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Taxing Sunny Days: Adjusting Taxes For Regional Living Costs And Amenities, Michael S. Knoll, Thomas D. Griffith

All Faculty Scholarship

Taxpayers pay tax on their nominal income without regard to their regional cost of living or the value of their regional amenities. Although commentators have argued that the income tax's failure to account for such differences is unfair - because residents of high-cost and low-amenity regions pay higher taxes than residents of low-cost and high-amenity regions - that argument is unpersuasive because migration tends to eliminate regional differences in living standards. The tax system's failure to adjust for regional differences is, however, likely to misallocate resources across regions in two ways. First, it is likely to discourage taxpayers from settling …

Measuring Personality And Values Across Cultures: Imported Versus Indigenous Measures, Fanny M. Cheung, Shu Fai Cheung

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Cross-cultural studies of personality have shown cultural similarities and differences in the manifestation of personality traits. In interpreting cultural differences in personality traits, we should consider not only the experiences of people in different cultures, but also the measures adopted and the cultural orientations of researchers themselves. In this chapter, we discuss the considerations in adapting an instrument from one culture to another culture. We illustrate the alternative approach of developing an indigenous personality measure in the Chinese culture.

Programme - 1st Rest Workshop, Apopo

Global CWD Repository

A meeting schedule with accompanying notes for the first REST Workshop held at the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania in February 2003. Sponsored by APOPO and GICHD.

Reflections On Two Decades, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

In 1983, the hottest issue was the entry of the end user. Throughout the previous decade, expert searchers were the only ones with their hands on the keyboard. The widespread acceptance of the personal computer in the early 1980s spurred new expectations. End user versions of major intermediary systems heralded the beginning of the end user revolution. By 1993, end users were accomplished searchers but most likely on CD-ROM versions of databases.

Interface, February 2003, School Of Information Sciences

Interface Newsletter

The new year brings great change for the School of Information Sciences. On July 1, 2002, the School joined with the former College of Communications and the Advanced Internet Technologies group to form a new college at the University of Tennessee. On December 4, faculty of the College formally adopted a new name and a new structure. The College of Communication and Information will enhance and support a breadth of innovative curricular offerings, new collaborative research in information technology and information policy, and greater visibility both on-campus and in the broader community.

We hope that you will enjoy reading about …

Catholic Deaf Newsletter, February 2003

Catholic Deaf Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Hartford, CT.

Deaf Dialogue, February 2003

Deaf Dialogue

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Deaf Dialogue Finding Aid

Deaf Dialogue, February 2003

Deaf Dialogue

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Deaf Dialogue Finding Aid

Evaluating Biographies: Scurrilous Or Scholarly, What's A Librarian To Do?, Camille Mccutcheon

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Cases Of Note -- Space Aliens Meet Barney And Stephen King Is Watching Us All, Bruce Strauch, Ruth Fischer

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Russian Orthodox Monasteries' Response To The Relics Exposing Campaign, 1917-1922, Jennifer Wynot

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Editorial (Religion In Eastern Europe Volume 32, Number 1), Walter Sawatsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Religion And Ethnic Identity Formation In The Former Yugoslavia, Alexander Mirescu

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Diskin's "The Seeds Of Triumph. Church And State In Gomulka's Poland" - Book Review, Dr. Zsolt Enyedi

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Library Electronic Kiosk, Vol.16 (1) January - February 2003, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 1016, Jesús Rosales Ríos

Combined Interviews

Mr. Rosales remembers the Cristero Revolution from when he was four years old; he became a bracero in 1956, and recounts his work picking grapes in California and cotton in Texas; additionally, he recalls how he learned to irrigate crops; this duty became his primary job; he recounts how he was hospitalized once and had surgery paid for by his employer; furthermore, he expresses that he received good treatment from his employers, and that he is proud of having been a bracero.

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center, February 2003

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Poughkeepsie,NY

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center Finding Aid

Question Negotiation And The Technological Environment, Joseph Janes, Joanne Silverstein

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

The information world is a very different place in 2003 than it was a few years ago. It is possible, for example, to find information more quickly and easily than ever before, using new tools, and drawing on sources of information unavailable or even nonexistent not so very long ago. People seeking answers or providing them now have many more options for "question negotiation", in the broadest Tayloresque sense [1]. Consulting an information professional continues to be one of those options. In fact, such professionals can now be much more accessible via these new tools and technologies.

