Who Is Afraid of Biotic Threats? An Econometric Analysis of Veneto Wine Grape Farmers’ Propensity to Insure

Who Is Afraid of Randomness?

We finally understand. Things are the way they are because they can't be otherwise. Ivar Ekeland

Who is afraid of Staphylococcus?

The continent of Africa has an extraordinary richness of flora, and a tradition of herbal or traditional medicines 1 . The low cost and high acceptance 2 of, and ease of access 3 to such ‘therapies’ make them the most common form of African alternative medicine. However, only a relatively small number of plant species and their extracts have been studied 4 , with minimal information available r...

an infinite planar array of rectangular microstrip patch antenna analysis

the methods which are used to analyze microstrip antennas, are divited into three categories: empirical methods, semi-empirical methods and full-wave analysis. empirical and semi-empirical methods are generally based on some fundamental simplifying assumptions about quality of surface current distribution and substrate thickness. thses simplificatioms cause low accuracy in field evaluation. ful...

Who is Afraid of Political Instability?

An unstable macroeconomic environment is often regarded as detrimental to economic growth. Among the sources contributing to such instability, the literature has assigned most of the blame to political issues. This paper empirically tests for a causal and negative long-term relation between political instability and economic growth, but finds no evidence of such a relationship. Sensitivity anal...

Who is Afraid of the “Precautionary Principle”?