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The Effects Of The One-Child Policy On The Social Status Of Women In China, Josephine Toh Oct 2015

The Effects Of The One-Child Policy On The Social Status Of Women In China, Josephine Toh

Josephine Toh

No abstract provided.


Expatriates Working In China Year 2015, Isobel Nga Oct 2015

Expatriates Working In China Year 2015, Isobel Nga

Isobel Nga

No abstract provided.


Cargo Bikes As A Growth Area For Bicycle Vs. Auto Trips: Exploring The Potential For Mode Substitution Behavior, William W. Riggs Oct 2015

Cargo Bikes As A Growth Area For Bicycle Vs. Auto Trips: Exploring The Potential For Mode Substitution Behavior, William W. Riggs

William W. Riggs

Cargo bikes are increasing in availability in the United States. While a large body of research has continued to investigate traditional bike transportation, cargo bikes offer the potential to capture trips for those that might otherwise be made by car. To investigate this, data from a survey of cargo bike users are evaluated using descriptive and inferential statistics. The survey queried how use and travel dynamics of characteristics with the hypothesis that cargo bike ownership has the potential to contribute to mode substitution behavior. From a descriptive standpoint, 68.9% of those surveyed changed their travel behavior after purchasing a cargo …


It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis Oct 2015

It Takes A Library: Growing A Robust Institutional Repository In Two Years, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis

Todd A. Bruns

No abstract provided.


Need Demographic Statistics? Numbers For Grants, Reports, And Patrons In All Libraries, Stacey Knight-Davis, Daneen Richardson Oct 2015

Need Demographic Statistics? Numbers For Grants, Reports, And Patrons In All Libraries, Stacey Knight-Davis, Daneen Richardson

Stacey Knight-Davis

Need accurate, free demographic information about your city, county, or school district? Whether you need statistical information for a grant application, facts to support a program, or need to help a student write a term paper, this session will help you find what you need. Statistics are often required to make a point. Finding the statistics you need can be a challenge. We will demonstrate several free online demographic and statistical resources at the state and federal level, as well as show you how to generate custom maps, and give you list of helpful people you can call for assistance.


Creating A Culture Of Reading: Readers' Advisory In The Academic Library, Sarah L. Johnson, Janice Derr, Pamela Ferrell Oct 2015

Creating A Culture Of Reading: Readers' Advisory In The Academic Library, Sarah L. Johnson, Janice Derr, Pamela Ferrell

Sarah L. Johnson

Readers' advisory isn’t just for public and school libraries. Popular reading collections in academic libraries can support your patrons’ recreational reading needs and their curricular needs, as well. Topics to be discussed include the benefits and challenges of establishing these collections, undergraduate students’ expectations for offerings in popular fiction and nonfiction in academic libraries, getting your staff involved in working with and promoting these materials, developing local exhibits and book lists, formalizing your commitment to popular reading through your collection development policy, and more.


Speed Tinkering With The Albertsons Library, Deana Brown, Amy Vecchione Oct 2015

Speed Tinkering With The Albertsons Library, Deana Brown, Amy Vecchione

Deana Brown

Speed dating with technology provides the hands-on experience you’re looking for! In this session, you will rotate in groups through a variety of emerging technology stations where you will explore and brainstorm how you can incorporate each tool into your own curriculum. Each station focuses on a specific technology and will have an informational sheet that includes instructions and possible learning outcomes. We’ll conclude with a discussion on how to apply what we learned.


China’S Changing Character: Combating Corporeal Corruption, Ian Russell Koh Oct 2015

China’S Changing Character: Combating Corporeal Corruption, Ian Russell Koh

Ian Russell Koh

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) recent crackdown on corruption has attracted attention for its unprecedented scale and scope. Historical, political, and social changes are broadly responsible for the prevalence of corruption within the body-politic of Chinese society, and this paper seeks to unearth some of the more instrumental reasons undergirding such institutional transformations.


Enforcement, Illegal Appropriation And Innovation, Sougata Poddar, Dyuti Banerjee Oct 2015

Enforcement, Illegal Appropriation And Innovation, Sougata Poddar, Dyuti Banerjee

Sougata Poddar

We analyse how increases in digital piracy shapes the enforcement polices, and their resultant impact on innovation. Though the socially optimal policies always deter piracy, but they cannot prevent the fall in innovation for initial increases in piracy, beyond which, these policies induces innovation to remain at a constant level. In contrast, the government’s innovation maximizing objective results in no enforcement and tolerating piracy up to a critical level as the equilibrium, and innovation falls. Up to this level a trade-off between social welfare and innovation exists, which disappears there after, and the result coincides with the socially optimal …


App Newsletter 7, Riccardo Pelizzo Oct 2015

App Newsletter 7, Riccardo Pelizzo

riccardo pelizzo

The seventh issue of the APP newsletter, with contributions by Michele Croce, founder and President of Verona Pulita, and Abel Kinyondo, Senior Researcher at REPOA.


Why Have Strong Legislative Acts Had Weak Economic Effects?, Douglas W. Mackenzie Ph.D. Oct 2015

Why Have Strong Legislative Acts Had Weak Economic Effects?, Douglas W. Mackenzie Ph.D.

Douglas W MacKenzie Ph.D.

Responses to the 2008 crisis were dramatic. Government officials enacted unprecedented acts of legislation and policies, with the intent of improving economic conditions. While measures taken to improve economic conditions were aggressive, the results of these measures have been disappointing. The aggressive and controversial nature of policy responses to the 2008 Crisis caused high levels of uncertainty about the public policy. There is correlation between levels of “economic policy uncertainty” and hiring of new employees. The statistical correlation between uncertainty and hiring is important in explaining the weak response of economic conditions to policies of the past eight years.


