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How Pigs' Blood Could Save Lives: Canadian Study Could End Need For Human Donations, Allison Hanes, Randy Boswell

Vivian C. McAlister

California's Outreach, Richard Atkinson

Richard Atkinson

No abstract provided.

Young Gay Men And Suicide: A Report Of A Study Exploring The Reasons Which Young Men Give For Suicide Ideation, Ronald Macdonald, Trudi Cooper

Ronald Macdonald

This Perth study indicates that the prevalence of homophobic attitudes and the lack of support for young gay men may be important factors in the very high suicide rate among young males in Australia. The reasons some young gay men gave for their suicide attempts are outlined and other relevant literature is reviewed. This article concludes by providing youth workers with suggestions for effective suicide prevention strategies.

Do All The Resource Problems In The West Begin In The East?, Jason Shogren

Jason Shogren

Economics can make good policy better and bad policy go away - a message often constrained by the political realities surrounding federal resource policy toward the West. This essay responds to these challenges to economic reasoning based on the lessons learned after a stay at the Council of Economic Advisers. My goal is to help make apolitical economists more effective advocates of efficiency.

A Multi-Media Computer Application For Undergraduate Instruction: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder As A Model, A. R. Arachy, Lisa (Miller) Zilinski, I. B. Johanson, L. M. Terry

Lisa Zilinski

The study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be used as a model to understand neuro-biological mechanisms of behavior. Neuropharmacological and neuroanatomical studies of children with ADHD can be used to stimulate interest in these fields incorporating both clinical and basic issues. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of a multi-media computer application (Hyperstudio) in the presentation of complex neurobiological material using ADHD as a clinical example. The growing availability of computers and multi-media software in educational settings can enhance lectures and increase the opportunity for interactive study by students. The purpose of this paper …

Prospects For Associative Governance: Lessons From Ontario, Canada, Neil Bradford

Neil Bradford

The writer considers the prospects for the strategic construction of associative governance in liberal politics and capitalistic economies, taking as an example Ontario, Canada, which is one of North America's leading associative democratic laboratories. He examines innovative dynamics in three discrete but interrelated fields that constituted the policy foundation of an effort undertaken between 1985 and 1995 to build a new partnership-based governance regime mandated to put in place a diversifies quality production restructuring project. The fields that he explores are occupational health and safety, labor market training, and industrial development. He points out that the outcome of Ontario's experiment …

Praising With Faint Damnation--The Troubling Rehabilitation Of Korematsu, Alfred C. Yen

Alfred C. Yen

No abstract provided.

Thomas Harriot’S Ballistics And English Renaissance Warfare, Steven A. Walton

Steven Walton

No abstract provided.

Power Relationships In Graduate Degree Supervision, Marcus R. Wigan

Marcus R Wigan

Is Perfect Price Discrimination Really Efficient? Welfare And Existence In General Equilibrium, Aaron S. Edlin, Mario Epelbaum, Walter P. Heller

Aaron Edlin

Small Claims Courts Offer Prompt Adjudication Based On Substantive Law, Gerald Lebovits

Hon. Gerald Lebovits

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam: Richard Dale Mullen (1915-1998), Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

No abstract provided.

Decentralised Law, Robert D. Cooter

Robert Cooter

No abstract provided.

Unembedded Definite Descriptions And Relevance, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

Definite descriptions (e.g. 'The king of France in 1997', 'The teacher of Aristotle') do not stand for particulars. Or so I will assume. The semantic alternative has seemed to be that descriptions only have meaning within sentences: i.e., that their semantic contribution is given syncategorimatically. This doesn't seem right, however, because descriptions can be used and understood outside the context of any sentence. Nor is this use simply a matter of "ellipsis." Since descriptions do not denote particulars, but seem to have a meaning in isolation, I propose that they be assigned generalized quantifiers as denotations — i.e. a kind …

"The Painted Word", Peter J. Casarella

Peter J. Casarella

No abstract provided.

