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A Window Into The Regulated Commons: The Takings Clause, Investment Security, And Sustainability, Josh Eagle Dec 2006

A Window Into The Regulated Commons: The Takings Clause, Investment Security, And Sustainability, Josh Eagle

Josh Eagle

The holding of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in American Pelagic Fishing Co. v. United States points to the conclusion that the government will almost never be liable, under the Takings Clause, when fisheries regulations reduce the value of commercial fishing permits, vessels, or gear. From the perspective of natural resource economics, this is a healthy result. Economists suggest that solving commons problems requires that natural resources be under the complete control of a sole owner who makes self-interested decisions about resource use, and if the Fifth Amendment required the government owner to compensate fishermen when …

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Why Don’T I Fall Out When A Roller Coaster Goes Upside Down?, Susan Cole Dec 2006

Why Don’T I Fall Out When A Roller Coaster Goes Upside Down?, Susan Cole

Susan Westerberg Cole

No abstract provided.

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Ross (Resident Opportunity And Self Sufficiency) Evaluation Report, Lisa Mcguire Dec 2006

Ross (Resident Opportunity And Self Sufficiency) Evaluation Report, Lisa Mcguire

Lisa E. McGuire

No abstract provided.

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Research And Theory In Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts Dec 2006

Research And Theory In Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts

Harlan J Onsrud

At a high level, the term “spatial data infrastructure” (SDI) is largely self-explanatory. Yet when applied in practice, the concept is complex and has attracted varying definitions in different institutional, social and national contexts. In many nations the assumption is that an SDI is the geographic information technology component of electronic governance. In these nations there may be a strong focus on government itself actively supplying or at least facilitating the creation and maintenance of each of the above elements in order to achieve government objectives. In other nations, government may consciously take a much more passive role in regard …

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The Poor, Always With Us, Charles Lemert Dec 2006

The Poor, Always With Us, Charles Lemert

Charles C Lemert

The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. The book traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labor leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental agencies to ensure American citizens the basics of food, housing, employment, education, and health care. Compared to typical Horatio Alger stories, the book tells the other important component of the building of the American Dream—the creation of successful institutions like Social Security that would stabilize and safeguard American democracy. The book follows the idea of poverty reduction …

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Nonparametric Estimation Of A Hedonic Price Function, Christopher Parmeter, Daniel Hnederson Dec 2006

Nonparametric Estimation Of A Hedonic Price Function, Christopher Parmeter, Daniel Hnederson

Christopher F. Parmeter

Rosen’s (1974) theory of hedonic prices is implemented econometrically using recently developed nonparametric techniques to examine the influence of qualitative factors on the price of a house. Our ability to smooth categorical variables leads to greater generalization in the valuation process and provides a canvas for interactions between categorical and continuous variables that is difficult to exploit in parametric and semiparametric models. This is illustrated with a replication of a previously used partially linear model specification.

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Hidden Resources Agricultural Journalists Can Find At Google, Joe Zumalt Dec 2006

Hidden Resources Agricultural Journalists Can Find At Google, Joe Zumalt

Joseph R. Zumalt

Resources within Google for agricultural journalists.

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American Values: The Oppositional Discourse Of Baseball Films, Robert Rudd, Marshall Most Dec 2006

American Values: The Oppositional Discourse Of Baseball Films, Robert Rudd, Marshall Most

Robert L. Rudd

No abstract provided.

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El Desplazamiento Y La Acumulación De Capital (Colombia), Alejandra Roncallo Dec 2006

El Desplazamiento Y La Acumulación De Capital (Colombia), Alejandra Roncallo

Alejandra Roncallo

No abstract provided.

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Estimated Age Effects In Athletic Events And Chess, Ray Fair Dec 2006

Estimated Age Effects In Athletic Events And Chess, Ray Fair

Ray C Fair

Rates of decline are estimated using record bests by age for chess and for various track and field, road running, and swimming events. Using a fairly flexible functional form, the estimates show linear percent decline between age 35 and about age 70 and then quadratic decline after that. Chess shows much less decline than the physical activities. Rates of decline are generally larger for the longer distances, and for swimming they are larger for women than for men. An advantage of using best-performance records to estimate rates of decline is that the records are generally based on very large samples. …

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Myths Of Race And Beauty In Teen Magazines: A Semiological Analysis., Meenakshi Durham Dec 2006

Myths Of Race And Beauty In Teen Magazines: A Semiological Analysis., Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

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Examining College Students’ Gains In General Education, Dena Pastor, P. Kaliski, B. Weiss Dec 2006

Examining College Students’ Gains In General Education, Dena Pastor, P. Kaliski, B. Weiss

Dena A Pastor

No abstract provided.

