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Malthusian World(S): Globalization, Race And The American Imaginary In The Immigration Debates Of The Twentieth Century, Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

No abstract provided.

Technology Adoption In The Presence Of An Exhaustible Resource: The Case Of Groundwater Extraction, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Farhed Shah, David Zilberman

Ujjayant Chakravorty

In this paper we integrate technology diffusion within Hotelling's exhaustible resource model. The modern technology is a conservation technology such as drip irrigation used with groundwater. Resource quality heterogeneity and rising water prices are responsible for the gradual adoption of the modern technology, and under reasonable conditions the diffusion curve is an S-shaped function of time. Without intervention, the diffusion process will be slower than is socially optimal, and optimal resource use tax will accelerate the diffusion of the conservation technology and slow down excessive resource depletion caused by market failure due to open access conditions.

A Spatial Model Of Optimal Water Conveyance, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Eithan Hochman, David Zilberman

Ujjayant Chakravorty

Most water projects suffer from losses in conveyance. Because conveyance has public good characteristics, investment in reducing conveyance losses must be provided by a central authority. This paper develops a spatial model to determine optimal conveyance investment, water allocation, and investment in firm-specific conservation technology. The efficiency and distributional characteristics of the optimal solution are compared to projects with (i) well-developed water markets and (ii) spatially uniform water prices, both with sub-optimal conveyance. A numerical illustration is provided.

Bæredygtig Udnyttelse Af Fornybare Ressourcer: Torskefiskeriet Ved Færøerne, Niels Vestergaard

Niels Vestergaard

The Faroe Islands cod fishery is analyzed for the period 1985-1992. It is shown that an approximately optimal and implementable fishery policy based on sustainability have increased the gross national income in the fishery by about 20%. This loss is due to an inoptimal organization of the fishery during that period combined with a very low cod stock at the end of 1992, which means reduced future catch possibilities. that the fishing capacity could have been reduced by about 1/3. The policy of sustainability is applied to the current situation in the fishery, and it is shown that the current …

Selected Mmpi-2 Scales For Identifying Women With A History Of Sexual Abuse., Evan D. Parks

Evan D Parks

Studies with adults who have experienced early childhood sexual trauma suggest the presence of frequent long-term mental and physical sequelae. While the symptom profiles vary due to a number of moderating factors, the preponderance of evidence indicates that a significant level of distress and dysfunction is experienced by abused individuals. It is this increase in psychopathology that may be useful in correctly identifying patients who may be suspect for previous early trauma. In this study, selected Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) scales were use for identifying women with a history of sexual abuse.

Bedouins Of Qatar

Roberta L. Dougherty

Assessing Sequential Oncogene Amplification In Human Breast Cancer, Laura E. Janocko, Joseph F. Lucke, David W. Groft, Kathryn A. Brown, Charles A. Smith, Agnese A. Pollice, Sarita G. Singh, Robert Yakulis, Robert J. Hartsock, Stanley E. Shackney

Charles Kay Smith

Studies of amplification and/or overexpression of c-myc, HER-2/neu, and H-ras in breast cancer have shown that each is associated with a poor prognosis. The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility that there is a preferred sequence of amplification of these oncogenes in breast cancer. The frequencies of amplification and patterns of co-amplification of c-myc, HER-2/neu, and H-ras were studied in a group of 84 breast cancers. The data suggested a preferred sequence of amplification that consisted of c-myc amplification-HER-2/neu amplification-H-ras amplification. This model was supported by loglinear analysis. In addition, the levels of amplification of JC-A, a …

Environment And Archaeology. Β - Visiting The Excavation Of The Neolithic Settlement At Poussi-Kalogeri (In Greek), Anastasia Tsaliki, Lilian Karali

Dr Anastasia Tsaliki, PhD

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Controlling Crimes By The Military, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Violence By Municipal Police In Canada, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

A Process Model Of Public Police Violence In Advanced Industrialized Democracies, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

The Rise And Fall Of Quebecois Separatist Terrorism: A Qualitative Application Of Factors From Two Models, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Did The United Nations Fight A Just War?: Ethics In The Un Peace-Enforcement Activities In Somalia, Tatsushi Arai

Tatsushi Arai

The United Nations' military operation initiated on June 12, 1993 in Somalia has considerable moral implications. Examination of this first "peace-enforcement" operation with three guidelines of the just war doctrine, (1) proportionality of the goals to use force and the means and costs to achieve them, (2) just cause of war, and (3) warring actors' legitimacy to use force, indicates that this UN action is not justifiable. The ethically optimal alternative to this military operation would have been non-military action, no matter how ineffective it could have been. This moral analysis concludes with two lessons for the future of UN …

Experimental Research On Complex Problem Solving, Joachim Funke

Joachim Funke

Value Added Taxation: A Tax Whose Time Has Come?, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

Value-added taxes (VATs) are used in a large number of developed countries and have been under consideration at the national level in the United States in recent years. This paper provides an introduction to the tax for those unfamiliar with it. The author begins by describing how VATs work and briefly surveys their use by other countries. The remainder of the paper considers the economic impact as well as design issues that are likely to arise if the United States were to implement a VAT.

