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2006 Summer - Friendly Correspondence Letter, Courtright Memorial Library

Friends of the Library

No abstract provided.

The Ethics Of Referral, Bernard Rollin

Professional Veterinary Ethics Collection

The rapid growth of veterinary specialty practices has created a number of vexatious ethical issues relevant to veterinary medicine. The preeminent question pertains to “the duty to refer.” Do primary care practitioners have such a moral duty? If so, when does this duty arise? Does it pertain in all cases where specialized knowledge is relevant to a disease?

This raises the fundamental question of “Veterinary Ethics” — namely, does the veterinarian ideally have primary obligation to the client/owner or the animal? (1) There are 2 possible ideal types that a veterinarian can aim for — the Garage Mechanic Model or …

Gatherings No. 38 Summer 2006, Friends Of The University Libraries

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

Complete issue of Gatherings no. 38. Edited by Laurel Grotzinger.

The Civil War Reborn, Sharon Carlson

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Politic 2006 Summer, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

News From The South Carolina Library Association V.4 N.3 07/2006

South Carolina Libraries

News from the South Carolina Library Association v.4 n.3 07/2006

Nutritional Food Label Use: A Theoretical And Empirical Perspective, Andreas Drichoutis, Panagiotis Lazaridis, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.

Andreas Drichoutis

No abstract provided.

Food Involvement And Food Purchasing Behaviour, Andreas Drichoutis, Panagiotis Lazaridis, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.

Andreas Drichoutis

No abstract provided.

The Revised 40 Principles For Software Inventions, Umakant Mishra

Umakant Mishra

Applying 40 Principles is one of the earliest and most popular techniques of TRIZ. There are no controversies on application of 40 principles by any of the TRIZ schools. Although they are fundamentally sound, there is some difficulty in applying those in software related problems. As they were originally developed for mechanical or technical problems, the meaning of many terms like 'thermal', 'aerodynamic', 'hydrodynamic', 'ultrasonic', 'infrared', 'temperature', 'liquid', 'gas' etc. are embarrassing in a software context.

This article reviews the 40 principles in the context of software industry and rephrases the principles and their applications to make them suitable for …

The Economics Of Open Access Publishing, Jessica Litman

IR Research

The conventional model of scholarly publishing uses the copyright system as a lever to induce commercial publishers and printers to disseminate the results of scholarly research. The role of copyright in the dissemination of scholarly research is in many ways curious, since neither authors nor the entities who compensate them for their authorship are motivated by the incentives supplied by the copyright system. Rather, copyright is a bribe to entice professional publishers and printers to reproduce and distribute scholarly works. As technology has spawned new methods of restricting access to works, and copyright law has enhanced copyright owners' rights to …

Population Aging And Legal Retirement Age, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos

Francisco Lagos

This paper analyzes the effects of population aging on the preferred legal retirement age. What is revealed is the crucial role that the indirect ‘macro’ effects resulting from a change in the legal retirement age play in the optimal decision. Two social security systems are studied. Under a defined contribution scheme, aging lowers the preferred legal retirement age. However, under a defined pension scheme, the retirement age is delayed. This result shows the relevance of correctly choosing the parameter affected by the dependency ratio in the design of the social security programme.

Is There An East European Housing Bubble?, Robert C. Shelburne, Jose Palacin

Robert C. Shelburne

This study examines residential house price trends in the East European economies. The data are described and evaluated in terms of their quality and reliability; both official data from national statistical offices and that compiled by real estate companies are used. Current prices are evaluated in terms of the economic fundamentals in the region including GDP growth rates, interest rates, rental prices, alternative asset prices, and the availability of mortgages. The role of foreign currency mortgages is given special treatment given their importance in a number of countries and the vulnerabilities they introduce. For some of the markets a more …

Bilateral Breakdown: U.S. – Canada Pollution Disputes, Noah D. Hall

Noah D Hall

The United States and Canada have one of the strongest bilateral relationships in the world, and the history of cooperation and diplomacy on environmental matters has been a major part of their relationship. However, as some recent efforts to resolve U.S.- Canadian pollution disputes through diplomacy and international law have failed, environmental advocates have looked to domestic litigation in U.S. courts to vindicate their rights. Is this a welcome development for environmental protection or a troubling trend for bilateral diplomacy? This essay explores the recent developments with a historical perspective and provides some recommendations for balancing the competing interests of …

