Employee Poaching: Why It Can Be Predatory

Employee Poaching: Why It Can Be Predatory

Why Drosophila is not Drosophila any more, why it will be worse and what can be done about it?

Formally, Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830 is still Drosophila; however, it just waits for the first formal revision of the genus. On the basis of a 23 : 4 vote, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature rejected the proposal (Kim van der Linde et al., 2007) to make an exception to the rules and to switch the type of the genus Drosophila from D. funebris to D. melanogaster in ...

Judicial Independence: What It Is, How It Can Be Measured, Why It Occurs

Judicial independence is widely considered to be a foundation for the rule of law (Council of Europe 1998; United Nations 1985), and establishing judicial independence in developing and transition economies has become a major goal of donor-supported legal and judicial reform programs. This topic brief will address three questions related to judicial independence. First, what exactly does "judic...

Why Information can be Free

This paper describes a model that demonstrates that sharing knowledge can be adaptive purely for its own sake. This is despite the fact that sharing knowledge costs the speaker in terms of foraging opportunities, and that initially the majority of the population consists of free-riders who listen but do not speak. The population is able to take advantage of the increased carrying capacity of th...

Domestic violence: why does it happen? How can it be stopped?