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History Of Aei And A+ Education, Lance Deveson, Stuart Hughes Jan 2012

History Of Aei And A+ Education, Lance Deveson, Stuart Hughes

Lance Deveson

A power point presentation on the history, key features and content of the Australian Education Index (AEI) and the associated Informit database A+ Education.


Marketing Knowledge And Problems Faced By Onion Growers Of Chitradurga District Of Karnataka, Gopala Y. M Mr. Jan 2012

Marketing Knowledge And Problems Faced By Onion Growers Of Chitradurga District Of Karnataka, Gopala Y. M Mr.

GOPALA Y.M

The study was conducted in Chitradurga district during 2010-11 to know the marketing knowledge and marketing problems faced by the onion growers. The findings of the study depicts that considerable percentage (41.25%) of the onion growers belongs to medium level of marketing knowledge category. Whereas, 31.25, 27.50 per cent of the respondents belongs to low and high marketing knowledge categories, respectively. Major problems faced by onion growers are fluctuation in market price, followed by high cost of transportation and absence of storage facilities. Fixing minimum price for the produce, display of price at each market places, providing storage facilities and …


Book Review On Gordon Mathews. Ghetto At The Center Of The World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong., Leung-Sea, Lucia Siu Jan 2012

Book Review On Gordon Mathews. Ghetto At The Center Of The World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong., Leung-Sea, Lucia Siu

Prof. SIU Leung-sea, Lucia

No abstract provided.


Hip-Hop And Procedural Justice: Hip-Hop Artists' Perceptions Of Criminal Justice, Howard M. Henderson Jan 2012

Hip-Hop And Procedural Justice: Hip-Hop Artists' Perceptions Of Criminal Justice, Howard M. Henderson

Howard M Henderson

Despite its popularity, hip-hop has remained one of the most woefully underexamined topics within criminal justice and criminology. Given the reality that hip-hop music represents lyrical expressions from criminal justice’s most overrepresented population; the aforementioned paucity is all the more perplexing. Utilizing a latent and manifest content analysis of a random sample of 200 hip-hop songs, drawn from platinum-selling albums between the years 2000 and 2010, the current study examined the manner and extent to which hip-hop artist’s portrayed the criminal justice system. The results demonstrated that law enforcement was the branch of the criminal justice system most likely to …


Race, Gender, And The "School To Prison Pipeline": Expanding Our Discussion To Include Black Girls, Monique W. Morris Jan 2012

Race, Gender, And The "School To Prison Pipeline": Expanding Our Discussion To Include Black Girls, Monique W. Morris

Monique W. Morris

No abstract provided.


Nam: Its Relevance In New Global Order An Essay For Contemporary World, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Jan 2012

Nam: Its Relevance In New Global Order An Essay For Contemporary World, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

NAM is criticised in the contemporary world but it has relevance in many respects. the world is undergoing many changes and many new problems have come up. NAM has potential to face these.Hence a new approach is required to understand the true potential of NAM.


Overview Of The Israeli Memory Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem, Rafi Nets-Zehngut Jan 2012

Overview Of The Israeli Memory Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem, Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Rafi Nets-Zehngut

This article explores the way in which seven main Israeli institutions presented between 1949 and 2004 the causes for the main historical event of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian conflict – the 1948 Palestinian exodus, which led to the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. This is done by analyzing all the publications of three state institutions – the national Information Center, the army (IDF), and the Ministry of Education, and four Israeli-Jewish societal institutions – the research community, 1948 war veterans, NGOs, and newspapers. In addition, findings from a 2008 pubic opinion survey regarding the Israeli-Jewish memory of the exodus are presented. …


Studies Of Israeli/Jewish Scholars Regarding The Palestinian Exodus During The War Of Independence (Hebrew), Rafi Nets-Zehngut Jan 2012

Studies Of Israeli/Jewish Scholars Regarding The Palestinian Exodus During The War Of Independence (Hebrew), Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Rafi Nets-Zehngut

