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Rebranding America : The Occidental Strategy, Derek Shearer

Derek Shearer

No abstract provided.

The Lolita Effect : Why The Media Sexualize Young Girls And What You Can Do About It/, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

Methodological Issues In The L2 Acquisition Of A Syntax/Semantics Phenomenon: How To Assess L2 Knowledge Of Mood In Spanish Relative Clauses., Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, C. Borgonovo, P. Prévost

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.

Girls' Studies And Book Review, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

Going For The Gold: Identifying Academic-Quality Internet Resources, Crystal Renfro, Mary Axford

Crystal L Renfro

The purpose of this professional article is to review some of the key directories of Internet resources with a special focus on those that announce new academic-quality resources. Significant facets of the directories which will be incorporated in the discussion include scope of coverage, update frequency, identification of any e-mail alerts or RSS feeds offered, and resource selection criteria. Factors determining whether a site is given in-depth or brief coverage in this article include authority, currency, and whether sites are annotated and classified (the quality of the metadata). We also consider whether a site is broadly or narrowly selective. Broadly …

Violence In The Workplace, Elizabeth Fredericksen

Elizabeth D. Fredericksen

No abstract provided.

Global Governance Organizations: Legitimacy And Authority In Conflict, Jonathan Koppell

Jonathan GS Koppell

Global governance organizations (GGOs) are frequently maligned as both illegitimate and ineffective. With the growing prominence of entities that promulgate global rules governing trade, communications, finance, and transport, these shortcomings take on greater importance. This essay presents a theoretical framework to understand the challenge of legitimacy for GGOs. It argues that GGOs tend to face trade-offs between legitimacy and authority, but that widespread usages of these important terms conflate or confuse them and thus obscure critical issues in GGO politics. Once these terms are more clearly defined, we see more easily that GGOs must sometimes violate democratic norms, sacrificing equality …

Catching Up With The New Public Service In Theory And Practice: Understanding Workers And Worker Motivation, Craig Boardman, Branco Ponomariov

Craig Boardman

No abstract provided.

Estimating Output Gap For Pakistan Economy: Structural And Statistical Approaches, Safdar Khan

Safdar Khan

No abstract provided.

Assisting Overseas Libraries While Still In The U.S., Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

No abstract provided.

Guide To The California Fairs Collection, 1856-1997, Karen Lewis, Lynn Bonfield, Nancy Loe

Nancy E. Loe

The Western Fairs Association, the California Joint Committee on Fairs Allocation and Classification, and Louis S. Merrill, former director of the Western Fairs Association gave the California Fairs Collection, one of the major archival collections on fairs and fairs management in the Western United States, to Cal Poly in 1982. In addition to extensive material on the management of fairs in California, the collection also contains information on fairs in other Western states, as well as foreign fairs and world fairs.

The Fairs Collection contains archival and printed material created in three separate offices: Western Fairs Association, a non-profit trade …

First Mate's B-Log, Mel Regnell

Mel Regnell

Log entries of the First Mate on the sailing yacht, Fedele, out of Stockton Springs, Maine. Updated irregularaly as time and weather permits, these are the ramblings of a novice seaman on board the wooden boat Fedele - a 40 foot Ketch.

The Desk And Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services, Sarah Steiner, Leslie Madden

Sarah King Steiner

The Desk and Beyond is intended to provide a thorough exploration of the present and possible future applications of eleven of the most promising new reference delivery methods. In order to reflect the growing role of the digital environment while still respecting the importance of in-person interaction, a balance of physical and virtual methods has been maintained. This collection is intended to provide inspiration for potential reference services at your library; each chapter provides an introduction to an innovative service concept and an annotated list of sources for additional research.

Healthy Urban Food Production And Local Government, Christopher Gore

Christopher D Gore

No abstract provided.

Refugee Camps In The Palestinian And Sahrawi National Liberation Movements: A Comparative Perspective, Randa Farah

Randa R Farah Dr.

Drawing on ethnographic field research, this analysis compares the evolution of refugee camps as incubators of political organization and repositories of collective memory for Palestinian refugees in Jordan and Sahrawi refugees of the Western Sahara. While recognizing the significant differences between the historical and geopolitical contexts of the two groups and their national movements (the PLO and Polisario, respectively), the author examines the Palestinian and Sahrawi projects of national consciousness formation and institution-building, concluding that Palestinian camps are “mapped” in relation to the past, while political organization in Sahrawi camps evidences a forward-looking vision.

