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Race And Male Joblessness In Milwaukee: 2008, Marc V. Levine

Center for Economic Development Publications

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of Chimpanzee Use In Human Cancer Research, Jarrod Bailey

Laboratory Experiments Collection

Advocates of chimpanzee research claim the genetic similarity of humans and chimpanzees make them an indispensable research tool to combat human diseases. Given that cancer is a leading cause of human death worldwide, one might expect that if chimpanzees were needed for, or were productive in, cancer research, then they would have been widely used. This comprehensive literature analysis reveals that chimpanzees have scarcely been used in any form of cancer research, and that chimpanzee tumours are extremely rare and biologically different from human cancers. Often, chimpanzee citations described peripheral use of chimpanzee cells and genetic material in predominantly human …

Response To Displaced Neighbours In A Territorial Songbird With A Large Repertoire, Elodie F. Briefer, Thierry Aubin, Fanny Rybak

Ethology Collection

Neighbour recognition allows territory owners to modulate their territorial response according to the threat posed by each neighbour and thus to reduce the costs associated with territorial defence. Individual acoustic recognition of neighbours has been shown in numerous bird species, but few of them had a large repertoire. Here, we tested individual vocal recognition in a songbird with a large repertoire, the skylark Alauda arvensis. We first examined the physical basis for recognition in the song, and we then experimentally tested recognition by playing back songs of adjacent neighbours and strangers. Males showed a lower territorial response to adjacent neighbours …

Moral Emotions And Social Activism: The Case Of Animal Rights, Harold A. Herzog, Lauren L. Golden

Animal Welfare Collection

Why do some people and not others become involved in social movements? We examined the relationships between a moral emotion—disgust—and animal activism, attitudes toward animal welfare, and consumption of meat. Participants were recruited through two social networking websites and included animal activists, promoters of animal use, and participants not involved in animal-related causes. They took an online survey which included measures of sensitivity to visceral disgust, attitudes toward animal welfare, and frequency of meat eating. Animal activists were more sensitive to visceral disgust than were promoters of animal use or nonaligned participants. Disgust sensitivity was positively correlated with attitudes toward …

Evaluation Of Laparoscopic Appendectomy Vs. Open Appendectomy: A Retrospective Study At Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, Tazeen S. Ali Dr, Yasmin Parpio Dr, Shaheena Bhatti Dr, Ghina Shamsi Dr, Yasmin Vellani Dr

Tazeen S Ali Dr

Objective: To compare open and laparoscopic appendectomies and to evaluate the level of efficacy of both types of appendectomy performed at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH). Methods: Based on this strong study rationale, a clinical audit of patient's records was performed to evaluate the significance of this technique as a treatment modality. The study population comprised of patients with appendicitis admitted in the Department of Surgery from January 2004 to December 2004. The patients' charts were reviewed to ascertain whether the procedure was done as an acute case or as an elective procedure. The predictor variables explored in this study …

Policies Towards High-Skilled Immigrants In The Eu, U.S.A. And Canada. Comparative Perspective, Hristina Petrova

Hristina Petrova

No abstract provided.

Unasur, ¿Para Qué?, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Las Empresas Ecuatorianas Son Muy Vulnerables Frente A Las De La Región, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Evolución De La Industria Guayaquileña, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Emprendimiento Y Creación De Riqueza, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Las Empresas Que Perduran, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.

Boletín De Política Comparada Volumen 1, Número 2, Augusto Reina

Augusto Reina

La particularidad de este número, radica en que todos los artículos comparten la preocupación por la elaboración de teorías y conceptos que respeten las particularidades del contexto en el cual son aplicados. De esta manera, Dieter Nohlen reflexiona sobre las estrategias de la comparación y su vinculación con la construcción de conceptos que reflejen la complejidad del contexto. Siguiendo con esta lógica, Mario Serrafero retoma el debate sobre las reelecciones en América Latina y cómo ha evolucionado esta problemática desde los años noventa hasta la actualidad. A continuación, Daniel Chasquetti nos brinda un análisis sobre las internas partidarias realizadas el …

Asalariados De La Muerte. Sicariato Y Criminalidad En Colombia., Alexander Montoya Prada

Alexander Montoya Prada

El sicariato es un recurso utilizado en el desarrollo de conflictos sociales desde el ámbito público estatal hasta el privado íntimo. En este artículo hacemos un recorrido de los últimos 30 años en la historia de Colombia, para estudiar la manera como se relaciona con diferentes actores y procesos, como los del narcotráfico y el paramilitarismo, describiendo la trayectoria de los sicarios, modus operandi, niveles de organización, móviles de los contratantes y tarifas. De igual manera abordamos la relación y la reacción del Estado ante el sicariato, con políticas de justicia, seguridad y rehabilitación.

