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Building A Workforce Infrastructure, Laura Wolf-Powers Dec 2003

Building A Workforce Infrastructure, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers

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Making Rights From What's Left Of Darwinism, Kirk W. Junker Dec 2003

Making Rights From What's Left Of Darwinism, Kirk W. Junker

Kirk W Junker

The legal, political, and social meaning of the work of Charles Darwin has been claimed as resident to conservative and liberal homes alike. Peter Singer’s unique admixture of personal liberal politics and what may look to be an extremely conservative philosophy of nature
expose some over-simplicity in traditional ‘right’ and ‘left’ categories. In ‘‘Recovering
the Left from Darwin in the 21st Century’’, Steve Fuller provides us with insightful historical
and sociological contexts for Singer’s challenges. In this article, Kirk Junker takes one aspect of the trajectory ‘the notion of natural rights’ and examines their social construction, linguistic maintenance, and legal …

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Mapping Discriminatory Landscapes In A Divided Educational System: The Case Of Cyprus, Nicos Trimikliniotis Dec 2003

Mapping Discriminatory Landscapes In A Divided Educational System: The Case Of Cyprus, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

This paper examines the way in which the Cyprus educational system, primarily concentrating on the Greek-Cypriot side, reproduces discriminatory patterns via an outmoded and ethnically divided educational model, in spite of some efforts to introduce multi-cultural elements of local level. Existing literature and a number of studies and reports on immigrant and minority students illustrate the need for further research on the subject, so that a comprehensive reform of the educational system can take place to move from an ethnocentric model towards a more critically orientated humanistic education based on tolerance and understanding – a matter of urgency if Cyprus …

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Book (Oup), The Judicial Construction Of Europe, Ch. 3: The Free Movement Of Goods, Alec Stone Sweet Dec 2003

Book (Oup), The Judicial Construction Of Europe, Ch. 3: The Free Movement Of Goods, Alec Stone Sweet

Alec Stone Sweet

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El Financiamiento De Los Partidos Políticos En Uruguay, Daniel Chasquetti, Rafael Piñeiro Dec 2003

El Financiamiento De Los Partidos Políticos En Uruguay, Daniel Chasquetti, Rafael Piñeiro

Daniel Chasquetti

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The Problem Of Subject Access To Visual Materials, Kresten Jespersen, Heather Jespersen Dec 2003

The Problem Of Subject Access To Visual Materials, Kresten Jespersen, Heather Jespersen

Kresten Jespersen

This article discusses the problem of giving subject access to works of art. We survey both concept-based and content-based access by computers and by indexers/catalogers respectively, as well as issues of interoperability, database and indexer consistency, and cataloging standards. The authors, both of whom are trained art historians, question attempts to mystify fine art subject matter by the creation of clever library science systems that are executed by the naive. Only when trained art historians and knowledgeable catalogers are finally responsible for providing subject access to works of art, will true interoperability and consistency happen.

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A Citation Analysis Of The Quantitative/Qualitative Methods Debate's Reflection In Sociology Research: Implications For Library Collection Development, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D. Dec 2003

A Citation Analysis Of The Quantitative/Qualitative Methods Debate's Reflection In Sociology Research: Implications For Library Collection Development, Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

Mandy (Amanda) Swygart-Hobaugh

This study examines how the social sciences’ debate between qualitative and quantitative methods is reflected in the citation patterns of sociology journal articles. Citation analysis revealed that quantitative articles were more likely to cite journal articles than monographs, while qualitative articles were more likely to cite monographs than journals. Quantitative articles cited other articles from their own quantitative-dominated journals but virtually excluded citations to articles from qualitative journals, while qualitative articles cited articles from the quantitative-dominated journals as well as their own qualitative-specialized journals. Discussion and conclusions include this study’s implications for library collection development.

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The Four Literatures Of Social Science, Diana M. Hicks Dec 2003

The Four Literatures Of Social Science, Diana M. Hicks

Diana Hicks

This chapter reviews bibliometric studies of the social sciences and humanities. SSCI bibliometrics will work reasonably well in economics and psychology whose literature shares many characteristics with science, and less well in sociology, characterized by a typical social science literature. The premise of the chapter is that quantitative evaluation of research output faces severe methodological difficulties in fields whose literature differs in nature from scientific literature. Bibliometric evaluations are based on international journal literature indexed in the SSCI, but social scientists also publish books, and write for national journals and for the non-scholarly press. These literatures form distinct, yet partially …

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The Pragmatics Of Non-Sentences, Robert J. Stainton Dec 2003

The Pragmatics Of Non-Sentences, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

