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Review Of Immigration, Colonisation Et Propagande: Du Reve Americain Au Reve Colonial By Serge Courville, J. David Wood

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This book is a true magnum opus-large in its 640 pages of text, and a major work of exploration well beyond the author's previous scholarly bailiwick. The period covered includes the seventeenth century to the 1930s but concentrates on the nineteenth century. Dividing its focus on two main subjects, the study first traces the stories of the European "migration fever" over the three centuries and offers a thorough commentary on how the discourse on migration developed in various European countries ("Theories et Propagande"). From an early date the British took a lead in publishing accounts of explorations, scientific reports, and …

Rationality Of Belief. Or: Why Bayesianism Is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient For Rationality, Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite, David Schmeidler

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Economic theory reduces the concept of rationality to internal consistency. The practice of economics, however, distinguishes between rational and irrational beliefs. There is therefore an interest in a theory of rational beliefs, and of the process by which beliefs are generated and justified. We argue that the Bayesian approach is unsatisfactory for this purpose, for several reasons. First, the Bayesian approach begins with a prior, and models only a very limited form of learning, namely, Bayesian updating. Thus, it is inherently incapable of describing the formation of prior beliefs. Second, there are many situations in which there is not sufficient …

Analysis To Action: A Guidebook For Conflict-Sensitive Usaid Programming In Africa, Mary H. Schwoebel, Michael Lund, Chloe Schwenke, Bob Leavitt, Ajit Joshi, Stephen Ndegwa

Conflict Resolution Studies Faculty Book and Book Chapters

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Lisa Schechtman On Reproductive Health And Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics, And Law By Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, And Mahmoud F. Fathalla. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 554 Pp., Lisa Schechtman

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and Law by Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, and Mahmoud F. Fathalla. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 554 pp.

Mint Express, 2004, Volume 1, Fall, Mint Magazine Staff

MINT Magazine

A Review of "Tracers"..........................1
KanJam................................................1
Tales of a Frustrated Democrat...........2

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Broken Scales: Obesity And Justice In America, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson, David Yosifon

Faculty Publications

This Article is not so much about the scales we use to measure weight, but the scales we use to infer causation and assign responsibility-including the scales of justice. Ultimately, the problem we face is not obesity itself. Obesity is only a symptom of the problem. When scientists and public health experts point to various environmental agents-whether larger portion sizes, corn subsidies, video games, or urban sprawl-they, too, overlook the deeper source of our troubles. Our real problem is that we have an extremely difficult time seeing and understanding the role of unseen features in our environment and within us …

The Expos To Dc, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is one of the great cities of North America. It is a city that loves its sports. It is a city that loves baseball and has a rich baseball history. On Wednesday the last Major League game was played at Olympic Stadium before an angry crowd of just over 30,000 fans.

2004 Cedarville Overall Individual Statistics (Final), Cedarville University

Men's Soccer Statistics

No abstract provided.

2004 Cedarville Game-By-Game Goals-Assists-Points (Final), Cedarville University

Men's Soccer Statistics

No abstract provided.

2004 Season Final Stats, Cedarville University

Men's Cross Country Statistics

No abstract provided.

2004-2005 Men's Cross Country Schedule, Cedarville University

Men's Cross Country Schedules

No abstract provided.

2004 Nccaa Division 1 Championship, Cedarville University

Men's Soccer Programs

No abstract provided.

2004 Men's Varsity Soccer Roster, Cedarville University

Men's Soccer Rosters

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Ageing In Bermuda: Meeting The Needs Of Seniors, Irene A. Gutheil, Roslyn H. Chernesky

Ravazzin Center Publications

No abstract provided.

University Of New England Library & Information Resources 2003-2004 Annual Report, Une Library Services

Annual Reports

Highlights and accomplishments of 2003/2004 from the University of New England Library and Information Resources.

The Role Of Identity In Language Acquisition: A Cross- Generational Perspective., Darlene Annette Snider

MA TESOL Collection

In this paper I will reflect on the role of identity as it relates to second language acquisition. My hypothesis is that second language acquisition can be slowed or even halted when students cannot adapt to the culture of the language they are studying. Student’s facing cultural conflict tend to distance themselves from the community thereby creating barriers in the learning process. This hypothesis is based upon my own experience as a third generation Canadian. I believe the effective classroom will work to reduce cultural conflict by affirming the learner’s cultural identity and sense of self as they explore the …

Liberal Arts - Fall 2004, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

UM offers state's first degree in African American Studies

Axiomatization Of An Exponential Similarity Function, Antoine Billot, Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

An agent is asked to assess a real-valued variable y based on certain characteristics x = ( x 1 ,…, x m ), and on a database consisting of n observations of ( x 1 ,…, x m ,y). A possible approach to combine past observations of x and y with the current values of x to generate an assessment of y is similarity-weighted averaging. It suggests that the predicted value of y , y s n +1, be the weighted average of all previously observed values y i , where the weight of y i is the similarity between …

Empirical Similarity, Itzhak Gilboa, Offer Lieberman, David Schmeidler

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

An agent is asked to assess a real-valued variable Y p based on certain characteristics X p = ( X 1 p ,…, X m p ), and on a database consisting ( X 1 i ,…, X m i , Y i ) for i = 1,…, n . A possible approach to combine past observations of X and Y with the current values of X to generate an assessment of Y is similarity-weighted averaging. It suggests that the predicted value of Y , Y s p , be the weighted average of all previously observed values Y i …

