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There Is A Green Hill Far Away - Mixed Choir, Keith Rowley

Keith D Rowley

An Easter anthem for SATB choir and piano arranged from a song by Charles Gounod with words by Cecil Frances Alexander.

Classifying Mother-Toddler Attachment Relationships In The Interesting-But-Scary Paradigm: Scoring System For Interactive Behaviour, Lindsey Forbes, Sandi Bento, Carey Anne Deoliveira

Greg Moran

No abstract provided.

Scientific Data Archiving: The State Of The Art In Information, Data, And Metadata Management, Kalpana Shankar

Christine L. Borgman

This white paper is the product of a one-year postdoctoral fellowship to study data archiving requirements for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing during its first year of operation. The paper focuses on introducing current thinking on scientific data management issues and primarily on relevant standards in data description (metadata) and management for scientific archives. Appendices include a

rudimentary data dictionary for the current James Reserve database, and sample metadata crosswalks for Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and Sensor ML. This paper covers current standards, developments, and sources of datasets (where appropriate) for:

• General data management and discovery - tools …

A Human-Computer Dialogue System For Maori Language Learning, Lee Luan Ng

Dr Ng Lee Luan

In this paper we describe Te Kaitito, a bilingual human-machine dialogue system which supports conversational interactions in English and in Mäori, the indigenous language of New Zealand. In particular we consider how Te Kaitito can best be incorporated into Mäori second language learning experiences.

The Transformation Of The Greek Party System Since 1951, Takis S. Pappas

Takis S Pappas

This study is about party-system change in modern Greece and has two chief aims. First, it seeks to make sense of and explain the evolution of that country’s party system from its early post-war years until today. Far from being ‘frozen’, the Greek party system has displayed continuous transformations from a system featuring significant party fragmentation into another characterised by the high concentration of its political forces. Second, the paper proposes a classification of the changes that took place during the development of the Greek party system. This classification will yield three distinct types of party system which developed in …

Evolution Of Credit Union Philosophy, Matthew Wilburn King

Matthew Wilburn King PhD

This paper explores the history and evolution of credit union philosophy. The evolution of credit union philosophy spans nearly 150 years. It’s a story that begins in the middle of 19th century Europe as it was emerging from a long history of feudal relations and tyrannical rule that created “the miserable economic conditions of the period and the realization that people would have to take action themselves if their lives were to improve.”1 The democratic ideals that were so eloquently articulated by classical liberal philosophers such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes began to be increasingly institutionalized during this time.

"Suing For Lost Childhood", Elizabeth A. Wilson

Elizabeth A Wilson

No abstract provided.

Use Of Internet By Undergraduate Students Of Pda College Of Engineering, Gulbarga, Tadasad P. G, Maheswarappa B S, Seema A. Allur

Prof B S Maheswarappa

No abstract provided.

Four Boxes Of Gendered Sexuality: Good Girl Vs. Bad Girl; Tough Guy Vs Sweet Guy, Betsy Crane, Jesse P. Crane-Seeber

Betsy Crane

No abstract provided.

Iranian Options Most Economically Viable For Exporting Caspian Oil, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

No abstract provided.

Public Governance, Violence And Policies Of Poverty Alleviation. The Families In Action Program. Colombia, Fernando Bernal Castillo

Fernando Bernal Castillo

This is a study of the conditional cash transfers program implemented in Colombia, Familias en Acción, and the way it has been determined by the governance structure and the institutional framework of the rural societies.

Criterios De Calidad En La Investigación Social: La Producción De Datos Sociales, Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Cuando se pone en marcha una investigación empírica en el ámbito de la sociología la literatura especializada suele remitir a las fases consistentes en el establecimiento del objeto de estudio, la formulación del problema y el diseño de la investigación, así como a los criterios técnicos para su ejecución. Sin embargo, otros elementos fundamentales que determinan la calidad de los datos que se obtienen tienen que ver con el proceso de trabajo en la generación de dichos datos, que reúne características similares a las de un proceso de producción industrial. En este trabajo se exponen los fundamentos a tener en …

Las Razones De Los Jóvenes, Manuel Fernández-Esquinas, Jorge Ruiz Ruiz

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Se describen las necesidades, intereses, problemas, expectativas etc. de la juventud andaluza desde sus propios discursos (con sus palabras). El trabajo está basado en nueve grupos de discusión dirigidos y analizados por personal investigador del Instituto de Estudios Sociales de Andalucía del CSIC.

La Situación Social De Los Jóvenes En Andalucía, Manuel Fernández-Esquinas, Maria Ángelez Escrivá Chordá, Sara Robles Rodríguez

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

Informe social de la juventud andaluza que aborda en profundidad y con datos estadísticos y cualitativos multitud de factores de la heterogenea población juvenil que vive en Andalucía. Es fruto de una investigación que contempló varios instrumentos de recogida de información: una encuesta a 3200 jovenes, nueve grupos de discusión, entrevistas a profesionales de la juventud y un sondeo a 1200 adultos acerca de como ven ellos a los y las jóvenes.

