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Global Terrorism,, James Lutz, Brenda Lutz

James M Lutz

No abstract provided.

Securing America's Future: A Bold Plan To Preserve And Expand Social Security, Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

Analysis of the American system of Social Security, with proposals for expansion and for universal health care.

The Overcharge As A Measure For Antitrust Damages, Martijn Han, Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Jan Tuinstra

Martijn A. Han

Victims of antitrust violations can recover damages in court. Yet, the quantification of antitrust damages and to whom they accrue is often complex. An illegal price increase somewhere in the chain of production percolates through to the other layers in a ripple of partial pass-ons. The resulting reductions in sales and input demands lead to additional harm to both downstream (in)direct purchasers and upstream suppliers. Nevertheless, U.S. civil antitrust litigation is almost exclusively concerned with direct purchaser claims for (treble) damages calculated on the basis of the overcharge. Similar best practice rules are emerging in Europe. In this paper, we …

Teaching Accountability Using Client Feedback Software, Jaqueline Sparks

Jaqueline A. Sparks

No abstract provided.

Kids Having Kids: The Economic And Social Costs Of Teenage Pregnancy, 2nd Edition, Saul Hoffman, Rebecca Maynard

REBECCA A MAYNARD

Kids Having Kids consists of a background study of trends in adolescent childbearing, seven coordinated studies focus on particular dimensions of the consequences of adolescent childbearing, a summative assessment of costs of adolescent childbearing, and a review of what is known about the effectiveness of teenage pregnancy prevention strategies.

Five Ws And An H: Digital Challenges In Newspaper Newsrooms And Boardrooms, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Great Coffee, That Maxwell House!, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

Pragmatic Variation In Speech Acts Among Urban Columbians: Creating And Maintaining Social Class, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Measurement Error On The Shape Of The World Distribution Of Income, Christopher Parmeter

Christopher F. Parmeter

This note examines the robustness that two modes exist in the world's density of per capita income. Our results suggest that this bimodal feature is robust and are arrived at using recently developed nonparametric deconvolution techniques.

Community Renegades: Micro-Radio And The Unlicensed Radio Movement, Lawrence Soley

Lawrence Soley

No abstract provided.

Body Parts And Early-Learned Verbs, Josita Maouene, Shohei Hidaka, Linda Smith

Josita C Maouene

This article reports the structure of associations among 101 common verbs and body parts. The verbs are those typically learned by children learning English prior to 3 years of age. In a free association task, 50 adults were asked to provide the single body part that came to mind when they thought of each verb. Analyses reveal highly systematic and structured patterns of associations that are also related to the normative age of acquisition of the verbs showing a progression from verbs associated with actions by the mouth, to verbs strongly associated with actions by hand and arm, to verbs …

Bimanual Coupling In Left And Right Space: Which Hand Is Yoked To Which?, Gavin Buckingham, Gordon Binsted, David Carey

Gavin Buckingham

• Reaching across the body into contralateral space with one hand incurs a substantial cost on various measures of performance, compared to ipsilateral reaches of a similar amplitude (Carey, Hargreaves, & Goodale, 1996).

• When reaching with both hands, unimanual asymmetries disappear.

-The hands take off and land concurrently (Kelso, Southard, & Goodman, 1979).

• To test if this ‘yoking’ is driven by the left or the right hand, participants performed reaches of different amplitudes.

• These reaches were made to the left or right side of space.

-Further increasing the unimanual (baseline) asymmetries that get wiped out by the …

A Statewide Study Of Transitions Of Youth At Risk In Non-Traditional Educational Programs, Norman Powell

Norman W. Powell

No abstract provided.

Educational Trajectories Of The Mexican-Origin Population, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada

Rosaura Conley-Estrada

No abstract provided.