Negotiating The Right Of Return, Neophytos Loizides, Marcos Antoniades

Neophytos Loizides

Negotiating the right of return is a central issue in post-conflict societies aiming to resolve tensions between human rights issues and security concerns. Peace proposals often fail to carefully balance these tensions or to identify incentives and linkages that enable refugee return. To address this gap, the article puts forward an alternative arrangement in negotiating refugee rights currently being considered in the bilateral negotiations in Cyprus. Previous peace plans for the reunification of the island emphasized security and stipulated a maximum number of Greek Cypriot refugees eligible to return under future Turkish Cypriot administration. The authors’ alternative suggests a minimum …

Settlers And Mobilization In Cyprus: Antinomies Of Ethnic Conflict And Immigration Politics, Neophytos Loizides

Neophytos Loizides

The article aims to resolve tensions between legal, humanitarian and pragmatic considerations in the evaluation of settler questions in contested territories, looking primarily at populations relocated from Turkey to Cyprus after 1974. The presence of Turkish settlers complicates mediations for a federal settlement in the island and constitutes a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. However, in sociological terms, the Turkish settlers meet the profile of an immigrant population more interested in welfare and daily survival issues than in politics. In contrast to other contemporary or historical cases of settler colonialism, what is particularly puzzling in Cyprus is …

Euro Versus Dolar, Wenceslao Gimenez Bonet

Wenceslao Gimenez Bonet

Desde septiembre 2008, la crisis internacional en los mercados financieros nos ha puesto a prueba acerca de lo que realmente pensamos o creemos sobre la intervención del estado en la economía. Al igual que en la crisis del ’30, la salida pensada y ejecutada desde los centros de poder ha sido un plan de rescate de distintas compañías y sectores económicos, sin advertir que una vez que comenzamos por un sector seguimos por otros.

Monopolistic Screening With Boundedly Rational Consumers, Suren Basov

Suren Basov

In this paper, I revisit the monopolistic screening problem with two types assuming that consumers are boundedly rational. Bounded rationality implies that the revelation principle does not apply and the choice of the selling mechanism entails a loss of generality. I show that if the monopolist restricts attention to the mechanisms that offer menus of two choices, the profits are lower than in the case of fully rational consumers by the term of order ln k/k, where k is the degree of rationality of the consumers. The monopolist, however, can approximate the profits earned when consumers are fully rational by …

Examining The "Csi-Effect" In The Cases Of Circumstantial Evidence And Eyewitness Testimony: Multivariate And Path Analyses, Hon. Donald E. Shelton, Young S. Kim, Gregg Barak

Hon. Donald E. Shelton

As part of a larger investigation of the changing nature of juror behavior in the context of technology development, this study examined important questions unanswered by previous studies on the “CSI-effect.” In answering such questions, the present study applied multivariate and path analyses for the first time. The results showed that (a) watching CSI dramas had no independent effect on jurors' verdicts, (b) the exposure to CSI dramas did not interact with individual characteristics, (c) different individual characteristics were significantly associated with different types of evidence, and (d) CSI watching had no direct effect on jurors' decisions, and it had …

Mergers And Ceo Power, Felipe Balmaceda Assoc Prof.

