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An African Safari Through Children's Books: Part Ii, Dorothy N. Bowen Dec 2002

An African Safari Through Children's Books: Part Ii, Dorothy N. Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

What is like for an American family to raise their children in African country? What is it like for the children who are sometimes known as "third culture kids" because they are neither totally a part of their parents' culture nor totally a part of the adopted African culture, but rather are a combination of both?

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Policy Counts: Improving The Readiness Of Children For School, Recommendations For State Policy, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Elizabeth Rigby Dec 2002

Policy Counts: Improving The Readiness Of Children For School, Recommendations For State Policy, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Elizabeth Rigby

Elizabeth Rigby

No abstract provided.

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Underlying Causes Of Livelihood Insecurity Among The Poor In Malawi: The Testing Of Five Hypotheses. Care., John Mazzeo Dec 2002

Underlying Causes Of Livelihood Insecurity Among The Poor In Malawi: The Testing Of Five Hypotheses. Care., John Mazzeo

John Mazzeo, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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From Noncompliance To Columbine: Capturing Student Perspectives To Understand Noncompliance And Violence In Public Schools, Doyle Stevick, Bradley Levinson Dec 2002

From Noncompliance To Columbine: Capturing Student Perspectives To Understand Noncompliance And Violence In Public Schools, Doyle Stevick, Bradley Levinson

Doyle Stevick

The paper reviews a number of ethnographic studies of students in U.S. secondary schools to help understand the causes of a range of student behaviors from minor non- compliance to lethal violence. Based on these studies, as well personal experience, the authors suggest that educators and educational researchers approach and understand student perspectives on school life. Such perspectives often reveal the logic of non- compliance, and show that aspects of school structure and practice can exacerbate or contribute to violence. Student non-compliance and alienation can escalate into violence if the student view is not regularly consulted in schools.

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Opredelitev Etičnih Vidikov Policijske Dejavnosti V Skupnosti [Ethics In The Practice Of Community Policing], Joanne Ziembo-Vogl, Gorazd Meško Dec 2002

Opredelitev Etičnih Vidikov Policijske Dejavnosti V Skupnosti [Ethics In The Practice Of Community Policing], Joanne Ziembo-Vogl, Gorazd Meško

Joanne Ziembo-Vogl

No abstract provided.

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Copyright Permission: Turning To Dust Or Digital, Denise Troll Covey Dec 2002

Copyright Permission: Turning To Dust Or Digital, Denise Troll Covey

Denise Troll Covey

No abstract provided.

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The Effects Of Ethnic Capital And Age Of Arrival On The Standard Of Living Of Young Immigrants, Michael C. Seeborg, Jeremy Sandford Dec 2002

The Effects Of Ethnic Capital And Age Of Arrival On The Standard Of Living Of Young Immigrants, Michael C. Seeborg, Jeremy Sandford

Michael Seeborg

This paper uses a sample of 30 year old male immigrants from the 1990 Census PUMS data to explore the effects that age of arrival and ethnic capital have on the standard of living of immigrants. It finds that both time of arrival and ethnic capital effect immigrants’ standard of living through a set of interaction effects and indirect effects. In particular, immigrants who arrive as children enjoy greater returns to human capital investments than immigrants who arrive as young adults. Moreover, immigrants who arrive as children are affected less than young adult immigrants by the ethnic capital of the …

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Livelihood Monitoring For Southeast Bangladesh. Care., John Mazzeo Dec 2002

Livelihood Monitoring For Southeast Bangladesh. Care., John Mazzeo

John Mazzeo, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Legal Research In Mass Communication, Erik Ugland, Everette E. Dennis, Donald M. Gillmor Dec 2002

Legal Research In Mass Communication, Erik Ugland, Everette E. Dennis, Donald M. Gillmor

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.