Distribution And Politics: A Brief History And Prospect, John E. Roemer

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

A brief, historical review of the study of the interdependency between politics and economic distribution is offered. While the impact of economic interests on politics has been acknowledged for thousands of years, and the impact of politics on distribution for hundreds, it is only in the last thirty years that formal models of the interdependency between economic distribution and politics have been formulated. A general model of political-economic equilibrium is proposed, in which political competition and economic distribution jointly determine each other. Several examples are given. The author proposes that political economy, conceived of as studying this process of joint …

Competitive Experimentation With Private Information, Giuseppe Moscarini, Francesco Squintani

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We study a winner-take-all R&D race where firms are privately informed about the uncertain arrival rate of the invention. Due to the interdependent-value nature of the problem, the equilibrium displays a strong herding effect that distinguishes our framework from war-of-attrition models. Nonetheless, equilibrium expenditure in R&D is sub-optimal when the planner is sufficiently impatient. Pessimistic firms prematurely exit the race, so that the expected discounted amount of R&D activity is inefficiently low. This result stands in contrast to the overinvestment in research that is typical of winner-take-all R&D races without private information. We conclude that secrecy in R&D inefficiently slows …

服務研習計劃簡訊第二期 Office Of Service-Learning Newsletters, Volume 2, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

SLant 嶺召

今期通訊重點介紹服務研習計劃 (只有中文)

In this issue, we highlight Service Learning and Research Scheme (Chinese ONLY)

Framing The Bride: Globalizing Beauty And Romance In Taiwan’S Bridal Industry, By Bonnie Adrian, Marc L. Moskowitz

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Tidings, Volume 6, Number 4 - Fall 2004, Nova Southeastern University Libraries

Tidings: A publication of Nova Southeastern University Libraries

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Conscientiousness Is Key: Incentives For Attendance Make Little Difference., Maureen A. Conard

SHU Faculty Publications

"This study examined differences in class attendance at different levels of conscientiousness and incentives (3.5% vs. 6% of course points). Results of a 2 × 2 (Level of Incentives × Level of Conscientiousness) ANOVA indicated a significant main effect for conscientiousness. Conscientiousness accounted for 14% of the variance in attendance, compared to 1% for incentives. Attendance appears to be influenced more by conscientiousness than by incentives."

Collections & Connections, Haiwang Yuan

Collections & Connections

Collections & Connections is a newsletter of Western Kentucky University Libraries periodically featuring the Libraries' major events, such as in this Fall '04 issue: The Southern Kentucky Book Fest that featured Sue Grafton, the Big Red milestone exhibit, the Abraham Lincoln exhibit, the "On the Same Page" program,Sara Elizabeth Tyler Merit Award Winners, the new head of Department of Library Special Collections Timothy Mullin, William H. Natcher, the Bibliographic Access Team, Co-Chairs of the Southern Kentucky Book Fest, Jefferson Award, Margie Helm Awards, the Kentucky Writers Conference, the installation of TDNet, the movie collections, acquisition of new databases, personnel updates, …

Mainecare Managed Care Performance Report 2003, Catherine Ormond, Stuart Bratesman

Disability & Aging

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Gender And Regional Dialect On Performance In Aviation Communication, Erin E. Mccollum

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The purpose of this study was to analyze the performance effects of gender and regional dialect on air traffic control statement recall. Sixty-one student volunteers participated in the experiment. Thirty-one participants held a pilot’s license and 30 participants had no flight experience. Each participant listened to one CD with 60 ATC statements each representing a male and female voice and New England, Southern, and General American dialect. Participants were asked to recall exactly what they heard. If the participant could not understand what they heard, they requested a repeat. The participant’s performance was recorded to CD and analyzed. Demographic questionnaires …

East European Women And The Battle Of The Sexes In American Culture, Nanda Dimitrov

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

How do women from patriarchal cultures adapt to gender equality and feminism in the Great Plains? How do women from Eastern Europe change as a result of living in a gender-neutral environment? The study (I) identifies the major cultural differences that Eastern European women perceive between gender-related norms in Eastern Europe and the American Midwest, (2) examines the strategies that women use to cope with these differences, and (3) investigates when encounters with American feminists help and when they hinder immigrants' adaptation.

Eastern European culture is characterized by a greater separation of gender roles and little concern about sexism. Women …

A Case Study Of The Impact Of Population Influx On A Small Community In Nebraska, James Potter, Rodrigo Cantarero, X. Winson Yan, Steve Larrick, Blanca Ramirez-Salazar

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This paper discusses the impact of population influx on small communities using the city of Schuyler, NE, as a case study. As a small city of 4,000 some residents, Schuyler experienced a proportionally significant population influx in the past decade largely due to an increase of immigrant population. Unlike large cities, Schuyler has fewer resources to cope with the impact of a drastic population increase on its physical conditions and environment. The population expansion also impacted its previously homogeneous social and cultural environment. Through surveying long-time and newly arrived residents and comparing responses of the two groups, the study revealed …