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Roundaboutness Is Not A Mysterious Concept: A Financial Application To Capital-Theory, Peter Lewin, Nicolas Catchanosky Mar 2014

Roundaboutness Is Not A Mysterious Concept: A Financial Application To Capital-Theory, Peter Lewin, Nicolas Catchanosky

Peter Lewin

No abstract provided.

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Sacapintas, Fernando Carrión Mena Mar 2014

Sacapintas, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En estos dos últimos meses la ciudad de Quito se ha visto consternada con algunos hechos delictivos realizados bajo la modalidad de sacapintas; que no es otra cosa que el robo ejecutado por delincuentes organizados que aprovechan el descuido de las personas que trasladan valores de los bancos, casas comerciales y cajeros automáticos. En general estos hechos delictivos se producen por el alto riesgo que corre la víctima, por la información que acumulan los delincuentes y por baja calidad de las políticas públicas.

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Alternative Translation Approach – Part I: "Labor Division", Ludvig Glavati Mar 2014

Alternative Translation Approach – Part I: "Labor Division", Ludvig Glavati

Ludvig Glavati

No abstract provided.

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Promoting And Developing Oromummaa, Asafa Jalata Mar 2014

Promoting And Developing Oromummaa, Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

As any concept, Oromummaa has different meanings on conventional, theoretical, and political, and ideological levels. Although the colonizers of the Oromo deny, most Oromos know their linguistic, cultural, historical, political, and behavioral patterns that closely connect together all of their sub-identities to the Oromo nation. There is a clear conventional understanding among all Oromo branches and individuals on these issues. The Oromo national movement has gradually expanded the essence and meaning of Oromummaa. The colonization of the Oromo and the disruption of their collective identity and the repression and exploitation of Oromo society have increased the commitment of some Oromo …

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Public Health Services & Systems Research Inventory, Ann V. Kelly, Anna G. Hoover, Glen P. Mays Mar 2014

Public Health Services & Systems Research Inventory, Ann V. Kelly, Anna G. Hoover, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

This inventory summarizes research projects funded through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Services & Systems Research (PHSSR) program, including studies supported by the National Coordinating Center for PHSSR, the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program, and the National Network of Public Health Institutes.

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Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo Mar 2014

Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo

riccardo pelizzo

This article provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of Public Accounts Committees (PACs) from Eastern and Southern Africa building on the work of McGee, Jacobs, Stapenhurst, and Staddon. By analyzing an original set of data, this article shows that PACs in these two regions are bigger, have more staff members, and are more likely to be chaired by opposition Members of Parliament than they have in other countries and regions. Furthermore, the data show that Eastern and Southern African PACs are more active than their counterparts elsewhere. However, lack of political will and limits to the range of powers …

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La Reelección, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq. Mar 2014

La Reelección, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

No abstract provided.

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Transformative Conflict Resolution In An Unstable Neighbourhood: Turkey’S Conflict Resolution Efforts In The Middle East, Talha Kose Mar 2014

Transformative Conflict Resolution In An Unstable Neighbourhood: Turkey’S Conflict Resolution Efforts In The Middle East, Talha Kose

Talha Kose

Turkey had pursued a foreign policy in the Middle East that focused on transformative conflict resolution until the beginning of the “Arab Spring”. This transformative conflict resolution approach had aimed at bringing holistic and systemic change to the entire region. Turkish foreign policy had aimed at transforming the conflict producing structures, tried to engage positively with the actors and elites and attempted to change the securitydominated agenda into a multi-dimensional agenda. Despite the dominant discourse of the transformative conflict resolution, in practice the most effective conflict resolution methods and tools that Turkey utilised during this period fell under the management …

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Scholarly Communication Coaches, J. Steve Brantley, Todd Bruns Mar 2014

Scholarly Communication Coaches, J. Steve Brantley, Todd Bruns

Todd A. Bruns

The Open Access (OA) movement’s impact on scholarly communication has reached a tipping point. Increasingly, legal requirements such as the Illinois Open Access law (Public Act 098-0925) mandate open access to state funded research, and funding agencies are obliging researchers to preserve data in accessible platforms. In addition, publisher-driven “gold OA” and free-access “green OA” require researchers to navigate complicated options for copyright control. Meanwhile, new OA “scholars networks” offer possibilities for collaboration of which scholars may be unaware. These growing trends have ramifications across many disciplines and they create a need that librarians can fill. Subject librarians trained in …

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Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo Mar 2014

Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo

riccardo pelizzo

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the organization, the powers, the functioning of public accounts committees in Eastern Africa. The paper highlights the exceptionalism Eastern African PACs. The paper in fact discovers and reports an inverse relationship between the amount of activities performed and the range of powers with which Eastern African PACs are endowed

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Powerpoint Slides For Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: The 2014 Libtech Anti-Talk?, Nathan A. Rinne Mr. Mar 2014

Powerpoint Slides For Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: The 2014 Libtech Anti-Talk?, Nathan A. Rinne Mr.

