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Overseas Librarians: “The Specter Of Voluntarism And The Hobgoblin Of Non-Professionalism”, Michele Gibney
Overseas Librarians: “The Specter Of Voluntarism And The Hobgoblin Of Non-Professionalism”, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
The following paper is on working abroad in a foreign country. It focuses primarily on Peace Corps volunteers—how they become involved with library development, what practices they instigate to promote the library’s collection, and how they create sustainability for the library. All of these elements combine, in my thesis, to show the “professional” nature of an overseas librarian. I argue that the perception of overseas librarians goes through peaks and valleys— the wartime conditions fostered international cooperation between allied powers and thus overseas librarians during the 1940’s were perceived as facilitators of international communication, the 1970’s were a slump in …
A Brief History Of Oyster Aquaculture In Rhode Island, Michael Rice
A Brief History Of Oyster Aquaculture In Rhode Island, Michael Rice
Michael A Rice
Bad Apples In Bad Barrels Revisited: Cognitive Moral Development, Just World Beliefs, Rewards, And Ethical Decision Making, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Carolyn Windsor, Linda K. Trevino
Bad Apples In Bad Barrels Revisited: Cognitive Moral Development, Just World Beliefs, Rewards, And Ethical Decision Making, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Carolyn Windsor, Linda K. Trevino
Carolyn Windsor
In this study, we test the interactive effect on ethical decision-making of (1) personal characteristics, and (2) personal expectancies based on perceptions of organizational rewards and punishments. Personal characteristics studied were cognitive moral development and belief in a just world. Using an in-basket simulation, we found that exposure to reward system information influenced managers' outcome expectancies. Further, outcome expectancies and belief in a just world interacted with managers' cognitive moral development to influence managers' ethical decision-making. In particular, low-cognitive moral development managers who expected that their organization condoned unethical behavior made less ethical decisions while high cognitive moral development managers …
Socially Disorganized Rural Communities, Kenneth D. Tunnell
Socially Disorganized Rural Communities, Kenneth D. Tunnell
Kenneth Tunnell
The article talks about the social disorganization of rural communities in the U.S. It is stated that family farming has been on the decline for decades, with the numbers of farmers dropping by 16 million since 1950 and farms decreasing by over 4 million during the past century. It is inferred that a part of a community's history and way of life are being forfeited when local business are closing. According to the author, the theory of social disorganization emphasizes social integration and stability as necessary conditions for community. It offers some of the disadvantages of disorganized communities, such as …
The Intrinsic Value Of Obeying A Law: Economic Analysis Of The Internal Viewpoint, Robert D. Cooter
The Intrinsic Value Of Obeying A Law: Economic Analysis Of The Internal Viewpoint, Robert D. Cooter
Robert Cooter
Economic theory distinguishes sharply between what a person wants and what he can have. “Preferences” describe what a person wants, and “constraints” describe the limits of what he can have. The collision of preferences and constraints yields the choices that economists study. The meaning of both terms is broad and flexible. Preferences and constraints help to distinguish between the internal and external viewpoints that H. L. A. Hart made famous. The internal viewpoint concerns preferences to perform legal obligations. A person who prefers to obey a law is willing to give up something to perform his legal obligation. The preference …
Constitutional Realism About Constitutional Protection: Indigenous Rights Under A Judicialized And A Politicized Constitution, Matthew S. R. Palmer
Constitutional Realism About Constitutional Protection: Indigenous Rights Under A Judicialized And A Politicized Constitution, Matthew S. R. Palmer
The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer
A Generalized Neuron Based Adaptive Power System Stabilizer For Multimachine Environment, D. K. Chaturvedi, O. P. Malik
A Generalized Neuron Based Adaptive Power System Stabilizer For Multimachine Environment, D. K. Chaturvedi, O. P. Malik
D. K. Chaturvedi Dr.
Artificial neural networks trained as intelligent controllers can easily accommodate the non-linearities and time dependencies of non-linear, dynamic systems. However, they require large training time and large number of neurons to deal with complex problems. Taking benefit of the characteristics of a generalized neuron (GN), that requires much smaller training data and shorter training time, a generalized neuron based adaptive power system stabilizer (GNAPSS) is proposed. It consists of a GN as an predictor, that predicts the plant dynamics, and a GN as a controller to damp low frequency oscillations. Results show that the proposed GNAPSS can provide a consistently …
Aspectos Econômicos E Jurídicos Sobre Cartéis Na Revenda De Combustíveis: Uma Agenda Para Investigações, Carlos Emmanuel Joppert Ragazzo, Rutelly Marques Da Silva
Aspectos Econômicos E Jurídicos Sobre Cartéis Na Revenda De Combustíveis: Uma Agenda Para Investigações, Carlos Emmanuel Joppert Ragazzo, Rutelly Marques Da Silva
carlos ragazzo
No abstract provided.
As Cidades Digitais E O Reforço Da Cidadania: Uma Abordagem Sociológica Do Gaia Global E Do Aveiro Digital, Barbara Barbosa Neves
As Cidades Digitais E O Reforço Da Cidadania: Uma Abordagem Sociológica Do Gaia Global E Do Aveiro Digital, Barbara Barbosa Neves
Barbara Barbosa Neves
No abstract provided.