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Brain Imaging Of Tongue-Twister Sentence Comprehension: Twisting The Tongue And The Brain, Timothy A. Keller, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just Dec 2002

Brain Imaging Of Tongue-Twister Sentence Comprehension: Twisting The Tongue And The Brain, Timothy A. Keller, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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The Image Of Libraries And Librarians In Children's Literature, Dorothy N. Bowen Dec 2002

The Image Of Libraries And Librarians In Children's Literature, Dorothy N. Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

A new action figure of a frumpy librarian who moves her index finger to her lips with 'amazing push-button shushing action!' has librarians around the world raising their voices in protest." A public library director from Maine said in response to the bespectacled woman in a cardigan, long plain skirt and sensible shoes, "The shushing thing just put me right over the edge. It's so stereotypical, I could scream."

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Prostitution Online, Donna M. Hughes Dr. Dec 2002

Prostitution Online, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

The technological innovations and unregulated use of the Internet have created a global medium for men’s sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children. The sex industry has aggressively adopted every new information technology to increase men’s sexual access to women and children. A mutually beneficial relationship exists between the Internet and sex industries. New technologies enable pimps to market women and children in prostitution or related activities, such as online strip shows, sex shows, and commercial voyeurism. The global communications forums have increased the visibility and exposure of women and children being exploited and abused, while conversely, increasing the …

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Features And Uses Of Southern Style, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2002

Features And Uses Of Southern Style, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

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Strukturationen Der Interaktivität, Rudolf Kaehr Dec 2002

Strukturationen Der Interaktivität, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Eckert And Rickford, Style And Sociolinguistic Variation, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2002

Review Of Eckert And Rickford, Style And Sociolinguistic Variation, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

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Long-Run Models Of Oil Stock Prices, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera, Massimo Giovannini, Margherita Grasso Dec 2002

Long-Run Models Of Oil Stock Prices, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera, Massimo Giovannini, Margherita Grasso

Matteo Manera

The identification of the forces that drive oil stock prices is extremely important given the size of the Oil&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with international policies to contrast climate change. This issue is likely to affect companies’ shareholder values. In this paper we focus on the long-run financial determinants of the stock prices of six major oil companies (Bp, Chevron-Texaco, Eni, Exxon-Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Total-Fina-Elf) using multivariate cointegration techniques and vector error correction models. Weekly oil stock prices are analyzed together with …

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A Comparative Analysis Of The Austrian School And Equilibrium Theory, Aldo Montesano Dec 2002

A Comparative Analysis Of The Austrian School And Equilibrium Theory, Aldo Montesano

Aldo Montesano

No abstract provided.

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Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices, Version 1.2, Cheryl D. Walters Dec 2002

Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices, Version 1.2, Cheryl D. Walters

Cheryl D. Walters

Funded by a grant awarded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the fall of 2001, the University of Denver (Denver, Colorado) spearheaded a multi-state collaborative initiative to create a virtual collection of widely dispersed digital resources on the topic, Western trails. As part of this initiative, 23 institutions in four Western states were awarded mini-grants to create digital content and metadata for resources related to Western trails. In addition to creation of a virtual collection of digital resources, another significant component of this multi-state initiative was development of a set of Dublin-Core based best practices by …

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African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison Dec 2002

African American Student Athletes' Perceptions Of Career Transition In Sport: A Qualitative And Visual Elicitation, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

This study focuses on 26 African American athletes and explores their perceptions of athletic career transition. Participants consisted of student athletes from a United States National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division IIA institution in the Southeastern region. Participants completed the Life After Sports Scale (LASS), a 58-item inventory utilized to qualitatively and quantitatively examine seven different domains which influence perceptions of the career transition process. The scope of this inquiry examines the qualitative domain of the LASS in which participants were visually primed with a narrative description of a student athlete that has made transition out of sport successfully. Five …

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Because Of Thy Great Bounty - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley Dec 2002

Because Of Thy Great Bounty - Mixed Choir, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

Anthem for SATB choir and piano. This is an arrangement from a solo sacred song by Leon A. Hoffmeister with words by Grace Noll Crowell. The song is also known by the title "Because I have been given much."

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Incorporating Local Knowledge Into Population And Habitat Viability Assessments: Landowners And Tree Kangaroos In Papua New Guinea, Philip J. Nyhus, J Williams, J Borovansky, O Byers, P Miller Dec 2002

Incorporating Local Knowledge Into Population And Habitat Viability Assessments: Landowners And Tree Kangaroos In Papua New Guinea, Philip J. Nyhus, J Williams, J Borovansky, O Byers, P Miller

Philip J. Nyhus

No abstract provided.

