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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Something To Think About -- Losing The Past!, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey
Something To Think About -- Losing The Past!, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Lost In Austin -- The Golden Age Of Librarianship, Thomas W. Leonhard
Lost In Austin -- The Golden Age Of Librarianship, Thomas W. Leonhard
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
As I See It! -- Abstracting And Indexing Services -- The Ostriches Of Information, John Cox
As I See It! -- Abstracting And Indexing Services -- The Ostriches Of Information, John Cox
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Media Minder -- Building A Video Game Collection: Resources To Help You Get Started, Philip Hallman
Media Minder -- Building A Video Game Collection: Resources To Help You Get Started, Philip Hallman
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Staff Of News Sleuths, Bruce Strauch
Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Staff Of News Sleuths, Bruce Strauch
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
I Hear The Train A Comin' -- Center For Science Diplomacy, Greg Tananbaum
I Hear The Train A Comin' -- Center For Science Diplomacy, Greg Tananbaum
Against the Grain
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Wandering The Web -- Hobby Sites: Purls Of Beauty -- The Art Of Knitting, Lesley L. R. Montgomery
Wandering The Web -- Hobby Sites: Purls Of Beauty -- The Art Of Knitting, Lesley L. R. Montgomery
Against the Grain
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International Dateline -- Peer: A European Project To Gather Evidence On The Effects Of Widespread Open Access Publishing, Peter T. Shepherd
International Dateline -- Peer: A European Project To Gather Evidence On The Effects Of Widespread Open Access Publishing, Peter T. Shepherd
Against the Grain
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Standards Column -- The Future Of End User Services, Todd Carpenter
Standards Column -- The Future Of End User Services, Todd Carpenter
Against the Grain
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Technology Left Behind -- The Kindle Fire Still Burns, Cris Ferguson
Technology Left Behind -- The Kindle Fire Still Burns, Cris Ferguson
Against the Grain
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America As An Ordinary Nation, William F. Felice
America As An Ordinary Nation, William F. Felice
Human Rights & Human Welfare
For decades, scholars of international relations have called attention to the limits of American power. For example, in 1976 Cornel University Press published America as an Ordinary Country: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Future , edited by Richard Rosecrance. As the title indicates, Rosecrance's book analyzed the impact of the economic, military, and foreign policy setbacks of the 1970s on U.S. power. Suddenly the U.S. seemed less the powerful, "indispensible" leader and more the vulnerable, "ordinary" country unable to control external forces lashing the society's economy and foreign policy. These insights led many scholars to call for a reassessment of …
Finding A "Disappearing" Nontimber Forest Resource: Using Grounded Visualization To Explore Urbanization Impacts On Sweetgrass Basketmaking In Greater Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Patrick T. Hurley, Angela C. Halfacre, Norm S. Levine, Marianne K. Burke
Finding A "Disappearing" Nontimber Forest Resource: Using Grounded Visualization To Explore Urbanization Impacts On Sweetgrass Basketmaking In Greater Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Patrick T. Hurley, Angela C. Halfacre, Norm S. Levine, Marianne K. Burke
Environment and Sustainability Faculty Publications
Despite growing interest in urbanization and its social and ecological impacts on formerly rural areas, empirical research remains limited. Extant studies largely focus either on issues of social exclusion and enclosure or ecological change. This article uses the case of sweetgrass basketmaking in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, to explore the implications of urbanization, including gentrification, for the distribution and accessibility of sweetgrass, an economically important nontimber forest product (NTFP) for historically African American communities, in this rapidly growing area. We explore the usefulness of grounded visualization for research efforts that are examining the existence of "fringe ecologies" associated with NTFP. …
Therapeutic Challenges Of Multi-Being, Kenneth J. Gergen
Therapeutic Challenges Of Multi-Being, Kenneth J. Gergen
Psychology Faculty Works
This paper emerges from an attempt to shift the locus of understanding human action from the individual to relationship. In doing so we come to see persons as multi-beings, that is, as constituted within multiple relationships from which they emerge with multiple, incoherent, and often conflicting potentials. Therapy, in this context, becomes a collaborative relationship with the aim of transforming the client's broader relational network. In this view, schooling in a singular practice of therapy artificially limits the therapist's potential, and thus the possible outcomes of the client–therapist relationship. Invited, then, is a reflective eclecticism, in which the myriad potentials …