Strict Single Crossing And The Spence-Mirrlees Condition: A Comment On Monotone Comparative Statics, Aaron S. Edlin, Chris Shannon

Aaron Edlin

Milgrom and Shannon [1994] assert that under appropriate conditions the Spence-Mirrlees condition is equivalent to their single crossing property, and that the strict versions are also equivalent. In this note, however, we give counterexamples which show that their strict single crossing property may hold even though the strict Spence-Mirrlees condition fails. In fact, we show that the strict single crossing property may hold even though the strict Spence-Mirrlees condition holds only on a set of arbitrarily small measure. We also give a correct statement of the relationship between the Spence-Mirrlees condition and the single crossing property. Finally, we illustrate the …

Is International Antitrust Possible?, Andrew T. Guzman

Andrew T Guzman

This Article analyzes the economic incentives countries face in selecting an antitrust policy. It demonstrates that, in the presence of international trade, antitrust policies chosen by national governments will generally not lead to an outcome that is desirable from an international perspective. Professor Guzman identifies the reasons why nationally chosen policies are different from the optimal global policy and shows how the direction of the deviation from the optimal policy depends on trade patterns and the extent to which national laws are applied extraterritorially. The author concludes that, although international agreement is not impossible, the prospects for substantive cooperation on …

A Prototype Model Of A Group Home Personnel Policy (Expanded Master's Degree Thesis, An Ache Fellow Project), John C. Griffith

John Griffith

East Aurora Established Itself As A New Urbanist Community Decades Before It Was Cool, Michael E Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

Supporters and opponents of New Urbanism speak as if New Urbanism is some sort of new, untested experiment. But in fact, Buffalo and other Rust Belt cities have suburbs that look quite similar to New Urbanist communities - and the safety and prosperity of those suburbs bodes well for New Urbanism.

Bounded Identities: Women And Religion In Colonial Brazil, 1550–1750, Carole A. Myscofski

Carole Myscofski

A Three-Year Report To Alumni, Richard Atkinson

Richard Atkinson

No abstract provided.

International Decisions. European Communities - Measures Concerning Meat And Meat Products, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

No abstract provided.

How Economists See The Environment, Don Fullerton, Robert Stavins

Don Fullerton

No abstract provided.

'A Hot Thing': Working On Toni Morrison's Beloved, Dave Iasevoli

David Iasevoli

No abstract provided.

Spectral Features Of The Stimulated Raman Backscattering Of Modulated Laser Pulses In A Plasma, Nikolai E. Andreev, Serguei Y. Kalmykov

Serge Youri Kalmykov

The characteristic features of the stimulated Raman backscattering of short modulated (multi-frequency) laser pulses in an underdense plasma are investigated. A laser pulse consisting of a given pair of spectral components with the frequency difference close to the double plasma frequency is studied in the weak mode coupling approximation. The scattering of the component with the higher frequency is shown to be a five-wave resonant process, and the conditions under which this process is totally suppressed are found. The scattering of the component with the lower frequency is an ordinary three-wave decay process without any suppression. When the difference between …

An Effective Investment: Teaching Study Skills To Usaf Allied Health Professionals Prior To Extended Training, John C. Griffith

John Griffith

In the school of Aerospace Medicine, the average cost to train one student in the three month Aeromedical Apprentice course in 1998 was $12,500. In this course, students are trained to become medical technicians who are able to effectively support Air Force Flight Surgeons in emergency situations. Students who failed the course of study were eliminated from the program at a cost of thousands of taxpayer dollars with no realized gain by the government or the student. A recent study examined the effects of a study skills training intervention course on U.S. Air Force Aeromedical Apprentices with five main purposes. …

"Wcfields": A Magnetic Rotating Stellar Wind Model From Wind Compression Theory., R. Ignace, J. P. Cassinelli, J. E. Bjorkman

Richard Ignace

A stellar wind model for a magnetic rotating star is presented. We use the semianalytic wind compression model that predicts the two-dimensional geometry of outflows from rotating stars and consider the addition of a magnetic field. In the limit of weak magnetic fields, in such a way that the fields are unimportant in accelerating the flow, the wind compression model can be used to predict the magnetic field distribution throughout the wind, which is shown to follow the mass flux distribution. A compression of field lines near the equator results as the flow of material from higher latitudes brings magnetic …

It Takes Cash To Keep Ideas Flowing, Richard Atkinson

Richard Atkinson

Opinion piece on the need for public investment in education and research.

The Future Of The University Of California: A Personal View, Richard Atkinson

Richard Atkinson

No abstract provided.

Exhibition Review Of “Macht Und Monument, Moderne Architektur In Deutschland 1900-2000,” At Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Kai Gutschow

Kai K. Gutschow

No abstract provided.