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History, Hate And Hegemony: What’S A Journalist To Do?, Bonnie Brennen, Lee Wilkins Dec 2001

History, Hate And Hegemony: What’S A Journalist To Do?, Bonnie Brennen, Lee Wilkins

Bonnie Brennen

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Rural Migrants In Shanghai: Living Under The Shadow Of Socialism, Wang Feng, Xuejin Zou, Danching Ruan Dec 2001

Rural Migrants In Shanghai: Living Under The Shadow Of Socialism, Wang Feng, Xuejin Zou, Danching Ruan

Dr. RUAN, Danching

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A Practitioner's Guide To The Administration Of Electronic Monitoring Programs, Kristine Botsford Mullendore, James Ballard Dec 2001

A Practitioner's Guide To The Administration Of Electronic Monitoring Programs, Kristine Botsford Mullendore, James Ballard

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

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Optimal Policies For Investment With Time-Varying Return Distributions, Douglas Steigerwald, Doncho Donchev, Svetlozar Rachev Dec 2001

Optimal Policies For Investment With Time-Varying Return Distributions, Douglas Steigerwald, Doncho Donchev, Svetlozar Rachev

Douglas G. Steigerwald

We develop a model in which investors must learn the distribution of asset returns over time. The process of learning is made more difficult by the fact that the distributions are not constant through time. We consider risk-neutral investors who have quadratic utility and are selecting between two risky assets. We determine the time at which it is optimal to update the distribution estimate and, hence, alter portfolio weights. Our results deliver an optimal policy for asset allocation, that is, the sequence of time intervals at which it is optimal to switch between assets, based on stochastic optimal control theory. …

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Exorcising The Ghost Of Westphalia: Building International Peace In The New Millennium, Charles Kegley, Jr., Greg Raymond Dec 2001

Exorcising The Ghost Of Westphalia: Building International Peace In The New Millennium, Charles Kegley, Jr., Greg Raymond

Greg Raymond

No abstract provided.

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On Recommending, Jonathan Furner Dec 2001

On Recommending, Jonathan Furner

Jonathan Furner

The core of any document retrieval system is a mechanism that ranks the documents in a large collection in order of the likelihood with which they match the preferences of any person who interacts with the system. Given a broader interpretation of “recommending” than is commonly accepted, such a preference ordering may be viewed as a recommendation, made by the system to the information-seeker, that is itself typically derived through synthesis of multiple preference orderings expressed as recommendations by indexers, information-seekers, and document authors. The ERIn (Evaluation--Recommendation--Information) model, a decision-theoretic framework for understanding information-related activity, highlights the centrality of recommending …

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"Brave New World: Biomedical Research And Health-Care Delivery In Modern America", Max Skidmore Dec 2001

"Brave New World: Biomedical Research And Health-Care Delivery In Modern America", Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

No abstract provided.

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Syntactic Structure, Grammatical Accuracy, And Content In Second-Language Writing: An Analysis Of Skill Learning And On-Line Processing, Wendy Francis, Laura Romo, Rochel Gelman Dec 2001

Syntactic Structure, Grammatical Accuracy, And Content In Second-Language Writing: An Analysis Of Skill Learning And On-Line Processing, Wendy Francis, Laura Romo, Rochel Gelman

Wendy S. Francis

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The Dynamics Of Desistance And Prisoner Reentry: Findings From A 10 Year Follow-Up Of The Oxford University 'Dynamics Of Recidivism' Study, Tom Lebel, S. Maruna, Ros Burnett, Shawn Bushway, Christopher Kierkus Dec 2001

The Dynamics Of Desistance And Prisoner Reentry: Findings From A 10 Year Follow-Up Of The Oxford University 'Dynamics Of Recidivism' Study, Tom Lebel, S. Maruna, Ros Burnett, Shawn Bushway, Christopher Kierkus

Christopher A. Kierkus

No abstract provided.

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Canadian Political Culture: The Problem Of Americanization, Paul Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2001

Canadian Political Culture: The Problem Of Americanization, Paul Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.

