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Survey Of Web Developers In Academic Libraries, Ruth S. Connell Dec 2007

Survey Of Web Developers In Academic Libraries, Ruth S. Connell

Ruth S. Connell

A survey was sent to library Web designers from randomly selected institutions to determine the background, tools, and methods used by those designers. Results, grouped by Carnegie classification type, indicated that larger schools were not necessarily working with more resources or more advanced levels of technology than other institutions.

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An Empirical Analysis Of Energy Intensity And Its Determinants At The State Level,", Gilbert E. Metcalf Dec 2007

An Empirical Analysis Of Energy Intensity And Its Determinants At The State Level,", Gilbert E. Metcalf

Gilbert E. Metcalf

Aggregate energy intensity in the United States has been declining steadily since the mid-1970s and the first oil shock. Energy intensity can be reduced by improving efficiency in the use of energy or by moving away from energy-intensive activities. At the national level, I show that roughly three-quarters of the improvements in U.S. energy intensity since 1970 results from efficiency improvements. This should reduce concerns that the United States is off-shoring its carbon emissions. A state-level analysis shows that rising per capita income and higher energy prices have played an important part in lowering energy intensity. Price and income predominantly …

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Bisexually Active Black Men In The United States And Hiv: Acknowledging More Than The "Down Low", David J. Malebranche Dec 2007

Bisexually Active Black Men In The United States And Hiv: Acknowledging More Than The "Down Low", David J. Malebranche

David J Malebranche

HIV is disproportionately impacting Black men who have sex with men and heterosexual women in theUnited States. Current speculation posits a ‘‘bisexual bridge’’ of HIV transmission connecting these two subpopulations of the Black community. Specifically, bisexually active Black men who identify as heterosexual but do not disclose their same-sex behavior, or ‘‘down low’’ (DL) men, have received the most attention and blame as the primary group fueling this epidemic. This essay explores the current knowledge and limitations of public health research on bisexually active Black men. Implications for future research initiatives are discussed.

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Modalidades Explicativas Y Teoría Sociológica, Jorge Gibert-Galassi Dec 2007

Modalidades Explicativas Y Teoría Sociológica, Jorge Gibert-Galassi

jorge gibert-galassi

No abstract provided.

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Comparative Capitalism And Sustainable Development: Stakeholder Capitalism And Co-Management In The Kenyan Fisheries Sub Sector, Cosmas Milton Obote Ochieng Ochieng Dec 2007

Comparative Capitalism And Sustainable Development: Stakeholder Capitalism And Co-Management In The Kenyan Fisheries Sub Sector, Cosmas Milton Obote Ochieng Ochieng

Cosmas Milton Obote Ochieng Ochieng

This paper argues that stakeholder capitalism is more appropriate to natural resource management and rural development in Africa than other varieties of capitalism. It examines different management arrangements in Kenyan Lake Victoria fisheries resources to argue that whilst stakeholder capitalism is still far from being the mainstream model of capitalism in Kenya, theoretically and empirically, it is more appropriate to sustainable development than the Anglo-Saxon variety of capitalism that the country inherited from its British colonizers. The paper demonstrates that the concepts of ownership and management rights are social, economic and political constructs that are continuously contested, with huge implications …

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Innovation Markets After Genzyme/Novazyme, Richard J. Gilbert Dec 2007

Innovation Markets After Genzyme/Novazyme, Richard J. Gilbert

Richard J Gilbert

No abstract provided.

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Violencia Y Género En La Sociedad Patriarcal, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira Dec 2007

Violencia Y Género En La Sociedad Patriarcal, Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

No abstract provided.

