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Building Sustainable Networks For Young Women And Icts Throughout Australia, Kathryn Moyle

Professor Kathryn Moyle

No abstract provided.

After Iraq: The Imperiled American Imperium, Charles Kegley, Jr., Greg Raymond

Greg Raymond

No abstract provided.

The Perioperative Librarian: Luxury Or Necessity?, Denise Hersey, Viji Kurup

Denise Hersey

The Widening Gap Between Demand For And Supply Of University Graduates In Australia, Daniel Edwards, Bob Birrell, Ian Dobson

Dr Daniel Edwards

The rapid growth in demand for university-trained personnel over recent years has mainly been filled by growth in the skilled migration program. The authors argue that more domestic students should be trained. The Coalition Government does not agree. It claims that 'unmet demand' from prospective university students has been met and that additional subsidised places are to be created. This article scrutinises these claims and concludes that they are not correct. The authors point to a shortfall in domestic higher education training. Over the period 1995-96 to 2005-06 there has been little or no growth in domestic undergraduate commencements (growth …

The General Social Survey (Gss): The Next Decade And Beyond, Patricia White, Paul Ciccantell

Paul Ciccantell

This volume reports the findings and recommendations of an NSF conference on the General Social Survey.

First In The Class? Age And The Education Production Function, Diane Schanzenbach, Elizabeth Cascio

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Older children outperform younger children in a school-entry cohort well into their school careers. The existing literature has provided little insight into the causes of this phenomenon, leaving open the possibility that school-entry age is zero-sum game, where relatively young students lose what relatively old students gain. In this paper, we estimate the effects of relative age using data from an experiment where children of the same biological age were randomly assigned to different classrooms at the start of school. We find no evidence that relative age impacts achievement in the population at large. However, disadvantaged children assigned to a …

Interviewing Skills, Lisa Mcguire, Alison Chaney

Lisa E. McGuire

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of The Police Training In The United Kingdom, The United States And Turkey, Cemil Dogutas, Osman Dolu, Serdar Gul

Serdar Kenan Gul

There are different practices in police training in different parts of the world in terms of their content and length. Police training in the United Kingdom and the United States are relatively short and practice-oriented compared to the long and theory-oriented training tradition in Turkey. Therefore, policing philosophy and police practices in these countries differ from one another. This study will examine police training systems in the United Kingdom, the United States, and in Turkey by comparing their strengths and weaknesses and showing their similarities and differences. In conclusion, this study will make recommendations for a better police training system …

Market And Welfare Effects Of The U.S. Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act, Kenneth Njoroge, Amalia Yiannaka, Azzeddine Azzam, Konstantinos Giannakas

Azzeddine Azzam

This paper analyzes the market and welfare effects of the United States Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act enacted in 2001. The act mandates meat packers to report their transactions daily to a government agency and requires the agency to make a summary of those transactions available to the public through the Mandatory Livestock Meat Market News Reports. Considering the case of an imperfect packer cartel that uses trigger price strategies, this paper examines the impact of market information provided by the reports on equilibrium livestock slaughter and the welfare of the groups involved and identifies the determinants of the socially optimal …

Using Fuzzy Clustering Methods For Delineating Urban Housing Submarkets, Sungsoon Hwang

Sungsoon Hwang

This study investigates whether a fuzzy clustering method is of any practical value in delineating urban housing submarkets relative to clustering methods based on classic (or crisp) set theory. A fuzzy c-means algorithm is applied to obtain fuzzy set membership degree of census tracts to housing submarkets defined within a metropolitan area. Issues of choosing algorithm parameters are discussed on the basis of applying fuzzy clustering to 85 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The comparison between results of fuzzy clustering and those of crisp set counterpart shows that fuzzy clustering yields statistically more desirable clusters.

Reference & Instruction For African Visual Culture, Nedda Ahmed

Nedda H Ahmed

No abstract provided.

A Latent Profile Analysis Of College Students’ Achievement Goal Orientation Profiles, Dena Pastor, K. Barron, B. Miller, S. Davis

Dena A Pastor

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Madame President: Are We Ready For A Woman In The White House?, Lori Cox, Caroline Heldman

Caroline Heldman

No abstract provided.

