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The Organization Of Thinking: What Functional Brain Imaging Reveals About The Neuroarchitecture Of Complex Cognition, Marcel Adam Just, Sashank Varma

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Ethical Analysis Of Petas Holocaust On Your Plate Campaign.Pdf, Carrie P. Freeman

Carrie P. Freeman

Libraries As A Place Of Transgression, Harrison W. Inefuku, Robin L. Imhof, Fred Gertler

Robin L. Imhof

This poster communicates how the University of the Pacific Library participated in the student-curated exhibition, "Transgressions: Transgender, Transnational, Transsexual," creating a book display of transgressive artists and authors, and used Facebook to reach new audiences.

Lexical Ambiguity In Sentence Comprehension, Robert A. Mason, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Functional And Anatomical Cortical Underconnectivity In Autism: Evidence From An Fmri Study Of An Executive Function Task And Corpus Callosum Morphometry, Marcel Adam Just, Vladimir L. Cherkassky, Timothy A. Keller, Rajesh K. Kana, Nancy J. Minshew

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Dietary Patterns In Adolescence Are Related To Adiposity In Young Adulthood In Black And White Females, R H. Striegel, L D. Ritchie, P Spector, M J. Stevens, M M. Schmidt, G B. Schreiber, M C. Wang, P B. Crawford

Ruth Striegel Weissman

Few studies have systematically used a total diet approach to classify adolescent dietary patterns. We examined dietary patterns in relation to nutrient intakes and adiposity in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study cohort of 2371 black and white girls recruited at 9-10 y of age and followed for 10 y. Serial measurements were obtained for indices of anthropometry, dietary intake, physical activity, and sociodemographic variables. Dietary patterns for the 2 racial subgroups were separately identified by cluster analysis of 40 food groupings derived from 3-d food records. Nutrient intakes and measures of adiposity (BMI, percent …

Garbage Cans, Recycling Bins Or Think Tanks? Three Myths About Policy Institutes, Diane L. Stone

Diane L Stone

The phrase ‘think tank’ has become ubiquitous – overworked and underspecified – in the political lexicon. It is entrenched in scholarly discussions of public policy as well as in the ‘policy wonk’ of journalists, lobbyists and spin-doctors. This does not mean that there is an agreed definition of think tank or consensual understanding of their roles and functions. Nevertheless, the majority of organisations with this label undertake policy research of some kind. The idea of think tanks as a research communication ‘bridge’ presupposes that there are discernible boundaries between (social) science and policy. This paper will investigate some of these …

Discursive Sources Of Linguistic Diversity: Stancetaking And Vernacular Norm-Formation, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

No abstract provided.

Prediction Of Children’S Reading Skills Using Behavioral, Functional, And Structural Neuroimaging Measures, Fumiko Hoeft, Takefumi Ueno, Allan L. Reiss, Ann Meyler, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, Gary H. Glover, Timothy A. Keller, Nobuhisa Kobayashi, Paul Mazaika, Booil Jo, Marcel Adam Just, John D. E. Gabrieli

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

Estimating Mortality In War-Time Iraq: A Controversial Survey With Important Implications For Students, Fernando De Maio

Fernando De Maio

Case Studies In School Counseling, Sheila Witherspoon Ph.D.

Sheila Witherspoon Ph.D.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CASES: Chapter 10 - "Bad as He Wanted to Be", p. 82-90: Jamal, an African American elementary student, is referred to his school counselor, Sheila Witherspoon, by his teacher due to defiant behavior toward authority. However, Witherspoon also recognizes that the teacher's disrespectful and racist comments contribute to Jamal's mistrust of authority, as well as his disruptive behavior.

Bibliometric Data Study: Assessing The Current Ranking Of The People’S Republic Of China In A Set Of Research Fields, Frietsch Rainer, Sybille Hinze, Li Tang

Li Tang

No abstract provided.

Um Marco Regulatório Para O Gás Natural, Lucia H. Salgado

Lucia Helena Salgado

No abstract provided.

Scared Of Foreigners And Their Products? Survey Evidence From France, Olivier Cadot, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Thierry Verdier

Olivier Cadot

No abstract provided.

Agrarian Scenario In Post-Reform India: A Story Of Distress, Despair And Death, Srijit Mishra

Srijit Mishra

Indian agriculture today is under a large crisis. An average farmer household’s returns from cultivation would be around one thousand rupees per month. The incomes are inadequate and the farmer is not in a position to address the multitude of risks: weather, credit, market and technology among others. Social responsibility of education, healthcare and marriage instead of being normal activities add to the burden. All these would even put the semi-medium farmer under a state of transient poverty. The state of the vast majority of small and marginal farmers and agricultural labourers is worse off. An extreme form of response …

An Empirical Study Of The Sources Affecting E-Business Value Creation In Jordanian Banking Services Sector, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Neighborhood Design And Walking Trips In Ten U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Rob Boer, Yuhui Zheng, Adrian Overton, Gregory K. Ridgeway, Debra A. Cohen

Yuhui Zheng

Despite substantial evidence for neighborhood characteristics correlating with walking, so far there has been limited attention to possible practical implications for neighborhood design. This study investigates to what extent design guidelines are likely to stimulate walking.

