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Orme, C H, NX35409
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/408919Surname: ORME. Given Name(s) or Initials: C H. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX35409. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 12302.224364
Item: [2016.0049.41190] "Orme, C H, NX35409
Spain and Portugal / published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
No full text1 mapa. Mapa núm. 13. Pintat. Toponímia en anglès.21 x 28 c
Spain and Portugal / drawn under the direction of Mr.Arrowsmith and published as the Act directs by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme ; J. Bye, sculptor
No full text1 mapa.28 x 43 c
Spain and Portugal / drawn under the direction of Mr.Arrowsmith and published as the Act directs by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme ; J. Bye, sculptor
No full text1 mapa.28 x 43 c
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
Data for: Subpolar North Atlantic sea surface temperature since 6 ka BP: indications of anomalous ocean-atmosphere interactions at 4-2 ka BP
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Subpolar North Atlantic sea surface temperature since 6 ka BP: indications of anomalous ocean-atmosphere interactions at 4-2 ka BP
Corresponding author: Orme, Lisa Claire a ([email protected])
Miettinen, Arto a ([email protected])
Divine, Dmitry a,b ([email protected])
Husum, Katrine a ([email protected])
Pearce, Christof c ([email protected])
Van Nieuwenhove, Nicolas d ([email protected])
Born, Andreas e ([email protected])
Mohan, Rahul f ([email protected])
Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig c ([email protected])
Core: DA12-11/2-GC01
Diatom percentage abundance, sea surface temperatures calculated using weighted averaging partial least squares transfer function, raw diatom counts
Validating the use of unique trait combinations for measuring multivariate functional richness
No full text1. Quantifying functional trait diversity has provided important new insights for understanding ecosystem processes and functioning. Functional diversity is often partitioned into three components richness, evenness and divergence. Currently, a convex hull is used as a measure of multivariate richness, but this approach has some serious limitations. 2. Consequently, we propose using the number of unique trait combinations (UTCs) as an approach to measure the filled trait space (the hypervolume containing all possible trait combinations) and propose a new index, sUTC, as the amount of filled trait space divided by the trait space range. Like convex hull approaches, UTC can be partitioned into alpha and beta components when used across sites, and the beta component can be further partitioned into turnover and nestedness components. Unlike convex hull approaches, UTC can be used more intuitively with existing diversity measures as it can be used in conjunction with abundance information. We present the concepts these indices are based on and give examples of their use. The new index, sUTC, is compared to the existing indices on the basis of criteria specified in the literature and one novel criterion. We test and evaluate the approach using simulated data and field data. 3. We found that the UTC approach provided a more accurate assessment of functional richness than did the existing indices. 4. The UTC approach is a multivariate approach to measuring functional richness that can accommodate continuous and categorical traits and can account for holes in the trait space
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