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Addressing Risk Preferences In Cost-Effectiveness Analyses, Joshua Graff Zivin, John Bridges Jan 2002

Addressing Risk Preferences In Cost-Effectiveness Analyses, Joshua Graff Zivin, John Bridges

Joshua Graff Zivin

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Of Policies To Reduce Pesticide Poisoning Combining Economic And Toxicological Data, Joshua Graff Zivin, David Sunding Jan 2002

A Comparison Of Policies To Reduce Pesticide Poisoning Combining Economic And Toxicological Data, Joshua Graff Zivin, David Sunding

Joshua Graff Zivin

No abstract provided.


Language Plasticity Revealed By Electroencephalogram Mapping, Armando F. Rocha, Flávia B. Foz Jan 2002

Language Plasticity Revealed By Electroencephalogram Mapping, Armando F. Rocha, Flávia B. Foz

Armando F Rocha

Reasoning is the result of the computations made by intelligent systems, for instance those in the brain. It is not an abstract concept because calculations performed by computations are very concrete transactions among the different central processing unit components. Entropy measurements are proposed here to disclose the plasticity of the cerebral processing associated with language comprehension in video game playing. It is also assumed that entropy may be evaluated from the correlation coefficients obtained for the game event-related activity calculated for the different electroencephalogram derivations in the 10/20 system. The brain mapping derived from these entropy measurements clearly demonstrates the …


La Satisfacción En El Trabajo De Académicos De Una Universidad Pública Estatal, Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes Jan 2002

La Satisfacción En El Trabajo De Académicos De Una Universidad Pública Estatal, Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes

Jesús Francisco Galaz Fontes

A partir de una encuesta realizada a académicos en una universidad pública estatal, se midieron los niveles de satisfacción global y específica en el trabajo de los de tiempo completo que la contestaron. La satisfacción global en el trabajo fue alta, lo misma que la relativa a la docencia y autonomía individual. En contraste, los niveles de satisfacción fueron inferiores y bajos cuando se consideraron las actividades de investigación, desarrollo profesional, la participación de los académicos en la toma de decisiones académicas y aspectos contextuales al trabajo como evaluación, supervisión y salario. Al desagregar los datos por tipo de unidad …


Self Reliant Agriculture For Arid Lands, David A. Bainbridge Jan 2002

Self Reliant Agriculture For Arid Lands, David A. Bainbridge

David A Bainbridge

More than a billion people face the challenge of supporting themselves in the world's arid lands. Much can be improved by refining and adopting the best traditional practices and crops from around the world. The lessons learned can also help develop new and improved agronomic practices and crops.


Multidimensional Properties Of The Lot-R: Effects Of Optimism And Pessimism On Career And Well-Being Related Variables In Adolescents, Peter A. Creed, Wendy Patton, Dee Bartrum Jan 2002

Multidimensional Properties Of The Lot-R: Effects Of Optimism And Pessimism On Career And Well-Being Related Variables In Adolescents, Peter A. Creed, Wendy Patton, Dee Bartrum

Dee Bartrum

The Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R), measures of career maturity, career decision-making, career goals, and well-being were administered to 504 high school students. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated bidimensionality rather than unidimensionality for the LOT-R, with the two factors of optimism and pessimism being largely unrelated. Those with high optimism reported high levels of career planning and exploration, were more confident about their career decisions, and had more career related goals. Those with high pessimism reported low levels of career and decision-making knowledge, were more career indecisive, and reported low levels of school achievement. For well-being, those with high levels …


Eurcentrism And The Role Of The Human Sciences In The Dialogue Among Civilization, Syed Farid Alatas Jan 2002