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Clean Air Regulation And Heterogeneity In Us Gasoline Prices, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Celine Nauges, Alban Thomas Dec 2007

Clean Air Regulation And Heterogeneity In Us Gasoline Prices, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, Celine Nauges, Alban Thomas

Ujjayant Chakravorty

In order to improve public health in areas with air quality problems, the US Clean Air Act imposes a variety of federal regulations on gasoline, which have led to a proliferation of fuel blends known as ‘‘boutique fuels.’’ More than 45 fuel blends are sold nationwide. We examine the effects of this program on wholesale gasoline prices. The methodological innovation in this study is the use of a regulatory distance measure as a proxy for measuring market power that arises from product differentiation. We find that Clean Air regulation increases gasoline prices by increasing the cost of refining, but more …

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Colonial Power And Indigenous Justice: Fur Trade Violence And Its Aftermath In Yaquina Narrative, R Scott Byram Dec 2007

Colonial Power And Indigenous Justice: Fur Trade Violence And Its Aftermath In Yaquina Narrative, R Scott Byram

R. Scott Byram, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Dairy Trade Liberalization Impacts In Canada, Abdessalem Abbassi, Olivier Bonroy, Jean-Philippe Gervais Dec 2007

Dairy Trade Liberalization Impacts In Canada, Abdessalem Abbassi, Olivier Bonroy, Jean-Philippe Gervais

abdessalem abbassi

Supply management in Canada is facing broad trade liberalization pressures. This paper uses a spatial equilibrium trade model to simulate the impacts of various trade liberalization scenarios in the Canadian dairy industry. The results critically hinge on the relationship between increased market access and the market sharing quota (MSQ) at the farm level. Two different MSQ decision rules are simulated: (i) global output at the farm level remains unchanged following liberalization; and (ii) the MSQ is reduced to support the unit production quota rent at its preliberalization level. The results show that if the MSQ is held constant following a …

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Upping The Odds: Deviant Democracies And Theories Of Democratization, Renske Doorenspleet, Cas Mudde Dec 2007

Upping The Odds: Deviant Democracies And Theories Of Democratization, Renske Doorenspleet, Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde

This concluding article tries to integrate the different insights of the individual case studies of this special issue into some comparative observations. The findings are related to debates and findings of the broader literature on democratization, with the aim of generating new insights that might help develop new studies on the topic. Importantly, our suggestions are to be considered as hypotheses complementary to the two dominant theories of democratization, rather than opposite to them, accepting both their key assumptions and stipulations. More specifically, two aspects of key concern to the study of democratization are discussed in more detail: the phasing …

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Radikale Parteien In Europa, Cas Mudde Dec 2007

Radikale Parteien In Europa, Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde

No abstract provided.

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How The “13 Situations That Shout ‘Watch Out’” Became The “18 Watch Out Situations”, Jennifer A. Ziegler Dec 2007

How The “13 Situations That Shout ‘Watch Out’” Became The “18 Watch Out Situations”, Jennifer A. Ziegler

Jennifer A Ziegler

This analysis was compiled by examining articles and sidebars about the Watch Out Situations that appeared in Fire Management Notes according to the 2000 index (when it became Fire Management Today), along with other historic documents noted in the reference list.

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Managing The Meaning Of Leadership, Jennifer A. Ziegler, Michael T. Degrosky Dec 2007

Managing The Meaning Of Leadership, Jennifer A. Ziegler, Michael T. Degrosky

Jennifer A Ziegler

Leadership studies and communication studies increasingly overlap in the emergence of the post-industrial leadership paradigm. This study calls attention to how different underlying models of communication in leadership theorizing and program implementation in organizations may cause otherwise progressive theories to be falsely rejected before realizing their emancipatory potential. We analyze a leadership initiative in wildland fire, inspired by the German military philosophy of Auftragstaktik, which recommends communicating “leader’s intent.” We show how talk about communication in the organization and talk about the theory may diverge. Adapting the language of metadiscourse theory, we explore alternate communication models to expand the practical …

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Opportunities And Challenges For Social Policy: Engaging Youth Online, Michael A. De Percy Dec 2007

Opportunities And Challenges For Social Policy: Engaging Youth Online, Michael A. De Percy

Dr Michael A de Percy

The benefits of a free, globally available and rapidly expanding communication network waits for the next generation of social policy practitioners who dare to challenge the traditional approaches to citizen engagement.

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The Competitiveness Of The Cuban Tourism Industry In The Twenty-First Century: A Strategic Re-Evaluation, Babu P. George Dec 2007

The Competitiveness Of The Cuban Tourism Industry In The Twenty-First Century: A Strategic Re-Evaluation, Babu P. George

Babu George

No abstract provided.