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The Controllers And The Controlled - Interactions Of Staff And Clients In The Social Service And Criminal Justice Systems, Deborah Whitley, Paula Dressel Dec 2001

The Controllers And The Controlled - Interactions Of Staff And Clients In The Social Service And Criminal Justice Systems, Deborah Whitley, Paula Dressel

Deborah M. Whitley

No abstract provided.

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Differences In The Functional Neuroanatomy Of Inhibitory Control Across The Adult Life Span, Kristy Nielson, Scott Langenecker, H Garavan Dec 2001

Differences In The Functional Neuroanatomy Of Inhibitory Control Across The Adult Life Span, Kristy Nielson, Scott Langenecker, H Garavan

Kristy Nielson

Inhibitory control, the ability to suppress irrelevant or interfering stimuli, is a fundamental cognitive function that deteriorates during aging, but little is understood about the bases of decline. Thus, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study inhibitory control in healthy adults aged 18 to 78. Activation during successful inhibition occurred predominantly in right prefrontal and parietal regions and was more extensive, bilaterally and prefrontally, in the older groups. Presupplementary motor area was also more active in poorer inhibitory performers. Therefore, older adults activate areas that are comparable to those activated by young adults during inhibition, as well …

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From The Ronettes To The Ramones: An Uncool History Of Punk, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2001

From The Ronettes To The Ramones: An Uncool History Of Punk, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

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Super Searchers Go To The Source: The Interviewing And Hands-On Information Strategies Of Top Primary Researchers—Online, On The Phone, And In Person: By Risa Sacks, Edited By Reva Basch. Medford, Nj: Cyberage Books, Information Today, Inc., 2001. (Super Searchers, V. 7) Isbn 0-910965-53-6, Elizabeth Parang Dec 2001

Super Searchers Go To The Source: The Interviewing And Hands-On Information Strategies Of Top Primary Researchers—Online, On The Phone, And In Person: By Risa Sacks, Edited By Reva Basch. Medford, Nj: Cyberage Books, Information Today, Inc., 2001. (Super Searchers, V. 7) Isbn 0-910965-53-6, Elizabeth Parang

Elizabeth Parang

No abstract provided.

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What’S Under Your Pc’S ‘Hood’: A Primer For Today’S Machines, Li Chen Dec 2001

What’S Under Your Pc’S ‘Hood’: A Primer For Today’S Machines, Li Chen

Li Chen

When was the last time you popped the hood on a brand-new PC and took stock of its inner workings? Read this crash course to brush up on the newest models, features, and options available in today's machines before you take any "test drives."

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Welfare-To-Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications Of The Transtheoretical Model, Lisa Mcguire Dec 2001

Welfare-To-Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications Of The Transtheoretical Model, Lisa Mcguire

Lisa E. McGuire

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Evidence That Clusterin Has Discrete Chaperone And Ligand Binding Sites, Johnathon Lakins, Stephen Poon, Simon Easterbrook-Smith, John Carver, Martin Tenniswood, Mark Wilson Dec 2001

Evidence That Clusterin Has Discrete Chaperone And Ligand Binding Sites, Johnathon Lakins, Stephen Poon, Simon Easterbrook-Smith, John Carver, Martin Tenniswood, Mark Wilson

Mark R Wilson

Clusterin is the first identified extracellular mammalian chaperone and binds to a wide variety of partly unfolded, stressed proteins. Clusterin also binds to many different unstressed ligands including the cell surface receptor low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-2 (LRP-2). It is unknown whether clusterin binds to all of these many ligands via one or more binding sites. Furthermore, the region(s) of clusterin involved in these many binding interactions remain to be identified. As part of an investigation of these issues, we expressed recombinant human clusterin in the yeast Pichia pastoris. The resultant protein had variable proteolytic truncations of the C-terminal region …

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Rocking With The Noise Boys: Gender, Discourse And Rock Criticism, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2001

Rocking With The Noise Boys: Gender, Discourse And Rock Criticism, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

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Social Capital And Electronic Networks: For Profit Vs. For Community Approaches, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine, Amy Gangl Dec 2001

Social Capital And Electronic Networks: For Profit Vs. For Community Approaches, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine, Amy Gangl

Alina Oxendine

In this article, the authors discuss the implementation of a community electronic network in a rural Minnesota town. The network is intended to help the community keep up with global technological progress by increasing access to the Internet. The current project compares this community approach to electronic networks with an economic, for-profit approach utilized in a nonequivalent control community. Drawing on the theory of social capital, the authors consider the relative impacts of privately oriented social engagement versus publicly oriented political engagement in relation to collective outcomes. The findings to date show that in the presence of a broadly based …

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Mysterious Creatures: A Guide To Cryptozoology, George Eberhart Dec 2001

Mysterious Creatures: A Guide To Cryptozoology, George Eberhart

3 Digital Curation

A comprehensive guide to cryptozoology-the quest to identify animals that have not been officially catalogued by science and to place these unknown animals into their proper zoological categories.

