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Autor:
Conrad G. Brunk, Harold Coward
Modern biotechnology has surpassed science fiction with such feats as putting fish genes in tomatoes to create a more cold-resistant crop. While the environmental and health concerns over such genetically modified foods have been the subject of publi
Autor:
Monica Nordberg, Peter J. Boogaard, John C. Lipscomb, Janice W. Yager, Michael E. Kilpatrick, Yu-Mei Tan, Michael J. Bartels, Daniel Krewski, Lesa L. Aylward, Miles S. Okino, Michael L. Dourson, Claude Viau, Kannan Krishnan, Conrad G. Brunk, Hugh A. Barton, Daniel A. Goldstein, Sean M. Hays, Judy S. LaKind, Stephen DiZio
Publikováno v:
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. 51:S16-S26
Biomonitoring Equivalents (BEs) are screening tools for interpreting biomonitoring data. However, the development of BEs brings to the public a relatively novel concept in the field of health risk assessment and presents new challenges for environmen
Autor:
Kennith G. Hunter, Gregory G. Brunk
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Socio-Economics. 37:194-212
There has been a great deal of public policy concern about the negative impact of interest groups, particularly since Olson portrayed them as the cause of the slowdown of mature economies. While his thesis remains the dominant academic and popular pe
Autor:
Gregory G. Brunk
Publikováno v:
Japanese Journal of Political Science. 3:25-44
The nonlinear dynamical process of self-organized criticality provides a new ‘theory of history’ that explains a number of unresolved anomalies: Why are the really big events in human history usually unpredictable? Why is it impossible to anticip
Autor:
Gregory G. Brunk
Publikováno v:
Journal of Theoretical Politics. 14:195-230
The oldest answered question in the social sciences is ‘Why do societies collapse?’. I advance a theory of the collapse of societies that is based on self-organized criticality, which is a nonlinear process that produces sudden shifts and fractal
Publikováno v:
Public Organization Review. 2:117-139
Recent advances in the study of organizations suggest that various environmental characteristics should affect the structural characteristics of interest groups. We explore this thesis using a data set of lobbying in the American states. We use OLS r
Autor:
Gregory G. Brunk
Publikováno v:
British Journal of Political Science. 31:427-445
Adopting a particular non-linear perspective resolves numerous paradoxes about collective political behaviour. Self-organized criticality occurs if the sensitivity of individuals or groups to each other's actions increases with the passage of time, a
Autor:
Gregory G. Brunk, C. Kenneth Meyer
Publikováno v:
Public Integrity. 2:29-43
This commentary describes a type of game called the gold rush, where the prize is great and the chance of winning low. Unlike a lottery, which is based on luck alone, in a gold rush the cha...
Autor:
Gregory G. Brunk
Publikováno v:
Complexity. 5:26-33