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Core Competencies For Libraries And Library Staff, Beth Mcneil

Beth McNeil

Declining financial support and the explosion of new technologies and information resources have led library directors and leaders in the library field to rethink choices about services that libraries can and should provide. Considering these choices, library administrators are forced to carefully evaluate how adequately prepared library staff are to support new and changing services. Libraries, like all other institutions, must change. They must adapt to the changing environment and proactively prepare for the future. One step in the preparation for the future is the identification and development of core competencies for library staff.

Wer Braucht Eigentlich Software-Patente? Ergebnisse Einer Empirischen Untersuchung, Knut Blind, Jakob Edler, Michael Friedewald

Michael Friedewald

No abstract provided.

A Tax On Output Of The Polluting Industry Is Not A Tax On Pollution: The Importance Of Hitting The Target, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

No abstract provided.

O "Homem Econômico" Vai Ao Fórum: Uma Análise Meta-Teórica Do Paradigma Da Escolha Racional, Paulo S. Peres

Paulo S. Peres

Este texto tem dois objetivos centrais. O primeiro deles é analisar os elementos básicos que caracterizam a teoria da escolha racional; o segundo é avaliar essa teoria vis-à-vis duas concepções clássicas da Filosofia das Ciências: a de Karl Popper e a de Thomas Kuhn. O argumento central é que a teoria da escolha racional encontra melhor sustentação epistemológica no modelo kuhniano, de modo que essa abordagem pode ser considerada um paradigma hegemônico na Ciência Política internacional contemporânea.

Hamiltonian Approach To Multi-Dimensional Screening, Suren Basov

Suren Basov

In this paper, I consider a problem of multi-dimensional screening in the case when the number of consumer’s characteristics, m, differs from n, the number of goods produced by a monopolist. I show that, in the case whenn > m, the qualitative features of solution are similar to those obtained by Rochet and Chone (1998) for the case n = m. When the monopolist has too few instruments (n < m), new qualitative features arise. In particular, there are distortions in the outward direction at the top, discontinuity in the bundle of goods consumed on the lower boundary of participation region, and …

Policy Implications Of The Kyoto Protocol For Canada: An Overview, Steven Bernstein, Christopher D. Gore

Christopher D Gore

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In The Name Of The Peasantry, The Proletariat, And The People: Populisms In Eastern Europe, Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde

No abstract provided.

Lexical Failure And Gesture In Second Language Development, Gale Stam

Gale Stam, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

The Right And The Righteous? European Norms, Domestic Politics And The Sanctions Against Austria, Cas Mudde, Michael Merlingen, Ulrich Sedelmeier

Cas Mudde

In February 2000, fourteen EU member states collectively took the unprecedented step to impose bilateral sanctions on their Austrian EU partner. How can this be explained? Was it, as the fourteen governments argued, because the inclusion in the Austrian government of Jörg Haider’s extreme right FPÖ opposes many of the ideas making up the common identity of the EU? Or, were the sanctions motivated, as the Austrian government argued, by narrow-minded party political interests that lurked beneath the rhetoric of shared European norms and values? Our analysis suggests that without the particular concerns about domestic politics of certain politicians, it …

Wilde On Trial: Psychic Injury, Exhibitionism And The Law, Kirby Farrell Prof

kirby farrell

A reassessment of Oscar Wilde's conviction for sexual offenses. Wilde's trial responded to polarization in fantasies of respectability in late Victorian culture, with the fear of social death underlying anxieties about homosexuality.

The Egyptian Influence On Nineteenth Century Freemasonry, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

No abstract provided.

Scottish Rite Research Society, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The Scottish Rite Research Society is one of many Masonic historical groups, but certainly one whose publishing record justifies special notice. The guiding spirit has been Dr. Brent Morris, an immensely learned scholar.

Freemasonry, The Greeks, And Stepping, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

No abstract provided.

The Ku Klux Klan As An Influence Outside The Deep South, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The Ku Klux Klan is a ritualistic fraternal organization, which puts it into the same category as the Moose, Eagles, Elks, and other animal crackers -- but only is one way. As I have said in several places, the Mafia is also an ngo. There are aberrant groups like the Klan that have seized some of the magic of fraternalism and ritual to entice members, as this somewhat controversial paper shows.

The Internationalization Of American Religions: Mormonism And Mexico, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

America has exported a baker's dozen of religions, and Mexico has been close enough to receive a full freight car load of cults and sects. None has been more effective in it s colonization than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter DAy Saints, the Mormons. They have at least a million members South of the Border.

Publishing On Demand, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

When SAHFR published this piece of mine I was President Elect of the Policy Studies Organization and had no idea that i would be so much involved in the enormous changes in publishing that the web would demand of scholarly societies.

