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![]() | Jameson, Kenneth P. | Has institutionalism won the development debate? | Institutionalism has again become central to development thinking, accompanied by an appreciation of the variety and complexity of institutional evolution. The result is not the 'old institutionalism' of Thorstein Veblen and Clarence Ayres or the 'new institutionalism' of the early Douglass North. ... | Development; institutionalism; markets | 2006 |
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![]() | Jorgensen, Erik | Neural plasticity | Neural plasticity refers to functional changes in the nervous system and therefore encompasses a range of phenomena from changes at synapses observed on a microscopic scale to changes in behavior observed in the whole animal. These diverse phenomena are related since changes in synapses are believ... | Synapses; Nervous System; Development | 1997 |
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![]() | Broughton, John | Size of the bursa of fabricius in relation to gonad size and age in laysan and black-footed albatrosses | Age determination can be difficult for birds that undergo little or no plumage change during life. This is the case for Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses (Diomedea immutabilis and D. nigripes). The juvenile plumage for both these North Pacific albatrosses is completely grown by about five to six m... | Birds; Species; Development | 1994 |
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![]() | Carter, John B. | Using khazana to support distributed application development | One of the most important services required by most distributed applications is some form of shared data management, e.g., a directory service manages shared directory entries while groupware manages shared documents. Each such application currently must implement its own data management mechanisms,... | Khazana; Distributed applications; Development | 1999 |