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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"monopolization"”.
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Aggression, monopolization and growth depensation within groups of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) : interactions between the temporal and spatial clumping of food
Resource defence theory predicts that defence and monopolization increase as the spatial clumping, spatial predictability, and temporal predictability of resources increase and as temporal clumping of resources decrease. Previous tests of resource defence theory have manipulated only one aspect of …
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Democracy, Citizens' Media, and Resistance: A Study of the New River Free Press
… practice and the further consolidation and monopolization of the global media system.
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Effects of prey distribution on resource defense, foraging behavior, and growth in stream-dwelling Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
… exploitative competition) to direct attacks and monopolization (i.e., interference competition). Spatial distribution of drifting prey provides a unique form of resource heterogeneity that may shape resource defense, foraging, and growth in stream salmonids. I conducted a field experiment on …
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Essays on technological change and innovation games
… waste in term of fixed cost, and hence the monopolization of the industry prevents a wasteful duplication of fixed costs. (ii) the influence of increasing marginal costs production technologies on the innovation and production behavior for finite size industries as well for competitive …
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Imperial splendor: Diamonds, commodity chains, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century Britain
… condoned it – thus, in a time of depression, the monopolization of the diamond market was an apparent guarantee to the “haves” that they need not find themselves in the “have-not” category in myriad ways. This work is based on a wide range of British newspapers and jewelry trade periodicals, …
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An Empire of Dust: Thomas Benton Catron and the Age of Capital in the Hispano Borderlands, 1840-1921
… speculators who bet on great profits from the monopolization of these properties generally met a red bottom line. Indeed, the failure of capitalists like Catron illuminates how and why much of New Mexico never transformed into the modern industrial landscape they desired. In this history of …
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Prometheus unbound : towards the more precise proscription of the socially undesirable market conduct associated with dominance
… of dominance", "anticompetitive conduct", "monopolization" or "improper use of market power". Each description is used by way of contrast to "normal competitive conduct". In all jurisdictions the courts have experienced considerable difficulty in articulating the distinction between lawful …
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The economics of openness in higher education
… the neoliberal concept of privatization and monopolization. I argue that there can be a practical solution for having open source/access models and the need for privatization of knowledge. I argue that the knowledge economy in the global economy will be the driving change in utilizing open …
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Informal Vending and the State in Kampala, Uganda
… forms and implications of the ruling party’s monopolization of political power and explore how vendors have responded to their changing political circumstances, highlighting how these efforts face significant obstacles due to the increasingly restrictive environment in which vendors are forced …
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Toward a political economy of the power sector: green capitalism, eco-socialism, and co-operative power in decarbonized climate policy
… conditions for the centralization and monopolization of private capital, as well as the continued destruction of nature and exploitation of workers. However, this crisis of load growth and the issue of governance that it raises open a window for experimentation into new state systems, …
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Ecological and evolutionary effects of dispersal on freshwater zooplankton
… hypotheses (e.g., metacommunity theory and the Monopolization hypothesis) have been developed to understand better the processes occurring in spatially structured environments and how the movement of individuals among habitats contributes to ecology and evolution at broader scales. As few …
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Effects of diversity on community assembly dynamics in newly formed pond communities
… invasion by heterospecifics. In addition, the monopolization hypothesis predicts that a genetically diverse population will be more likely to adapt to the local environment, monopolize resources, and buffer against invading competitors. This rapid evolution of a focal population can enhance …
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Crafting Cannabinoid Capitalism: Health, Sustainability, and Regeneration in the United States
… era, frustrating farmers’ efforts to resist monopolization and dispossession. Throughout, I attend to how the pervasive notions of “health,” “sustainability,” and “regeneration” are actively negotiated, modified, and put to use as material and symbolic tools in crafting medicinal, …
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Unsettled elites: reproducing the hacendado in neoliberal Ecuador
… undergird continuing efforts to justify monopolization of resources, social separation from other populations and the country’s chronic “underdevelopment.” The remainder of the dissertation focuses on the lived experiences of hacendado elites and the strategies employed to reproduce their …
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Essays on Interbank Market Funding, Bank Conduct and Performance in the UK
… by grouping together (collusion) and/or merging (monopolization) to deliberately manipulate the benchmark interbank rate and/or their true earnings position (opacity), and using various financial instruments to obtain mutual benefits that lead to cost savings and increased profits (Schrimpf and …
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Practical Exploit Mitigation Design Against Code Re-Use and System Call Abuse Attacks
… like performance degradation or memory monopolization, is difficult in practice, especially when trying to provide a high level of security for users. Secure and practical exploit mitigation design must successfully navigate several challenges. To illustrate, modern-day attacks, …
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PROJECT 02: MEDIA, POWER, AND ECOLOGY AT THE GOOGLE DATA CENTER IN THE DALLES, OREGON
… My research grounds concerns over Google’s monopolization of critical infrastructure in an environmental history of Google’s oldest hyperscale data center. At the hydroelectric dams that power this data center, the New Deal era dream of “power for the people” has evolved into a complexly …
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Effects of fragmentation and invasion on ant communities
… coexist at baits, and these had lower levels of monopolization by dominant ants (e.g., Wasmannia auropunctata, a global introduced species). Finally, I identified mechanisms of coexistence based on trade-offs of competitive abilities; most of the species showed a trade-off between discovery of …