On The Measurement Of Product Quality In Intra-Industry Trade, A. K.M. Azhar, Robert J.R. Elliott

Robert J R Elliott

The world has witnessed a dramatic increase in trade over the last forty years. Much of this growth in trade is intra-industry in nature. A relatively recent development in the intra-industry trade (IIT) literature is the measurement of the simultaneous import and export of quality-differentiated products, commonly known as vertical and horizontal IIT. In this paper we compare the Greenaway, Hine and Milner (1994) and Fontagné and Freudenberg (1997) approaches to disentangling vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade and examine some of the implications of employing simple ratios to define the boundary between product quality types. We present a complementary approach …

Intra-Industry Trade And Labour-Market Adjustment: A Reassessment Using Data On Individual Workers, Marius Brulhart, Robert J.R. Elliott, Joanne K. Lindley

Robert J R Elliott

We re-examine the relationship between intra-industry trade and labour reallocation, using individual-level data on manufacturing worker moves in the United Kingdom. The contribution of this analysis is twofold. First, we estimate the impact of intra-industry trade on worker moves between occupations as well as between industries. Second, we run individual-level regressions that allow us to control for worker heterogeneity. Our results suggest that intra-industry trade does have the stipulated attenuating effect on worker moves, both between occupations and between industries, but that this effect is relatively small compared to other determinants of labour reallocation.

E-Karaoke For Gender Empowerment, Payal Arora

Payal Arora

A folksongs karaoke product has been created to increase usage of subtitled media to enhance literacy and technology use, particularly among girls in rural India. This entails generating and proliferating popular local folksongs with social and cultural themes of interest to girls, accompanied by the award-winning Same Language Subtitling (SLS) feature. In this paper, the prime goal is to discuss possible implications of this novel technology content on girls’ socialization, education, and activism. Based on initial findings from a pilot test of this product in schools, private and public in rural India, I propose that this product has the potential …

Ten Years After The Revolution: 1994 And Partisan Control Of Government, Shannon Jenkins, Douglas D. Roscoe, John Frendreis, Alan R. Gitelson

Shannon Jenkins

No abstract provided.

The Economic Implications Of A North Korean Nuclear Test, Marcus Noland

Marcus Noland

This essay analyzes the economic implications that a North Korean nuclear test would have on Northeast Asia. Main Argument: A North Korean nuclear test would likely have a negative, though noncatastrophic, economic impact on the region: -South Korea would likely suffer from capital flight, consequent declines in asset prices and investment, and possibly a minor budgetary loss associated with existing investment guarantees to companies operating in North Korea. - Japan’s economy would also suffer from capital flight, asset price declines, and a reduction in investment. The most radical consequence, however, would be political: a nuclear test might strengthen Japanese attitudes …

(In)Seguridad Ciudadana En Ecuador, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La violencia en Ecuador

La violencia en Ecuador es un fenómeno complejo que en la última década muestra incremento y cambios significativos. Primero, aumentaron los distintos tipos de violencia, medidos por los indicadores clásicos. Segundo, apareció una diversidad de expresiones de violencia y también se visibilizaron otras. Tercero, las trasformaciones en determinadas economías ilegales condicionaron el surgimiento de nuevos actores de la delincuencia.

El incremento de la violencia se expresa claramente al observar la evolución histórica del fenómeno. Según el INEC, en 1990 la tasa de homicidio en Ecuador fue de 10 por cada cien mil habitantes, cuestión que para …

Privatización De La Seguridad O Privación De Un Derecho, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La privatización ha entrado con fuerza en el campo de la seguridad ciudadana y lo ha hecho bajo el pretexto de la ineficiencia pública en el control de la violencia; esto es, con la misma argumentación ideológica seguida en los procesos de privatización del Estado. En todo caso, ésta es una hipótesis –aun no comprobada de un proceso inscrito en la lógica general de reforma estatal, y aparece –en términos reales y objetivos- como la principal y más importante innovación en el combate a la violencia en América Latina. En otras palabras, la transformación más significativa producida en las políticas …

Intra-Industry Competition For Political Influence: An Empirical Investigation Of U.S. Steel Industry Firms' Lobbying, Jose Anson

