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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"trade networks"”.
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Trade Networks under Asymmetric Information
… are analyzed with intermediaries called traders using a network structure. Goods are traded in the market through those networks. Each seller and buyer is linked to a trader through a network. We introduce asymmetric information on the valuation of goods by sellers and buyers. We deal …
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Competition and Conflict: Maryland's First Ten Years
… there existed an opportunity for the creation of trade networks between the white man and Indian. Unfortunately, almost as quickly as these trade networks emerged, competition between the natives and Europeans led to the exhaustion of the beaver population, and ultimately caused the colonies of …
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TO KILL AND TO BE KILLED: THE TRANSFERENCE, TRANSFORMATION AND USE OF THE SMITING POSE IN EGYPT AND THE AEGEAN DURING THE BRONZE AGE
… power in the Eastern Mediterranean and how do trade networks influence this. The first part of this approach considers different trade routes explored by Crete and the Mainland as well as the role the Aegean peoples played in the international trade networks. The second part of this study …
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International trade of electric vehicle batteries and lithium: a network approach to trade structure and structural inequality
… mitigation have been made, the international trade of emission-reducing technologies and their necessary materials has grown. Few technologies have seen as much growth as electric vehicles and their lithium-ion batteries; and few materials have seen as much growth as lithium. Research on …
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Shetland and the trade of steatite goods in the North Atlantic region during the Viking and early medieval period
… the extent to which Shetland was involved in trade of steatite goods during the Viking and Early Medieval periods. Artefact assessment has highlighted distinctive steatite artefact types from Shetland, Norway and Greenland. This visual provenance technique allowed comprehensive assessment of …
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How the Drug Trade is Facilitated Online: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
The drug trade is part of society and will, therefore, continue to evolve as society evolves. Technology plays a significant role in the evolution of society and the drug trade alike. Technological developments such as the internet have facilitated our lives. Several conditions have contributed to …
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The political economy of rural-urban conflict : lessons from West Africa & India
… Peace & Conflict Studies to examine how economic networks spanning the rural-urban divide condition conflict dynamics between an urban-based state and its rural-based challengers. In some cases of such violent internal conflict, the combat frontier is messy and erratic, as insurgents target cities …
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Rastas on the road to healing: plant-human mobilities in Cape Town, South Africa
… stamina and knowledge of the body, establish trade networks and build customer bases;; all of which contribute to the authority and healing abilities of an herbalist.
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Modelling Roman agricultural production in the Middle Tiber Valley, Central Italy
… either to an urban dependency on larger scale trade networks or to decline.
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Application of Network Reliability to Analyze Diffusive Processes on Graph Dynamical Systems
… contagion clusters in international food trade networks. Further, it is analogous to the partition function of the Ising model which provides insights to the interpolation between the low and high temperature limits.
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Australia's role in Japan's postwar trade strategy : development of Japanese trade under the Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements, 1947-1954
… role in the re-establishment of postwar Japanese trade networks from 1947 to the mid 1950s. The Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements which stipulated settlement in pounds sterling of Japan's trade with the sterling area was an important determinant of Australia-Japan trade during this period. …
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Australia's role in Japan's postwar trade strategy : development of Japanese trade under the Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements, 1947-1954
… role in the re-establishment of postwar Japanese trade networks from 1947 to the mid 1950s. The Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements which stipulated settlement in pounds sterling of Japan's trade with the sterling area was an important determinant of Australia-Japan trade during this period. …
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Hilltop Archaeology: Ceremony and Ritual at the Site of Cerro Santa Rita, Chao Valley, Peru
… going to maintain access to and influence over trade networks.</p>
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The Bronze Age funerary cups of southern England
… development of this practice. Regional links and networks may be discerned through the distribution of attributes and similar vessel types and probably reflect trade networks. It is suggested that the cups had a primary role within Early Bronze Age funerary rituals associated only with certain …
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Homeliness and Worldliness: Materiality and the Making of New Netherland, 1609-1740
… people and places in early modern Dutch trade networks. Through a careful analysis of objects of material culture and depictions of material culture I focus on how the colony was physically constructed and ideologically imagined internally by the colonists and externally by other …
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From The Mouths Of Mississippian: Determining Biological Affinity Between The Oliver Site (22-Co-503) And The Hollywood Site (22-Tu-500)
… interaction between polities as a result of vast trade networks, regional mating networks which included spousal exchange, chiefdom collapse, and endemic warfare. This constant interaction is reflected not only in the cultural materials but also in the genetic composition of the inhabitants of …
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Canaanite jars from Memphis as evidence for trade and political relationships in the Middle Bronze Age
Trade between two regions often necessitates that the respective parties are political entities. This was indeed the case for trade between Egypt and the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1550 BC, MBA) and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550-1200 BC, LBA). Scientific analyses of Canaanite jars, …
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The Cocaine-Wildlife Connection: Crime Convergence in Central America
This thesis analyzes the illegal wildlife trade in Central America and its connections to cocaine trafficking in protected areas by conducting a comparative study of Costa Rica and Guatemala. Recent scholarship on conservation crime suggests that illicit markets and trade networks intersect in …
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Cohonina Social Organization And The Role Of Forts In Integration And Interaction: A View From The Pittsberg Community.
… was heavily reliant on intra- and inter-regional trade networks that exerted strong integrating forces on a political economic system prone to segmentation and differentiation.
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Homo Oeconomicus Romanus
… datasets used as indicators of production, trade intensity, and regional connectivity. Special attention is given to the distribution of transport amphorae and fine wares such as sigillata, which serve as markers of trade networks and economic organization. The simulations suggest that …
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