מאמר זה מתאר את האופן שבו מחקרים של חוקרים יהודים, מישראל ומחוץ לה, הציגו בין 1949 ל-2004 את הסיבות לעזיבת הפליטים הפלסטינים ב-1948. מתודולוגית, הממצאים מבוססים על ניתוח כל המחקרים שפורסמו במהלך תקופת המחקר כמו גם ראיונות שבוצעו עם חלק מהחוקרים. לפי הממצאים, עד לשלהי שנות ה-70 כל המחקרים של חוקרים מישראל הציגו את הנרטיב הציוני לגבי עזיבת הפלסטינים (עזיבה מרצון עקב קריאת מנהיגים ופחד). ממועד זה חל שינוי ניכר היות ורוב המחקרים של חוקרים אלו הציגו את הנרטיב הביקורתי (שבהמשך כונה לרוב "פוסט ציוני") – חלק מהפלסטינים עזבו מרצון מסיבות שונות בעוד שחלקם גורשו; ומשלהי שנות ה-80 – הרוב …


Internal And External Collective Memories Of Confclits - Israel And The 1948 Palestinian Exodus, Rafi Nets-Zehngut Jan 2012

Internal And External Collective Memories Of Confclits - Israel And The 1948 Palestinian Exodus, Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Rafi Nets-Zehngut

The general category of collective memory of conflicts includes several kinds of memories (e.g., official, autobiographical, and historical – of scholars) that the literature typically discusses as a unified phenomenon. This article demonstrates that each of these kinds of memory comprises two types of submemories: internal (how the holders of a sub-memory actually view the history of a conflict) and external (how they publicly express their views of that history). Empirically, the research is based on an examination of Israeli official, autobiographical, and historical memories from 1949 to 2004 concerning the causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus. Methodologically, it uses …


Elected Women Representatives In Panchayat Raj, Rakesh K. Singh Jan 2012

Elected Women Representatives In Panchayat Raj, Rakesh K. Singh

Rakesh K Singh

The 73rd Constitution Amendment has created space for women in political participation and decision-making at the grass roots level by reserving one-third of the seats all over the country. This landmark legislation gave India the unique distinction of having more number of elected women representatives (EWRs) than the rest of the world together.


Formułowanie Strategii Rozwoju Województw – Wnioski Z Badań Eksploracyjnych, Piotr Czarnecki, Dariusz Woźniak Jan 2012

Formułowanie Strategii Rozwoju Województw – Wnioski Z Badań Eksploracyjnych, Piotr Czarnecki, Dariusz Woźniak

Dariusz Woźniak

The use of regional analysis tools to diagnose regional economy and to desing regional policy is a subject of presented article. On the basis of own survey (regions of Poland, NUTS2 level) conclusions on the programming process in voivodships are drawn.


“Trends In Public And Private Investments In Agricultural R&D: Implications For Growth”, Sandeep Kumar Jan 2012

“Trends In Public And Private Investments In Agricultural R&D: Implications For Growth”, Sandeep Kumar

Sandeep Kumar Baliyan

The role of higher R&D investments in pushing Indian agriculture on higher growth trajectory is being widely recognised, however, it is all the more important to set right priorities of R&D investments with improved efficiency to gear up the economy. This article seeks to examine the recent trends in government expenditures and private R&D investments for agriculture; along with sectoral and regional priorities. Our study clearly showed that the expenditure on agricultural research which grew with an impressive rate of 6 per cent during the 1980s, slowed down to 3 per cent since the 1990s seem to be a concern …


Modeling Customer Behavior And Social Relations With Analytical Profiles, Jerzy Surma Jan 2012

Modeling Customer Behavior And Social Relations With Analytical Profiles, Jerzy Surma

Jerzy Surma

Contemporary companies try to build customer relationship management systems based on the customersocial relations and behavioral patterns. This is in correspondence with the current trend in marketing thatis to move from broadcast marketing operation to a one-to-one marketing. The key issue in this activity ispredicting to which products or services a particular customer was likely to respond to. In order to buildcustomer relationship management systems, companies have to learn to understand their customer inthe broader social context. The key hypothesis in this approach is that the predictors of behavior in thefuture are customers behavior patterns in the past. This is …


