26 research outputs found
Improving the Accuracy and Realism of Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses
No full textTo my parents, Paul Joel Brown and Mary Ann Verkamp, for instilling in me an abiding love for learning, especially about the living world, and to my wife, Erin Grip Brown, whose patience and love are seemingly endless. Acknowledgements Throughout my academic career, I have been fortunate to have outstanding mentors. As an undergraduate at Indiana University, the examples of Butch Brodie and Aneil Agrawal inspired me to pursue a career as an evolutionary biologist. At the University of Texas, David Hillis has been a wonderful guide through the ups and downs of graduate school. I would also like to thank the rest of my committee, Dan Bolnick, Randy Linder, Martha Smith, and, in particular, Jim Bull, for guidance and help whenever it was needed. My graduate education has also depended heavily on the kindness of fellow students. In particular, I owe a debt of gratitude to Alan Lemmon, Tracy Heath, and Derrick Zwickl. Two chapters of this dissertation are the result of collaborative work, to which others have contributed substantially. My co-author on Chapter 2 is Alan Lemmon, wh
Poverty, Human Development and Financial Services
No full texthuman development, poverty, empowerment
Population-Level Metrics of Trophic Structure Based on Stable Isotopes and Their Application to Invasion Ecology
No full textPMCID: PMC3283663This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
'Leaves and Eats Shoots': Direct Terrestrial Feeding Can Supplement Invasive Red Swamp Crayfish in Times of Need
No full textPMCID: PMC3411828This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Sildenafil stimulates human trophoblast invasion through nitric oxide and guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate signaling
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Trophoblast retrieval and isolation from the cervix (TRIC) is unaffected by early gestational age or maternal obesity
No full textThe development of financial services and financial regulation in Angola
No full textThis dissertation examines developments in financial services in Angola, looking particularly at the role of the Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) in achieving greater competence in the banking division, growth, and well organized financial regulation and corporate governance. The author considers the work of BNA, the government of Angola (GOA), and investors in providing more financial services and increased competence of the banking service, with reference to international models
Foreign aid, conditionality, and ghost of the financing gap - a forgotten aspect of the aid debate
No full textAssessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why (The World Bank, 1998) generated a new wave of controversy about foreign aid and policy conditionality that had seen several decades of intense debate. Much of the recent debate has focused on the aid-growth relationship and the role of"good"policies. While a great deal has been said about qualitative aspects of aid effectiveness (that is, fungibility, among other things), little attention has been paid so far to some important quantitative aspects. The author draws attention to this neglected aspect of the aid debate to show that the level of aid requirements of a country is an equally important and integral part of aid and aid effectiveness. The author compares the World Bank/IMF approaches to estimation of external assistance requirements of a country in quantitative terms with an alternative model, the"balance of payments constrained growth model"(based on the Harrod trade multiplier). He finds that the latter model is not a real alternative as it is an incomplete model. More important, he shows that international financial institutions use these quantitative frameworks in a very flexible and pragmatic way to carry on a meaningful policy dialogue with both donors and recipient countries, which has an important bearing on aid effectiveness.Decentralization,Economic Theory&Research,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Financial Intermediation,Development Economics&Aid Effectiveness,Achieving Shared Growth
