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The Latest Misfires In Support Of The ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis, John Donohue, Ian Ayres Aug 2003

The Latest Misfires In Support Of The ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis, John Donohue, Ian Ayres

John Donohue

No abstract provided.

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Shooting Down The ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis, John Donohue, Ian Ayres Aug 2003

Shooting Down The ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis, John Donohue, Ian Ayres

John Donohue

No abstract provided.

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Use And Users Of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview And Analysis Of Recent Research Studies, Carol Tenopir Aug 2003

Use And Users Of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview And Analysis Of Recent Research Studies, Carol Tenopir

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

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Middle East — If There’S A Will, There’S A Way, Muqtedar Khan Jul 2003

Middle East — If There’S A Will, There’S A Way, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This articles expresses hope for Arab-Israeli peace.

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In Defense Of Marine And Coastal Resources, Matthew Wilburn King Jul 2003

In Defense Of Marine And Coastal Resources, Matthew Wilburn King

Matthew Wilburn King PhD

The presentation covered a case study of the Gulf of Fonseca, a complex region shared by Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. It includes 261 km of coastal land, including mangroves, lagoons, and estuaries, and it is home to more than seventy species of migratory birds and more than twenty-two species of mammals and reptiles. It comprises twenty-two percent of the mangrove coast along the Central Pacific coast of Central America, and it has been directly linked to ninety percent of the fish production in the region. The Gulf serves to stabilize soils, protect the coast, and trap nutrients.

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The Income Method Of Valuation: A False Analogy Between Bonds And Stocks, Michael Sack Elmaleh Jul 2003

The Income Method Of Valuation: A False Analogy Between Bonds And Stocks, Michael Sack Elmaleh

Michael Sack Elmaleh

The discounting of future income streams by a risk adjusted rate of return by proponents of the income method reflects a misplaced faith in the ability to project accurately future income streams and pick out the “right” rate of return. Future income streams are fairly reliably predictable when analyzing a debt instrument. However, equity investment future income streams are notoriously unpredictable. Similarly assessing the risk associated with realizing returns from a fixed security is comparatively easy in comparison with assessing the risks associated with equity returns. The widely used Beta has not proved to be a very stable measure of …

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On The Measurement Of Trade-Induced Adjustment, A. K.M. Azhar, Robert J.R. Elliott Jul 2003

On The Measurement Of Trade-Induced Adjustment, A. K.M. Azhar, Robert J.R. Elliott

Robert J R Elliott

Globalisation and closer regional integration has led to significant increases in trade between nations that in turn impacts on existing long standing trade partnerships. A consequence of changing trade patterns is an increase in the pressure for resources to reallocate between industries and sectors. This paper provides an integrated approach to the analysis of trade induced adjustment that complements the existing literature. Adjustment pressures are documented in accordance with the theoretical underpinnings of the smooth adjustment hypothesis and satisfy a number of desirable criteria, monotonicity, consistency and country specificity. The applicability of our approach is examined using UK manufacturing data.

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How Relevant Is Jury Rationality?, David A. Hoffman Jul 2003

How Relevant Is Jury Rationality?, David A. Hoffman

David A Hoffman

This essay reviews "Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide" by Cass Sunstein, et al. The book provides a good example of a recent trend: the use of behavioralist research to justify surprisingly paternalistic legal reforms. While critics of behavioralism often contend that its theoretical foundations are weak, this approach is unlikely to prove an effective rejoinder in the new debate about what kinds of paternalism are made permissible by human "irrationality". A better approach: (1) notes the lack of a nexus between behavioralism and the supposed emergent necessity of paternalist reforms; and (2) suggests that juror unwillingness to apply cost-benefit formula …

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A Reforma Agrária, A Luta Pela Terra E Os Assentamentos Rurais: Uma Questão Pública Histórico-Estrutural Em Análise, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Jul 2003

A Reforma Agrária, A Luta Pela Terra E Os Assentamentos Rurais: Uma Questão Pública Histórico-Estrutural Em Análise, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

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Gestión O Gobierno De Los Centros Históricos, Fernando Carrión Mena Jul 2003