Nathan A Rinne Mr.

The desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in …

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Record Management And Nnra Library, Nkiru F. Opara Jarlath Mar 2014

Record Management And Nnra Library, Nkiru F. Opara Jarlath

Nkiru Opara

No abstract provided.

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The Gravity Of Experience, Pushan Dutt Mar 2014

The Gravity Of Experience, Pushan Dutt

Pushan Dutt

In this paper, we establish the importance of experience in international trade for reducing trade costs and facilitating bilateral trade. Within an augmented gravity framework, we find that an additional year of experience at the country-pair level reduces trade costs by 2.0% and increases bilateral exports by 8%. The effect of experience is stronger for country-pairs that are more distant, who do not share a common border, and who lack colonial and legal ties. Further, experience raises both the extensive and the intensive margins of trade. In a dynamic trade model with heterogeneous firms and where export-experience reduces trade costs, …

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Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Tanzania, Riccardo Pelizzo Mar 2014

Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Tanzania, Riccardo Pelizzo

riccardo pelizzo

the report analyzes the organization, the powers, the functioning and the activities performed by the public accounts committee from Tanzania

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Does The Nature Of Piracy And Competition Matter?, Sougata Poddar, Yuanzhu Lu Mar 2014

Does The Nature Of Piracy And Competition Matter?, Sougata Poddar, Yuanzhu Lu

Sougata Poddar

We explore whether the nature of piracy or the counterfeiting activity and the competition between the copyright holder and the pirate(s) matter in a given regime of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) protection. Generally, the nature of piracy can be of two types, commercial and end-user; and the nature of competition between copyright holder and if the pirate is commercial can be either in price or quantity depending on the pirated good. We find irrespective of the nature of piracy or competition, when the consumers’ tastes are sufficiently diverse and IPR protection is weak, it is profitable for the copyright holder …

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The Drug Shortage Crisis: What Happens When Generic Manufacturers "Just Say No", Stacey B. Lee Mar 2014

The Drug Shortage Crisis: What Happens When Generic Manufacturers "Just Say No", Stacey B. Lee

Stacey B. Lee

In the past five years, the number of drug shortages in the United States has nearly quintupled. The majority of shortages involve generic sterile injectables used to fight infectious diseases and treat cancer. These complex drugs are produced in a concentrated market consisting of only a few generic manufacturers. Any disruption in their supply can result in shortages that leave patients without access to life-saving drugs which in some cases are the only treatment for their condition. These chronic shortages have been linked to many possible factors including product quality concerns, discontinuation of product lines, changes in supply and demand, …

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Las Capitales Son Antigobiernistas, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq. Mar 2014

Las Capitales Son Antigobiernistas, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

No abstract provided.

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The "Northern Cities Shift": A Digital Preservation Story, Max Eckard Mar 2014

The "Northern Cities Shift": A Digital Preservation Story, Max Eckard

Max Eckard

No abstract provided.

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'Good Enough' Really Is Good Enough, Max Eckard Mar 2014

'Good Enough' Really Is Good Enough, Max Eckard

Max Eckard

No abstract provided.

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Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo Mar 2014

Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo

riccardo pelizzo

the report analyzes the structural characteristics, the powers, the organization, the functioning and the activities of the PAC from Uganda

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The Path To Regulation Of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles In The United States, Jeremy Straub, Joe Vacek Mar 2014

The Path To Regulation Of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles In The United States, Jeremy Straub, Joe Vacek

Jeremy Straub

This poster presents an overview of proposed regulations that are presented in [1] related to a re-vised approach to small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) regulation in the United States. Prospective strategies for enhancing UAV regulation are consid-ered as is the pathway to develop and implement these regulations. The benefits of changing the UAV regulatory regime are discussed, on both a user/prospective user and societal scale.

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Strengthening The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Complexities In Implementation, Inference & Translation, Glen P. Mays Mar 2014

Strengthening The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Complexities In Implementation, Inference & Translation, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

Delivery systems for public health programs and policies are diffuse and heterogeneous across the U.S., reflecting wide variation in the capacity to implement population-level health improvement strategies. This lecture examines strategies for evaluating the causes and consequences of variation in public health delivery across the U.S., with a focus on identifying pathways for improving the health and economic effects of policy and practice.

