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Recharging Your Customer Service Skills, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

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Ozgur 1993 Turkiye'nin Ozel Cevre Koruma Bolgeleri Politikasi (Specially Protected Areas Policy Of Turkey) Türkiye'nin Özel Çevre Koruma Bölgeleri Politikası: Foça Örneği, Huseyin Ozgur Prof.Dr.

Huseyin Ozgur Prof.Dr.

Specially protected areas (SPAs) in Turkey were initiated in 1990 with the special interest of Prime Minister Turgut Özal and pressure from international agreements signed by Turkish Government. As of 1992, there were 12 SPAs in 5 provinces, most of them were on shorelines of lakes or seas. The decision making of SPAs policy in Turkey fit to muddling through. It helped to protect special and sensitive areas to be protected. All these SPAs had several small settlements and controversial usages of the land and water areas. The policy helped to control dense and uncontrolled settlements however created issues on …

Networking: Beyond The Buzz Word, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

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Supplemental Reply Comments To Fcc Notice Of Inquiry On Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

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Trips, Trade, And Technology Transfer, M. Scott Taylor

M. Scott Taylor

A North-South model of unintentional technology transfer is developed where the stringency of sountern patent protection provides the institutional backdrop for a strategic game in a high-tech goods market. The appropriability regime is set endogenously and combines elements of imperfect sounthern patent protection with the protection afforded by market-made northern technology "masquing". Less stringent protection of northern intellectual property can "work" much like other strategic trade policies; therefore, developed countries appear to be right in demand discussion of intellectual property rights in GATT.

Working Women: Separate And Not Equal--A Review Article, Laurel A. Grotzinger

Laurel A Grotzinger

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Mutual Versus Unilateral Mistake In Contracts, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Ian Ayres

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Courts sometimes allow contracts to be voidable because of mistakes in their basic assumptions. The common wisdom is that rescission is more likely to be granted if the mistake is mutual rather than unilateral---an incorrect belief common to both parties, not just to one. Rescission for mistake can be justified as a way to avoid inefficient transactions and to reduce the costs of collecting information on whether a mistake has been made. These reasons do not justify a general rule distinguishing between mutual and unilateral mistake.

Reply Comments To Fcc Notice Of Inquiry On Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

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News Media Narratives Of Interethnic Isolation And Confrontation In Post-Andrew Dade County, Florida, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

Hurricane Andrew was the costliest natural disaster to strike the United States, and the strongest hurricane since the 1920s. Andrew permanently changed the landscape by wiping out entire communities and scattering the people who lived in them. At least 20 deaths were directly attributed to the storm. Property damage was calculated into the tens of billions of dollars. We can lessen the impact of such a future event upon people by gaining a greater understanding of the communication patterns that develop among survivors after a hurricane or other natural disaster has passed--particularly, survivors of differing ethnic and cultural backgrounds. By …

Childhood, Robert K. Thomas

Robert K. Thomas

The author gave an account of his life as a youngster in a Cherokee community in the hills of eastern Oklahoma and the changes he had experienced in the community, in order to give the reader a "feel" for the kind of life an Indian youngster leads. In a broad sense, the quality of life of Indian youngsters today in rural Indian communities is very much like the author's experience as a youngster.

Lobbying When The Decisionmaker Can Acquire Independent Information, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Politicians trade off the cost of acquiring and processing information against the benefit of being re-elected. Lobbyists and protesters may possess private information upon which politicians would like to rely without the effort of verification. If the politician does not try to verify, however, the lobbyist or protester has no incentive to be truthful. This is modelled as a game in which the lobbyist lobbies to show his conviction that the electorate is on his side. In equilibrium, sometimes the politician investigates, and sometimes the information is false. The lobbyists and the electorate benefit from the possibility of lobbying when …

Special Review: Evaluation Of The Exploratory Factor Analysis Programs Provided In Spssx And Spss/Pc+, Gregory J. Boyle

Gregory J. Boyle

Given the frequent use of SPSSX and SPSS/PC+ exploratory factor analysis in analyzing multivariate psychometric data, it is germane to examine the limitations of the Factor program as it currently exists. Over recent years, the routines in these packages generally have been developed and expanded considerably. In particular, the exploratory factor analysis procedures have been greatly extended and enhanced with inclusion of additional estimation methods such as minimum likelihood, unweighted least squares, generalized least squares, and so on. Like­ wise, availability of a Scree plot of the latent roots against factor number has facilitated determination of the appropriate factor-extraction number. …

The Paradox Of Ideology, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A standard problem with the objectivity of social scientific theory in particular is that it is either self-referential, in which case it seems to undermine itself as ideology, or self-excepting, which seem pragmatically self-refuting. Using the example of Marx and his theory of ideology, I show how self-referential theories that include themselves in their scope of explanation can be objective. Ideology may be roughly defined as belief distorted by class interest. I show how Marx thought that natural science was informed by class interest but not therefore necessarily ideology. Capitalists have an interest in understanding the natural world (to a …

Functional Explanation And Metaphysical Individualism, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A number of (present or former) analytical Marxists, such as Jon Elster, have argued that functional explanation has almost no place in the social sciences. (Although the discussion is framed in terms of a debate among analytical Marxists, the point is quite general, and Marxism is used for illustrative purposes.) Functional explanation accounts for what is to be explained by reference to its function; thus, sighted organism have eyes because eyes enable them to see. Elster and other critics of functional explanation argue that this pattern of explanation is inconsistent with "methodological individualism," the idea, as they understand it, that …

Bentham’S Philosophical Politics, James E. Crimmins

James E Crimmins

No abstract provided.

