TRADING TRUSTS AND STRAW TRUSTEES: Principles & Problems Reconsidered.

Trading biodiversity for pest problems

Recent shifts in agricultural practices have resulted in altered pesticide use patterns, land use intensification, and landscape simplification, all of which threaten biodiversity in and near farms. Pests are major challenges to food security, and responses to pests can represent unintended socioeconomic and environmental costs. Characteristics of the ecological community influence pest populat...

Variational principles: summary and problems

2.1 Differentiability and first order conditions If a function f : R → R has partial derivatives ∂if(x) = limt→0 t−1(f(x + tei) − f(x)) which exist and are continuous on R, it is a C1(R) function, and is differentiable at every x in the sense that f(x + h) − f(x) −∇f(x) · h = o(‖h‖) as h → 0. This means it can be approximated linearly, and the derivative is the linear map on R given by Df(x)(h)...

Multicollinearity Reconsidered

In this paper we intend to improve the explanatory power of regressions when the deletion method is used for the remedy of Multicolinearity. If one deletes the variable (s) that is (are) responsible for Multicolinearity, he loses some information that is not common between the deleted variable (s) and the other remaining variables in the regression. To improve this method, we run the deleted va...

The chop and lift reconsidered: integrating neuromuscular principles into orthopedic and sports rehabilitation.

The upper extremity bilateral PNF patterns, better known as the "chop and lift" are well known to physical therapists. These patterns which utilize spiral and diagonal motions of the upper extremity can be used for both assessment and treatment of sports and orthopedic injuries. Half kneeling and tall kneeling postures fall between low-level postures such as rolling and 4-point, and high-level ...

Fair Tracing without Trustees