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To Share Or Not To Share: Cancer And What Teachers Should Tell Students About It, Robert A. Eckhart Dec 2010

To Share Or Not To Share: Cancer And What Teachers Should Tell Students About It, Robert A. Eckhart

Robert A. Eckhart

How much personal information to disclose to students is a fundamental question teachers have been asking themselves for decades. How much should teachers tell their students – a lot or a little? How should they tell them –in class, or face-to-face? Should the teacher only tell their students in a limited manner and then not answer questions, or should they be prepared to answer any and all questions the students might have? These are difficult questions, but if the teacher approaches the disclosure in the right way – avoiding irrelevant, overly negative, or offensive disclosures – it can be a …


Deconstructing The Prisoner Re-Entry Industry/Complex: Origins Of The Term And A Critique Of Current Literature/Analysis, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2010

Deconstructing The Prisoner Re-Entry Industry/Complex: Origins Of The Term And A Critique Of Current Literature/Analysis, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Marriage And Fertility Dynamics In India, Premchand Dommaraju Dec 2010

Marriage And Fertility Dynamics In India, Premchand Dommaraju

Premchand Dommaraju

It is widely acknowledged that age at marriage has a significant influence on fertility, particularly in countries where childbearing occurs within marriage. However, the complexities of this relationship are poorly understood, especially during fertility transitions. This paper investigates the complex relationship between marriage and fertility by examining marriage age, marital fertility and birth interval dynamics in India using data collected in nationally representative surveys in 1992-3 and 2005-6. Much of the decline in fertility during this period is due to changes in marital fertility, while changes in marriage age had a limited role. In the case of first birth interval, …


Workers’ View Of The Impact Of Trade On Jobs, Clair Brown, Julia Ingrid Lane, Time Sturgeon Dec 2010

Workers’ View Of The Impact Of Trade On Jobs, Clair Brown, Julia Ingrid Lane, Time Sturgeon

Julia Ingrid Lane

This paper uses new data to examine how workers’ perceptions of the impact of trade on jobs are related to economic variables representing their career paths, job characteristics, and local labor market conditions. Interestingly, given prior literature, we find that workers’ perceptions do not reflect their job characteristics or the movability of their jobs. Their perceptions of trade impact primarily reflect local labor market conditions (hiring and separation rates) and education. The determinants of workers’ perceptions of trade present a different pattern compared to their perceptions of job security.


Testing The Equilibrium Exchange Rate Model, Sergio Da Silva, Guilherme Moura Dec 2010

Testing The Equilibrium Exchange Rate Model, Sergio Da Silva, Guilherme Moura

Sergio Da Silva

We find favorable evidence for the textbook equilibrium exchange rate model of Stockman using Blanchard and Quah’s decomposition. Real shocks are shown to account for more than 90 percent of movements in the real exchange rate between Brazil and the United States of America, and for more than half of the nominal exchange rate changes. Impulse response functions also suggest that real shocks alter these countries’ relative prices.


Syllabus For Presidency, Richard M. Skinner Dec 2010

Syllabus For Presidency, Richard M. Skinner

Richard M. Skinner

No abstract provided.


Filistin 2010, Ali Balci Dec 2010

Filistin 2010, Ali Balci

Ali Balci

No abstract provided.


Interlinked Factor Markets And Allocative Efficiency: A Case Study In Rural West Bengal, India, Dr. Arindam Laha, Dr.Pravat Kumar Kuri Dec 2010

Interlinked Factor Markets And Allocative Efficiency: A Case Study In Rural West Bengal, India, Dr. Arindam Laha, Dr.Pravat Kumar Kuri

Dr. Arindam Laha

The issue of the implication of interlinkage of factor markets on the allocative efficiency level of the farm households deserves a special attention in the light of the controversy among two distinct schools of thought: the Neoclassical and the Marxist. An attempt has been made in the paper to measure allocative and cost efficiencies of the interlinked holding vis-à-vis a comparable group of non-interlinked holding in the framework of Data Envelopment Analysis. Empirical evidence establishes the Neo-Classical proposition that interlinked factor markets can be considered as one of the “efficiency improving institutional change” in rural agrarian economy.


The Administrative Efficiency Of Basic Income, Lindsay J. Stirton Ph.D., Jurgen De Wispelaere Dec 2010

The Administrative Efficiency Of Basic Income, Lindsay J. Stirton Ph.D., Jurgen De Wispelaere

Lindsay J Stirton Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


The University Library: Your Partner In Teaching And Learning, Bryan Sinclair Dec 2010

The University Library: Your Partner In Teaching And Learning, Bryan Sinclair

Bryan Sinclair

No abstract provided.


Policy Narratives And Policy Processes, Shanahan A. Elizabeth Dr., Michael D. Jones Dr., Mcbeth K. Mark Dr. Dec 2010

Policy Narratives And Policy Processes, Shanahan A. Elizabeth Dr., Michael D. Jones Dr., Mcbeth K. Mark Dr.