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Hábitat Y El Desafío De Las Microfinanzas, Alfredo Bateman, Cesar Ferrari, Fabio Giraldo Dec 2007

Hábitat Y El Desafío De Las Microfinanzas, Alfredo Bateman, Cesar Ferrari, Fabio Giraldo

Alfredo Bateman

No abstract provided.

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Witchcraft And Wonder In The Winter's Tale, Kirby Farrell Dec 2007

Witchcraft And Wonder In The Winter's Tale, Kirby Farrell

kirby farrell

The Winter’s Tale is constructed to generate an experience of wonder as Hermione’s statue comes to life. Audiences are meant to share what Leontes calls “The pleasure of that madness” (5.3.73). This revelatory madness is magical undoing: it dissolves the paranoid paroxysm at the outset of the play that crystallizes ideas about witchcraft, even as Hermione's play death and "resurrection" purge her of associations with witches.

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Bibliotecas, Paul J. Rich Dec 2007

Bibliotecas, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

Over the years I have donated items to Dartmouth, the Essex institute, Eton College, Harvard, Tonbridge School, the Grand Lodge of Denmark, the Grand Lodge of California, and elsewhere.

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Environmental Investment And Policy With Distortionary Taxes And Endogenous Growth, Don Fullerton, Seung Rae Kim Dec 2007

Environmental Investment And Policy With Distortionary Taxes And Endogenous Growth, Don Fullerton, Seung Rae Kim

Don Fullerton

Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all of those elements. We show how the combination affects results from each prior model, focusing on two parameters that represent the need for distorting taxes, and the productivity of abatement knowledge relative to pollution. First, these two extensions can reverse the prior finding that pollution tax revenue is more than enough to pay for public abatement R&D. Second, tax distortions and externalities …

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Economics: An Introduciton To Traditonal And Progressive Views, Howard J. Sherman, E. K. Hunt, Reynold Nesiba, Phillip O'Hara, Barbara Weins-Tours Dec 2007

Economics: An Introduciton To Traditonal And Progressive Views, Howard J. Sherman, E. K. Hunt, Reynold Nesiba, Phillip O'Hara, Barbara Weins-Tours

HOWARD J SHERMAN

Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated, this classic text offers a broader intellectual foundation than traditional principles textbooks. It introduces students to both traditional economic views and their progressive critique. The text puts the study of microeconomics, macroeconomics, and globalization into historical context. While covering the same topics as a traditional text, it also offers a richer discussion of economic history and the history of economic thought, including the ideas of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and John Maynard Keynes. This enables students to see economics as a way of understanding the world--a lens for social analysis--rather than as immutable truth or …

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Masculinities Go To Community College: Understanding Male Identity Socialization And Gender Role Conflict, Frank Harris, Shaun R. Harper Dec 2007

Masculinities Go To Community College: Understanding Male Identity Socialization And Gender Role Conflict, Frank Harris, Shaun R. Harper

Frank Harris III

Previous research has neglected to explore identities and development among male students at community colleges. This chapter provides some insight into who these men are, their precollege gender socialization experiences, and conflicts that impede the development of productive masculinities.

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Optimal Public Goods Provision: Implications Of Endogenizing The Labor/Leisure Choice, Nicholas E. Flores, Philip E. Graves Dec 2007

Optimal Public Goods Provision: Implications Of Endogenizing The Labor/Leisure Choice, Nicholas E. Flores, Philip E. Graves

PHILIP E GRAVES

Conventional analysis of public goods provision aggregates individual willingness to pay while treating income as exogenous, ignoring the fact that we generate income to allow us to purchase utility-generating goods. We explore the implications of endogenizing the lahor-leisure decision by explicitly considering leisure demand in a model of public goods provision. We consider benefit analysis of public goods provision and find that increments of the public good will generally be under-valued using conventional analysis while decrements to the public good (rare in public good settings) will be overvalued (JELC91,D61,Q5I)

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"Evolving Notions Of Corporate Responsibility: Seizing The Next Horizon", Art Stewart Dec 2007

"Evolving Notions Of Corporate Responsibility: Seizing The Next Horizon", Art Stewart

Art Stewart

No abstract provided.