Gestión O Gobierno De Los Centros Históricos, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

EI presente artículo nace de un proceso de estudio y reflexión realizado a partir de lo que se viene haciendo y estudiando en algunos de los centros históricos más importantes de América Latina. Me planteo una lógica expositiva a través de tres preguntas claves y una conclusión general. La primera pregunta se refiere a lo que está ocurriendo en los centros históricos, ¿por qué esta temática ha cobrado tanto peso en América Latina? ¿Qué ocurre hoy en día con el proceso de globalización en los centros históricos de la región? La pertinencia de la pregunta proviene del hecho de que …

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Physical Places And Virtual Spaces: Fostering Innovative Partnerships Between The Library And The Stakeholder, Grace Saw, Nicole Clark Jun 2003

Physical Places And Virtual Spaces: Fostering Innovative Partnerships Between The Library And The Stakeholder, Grace Saw, Nicole Clark

Grace Saw

The 21st Century continues to see rapid change in the role of both the academic science and technology engineering librarian and the research environment in which they operate. Innovative approaches are required in order to ensure that the Librarian retains a central role in the teaching, learning and research processes. The Dorothy Hill Physical Sciences and Engineering Library has been actively and fundamentally redefining the role of the Library at the University of Queensland. Qualitative research such as focus groups and user interviews have been undertaken to ensure that the Library remains aware of and responsive to the changing needs …

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Student Expectations For Library Web Site Organization, Charity B. Hope, Shannon M. Staley Jun 2003

Student Expectations For Library Web Site Organization, Charity B. Hope, Shannon M. Staley

Shannon M. Staley

The authors solicited 201 San Jose State University student volunteers to participate in card-sorting exercises. This was to determine how the students envisioned the organization of the library web site. Each card in the sorting exercises represented a major page of the library web site, and students were asked to categorize them into groups and then label the groups. Cluster analysis was used to determine categorical strengths.

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Quelques Conseils À Nos Nouveau Diplomés, Fathi Habashi Jun 2003

Quelques Conseils À Nos Nouveau Diplomés, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

An advice, the old wise man Polonius offered to the young Hamlet was “Neither a borrower, nor a lender be”, may be no longer pertinent. Some more relevant advices are offered to new graduates of the twentieth century. Available in English, French, and Spanish

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Labor Market Institutions And Macroeconomic Shocks, Yu-Fu Chen, Dennis Snower, Gylfi Zoega Jun 2003

Labor Market Institutions And Macroeconomic Shocks, Yu-Fu Chen, Dennis Snower, Gylfi Zoega

Dennis Snower

Macroeconomic shocks and labour-market institutions jointly determine employment growth and economic performance. The effect of shocks depends on the nature of these institutions and the effect of institutional change depends on the macroeconomic environment. It follows that a given set of institutions may be appropriate in one epoch and not in another. We derive a dynamic model of labour demand in which the effect of firing costs on labour demand depends on the macroeconomic environment: When the level of macroeconomic activity is expected to drop and/or the trend rate of productivity growth is small, a rise in firing costs affects …

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Gujarat Elections 2002: Vote Shares Across Regions, Srijit Mishra May 2003

Gujarat Elections 2002: Vote Shares Across Regions, Srijit Mishra

Srijit Mishra

This paper attempts to analyse in each constituency vote shares accruing to the two major parties in the state with the use of triplot or ternary diagram method. A triplot enables a two-dimensional display of three categories of shares or proportions, in this case vote shares, accruing to the BJP, Congress and ‘others’. Triplot diagrams provide a thematic representation of the fact that an increase in vote shares of BJP and to a lesser extent the Congress does have a relationship with the decline of ‘other’ contestants.

