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Oligopolio E Incertidumbre Sobre La Demanda: Una Revisión, Jesús López-Rodríguez

Jesús López-Rodríguez

No abstract provided.

Galicia Ante A Política Rexional Comunitaria, Andrés Faiña, Juan Lirón Lago, Aurora Doval Patiño, Jesús Conde Fontao, Jesús López-Rodríguez, Jesús Fernández Munín

Jesús López-Rodríguez

No abstract provided.

Presidentes E Congresso Nacional No Processo Decisório Da Política De Saúde No Brasil Democrático (1985-1998), Eduardo Meira Zauli Dr., Marta M. Assumpção Rodrigues

Eduardo Meira Zauli

No abstract provided.

Fang Dongmei Philosophy Of Life, Creativity, And Inclusiveness, Chenyang Li

Chenyang Li

No abstract provided.

Investment For Development, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "Investment for Development", World Chronicle, a half-hour unedited televised interview programme of the UN about major global issues, based on the World Investment Report 2002, September 30, 2002.

Beat Patrol Deployment In Hong Kong, Kam C. Wong

Kam C. Wong

On March 14, 2001 a young Hong Kong Police (HKP) Constable (PC) Leung Shing-yan was shot and killed in the line of duty. The incident aroused a fierce public debate as to whether HKP should adopt a one-officer (single beat or SB) vs. two-officers (double beat or DB) patrol deployment policy. This article addresses critical policy issues raised in the SB vs. DB debate. How should such a policy debate be resolved? What are the pros and cons of both patrol deployment measures？More importantly, what immediate and effective remedial steps can be taken to secure the front line police officers’ …

Gender, Ethnicity And Depression: Intersectionality In Mental Health Research With African American Women, Kira Hudson Banks, Laura P. Kohn-Wood

Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D.

This review synthesizes the current knowledge regarding African American women and depression. After highlighting major findings related to the epidemiology, etiology, symptomatology and treatment, we will discuss the gaps in our understanding of these factors specific to African American women. We will argue that filling in these gaps will require a theoretical framework that takes into account the intersection of race and gender. We will present an empirically defined heuristic for studying mental illness among African American women, in terms of both experiences and outcomes.

The Information Professional At Crossroads, Kishor Chandra Satpathy, Phd

Kishor Chandra Satpathy, PhD

No abstract provided.

De Belgische Syndicalisatiegraad: Opnieuw Aan De Beterhand?, Kurt Vandaele

Kurt Vandaele

No abstract provided.

Het Stijgende Acv-Ledenaantal In De Jaren Negentig… En Hoe Cijfers Niet Alles Vertellen. Een Politicologische Benadering, Kurt Vandaele

Kurt Vandaele

No abstract provided.

Een Schatting Van De Syndicalisatiegraad In België, 1990-2000. Intern Werkdocument. Gent, Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Politieke Wetenschappen, Kurt Vandaele

Kurt Vandaele

No abstract provided.

Learning By Doing And Dynamic Regulation, Tracy R. Lewis, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

No abstract provided.

Managing Dynamic Competition, Tracy R. Lewis, Huseyin Yildirim

Huseyin Yildirim

No abstract provided.

Tradeable Carbon Permit Auctions: How And Why To Auction Not Grandfather, Peter Cramton, Suzi Kerr

Peter Cramton

An auction of carbon permits is the best way to achieve carbon caps set by international negotiation to limit global climate change. To minimize administrative costs, permits would be required at the level of oil refineries, natural gas pipe lines, liquid sellers, and coal processing plants. To maximize liquidity in secondary markets, permits would be fully tradable and bankable. The government would conduct quarterly auctions. A standard ascending-clock auction in which price is gradually raised until there is no excess demand would provide reliable price discovery. An auction is preferred to grandfathering (giving polluters permits in proportion to past pollution), …

Spectrum Auctions, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

Auctions have emerged as the primary means of assigning spectrum licenses to companies wishing to provide wireless communication services. Since July 1994, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has conducted 33 spectrum auctions, assigning thousands of licenses to hundreds of firms. Countries throughout the world are conducting similar auctions. I review the current state of spectrum auctions. Both the design and performance of these auctions are addressed.

Kultura – Odkrywana Czy Konstruowana?, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

Artykuł przedstawia pokrótce zagadnienie odkrywania i konstruowania kultury. Broni tezy społecznego konstruktywizmu, zgodnie z którą kultura ma charakter performatywny, a nie ostensywny (jest konstruowana, a nie odkrywana przez badacza).

Unemployment Scarring In High Unemployment Regions, Claudio Lupi, Patrizia Ordine

Claudio Lupi

This paper investigates the effect of individual unemployment experiences on re-employment wages. The empirical analysis is carried out on a panel of Italian individuals. The main result is that while in the northern regions the effect is similar to the one estimated for the UK, in the southern area of the country the impact is not significant. We link this result to the particular socio-economic environment in which the unemployment spells are experienced. We argue that this might be due to the fact that in a high unemployment environment individual unemployment experiences are perceived as "normal" and do not necessarily …

An Argentine Evangelical Church: Twilight Of A Transnational Field?, David Cook-Martín

David Cook-Martín

No abstract provided.