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"Getting It Right On Nonprofit Partnerships", Art Stewart Dec 2007

"Getting It Right On Nonprofit Partnerships", Art Stewart

Art Stewart

No abstract provided.

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Comentario Del Artículo De Alfonso Herranz-Loncán "Railroad Impact In Backward Economies: Spain, 1850 - 1913", Javier Agudo Dec 2007

Comentario Del Artículo De Alfonso Herranz-Loncán "Railroad Impact In Backward Economies: Spain, 1850 - 1913", Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

Herranz-Loncán concluye que el ferrocarril sí tuvo un importante impacto en la economía española, pero no superior al experimentado en otros países como, por ejemplo, Inglaterra. ¿Cómo se explica entonces que el ferrocarril tenga el mismo impacto en un país que no tenía apenas vías de comunicación alternativas que en Inglaterra, donde ya existía una extensa y densa red de canales? La respuesta es que el transporte por ferrocarril tenía una importancia muy reducida en el total del PIB español. La economía española era una economía atrasada, y una gran parte de ella permaneció ajena al ferrocarril hasta mucho más …

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Comentario Del Artículo De Joan R. Rosés Y Blanca Sánchez-Alonso "Regional Wage Convergence In Spain 1850 - 1930", Javier Agudo Dec 2007

Comentario Del Artículo De Joan R. Rosés Y Blanca Sánchez-Alonso "Regional Wage Convergence In Spain 1850 - 1930", Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

Entre los años 1850 y 1930, España experimentó una importante convergencia de los salarios en las distintas regiones, al nivel de otros países europeos, si bien hay que destacar el periodo excepcional de la I Guerra Mundial, en el que aumentaron las divergencias. Los movimientos migratorios no son una variable explicativa importante en el caso de España puesto que, exceptuando los años posteriores a la I Guerra Mundial, no fueron de suficiente entidad. Hay que buscar en la creación de un mercado nacional sin barreras la causa explicativa de la convergencia de los salarios.

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The Changing Role Of The State In The British Economy Between 1914 And 1921, Javier Agudo Dec 2007

The Changing Role Of The State In The British Economy Between 1914 And 1921, Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

The First World War represented the first high profile war that took place after the developed world had experienced the Industrial Revolution, and the international economic relations between countries had never been so strong. Based principally in the work by R. H. Tawney "The abolition of economic controls, 1918-1921" (Tawney; 1943), I am going to try to explain in this essay the role of the state during the conflict and how the Government reacted to the different problems that aroused in this period.

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Comentario Del Artículo De Joan R. Rosés "Why Isn’T The Whole Of Spain Industrialized? New Economic Geography And Early Industrilalization, 1797-1910", Javier Agudo Dec 2007

Comentario Del Artículo De Joan R. Rosés "Why Isn’T The Whole Of Spain Industrialized? New Economic Geography And Early Industrilalization, 1797-1910", Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

España se convirtió en un mercado plenamente integrado a la lo largo del siglo XIX. Rosés no tiene ninguna duda de este hecho. Por ello, las teorías de los historiadores que intentan explicar el desarrollo de las regiones como entidades separadas no tienen ninguna consistencia. Es a través de la nueva geografía económica como puede darse una respuesta coherente y completa a por qué no toda España está industrializada.

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Charles P. Daly's Gendered Geography, 1860-1890, Karen M. Morin Dec 2007

Charles P. Daly's Gendered Geography, 1860-1890, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

The American Geographical Society (AGS) serves as a case study for considering the nature of “gendered geography” in the nineteenth-century United States. This article links the ideals and programmatic interests of the society—which were fundamentally commercial in nature—with the personal subjectivity of its chief protagonist, Charles P. Daly, AGS president from 1864 until his death in 1899. Daly is presented as an “armchair explorer” who shifted the focus of the society away from statistical representations of the world toward the action packed narrative descriptions of the world supplied by embodied explorers in the field. The gender dynamics associated with the …

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