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Trends In Author Characteristics And Diversity Issues In The Journal Of Marital And Family Therapy From 1990 To 2000, Julia Pryce Dec 2001

Trends In Author Characteristics And Diversity Issues In The Journal Of Marital And Family Therapy From 1990 To 2000, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

In this article, we present an analysis and comparison of published articles in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT)between 1990-1995 and 1996-2000. This studyfocused on trends in author gendel; highest degree, and professional afiliation, and article content on issues of cultural and family diversity (race/ethnicity, class, religiodspirituality, gendel; sexual orientation,and variedfamilyforms}. Keyfindings show a significant shifrfrom 69% malefirst authorsin1990-1995 toequalgenderrepresentationinauthorshipfor1996-2000 articles,with a particular increase infemale PhDs. Articles addressing diversity issues doubledfrom 15.6% of all 1990-1995 articles to 31% in 1996-2000. Of note, women authored 73% of the 1996-2000 articles on the wide range of diversity issues. Implicationsfor thefield …

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Information And Communication Technologies In Rural Secondary Schools In Africa, Elisha Chiware Dec 2001

Information And Communication Technologies In Rural Secondary Schools In Africa, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

Proceedings of a Workshop held in Harare, Zimbabwe 29th Nov. – 3rd Dec. 1999. (Project Report no. 20). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions/Advancement for Librarianship Programme. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2002

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Donors And Visions, Pamela Nettleton Dec 2001

Donors And Visions, Pamela Nettleton

Pamela Nettleton

No abstract provided.

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The Roots Of Collaborative Practice: Nurse Practioner Pioner Stories, Julie Fairman Dec 2001

The Roots Of Collaborative Practice: Nurse Practioner Pioner Stories, Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

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Dreams, Dreaming And The Father In Wp Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, Don Morrow Dec 2001

Dreams, Dreaming And The Father In Wp Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

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"I'M Not A Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary Of Race, Lawrence Blum Dec 2001

"I'M Not A Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary Of Race, Lawrence Blum

Lawrence Blum

Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in …

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The Meaning Of Property Rights: Law Versus Economics?, D. Cole, Peter Grossman Dec 2001

The Meaning Of Property Rights: Law Versus Economics?, D. Cole, Peter Grossman

Peter Z. Grossman

Property rights are fundamentals to economic analysis. There is, however, no consensus in the economic literature about what property rights are. Economists define them variously and inconsistently, sometimes in ways that deviate from the conventional understandings of legal scholars and judges. This article explores ways in which definitions of property rights in the economic literature diverge from conventional legal understandings, and how those divergences can create interdisciplinary confusion and bias economic analyses. Indeed, some economists' idiosyncratic definitions of property rights, if used to guide policy, could lead to suboptimal economic outcomes.

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Changes In The 17th Edition Of Sears List Of Subject Headings, Dorothy Bowen Dec 2001

Changes In The 17th Edition Of Sears List Of Subject Headings, Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

Users coming to our library catalogs are more often looking for materials dealing with particular subjects rather than seeking specific titles or authors. Therefore, when we prepareour catalogs we must take special care to use terminology which will best retrieve this material. We must pay special attention to the "aboutness" of each item in order to select themost precise term.

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Preface, George Beech, Monique Bourin, Pascal Chareille Dec 2001

Preface, George Beech, Monique Bourin, Pascal Chareille

George T. Beech

No abstract provided.

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Effects Of Trade Openness On The Growth Of Developing Countries, James Lutz Dec 2001

Effects Of Trade Openness On The Growth Of Developing Countries, James Lutz

James M Lutz

No abstract provided.

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