Bentham’S Religious Writings: A Bibliographic Chronology, James E. Crimmins

James E Crimmins

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Unam, Espejo Del Mejor México Posible: La Universidad En El Contexto Educativo Nacional, Imanol Ordorika, Salvador Martínez Della Rocca

Imanol Ordorika

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On Passionate Reason: Controversy And The Making And Revising Of Context (With Darrin Hicks), Ronald W. Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

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Comments Submitted To Fcc Notice Of Inquiry On Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

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Promoting Honesty In Negotiation: An Exercise In Practical Ethics, Peter Cramton, J Gregory Dees

Peter Cramton

In a competitive and morally imperfect world, business people are often faced with serious ethical challenges. Harboring suspicions about the ethics of others, many feel justified in engaging in less-than-ideal conduct to protect their own interests. The most sophisticated moral arguments are unlikely to counteract this behavior. We believe that this morally defensive behavior is responsible, in large part, for much undesirable deception in negotiation. Drawing on recent work in the literature of negotiations, we present some practical guidance on how negotiators might build trust, establish common interests, and secure credibility for their statements thereby promoting honesty We also point …

The Impact Of Economic Development On Democracy (With Evelyne Huber And John D. Stephens), Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

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De La Violencia Urbana A La Convivencia Ciudadana, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La novedad del tema y su importancia. No se puede desconocer que el problema de la violencia delictual, como fenómeno social que tiene expresión en las ciudades, existe desde tiempos inmemoriales y que, por tanto, no es nuevo, al grado de que se podría decir que es consustancial a la ciudad. Tal afirmación debe conducir a replaD~ar la tradicional aproximación que se ha hecho al tema y a lo urbano, desde aquellas metodologías que los interpretan como resultado de un conjunto de entidades patológicas.

Por ello quizás sería mejor reconocer a la ciudad como un escenario de relaciones sociales. Así …

La Cuestión Urbana De Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En 1962 Quito tenía 335 mil habitantes y un área de 2.525 Has. Para •1990 Quito arrojó una población de 1.095.000 y un área urbana superior a las 19 mil has. Estas cifras revelan cambios no solo en el orden cuantitativo, sino también la presencia de una ciudad cualitativamente distinta inscrita en el mismo contexto urbano.

Este gran proceso de cambio pretendió ser acompañado por instrumentos legales ejecutados desde la municipalidad; sin embargo, todos ellos quedaron obsoletos al poco tiempo de su formulación. Así tenemos las propuestas de planificación en los años 1967, 1973 y 1981, que plantean en su …

La Gestión Urbana De Quito: Estrategías, Dilemas Y Retos, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En las reflexiones y retos que surgen de una intervención en la gestión municipal, se proponen caminos posibles para introducir la participación ciudadana en los cambios de actitud y comportamiento a fin de mejorar la eficiencia de la descentralización. Se destacan los componentes de una estrategia para la planificación urbana, como apoyo a la gestión. Las referencias al caso de Quito, capital del Ecuador. comparten una serie de conceptos y paradigmas introducidos por el autor.

Analysis Of Us Real Gnp And Unemployment Relations, Riccardo Fiorito, Masanao Aoki

riccardo fiorito

Instead of the more common unemployment rate, the time series data of the US unemployment level is used with real GNP and money stock too. The commonly perceived Okun's Law disappears when moving from the bivariate model to the trivariate model including also money.

Toward A Policy For Managing The Use Of Computer Mediated Communication In The Workplace, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

Within the past decade, there has been tremendous growth in the number of businesses and not-for-profit organizations which have become equipped with computers and have empowered workers to use them to communicate. This new form of on-the-job empowerment is known as Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). CMC's use has resulted in greater production and performance in the workplace. It has also resulted in an increased amount of tension observed between management and subordinates. This tension is evidenced through accounts of people's behavior in the workplace-- specifically, accounts of members of management who perceive a lessening of their ability to control the …

Attribute Sampling: A Library Management Tool, Ken Wise, Jack Kiger

Ken Wise

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Sociocultural Origins Of The Oromo National Movement In Ethiopia, Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

This paper examines social and cultural factors that have necessitated the emergence of the Oromo national movement. Since their incorporation into Ethiopia, the Oromo have lost their autonomous cultural and social development. With the help of the European colonial power, the Ethiopians effectively occupied Oromia, expropriated Oromian economic resources, established settler colonialism, and repressed Oromo culture and negated Oromo history. The colonial settlers created oppressive institutions that facilitated the extraction of Oromo produce and labor. The Oromo have become second class citizens and lost political freedom and institutional power. Recently Oromo cultural resistance has been transformed into the Oromo national …

Health Effects Of Adolescent Pregnancy: Implications For Social Workers, Terri Combs-Orme

Terri Combs-Orme

Adolescent pregnancy carries significant risks to the health of the pregnant adolescent and her child. These risks, which include pregnancy complications, low birth weight, and infant mortality, are due in large part to the behavior of the adolescent and her socioeconomic circumstances. Early and consistent use of health care can minimize risks by permitting the detection and management of serious problems. Human service professionals should use every opportunity to encourage good prenatal care, while keeping in mind the developmental and personal needs of the pregnant adolescent.

Origins And Trajectory Of The Shining Path, Peter A. Stern

Peter A. Stern

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