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Print Media Coverage Of Environmental Causation Of Breast Cancer, Phil Brown, Stephen M. Zavestoski, Sabrina Mccormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, Theo Luebke Jan 2001

Print Media Coverage Of Environmental Causation Of Breast Cancer, Phil Brown, Stephen M. Zavestoski, Sabrina Mccormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, Theo Luebke

Sabrina McCormick

Given the growing concern with breast cancer as a largely unexplained and common illness of our time, we would expect considerable print media coverage. An accurate portrayal of breast cancer would also include a good amount of attention to the potential environmental factors since many women with breast cancer and activists are pointing to such potential causes. Our examination of daily newspapers, newsweeklies, science periodicals, and women's magazines showed that there was little coverage of possible environmental causation. There was also scant attention paid to corporate and governmental responsibility. Articles often focused on individual responsibility for diet, age at birth …

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Independence For Java? New National Projects For An Old Empire, Robert Cribb Jan 2001

Independence For Java? New National Projects For An Old Empire, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

In the context of speculation that outlying regions might break away from Indonesia, the chapter suggests that Java might be better off shorn of its Indonesian empire.

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Mongoler I Troebbel Pa Java (Mongols In Trouble On Java), Robert Cribb Jan 2001

Mongoler I Troebbel Pa Java (Mongols In Trouble On Java), Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Brief article in Norwegian on the unsuccessful Mongol invasion of Java in the 13th century

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Why Is The Japanese Conviction Rate So High?, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, J. Mark Ramseyer Jan 2001

Why Is The Japanese Conviction Rate So High?, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, J. Mark Ramseyer

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Conviction rates are high in Japan. Why? We suggest it is because Japanese prosecutors are understaffed. If they can afford to bring only their strongest cases, judges see only the most obviously guilty defendants, and high conviction rates would then follow. Crucially, however, Japanese judges face biased incentives. A judge who acquits a defendant runs significant risks of hurting his career and earns scant hope of positive payoffs. Using data on the careers and published opinions of 321 Japanese judges (all judges who published an opinion on a criminal case in 1976 or 1979), we find skewed incentives to convict. …

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Multilateral Agencies And Higher Education Reform In Latin America, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez, Armando Alcántara Jan 2001

Multilateral Agencies And Higher Education Reform In Latin America, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez, Armando Alcántara

Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

During the last decade, the debate over higher education took up a significant space on the agendas of various international agencies, including multilateral development banks and other intergovernmental agencies. This fact points to the importance of the subject within a broader discussion that refers to national development projects and their articulation within the new international economic and political order. In this context, the purpose of this article is to discern the principal lines of argument at work and their implications for the transformation of higher education in Latin America. To this end, we have chosen four cases that we consider …

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La Universidad Latinoamericana Y El Siglo Xxi: Algunos Retos Estructurales, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez Jan 2001

La Universidad Latinoamericana Y El Siglo Xxi: Algunos Retos Estructurales, Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

Roberto Rodríguez-Gómez

En América Latina el proceso de transición manifiesta rasgos comunes con la dinámica de cambio global, pero también expresiones particulares. Ante todo, las transformaciones económicas se han expresado a través de una serie cíclica de momentos de crisis-recuperación. Visto en una perspectiva de conjunto, el período que comprende las últimas décadas del siglo XX se caracteriza tanto por la reforma del Estado como por la implantación de programas de ajuste que, con las particularidades de cada caso, han sido adoptados por la totalidad de los países de la región. La simultaneidad de estas transiciones ha hecho sentir su peso en …

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Addressing Politics In Matrix Teams. Jan 2001

Addressing Politics In Matrix Teams.

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.

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Interaction Of Social Skill And General Mental Ability On Job Performance And Salary Jan 2001

Interaction Of Social Skill And General Mental Ability On Job Performance And Salary

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.

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Flood Reptiles, Serpent Temples, And The Quadripartite Universe: The Imago Mundi Of Late Postclassic Mayapán, Timothy W. Pugh Jan 2001

Flood Reptiles, Serpent Temples, And The Quadripartite Universe: The Imago Mundi Of Late Postclassic Mayapán, Timothy W. Pugh

Timothy W Pugh

No abstract provided.

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《次国家政府与对外事务》Subnational Governments And Foreign Affairs, Zhimin Chen Jan 2001

《次国家政府与对外事务》Subnational Governments And Foreign Affairs, Zhimin Chen

Zhimin Chen

No abstract provided.

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Us Manufacturing Extension Partnerships: Technology Policy Reinvented, Philip Shapira Jan 2001

Us Manufacturing Extension Partnerships: Technology Policy Reinvented, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

The US manufacturing extension partnership (MEP) is examined as an example of the new partnership paradigm in US technology policy. The MEP provides technology assistance services, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. Influenced by aims to reinvent government and reorient technology policy, the MEP seeks to be comprehensive, collaborative, and demand-driven. However, the MEP’s partnered management style is constrained by political and industrial systems that continue to operate on traditional lines. After probing these tensions, the paper offers insights for the MEP’s future development and for other technology and innovation policies that seek to emulate the MEP’s partnership approach.

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Prohibition And The Market For Illegal Drugs, Suren Basov, Jeffrey Miron, Mireille Jacobson Jan 2001

Prohibition And The Market For Illegal Drugs, Suren Basov, Jeffrey Miron, Mireille Jacobson

Suren Basov

No abstract provided.

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The Political Philosophy Of Islamic Resurgence, Muqtedar Khan Jan 2001

The Political Philosophy Of Islamic Resurgence, Muqtedar Khan

Muqtedar Khan

No abstract provided.