Eurcentrism And The Role Of The Human Sciences In The Dialogue Among Civilization, Syed Farid Alatas

farid alatas

In public discourse and formal education, human sciences need to facilitate the dialogue among civilizations to inculcate an attitude founded on appreciation, understanding, interest, and compassion for the cultures and worldviews of the other. All belief sys- tems are corruptible and can be perverted, and there are specific social and historical conditions that result in these perversions. Human sciences must go beyond merely correcting the fallacies and distortions of public discourse. They must attack the root of the problem, which is the problem of Eurocentrism in social science education that ulti- mately informs public discourse. The problem has to be …


Mercados De Trabajo En La Ciencia, Manuel Fernández-Esquinas Jan 2002

Mercados De Trabajo En La Ciencia, Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

El mercado de trabajo en las instituciones científicas, además de ser un proceso de compra-venta de fuerza de trabajo, es el ámbito en el que se produce la intersección entre los principios de funcionamiento de la ciencia contemporánea y los procedimientos de trabajo de los grupos y las organizaciones científicas, entre las capacidades y actitudes de los trabajadores y los criterios empleados para adaptarlos a los procesos del trabajo de investigación. Por ello, el mercado de trabajo constituye un elemento privilegiado para observar el funcionamiento de la investigación científica en sus diversos marcos organizativos y es un factor clave en …


La Revolución Juliana, Evento Ignominioso En La Historia De Guayaquil, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2002

La Revolución Juliana, Evento Ignominioso En La Historia De Guayaquil, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


Measuring Knowledge Spillovers In Manufacturing And Services: An Empirical Assessment Of Alternative Approaches, Ulrich Kaiser Jan 2002

Measuring Knowledge Spillovers In Manufacturing And Services: An Empirical Assessment Of Alternative Approaches, Ulrich Kaiser

ULRICH KAISER

No abstract provided.


Just What Is Incidental, Integrated And Implicit About Grammar Instruction?, Arshad Abd Samad Jan 2002

Just What Is Incidental, Integrated And Implicit About Grammar Instruction?, Arshad Abd Samad

Arshad Abd Samad

This paper discusses popular notions of how grammar should be presented in the ESL classroom. Reference will especially be made to recent empirical and theoretical bases to grammar instruction which incorporate the role of various language sub-systems and acquisition processes. Drawing particularly on the findings of a study that examines the roles of meaning and structural aspects in processing language, this paper will make suggestions for grammar instruction in Malaysia.


Of Information Highways And Toxic Byways: Women And Environmental Protest In A Northern Mexican City, Anna O. Oleary Jan 2002

Of Information Highways And Toxic Byways: Women And Environmental Protest In A Northern Mexican City, Anna O. Oleary

Anna Ochoa OLeary

This case study of community protest in Hermosillo, a Mexican city in the state of Sonora, outlines s a postmodern model of environmental protest as one that primarily carried out by women and social networking. The model of community highlights the use of social networks as a means of politicizing a toxic waste dump eight kilometers outside the city. A feminist perspective reveals a struggle primarily carried out by women and bears out the intersection of gender, environmentalism, and globalization. As familiar spaces of social interaction, social networks provided the cultural platform from which women agitated for the dump’s closure. …


Archaeological Approaches To Ritual In The Andes: A Ceramic Analysis Of Ceremonial Space At The Formative Period Site Of Chiripa, Bolivia, Andrew P. Roddick Jan 2002

Archaeological Approaches To Ritual In The Andes: A Ceramic Analysis Of Ceremonial Space At The Formative Period Site Of Chiripa, Bolivia, Andrew P. Roddick

Andrew P Roddick

This study uses ceramic data to examine the function of two Middle Formative Period (800-200 BC) structures at the site of Chiripa, in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia. I investigate the activities that occurred in both domestic and ritual architecture. I also examine the nature of the Yaya-Mama Religious Tradition; a ritual tradition posited for the Lake Titicaca region and thought to be represented by the Chiripa architecture and associated artifact assemblages. The likelihood and nature of feasting and exchange at Chiripa during the Middle Formative Period are also investigated by classifying the ceramic data into both serving and non-serving …


Hobbes And Bentham: An Issue Of Influence, James E. Crimmins Jan 2002

Hobbes And Bentham: An Issue Of Influence, James E. Crimmins

James E Crimmins

Andrews explores the apparent similarities and differences between the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Jeremy Bentham. Each man believed linguistic analysis and a descriptive or referential theory of language to be crucial to the development of a science of man and politics.