Costume, Kóstyom And Dress: Formulations Of Bagobo Ethnic Identity In Mindanao, Cherubim Quizon

Cherubim A Quizon

No abstract provided.

Single-Parenthood And Children’S Reading Performance In Asia, Hyunjoon Park

Hyunjoon Park

Using the data from Program for International Student Assessment, I examine the gap in reading performance between 15-year-old students in single-parent and intact families in 5 Asian countries in comparison to the United States. The ordinary least square regression analyses show negligible disadvantages of students with a single parent in Hong Kong and Korea, once students' demographic characteristics and socioeconomic background are held constant. Students in single-parent families in Indonesia and Thailand outperform their peers in intact families. The negative effect of single parenthood remains significant in Japan, even after parent-child communication is controlled. Interpreting the weak effect of single …

Input Vs. Output Level Coupling Demonstrates Asymmetrical Attentional Biases, Gavin Buckingham, David Carey

Gavin Buckingham

The current study examined the performance of each limb as it reached across the body (the hard task), while yoked to it’s ipsilateral reaching counterpart (the easy task).

Guide To The Lee Wilson Papers, 1956-1989, Nancy Loe

Nancy E. Loe

Papers of San Luis Obispo environmental activist Lee Wilson, including correspondence, research notes and materials, and photographs, primarily relating to the founding and early years of Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club, the creation of the Santa Lucia Wilderness Area, and other watchdog efforts in San Luis Obispo County, California, donated by the family to The Environmental Archives of San Luis Obispo County in 1994.

Cooking The Numbers: Measuring The Impact Of Liaison Services, Stefanie Warlick

Stefanie E Warlick

No abstract provided.

Missing Topics In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

What Moves The National Retirement Risk Index? A Look Back And An Update, Anthony Webb, Alicia Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass

Anthony Webb

In June 2006, the Center for Retirement Research released the National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI). The results showed that even if households work to age 65 and annuitize all their financial assets, including the receipts from reverse mortgages on their homes, 43 percent will be at risk of being unable to maintain their standard of living in retirement. Households are more likely to be ‘at risk’ if they are young, have low incomes, or lack pension coverage…

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender And Cultural Politics In Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry, Caitrin Lynch

Caitrin Lynch

When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"—female garment workers already established in the urban sector—as vulgar and deracinated, instead asserting that they were "good girls" who could embody the nation's highest ideals of femininity.

On Price Liberalization, Poverty And Shifting Cultivation: An Example From Mexico, Edward Barbier, Unai Pascual

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Diversity Programs: Building Coalitions Through Developing Effective Advisory Boards, Norman Powell, Sherwood Thompson

Norman W. Powell

No abstract provided.

Tutorials In Operations Research: Models, Methods And Applications For Innovative Decisionmaking, Michael Johnson, Bryan Norman, Nicola Secomandi

Michael P. Johnson

No abstract provided.

The Squid And The Whale: Continuing Education Program, Tiffani Kisler

Tiffani S. Kisler

No abstract provided.

Los Centros Culturales En La Era De La Convergencia Tecno-Cultura, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.

Easing The High School To College Transition: Creating An Information Literacy Continuum, Abby Kasowitz-Scheer

Abby Kasowitz-Scheer

Regional library consortia and other groups throughout the U.S. are forming collaborative networks of librarians at all levels in order to prepare students to develop the necessary information literacy skills to be successful in college and beyond. We plan to highlight several of these initiatives in the College Connection column in this and future issues of ESD. This article focuses on an initiative of the Rochester (NY) Regional Library Council (RRLC).

An Ethnographic Study Of Small Talk In Intimate Relationships, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

No abstract provided.

Media Relations: Issues And Strategies, Jane Johnston

Jane Johnston

A thorough introduction to the essential skills of working with the media, for public relations students and professionals.

Media relations is one of the most tangible and visible areas of public relations practice. It requires specialised skills, expertise about the media and its practices, and an understanding of current affairs and issues. It uses the practical tools of the media release, media conference and media kits, combined with management skills of advising about best practice within an organisation, and it is based on open relationships with journalists and other media professionals.

Media Relations provides a practical and thorough introduction to …

Evolution, Jonathan Eisen

Jonathan A. Eisen Ph.D.

No abstract provided.