Troportionalist'or desert-based sentencing theory—the idea that sentences should be
proportionate to and deserved by the gravity of the criminal conduct—has a relatively recent …

We present a theoretically informed experimental study of distributive justice norms concerning
income distribution. Our study consists of three related experiments that examine how …

… underlying desert adaptations in mammals. Several studies on different desert mammals …
desert adaptation to water and food scarcity and extreme temperatures. However, studies of …

This paper has been prepared at the request of the Secre tariat of the 1977 United Nations
Conference on Desertifica tion. The authors dnd Worldwatch Institute are grateful to the …

… deserts has generally hinged. Even so, providing an acceptable measure of aridity upon which
to base a definition of desert … have been made to identify the world distribution of deserts. …

… Book: Life in deserts., 1964, 218 pp. … This account of desert ecology and adaptations to
arid environments ' will be of value ... to all those concerned with the urgent problem of�…

An attempt is made to measure the horizontal divergence of the vertically integrated moisture
flux over the northern hemisphere for the calendar year of 1950. This is done through the …

… deserts with summer precipitation, deserts … deserts and continental deserts with near the
maximum possible sunshine, barren deserts and heavily vegetated deserts, sand-dune deserts …

… desert regions including the hot deserts of North America (Great Basin Desert), Africa (Sahara
desert, Kalahari desert… in the Chihiahuan desert grassland (a hot desert region in the …

… desert ecosystems in the southwestern United States was estimated by comparing nitrogen
inputs to the amount of nitrogen stored in desert … The amount of nitrogen stored in desert soils …