Michael D. Jones

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has influenced a generation of policy scholars with its emphasis on causal drivers, testable hypotheses, and falsification. Until recently, the role of policy narratives has been largely neglected in ACF literature partially because much of that work has operated outside of traditional social science principles, such as falsification. Yet emerging literature under the rubric of Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) demonstrates how the role of policy narratives in policy processes is studied using the same rigorous social science standards initially set forth by Paul A. Sabatier. The NPF identifies theories specifying narrative elements and strategies that …


Dark Tourism: Towards A New Post-Disciplinary Research Agenda, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2010

Dark Tourism: Towards A New Post-Disciplinary Research Agenda, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Abstract: Over the past decade or so, dark tourism research –that is, the social scientific study of tourism and tourists associated with sites of death, disaster or the seemingly macabre – has witnessed a burgeoning of the literature base. Much of this research has a profundity that can and, undoubtedly, will contribute to broader social theories and to our understanding of culturaldynamics. Arguably, however, some dark tourism research has been characterised by a banality that either illustrates deficient conceptual underpinning or provides for limited disciplinary synthesis. Thus, in order to assuage any structural deficiencies in dark tourism as a coherent …


Introduction: Thinking About The Tourist Experience, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Introduction: Thinking About The Tourist Experience, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Tourist Experience: Contemporary Perspectives, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Tourist Experience: Contemporary Perspectives, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

To consume tourism is to consume experiences. An understanding of the ways in which tourists experience the places and people they visit is therefore fundamental to the study of the consumption of tourism. Consequently, it is not surprising that attention has long been paid in the tourism literature to particular perspectives on the tourist experience, including demand factors, tourist motivation, typologies of tourists and issues related to authenticity, commodification, image and perception. However, as tourism has continued to expand in both scale and scope, and as tourists’ needs and expectations have become more diverse and complex in response to transformations …


Socio-Cultural Impacts Of Events: Meanings, Authorised Transgression And Social Capital, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Socio-Cultural Impacts Of Events: Meanings, Authorised Transgression And Social Capital, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Dark Tourism Experiences: Mediating Between Life And Death, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Dark Tourism Experiences: Mediating Between Life And Death, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Reconceptualizing Academic Libraries And Archives In The Digital Age, Michael J. Paulus Jr. Dec 2010

Reconceptualizing Academic Libraries And Archives In The Digital Age, Michael J. Paulus Jr.

Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

This paper considers the concept of “the archive” in the digital age and the situation of libraries and archives within the lifecycle of information. After discussing the changing nature of books, records, scholarly communication, and the concept of “the archive,” this paper merges book and record lifecycle models into a new archival cycle. To avail themselves of the opportunities and to confront the challenges presented by digital materials, librarians and archivists are beginning to assume new roles and reposition themselves within this archival cycle. As professional trajectories converge, preservation can be linked with creation or distribution and it becomes easier …


Queer Youth Cultures, Brian L. Kelly Phd Dec 2010

Queer Youth Cultures, Brian L. Kelly Phd

Brian L.Kelly

No abstract provided.


Creating An American Islam: Thoughts On Religion, Identity And Place, Rhys H. Williams Dec 2010

Creating An American Islam: Thoughts On Religion, Identity And Place, Rhys H. Williams

Rhys Williams

No abstract provided.


Creating Therapeutic Relationships With Disadvantaged Children And Youth, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor Dec 2010

Creating Therapeutic Relationships With Disadvantaged Children And Youth, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor

Katherine Tyson McCrea

No abstract provided.


Of Revolution, Debt, And Social Unrest: The Challenges Of Political Risk, Beat Habegger, Kaspar Zellweger Dec 2010

Of Revolution, Debt, And Social Unrest: The Challenges Of Political Risk, Beat Habegger, Kaspar Zellweger

Beat Habegger

No abstract provided.


Worldcat Quality: An Oclc Report, Karen S. Calhoun, Glenn Patton Dec 2010

Worldcat Quality: An Oclc Report, Karen S. Calhoun, Glenn Patton

Karen S Calhoun

This report describes OCLC's steps to make it easier to find items in WorldCat and get them from OCLC member libraries. It begins with a review of WorldCat's unprecedented growth since 2008--growth which has challenged OCLC's programs for managing duplicate entries and library location (holdings) information. OCLC's 2010 implementation of new duplication detection and resolution (DDR) software helped; however, WorldCat quality needs to be further strengthened. The authors describe a special project—GLIMIR—and other WorldCat quality improvement projects intended to improve the clustering of WorldCat records and holdings for the same work, thus reducing the complexity of search result displays and …


Tax The Rich, Michael I. Niman Ph.D. Dec 2010

Tax The Rich, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

Fed up seeing your life become increasingly stressed with more debt and less cash in your pocket? Michael I. Niman has the answer, in three words


Fernando Pessoa, Hermenêutica Jurídica E Retórica, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2010