Hacia Una Política De Evaluación De Fusiones Horizontales, Claudio A. Agostini

Claudio A. Agostini

Determinar los potenciales efectos de una fusión en el grado de competencia en un mercado es una tarea compleja. La decisión de las instituciones que defienden la libre competencia respecto a aprobar o rechazar una fusión es, por lo tanto, difícil, y genera incertidumbre en las empresas que están evaluando fusionarse. Establecer una política explícita para evaluar fusiones, consistente en un marco analítico para determinar qué tan probable es que una fusión reduzca el grado de competencia en un mercado, cumpliría con dos objetivos: sistematizar el análisis y permitir a los agentes privados anticiparse a las acciones de las instituciones …

Household Willingness To Pay To Avoid Drought Water Restrictions :A Case Study Of Perth, Western Australia, Sorada Tapsuwan, Donna Brennan, Gordon Ingram, Michael Burton

Sorada Tapsuwan

The development of new water sources to meet growing urban demand rarely takes explicit account of consumer preferences for the attributes of reliability, which affects the supply buffer required and the timing of augmentation; nor the non-market attributes of different source development options. This study examined consumer preferences for source development options and for avoiding outdoor water restrictions using choice experiments (CE). The study found statistical evidence that if households were willing to move away from the status quo (a scenario in which they would have to endure severe water restrictions) they would be willing to pay 22% more on …

Tackling Biocomplexity With Meta-Models For Species Risk Assessment, Philip J. Nyhus, Robert C. Lacy, Francis R. Westley, Philip S. Miller, Harrie Harrie Vredenburg, Paul C. Paquet, John Pollak

Philip J. Nyhus

We describe results of a multi-year effort to strengthen consideration of the human dimension into endangered species risk assessments and to strengthen research capacity to understand biodiversity risk assessment in the context of coupled human-natural systems. A core group of social and biological scientists have worked with a network of more than 50 individuals from four countries to develop a conceptual framework illustrating how human-mediated processes influence biological systems and to develop tools to gather, translate, and incorporate these data into existing simulation models. A central theme of our research focused on (1) the difficulties often encountered in identifying and …

Military Commissions Act Of 2006, Arsalan M. Suleman

Arsalan Suleman

On October 17, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). Congress passed the MCA to authorize the trial by military commissions of detained terrorism suspects after the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld invalidated the military commissions previously established pursuant to a 2001 military order from President Bush. The MCA adds chapter 47A to title 10 of the U.S. Code to give statutory authorization for the military commissions. This Recent Development explores some of the more controversial aspects of the MCA, especially those sections that respond to the Court's Hamdan decision. The note …

Trade And Specialisation In Pollution Intensive Industries: North-South Evidence, A K.M Azhar, Robert J.R Elliott

Robert J R Elliott

The pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) and the capital-labour hypothesis (KLH) state that the relative level of a country’s environmental regulations and capital and labour endowments determines its comparative advantage respectively. Since these hypotheses lead to conflicting predictions as to whether the North or the South will specialise in pollution-intensive production, this paper examines whether changes in trade and specialisation patterns allow us to distinguish between pollution haven and factor endowment effects. We employ a methodology that enables us to present North-South trade patterns over time and to identify those periods when trade patterns were consistent with either the PHH and/or …

Research Beyond Google, Linda Masselink

Linda Masselink

No abstract provided.

Scientific Selves: Discerning The Subject And The Experimenter In Experimental Psychology In The United States, 1900-1935, Jill G. Morawski

Jill G. Morawski

No abstract provided.

Organisational Culture Of Customer Care: Market Orientation And Service Quality, Kenneth W. Green, Subrata Chakrabarty, Dwayne Whitten

Subrata Chakrabarty

Pluralismo, Consenso Y Desobediencia Civil Desde La Filosofía Política Contemporánea. La Recepción Del Discurso Pluralista En La Jurisprudencia Constitucional Respecto Al Caso Indígena, Leonardo García Jaramillo

Leonardo García Jaramillo

No abstract provided.

Könyvtárszakon Amerikában: Feljegyzések Az Iskolapadból. [Class: A Guide Through The American Library School. In Hungarian]., Judit H. Ward

Judit H. Ward

The author presents her experience with American higher education as a career changer and new immigrant, while trying to navigate through the maze of library school and find a new job.

Deliberative Democracy, Direct Action, And Animal Advocacy, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Gestural Overlap In Perceptual Place Assimilation: Evidence From Korean, Minjung Son, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier

Alexei Kochetov

Opposing views have emerged in phonological and phonetic theory on whether perceptual place assimilation is exclusively attributable to gestural reduction or can be triggered by gestural overlap as well. Specifically, regressive place assimilation in Korean /pk/ clusters has been used as argument for the hypothesis that gestural reduction is uniquely responsible for perceptual place assimilation, yet the empirical evidence for this reduction hypothesis is ambiguous. The present study demonstrates on the basis of articulatory movement data that in these /pk/ clusters the lip gesture for /p/ is either fully present (with varying degrees of overlap) or completely absent. Our data …

A Long And Winding Road: The Regulation Of Private Native Forestry In New South Wales, Australia, Jerome K. Vanclay, J Doland Nichols

Professor Jerome K Vanclay

This special issue of Small-Scale Forestry is concerned with private native forestry (PNF) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Private native forests comprise indigenous species in a semi-natural formation on privately owned land. Such forests are usually uneven-aged, and regenerated naturally rather than by sowing or planting. These forests are of major conservation and commercial importance in NSW, covering 8 M ha and comprising one-third of all native forest in the state (Thompson 2007). The management and harvesting of these forests is known as PNF, and has been the focus of public attention for several years, as the desirability and …