Rents The Bane Of Poor: Charity, Hilary Gallagher Oct 2015

Rents The Bane Of Poor: Charity, Hilary Gallagher

Hilary Gallagher

No abstract provided.


Analytic Approaches For Causal Inferences With Complex Multi-Component Interventions: Project Achieve's Study Of Managing Care Transitions, Glen P. Mays Oct 2015

Analytic Approaches For Causal Inferences With Complex Multi-Component Interventions: Project Achieve's Study Of Managing Care Transitions, Glen P. Mays

Glen Mays

Estimating the causal effects of complex, multi-component health interventions is a task with many challenges in measurement and methodology. This presentation profiles the methods being used as part of the PCORI-funded Project Achieve, a national study to estimate the comparative effectiveness of heterogeneous care transition programs designed to help hospitalized patients and their caregivers navigate care delivery systems effectively and return back to the community with optimal health and wellbeing.


Marcos De Teorização Sobre Comércio Formiga Fronteiriço, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Marcos De Teorização Sobre Comércio Formiga Fronteiriço, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Notes On The Seminar On African Economic Outlook 2015, Held On The 8th Of October 2015 At The House Of The Estates Of Finland, J. G. A. Saviranta Oct 2015

Notes On The Seminar On African Economic Outlook 2015, Held On The 8th Of October 2015 At The House Of The Estates Of Finland, J. G. A. Saviranta

Akseli Saviranta

The following document presents summarised key notes from the United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) seminar titled “African Economic Outlook 2015 – Unlocking the potential of local economies for inclusive growth”. The seminar presented the 2015 report titled “African Economic Outlook 2015 – Regional Development and Spatial Inclusion”, produced by the African Development Bank, the OECD Development Centre, and the United Nations Development Programme. The African Development Bank, UNU-WIDER, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland were the co-organisers of the Seminar.


Us Military Cargo Drop In Syria: A Time Bomb On War On Terror, Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba Oct 2015

Us Military Cargo Drop In Syria: A Time Bomb On War On Terror, Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba

Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba

No abstract provided.


Development Aid: Africa's Dead End And Africa Beyond The End, Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba Oct 2015

Development Aid: Africa's Dead End And Africa Beyond The End, Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba

Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba

No abstract provided.


Open Access Week 2015 Poster #1, Richard James Oct 2015

Open Access Week 2015 Poster #1, Richard James

Richard James

No abstract provided.


Guidelines For Physician-Assisted Suicide, Raphael Cohen-Almagor Oct 2015

Guidelines For Physician-Assisted Suicide, Raphael Cohen-Almagor

raphael cohen-almagor

This paper proposes a set of guidelines for physician-assisted suicide (PAS). This set of guidelines integrates pertinent guidelines that were adopted in Oregon, where physician-assisted suicide is legal, in the Netherlands and Belgium where euthanasia is legal, in Switzerland where assisted suicide is practiced, and in the Northern Territory of Australia, where physician-assisted suicide was legal for a short period of time.


Guidelines For Physician-Assisted Suicide, Raphael Cohen-Almagor Oct 2015

Guidelines For Physician-Assisted Suicide, Raphael Cohen-Almagor

raphael cohen-almagor

This paper proposes a set of guidelines for physician-assisted suicide (PAS). This set of guidelines integrates pertinent guidelines that were adopted in Oregon, where physician-assisted suicide is legal, in the Netherlands and Belgium where euthanasia is legal, in Switzerland where assisted suicide is practiced, and in the Northern Territory of Australia, where physician-assisted suicide was legal for a short period of time.


'Friending' The Library: Social Media Interns Get The Message Out, Pamela Contakos Oct 2015

'Friending' The Library: Social Media Interns Get The Message Out, Pamela Contakos

Pamela Contakos

At MCLA we have sponsored undergraduate student interns who assist with marketing and outreach for the library. Our interns are responsible for the library’s Tumblr, posting weekly about databases, items from the archives, and apps of interest, the library’s Instagram account, and the library’s Facebook account. In addition, they have created videos and hosted social media contests. We will share some of the projects our interns have worked in and talk about best practices in having student run social media.


Chapter 4 (Draft): John Locke And The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How A Very Similar Colonial Prejudice Found Its Way Into The Natural Rights Justification Of Private Property, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall Oct 2015

Chapter 4 (Draft): John Locke And The Hobbesian Hypothesis: How A Very Similar Colonial Prejudice Found Its Way Into The Natural Rights Justification Of Private Property, Karl Widerquist, Grant Mccall

Karl Widerquist

This chapter is a preliminary draft of Chapter 4 of the book, "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy." The role of this chapter is to show that what we call "the Hobbesian Hypothesis" is an essential premise in John Locke's justification of private property. The Hobbesian hypothesis, in this context, is the claim that everyone is better off in a society with private land and resource ownership (even if they own no land or resources) than they could reasonably except to be in a society in which these resources remained unowned and people lived as hunter-gatherers. This chapter does not …


Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Conflitos Cibernéticos Como Ameaça Multidimensional, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Conflitos Cibernéticos Como Ameaça Multidimensional, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Debates Sobre A Legislação Federal De Cotas Étnico-Raciais No Brasil, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Debates Sobre A Legislação Federal De Cotas Étnico-Raciais No Brasil, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras Oct 2015

Disciplina De Especialização Em Segurança Pública, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.


Behavioral Economics And Poverty [En Español] Behavioral Economics Y Pobreza, Daniel A. Monroy Oct 2015

Behavioral Economics And Poverty [En Español] Behavioral Economics Y Pobreza, Daniel A. Monroy

Daniel A Monroy C

No abstract provided.