Friendships With Peers Who Are Low Or High In Aggression As Moderators Of The Link Between Peer Victimization And Declines In Academic Functioning, David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Kenneth Dodge, Gregory Pettit, John Bates

Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman

This paper reports two prospective investigations of the role of friendship in the relation between peer victimization and grade point averages (GPA). Study 1 included 199 children (105 boys, 94 girls; mean age of 9.1 years) and Study 2 included 310 children (151 boys, 159 girls; mean age of 8.5 years). These children were followed for two school years. In both projects, we assessed aggression, victimization, and friendship with a peer nomination inventory, and we obtained children's GPAs from a review of school records. Peer victimization was associated with academic declines only when children had either a high number of …

Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies: Tools And Strategies For Enhancing Services At Your Library (Mla Credited Continuing Education Course), Stefanie Warlick

Stefanie E Warlick

No abstract provided.

Visions Of Utopia: Philosophy And The Perfect Society, Fred Baumann

Fred Baumann

Political Ecology Of Exurban ‘Lifestyle’ Landscape At Christchurch’S Contested Urban Fence, K. Valentine Cadieux

K. Valentine Cadieux

Distraction During Relational Reasoning: The Role Of Prefrontal Cortex In Interference Control, Robert Morrison

Robert Morrison

Richard Bromfield, Doing Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, Julia Pryce

Julia Pryce

Electricity And Privatization In Uganda: The Origins Of Crisis And Problems With Response, Christopher Gore

Christopher D Gore

No abstract provided.

El Copyright: Instrumento De Expropiación Y Resistencia, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.

The Best-Laid Plans: A Case Of Cross-Cultural Online Learning, Beth Rubin

Beth Rubin

This article describes a case of cultural barriers affecting the success of an online course developed in one country and co-taught from two locations, and analyzes the cultural, communication and procedural factors that contributed to failure.

Taken For Granted? Managing For Social Equity Performance In Grant Programs, Brian Gerber, Brian Collins

Brian J. Gerber

Managing for social equity performance has long been a goal without much guidance for public managers. We examine social equity performance in the context of indirect governance through the administration of grant programs and, more specifi cally, the matching of policy responses (grant funding) to social needs. Grant program managers must allocate funding to match needs while also ensuring accountability, but common administrative models that rely on competition can undermine social equity performance. We develop a unique framework to analyze the relative social equity performance of four models of grant administration in general. Th ese models are defi ned by …

Sovereignty As Discourse, Robert Tsai

Robert L Tsai

This is a review of Howard Schweber's book, "The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism" (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Schweber argues that "the creation of a legitimate constitutional regime depends on a prior commitment to employ constitutional language, and that such a commitment is both the necessary and sufficient condition for constitution making." I critique the power and limits of this reformulated Lockean thesis, as well as Schweber's secondary claims that, for constitutional language to remain legitimate, it must increasingly become autonomous, specialized, and secular.

Rounds, Levels, And Waves: The Early Evolution Of Gameplay Segmentation, Jose Zagal, Clara Fernandez-Vara, Michael Mateas

Jose P Zagal

This article explores the early evolution of the structure and management of gameplay in videogames. We introduce the notion of gameplay segmentation to capture the role that design elements like level, boss, and wave play in videogames, and identify three modes of segmentation. Temporal segmentation limits, synchronizes and/or coordinates player activity over time. Spatial segmentation breaks the game’s virtual space into sub-locations. Challenge segmentation presents the player with a sequence of self-contained challenges. We describe each mode, and additional sub-modes, by analyzing vintage arcade games. Our analyses illustrate how these games represent a “primordial soup” in which many current game …

Medios De Comunicación E Industrias Culturales, Identidades Colectivas Y Cohesión Social, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.

Language And Social Interaction: Modes Of Inquiry And Possibilities For The Future, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

No abstract provided.

How Angleterre Came To Be The French Country Name For England In The Eleventh Century, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract provided.

Theoretical Predictors Of Delinquency Among Public School Students In A Mid-Southern State, Preston Elrod, Nathan Lowe, David May

Preston Elrod, Ph.D.

Theoretical predictors of delinquency among a sample of rural and small town youths are examined by testing the impact of numerous theoretical indices both within in-school and out-of-school settings, while also examining gender, through the use of structural equation models. Our findings suggest the impact of theoretical predictors on delinquency varies not only by gender, but by social context as well. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.