Regulation Of Hydraulic Fracturing Of Shale Gas Formations In The United States, Fatemeh Z. Bagheri Jan 2012

Regulation Of Hydraulic Fracturing Of Shale Gas Formations In The United States, Fatemeh Z. Bagheri

Fatemeh Z. Bagheri

Hydraulic fracturing has a long history and was first developed in Sweden in 1878 and was used for offshore drilling in the 1930s. The version of the hydraulic fracturing technique in existence today was first used in 1947. However, it was not commercially used until 1998 (Cummans 2012). The practice has been used in other states across the country and at almost every site that it has been introduced controversy has surrounded the prospects for pursuing the gas extraction project. Hydraulic fracturing has made it possible to extract oil and gas that were economically inaccessible and is used in areas …


La Reconfiguración De La Profesión Académica En México, Jesús F. Galaz Fontes, Manuel Gil Antón, Laura E. Padilla González, Juan J. Sevilla García, José L. Arcos Vega, Jorge G. Martínez Stack Jan 2012

La Reconfiguración De La Profesión Académica En México, Jesús F. Galaz Fontes, Manuel Gil Antón, Laura E. Padilla González, Juan J. Sevilla García, José L. Arcos Vega, Jorge G. Martínez Stack

Jesús Francisco Galaz Fontes

Durante el ciclo escolar 2007-2008, como parte del proyecto internacional "La Profesión Académica en Transición," se implementó la encuesta "La Reconfiguración de la Profesión Académica en México." Con base en una muestra representativa de casi dos mil dos mil académicos de tiempo completo que laboraban en instituciones de educación superior de todo el territorio nacional, la Red de Investigadores sobre Académicos recolectó información sobre las trayectorias, condiciones de trabajo, actividades académicas, productividad, actitudes institucionales y perfil socioeconómico. El presente volumen constituye un compendio de reflexiones y reportes sobre esos aspectos, presentados en foros nacionales e internacionales desde 2008 por diferentes …


Identyfikowanie I Klasyfikowanie Barier Zarządzania Wiedzą, Anna Ujwary-Gil Jan 2012

Identyfikowanie I Klasyfikowanie Barier Zarządzania Wiedzą, Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie różnych ujęć klasyfikowania barier zarządzania wiedzą, ze szczególnym wskazaniem procesu identyfikowania barier z wykorzystaniem morfologii pola problemowego oraz metody delfickiej. Oba podejścia mogą zaowocować rozpoznaniem zbioru barier, adekwatnych do warunków funkcjonowania danej organizacji. Na podstawie przeglądu badań poszukiwano konsensusu w klasyfikowaniu barier zarządzania wiedzą w przedsiębiorstwie. Główny podział kształtuje się w oparciu o wewnętrzny (kontrolowany), bądź zewnętrzny (ograniczony stopień kontroli) charakter tych barier i określenie wpływu ich oddziaływania zarówno na przedsiębiorstwo, jak i pracowników. Autorka zaproponowała główny podział barier zarządzania wiedzą ze względu na poziom analizy wiedzy, rodzaje barier oraz proces wiedzy. W oparciu o trójwymiarowy …


Contemporary Innovation And Entrepreneurship Concepts, Journal Of Entrepreneurship, Management And Innovation, Vol. 8, Issue 4, Anna Ujwary-Gil Jan 2012

Contemporary Innovation And Entrepreneurship Concepts, Journal Of Entrepreneurship, Management And Innovation, Vol. 8, Issue 4, Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

This collection of articles constitutes an important review of innovativeness concepts in micro and macro perspectives and innovation capital measurement as well as organizational learning, modeling and problem-solving, age management or female entrepreneurship. Employees and their innovative behavior are of crucial importance for the organization’s market success. The article provided by researchers from HIVA- KULeuven and CESO-KULeuven contributed to the discussion on how organizations can become more learning and flexible through innovative involvement of their employees. The research also emphasized the significance of distinguishing between various categories of employees (blue versus white-collar workers) in the context of variables used in …