Experiencing Homelessness In Bloomington-Normal, Illinois: Resources And Needs For Shelter And Supportive Services, Beverly A. Beyer, Sharon M. Mills

Student Research - Sociology and Anthropology

In August 2002, The Salvation Army commissioned the Applied Social Research Unit (ASRU) of Illinois State University to conduct research about homelessness, housing needs and availability, and resources and needs for supportive services. The Salvation Army of Bloomington, Illinois, plans to rebuild its current homeless shelter, Safe Harbor. The primary goal of ASRU’s research and this report is to inform The Salvation Army’s plans for shelter design, utilization, and associated programming. (A separate addendum to this report released to The Salvation Army contains information specific to the Bloomington Corps’s and Safe Harbor Shelter’s operations and facilities.) A potential outcome of …

Fdss Training Manual: Instructions For Using The Frontline Decision Support System, Christopher J. O'Leary, Kim Kornokovich

Reports

No abstract provided.

Tobacco Valley, Mt Resident Attitudes: Exploring Tourism Development Potential, Thale Dillon

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report provides a profile of resident attitudes toward tourism in Tobacco Valley, Montana in the fall of 2002, and summarizes the results of a statewide survey administered in conjunction with the 2002 Community Tourism Assessment Process (CTAP).

Geographic Information System Methodologies To Evaluate Relationships Between Land Use And Groundwater Quality In South Central Kentucky, Rhonda Pfaff

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The development of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology has provided techniques for a holistic approach to the study of karst groundwater contamination. While karst groundwaters supply water to a large percentage of the earth's population, its complex environments often have lacked the scientific examination and conservation measures typical of non-karst regions. In this study, GIS methodologies were explored to examine the relationships between land-use and water quality in karst watersheds. Eight watersheds throughout southern and western Kentucky were examined. The study areas included the Mammoth Cave Karst Aquifer, which is the watershed that drains the Mammoth Cave System, and seven …

The Lion And The Lamb: Demythologizing Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, Elvin T. Lim

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

We are accustomed to a characterization of Franklin Roosevelt’s legendary Fireside Chats as intimate exchanges between the president and the people. This essay argues that the Fireside Chats were a harsher, more castigatory rhetorical genre than such a characterization would allow. A content analysis of the 27 Fireside Chats recorded in FDR’s Public Papers suggests that the Fireside Chats were, on a number of indices, far less intimate than have traditionally been supposed, and in fact among the more vitriolic and declamatory utterances of the 32nd president. The essay proceeds with a discussion of how this illusion of intimacy was …

Onset Of Major Depressive Disorder Among Adolescents, John P. Hoffmann, Scott A. Baldwin, Felicia G. Cerbone

Faculty Publications

Objectives: To examine the association between parental affective disorders and psychoactive substance use disor- ders and the onset of major depressive disorder (MDD) among adolescents and young adults and to determine whether this association is affected by stressful life events, family cohesion, self-esteem, or gender. Method: Prospective cohort study of 804 adolescents, aged 11–17 years, and their parents who were followed for seven consecutive years. The sam- ple was drawn from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Parental diagnoses were based on Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R administered during study screening stage. Diagnoses of MDD and age of onset were based …

The Cultural Construction Of Disability: An Ethnographical Approach To Women With Disabilities In Egypt, Amira Mahmoud Said Abd El-Khalek

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The "Marginalized Violent Internal Conflict" (Mvic) Model And The Ogoni Conflict In The Niger Delta Of Nigeria, John Osayere Agbonifo

Archived Theses and Dissertations

The Ogoni people, and later other ethnic minority groups m the Niger Delta, embarked on violent resistance against environmental pollution and degradation occasioned by the unclean energy operations of oil transnational corporations, notably Shell, in the 1990s. Several explanations have been adduced for the outbreak of hostilities and the motives of the insurrectional I eaders. Little, however, has been done in terms of efforts geared at understanding the nature of the conflict through the application of conflict models and typologies and the comparative study of the Niger Delta conflicts with the contentious politics of other aggrieved and marginalized peoples e …

Aragi:An Ethnography Of Sudanese Displacement, Bjorn Curley

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Towards Effective Democratisation In Africa: A Review Of The Role Of Donors And Lenders In The Democratisation Of Kenya And South Africa, Richard Martin Byakuleka

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Islamic Banking And Socio-Economic Development, Nabila Fattouh

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Gender And Citizenship, Ghalia Walid Gargani

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.