A Framework To Compare Environmental Policies, Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton

This paper analyzes and compares eight types of policies. Clearly no single policy instrument will work best in all cases. Under some circumstances, command and control (CAC) instruments might be necessary, in either of two forms: (a) emission restrictions, sometimes called "performance standards," or (b) technology restrictions that might be called "design standards." In other cases that are important to identify, these command and control instruments can be replaced by "incentive" instruments such as taxes, subsidies, or permits. As suggested by Arthur Pigou (1932), the pollution problem could be addressed by (a) taxes on the pollution, or (b) subsidies to …

(Troubling) Spaces Of Mountains And Men: New Zealand's Mount Cook And Hermitage Lodge, Karen M. Morin, R. Longhurst, L. Johnston

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.

Gender, Nature, Empire: Women Naturalists In Nineteenth Century British Travel Literature, Karen M. Morin, Jeanne Guelke

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.

Gendering Resistance: British Colonial Narratives Of Wartime New Zealand, Karen M. Morin, L. D. Berg

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.

Technology And Urban Labor Markets In The United States, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers

No abstract provided.

Creating A Web Research Guide: Collaboration Between Liaisons, Faculty And Students, Tammy Sugarman, Constance Demetracopoulos

Tammy Sugarman

This article discusses the efforts of two liaison librarians at William Russell Pullen Library, Georgia State University, to build a long-term, sustainable partnership among teaching faculty, graduate students, and librarians in the development and maintenance of a Web-based research guide for world history. The projects' goals are: to provide access to the resources available at Pullen Library; to serve as a gateway to resources available on the Internet; and to showcase student contributions, including bibliographies and annotations of Web sites. The project is an organic endeavor, with the Web site's organization open to periodic review and modification. Continuous discussions and …

The Role Of State Processes In The Production Of ‘Ethnic’ Conflict: The Nation-State Dialectic, Europeanisation And Globalisation, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

This paper sets out to theorise the production of ‘ethnic’ and ‘national’ conflict via the complex interrelation between ‘Nation’ and ‘State’, in what is termed as the nation-state dialectic. It considers the production of ‘ethnic conflict’ and the role of nationalism, the state and class politics. It theorises the State as a social relation and as a power structure and then proceeds in linking it to the emergence of the nation-state construct. In theorising ‘the State’, the attempt is to go beyond considering it merely as a juridical-legal apparatus of power in a given territory, but to explore it also …

Europeanisation And Modernisation: Locating Cyprus In The Southern European Context, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

The question of ‘modernisation’ of the state in Cyprus has recently received a great deal of attention in Cypriot politics. During the last Parliamentary elections in May 2000, the question of ‘modernisation’ entered the political dictionary of the mainstream parties. All political forces professed to be ‘European’, they pledged commitment to the EU accession process and the debate over ‘modernisation’ was closely linked to the policies of harmonisation with the EU in the light of accession. However, little critical work exists to examine Europeanisation that assesses the specific policies employed, the policy goals and kind of issues the processes entails. …

Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief: Factor Structure And Convergent Validity In Inpatient Adolescents, Seth R. Axelrod, Carlos M. Grilo, Charles A. Sanislow, Thomas H. Mcglashan

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

We examined the internal consistency, factor structure, and validity of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief (SPQ-B). Two hundred thirty-seven psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents were administered the SPQ-B and a battery of well-established self-report instruments. The SPQ-B demonstrated adequate internal consistency. Exploratory factor analysis provided mixed support for the SPQ-B 3-factor structure of interpersonal deficits, cognitive-perceptual deficits, and disorganization. The Interpersonal and Cognitive-Perceptual subscales demonstrated convergent and discriminant relationships with other measures of interpersonal impairment and cognitive abnormalities. We concluded that the SPQ-B is a promising measure for evaluating schizotypal personality disorder features, specifically interpersonal and cognitiveperceptual deficits, with adolescent psychiatric inpatients.

Schizophrenia: A Critical Examination, Charles A. Sanislow, Robert C. Carson

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Modeling The Effects Of Area Closure And Tax Policies: A Spatial-Temporal Model Of The Hawaii Longline Fishery, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Keiichi Nemoto

Ujjayant Chakravorty

We develop an economic model for a multi-species fishery that incorporates the spatial and temporal distribution of effort and fish stocks. Catchability coefficients and initial stocks are estimated from catch and effort data for each specific location. Vessels are allocated over space and time to locations of maximum profit, which decline with harvest because of stock externalities. A supply function for labor allocation in the fishery is estimated. The simulated model is applied to the Hawaii longline fishery. The economic impacts of regulatory policies, such as reduction of inshore gear conflict and conservation of offshore turtle populations, are examined.

Communicative Events As Evidence In Linguistics, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

No abstract provided.

Hippopolis/Cynopolis, Costas M. Constantinou

Costas M. Constantinou

No abstract provided.

The Cypriot State(S) In Situ: Cross-Ethnic Contact And The Discourse Of Recognition, Costas M. Constantinou, Yiannis Papadakis

Costas M. Constantinou