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Book Review: The Arab Spring, Democracy And Security: Domestic And International Ramifications, Efraim Inbar (Ed), Zenonas Tziarras

Zenonas Tziarras

To oer analysis on an on going political event is always a challenging task. Yet, the “Arab Spring” has given rise to many questions about the past, the present and the future of the Arab world and the Middle East more generally. The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security:Domesc and International Ramifications addresses some of these questions. The chapters of this edited volume have been written by selected Israeli scholars focusing on “issues such as democratization, the role of economic factors in political change and explanations for variations in regime stability in the Middle East.” The relationship between internal and external …

Turkey-Egypt: Turkish Model, Political Culture And Regional Power Struggle, Zenonas Tziarras

Zenonas Tziarras

This paper argues that although, during the governance of the Muslim Brotherhood, the promotion of the Turkish model through political and economic support was welcomed in Egypt, it is not compatible with the country and cannot be emulated, while there are also different perceptions about the matter on the elite and mass political culture levels. Moreover, based on the political culture(s) of the county, it is very likely that future governments in Egypt would want to assume a greater regional role. Ultimately this means that the Turkish model would have failed as a means of soft power and hegemony, while …

Measuring Hdi: The Old, The New And The Elegant, Srijit Mishra, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

Srijit Mishra

The Human Development Index (HDI) is calculated using normalized indicators from three dimensions- health, education, and standard of living (or income). This paper evaluates three aggregation methods of computing HDI using a set of axioms. The old measure of HDI taking a linear average of the three dimensions satisfies monotonicity, anonymity, and normalization (or MAN) axioms. The current geometric mean approach additionally satisfies the axioms of uniformity, which penalizes unbalanced or skewed development across dimensions. We propose an alternative measure, where HDI is the additive inverse of the distance from the ideal. This measure, in addition to the above-mentioned axioms, …

A Letter From Doug Band, Doug Band

Doug Band

A letter from Doug Band during his service on the Coca-Cola Company International Advisory Committee (the Committee). The Committee is a third-party group, which is composed of well-known, outside experts in the fields of health policy, environmental policy and public policy generally. The Committee was formed in 2012 to provide strategic guidance in support of the Company's business priorities and to strengthen a network of global opinion leaders. The Committee assists us in understanding related developments and trends in the world at large, and also in devising appropriate, responsive Company policy and action.

Science And Non-Science, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan

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Domingo Moll_Farmacéutico

Clàudia Pons-Moll

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El Fútbol Por Dentro, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

A pesar de los éxitos futbolísticos y del boom económico, en 2013 empieza una crisis estructural donde juegan el populismo financiero, la debilidad institucional, la violencia y los pobres resultados deportivos.

Dime Quién Financia El Centro Histórico Y Te Diré Qué Centro Histórico Es, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

El financiamiento es un elemento crucial en la definición del tipo de centralidad urbana y, a pesar de ello, no se le ha dado la atención que requiere, tanto en la investigación, en los debates como en el diseño de las políticas públicas. La relación entre financiamiento y centros históricos no puede ser dejada de lado por ser un elemento determinante y constitutivo de la centralidad. El financiamiento no sólo que permite concretar su construcción y desarrollo sino definir el tipo de centralidad que se aspira. De allí el nombre del presente trabajo “Dime quién financia los centros históricos y …

Preparing Public Librarians For Consumer Health Information Service: A Nation-Wide Study, L. Luo, Van M. Ta Park

Van M. Ta Park

A nationwide survey study was conducted to gain understanding as to how to prepare public librarians for consumer health information service. Findings indicate that the popular health information needs encountered by public librarians cover a wide variety of topics, including the human body, a medical/health condition, a disease, a medical concept, and fitness/diet/nutrition. The top two challenges faced by public librarians when providing consumer health information service are difficulty in interpreting patrons' questions and lack of knowledge about available and trusted/appropriate medical/health information sources. Public librarians wish to receive training on a number of topics that could help address the …