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The Evolution Of Child Fire Involvement, Rebekah Doley Dec 2006

The Evolution Of Child Fire Involvement, Rebekah Doley

Rebekah Doley

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In a legal context the term “arson” is often not applied to child fire-setting because it is generally accepted that children as young as 10 years cannot form an “intention” to commit a crime. Sometimes the term “fire-play” is used as an alternative, yet many child development specialists and educators see this as a misnomer because, the word “play” connotes positive, learning activities. Statistically, however, it seems a consistent trend world-wide that a significant number of deliberately lit fires are started by juveniles. It raises the question, then, whether these young people have “always” lit fires or whether this …

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Best Practices In Intercultural Health; Five Case Studies In Latin America, J. Mignone, J. Bartlett, J. O'Nwil, Treena Orchard Dec 2006

Best Practices In Intercultural Health; Five Case Studies In Latin America, J. Mignone, J. Bartlett, J. O'Nwil, Treena Orchard

Dr. Treena Orchard

The practice of integrating western and traditional indigenous medicine is fast becoming an accepted and more widely used approach in health care systems throughout the world. However, debates about intercultural health approaches have raised significant concerns. This paper reports findings of five case studies on intercultural health in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Suriname. It presents summary information on each case study, comparatively analyzes the initiatives following four main analytical themes, and examines the case studies against a series of the best practice criteria.

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Kimmerling, Jon A., Phillip Muehrcke, And Juliana O Muehrcke. Map Use: Reading, Analysis & Interpretation. 5th Ed. Madison, Wi: Jp Publications, 2005. Information Bulletin, November., Bruce Sarjeant Dec 2006

Kimmerling, Jon A., Phillip Muehrcke, And Juliana O Muehrcke. Map Use: Reading, Analysis & Interpretation. 5th Ed. Madison, Wi: Jp Publications, 2005. Information Bulletin, November., Bruce Sarjeant

Bruce Sarjeant

No abstract provided.

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Drexel Burnham Lambert, Debra Ross Dec 2006

Drexel Burnham Lambert, Debra Ross

Debra E. Ross

No abstract provided.

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Blending Journalism And Communication Studies, John Pauly Dec 2006

Blending Journalism And Communication Studies, John Pauly

Dr. John J. Pauly

No abstract provided.

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Capacity Investment With A Capacity Exchange, Christiaan Hogendorn Dec 2006

Capacity Investment With A Capacity Exchange, Christiaan Hogendorn

Christiaan Hogendorn

No abstract provided.

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Is This Music Scholar A Copyright Criminal?, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 2006

Is This Music Scholar A Copyright Criminal?, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

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Hong Kong: The Crown Jewel Of Broadband For China With The Second Highest Broadband Penetration In The World, Alice Lee, C. Y. K. So Dec 2006

Hong Kong: The Crown Jewel Of Broadband For China With The Second Highest Broadband Penetration In The World, Alice Lee, C. Y. K. So

Dr. LEE, Alice

The book won the Picard Award at AEJMC

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Designing And Implementing Business Information Services In The Smme Sector In A Developing Country: The Case For Namibia, Elisha Chiware Dec 2006

Designing And Implementing Business Information Services In The Smme Sector In A Developing Country: The Case For Namibia, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

This article outlines the development and implementation strategies that can be applied in the deployment of business information services in the small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) sector in Namibia. The paper is based on a doctoral project that was carried out at the University of Pretoria from 2005 to 2007 and looks at the stages of user needs assessment, the design of services and the implementation stage as well as the impact assessment of the services.