Religion And Reconciliation In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Tania Wettach
Religion And Reconciliation In Bosnia And Herzegovina, Tania Wettach
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
Centennial Library E-News, November/December 2008, Cedarville University
Centennial Library E-News, November/December 2008, Cedarville University
Centennial Library Shelf Life
Articles in this issue: Canoe race victory, Book cart drill team performs, National library assessment results, Calvin rare books, Library science dinner, Library internship report, Library scholarship available, Children's author visit, University faculty in print, University alumni in print, Semester break hours
Relative Inflation-Forecast As Monetary Policy Target For Convergence To The Euro, Lucjan T. Orlowski
Relative Inflation-Forecast As Monetary Policy Target For Convergence To The Euro, Lucjan T. Orlowski
WCBT Faculty Publications
A monetary policy framework based on targeting a relative inflation-forecast is proposed for the economies converging to the euro. Such strategy aims at containing the differentials between the domestic and the implicit monetary union inflation-forecasts. Hence, these differentials become a basis for setting an operational policy target. The proposed framework can be viewed as an extension of flexible inflation targeting that prioritizes low and stable inflation over the exchange rate stability. It is believed to be consistent with the Maastricht convergence criteria and can be implemented in concurrence with the exchange rate stability benchmark for the ERM2. Several empirical tests …
E-Book Distributors For The Public And School Library Markets, Sue Polanka
E-Book Distributors For The Public And School Library Markets, Sue Polanka
University Libraries' Staff Publications
In the May 15 issue of Reference Books Bulletin, Off the Shelf provided an overview of three e-book aggregators with a focus on the academic library market. This column highlights Follett Digital Resources and OverDrive, two e-book distribution services for public and school libraries. Readers should also consult “The New NetLibrary,” on p.72.
The New Netlibrary, Sue Polanka
The New Netlibrary, Sue Polanka
University Libraries' Staff Publications
At nearly 10 years old, NetLibrary remains the largest e-content provider. Since being acquired by OCLC in 2002, it has made some major changes.
Venture Capital And Sequential Investments, Dirk Bergemann, Ulrich Hege, Liang Peng
Venture Capital And Sequential Investments, Dirk Bergemann, Ulrich Hege, Liang Peng
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We present a dynamic model of venture capital financing, described as a sequential investment problem with uncertain outcome. Each venture has a critical, but unknown threshold beyond which it cannot progress. If the threshold is reached before the completion of the project, then the project fails, otherwise it succeeds. The investors decide sequentially about the speed of the investment and the optimal path of staged investments. We derive the dynamically optimal funding policy in response to the arrival of information during the development of the venture. We develop three types of predictions from our theoretical model and test these predictions …
Venture Capital And Sequential Investments, Dirk Bergemann, Ulrich Hege, Liang Peng
Venture Capital And Sequential Investments, Dirk Bergemann, Ulrich Hege, Liang Peng
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We analyze sequential investment decisions in an innovative project that depend on the investor’s information about the project failure risk and its potential final value. We consider the feedback effects between learning about the project parameters and the continuous adjustment of the investment strategy. Investors decide sequentially about the speed of investment and the optimal degree of involvement. We develop three types of predictions from our theoretical model and test these predictions in a large sample of venture capital investment in the U.S. for the period of 1987-2002. First, the investment flow starts cautiously if the failure risk is high …
Venture Capital And Sequential Investments, Dirk Bergemann, Ulrich Hege, Liang Peng
Venture Capital And Sequential Investments, Dirk Bergemann, Ulrich Hege, Liang Peng
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We present a dynamic model of venture capital financing, described as a sequential investment problem with uncertain outcome. Each venture has a critical, but unknown threshold beyond which it cannot progress. If the threshold is reached before the completion of the project, then the project fails, otherwise it succeeds. The investors decide sequentially about the speed of the investment and the optimal path of staged investments. We derive the dynamically optimal funding policy in response to the arrival of information during the development of the venture. We develop three types of predictions from our theoretical model and test these predictions …