MotivaçÕEs Para Interagir Na Blogosfera Portuguesa, Inês Sampayo

Inês Sampayo

This study aims to explore the motivations of twenty Portuguese individuals to create and maintain blogs. We interviewed ten women and ten men, who provided us with a very personal and unique vision of this type of social interaction. Results showed that the twenty Portuguese bloggers are ordinary people, who use their blog not only to keep an account of their personal lives online but also to communicate with others by sharing and expressing their opinions on a wide range of topics. For these individuals, blogging is a hobby and, as such, an activity that is balanced between family, career …

Cost Estimation Methods And Foundational Public Health Capabilities, Glen Mays

Glen Mays

The National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medine recently recommended that the federal government identify the components and costs of a "minimum package of public health services" and "foundational public health capabilities" that should be universally available across the U.S. This presentation reviews costing methods that can be used for identifying the costs required to establish "foundational public health capabilities" at state and local levels within the U.S. public health system.

Una Tragedia Ocultada, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

El día miércoles pasado en la FLACSO se presentó el libro “Una tragedia ocultada” por parte de dos de los autores: Miguel Angel Cabodevilla y Milagros Aguirre, y el comentario de Teodoro Bustamante. Mientras se desarrollaba el diálogo con los asistentes llegó una “lanza” enviada por la diligente jueza Hilda Yolanda Garcés Dávila: prohibir la circulación -por cualquier medio- de la obra señalada. De manera inmediata y en tiempo real se difundió por las redes sociales esta resolución, y lo que es más: ocurrió lo que siempre ocurre con estos hechos torpes de pretender acallar las ideas: el libro logró …

La Historia Se Repite, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Building A Digital Commons, Amanda R. Hartman, Suzy Szasz Palmer

Amanda Hartman McLellan

No abstract provided.

Dear Women!!! Beware That It’S Up To You Choise Is You Or You Are Choiceless, Ugur Demiray

Ugur Demiray

Any kind of education is getting very important for our live at any level day by day. After 1970s, education is included developed technology within running at any level, at any kind of it forma lor informal as traditional and distance. The most limited learner were women for educating their self according to the men beside for their multi responsibility as mother ship, housing and other reasons as economic, religion, cultural, geographical conditions so on. How women have ability for education this brings inequality between men and women in for workforce and in workplace for developed and under developed countries. …

Library Orientation For New Teachers, Zakir Hossain

Zakir Hossain

Library orientation for new teachers in the new school year is crucial. Some Library professionals my straggle to prepare a presentation for the aforesaid purpose. This presentation may help them to figure out how to start and what to include.

Privateers & Paes: Economic Harms To Competition And Innovation, Robert G. Harris

Robert G Harris

This paper addresses the problems of aggressive rent-seeking activities by patent assertion entities (PAEs), especially those involving patent thickets. It analyzes the fundamental differences in the strategic interests of practicing entities and PAEs and explains why those differences affect the conduct of PAEs and increase the opportunities for, and economic harm caused by PAEs’ rent-seeking and patent holdup. It also addresses the anticompetitive harms caused when practicing entities transfer patents to PAEs, especially those that incentivize assertion of the transferred patents against their competitors, i.e. “patent privateering.”

Digital Scholarship And Digital Libraries: Past, Present, And Future, Christine Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

In a few short decades, the practices of scholarship have been transformed by the use of digital resources, tools, and services. Some shifts are obvious, such as seeking, reading, and publishing research online, often to the exclusion of print. Other shifts are subtle, such as data being viewed as research products to be disseminated. Research objects are more atomized, yet aggregated in new ways. Digital technologies offer opportunities to innovate in scholarly practice, collaboration, and communication. Innovation in digital libraries is necessary to advance digital scholarship. The talk will present a set of challenges for 21st century research and practice …

Equilibrio De Poderes, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Uno de los equilibrios de poder más importantes para sostener la democracia tiene que ver con los territorios. Generalmente, se cree que los mismos deben venir exclusivamente de la relación entre las funciones ejecutivas, legislativas y judiciales, dejando de lado -por considerarlos de menor importancia- a los equilibrios que deben construirse desde los distintos niveles del Estado es decir en las relaciones entre lo nacional y lo sub nacional.

