Bats, Mosquitoes, and Dollars

Bats, viruses, emerging diseases and humans

This paper reviews the unique characteristics of bats, their important roles in providing ecosystem services, their viruses in relation to emerging diseases. Bats, as flying mammals, are the second largest order following rodents, with a wide variety (over 1400 identified species among 230 genera of 21 families in the world) due to their flying power and echolocation. Despite their importance a...

Money, Credit, and Euro-Dollars

Experimental assessment of the impacts of northern long-eared bats on ovipositing Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes.

The importance of predation as a mortality factor in adult mosquitoes has received only limited attention in the scientific literature. Despite the lack of consensus among researchers as to whether bats are important predators of mosquitoes, there have been no attempts to directly document the effect of bats on mosquito populations or behavior. We conducted an enclosure experiment to test the h...

Trading Dollars for Dollars: The Price of Attention Online and Offline

Recent years have witnessed a crisis in journalism. Newspaper staffs have been cut by a third since 2000 (Pew Research Center 2013). Stock prices of major newspaper companies have fallen by more than half over the same period. The costly work of gathering, interpreting, and disseminating news—activities widely believed to have large positive political and social externalities (Downs 1957; Becke...

THE SERRANO PRINCIPLE Dollars , Scholars and Constitutlan

JOHN E. COONS, WILLIAM H. CLUNE 111 U STEPHEN D. SUGARMAN Mr. Coons and Mr. Sugarman are professors of law at the University o f California and coauthors of Private Wealth and Public Education (Harvard University Press); borh appeared in and argued the Serrano case before the California Supreme Court which adopted their position. Mr. Clune teaches law at Wisconsin; he and Mr. Sugarman are form...