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The Universal Filipino Beatitudes (Title By Translator) Original Free Translation Into Filipino Or Tagalog By Emmanuel Mario B Santos Aka Marc Guerrero From English Originally-Inspired Prayer Free Version By Jim Paredes Published In Philippine Daily Inquirer Magazine (2001-2002), Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero, Jim Paredes May 2003

The Universal Filipino Beatitudes (Title By Translator) Original Free Translation Into Filipino Or Tagalog By Emmanuel Mario B Santos Aka Marc Guerrero From English Originally-Inspired Prayer Free Version By Jim Paredes Published In Philippine Daily Inquirer Magazine (2001-2002), Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero, Jim Paredes

Emmanuel Mario B Santos aka Marc Guerrero

Beatitudes by Jim Paredes Free translation into Filipino or Tagalog by Marc Guerrero Malayang Salin sa Filipino ni Marc Guerrero The Universal Filipino Beatitudes title by the translator

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Do Investors Demand Higher Rates Of Return On Risky Investments In Closely Held Small Businesses?, Michael Sack Elmaleh May 2003

Do Investors Demand Higher Rates Of Return On Risky Investments In Closely Held Small Businesses?, Michael Sack Elmaleh

Michael Sack Elmaleh

Investors in small closely held firms often are oblivious to risk if the rewards are perceived to be sufficiently high. Risk may also be ignored because such investors seek more than just increased cash flow. These investors often seek higher order psychological returns such as job challenge and status.

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Bargaining Without A Common Prior – An Immediate Agreement Theorem, Muhamet Yildiz May 2003

Bargaining Without A Common Prior – An Immediate Agreement Theorem, Muhamet Yildiz

Muhamet Yildiz

In sequential bargaining models without outside options, each player’s bargaining power is ultimately determined by which player will make an offer and when. This paper analyzes a sequential bargaining model in which players may hold different beliefs about which player will make an offer and when. Excessive optimism about making offers in the future can cause delays in agreement. The main result states that, despite this, if players will remain sufficiently optimistic for a sufficiently long future, then in equilibrium they will agree immediately. This result is also extended to other canonical models of optimism.

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Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer May 2003

Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

A review essay on Ian Ayres and Bruce Ackerman, Voting With Dollars, and an exploration of the political and legal foundations of campaign finance regulation.

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「アメリカの日本語教育」 [Japanese Education In The U.S.]. 『月間日本語 ５月号』, Seiichiro Inaba May 2003

「アメリカの日本語教育」 [Japanese Education In The U.S.]. 『月間日本語 ５月号』, Seiichiro Inaba

Seiichiro Inaba

No abstract provided.

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El Espacio Insurgente Retratos De La Espacialidad De La Resistencia Social En La Argentina Contemporánea Estudio De Caso: Movimiento De Trabajadores Desocupados De San Francisco Solano (Mtd Solano), Patricia A. Pintos Apr 2003

El Espacio Insurgente Retratos De La Espacialidad De La Resistencia Social En La Argentina Contemporánea Estudio De Caso: Movimiento De Trabajadores Desocupados De San Francisco Solano (Mtd Solano), Patricia A. Pintos

Patricia Pintos

El formato que inaugura la protesta piquetera se torna novedoso no sólo por su estrecha vinculación al mensaje de “clase” que instala en las calles, también descubre un campo de indagación que ubica a la transformación del espacio social de la resistencia como una de las particularidades más radicales del fenómeno.

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The Early History Of The Central Bank Of Bosnia And Herzegovina, Warren Coats Apr 2003

The Early History Of The Central Bank Of Bosnia And Herzegovina, Warren Coats

Warren Coats

The CBBH opened its doors for business on August 11, 1997 with monetary liabilities of DM 132,584,030.72 million and an equal amount of foreign currency assets. Over ten months later, by the end of June 1998, the CBBH’s monetary liabilities were DM 123 million, a modest decline. By the end of 1998, however, the size of the central bank had jumped to DM 254 million, almost double its opening size. It has grown very rapidly ever since and by the end of 2002, the CBBH’s foreign currency assets stood at DM 2.5 billion—a truly astounding growth.

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Multilingual Access For The Virtual Reference Services, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu Apr 2003

Multilingual Access For The Virtual Reference Services, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Diana H. Wu

No abstract provided.

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India-China 1962 War And Role Of Nehru, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Apr 2003

India-China 1962 War And Role Of Nehru, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

This paper attempts the role of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister in 1962 war with China.