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Irregular States, Or The Semiotics Of Knight-Errantry, Costas M. Constantinou Dec 2003

Irregular States, Or The Semiotics Of Knight-Errantry, Costas M. Constantinou

Costas M. Constantinou

This article examines the transformation of the Order of St John (also
known as the Knights of Malta) from a crusading and piratic entity (periodically in
Jerusalem, Cyprus, Rhodes and Malta) into an irregular state actor without territory
(in Rome). Specifically, it looks at the political rationales through which the Order
has been historically constituted as an international subject and currently enacted as
an ‘‘irregular state’’, and evaluates the function of international legal discourse in
making up for its missing territory, the supposedly ‘hard’ and ‘objective’ condition of
statehood under international law.

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Governing The Canadian Economy: Ideas And Politics, Neil Bradford Dec 2003

Governing The Canadian Economy: Ideas And Politics, Neil Bradford

Neil Bradford

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6. Educating The Public Through The Michael Jackson Case., Thomas D. Lyon Dec 2003

6. Educating The Public Through The Michael Jackson Case., Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

Many experts in child sexual abuse likely view the Michael Jackson molestation case with disgust. The case is colored by the media circus, the major players' motives for money and publicity, and the sometimes prurient, sometimes morbid fascination the public has with allegations they view as bizarre and improbable.

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Takings Formalism And Regulatory Formulas: Exactions And The Consequences Of Clarity, Mark Fenster Dec 2003

Takings Formalism And Regulatory Formulas: Exactions And The Consequences Of Clarity, Mark Fenster

Mark Fenster

A vocal minority of the U.S. Supreme Court recently announced its suspicion that lower courts and state and local administrative agencies are systematically ignoring constitutional rules intended to limit, through heightened judicial review, exactions as a land use regulatory tool. Exactions are the concessions local governments require of property owners as conditions for the issuance of the entitlements that enable the intensified use of real property. In two cases decided over the past two decades, Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987) and Dolan v. City of Tigard (1994), the Court has established under the Takings Clause a logic and metrics …

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The Contribution Of Business Services To Aggregate Productivity Growth, Henk Lm Kox Dec 2003

The Contribution Of Business Services To Aggregate Productivity Growth, Henk Lm Kox

Henk LM Kox

As in most OECD countries, the business services industry in the Netherlands has grown much faster than the market sector as a whole. It has, however, displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence, to future economic growth? Reviewing existing empirical evidence, the paper argues that this concern need not be valid. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to other industries. The innovation contribution of business services …

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Learning About Medicine And Race, David J. Malebranche Dec 2003

Learning About Medicine And Race, David J. Malebranche

David J Malebranche

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Review Of Mary Talbot, Karen Atkinson, And David Atkinson's (2003) Language And Power In The Modern World, Adam Hodges Dec 2003

Review Of Mary Talbot, Karen Atkinson, And David Atkinson's (2003) Language And Power In The Modern World, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

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A Corpus Study On The Item-Based Nature Of Early Grammar Acquisition., Adam Hodges, Valerie Krugler, Deborah Law Dec 2003

A Corpus Study On The Item-Based Nature Of Early Grammar Acquisition., Adam Hodges, Valerie Krugler, Deborah Law

Adam Hodges

This paper explores the item-based nature of child language acquisition by examining data from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney 2000). Two studies are explicated: the first uses pooled data from several children, and the second follows a single child longitudinally. The results show that the learning of the complex construction consisting of a main clause followed by an infinitival compliment, e.g. I want to play, center around a single verb, want, even though other candidate verbs exist in the children’s vocabulary. We provide empirical evidence to show that children initially learn grammar via item-based units and gradually break down complex constructions …

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Public Library Of Science (Plos) Biology, Betty Ladner, Barbara Tierney Dec 2003

Public Library Of Science (Plos) Biology, Betty Ladner, Barbara Tierney

Barbara Tierney

https://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=37dcd227-2a2a-4798-970a-4eba0e82c5ae%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=13060656&db=edo
This article reviews the Web site Public Library of Science Biology. Pricing options for Public Library of Science Biology fall into three categories: author publishing fees, access fees, and institutional membership fees. The Web site is content-rich, yet easy to navigate. The top Header is consistent throughout the site, and contains basic navigation elements. Since it is nonprofit and is trying to build grassroots support in the scientific community, the Public Library of Science Biology provides many types of promotional materials and encourage users to become advocates for the organization. Public Library of Science Biology features works in all …

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Overall Specialization Empirics: Techniques And Applications, Luca De Benedictis, Massimo Tamberi Dec 2003

Overall Specialization Empirics: Techniques And Applications, Luca De Benedictis, Massimo Tamberi

Luca De Benedictis

It is customary in the empirical trade literature to analyze specialization patterns of countries using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) measures. This paper explores the informational content of the most commonly used RCA index: the Balassa (1965) Index of RCA.

