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Willingness To Pay For Improved Water Service In Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, James F. Casey

James F Casey

The 1.5 million residents of the city of Manaus form the epicenter for economic activity and development in the Amazon Basin. The current water treatment facilities were built when there were a mere 100,000 people living here. The fifteen-fold increase in population has made access to water a major public health concern. Families that can afford to buy bottled water do and those that can not are susceptible to water-borne disease and illness at an ever-increasing rate. In order to determine how much citizens are willing to pay for universal access to water service in the home, the University of …

The Case For Managed Judges: Learning From Japan After The Political Upheaval Of 1993, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, J. Mark Ramseyer

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Although the executive branch appoints Japanese Supreme Court justices as it does in the United States, a personnel office under the control of the Supreme Court rotates lower court Japanese judges through a variety of posts. This creates the possibility that politicians might indirectly use the postings to reward or punish judges. For forty years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) controlled the legislature and appointed the Supreme Court justices who in turn controlled the careers of these lower-court judges. In 1993, it temporarily lost control. We use regression analysis to examine whether the end of the LDP's electoral lock changed …

Analysis Of The Baseline Assessments Conducted In 35 U.S. State/Territory Emergency Management Programs: Emergency Management Accreditation Program (Emap) 2003-2004, Valerie Lucus Cem, Cbcp

Valerie Lucus-McEwen CEM CBCP

The Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) is a non profit organization developed to accredit government emergency management programs in the 56 U.S. states and territories. This accreditation model is based on the NFPA 1600 Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs. In 2003, the Federal Emergency Management Agency funded EMAP to conduct baseline assessments of each U.S. state and territory to assess their emergency management capabilities. Between January 2003 and December 2004, EMAP conducted baseline assessments of 35 U.S. state and territory emergency management programs. This study was designed to analyze the results of those assessments, and suggests most …

Broadband And Unbundling Regulations In Oecd Countries, Scott J. Wallsten

Scott J. Wallsten

Broadband penetration and available speeds vary widely across OECD countries. Policymakers around the world, and especially in countries like the U.S. that lag in the rankings, are searching for policies to narrow those gaps. Relatively little empirical work tests possible reasons for these differences. In this paper I test the impacts of regulations and demographics on broadband development in a panel dataset across countries. In addition to adding to the meager empirical literature on broadband across countries, this paper is novel in two ways. First, it explicitly takes into account the many different types of unbundling regulations that countries have …

Voson: A Web Services Approach For Facilitating Research Into Online Networks, Robert Ackland, Mathieu O'Neil, Russell Standish, Markus Buchhorn

Mathieu O'Neil

No abstract provided.

New England’S Forward Capacity Auction, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

This note provides a brief description of New England’s Forward Capacity Auction (FCA) for the procurement of electricity capacity. The description is based on the 6 March 2006 Settlement Agreement. The description here presents a simpler description of the auction mechanics, and limits the presentation to the key elements relevant to someone providing software and other support to implement the primary auction. In addition, some motivation for the approach is given. The description here is not a software specification, but rather a high-level description of the auction. Many implementation details are yet to be resolved. These details will be resolved …

Derecho A La Justicia, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En estos días el tema de la justicia ha saltado a la palestra a raíz de la multitudinaria marcha organizada en la ciudad de Guayaquil , con la finalidad de exigir a las autoridades el control de la violencia a través de dos demandas concretas: la reorganización laboral de la fiscalía debido a los problemas de corrupción detectados alrededor del carrusel de presos de la cárcel y de la necesidad del incremento de penas como mecanismo de persuasión a los delincuentes.