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Credit Crunch As An Optimal Decision Of Risk-Averse Banks Under Uncertainty., Martin Berka Jan 2001

Credit Crunch As An Optimal Decision Of Risk-Averse Banks Under Uncertainty., Martin Berka

Martin Berka

No abstract provided.

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The Archaeological Study Of Empires And Imperialism In Prehispanic Central Mexico, Michael E. Smith, Lisa M. Montiel Jan 2001

The Archaeological Study Of Empires And Imperialism In Prehispanic Central Mexico, Michael E. Smith, Lisa M. Montiel

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

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The Aztec Empire And The Mesoamerican World System, Michael E. Smith Jan 2001

The Aztec Empire And The Mesoamerican World System, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

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Postclassic Ceramics From The Toluca Valley In U.S. Museums: The Bauer And Blake Collections, Michael E. Smith Jan 2001

Postclassic Ceramics From The Toluca Valley In U.S. Museums: The Bauer And Blake Collections, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

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The Aztec World Of Gary Jennings, Michael E. Smith Jan 2001

The Aztec World Of Gary Jennings, Michael E. Smith

Michael E Smith

No abstract provided.

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Application Service Providing, Michael Friedewald, Peter Georgieff, Markus Joepgen Jan 2001

Application Service Providing, Michael Friedewald, Peter Georgieff, Markus Joepgen

Michael Friedewald

No abstract provided.

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Institutional Sources Of Practice Variation: Staffing College And University Recycling Programs, Michael Lounsbury Jan 2001

Institutional Sources Of Practice Variation: Staffing College And University Recycling Programs, Michael Lounsbury

michael lounsbury

In this paper, I examine how variation arises in the staffing of recycling programs at colleges and universities. Through initial fieldwork, I identified two basic recycling program forms. Some schools adopted recycling programs that entailed the creation of new, full-time recycling manager positions that were filled by ecological activists. Other schools adopted more minimalist programs that were staffed by current employees who were more ecologically ambivalent and assumed recycling management responsibilities as a part-time, additional duty. Results of a subsequent survey of a population of colleges and universities show that this variation in staffing was importantly shaped by the Student …

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Financial Constraints And Investment Decisions, Giuseppe Travaglini, Enrico Saltari Jan 2001

Financial Constraints And Investment Decisions, Giuseppe Travaglini, Enrico Saltari

Giuseppe Travaglini Prof.

In what follows we show that liquidity constraints can affect a firm's investment even when the constraints are not currently effective. This happens when, at any given time, the firm believes that internal finance is likely to become a constraint in the future. In these circumstances, the value of the firm becomes a non-monotonic functional form of the fundamental. Thus, in a dynamic setting, the potential barrier to internal liquidity expansion exerts a global effect on the firm's investment policy, lowering its desired investment profile.

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Organización Y Funcionamiento Interno De Los Partidos Políticos En América Latina, Flavia Freidenberg, Manuel Alcántara Jan 2001

Organización Y Funcionamiento Interno De Los Partidos Políticos En América Latina, Flavia Freidenberg, Manuel Alcántara

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.

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Ecuador, Flavia Freidenberg Jan 2001

Ecuador, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.

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You're So Pretty You Don't Look Moroccan, Henriette Dahan Kalev Jan 2001

You're So Pretty You Don't Look Moroccan, Henriette Dahan Kalev

henriette dahan kalev

"You are so pretty--you don't look Moroccan." I grew up hearing this sentence from the time my parents brought me from Morocco in 1949 to the immigrant camp Sha'ar Aliyah and to the Ma'abara [transit camp] Pardes Chana. I heard it from the white uniformed nurse, who came to our tent in the immigrant camp to tell my mother how she should raise me, my sister, and my baby brother, who was born in that tent. This nurse spoke of "raising children" as if it was something Zionists invented. The tall silver-haired Yekke [German Jew] kindergarten teacher also used this …

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The Cognitive And Motivational Effects Of Imagery Training: A Matter Of Perspective, Jennifer L. Cumming, Diane M. Ste-Marie Jan 2001

The Cognitive And Motivational Effects Of Imagery Training: A Matter Of Perspective, Jennifer L. Cumming, Diane M. Ste-Marie

Jennifer Cumming

No abstract provided.

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Eindrapport Stadsbendes En Hun Buurt, Jenneke Christiaens, Els Enhus, Christian Eliaerts, Liesbeth Vanmechelen Jan 2001

Eindrapport Stadsbendes En Hun Buurt, Jenneke Christiaens, Els Enhus, Christian Eliaerts, Liesbeth Vanmechelen

Jenneke Christiaens

No abstract provided.

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Spanish Pre-Civil War, Josep M. Colomer Jan 2001

Spanish Pre-Civil War, Josep M. Colomer

Josep M. Colomer

Nonmonotonic electoral results in which the loser in popular votes becomes the winner in seats can help to explain high levels of political bipolarization that, under certain circumstances, may lead to revolution, coup d'état, and civil war. This was the case in the Spanish Second Republic, in the period 1931-1936.

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A Tradicional Política De Desenvolvimento Regional No Brasil E A Oportunidade De Sua Mudança, Eduardo Meira Zauli Dr. Jan 2001

A Tradicional Política De Desenvolvimento Regional No Brasil E A Oportunidade De Sua Mudança, Eduardo Meira Zauli Dr.

Eduardo Meira Zauli

No abstract provided.

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Civil Society And Social Capital: A Primer, Bob Edwards, Michael W. Foley Jan 2001

Civil Society And Social Capital: A Primer, Bob Edwards, Michael W. Foley

Bob Edwards

No abstract provided.

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Social Capital Reconsidered, Michael W. Foley, Bob Edwards, Mario Diani Jan 2001

Social Capital Reconsidered, Michael W. Foley, Bob Edwards, Mario Diani

Bob Edwards

No abstract provided.

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