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Party Positions Or Party Direction?, Riccardo Pelizzo Apr 2003

Party Positions Or Party Direction?, Riccardo Pelizzo

riccardo pelizzo

The use .f the party manifesto data (PMD) to identqy parties’ position in the political space provida a rather distorted picture of the Italian party syJlern. Three possible explanations fbr this are explored, namely that the Italian party system is exceptional, that there are jlaws in [he data and there might be flaws in the methodology. The article argues that none of these explanations is jully satisJuctory and advances the hypothesis that the PMD left-right scores do not indicate parties’ posilions but instead indicate parties’ direction, that is how (and how much) parlies move to adjusl to changing political conditions …

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Scholarly Associations And The Economic Viability Of Open Access Publishing, John Willinsky Apr 2003

Scholarly Associations And The Economic Viability Of Open Access Publishing, John Willinsky

IR Research

This article explores the contradictory and redundant economic aspects of the current scholarly publishing situation with a focus on the viability of an open-access model for publishing. The author examines the overlap in content between subscription-based and open access sources. Currently open access journals make up 10-20 percent of online journals The author's close examination of the economic issues of journal publishing is aimed at assisting scholarly associations and their members in determining whether open access journal publishing is the business model that should be followed.

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Equilibrium Dynamics In The One-Sector Endogenous Growth Model With Physical And Human Capital, Manuel A. Gómez Apr 2003

Equilibrium Dynamics In The One-Sector Endogenous Growth Model With Physical And Human Capital, Manuel A. Gómez

Manuel A. Gómez

This paper concerns the transitional dynamics of the one sector endogenous growth model with physical and human capital when gross investments are irreversible. It has been claimed that the transition path is on the stable saddle path of the system that describes the dynamics of the economy as long as the constraint on nonnegative gross investment in one of the factors is binding. We show that this does not have to be the case. The dynamics can be determined by noting that the continuity of the shadow prices involves the continuity of the consumption path.

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Effects Of Flat-Rate Taxes: To What Extent Does The Leisure Specification Matter?, Manuel A. Gómez Apr 2003

Effects Of Flat-Rate Taxes: To What Extent Does The Leisure Specification Matter?, Manuel A. Gómez

Manuel A. Gómez

This paper explores the implications that the specification of the leisure activity has on the effects of alternative forms of taxation in a two-sector endogenous growth model of the U.S. economy. Growth and welfare effects of tax reforms are shown to depend markedly on the leisure specification. We also compute the optimal tax structure of factor incomes and consumption taxation. The optimal tax rate on capital income is rather robust to the leisure specification. However, the balance between consumption and labor income taxation and the effects of shifting to the optimal tax structure vary considerably across leisure specifications.

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The Color Of Crime: The Case Against Race-Based Suspect Descriptions, Bela August Walker Apr 2003

The Color Of Crime: The Case Against Race-Based Suspect Descriptions, Bela August Walker

Bela August Walker

Law enforcement in the United States relies on racial identifiers as a crucial part of suspect descriptions. Unlike racial profiling, this practice is regarded as both an essential tool for law enforcement and as an unproblematic use of race. However, given the racial history of the United States, such descriptors, particularly “Black,” have developed in such a way to create an extremely large and unreliable category. Due to these factors, the use of race as a physical descriptor in suspect decisions is both discriminatory and inefficient. Employing race as an identifying characteristic allows law enforcement officers broad discretionary powers that …

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Law Enforcement Cooperation As A 'Transnational Factor' In Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations, Jason A. Blatt Apr 2003

Law Enforcement Cooperation As A 'Transnational Factor' In Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations, Jason A. Blatt

Jason A Blatt

In recent years, political disputes have constantly prevented governments in China and Taiwan from working with each other on important issues of mutual concern. However, cooperation between law enforcement authorities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait has steadily increased over the past decade and a half, regardless of ups and downs in political relations. While governments on both sides are still not speaking to each other, law enforcement authorities are boosting cooperation by sharing information on criminal cases, deporting each other's fugitives, exchanging visits of high-ranking police officials and participating in seminars on cross-strait crime-fighting. Successful cross-strait law enforcement …

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