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Cuttlefish camouflage:Blending in by matching background features
No full textCuttlefish are masters of camouflage and show a remarkable ability to hide in plain sight. A new study reveals how these animals translate visual information about their surroundings into effective camouflage patterns
25th Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture
No full textRajiv Shah MARTIN J. FORMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE Ending hunger: How leadership, data and technology can transform the global face of poverty 25th Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture JAN 7, 2016 - 05:15 PM TO 06:45 PM ES
Letter from Calvin Martin to Leslie Mann (November 10, 1952)
No full textThis is a letter from Calvin J. Martin, Alumni Secretary at Springfield College, to Leslie Mann dated November 10, 1952. In the letter Martin informs Mann that the proposal to sell the See-how as part of a fund raising effort for the alumni fund has been rejected.For biographical information on Leslie Mann, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/563
Letter from Calvin Martin to Leslie Mann (October 10, 1952)
No full textThis is a one-page letter from Calvin J. Martin, Alumni Secretary at Springfield College, to Leslie Martin dated October 10, 1952. In the letter, Martin says that he will bring the proposal of selling the See-how as a way to raise funds for the Alumni Fund to the Alumni Fund Committee. There is also a receipt for an insured parcel that was attached to the letter. This is dated November 6, 1952. It is not known what this parcel contained or why this receipt was attached to this letter.For biographical information on Leslie Mann, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/563
Rent - seeking trade policy : a time series approach
No full textUsing a time-series approach, the author analyzes the relationship between the extent of rent-seeking trade policy and both political and economic variables. For rent-seeking trade policy, the indicator he uses is the number of foreign-trade regulations passed each year for the benefit of a single firm or industry. The author uses data from Uruguay for 1925-83. Uruguay, which experienced an impressive economic decline, is an outstanding example of a rent-seeking society. After being a wealthy economy in midcentury, it suffered almost complete stagnation, which led to social and policital disintegration by the end of the 1960s. Three decades of restrictive regulations on foreign trade had created a nearly closed economy by the end of the 1960s. It was worth analyzing whether policymakers'great receptiveness to demands for protection could account for Uruguay's decline. Over the period 1925-83, the author finds almost 4,000 laws, decrees, and administrative resolutions that create, maintain, or modify a foreign-trade regulation for the benefit of a single firm or industry. About half of them explicitly identify the petitioner - usually a firm or guild. Since the size of the Uruguayan economy changed over the period studied, the author scales the annual number of regulations by output or exports to measure the extent of rent-seeking trade policy. The author shows that the extent of rent-seeking trade policy increased with discretionary policies and under dictatorship. (In the period studied, there were two stages of democracy - until 1932 and from 1943-72 - and two stages of dictatorship.) He also shows that rent-seeking trade restrictions increased under import-substitution strategies and, more unexpectedly, under active export promotion. This suggests that discretionary power leads to wasteful distribution, whether it is used to support inward- or outward-oriented policies. Finally, the author analyzes the correlation between innovations in the trade policy indicator and innovations in the growth rates of output and exports, with a lag of up to 20 years. Surprisingly, he finds a positive correlation with output growth rates after two or three years. But the correlation becomes negative some years later, particularly in the case of exports. The short-run positive impact on growth rates, together with the surprisingly long time lag before the negative impact, may account for policymakers'receptiveness to demands for protection.Trade Policy,Achieving Shared Growth,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
Interview with Father James Martin
No full textIn May 2011, the Ignatian Faculty Scholars at Regis University conducted a Skype interview with Father James Martin, S. J., author of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything. The Scholars had used Father Martin’s book as a text for their year of study, which focused on Ignatian Spirituality, the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, and teaching and learning at a Jesuit university. The interview was transcribed and is printed below. Father Martin reflects on the book, and responds to questions about the book itself, about finding God in all learners, and about the Church
Letter from Calvin Martin to Roland Burdick (September 24, 1951)
No full textThis is a letter from Calvin J. Martin, Alumni Secretary at Springfield College, and Roland Burdick, Assistant Sales Manager at Association Press. It is dated September 24, 1951. The letter is in response for receipt of a letter written by Mr. Burdick on September 18th about the book written by Mr. Raymond P. Kaighn titled, "How to Retire and Like It.
A letter from Calvin Martin to Leslie Mann (October 10, 1951)
No full textThis is a copy of a letter written by Calvin J. Martin, Alumni Secretary at Springfield College, to Leslie Mann dated October 10, 1951. In the letter Mr. Martin tells Leslie Mann that the Alumni fund Committee will discuss Mr. Mann's proposal of having Alumni buy or sell the See-how with a portion of those proceeds going to the Alumni Fund.For biographical information on Leslie Mann, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/563
Letter from Calvin Martin to Leslie Mann (May 24, 1951)
No full textThis is a letter from Calvin J. Martin, the Alumni Secretary at Springfield College, to Leslie Mann. The letter is in response to Mann's letter dated May 22, 1951 regarding the possibilities of selling the See-how to support the Alumni Fund. In the letter he says that Martin will put the matter up for discussion at the next Alumni Fund Committee and advises Mr. Mann not to change his plans to visit Springfield College to discuss the proposal.For biographical information on Leslie Mann, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/563
Replication Data for: How Campaign Ads Stimulate Political Interest
No full textCanen, Nathan, and Martin, Gregory J., (2023) “How Campaign Ads Stimulate Political Interest.” Review of Economics and Statistics 105:2, 292–310
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