Toll Booths On The Information Superhighway? Policy Metaphors In The Case Of Net Neutrality, Todd K. Hartman Jan 2012

Toll Booths On The Information Superhighway? Policy Metaphors In The Case Of Net Neutrality, Todd K. Hartman

Todd K. Hartman

Scholars have argued for centuries that metaphors are persuasive in politics, yet scant experimental research exists to validate these assertions. Two experiments about the issue of federally regulating the Internet were conducted to test whether metaphors confer a unique persuasive advantage relative to conventional messages. The results of these studies confirm that an apt metaphor can be a powerful tool of persuasion. Moreover, the evidence suggests that metaphor-induced persuasion works particularly well for politically unsophisticated citizens by increasing assessments of message quality. Ultimately, this research concerns how individuals make sense of politics and how policymakers can use what we know …


Decomposing The Sources Of Earnings Inequality: Assessing The Role Of Reallocation, Julia Ingrid Lane Jan 2012

Decomposing The Sources Of Earnings Inequality: Assessing The Role Of Reallocation, Julia Ingrid Lane

Julia Ingrid Lane

This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using standard cross-sectional data, including the entry and exit of firms and the sorting of workers across firms, are important sources of changes in earnings distributions over time. Our results also suggest that the dynamics driving changes in earnings inequality are heterogeneous across industries.


Productivity Gains And The Limits Of Tropical Ranching In Colombia, 1850-1950, Shawn Van Ausdal Jan 2012

Productivity Gains And The Limits Of Tropical Ranching In Colombia, 1850-1950, Shawn Van Ausdal

Shawn Van Ausdal

Contrary to the common assumption that Colombian ranchers were uninterested or unable to improve their cattle operations before the 1950s, this article provides evidence of slowly rising productivity indices from the mid-nineteenth century. These improvements were based on the diffusion of African grasses, new breeds of cattle, barbed-wire fencing, and better ranch management. However, despite such gains, Colombian ranchers failed to break into the international beef trade; their productivity levels did not rise sufficiently to compete against major exporters such as Argentina. Nonetheless, the gains they made suggest that this failure was not simply rooted in the backward and non-productive …


A New Index Of Legislative Oversight, Riccardo Pelizzo Jan 2012

A New Index Of Legislative Oversight, Riccardo Pelizzo

riccardo pelizzo

The purpose of this paper is to present a new index of legislative oversight. Building on the work by Stapenhurst (2011), who argued that a proper index of legislative oversight capacity should reflect not only legislatures’ internal oversight capacity but also the impact of contextual factors, we devise and propose a modified version of the Stapenhurst. The results of the empirical analyses presented in the paper sustain the claim that when properly operationalized and measured, legislative oversight capacity is a good predictor of legislative oversight effectiveness and other policy relevant results.


Black Cnn: A Review Of Lester K. Spence's Stare In The Darkness: The Limits Of Hip Hop And Black Politics, Aaron J. Shuler Jan 2012

Black Cnn: A Review Of Lester K. Spence's Stare In The Darkness: The Limits Of Hip Hop And Black Politics, Aaron J. Shuler

Aaron J Shuler

No abstract provided.


Willful [Color-] Blindness: The Supreme Court's Equal Protection Of Ascription, Aaron J. Shuler Jan 2012

Willful [Color-] Blindness: The Supreme Court's Equal Protection Of Ascription, Aaron J. Shuler

Aaron J Shuler

Rogers Smith in his "Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America," warns of novel legal systems reconstituting ascriptive American inequality. The post-Warren Courts' approach to Equal Protection, specifically their unwillingness to consider disparate impact and the difference between invidious and benign practices, betrays an "ironic innocence" as described by James Baldwin to a history of racial discrimination and domination, and a disavowal of a hiearchy that the Court perpetuates.