En otras palabras, las demandas de la población se han dirigido hacia dos ámbitos concretos y sensibles de la …

The Procreative Ethic In Trans-Public Discourse, Bright B. Simons

Bright B Simons

Transnational public policy networks (TPPNs) continue to exert wide-ranging influence over the development of population control policy at the domestic/state level. It has therefore become vital to analyze the structural form of TPPN mobilization discourses that create new values, reinforce particularistic normative interests and recast old paradigms to make them hold across frontiers in an era of globalization phenomena. Two broad discourse categories suggest themselves upon close examination of TPPN behavior. These have arisen in the wake of empirical crises in the erstwhile dependency theory dominated approach to contextualizing international connections to domestic policy development. The first is based on …

The Church As A Tool For Creating Environmental Awareness: A Case Study Of Anyigba Community, Nigeria, Olarewaju Oluseyi Ifatimehin

Olarewaju Oluseyi Ifatimehin

The ineffectiveness of environmental awareness in the society today has been a major source of concern to stakeholders. Environmental degradation and its problems are increasing geometrically with industrailization and agricultural intensification. This study examines the role of religious organizations especially the church in environmental matters. It x-rayed the level of environmental awareness in the church and suggests how the church can create environmental awareness among its members. Questionnaire were administered and analysed. The study revealed a low level of awareness among members of the church and their willingness to be enlightened on environmental issues. finally, the church accepted to be …

Robot Cataloger - Using Macro Express To Transfer Records From Ms Access To Marc Format, Martha Gunnarson

Martha Gunnarson

Abstract: Students at WPI must complete 2 projects during their academic career. Written project reports have been housed at the Gordon Library for many years, but never cataloged. A web interface with the existing database allows limited searching. A stand-alone Macro recording program was used to transfer the data from MS Access into MARC records in our Voyager online catalog.

An Employment-Targeted Economic Programme For South Africa, Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein, James Heintz, Léonce Ndikumana

Léonce Ndikumana

This is an independent report produced by a team of international and national consultants supported by the international Poverty Centre in Brasilia (IPC). Initial support for this report was provided by the Poverty Group of the United Nations Development Programme in New York. This Report is part of a wider global research programme encompassing several other countires. The views in this report are the authors' and not necessarily IPC's. However, the IPC regards this report as an important contribution to the debate on economic policies and employment programmes in South Africa as well as in other countries in Africa.

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

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

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

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

A Framework For Analysing The Microbiological Commons, Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom

Charlotte Hess

In an earlier article, “Ideas, artifacts and facilities: information as a common-pool resource”, we examined the role of collective action in building robust knowledge commons and in circumventing trends of enclosure and privatisation of the intellectual public domain. Our analysis suggested that collective action and new institutional design play as large a part in shaping the collection, distribution, and preservation of scholarly information as do legal restrictions and market forces. The microbiological commons extends well beyond the boundaries of e-prints and other full-text research documents that are the focus of the open access movement. It includes the contents of scientific …

Early Records Of The Episcopal Church In Southwestern Idaho, 1867-1916 : Silver City And Delamar, Patricia Dewey Jones

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The book is a transcription of old handwritten church registers from the mining towns of Silver City and DeLamar up in the Owyhee Mountains. Albertsons Library Special Collections holds the original church registers, which are now fragile and written in script that is often difficult to decipher.

Old church records like these are important because the State of Idaho did not begin compiling birth and death records until 1911. So before that date, church records (with baptisms, burials, etc.) are often the only vital records there are.

Enrollment Forecasts For The El Paso Community College System And Component Campuses, Mathew Mcelroy

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Creating A Framework For A Single European Sky:The Opportunity Cost Of Reorganising European Airspace, Niall Neligan

Articles

The object of this article is to critically evaluate the legal framework for a European Single Sky project in light of the recent European Court of Justice decision in International Air Transport Association v The Department of Transport. The article will examine in detail the framework regulations outlining the major provisions from the recommendations of the Commission's High Level Group in 2000, to the implementation at a micro-level by national authorities of the legislation adopted in 2004. Furthermore, this article will examine whether the savings to air service providers from the Single European Sky project in the long term will …

A Framework For Analysing The Microbiological Commons, Charlotte Hess, Elinor Ostrom

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

In an earlier article, “Ideas, artifacts and facilities: information as a common-pool resource”, we examined the role of collective action in building robust knowledge commons and in circumventing trends of enclosure and privatisation of the intellectual public domain. Our analysis suggested that collective action and new institutional design play as large a part in shaping the collection, distribution, and preservation of scholarly information as do legal restrictions and market forces. The microbiological commons extends well beyond the boundaries of e-prints and other full-text research documents that are the focus of the open access movement. It includes the contents of scientific …

News From Hope College, Volume 37.6: June, 2006, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Most Popular Downloads -- May 2006,

Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information

The 198 most often downloaded files from the UNL Digital Commons for May 2006. ALso includes statistics and graphs of total repository contents, hits, and downloads for the period July 1, 2005 through May 31, 2006.