Parading Persuasion: Nonviolent Collective Action As Discourse In Northern Ireland, Lester R. Kurtz Jan 2002

Parading Persuasion: Nonviolent Collective Action As Discourse In Northern Ireland, Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

No abstract provided.


Questionnaires In Dictionary Use Research: A Reexamination, Robert Lew Jan 2002

Questionnaires In Dictionary Use Research: A Reexamination, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

The present paper re-examines the usefulness of questionnaires in dictionary use research, using Glynn Hatherall's well-known criticism of questionnaires as a starting point. It is argued here that charges directed at questionnaires apply equally easily to the alternatives suggested by Hatherall. It is claimed that some research questions require a questionnaire approach. It is also demonstrated through example that unreliability of questionnaire-based studies may well result from design factors unrelated to questionnaires themselves. Use of multiple methods and careful design is advocated. Finally, suggestions are offered for improving questionnaire design in dictionary use research.


A Study In The Use Of Bilingual And Monolingual Dictionaries By Polish Learners Of English: A Preliminary Report, Robert Lew Jan 2002

A Study In The Use Of Bilingual And Monolingual Dictionaries By Polish Learners Of English: A Preliminary Report, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

The paper presents a selection of results from a study investigating dictionary use by 712 Polish learners of English representing a variety of FL competence levels and backgrounds. Data from Learner Survey, experiment, and Teacher Survey are brought in to test hypotheses relating to a variety of aspects of dictionary use. Here two aspects have been selected for presentation. First, frequency with which learners seek different types of information in their dictionaries is analyzed. It is found that the need for meaning and equivalents dominates over non-semantic information at all levels but the highest. At the advanced level, interest in …


Differences In The Scope Of Obstruent Voicing Assimilation In Learners' English As A Consequence Of Regional Variation In Polish, Robert Lew Jan 2002

Differences In The Scope Of Obstruent Voicing Assimilation In Learners' English As A Consequence Of Regional Variation In Polish, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

No abstract provided.


The Political Nature Of The Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, Imanol Ordorika Jan 2002

The Political Nature Of The Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, Imanol Ordorika

Imanol Ordorika

No abstract provided.


Barreras De Entrada A La Educación Superior Y A Oportunidades Profesionales Para La Población Indígena Mexicana, Martin Carnoy, Lucrecia Santibañez, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado, Imanol Ordorika Jan 2002

Barreras De Entrada A La Educación Superior Y A Oportunidades Profesionales Para La Población Indígena Mexicana, Martin Carnoy, Lucrecia Santibañez, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado, Imanol Ordorika

Imanol Ordorika

No abstract provided.


Policy Issues In Environmental Health Disputes, Phil Brown, Stephen Zavestoski, Brian Mayer, Sabrina Mccormick, Pamela S. Webster Jan 2002

Policy Issues In Environmental Health Disputes, Phil Brown, Stephen Zavestoski, Brian Mayer, Sabrina Mccormick, Pamela S. Webster

Sabrina McCormick

No abstract provided.


Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie Jan 2002

Remembering, Forgetting And Historical Injustice, Robert Cribb, Kenneth Christie

Robert Cribb

No abstract provided.