Jose Anson, PhD

Roll call voting at U.S. Congress has been extensively studied, but its analyses have often focused on the question: do electoral campaign contributions buy policies? By so-doing, expenditures in informing politicians were omitted. Our empirical investigation of the intra-industry competition for political influence in the steel industry uses both PAC electoral campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures data according to the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. A U.S. roll call vote is analyzed at the firm level for the first time, thus avoiding sectoral aggregation of PAC contributions. Econometric results supports the view of informational lobbying expenditures being a complement to …

Why Is Governance So Often Impaired? Conflict, Stake Asymmetry And Capture Of Real Political Authority, Jose Anson

Jose Anson, PhD

Populares or optimates? Special interests groups compete for the acquisition and further transmission of information to an imperfectly informed government. For high enough levels of conflict between special interests groups, a group with a higher stake may decide not to get organized into a lobby because efforts made for producing information may turn out to be useless in order to capture political authority. This is because, for the low-stake group, a higher conflict or a higher stake asymmetry (e.g. income inequality) acts as a motivation device for capturing more political authority, provided that the government is not systematically biased towards …

Assessing The Impact Of Stricter Food Safety Standards On Trade:Haccp In U.S. Seafood Trade With The Developing World, Julie Caswell

Julie Caswell

Health risks associated with seafood products prompted the introduction of mandatory HACCP in the seafood industry in the United States in 1997. This paper quantifies the trade impact of this introduction by analyzing patterns of seafood imports to the U.S. over the period 1990 to 2004. The results of a gravity model using panel data suggest that HACCP had a negative and significant impact on overall seafood imports from the top 33 developing and developed countries selling into the U.S. For developing countries, the results support the view of “standards-as-barriers” versus ”standards-as-catalysts” as the negative HACCP effect was experienced by …

Traceability Adoption At The Farm Level: Analysis Of The Portuguese Pear Industry, Julie Caswell

Julie Caswell

Traceability is becoming a condition for doing business in European food markets. Retailers are adopting standards that are more stringent than what is mandatory. An example is EurepGAP, a quality standard for good agricultural practices that includes traceability as a main requirement. We analyze EurepGAP implementation in the Portuguese pear industry and find that implementation cannot be distinguished from sales to British supermarkets. Discrete choice models show the odds of traceability adoption increase with farm size and previous compliance with quality assurance schemes, while farm productivity has a negative impact on the probability of adoption.

Ashland University Student Journal Reading Patterns, Carol Tenopir, Lei Wu, Xiang Zhou, Kitty Mcclanahan, Max Steele, Natalie Clewell, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Malone College Student Journal Reading Patterns, Carol Tenopir, Lei Wu, Xiang Zhou, Kitty Mcclanahan, Max Steele, Natalie Clewell, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Case Western Reserve University Student Journal Reading Patterns, Carol Tenopir, Lei Wu, Xiang Zhou, Kitty Mcclanahan, Max Steele, Natalie Clewell, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Temperament, Distraction, And Learning In Toddlerhood, Wallace E. Dixon Jr., Brenda J. Salley, Andrea D. Clements

ETSU Faculty Works

The word- and nonword-learning abilities of toddlers were tested under various conditions of environmental distraction, and evaluated with respect to children's temperamental attentional focus. Thirty-nine children and their mothers visited the lab at child age 21-months, where children were exposed to fast-mapping word-learning trials and nonlinguistic sequential learning trials. It was found that both word- and nonword-learning were adversely affected by the presentation of environmental distractions. But it was also found that the effect of the distractions sometimes depended on children's level of attentional focus. Specifically, children high in attentional focus were less affected by environmental distractions than children low …

Can't Afford To See A Doctor? The Difficulties Of Reforming China's Healthcare System, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

An article co-published on May 22 by China Social Science Literature Publishing house and China Medical Industry Magazine, entitled “Healthcare Greenpaper,” reviews a series of problems associated with China’s healthcare reform over the past 10 years. Of the five biggest problems identified by the paper, the worst one is prohibitively expensive treatment. To examine this issue, Knowledge@Wharton interviewed a variety of experts and officials on the state of health care in China and the changing relationships between hospitals and patients.

Serials Unit Statistics 2005-2006

Serials Unit Statistics

No abstract provided.