Managed Care And Medi-Cal Beneficiaries With Disabilities: Assessing Current State Practice In A Changing Federal Policy Environment, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Sara E. Wilensky, Peter Shin, Ramona Whittington

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This analysis, prepared for The California Endowment, is a follow-on report to our earlier work that raised issues to be considered before moving persons with disabilities into compulsory Medicaid managed care plans and reviewed the extent to which California's legal framework addressed the concerns identified. In this report, the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services examines how other states have addressed issues that arise in designing, implementing and overseeing compulsory managed care systems for persons with disabilities and serious and chronic health conditions. The experiences of other states that have developed these types of arrangements offer …

Laying The Foundation: Health System Reform In New York State And The Primary Care Imperative, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin, Ramona Whittington

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

New York State has embarked on a substantial effort to restructure its health care system as a result of rapidly escalating health care expenditures, especially with respect to Medicaid expenditures for institutional health care. But it is impossible to alter these high cost health expenditures without strengthening and expanding the primary care foundation on which New York's health system rests.

Lr&Ts Assessment Report 2005-2006, Chris Inkster

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Elections, Violence And Democracy In Iraq, Shaheen Mozaffar

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

A Metamodel And Uml Profile For Rule-Extended Owl Dl Ontologies, Saartje Brockmans, Peter Haase, Pascal Hitzler, Rudi Studer

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper we present a MOF compliant metamodel and UML profile for the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) that integrates with our previous work on a metamodel and UML profile for OWL DL. Based on this metamodel and profile, UML tools can be used for visual modeling of rule-extended ontologies.

Hannah Arendt, Boris Diop Et Le Rwanda : Correspondances Et Commencements, Isabelle Favre

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

While the social and political sciences account for a relatively large number of books on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, there are still very few literary texts on the subject. Taking Hannah Arendt’s concept of beginning as its point of departure, this article begins with an analysis of the “act of writing” before going on to examine the dynamic interplay between philosophy and literature via Boris Boubacar Diop’s novel Murambi, le livre des ossements (2000).

Le Système Des Personnages Dans Corruption De Pramoedya Ananta Toer Et L’Homme Rompu De Tahar Ben Jelloun, Magda Ibrahim

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

A comparison of the character systems of Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Broken Man and Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Corruption (transmitter text) has made it possible to identify the same type of protagonist at the core of each novel. He is, in short, a mere functionary overburdened with social responsibilities, leading a cramped life and trying to live and breathe. But the portrayal of him in The Broken Man is more precise, and has greater depth. Moreover, the character systems as a whole is richer, more complex and subtle in this last novel, compared with that

Faire Taire Les Silences Du Corps Noir, Cilas Kemedjio

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

From the middle passage to modern day red light districts, from human zoos to the “compassionate” forum of the TV screen, the display of the black body has long formed the narrative thread of a monologue uttered by a West pleased with the sound of its own voice. The staging of the black body can be said to have rendered black voices silent, and this study sets out to break this silence.

L’Imagination Du Corps Greffé : Filtres Bilingues, Mireille Rosello

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Contemporary narratives featuring organ transplants speak of a painful but also life-saving contact when the “donor” body is African and the receiving body is European. At this point the surgical operation and that of the imagination assume a whole other dimension, as the inequality and interdependence of these two bodies invite the reader to re-imagine the links between the concept of the “body,” on the one hand, and culture and language, on the other. This article looks at the transplanted body as an imagining machine capable of articulating a vision of itself different from the one that words impose upon …