Managing Strategic Buyers, Johannes Hörner, Larry Samuelson
Managing Strategic Buyers, Johannes Hörner, Larry Samuelson
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We consider the problem of a monopolist who must sell her inventory before some deadline, facing n buyers with independent private values. The monopolist posts prices but has no commitment power. The seller faces a basic trade-off between imperfect price discrimination and maintaining an effective reserve price. When there is only one unit and only a few buyers, the seller essentially posts unacceptable prices up to the very end, at which point prices collapse in a series of jumps to a “reserve price” that exceeds marginal cost. When there are many buyers, the seller abandons this reserve price in order …
Myths, Reasonable Disagreement, And A League Of Democracies, James Pattison
Myths, Reasonable Disagreement, And A League Of Democracies, James Pattison
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The United States ' election in 2004 was based on a number of foreign policy myths. Three of the most obvious were:
- The war in Iraq was necessary as a response to the threat of international terrorism. As a result, the world is now a safer place;
- The institutions of the UN are corrupt and do nothing but restrict American power;
- Al Qaeda and international terrorism more generally are extremely significant threats to American national security
Non-Parametric Quantile Selection For Extreme Distributions, Wan Zawiah Wan Zin, Abdul Aziz Jemain
Non-Parametric Quantile Selection For Extreme Distributions, Wan Zawiah Wan Zin, Abdul Aziz Jemain
Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
The objective is to select the best non-parametric quantile estimation method for extreme distributions. This serves as a starting point for further research in quantile application such as in parameter estimation using LQ-moments method. Thirteen methods of non-parametric quantile estimation were applied on six types of extreme distributions and their efficiencies compared. Monte Carlo methods were used to generate the results, which showed that the method of Weighted Kernel estimator of Type 1 was more efficient than the other methods in many cases.
Adaptive Estimation Of Heteroscedastic Linear Regression Model Using Probability Weighted Moments, Faqir Muhammad, Muhammad Aslam, G.R. Pasha
Adaptive Estimation Of Heteroscedastic Linear Regression Model Using Probability Weighted Moments, Faqir Muhammad, Muhammad Aslam, G.R. Pasha
Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
An adaptive estimator is presented by using probability weighted moments as weights rather than conventional estimates of variances for unknown heteroscedastic errors while estimating a heteroscedastic linear regression model. Empirical studies of the data generated by simulations for normal, uniform, and logistically distributed error terms support our proposed estimator to be quite efficient, especially for small samples.
Least Squares Percentage Regression, Chris Tofallis
Least Squares Percentage Regression, Chris Tofallis
Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
In prediction, the percentage error is often felt to be more meaningful than the absolute error. We therefore extend the method of least squares to deal with percentage errors, for both simple and multiple regression. Exact expressions are derived for the coefficients, and we show how such models can be estimated using standard software. When the relative error is normally distributed, least squares percentage regression is shown to provide maximum likelihood estimates. The multiplicative error model is linked to least squares percentage regression in the same way that the standard additive error model is linked to ordinary least squares regression.
Behavioural Analysis Of A Nociceptive Event In Fish: Comparisons Between Three Species Demonstrate Specific Responses, Siobhan C. Reilly, John P. Quinn, Andrew R. Cossins, Lynne U. Sneddon
Behavioural Analysis Of A Nociceptive Event In Fish: Comparisons Between Three Species Demonstrate Specific Responses, Siobhan C. Reilly, John P. Quinn, Andrew R. Cossins, Lynne U. Sneddon
Sentience Collection
Nociception is the sensory mechanism by which potentially harmful stimuli are detected in animals and humans. The behavioural responses to noxious stimulation have been studied in two fish species thus far. However, since species-specific differences are seen in mammals, more species need to be examined to determine whether nociceptive responses are generic in fish. The present study investigated the behavioural and respiratory response to an acute noxious or potentially painful stimulus in common carp (Cyprinus carpio), zebrafish (Danio rerio) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Behavioural parameters such as frequency of swimming, use of cover and any anomalous behaviour were measured …