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In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perspective, Yehezkel Margalit Mar 2014

In Defense Of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perspective, Yehezkel Margalit

Hezi Margalit

The American public’s attention was first exposed to the practice of surrogacy in 1988 with the drama and verdict of the Baby M case. Over the last twenty-five years the practice of surrogacy has slowly but surely become increasingly socially accepted and even welcomed. This evolution serves to emphasize the bizarre judicial and legislative silence regarding surrogacy that exists today in the vast majority of U.S. jurisdictions. In this article I describe and trace the dramatic revolution that took place during the recent decades as the surrogacy practice has totally changed from one viewed as problematic and rejected to a …

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Towards Understanding Social Influence In On-Line Social Networks, Jerzy Surma, Małgorzata Rószkiewicz, Jacek Wójcik Mar 2014

Towards Understanding Social Influence In On-Line Social Networks, Jerzy Surma, Małgorzata Rószkiewicz, Jacek Wójcik

Jerzy Surma

No abstract provided.

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What Is Political Islam, Muqtedar Khan Mar 2014

What Is Political Islam, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

This brief article was written as a pedagogical tool for undergraduates. It provides a basic discussion of Islamic political movements in order to define and describe the phenomenon widely known as Political Islam.

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La Gobernabilidad De Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq. Mar 2014

La Gobernabilidad De Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.

Fernando Carrión Mena

Los resultados electorales en la ciudad de Quito traen un problema complejo que debe resolverse inmediatamente, como condición básica para que el alcalde electo, Mauricio Rodas, pueda impulsar sus propuestas de campaña y construir un proyecto de ciudad. Se trata de encontrar un entorno de gobernabilidad en la nueva coyuntura que se inicia el 14 de Mayo y que está vinculada -al menos- a los siguientes tres elementos: Lo primero se vincula a las relaciones entre el nuevo alcalde de Quito como representante del gobierno local y el presidente de la República como jefe del Gobierno nacional. Si bien toda …

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Up By Upwest: Is Slope Like North?, Steven M. Weisberg, Daniele Nardi, Nora S. Newcombe, Thomas F. Shipley Mar 2014

Up By Upwest: Is Slope Like North?, Steven M. Weisberg, Daniele Nardi, Nora S. Newcombe, Thomas F. Shipley

Daniele Nardi

Terrain slope can be used to encode the location of a goal. However, this directional information may be encoded using a conceptual north (i.e., invariantly with respect to the environment), or in an observer-relative fashion (i.e., varying depending on the direction one faces when learning the goal). This study examines which representation is used, whether the sensory modality in which slope is encoded (visual, kinaesthetic, or both) influences representations, and whether use of slope varies for men and women. In a square room, with a sloped floor explicitly pointed out as the only useful cue, participants encoded the corner in …

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The Smokable Goods Tax: Crafting A Constitutional Marijuana Tax, Nima H. Mohebbi, Samuel T. Greenberg Mar 2014

The Smokable Goods Tax: Crafting A Constitutional Marijuana Tax, Nima H. Mohebbi, Samuel T. Greenberg

Nima H. Mohebbi

Marijuana legalization and decriminalization has become a hot policy issue. Roughly twenty U.S. states have partially legalized marijuana (generally for medicinal purposes) and two states – Colorado and Washington – have legalized it for general adult recreational use. Given the likely hyper-growth of the cannabis market in view of the possible wide-scale legalization of marijuana, states might enjoy a potential budgetary windfalls from marijuana excise taxes. Marijuana, however, remains a federally controlled substance, the sale or use of which is subject to substantial penalties. For the states, this presents a potential problem in collecting excise taxes on marijuana – namely, …

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Improving Education Outcomes For African American Youth - Issues For Consideration And Discussion, Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant, Kisha Bird Mar 2014

Improving Education Outcomes For African American Youth - Issues For Consideration And Discussion, Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant, Kisha Bird

Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant

No abstract provided.

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Factors That Increase The Probability Of A Successful Academic Library Job Search, Max Eckard, Ashley Rosener, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra Mar 2014

Factors That Increase The Probability Of A Successful Academic Library Job Search, Max Eckard, Ashley Rosener, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra

Max Eckard

Finding a position in an academic library can be challenging for recent Library and Information Science (LIS) graduates. While LIS students are often encouraged to seek out experience, network, and improve upon their technology skills in hopes of better improving their odds in the job market, little research exists to support this anecdotal advice. This study quantifies the academic and work experiences of recent LIS graduates in order to provide a better understanding of what factors most significantly influence the outcome of their academic library job searches. The survey results demonstrate that the job outlook is most positive for candidates …

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