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Winners, Losers And The Institutional Effects Of Privatization In The Czech And Slovak Republics, John A. Gould

John A Gould

No abstract provided.

Is It Time To Disinvest In Social Capital?, Michael W. Foley, Bob Edwards

Bob Edwards

No abstract provided.

World Investment Report, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "World Investment Report", World Chronicle, a half-hour unedited televised interview programme of the UN about major global issues, based on the World Investment Report 1999, September 23, 1999.

Gattaca: Defacing The Future, Kirk W. Junker

Kirk W Junker

No abstract provided.

How Complex Are Networks Playing Repeated Games?, In-Koo Cho, Hao Li

hao li

This paper examines implications of complexity cost in implementing repeated game strategies through networks with finitely many classifiers. A network consists of individual classifiers that summarize history of repeated play according to a weighted sum of empirical frequency of the outcomes of the stage game, and a decision unit that chooses an action in each period based on the summaries of the classifiers. Each player maximizes his long run average payoff, while minimizing the complexity cost of implementing his strategy through a network, measured by its number of classifiers. We examine locally stable equilibria where the selected networks are robust …

Independence And Obedience: An Analysis Of Childrearing Values In The United States And China, Hong Xiao

Hong Xiao

No abstract provided.

Sources Of Parental Values, Hong Xiao, Nancy Andes

Hong Xiao

No abstract provided.

Practices For Managing Information Flows Within Organizations, Joel Demski, Tracy R. Lewis, Dennis Yao, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

No abstract provided.

The Distributional Effects Of Carbon Regulation, Peter Cramton, Suzi Kerr

Peter Cramton

We examine the distributional effects of carbon regulation. An auction of carbon permits is the best way to achieve carbon caps set by international negotiation to limit global climate change. An auction is preferred to grandfathering (giving polluters permits in proportion to past pollution), because it allows reduced tax distortions, provides more flexibility in distribution of costs, provides greater incentives for innovation, and reduces the need for politically contentious arguments over the allocation of rents.

Behind The Scenes In Wonderland: Re-Assessing Curitiba's Planning Model, Clara Irazabal

Clara Irazabal

Curitiba, Brazil, a metropolis of 2.4 million inhabitants in the southern state of Parana, has demonstrated a rapid improvement in urban quality over the last thirty-five years. The city has drawn worldwide recognition for its achievements and today is regarded by many as a model of urban planning and management. Yet, while some of Curitiba's successful strategies have received well-deserved attention, this ecological "wonderland" still faces some major challenges. A critical reassessment of the city is due, specificallY with regard to the characteristics of the planning model it offers and the role that citizens have played as this model has …

Social Work Assessment Of Adaptive Functioning Using The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales: Issues Of Reliability And Validity, Peter Cabrera, Lucienne Grimes-Gaa, Bruce A. Thyer

Elián P. Cabrera-Nguyen

The assessment of client adaptive functioning is often an important component of a comprehensive social work evaluation. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS) are the most commonly used quantitative measures of adaptive functioning for clients meeting the criteria for a wide range of disorders. We review the development of the VABS and current knowledge pertaining to the instrument's reliability and validity. We conclude that the ability to administer and interpret the VABS is an important skill for clinical social workers to acquire.

On Benign And Disastrous State Action, Review Of "Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed", Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Tench Coxe And The Right To Keep And Bear Arms, 1787-1823, David B. Kopel

David B Kopel

Tench Coxe, a member of the second rank of this nation's Founders and a leading proponent of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, wrote prolifically about the right to keep and bear arms. In this Article, the authors trace Coxe's story, from his early writings in support of the Constitution, through his years of public service, to his political writings in opposition to the presidential campaigns of John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The authors note that Coxe described the Second Amendment as guaranteeing an individual right, and believed that an individual right to bear arms was necessary for …

La Ciudad, Escenario De Comunicación, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En septiembre de 1998, FLACSO y la Fundacion Friedrich Ebert organizaron el seminario "Ciudad, comunicación v construcción de ciudadanía", cuya finalidad fue examinar el entrelazado juego de relaciones que distintos actores despliegan sobre un escenario común: la ciudad.

Los temas, interpretaciones y debates surgidos en este seminario son los que ahora se recogen en esta compilación.

