The authors use a laboratory experiment to examine the impact of relative wages on labor supply. They test the hypothesis that, ceteris paribus, making a given wage high (low) relative to other wage levels will lead to an increase (decrease) in labor supply. They find that labor supply does respond significantly to relative pay, and in the expected direction. However, when a strong enough reaso...

The reproductive assurance hypothesis states that self-incompatible female plants must produce twice the number of seeds relative to their self-compatible hermaphroditic counterparts to persist in gynodioecious populations. This is a viable life-history strategy, provided that pollination rates are sufficiently high. However, reduced pollination rates in alpine plants are likely due to climate ...

john hick’s pluralism hypothesis is an endeavor from and within christian tradition to explain the relation of christianity with other world religions. his basically claim is that all religions epistemologically have the same value and do well in leading their followers to the ultimate salvation. for justifying his claim, hick has to defend his hypothesis at two levels: first he has to defend t...

Warming increases the metabolic rates of fishes and drives their oxygen demands above environmental supply, leading to declines in fish growth smaller population sizes. Given wide variability species' sensitivity changing temperature levels, warming limitation may be altering composition communities hence, that fisheries catches. Here, we test hypothesis temperatures shape pelagic catches Easte...

For a given real entire function φ with finitely many nonreal zeros, we establish a connection between the number of real zeros of the functions Q = (φ/φ) and Q1 = (φ /φ). This connection leads to a proof of the Hawaii conjecture [T.Craven, G.Csordas, and W. Smith, The zeros of derivatives of entire functions and the Pólya-Wiman conjecture, Ann. of Math. (2) 125 (1987), 405–431] stating that th...

Nitrogen dilution curves relate a crop’s critical nitrogen concentration (%Nc) to biomass (W) according to the allometric model %Nc = a W−b. This model has a strong theoretical foundation, and parameters a and b show little variation for well-watered crops. Here we explore the robustness of this model for water stressed crops. We established experiments to examine the combined effects of water ...