Fernando Pessoa, Hermenêutica Jurídica E Retórica, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Um curioso aspecto do pensamento de Pessoa foi deixado por ele esparso, e o que parece totalmente ao acaso dos investigadores: o Direito. Em política, temos até um auto-retrato bastante completo, e a sucessão de textos que foi escrevendo, em prosa e em verso, facilmente nos permite reconstruir um percurso, a partir das suas bases ideológicas. Mas o que pensaria Pessoa do Direito? Neste caso, o “fingidor” não fingiu, não posou para a sua tão cuidadosamente preparada fama póstuma. Estamos, assim, perante um aspecto da sua vida mental que parece ter escapado à composição para um público (ainda que futuro), …


Constituição E Utopia. E O Exemplo Da Constituição Basileira De 1988, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2010

Constituição E Utopia. E O Exemplo Da Constituição Basileira De 1988, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

As Constituições são por vezes acusadas de serem “utópicas”. Nem sabem os que assim as apodam de como estão quase certos, mas por contrárias razões às que pensam avançar. Utopia não é quimera, não é algo impossível e inatingível. Utopia é o mito da cidade ideal. Entretanto, se essas cidades ideais, na literatura, frequentemente se volvem em infernos concentracionários (distópico) a verdade é que nas Constituições (e especialmente nas constituições cidadãs, como a Portuguesa de 1976 e a Brasileira de 1988 , entre muitas outras já) há um sopro renovador do princípio esperança, vizinho da utopia: utopista. O utopismo é …


Desafios Constitucionais, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2010

Desafios Constitucionais, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Há tentativas de fazer recuar as Constituições, de as “rever e romper”. Foi um sonho desde sempre acalentado pelos inimigos e falsos amigos das constituições modernas, sociais, democráticas, culturais, humanísticas, mas que hoje encontra terreno mais propício. Porque as forças sociais, as “pedras vivas”, estão mais vulneráveis. E os “Homens Livres” menos unidos e interventivos, pelo menos por agora. E a crise gera o medo, e o medo a vã esperança em mudanças radicais, que seriam afinal para pior. É assim que se vão incubando as ditaduras. Tal ocorre sobretudo nos países que, dominados por crises económicas e financeiras, se …


Universidade: Um Manifesto Pelo Sonho, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2010

Universidade: Um Manifesto Pelo Sonho, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Por muito vilipendiado que seja, e é-o praticamente todos os dias por sociedades que recusam ser educadas e se comprazem na sua má-educação e incultura, além de por políticos impreparados, e mesmo por colegas não solidários, o Professor que o é por vocação está como Lutero: aqui está, aqui fica, não pode fazer de outra maneira. Só este professor por vocação e por sonho ainda faz a Escola valer. Até quando continuará a haver professores destes? E até onde irá a sua inadaptação com as condições em que tem de sobreviver, fazendo um papel que lhe não é reconhecido, tantas …


Concretizar A Constituição, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2010

Concretizar A Constituição, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

O presente artigo pondera observações sobre a Constituição Portuguesa: é ela realmente normativa, ou inefectiva? Impõe-se uma análise das críticas ao statu quo constitucional: dirigem-se elas à Constituição em si ou apenas ao seu deficiente cumprimento? Finalmente, em que medida é que a Constituição, parecendo a alguns impecilho para a resolução da crise, contudo pode ser adjuvante para a sua superação.


Crítica Da Razão Jurídica, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha Dec 2010

Crítica Da Razão Jurídica, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

A razão jurídica racionalista fez-se abstraccionismo e dogmatismo e tornou-se legalismo. O Direito ficou, em muitos casos, empedernido e injusto. Abrir o Direito aos sentidos e aos sentimentos, na senda, por exemplo, de um Luis Alberto Warat, sendo fascinante e iconoclasta, não é tarefa fácil, se for empresa prudente. Precisamente porque os juristas, mesmo muitos dos mais radicias, se habituaram a certos limites, e mesmo na semiótica dos seus lugares, dos seus modos e vestes reconheceríamos sombras avessas às paixões. As quais podem ser, porém, um vício oposto ao racionalismo. O desafio é reinventar a razão jurídica sem o normativismo …


"Corporate And Social Responsibility: The Changing Context For Marketing Communications Practice", Art Stewart Dec 2010

"Corporate And Social Responsibility: The Changing Context For Marketing Communications Practice", Art Stewart

Art Stewart

As corporate organizations across the spectrum of industry, markets and cultures grapple with the unrelenting fallout of economic upheaval, a surprising upside is being revealed amidst the clearing toward recovery and the resurgence of growth: It is a context for business premised upon a paradigm shift for more responsible behavior. This new paradigm is engendering dramatically changing expectations for accountability, transparency, competency and leadership integrity across society. There are new demands upon organizations to advance their ambitions within a context of demonstrable, even measurable, adherence to public interest values. As new business models are developed in alignment with changing behavior, …