"Sources Of Uncertainty In Project Management: A ‘Real Life’ Account", Dominika Latusek, Dariusz Jamielniak

Dominika Latusek

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The Inter-University Case Program: Challenging Orthodoxy, Training Public Servants, Creating Knowledge, Ryan Yeung

Ryan Yeung

The list of individuals who participated in the Inter-University Case Program (ICP) reads like a who’s who list of public administration titans. In one form or another, scholar-practitioners like Dwight Waldo, Paul Appleby, Harold Stein, and Frederick C. Mosher played a part in the success of the program. This article examines the ICP with an epistemological eye. The era of the ICP was a period when scholars thought that the complexity of government prevented the development of general administrative principles and also prevented the use of conventional scientific methods to generate knowledge in the field. They believed instead that the …

Public Views On Determinants Of Health, Interventions To Improve Health, And Priorities For Government, Stephanie Roberts, Bridget Booske, Angela Rohan, Elizabeth Rigby

Elizabeth Rigby

No abstract provided.

Humor In Music, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

The Creative Task Creator: A Tool For The Generation Of Customized, Web-Based Creativity Tasks, Jean Pretz, John Link

Jean E Pretz

This article presents a Web-based tool for the creation of divergent-thinking and open-ended creativity tasks. A Java program generates HTML forms with PHP scripting that run an Alternate Uses Task and/or open-ended response items. Researchers may specify their own instructions, objects, and time limits, or use default settings. Participants can also be prompted to select their best responses to the Alternate Uses Task (Silvia et al., 2008). Minimal programming knowledge is required. The program runs on any server, and responses are recorded in a standard MySQL database. Responses can be scored using the consensual assessment technique (Amabile, 1996) or Torrance’s …

Auto Liability In Nevada Compared To Other States: Testimony For Nevada Auto Theft And Insurance Fraud Task Force, Paul Heaton

Paul Heaton

This briefing extends previous RAND Institute of Civil Justice research and findings by focusing on the liability situation in Nevada. The briefing was prepared as testimony for the Nevada Auto Theft and Insurance Fraud Task Force and is intended to inform the Task Force about Nevada's liability situation relative to other states.

A Resident Satisfaction Survey Of Low-Income Residents Living In Supportive Housing, F. Brooks, C. Collard, Terri Lewinson

Terri Lewinson

No abstract provided.

Extended-Stay As Home: An Exploratory Study, Terri Lewinson

Terri Lewinson

No abstract provided.

A Future Of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge In The Global Economy, Timothy Bartik, Susan Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

Can the U.S. economy generate healthy growth of “good” jobs—jobs that will ensure a steady improvement in the standard of living for the middle class and that will offer a way out of poverty for low-income Americans? In this book, leading policy analysts examine the challenges facing current U.S. labor market policy and propose concrete steps to make American workers and employers more competitive in a global economy.

Bayesian Density Forecasting Of Intraday Electricity Prices Using Multivariate Skew T Distributions, Anastasios Panagiotelis, Michael Smith

Michael Stanley Smith

Electricity spot prices exhibit strong time series properties, including substantial periodicity, both inter-day and intraday serial correlation, heavy tails and skewness. In this paper we capture these characteristics using a first order vector autoregressive model with exogenous effects and a skew t distributed disturbance. The vector is longitudinal, in that it comprises observations on the spot price at intervals during a day. A band two inverse scale matrix is employed for the disturbance, as well as a sparse autoregressive coefficient matrix. This corresponds to a parsimonious dependency structure that directly relates an observation to the two immediately prior, and the …

The Difference A Perspective Makes: Teaching Race And Ethnicity From A 500-Year World Historical Epistemological Perspective, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.

Eventive And Stative Passives In Spanish L2 Acquisition: A Matter Of Aspect, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, E. E. Valenzuela

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.

A Synthesis Of Literature On The Effectiveness Of Community Orders, Paul Heaton

Paul Heaton

The U.K. National Audit Office (NAO) commissioned RAND Europe to conduct this review to identify and synthesize international research about the effectiveness of community orders in reducing re-offending. In this report, we review research on ten of the common requirements contained in community orders. Through examining reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses we draw conclusions about the state of research in the areas of unpaid work, mental health treatment, education/skills training, drug treatment, anger management, alcohol treatment, programmes for perpetrators of domestic abuse, regular probation, intensive probation and cognitive/behavioural programming. We also assess the strength of the evidence on whether each …

Tenure Workshop: Panel Member Discussing Legal Concerns At A Workshop On Securing Tenure And Redressing Potential Denial, Kristine Botsford Mullendore

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

No abstract provided.

Inheriting Inherit The Wind: Debating The Play As A Teaching Tool, Edward Larson, David Depew, Ronald Isetti

David J Depew

No abstract provided.