Using Financial Management Techniqueswith in Public Sector Organizations, Does Result Control Matter? A Heterogeneous Choice Approach

Using a principal-agent framework and multi-country survey data of over 400 public sec-tor organizations, this article examines the effect of result control on the use of fnancial manage-ment techniques in public sector organizations.In order to avoid invalid conclusions, we test for heteroskedasticity and model residual vari-ance using a heterogen

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Collinear Motion Strengthens Local Context in Visual Detection

Detection of elongated objects in the visual scene can be improved by additional elements flanking the object on the collinear axis.This is the collinear context effect (CE) and is represented in the long-range horizontal connection plexus in V1.The aim of this study was to test whether the visual collinear motion can improve the CE.In the three ex

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Egg rejection behavior does not explain the lack of cowbird parasitism on an eastern North American population of Red-winged Blackbirds

Abstract Background Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus), hereafter red-wings, are much less frequently parasitized by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) in eastern North America than in central North America and had not been recorded cga 200 to cga 510 adapter as hosts in our study area in southeastern Pennsylvania.Although hosts of Old

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