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Giving Stated Preference Respondents “Time to Think”: Results From Four Countries

Cook, Joseph; Jeuland, Marc Allan; Maskery, Brian; Whittington, Dale (Springer Verlag, 2012)

Previous studies have found that contingent valuation (CV) respondents who are given overnight to reflect on a CV scenario have 30–40% lower average willingness-to-pay (WTP) than respondents who are interviewed in a single ...
Gaga, a New Fern Genus Segregated from Cheilanthes (Pteridaceae)

Li, Fay-Wei; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Windham, Michael (American Society of Plant Taxonomists, 2012)

Ongoing molecular phylogenetic studies of cheilanthoid ferns confirm that the genus Cheilanthes (Pteridaceae) is polyphyletic. A monophyletic group of species within the hemionitid clade informally called the “C. marginata ...
Associations between Intake of Folate, Methionine, and Vitamins B-12, B-6 and Prostate Cancer Risk in American Veterans

Vidal, Adriana; Masko, Elizabeth; Allott, Emma; Shuler, Kathryn; Calloway, Elizabeth; Hoyo, Cathrine; McPhail, Megan; Gaines, Alexis; Gerber, Leah; Chi, Jen-Tsan Ashley; Freedland, Stephen Jay (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)

Prostate cancer (PC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. Recent reports suggest that excess of nutrients involved in the one-carbon metabolism pathway increases PC risk; however, empirical data are lacking. ...
Is Obesity a Public Health Problem?

Anomaly, Jonny (Oxford University Press, 2012)

It is often claimed that there is an obesity epidemic in affluent countries, and that obesity is one of the most serious public health problems in the developed world. I will argue that obesity is not an ‘epidemic’ in any ...
Chikungunya and Dengue Fever among Hospitalized Febrile Patients in Northern Tanzania

Hertz, Julian T.; Morrissey, Anne; Bartlett, John Alexander; Crump, John Andrew (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012)

Consecutive febrile admissions were enrolled at two hospitals in Moshi, Tanzania. Confirmed acute Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Dengue virus (DENV), and flavivirus infection were defined as a positive polymerase chain reaction ...
Where are 'Cultural' and 'Social' in Ecosystem Services? A Framework for Constructive Engagement

Chan, KMA; Guerry, AD; Balvanera, P; Klain, S; Satterfield, T; Basurto, X; Bostrom, A; Chuenpagdee, R; Gould, R; Halpern, BS; Hannahs, N; Levine, J; Norton, B; Ruckelshaus, M; Russell, R; Tam, J; Woodside, U (2012)

A focus on ecosystem services (ES) is seen as a means for improving decisionmaking. In the research to date, the valuation of the material contributions of ecosystems to human well-being has been emphasized, with less ...
Institutional Designs of Customary Fisheries Management Arrangements in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Mexico

Cinner, J; Basurto, Xavier; Fidelman, P; Kuange, J; Lahari, R; Mukminin, A (2012)

There are considerable efforts by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and academia to integrate customary practices, such as taboos that limit resource use and marine conservation. However, these efforts ...
Socio-economic status and malaria-related outcomes in Mvomero District, Tanzania

Dickinson, KL; Randell, HF; Kramer, Randall; Shayo, EH (2012)

While policies often target malaria prevention and treatment - proximal causes of malaria and related health outcomes - too little attention has been given to the role of household- and individual-level socio-economic ...
Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: Linking knowledge to action

Fox, HE; Mascia, MB; Basurto, Xavier; Costa, A; Glew, L; Heinemann, D; Karrer, LB; Lester, SE; Lombana, AV; Pomeroy, RS; al, E (2012)

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are often implemented to conserve or restore species, fisheries, habitats, ecosystems, and ecological functions and services; buffer against the ecological effects of climate change; and ...
Using the Institutional Grammar Tool to Understand Regulatory Compliance: The Case of Colorado Aquaculture

Siddiki, S; Basurto, Xavier; Weible, C (2012)

What is the relationship between the design of regulations and levels of individual compliance? To answer this question, Crawford and Ostrom’s institutional grammar tool is used to deconstruct regulations governing the ...
Where does energy R&D come from? Examining crowding out from energy R&D

Popp, D; Newell, R (2012)

Recent efforts to endogenize technological change in climate policy models demonstrate the importance of accounting for the opportunity cost of climate R&D investments. Because the social returns to R&D investments ...
Decision-making across social contexts: competition increases preferences for risk in chimpanzees and bonobos

Rosati, AG; Hare, B (2012)
Integrated vector management for malaria control in Uganda: Knowledge, perceptions and policy development

Mutero, CM; Schlodder, D; Kabatereine, N; Kramer, Randall (2012)

Background: Integrated vector management (IVM) is increasingly being recommended as an option for sustainable malaria control. However, many malaria-endemic countries lack a policy framework to guide and promote the approach. ...
Cost-effectiveness of electricity energy efficiency programs

Arimura, TH; Li, S; Newell, Richard; Palmer, K (2012)

We analyze the cost-effectiveness of electric utility ratepayer-funded programs to promote demand-side management (DSM) and energy efficiency (EE) investments. We specify a model that relates electricity demand to previous ...
A Systematic Approach to Study Fisheries Governance

Basurto, Xavier; Nenadovic, M (2012)

How can policies become more effective to govern marine fisheries? How can we engage in developing a new science of fisheries governance that promotes knowledge accumulation and collective learning? We look into these ...
Fates beyond traits: ecological consequences of human-induced trait change

Palkovacs, Eric; Kinnison, MT; Correa, C; Dalton, CM; Hendry, AP (2012)
“’Kill the Americans!" The U.S. Government, Citizens, and Companies in Latin America from the Panama Canal to Plan Colombia,"

French, John D. (2012)
Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence

Ladd, Helen (2012)

Current U.S. policy initiatives to improve the U.S. education system, including No Child Left Behind, test-based evaluation of teachers, and the promotion of competition are misguided because they either deny or set to the ...
Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony, and the Gaza War

Stein, Rebecca L. (2012)
Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Basurto, Xavier; Speer, Johanna (2012)

Most studies that apply Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) rely on macro-level data, but an increasing number of studies focus on units of analysis at the micro or meso level, i.e., households, firms, protected areas, ...