Review Of "The Rise Of 'The Rest': Challenges To The West From Late-Industrializing Economies", Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

No abstract provided.

Violencia Urbana E Inseguridad Ciudadana: Ecuador, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Las encuestas que se vienen haciendo en algunas ciudades, establecen que una de las demandas fundamentales de la población, es la seguridad. En Quito, que supuestamente es una ciudad pacífica (se define como «ciudad franciscana»), justamente una encuesta que se terminó este mes, determinó que la principal reivindicación de la población con un porcentaje alrededor de un 20.2%, es la seguridad ciudadana.

En segundo lugar estaba el costo de vida y en el tercero el agua potable. Según las encuestas que hemos visto en América Latina, la demanda por seguridad es la más significativa y creciente. Un segundo aspecto que …

La Descentralización En América Latina. Una Perspectiva Comparada, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El proceso centralizador de la sociedad, la economía, la cultura, la política y el territorio -en un contexto de globalización y revoluci6n científico-tecnológica- ha conducido al desarrollo de su antítesis: la descentralización. Esta evolución, que se inició en Europa con anticipación a lo ocurrido en América Latina, requiere ser conocida y analizada, realizando un balance de las principales experiencias, así como de la historia de los procesos particulares, puesto que se ha constatado que, aunque existen cierras constantes, no hay un modelo general de descentralización: cada país en cada momento debe encontrar las soluciones más adecuadas para contrarrestar los efectos …

Production, Perception, And Emergent Phonotactic Patterns: A Case Of Contrastive Palatalization, Alexei Kochetov

Alexei Kochetov

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Group Membership On The Avoidance Of Negative Outcomes: Implications For Social And Consumer Decisions, Donnel A. Briley, Robert S. Wyer

Donnel A Briley

Calling consumers’ attention to their cultural identity can make them aware of their membership in a group and, therefore, can induce a group mind-set. This mindset, in turn, leads them to make decisions that minimize the risk of negative outcomes to both themselves and others. The effects of this mind-set generalize over both group and individual choice situations. These possibilities were confirmed in a series of six experiments. Results showed that making people feel part of an ad hoc group increased not only their use of equality as a basis for allocating resources to themselves and others, but also their …

Brush Fences And Basket Traps: The Archaeology And Ethnohistory Of Tidewater Weir Fishing On The Oregon Coast, Scott Byram

R. Scott Byram, Ph.D.

Anthropologists recognize the economic importance of fishing weirs in the harvest of marine resources by Northwest Coast peoples. Yet very little research has focused on the range of variability in weir technology and its cultural and environmental context. I examine intertidal fishing technologies on the Oregon Coast, a southerly portion of the Northwest Coast. On the Oregon Coast, the estuary ecotone held a great abundance and diversity of fishes. The largest and most numerous Native residential centers were located along the shores of estuaries, and tidewater fishing appears to have been central to the region’s economy.

I examine extensive unpublished …

(Review) Seshradi-Crooks, Kalpana. Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis Of Race, Riaz Tejani

Riaz Tejani

No abstract provided.

Rockets And Feathers Revisited: An International Comparison On European Gasoline Markets, Marzio Galeotti, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera

Matteo Manera

This paper re-examines the issue of asymmetries in the transmission of shocks to crude oil prices onto the retail price of gasoline. Relative to the previous literature, the distinguishing features of the present paper are: i) use of updated and comparable data to carry out an international comparison of gasoline markets; ii) two-stage modeling of the transmission of oil price shocks to gasoline prices (first refinery stage and second distribution stage), in order to assess possible asymmetries at either one or both stages; iii) use of asymmetric error correction models to distinguish between asymmetries that arise from short-run deviations in …

Characterization Of Different Reactive Lysines In Bovine Heart Mitochondrial Porin. Al Jamal Ja, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

The Bias Against New Innovations In Health Care:Value Uncertainty And Willingness To Pay, Surrey M. Walton, Philip E. Graves, Peter R. Mueser, Jay K. Dow

PHILIP E GRAVES

This paper offers a model for the bias found in willingness-to-pay valuations against new treatments. For example, this bias provides an explanation for patient preferences that make it difficult for formularies to take treatments off their lists, even when newer treatments would appear to be clearly preferable. The appeal of the model, which is based on imperfect information, is that it is consistent with rational preferences and rational behavior by patients, which are necessary for standard models and methods related to decision theory, costeffectiveness, and efficiency.

Traditional And Enhanced Listing For Probability Sampling, Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Stephanie Eckman, Charlene Weiss

Stephanie Eckman

No abstract provided.

A Role For Natural Resource Social Science In Biodiversity Risk Assessment, Philip J. Nyhus, Frances R. Westley, Robert C. Lacey, Philip S. Miller

Philip J. Nyhus

Biologists have made considerable progress in developing realistic simulation models to predict extinction risks for threatened species. Social scientists have to date had a more limited role in these efforts. This limited involvement comes despite the growing acknowledgment by population biologists and simulation modelers that this additional input is necessary for these models to accurately reflect the impact of humans and human-dominated landscapes on wildlife populations. We argue that collaborations among social and biological scientists can provide unparalleled opportunities to develop new conceptual and simulation tools for biodiversity risk assessment. One challenge is that while the value of interdisciplinary research …