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El Surgimiento De Un Poder Judicial Efectivo En México: Gobierno Dividido Y Toma De Decisiones En La Suprema Corte De Justicia, 1994-2002, Julio Ríos-Figueroa

Julio Ríos-Figueroa

No abstract provided.

Town Of Viola Comprehensive Plan, Troy D. Mix

Troy D Mix

No abstract provided.

Public Goods, Merit Goods, And The Relation Between Private And Government Consumption, Riccardo Fiorito, Tryphon Kollintzas

riccardo fiorito

We investigate the relation between public and private consumption by constructing a general government spending data set by function for 12 European countries. In particular, we split government consumption in two categories. The first category ("public goods") includes defence, public order and justice. The second category ("merit goods") includes health, education and other services that are available in the market. GMM estimates of a dynamic panel show that public goods substitute while merit goods complement private consumption. Since merit goods share is bigger, the aggregate relation between private and government consumption turns out to be positive.

Conditional Correlations In The Returns On Oil Companies Stock Prices And Their Determinants, Massimo Giovannini, Margherita Grasso, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera

Matteo Manera

The identification of the forces that drive stock returns and the dynamics of their associated volatilities is a major concern in empirical economics and finance. This analysis is particularly relevant for determining optimal hedging strategies based on whether shocks to the volatilities of returns of oil companies stock prices, relevant stock market indexes and oil spot and futures prices are high or low, and positively or negatively correlated. This paper investigates the correlations of volatilities in the stock price returns and their determinants for the most important integrated oil companies, namely Bp (BP), Chevron-Texaco (CVX), Eni (ENI), Exxon-Mobil (XOM), Royal …

Effect Of Different Thyroid States On Mitochondrial Porin Synthesis And Hexokinase Activity In Developing Rabbit Brain., Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Divisão De Assistência Judiciária Da Faculdade De Direito Da Ufmg: Ações Para Mais Cidadania, Rafael De Oliveira Alves, Danilo Castro, Délia Carvalho, Edílson Lima, Júlio Zini

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

No abstract provided.

“Will The New Second Generation Experience ‘Downward Assimilation’? Segmented Assimilation Re-Assessed”, Roger D. Waldinger, Cynthia Feliciano

Roger D Waldinger

Research on the “new second generation” in the United States has been deeply influenced by the hypothesis of “segmented assimilation,” which contends that the children of immigrants are at risk of downward mobility into a “new rainbow underclass.” This paper seeks to assess that assertion, focusing on the experience of Mexicans, the overwhelmingly largest of today's second generation groups, and a population of predominantly working- or lower-class origins. The empirical component of this paper rests on analysis of a combined sample of the 1996-2001 Current Population Survey.

Between The Black And Red Light, Savad Rahman

savad rahman

Between the Black & the Red Light http://www.boloji.com/society/074.htm Original in Malayalam: Chillumedayilirunn Kalleriyoo by Savad Rahman Translated in English by Sony V. Mathew

Mumbai is truly one of a kind. You might have been residing here for a decade or more but still you can�t be absolutely certain of your way. Andheri, Dadar, Navi Mumbai� the longer you travel the more you get confused. Such is the traffic and human convergence associated with this great city that, it could take hours to move from one point to another. But Kamathipura has always been an exception, in more ways than one. …

Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Can Rico Protect Human Rights? A Computer Analysis Of A Semi-Determinate Legal Question, Eric A. Engle

Eric A. Engle

Uses AI to model RICO racketeering law to examine an uncertain area of law: Whether RICO gives a private right to damages for extraterritorial wrongs.

The Torture Victim's Protection Act, The Alien Tort Claims Act, And Foucault's Archaeology Of Knowledge, Eric A. Engle

Eric A. Engle

Outilnes the procedural obstacles to Alien Tort Statute Claims and discusses how to surmount them. Relates ATS to Foucaults power-knowledge and power-body discourses.

Yankee Go Home: Tales Of A Northerner Educated In The South, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

Moseley, W.G. "Environmental Degradation And ‘Poor’ Smallholders In The West African Sudano-Sahel: Global Discourses And Local Realities, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

This chapter explores the 'poverty-induced environmental degradation' thesis in the West African Sudano-Sahel and the extent to which it may be considered an environmental development narrative. It examines: (1) the key elements of this discourse; (2) the degree by which this thesis has been internalized by policy makers in Mali; (3) whether there is empirical evidence to support the notion of poverty-induced environmental degradation in Mali's smallholder cotton zone; and (4) the alternative explanations for environmental degradation in southern Mali (e.g., unsustainable cotton production) and the reasons why these causal factors have been less prominent in environment-development discourse.

African Environment And Development: An Introduction, William G. Moseley, B. I. Logan

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

Beyond Eurocentrism: The Frankfurt School And Whiteness Theory, Clay Steinman

Clay Steinman, Retired

No abstract provided.

What Makes Good Web-Based Instruction?, Carol Tenopir, Beverly Simmons

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Journal And Digital Database Pricing: Threat Or Opportunity, Carol Tenopir, Donald King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Do Maternal Concerns At Delivery Predict Parenting Stress During Infancy?, Terri Combs-Orme, Daphne S. Cain, Elizabeth E. Wilson

Terri Combs-Orme

Objective: In a previous study,we found that newmothers could andwould express concerns about their parenting, including concerns about maltreatment and poor care. In this study,we examine the utility of early maternal concerns for predicting parenting stress in the first year. Parenting stress is important because it has been shown to be related to maltreatment and poor parent-child relationships.

