This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Côte d’Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Côte d’Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of previous studies by highlighting the interaction between debt servicing and the other fiscal variables. This model...

Abstract Having the option of a temporally unmanned bridge when conditions allow, while maintaining or even enhancing navigational safety, is long term aim in maritime industry. Such system requires excellent perception environment using an array sensors. This paper investigates performance object detection at sea electro-optical sensors relevant spectral ranges and discusses how missed risk mi...

Regional changes in coastal climates have recently resulted many marine species expanding their natural ranges poleward. Among these newly migrating is the Mangrove Box Jelly, Tripedalia cystophora Conant, 1897 (Cubozoa, Carybdeida). Discovery of this tropical on western coast Florida has been well documented, but records eastern are less definitive. We identified 99 individuals southeast Flori...

SCIENCE Geological History In past discussions and speculations concerning the early peopling of the New World, the hypothesized "migration cor-ridor" between the Cordilleran and Lau-rentian ice sheets has figured prominently (1). By contrast with this much-mooted route east of the Rocky Mountains , little consideration has been given to possible routes west of the Rockies. I will examine such ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the distribution, abundance and characteristics of plastic particles in plankton samples collected routinely in Northeast Pacific ecosystems, and to contribute to the development of ideas for future research into the occurrence and impact of small plastic debris in marine pelagic ecosystems. Plastic debris particles were assessed from zooplankton samples...

In this paper, we modify dynamic occupancy models developed for detection-nondetection data to allow for the dependence of local vital rates on neighborhood occupancy, where neighborhood is defined very flexibly. Such dependence of occupancy dynamics on the status of a relevant neighborhood is pervasive, yet frequently ignored. Our framework permits joint inference about the importance of neigh...

IT IS OBVIOUS FROM his review of my book that J.H. Huebert holds me in genuine high esteem. This saddens him all the more for, in his view, I have squandered my talents on so unworthy a topic as Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, which he characterizes as “an unfortunate waste of talent for a powerful mind such as Randy Barnett’s” (p. 108). While there is much that I d...

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between democracy and economic growth in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. As our proxy for democracy we first use the democracy index constructed by Freedom House and then check the sensitivity of our findings using, as an alternative proxy for democracy, the Legislative Index of Electoral Competitiveness (LIEC). We find support for the Lipset hypo...