Grumpy Old Men: A Correlation Between Irritation And Intolerance For Marriage Equality, Aaron J. Shuler Jan 2012

Grumpy Old Men: A Correlation Between Irritation And Intolerance For Marriage Equality, Aaron J. Shuler

Aaron J Shuler

The Gay Equality Movement has made expeditious strides in the last few decades. Most progress in accepting attitudes toward homosexuals has been made in groups that are traditionally associated with liberal views toward minority groups: the young, the educated, and, to a lesser extent, women. This paper seeks to use membership in those groups as control variables to determine whether another less understood independent variable bears on tolerance. Specifically, this paper uses data from the American National Election Survey from 2008-09 and Alan Gerber’s work on the “Big Five” personality traits to determine whether irritated or less agreeable citizens are …


Contracting In Modern World, Enrico Baffi Jan 2012

Contracting In Modern World, Enrico Baffi

enrico baffi

In this paper I try explore some of the basic features of modern mass contracting. In my opinion, there are basically four characteristics of modern mass contracting: a)he reduced negotiations; b) the dissemination of standard form contracts; c) the presence of abusive clauses; d) and the recapitulation of the contract and its execution in a single act of stipulation. All the changes are the consequences in the changes of relative costs of activities: a) The reduction in negotiations is the result first of all of the costs that this activity requires and of the costs required to manage personalized contracts; …


His Experience: Toward A Phenomenological Understanding Of Academic Capital Formation Among Black And Latino Male Students, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Collin D. Williams Jr., David Pérez Ii, Ph.D., Demetri L. Morgan Jan 2012

His Experience: Toward A Phenomenological Understanding Of Academic Capital Formation Among Black And Latino Male Students, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Collin D. Williams Jr., David Pérez Ii, Ph.D., Demetri L. Morgan

Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D.

St. John, Hu, and Fisher (2011) define academic capital formation as “social processes that build family knowledge of educational and career options and support navigation through educational systems.” The authors suggest that particular interventions, programs, and services can equip students from lower-income backgrounds and their families with knowledge of and membership in networks that ultimately help them access colleges and universities, attain postsecondary degrees, and transition into the middle class. This chapter focuses on academic capital formation among Black and Latino male students, with a particular emphasis on giving voice to their navigational experiences along various dimensions of the St. …


A Role For Policymakers In Improving The Status Of Black Male Students In U.S. Higher Education, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Frank Harris Iii, Ed.D. Jan 2012

A Role For Policymakers In Improving The Status Of Black Male Students In U.S. Higher Education, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Frank Harris Iii, Ed.D.

Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D.

Given the systemic nature of racial achievement and opportunity gaps in education and their disproportionate impact on Black men, postsecondary institutions alone cannot close them. Participation from multiple stakeholder groups is necessary. This report calls for greater involvement by federal and state policymakers, high school counselors, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, the policymaking organization for intercollegiate athletics), community–based organizations, and other groups in ongoing efforts to improve the status of Black undergraduate men. In support of this goal, this report presents policy–relevant data from the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Justice, NCAA Federal Graduation Rates Database, and …


Attracting Black Male Students To Research Careers In Education: A Report From The Grad Prep Academy Project, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Andrew C. Porter, Ph.D. Jan 2012

Attracting Black Male Students To Research Careers In Education: A Report From The Grad Prep Academy Project, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Andrew C. Porter, Ph.D.

Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D.

This report is about the University of Pennsylvania’s Grad Prep Academy, a project that prepares Black undergraduate men for graduate study and research-related careers in the field of education. The project is also a longitudinal research study that enables us to analyze Black men’s trajectories from undergraduate study through graduate degree programs and eventually into their careers. Eighteen students participated in our first two cohorts of Academy Scholars. The project described in this report, as well as the recommendations we offer, can be instructive for other schools of education and a range of stakeholders who are concerned about the diversity …


كيف دعمت الجغرافيا والتاريخ وحدة ليبيا, Mansour M. Elbabour Jan 2012

كيف دعمت الجغرافيا والتاريخ وحدة ليبيا, Mansour M. Elbabour

Mansour M Elbabour

No abstract provided.


Wick Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge Jan 2012

Wick Irrigation, David A. Bainbridge

David A Bainbridge

Wick irrigation offers the potential for very low cost, robust microirrigation in difficult environments. Wick irrigation was first used in India in combination with buried clay pot irrigation. It has proven itself in the most severe desert conditions.