Felipe Balmaceda

In this paper I propose a model of mergers in which synergies and CEO power play a crucial role. A merger is modeled as a bargaining game between the acquiring and target board of directors with the gains from a merger divided according to the generalized Nash-bargaining solution. The model's implications are consistent with the available empirical evidence on stock returns, and yield some new untested implications that are mainly related to the relationship between CEO power, cor- porate governance and mergers. Finally, the model sheds light on the relationship between aggregate merger activity, synergies and CEO power. (JEL: G34, …

Intent And Execution In The Construction Of Performance Stories By Police Services – The Annual Reports Of The Police Services Of Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Chicago And London Compared., Gordon Marnoch

Gordon Marnoch

Annual reports play a significant part in the process of governance. In addressing performance, the annual report will typically convey a sense of organizational identity, record achievements and explain key public service processes. The current dominance of new public management (NPM) approaches to measuring performance is of great significance in influencing how police services construct annual reports. For the reader of annual reports wishing to inform themselves about the performance of a public service organization the ‘story’ is of crucial importance. Considerable variation is found with respect to the four 'performance stries' examined.

Komsumuz Ame-Irak (Our Neighbor Ame-Iraq), Cuneyt M. Yenigun

Cuneyt M. Yenigun

This article elaborates Iraq's Invasion in 2003 and potential consequences in the country and the region.

Investigación Urbana Y Revistas, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Presentación hecha en Santiago de Chile en el marco del Encuentro de la Red de Revistas Urbanas de América Latina, septiembre de 2009

Políticas Integrales Y Convivencia En Las Ciudades De América Latina. Servicios Urbanos E Inclusión, Fernando Carrión Mena, Grace Benalcazar Z.

Fernando Carrión Mena

La Alcaldía del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, el Instituto de las Naciones Unidas para la Formación Profesional e Investigaciones (UNITAR) y el Centro Internacional de Formación de las Autoridades y Agentes Locales (CIFAL) de Barcelona, con el apoyo de la empresa Veolia Environnement y Proactiva Medio Ambiente, organizaron el 27 y 28 de junio de 2008 en Quito la conferencia internacional denominada Políticas urbanas integrales y convivencia en las ciudades de América Latina. Servicios urbanos e inclusión.

En el evento se pusieron en cuestión los desafíos de cómo construir políticas integrales de ciudad para mejorar la convivencia ciudadana. Los resultados …

Dynamic Endogenous Risks & Non-Expected Utility Behavior, Ram Ranjan, Jason Shogren

Ram Ranjan

The theory of endogenous risk captures the idea that people self-protect and self-insure to reduce risks to human and environmental health. Herein we extend the standard static model to include the realities of (1) dynamic and multiple risks, and (2) non-expected utility (non-EU) behavior. Our results suggest both self-protection and self-insurance decrease for any one risk when cumulative dynamic risks are large and when multiple risks exist. If people are non-EU maximizers, self-protection and self-insurance also decline when they follow the conservatism heuristic (insufficient weighting of new information). In addition, if non-EU people over- and under-weight probabilities of bad states, …

Doing Gender Difference Through Greeting Cards: The Construction Of A Communication Gap In Marketing And Everyday Practice., Emily West

Emily E. West

Greeting card communication reflects the highly gendered division of both emotional and domestic labor in American culture. It’s generally thought that American men do not take as much responsibility for sending greeting cards as women, or display competence in this mode of communication, and both survey data and field work with greeting card consumers confirm this overall pattern. For many women, greeting card communication is part of a feminized habitus that includes kinship work as well as routine provisioning for the household. For men, taking an interest in greeting cards can seem like discrediting behavior for heterosexual masculinity, and so …

West Bend Public Library Wins Wisconsin Proquest Intellectual Freedom Award, M Peterson

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

Pick The New Name For "West Bend Citizens For Safe Libraries", Concerned West Bend Citizen

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

First Year Students Uwg 1101 And Ingram Library: Introducing First Years Students To Library Resources Through Google Books And Scholar, Diane M. Fulkerson

Diane M. Fulkerson

No abstract provided.

The El Paso Zoo: 2008 Economic Impact On El Paso, Texas, Brent Mccune, David A. Schauer, Elizabeth K. Gibson, Roberto Tinajero, Guadalupe Corral, Carlos Olmedo, Dennis L. Soden

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Booty Calls: Is It Just About Sex?, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

It may seem that booty calls serve men more so than women. After all, men desire sex more than women – a notion often rationalised by the lower biological cost of sex to men, compared to women. However, if booty calls favour men more than women, why might women be inclined to entertain calls for casual sex? Psychology professor Norman Li believes that booty calls should be looked upon as more than just sex; that it is, in fact, a strategy employed by both sexes in negotiating between their needs.