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Taking The Bite Out Of Wildlife Damage: The Challenges Of Wildlife Compensation Schemes, Philip J. Nyhus, Hank Fisher, Steve Osofsky, Francine Madden Dec 2002

Taking The Bite Out Of Wildlife Damage: The Challenges Of Wildlife Compensation Schemes, Philip J. Nyhus, Hank Fisher, Steve Osofsky, Francine Madden

Philip J. Nyhus

No abstract provided.

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Merger Simulation, David A. Weiskopf Dec 2002

Merger Simulation, David A. Weiskopf

David A Weiskopf

No abstract provided.

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Conversation, Text And Discourse, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2002

Conversation, Text And Discourse, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

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Chronicle Of The Death Of A Laboratory: Douglas Engelbart And The Failure Of The Knowledge Workshop, Thierry Bardini, Michael Friedewald Dec 2002

Chronicle Of The Death Of A Laboratory: Douglas Engelbart And The Failure Of The Knowledge Workshop, Thierry Bardini, Michael Friedewald

Michael Friedewald

It is common knowledge that California, especially the San Francisco Bay Area is the birthplace of modern computing. Between 1945 and 1970 people such as Frederick Terman, professor of electronics at Stanford University, or William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor transformed the once rural Santa Clara County south of San Francisco into Silicon Valley, the fast growing industrial centre of high-technology. But the Bay Area of the 1960s is not only well known for technical ingenuity but also as the stronghold of social movements (anti-Vietnam, civil rights, women’s liberation), that are often subsumed under the term ‘counter culture’. It is …

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Why Model Landscapes At The Level Of Households And Fields?, Jerome K. Vanclay Dec 2002

Why Model Landscapes At The Level Of Households And Fields?, Jerome K. Vanclay

Professor Jerome K Vanclay

Sustainable resource management relies upon many disciplines and deals with complex interactions at the landscape scale. Many of the issues at the landscape scale arise from decisions taken at the household level and affect land use in fields and in small patches of forest. Spatially-explicit modelling of these units is desirable because it enables rigorous testing of model predictions, and thus of underlying propositions. The greatest insights may be obtained by participatory modelling of these processes as we understand them. Despite this, few models simulate dynamics at the household and field level. FLORES, the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System, …

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The Veterans' Bonus Of 1936, Lester G. Telser Dec 2002

The Veterans' Bonus Of 1936, Lester G. Telser

Lester G Telser

No abstract provided.

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Tax Distortions And Global Climate Policy (With Mustafa Babiker And John Reilly)., Gilbert E. Metcalf Dec 2002

Tax Distortions And Global Climate Policy (With Mustafa Babiker And John Reilly)., Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

We consider the efficiency implications of policies to reduce global carbon emissions in a world with pre-existing tax distortions. We first note that the weak double dividend, the proposition that the welfare improvement from a tax reform where environmental taxes are used to lower distorting taxes must be greater than the welfare improvement from a reform where the environmental taxes are returned in a lump sum fashion, need not hold in a world with multiple distortions. We then present a large-scale computable general equilibrium model of the world economy with distortionary taxation. We use this model to evaluate a number …

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Black Men Who Have Sex With Men And The Hiv Epidemic: Next Steps For Public Health, David J. Malebranche Dec 2002

Black Men Who Have Sex With Men And The Hiv Epidemic: Next Steps For Public Health, David J. Malebranche

David J Malebranche

No abstract provided.

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The Limits Of University Autonomy: Power And Politics At The Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, Imanol Ordorika Dec 2002

The Limits Of University Autonomy: Power And Politics At The Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, Imanol Ordorika

Imanol Ordorika

The nature and extent of institutional autonomy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) has been a matter of contention between academics, policy makers and university members for many years. Opinions about governmental influence over the university in Mexico range from absolute autonomy to absolute control. Few of them, however, are founded on research on university-government relations. Most studies of univer- sity autonomy in Mexico are based on classical definitions and pluralist political perspectives that limit a thorough understanding of this relation between the University and the government in the context of an authoritarian State. This article provides an …

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