Las contribuciones incorporadas en esta obra, ilustran algunos de los temas que preocupan y que, a nuestro juicio deberían preocupar a los investigadores de la cultura urbana, de la comunicación y de la ciudadanía. No hemos pretendido presentar una muestra exhaustiva ni plenamente representativa …

A Plan For The Abolition Of Slavery, Consistently With The Interests Of All Parties Concerned (London, 1828), C. S. Monaco

C. S. Monaco

Published anonymously during the resurgence of the antislavery campaign in Britain, Moses E. Levy's pamphlet, "A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery," stands without parallel. The appearance of this publication in 1828 London, established Levy as the first and only Jewish abolitionist author amid a plethora of mostly Evangelical stalwarts. The scope and magnitude of Levy's ideas exceeded the more modest attempts by a small cohort of Jewish antislavery advocates who appeared much later in the United States. The entire pamphlet is reproduced here and, for the first time, extensive annotations by C. S. Monaco places this work into historical …

Exchange Rate Systems In The Transition Economies Of Central And East European & Former Soviet Union, Joseph Pelzman

Joseph Pelzman

No abstract provided.

Capital Social Y Democracia: Una Revisión Crítica De Robert Putnam, Julio Ríos-Figueroa, Alejandra Ríos Cázares

Julio Ríos-Figueroa

No abstract provided.

Journalism/ Mass Communication Program World Wide Web Sites: Content, Functionality And Promotional Value, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

Despite the popularity of promotionally-oriented Web sites within journalism/ mass communication programs in higher education, there has been little examination of sites and their contents. Almost no research has focused on visual, informational, and operational enhancements, or how Web sites of different higher education programs in the discipline differ from each other. This research addresses some of the unanswered questions about how journalism/ mass communication Web sites use enhancements to communicate with online users.

Great Smoky Mountains Regional Collection New To Utk, Ken Wise

Ken Wise

No abstract provided.

Propositions For Information Technology: Planning For Success, Ken Haycock, G. Jopson

Ken Haycock

In Canada, the West Vancouver School Board proposed 13 propositions about the selection, management, and effective use of information technology. For each proposition, the senior management included a full outline of the current status, a plan of action, the name of the staff member responsible, and a time line. An external assessment of implementation of each proposition and of the impact on achievement was undertaken. The propositions, clustered in the areas of vision, statement of beliefs, student learning goals, definition, social issues, learning issues, clarification of roles and responsibilities, integration of information delivery systems, community-based information infrastructure, and assessment, are …

The Impact Of Scheduling On Cooperative Program Planning And Teaching (Cppt) And Information Skills Instruction, Ken Haycock

Ken Haycock

No abstract provided.

Discursive Constructions Of Racial Boundaries And Self-Segregation On Campus, Richard Buttny

Richard Buttny

No abstract provided.

Ceramic Research In New England: Breaking The Typological Mold, Elizabeth Chilton

Elizabeth S. Chilton

No abstract provided.

Annual 1999 Academic Affairs Forum: Access To A Quality Education, Ellen N. Junn

Ellen N. Junn

No abstract provided.

Graphic Novels And The Reluctant Reader, Gail De Vos

Gail de Vos

What has happened to influence this change? First, the quality of comic books, particularly graphic novels, is now formally acknowledged. Graphic novels, the sturdy, lengthy comic books that contain one story or a set of related stories, are now being sporadically reviewed in selection journals as well as being the focus of a large number of recent articles. But the most compelling reason is wider awareness of our highly visual culture and its impact on our youth. Far from receiving stories from television and film passively, readers of comic books are actively constructing meaning from the text and illustrations and …

The Co-Optation Of A ‘‘Revolution’’: Rastafari, Reggae, And The Rhetoric Of Social Control, Stephen A. King

Stephen A. King

No abstract provided.

Are Adaptations Necessarily Genetic?, Steven J. Scher

Steven J. Scher

No abstract provided.

Perception Of The Horizontal And Vertical In Tangible Displays: Minimal Gender Differences, Morton A. Heller, Jeffrey A. Calcaterra, Shavonda L. Green, Stevette L. Barnette

Morton A. Heller

A study is reported of gender differences in a haptic version of three Piagetian tests that assess understanding of Euclidian space. A raised-line drawing kit was used both for subject responses and for production of stimuli. To test understanding of the horizontal, subjects felt pictures of a jar at four tilts and were asked to draw the water line. Two methods were used to examine understanding of the vertical. First, subjects drew a hanging electrical cord and light bulb, attached to the ceiling of a bus, parked on hills of four different angles. Subsequently, subjects drew telephone poles (represented by …

Review Of Coasean Economics: Law And Economics And The New Institutional Economics Edited By Steven Medema, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

A book review which talks about what kinds of papers I'd like to see written.

Programs Of Assertive Community Treatment (Pact): A Critical Review, Tomi Gomory

Tomi Gomory

Advocates of Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) make numerous claims for this intensive intervention program, including reduced hospitalization, overall cost, and clinical symptomatology, and increased client satisfaction, and vocational and social functioning. However, a reanalysis of the controlled experimental research finds no empirical support for any of these claims. Instead, there is evidence that the program is both coercive and potentially harmful. The current promotion of PACT appears to be based more on professional enthusiasm for the medical model than upon any benefit to the clients.