Response Decision Processes And Externalizing Behavior Problems In Adolescents, Reid Griffith Fontaine, Virginia Salzer Burks, Kenneth A. Dodge Jan 2002

Response Decision Processes And Externalizing Behavior Problems In Adolescents, Reid Griffith Fontaine, Virginia Salzer Burks, Kenneth A. Dodge

Reid G. Fontaine

Externalizing behavior problems of 124 adolescents were assessed across Grades 7–11. In Grade 9, participants were also assessed across social-cognitive domains after imagining themselves as the object of provocations portrayed in six videotaped vignettes. Participants responded to vignette-based questions representing multiple processes of the response decision step of social information processing. Phase 1 of our investigation supported a two-factor model of the response evaluation process of response decision (response valuation and outcome expectancy). Phase 2 showed significant relations between the set of these response decision processes, as well as response selection, measured in Grade 9 and (a) externalizing behavior in …


Continuidad Y Cambio De Las Políticas De Educación Superior, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez Jan 2002

Continuidad Y Cambio De Las Políticas De Educación Superior, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

No abstract provided.


The Interactive Effects Of Conscientiousness And Agreeableness On Job Performance Jan 2002

The Interactive Effects Of Conscientiousness And Agreeableness On Job Performance

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.


The Interactive Effects Of Extroversion And Conscientiousness On Job Performance Jan 2002

The Interactive Effects Of Extroversion And Conscientiousness On Job Performance

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.


Central Banking In Transition: An Overview Of Main Issues Ten Years After., Warren Coats, Marko Skreb Jan 2002

Central Banking In Transition: An Overview Of Main Issues Ten Years After., Warren Coats, Marko Skreb

Warren Coats

The aim of the paper is to analyze the significant changes Central and Eastern European central banks have undergone in the first decade of transition. In only a couple of years they have been completely transformed from socialist monobanking system to modern, independent central banks with the same functions as any central bank in a developed economy. Today, on average, de iure independence is very high and probably higher than the de facto one. Almost all central banks have price stability as their main mandate. Inflation was reduced significantly in the first couple of years. Monetary policy underwent crucial changes …


Who Joined The Clandestine Political Organization? Some Preliminary Evidence From The Overseas Taiwan Independence Movement, Weider Shu Jan 2002

Who Joined The Clandestine Political Organization? Some Preliminary Evidence From The Overseas Taiwan Independence Movement, Weider Shu

Weider Shu

The focus of this paper is the political activism of the activists affiliated with overseas Taiwan Independence Movement (TIM), especially those residing in the United States. Based upon the in-depth interview with fourteen TIM activists and two other published data sets about the demographical characteristics of TIM activists, this essay deals with a very fundamental aspect of activism in the clandestine political organizations: what is the social composition of these activists. Two approaches can be seen as direct approaches of political activism in the social movement literature: marginality thesis and privilege thesis. On the one hand, proponents of marginality thesis …


Thomas Kuhn E A Psicossociologia Da Pesquisa Científica, Paulo S. Peres Jan 2002

Thomas Kuhn E A Psicossociologia Da Pesquisa Científica, Paulo S. Peres

Paulo S. Peres

O objetivo deste texto é introduzir alguns elementos analíticos básicos para uma reflexão acerca da Filosofia das Ciências de Thomas Kuhn e de sua proposição de uma nova historiografia científica. Para isso, são discutidos sua concepção acerca da atividade científica, seus conceitos principais [paradigma, ciência normal, anomalia científica, revolução científica, comunidade, etc.] e as conseqüências epistemológicas advindas de sua discussão positiva.


Epistemologia Sem Sujeito: A Filosofia Das Ciências Proposta Por Karl Popper, Paulo S. Peres Jan 2002

Epistemologia Sem Sujeito: A Filosofia Das Ciências Proposta Por Karl Popper, Paulo S. Peres

Paulo S. Peres

O objetivo do texto é discutir algumas das propostas centrais da epistemologia de Karl Popper. Para isso, serão tratados dois conjuntos de problemas. Em primeiro lugar, serão abordadas a questão da indução e a concepção de ciência associada à preferência por esse método. Em segundo lugar, serão discutidas as observações centrais que o autor fez a respeito do problema da indução e a falha lógica e metodológica do indutivismo na demarcação da ciência.