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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers

Josheski, Dushko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

the issue of grooming has been investigated in relation with earnings for which there exist and it is presented empirical …

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Personnel Economics essay: Issues in Human Capital Theory, training and earnings of workers

Josheski, Dushko - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für … - 2014

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Elaborate ornaments are costly to maintain: evidence for high maintenance handicaps

Walther, Bruno A.; Clayton, Dale H. - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 89-95

Elaborate secondary sexual traits, such as the ornamental plumage of birds, may be favored by female choice because they serve as honest indicators of male quality. Elaborate traits are thought to be honest signals because they are expensive to produce and increase predation risk. Here we...

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Grooming among female Japanese macaques: distinguishing between reciprocation and interchange

Schino, Gabriele; Ventura, Raffaella; Troisi, Alfonso - In: Behavioral Ecology 14 (2003) 6, pp. 887-891

Grooming among female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) was studied to test some predictions derived from the … application of biological market theory. Contrary to expectations, Japanese macaques did not time match the duration of grooming … reciprocated and nonreciprocated grooming in different ways. However, they did reciprocate total amount of grooming received. These …

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Grooming in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) and the ghost of parasites past

Mooring, Michael S.; Hart, Benjamin L.; Fitzpatrick, … - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 3, pp. 364-371

Ectoparasites such as ticks have a negative effect on host fitness, whereas parasite-defense grooming is effective in … removing ticks. The central control (programmed grooming) model proposes that animals engage in preventive tick …-defense grooming in response to an internal timing mechanism, even in the absence of peripheral stimulation from parasites. This model …

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Uncertainties in environmental radiological assessment models and their implications

Hoffman, F.O.; Miller, C.W. - 2008

Environmental radiological assessments rely heavily on the use of mathematical models. The predictions of these models are inherently uncertain because these models are inexact representations of real systems. The major sources of this uncertainty are related to biases in model formulation and...

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Report to Congress on the Small Business Program

2008

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Small Business Program is characterized by its diligent involvement in the procurement process to enhance participation by small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, labor surplus area firms, and women-owned businesses. The DOE's primary means of securing...

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Affirmative Action Plan, October 1991--September 1992

2008

This report documents Reynolds Electrical Engineering Co., Inc., analysis of all major job groups with explanations if minorities and females are underutilized in any one or more job group. Goals and timetables have been developed and good faith efforts are directed to correct any deficiencies....

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Primate paradigms : sex roles and social bonds

Fedigan, Linda Maria - 1982

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Reciprocal Altruism and Group Formation: the Degree of Segmentation of Reciprocal Altruists Who Prefer 'Old-Helping-Partners'

Zeggelink, Evelien; Vos, Henk de; Elsas, Donald - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 3 (2000) 3, pp. 1-1

To what degree does reciprocal altruism add to the explanation of the human way of group living? That is the main question of this paper. In order to find an answer to this question, we use the Social Evolution Model (SEM) that has been developed earlier. It allows us to investigate both the...

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