After describing the properties of the Balassa Index, we propose a research strategy based on descriptive statistics, kernel density estimation, concentration and Markov stationarity methods in order to analyze the dynamics of overall specialization.

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The Ethical Dilemmas Of Communicating A University's Job Placement Rate: Legal Obligation Or Moral Responsibility, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh, Karen Hagans Dec 2003

The Ethical Dilemmas Of Communicating A University's Job Placement Rate: Legal Obligation Or Moral Responsibility, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh, Karen Hagans

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

The purpose of this research is to investigate one area of ethical concern in higher education, specifically the reporting of job placement rates. The research discovered such dramatic variations in the way job placement rates were calculated and reported that job placement data become suspect. The ethical concerns of reporting job placement data are discussed in relationship to institutional policies and practices and student expectations

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Ζωϊκά Και Ανθρώπινα Οστά Στα Αρχαιολογικά Σύνολα. Προβληματική Και Διαχωρισμός, Anastasia Tsaliki Dec 2003

Ζωϊκά Και Ανθρώπινα Οστά Στα Αρχαιολογικά Σύνολα. Προβληματική Και Διαχωρισμός, Anastasia Tsaliki

Dr Anastasia Tsaliki, PhD

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Wheelchair Access In Star Lrt Stations In Kuala Lumpur, Zuraini Md Dali, Hazreena Hussein, Imaduddin Abdul Halim Dec 2003

Wheelchair Access In Star Lrt Stations In Kuala Lumpur, Zuraini Md Dali, Hazreena Hussein, Imaduddin Abdul Halim

Hazreena Hussein

Kuala Lumpur was honored to host the 1998 Commonwealth Games, the second largest game after the Olympics. Inline with this event, the Malaysian Government decided to upgrade the public transportation in the city to be accessible to all, mentioned by the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee. The rate and level of new investment will ensure that improvements in the accessibility of public transport are brought forward more rapidly. Building in accessibility for disabled persons in all new investment is a condition of public money being well spent. Local authorities and transport operators should ensure that the transport needs of disabled …

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The Impact Of Innovation On Jobs, Skills And Wages, Mario Pianta Dec 2003

The Impact Of Innovation On Jobs, Skills And Wages, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta

Unemployment, skill polarisation and growing wage inequality are major problems in advanced countries. Technological change - in particular the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) - has often been called into question as a factor in such labour market developments. This article investigates the impact innovation has on jobs, skills and wages, discussing the concepts for analysis, reviewing the evidence of major studies and providing recent empirical evidence for European countries.

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Global Cooperation For Global Access: The Million Book Project, Denise Troll Covey Dec 2003

Global Cooperation For Global Access: The Million Book Project, Denise Troll Covey

Denise Troll Covey

No abstract provided.

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Putting Participation In Context: An Evaluation Of Urban Sanitation In Brazil, Earthea Nance Dec 2003

Putting Participation In Context: An Evaluation Of Urban Sanitation In Brazil, Earthea Nance

Earthea Nance, PhD (Stanford University, 2004)

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Ideology, Power, And Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology Of Consumption, Paul Mullins Dec 2003

Ideology, Power, And Capitalism: The Historical Archaeology Of Consumption, Paul Mullins

Paul Mullins

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The American Airlines Case: A Chance To Clarify Predation Policy, Aaron S. Edlin, Joseph Farrell Dec 2003

The American Airlines Case: A Chance To Clarify Predation Policy, Aaron S. Edlin, Joseph Farrell

Aaron Edlin

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Una Estimacion Del Coste Marginal En Bienestar Del Sistema Impositivo Español, Ferran Sancho Dec 2003

Una Estimacion Del Coste Marginal En Bienestar Del Sistema Impositivo Español, Ferran Sancho

Ferran Sancho

We numerically estimate partial derivatives associated to tax instruments under the assumption of a non-optimal tax system-

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Africa, Race, And Culture In The Narratives Of W.E.B. Du Bois.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2003

Africa, Race, And Culture In The Narratives Of W.E.B. Du Bois.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

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African Retentions In Go Tell It On The Mountain-Mawa.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye Dec 2003

African Retentions In Go Tell It On The Mountain-Mawa.Pdf, Babacar Mbaye

Babacar Mbaye

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