Enterprises And The Constitution Of The World Economy, Jean-Philippe Robé

Jean-Philippe Robé

No abstract provided.

Dilemas Éticos: Os Limites Da Caridade, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

No abstract provided.

O Silêncio E A Voz, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

No abstract provided.

Towards An Anarchy Of Imagery: Questioning The Categorization Of Films As "Ethnographic", Kevin Taylor Anderson

Kevin Taylor Anderson

No abstract provided.

Finding The Essential: A Phenomenological Look At Hal Hartley's "No Such Thing", Kevin Taylor Anderson

Kevin Taylor Anderson

No abstract provided.

The Eu Experience In Financial Services Liberalization: A Model For Gats Negotiations?, Paola Agnese Bongini

Paola Bongini

The investigation of the sequencing of liberalization in the EU financial services industry is the primary object of this study. The relevance of the EU model for financial liberalization is threefold. First, the EU route towards liberalization in financial services could be regarded as a blueprint for opening up markets worldwide, especially in the context of multilateral liberalization within the WTO framework. Second, the EU model calls for an investigation of the degree of compatibility between regional agreements and multilateral commitments. Third, the EU regional experience raises the question of the extent to which it can be transferred in different …

Taxes And Location Of Foreign Direct Investments: An Empirical Analysys For The European Union Countries, Roberta De Santis, Maria Cristina Mercuri, Claudio Vicarelli

Claudio Vicarelli

This paper aims at verifying the impact of fiscal variables in the multinational firms' localisation choices within the European Union Member States. In particular, the sensitivity of bilateral foreign direct investments towards EU member countries to the receiving country's fiscal characteristics is tested. Among fiscal variables, the empirical analysis shows that FDI inflows in the European Union countries are influenced by the total fiscal wedge on labour more than the corporate tax rate. This suggests that Multinationals, while making their localisation choices, focus their attention on the overall tax and contribution burden more than on single corporate tax rates, which …

Physician-Patient Interaction: A Gynecology Clinic In Turkey, Ayse K. Uskul, Farah Ahmad

Ayse K Uskul

Evidence for gender differences in physicians’ communication with their patients comes primarily from Western countries. Little is known about whether these gender differences would also be observed in Turkey, where there are explicit rules about male-female conduct. The purpose of this study was to observe male and female gynecologists’ communication with their patients in a gynecology clinic at a state hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. Four male and three female gynecologists were observed in their interaction with 70 patients over 10 days. The observations were conducted during both the history taking and the actual examination sessions by a woman researcher. The …

The Knowledge Systems Implications Of Building Institution For High-Quality Growth, Andres Rius

Andres Rius

No abstract provided.

Report Of The Metadata Access To Digital Collections Task Force, Ardis Hanson, Ilene Frank, Charles Gordon, Susan Heron, Linda Mcrae, Jim Michael, Tom Miller, Pete Reehling, Sue Vastine, Walter Rowe

Ardis Hanson

The charge of this Task Force evolved from an assignment to “work with the Head of Cataloging to develop a plan to strengthen the output of metadata needed for digital and electronic collections." This assignment grew out of a concern by Derrie Perez, Interim Dean of the USF Library System, that there was increased fragmentation of the USF Libraries collections, with electronic and digital collections accessed by means other than the online catalog. This report examines the USF Libraries Digital Collections from its foundation, its overall strategy, and structure of the current system. This model will allow a fuller picture …

Using The Va To Get Wwii Military Records, James Gross

James Gross

No abstract provided.

A Provisional 'Thumbs Up' To New Zealand Bank Call Centres, Janet G. Sayers, Carole Page, Andrew Barney, Kogi Naidoo

Janet G Sayers

An investigation into the human reource practices in several New Zealand bank call centres show that they engage in many 'best practice' processes for their staff.

Designing Relational Database Structures For Storing And Processing Language Questionnaire Data: Example From A Study In Dictionary Use, Robert Lew

Robert Lew

The author discusses a methodological approach to storing, structuring, and processing complex data for a large-scale dictionary use study.

A Utilitarian Welfare Analysis Of Trade Liberalization, Robert C. Shelburne

Robert C. Shelburne

This paper provides a welfare analysis of trade liberalization based upon the moral principles of utilitarianism. The history of the moral philosophy of utilitarianism is described including its introduction into what became known as Cambridge welfare economics. The differences between this school of thought and what would later develop as modern welfare analysis are discussed. Essentially, the Cambridge economists were not particularly disturbed by the assumptions of cardinal utility and interpersonal comparisons and argued that these assumptions added more than they took away. Next the mathematical form of a utilitarian utility and social welfare function are described and the values …

Valores En Disputa E Identidad En Conflicto En La Educación Superior En México, Imanol Ordorika, Kenneth Kempner

Imanol Ordorika

No abstract provided.

Power And Politics In University Governance: Organization And Change At The Universidad Nacional Autónoma De Mexico, Imanol Ordorika

Imanol Ordorika

No abstract provided.