Why Are German Employers Associations Declining?

Why Are Caribou Declining in the Oil Sands?

Why are caribou declining in the oil sands?

-------------------------------Why are caribou declining in the oil sands? Peer-review ed le tte r Conservation of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou; hereafter caribou) is challenging in A lberta’s rapidly developing oil sands region. In the Decem ber issue (Front Ecol Environ 2011; 9 [1 0 ]: 5 4 6 -5 1 ), Wasser et al. made two unexpected claims: (1) caribou conservation is less urge...

Why most discovered true associations are inflated.

Newly discovered true (non-null) associations often have inflated effects compared with the true effect sizes. I discuss here the main reasons for this inflation. First, theoretical considerations prove that when true discovery is claimed based on crossing a threshold of statistical significance and the discovery study is underpowered, the observed effects are expected to be inflated. This has ...

Are elite journals declining?

Vincent Larivière École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada, and Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche, sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, CP 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC. H3C 3P8, Canada. E...

Are employers changing their behavior toward older workers? An analysis of employers' surveys 2000-2009.

This article addresses possible changes in Dutch employers' behavior regarding the recruitment and retention of older workers during the last decade. The authors analyze surveys administered to Dutch employers in 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2009. The results show that efforts to recruit older workers are changing, congruous with the economic climate, while retention behavior shows a clear and r...