Despite increasingly more comprehensive policies for forest management, the lastforty years in Mexico has witnessed a continuing pattern of mismanagement. While somehave pointed a finger at underlying factors such as population growth and poverty,focusing on these factors tend to “blame the victim.” Political elements such as acentralized government, a dominant political party, ...

Terrorism, political system instability and currency rate fluctuations are the three most evident issues of 21st century. In this study, comparative analysis is performed to check the impact of all these issues on PSX Volatility. EGARCH (1,1) approach is used on four different kinds of data collected from 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2015. Terrorist events, FX return fluctuations with rest...

Membrane biophysics is a vast field, in which life uses all of the physical forces and laws to organize physiological processes. The simple physics of the phospholipid bilayer often dominates the structure of the membrane to provide compartmentalization of cellular space — proteins work within the constraints of the bilayer to catalyze lipid metabolism, bend membranes, transport impermeant subs...

23 DO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS affect how citizens view their government? This question is both theoretically important and policy-relevant. A central argument for more restrictive campaign finance laws at both the state and federal levels is that tighter rules will restore trust in the government and make citizens once again feel that they can affect the political process. Supreme Court de...

This paper contributes to recent work in political economy and public finance that focuses on how details of the tax code, rather than tax rates, are used to implement redistributive fiscal policies. I use tools from natural language processing to construct a high-dimensional representation of tax code changes from the text of 1.6 million statutes enacted by state legislatures since 1963. A dat...

Most geomorphic transport laws proposed to date are local in character, i.e., they express the sediment flux at a point as a function of the elevation gradient or curvature or other geomorphic quantities at that point only. We argue that non-local constitutive laws, in which the flux at a point depends on the conditions in some larger neighborhood around this point in space and/or time, present...