK and Preventing Sexual Violence Conflict Initiative. The UK-led conflict Initiative emerged 2012 accelerated to tipping point beginning cascade by 2014. However, has since struggled sustain similar levels where resources institutional support have stagnated declined. argues that is evidence how a originally benefits f...

Under the dimension of US constitutionalism, freedom of speech is imprescriptible, while limitation to obscene speech in judicial practice becomes exception of the stipulation of US Constitution “prohibiting laying down the law”. Furthermore, coordination of conflicts between the two turns to be the target sought by the Federal Supreme Judicial Court. Prejudication on games between the two by t...

The gradual crowding out of singleton and small team science by large team endeavors is challenging key features of research culture. It is therefore important for the future of scientific practice to reflect upon the individual scientist's ethical responsibilities within teams. To facilitate this reflection we show labor force trends in the US revealing a skewed growth in academic ranks and in...