Una muestra de esta afirmación se puede apreciar en la última consulta popular realizada en el mes de mayo del año 2011, en la cual se produjo la ausencia de un …

Open Culture At The Heart Of The University: Libraries As Multicommons, Anna K. Gold

Anna K. Gold

The university library can be reconceptualized as a powerful engine for open culture. A generative and regenerative center that naturally brings disciplines, cultures, and generations together, the university library can expand its role in open culture far beyond sharing institutionally-produced research and data through open repositories. Drawing on the experience of a public polytechnic university, this presentation documents the emergence of a university library as a system of open culture programs and as a place where a speeding culture can stop to dialogue, think, and create: generating collective interactive learning; fostering collaboration with open data; cultivating open conversations and learning …

Cnms Flyer, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

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West Indian Americans, Aubrey W. Bonnett

Aubrey W. Bonnett

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Neoliberalism And University Education In Sub-Saharan Africa, James R. Ochwa-Echel

James R. Ochwa-Echel

This article reviews the history of university development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and discusses the impact of neoliberal policies. This will be followed by an examination of the problems facing universities in the region. The following questions will be explored: (a) Are the existing universities in SSA serving the development needs of the region? (b) Are these universities up to the task of moving SSA out of the predicaments it faces such as famine, HIV/AIDS, poverty, diseases, debt, and human rights abuses? Finally, the article argues that for universities to play a role in the development of the region, a …

; Influence Of Credit Policy And Implementation Of Credit Of Tabur Puja Against Development Of Micro Enterprise In 27 Posdaya Throughout Jabodetabek, Homa P. Harahap, M Faizal

Homa. P. Harahap

Research Team, 2014; Influence of Credit Policy and Implementation of Credit of Tabur Puja Against Development of Micro Enterprise in 27 Posdaya throughout Jabodetabek. Generally, the purpose of the research are: 1) Analyzing credit of policy and implementation of credit of tabur puja and their influences to development of micro enterprise in 27 Posdaya throughout Jabodetabek, 2) Testing hypothesis on relationship between analyzing credit policy, and its influences to development of micro enterprise, 3) Testing hypothesis on relationship between Analyzing credit of policy, and its influences to implementation of credit of tabur puja, 4) Testing hypothesis credit of policy and …

Economics Of Iran And Israel: Comparative Examination, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

No abstract provided.

Policía Del Mundo, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Lessons From Metaethics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Moral Psychology, And Behavioral Economics: The Use Of Ethical Intuition In Legal Compliance For Business Entities, Eric C. Chaffee

Eric C. Chaffee

This article challenges the widely held view in legal education and in practice that what lawyers should be doing in providing legal advice consists solely of engaging in legal research and analytic reasoning. This article suggests that ethical intuition—i.e., the unconscious recognition that a specific action is good, evil, or morally neutral—may have a useful role to play in making legal compliance decisions for business entities.

Although largely ignored by the legal academy, scholars in numerous disciplines have acknowledged the role that intuition plays in decision making. Philosophers and religious scholars initially recognized role of intuition in moral decision making …

The Plagiarized Version Of My Economics Bulletin Article, Martin Egozcue

Martin Egozcue

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Quito: 35 Años De Patrimonio De La Humanidad, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

En el año 1972, en la Conferencia General de la UNESCO realizada en Paris se aprobó la “Convención sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Mundial Cultural y Natural”, con la finalidad de cuidar el patrimonio de calidad que existe a nivel mundial, mediante la catalogación, la preservación y la difusión de sus valores culturales y naturales excepcionales, para herencia común de la humanidad. En correspondencia con este mandato, el Comité de Patrimonios de la UNESCO se reunió en los Estados Unidos -entre el 5 y el 8 de septiembre de 1978- para decidir, entre otras cosas, la inscripción por primera vez …

Landing Stable Employment: The Exploratory Study Of A Job Vs. Career, Valencia Tamir Johnson Dr.

Valencia T Johnson

Landing stable employment can be difficult and discouraging. Some employers want applicants that are searching for a “career”, and some employers are looking for applicants that want a “job”. Ask yourself, what is the difference between a job and a career? In simple terms, a job is short-term and a career is long-term. Applicants who seek a job would likely stay less than a year, as with a career, the candidate would likely stay more than a year or longer. This article provides a clear and concise overview of the exploratory study of landing a career or job.