Method: A sample of 246 mothers were interviewed shortly after delivery in a publicly funded hospital about their parenting concerns, and 93% were reinterviewed in their homes about their parenting when the infants were 6 to 12 months old. Standardized measures with …

Use Of Electronic Science Journals In The Undergraduate Curriculum: An Observational Study, Carol Tenopir, Peiling Wang, Richard Pollard, Yan Zhang, Beverly Simmons

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Interpreting Workplace Learning In Terms Of Discourse And Community Of Practice, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

Based on the ethnographic data collected from the workplace of an academic library, I argue that workplace learning (WL) is a situated socio-cognitive process. It is expedited by knowledge management (KM), which is a collective effort to generate, share, and institutionalize work-related knowledge. KM is inherent in the face-to-face conversational interactions embedded in planned formal training, planned informal sharing, and spontaneous informal learning. When face-to-face interaction is not possible, KM is accomplished through textualization. It helps the members of the workplace acquire new work-related knowledge and integrate it to their common, contextualized knowledge base. The contents of the knowledge base …

Economic Measurements And Quality Of Life In Mexico, Constantine P. Danopoulos

Constantine P. Danopoulos

Using the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), the article seeks to evaluate the quality of life in modern Mexico. The GPI employs the same indicators used to arrive at per capita GDP, but adds positive and negative monetary and non-monetary actors that affect people's lives. Monetary factors include income distribution, increased health care cost due to air and water pollution, and loss of wetlands. Non-monetary factors involve parenting, time spent in highways, loss of leisure time, the cost of volunteer work, and other social costs. If one takes these into account, the purchasing power and quality of life of Mexican citizens …

Microfinance And Third World Development: A Critical Analysis, Elahi Khandakar, Constantine P. Danopoulos

Constantine P. Danopoulos

Microfinance is emerging as an integral part of the new development paradigm, described by the phrase "participation and development. "Although the idea has become quite popular among donor agencies, development practitioners, and academicians, theoretical premises on which this idea is founded seem entirely unexamined. Accordingly, this article investigates the academic merits, as well as potential consequences, of this popular poverty alleviating model from the supply-side perspective and asks a provocative question: Do the microfinance ventures have features which suggest that the establishment of this new finance industry in the Third World countries might further complicate their pervasive poverty problems? The …

One Mission, Five Facets: Literacy And International College Students, Deana Groves, Shiu Yue Mak

Deana Groves

Today’s University population looks very different from those in the past. Multiple cultures combine to make-up both student and faculty personnel. With this in mind the library and librarian's role to ensure quality service can take cues from five forms of literacy that reach well beyond information literacy. This poster will identify and discuss five facets of literacy in relation to the University international student: Information literacy, Reading literacy, Media literacy, Technology literacy, and Visual literacy.

Review Of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death, A Film By Stefan Haupt, John Steven Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.

Wenda Gu: Art From Middle Kingdom To Biological Millennium By Mark H.C. Bessire [Book Review], Ellen Corrigan

Ellen K. Corrigan

Review of: Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium edited by Mark H.C. Bessire (MIT Press, 2003)

John Kerry As Commander-In-Chief: War Powers In A Kerry Administration, Ryan C. Hendrickson

Ryan C. Hendrickson

Unlike many previous presidential elections, in 2004 foreign policy issues are at the forefront of the American policy and electoral agenda. Not since the Vietnam era has the United States entered an election year with the United States at such a heightened state of war, with ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as covert operations deployed around the world to wage the war on terrorism. After nearly one full term with George W. Bush as commander in chief, his views on constitutional war powers have been expressed on numerous occasions. Bush, like his post World War II …

A Lego Model Of The Modularity Of The Mind, Steven J. Scher

Steven J. Scher

In this paper I propose that the dominant form of evolutionary psychology (which I term “cognitive adaptationism”) can be improved by adopting an alternative version of the concept of mental modularity. I suggest a metaphor of mental modules as Lego blocks. The Lego blocks represent a relatively small set of elementary operations that the mind/brain can carry out. These Lego blocks are repeatedly assembled in different ways to execute a wide variety of different functions. These repeated assemblies correspond more closely to the things that cognitive adaptationists have asserted are modules. Arguments in favor of the Lego model include the …

Mind And Body: Psychology And Neuroscience, Morton A. Heller

Morton A. Heller

No abstract provided.

Resource Sharing And Collaboration, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Diana H. Wu

No abstract provided.

Determinantes Explícitos E Implícitos De La Deuda Externa Pública Peruana, José Manuel Martin Coronado

José-Manuel Martin Coronado

This research aims to prove that sound economic policies are nothing more that basic conditions for the foreign public debt problem. In fact, by studying the factors of public debt issues in Peru, Latin America and the emerging economies it’s clear that some implicit economic and non-economic factors have to be considered because of the social complexity and variable characteristics in emerging economies. This causes failures in economic policies assumptions, inefficiencies, distorted causality and nonrational behavior. This paper proposes, first, to perform a deep and comparative analysis of the foreign debt determinants in emerging economies, then, to allocate financial resources, …

Rethinking Technical Services For A Digital World, Fredrick Miller

Fred Miller

Libraries should consider new ways to integrate and streamline their organization and work processes for effective and efficient service to library patrons. This paper looks at recent efforts in academic libraries to explore cost-saving measures without sacrificing service quality. It presents an overview of ways libraries can improve technical services to provide electronic resources and other services for library patrons.