Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. / Includes indexes.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-79). Also available on the Internet.

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate Saskatchewan farmers’ perception of lease hunting in Southern and Central Saskatchewan. Wildlife habitat on privately owned farmland has been shown to provide significant public benefits to society at large. One method that has been shown to provide a greater private benefit to the providers of wildlife habitat is lease hunting which creates incentives to farmers to provide some of the direct use value of wildlife habitat. Since lease hunting with the current legal structure is not an option in the province of Saskatchewan, this study investigated farmers’ attitude to a hypothetical lease hunting option. A total of 84 in person surveys were administered to Saskatchewan farmers and 10 telephone interviews to outfitters operating in the province. The survey results indicated that Saskatchewan farmers are evenly split between supporting and failing to support the introduction of lease hunting. Econometric analysis using a probit model showed that farmers who are renting additional land to agricultural production, who allowed hunting on their land in the past are more likely to support introducing lease hunting. Farmers who have been asked permission to hunt on their land by recreational hunters were less likely to support lease hunting, confirming the lease hunting literature that states that the most important characteristics of lease hunting is the control over who accesses their land. Since farmers who have already been asked for permission to access their land already possess the control over their land they were less likely to support the introduction of lease hunting. Demographic variables such as age and education do not have an effect on attitude to lease hunting. The price of a day hunting lease was estimated among those farmers who were in support of introducing lease hunting. It seems farmers are willing to accept $90 per day for a day of recreational hunting access to their lands. A tobit model showed that farmers who rent more land for agricultural production would charge more for a day of recreational hunting access. Also those farmers who have high perceived quantity of wildlife on their land would charge more up to a certain point where wildlife nuisance quality becomes more prominent.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-67).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta, 1997. / In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Counselling Psychology. Department of Educational Psychology. Also available online.

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The dissertation consists of a collection of personal essays about hunting and fishing. Because the essays are narratives and contain dialogue, characterization, description, themes, etc., they fall under the genre of creative nonfiction. The dissertation has two parts. Part I consists of an essay that discusses the author’s struggle to combine creative nonfiction with outdoor writing and also describes the author’s dilemma of writing about hunting, a topic that is often controversial at the university, while a graduate student. Part II of the dissertation consists of narratives that recount the author’s hunting and fishing experiences that occurred in North Texas and in the mountains of New Mexico. The essays discuss fishing for trout and hunting for deer, wild boars, quail, and duck. Three major themes are developed throughout the dissertation. The first theme describes the close relationship that exists between the author and his father. This closeness is partly due to the time that they have shared during decades of hunting and fishing together. The second theme discusses the ethics of hunting and especially focuses on which methods of hunting are ethical and which methods are not. The third theme explores the complex and sometimes unpleasant interactions that occur between sportsmen when they encounter each other while hunting and fishing. This theme explores the give and take attitude that must exist in order for sportsmen to get along. This attitude is necessary because no two outdoorsmen view the outdoors and hunting and fishing in quite the same way.

Hunting and fishing made up a large part of the life of Ernest Hemingway, and these sports, in turn, frequently served as a means of communication for some of his most serious ideas.

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Mak Ka-Yun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-53). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Declaration --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Model --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Prototypal Job Search Model --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Job Search Model with Firing and Varying Reservation Wages --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3 --- Data and Likelihood --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4 --- Gibbs Sampling --- p.16 / Chapter 3 --- Example --- p.18 / Chapter 3.1 --- Data --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2 --- Complete-data Likelihood --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3 --- Prior Distribution --- p.22 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Natural Conjugate Prior --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Proper Prior --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- Posterior Distribution --- p.24 / Chapter 3.5 --- Setting Initial Values of Parameters --- p.25 / Chapter 3.6 --- Simulation Procedures --- p.27 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- Simulation Procedures for Natural Conjugate Prior Case --- p.28 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- Simulation Procedures for Proper Prior Case --- p.38 / Chapter 3.7 --- Output Analysis --- p.41 / Chapter 4 --- Discussion --- p.49 / References --- p.52