Patient Adherence And Adjustment In Renal Dialysis: A Person X Treatment Interactive Approach, Alan Christensen, Timothy Smith, Charles Turner, Kirt Cundick

Alan J. Christensen

We classified 52 in-center hemodialysis patients and 34 self-treated, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients on two latent variable indices reflecting patient coping style (i.e., Information Vigilance and Active Coping). The concurrent and prospective interactive effects of Dialysis Type and Coping Style were examined on patient dietary and medication adherence and on patient depression. In cross-sectional analyses, higher Information Vigilance was associated with better dietary adherence for CAPD patients but poorer adherence for In-Center Hemodialysis patients. No significant effects were found on a measure of medication adherence. Information Vigilance exerted a concurrent main effect on depression, such that higher scores …

Stalking: Student As Victim, Kristine Botsford Mullendore, Gary Ebels

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

No abstract provided.

Predictors Of Survival Among Hemodialysis Patients: Effect Of Perceived Family Support, Alan Christensen, John Wiebe, Timothy Smith, Charles Turner

Alan J. Christensen

The authors examined the role of perceived family support and symptoms of depression as predictors of survival in a sample of 78 in-center hemodialysis patients. Cox regression analysis revealed significant effects for family support (p<.005), blood urea nitrogen (p<.01), and age (p<.005). The effect for depression was not significant. The Cox model indicated that a 1-point increase on the family support measure was associated with a 13% reduction in the hazard rate (i.e., mortality). Estimated 5-year mortality rates among low family support patients were approximately 3 times higher than estimated mortality for high support patients. Differences in patient adherence to the dietary and medication regimens failed to explain the significant effect of family support. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

The Forms And Limits Of Medical Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster

C. Barry Hoffmaster

As medical ethics has evolved over the past several decades, it has come to be regarded as a domain of applied ethics, that is, the application of a rationally based, philosophical theory to moral problems in health care. But an array of difficulties arise in the attempt to apply general moral theories or norms to concrete problems, difficulties that expose the incompleteness and indeterminacy of philosophical moral theory. The doubtful ability of applied ethics to be practically helpful has led to the development of two main competitors. One is the attempt to reprise and rehabilitate the tradition of moral casuistry, …

Gallistel’S The Organization Of Learning: This Is Not Creation Science, James Dougan

James Dougan

No abstract provided.

How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger

Kathryn L Waggoner

No abstract provided.

"United We Govern - Clinton's First Congress," At Carol Swain's Class, Princeton University, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Primogeniture, Monogamy, And Reproductive Success In A Stratified Society, Ted Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper explores the workings of stratified societies in which there is primogeniture and where the nobility practice monogamous marriage with a double standard of sexual fidelity. We model a simple stratified society and define the reproductive values of the male and female nobility relative to that of commoners. We then explore implications of the hypothesis that preferences have evolved to favor maximization of reproductive value. The hypothesis is tested against fragmentary data from ancient civilizations and quite detailed information about the British aristocracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Other Faces In The Mirror: Power, Conflict And Peacemaking In Our Daily Lives, Christine Yalda

Christine A. Yalda

No abstract provided.

A Cross-Cultural Study Of Directive Sequences And Some Implications For Compliance-Gaining Research, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

Compliance gaining has been widely studied in communication research as a phenomenon central to interpersonal life. Yet the category of attempts to compel the actions of others, labeled as directives in pragmatics and ethnography, has received little specific attention, despite its close connection to actual spoken life. This essay presents an ethnographic examination of directive sequences in two speech communities, one in the U.S. and one in Colombia, with emphasis on the distinctive belief systems revealed by directive use. Data from several earlier studies of compliance gaining are then reexamined to show that patterns of results obtained in those studies …

Public Information Arrival, Thomas Berry, Keith Howe

Thomas D Berry

The authors develop a measure of public information flow to financial markets and use it to document the patterns of information arrival, with an emphasis on the intraday flows. The measure is the number of news releases by Reuter's News Service per unit of time. The authors find that public information arrival is nonconstant, displaying seasonalities and distinct intraday patterns. Next they relate their measure of public information to aggregate measures of intraday market activity. The authors' results suggest a positive, moderate relationship between public information and trading volume but an insignificant relationship with price volatility. Copyright 1994 by American …

Civvies To Plod The Beat?, Brian Kingshott

Brian F. Kingshott

No abstract provided.

Thomas Hobbes's "A Discourse Of Laws", Noel B. Reynolds

Noel B Reynolds

The recent discovery that an anonymously published 1620 essay was an early writing of Thomas Hobbes invites investigation of his early thinking. Hobbes relied on mostly classical sources to advance a basically conventionalist theory of law and to anticipate twentieth century analyses of the principles of rule of law such as those made famous by F. A. Hayek and Michael Oakeshott.

On The Economics Of Polygyny, Ted Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

About 80% of all societies recorded by anthropologists are polygynous (men have many wives). Even our own society is less monogamous than claimed. This paper attempts to explain such mysteries as why bride prices and dowries are not ``opposites'', why polygamous societies are usually characterized by positive bride prices and dowry is mainly confined to monogamous societies, why polyandry (women having multiple husbands) is rare, but not extinct, and why the more you have to pay for a wife the better you will treat her.

Toward A Systematic Method Of Measuring Recall From Printed News Stories, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.