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Role Strain In University Research Centers, Craig Boardman, Barry Bozeman Dec 2006

Role Strain In University Research Centers, Craig Boardman, Barry Bozeman

Craig Boardman

We examine interview data from 21 science and engineering faculty affiliated with both academic departments and university research centers. Our results indicate that such scientists experience "role strain" but that resources provided by the centers provide sufficient inducement for affiliation. An important faculty development issue is whether the increments in resources are sufficient to offset the fragmentation of activities likely associated with role strain.

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Carelessness And Discriminability In Work Role Requirement Judgments: Influences Of Role Ambiguity And Cognitive Complexity, Erich Dierdorff, Robert Rubin Dec 2006

Carelessness And Discriminability In Work Role Requirement Judgments: Influences Of Role Ambiguity And Cognitive Complexity, Erich Dierdorff, Robert Rubin

Erich C. Dierdorff

Fundamental to effective human resource systems is the capture of data regarding work role requirements. However, previous research on factors that influence work role requirement judgments has been largely equivocal. From a sample of 203 incumbents, representing 73 unique occupations, we investigated 2 cognitive sources of influence on carelessness and discriminability in work role requirement judgments. We hypothesized that incumbents perceiving high role ambiguity would provide ratings that were more careless and showed less discriminability, and cognitively complex individuals would provide more careful and discriminating ratings. These influences were hypothesized to vary across different work descriptors and rating scales. Results …

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Quartet Member (Alto), Sheridan Stormes Dec 2006

Quartet Member (Alto), Sheridan Stormes

Sheridan Stormes

Quartet Member (Alto), Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, 2007-present.

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Economic Integration, Environmental Harmonization And Firm Relocation, Edward Barbier, Patrik Hultberg Dec 2006

Economic Integration, Environmental Harmonization And Firm Relocation, Edward Barbier, Patrik Hultberg

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

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The Critical Potential Within Interpretive Ethnography, Kristine Fitch Dec 2006

The Critical Potential Within Interpretive Ethnography, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

No abstract provided.

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Behavioral Outcomes Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy And Triple P – Positive Parenting Program: A Review And Meta-Analysis, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck Dec 2006

Behavioral Outcomes Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy And Triple P – Positive Parenting Program: A Review And Meta-Analysis, Rae Thomas, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck

Rae Thomas

We conducted a review and meta-analyses of 24 studies to evaluate and compare the outcomes of two widely disseminated parenting interventions—Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. Participants in all studies were caregivers and 3- to 12-year-old children. In general, our analyses revealed positive effects of both interventions, but effects varied depending on intervention length, components, and source of outcome data. Both interventions reduced parent-reported child behavior and parenting problems. The effect sizes for PCIT were large when outcomes of child and parent behaviors were assessed with parent-report, with the exclusion of Abbreviated PCIT, which had moderate effect sizes. …

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Guide To The Kathleen Goddard Jones Papers, 1933-2001, Nancy Loe Dec 2006

Guide To The Kathleen Goddard Jones Papers, 1933-2001, Nancy Loe

Nancy E. Loe

Papers of environmental activist Kathleen Goddard Jones, including correspondence, clippings, research files, organization records, and 35mm slides, primarily relating to her efforts to protect the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on the central coast of California, her participation in regional and national Sierra Club efforts, and other activities in defense of the ecosystems of California, donated by Kathleen Goddard Jones in 1993.

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Drugs In Society: Causes, Concepts And Control, Gary Potter, Michael Lyman Dec 2006

Drugs In Society: Causes, Concepts And Control, Gary Potter, Michael Lyman

Gary W. Potter

This work focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decisionmaking within this complex and multi-disciplinary field. Broken into three sections: Understanding the Problem, Gangs and Drugs, and Fighting Back, topics covered include the business of drugs and the role of organized crime in the drug trade, drug legalization and decriminalization, legal and law enforcement strategies, an analysis of the socialization process of drug use and abuse, and a historical discussion of drug abuse that puts the contemporary drug problem into perspective.

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“I’M Glad You Feel Comfortable Enough To Tell Me That”: Action Research For Better Health Care For Women Who Partner With Women, Michelle Campo Dec 2006

“I’M Glad You Feel Comfortable Enough To Tell Me That”: Action Research For Better Health Care For Women Who Partner With Women, Michelle Campo

Michelle L. Campo

No abstract provided.

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