Vertical Integration In Unregulated Industries With Essential Facilities, Felipe Balmaceda Assoc Prof., Eduardo Savedra Prof
Vertical Integration In Unregulated Industries With Essential Facilities, Felipe Balmaceda Assoc Prof., Eduardo Savedra Prof
Felipe Balmaceda
In this paper, we consider a market that is operated by a non-integrated monopoly upstream that owns an important essential facility and an duopolistic market downstream that is facing entry in the monopolistic upstream market. We show that: (i) for small fixed costs of building a new facility the unique equilibrium entails vertical integration for all firms and duplication of essential facilities; (ii) for an intermediate range, the unique equilibrium entails full vertical integration and a shared-facility; and (iii) for large fixed costs, the unique equilibrium entails vertical integration by the incumbent, no integration by the entrant and a shared-facility. …
El Fútbol: Espacio Público De La Representación, Fernando Carrión Mena
El Fútbol: Espacio Público De La Representación, Fernando Carrión Mena
Fernando Carrión Mena
El fútbol: representaciól1 que visibiliza
El fútbol no es un espejo ni un reflejo de la sociedad, es simplemente parte de ella y como tal, un escenario de la representación social donde, por un lado, se visibilizan muchos de sus componentes y, por otro, se materializa un simbolismo colectivo. Es un ámbito donde -simultáneamente- uno se ve y es visto; porque es un espacio con gran densidad de representación.
La primera y quizás más importante expresión de la afirmación tiene que ver con la relación entre sociedad y fútbol que la definiera Francisco Maturana (1997), en una entrevista realizada por …
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Antiretroviral Adherence Interventions: Using Marginal Structural Models To Replicate The Findings Of Randomized Controlled Trials., Maya L. Petersen, Yue Wang, Mark J. Van Der Laan, David R. Bangsberg
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Antiretroviral Adherence Interventions: Using Marginal Structural Models To Replicate The Findings Of Randomized Controlled Trials., Maya L. Petersen, Yue Wang, Mark J. Van Der Laan, David R. Bangsberg
Maya Petersen
Randomized controlled trials of interventions to improve adherence to antiretroviral medications are not always feasible. Marginal Structural Models (MSM) are a statistical methodology that aims to replicate the findings of randomized controlled trials using observational data. Under the assumption of no unmeasured confounders, three MSM estimators are available to estimate the causal effect of an intervention. Two of these estimators, G-computation and Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighted, can be implemented using standard software. G-computation relies on fitting a multivariable regression of adherence on the intervention and confounders. Thus, it is related to the standard multivariable regression approach to estimating causal …
Sharing And Anti-Sharing In Teams, Robert D. Cooter, Roland Kirstein
Sharing And Anti-Sharing In Teams, Robert D. Cooter, Roland Kirstein
Robert Cooter
Compared to budget-balanced Sharing contracts, Anti-Sharing may improve the efficiency of teams. The Anti-Sharer collects a fixed payment from all team members; he receives the actual output and pays out its value to them. If a team members becomes Anti-Sharer, he will be unproductive in equilibrium. Hence, internal Anti-Sharing fails to yield the first-best outcome. Anti-Sharing is more likely to yield a higher team profit than Sharing, the larger the team, the curvature of the production function, or the marginal effort cost. Sharing is more likely to be better, the greater the marginal product, the cross-partials of the production function, …
Anti-Sharing As A Theory Of Partnerships And Firms, Robert D. Cooter, Roland Kirstein
Anti-Sharing As A Theory Of Partnerships And Firms, Robert D. Cooter, Roland Kirstein
Robert Cooter
Anti-Sharing may improve the efficiency of teams. The Anti-Sharer collects a fixed payment from all team members; he receives the actual output and pays out its value to them. However, if a team members assumes the role of an "internal" Anti-Sharer, he will be unproductive in equilibrium. Hence, internal Anti-Sharing fails to yield the first-best outcome. External Anti-Sharing may induce the team members to choose efficient effort. The paper presents possible applications of Anti-Sharing: while internal Anti-Sharing may provide an explanation for the existence of senior (or managing) partners, external Anti-Sharing leads to a new theory of the incorporated firm.
Hamdan V. Rumsfeld: The Functional Case For Foreign Affairs Deference To The Executive Branch, John C. Yoo, Julian Ku
Hamdan V. Rumsfeld: The Functional Case For Foreign Affairs Deference To The Executive Branch, John C. Yoo, Julian Ku
John C Yoo
The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld represents a radical new judicial approach to the interpretation of laws relating to foreign affairs. Not only did the Hamdan Court fail to defer to the executive's reasonable interpretations of the relevant statutes, treaties, and customary international law of war relating to military commissions, but it did not even justify its failure to depart from longstanding formal doctrines requiring such deference. In this Essay, we offer a functional defense of the doctrines requiring judicial deference to executive interpretations of laws affecting foreign affairs in wartime; doctrines that the Hamdan Court largely ignored. …
Civic Responsibility And Patterns Of Voluntary Participation Around The World, Mary Alice Haddad
Civic Responsibility And Patterns Of Voluntary Participation Around The World, Mary Alice Haddad
Mary Alice Haddad
This article seeks to explain why different types of volunteer organizations are prevalent in different countries. It hypothesizes that patterns of volunteer participation are a function of citizen attitudes toward governmental and individual responsibility for caring for society. Those countries (e.g., Japan)—where citizens think that governments should be responsible for dealing with social problems—will tend to have higher participation in embedded volunteer organizations, such as parent-teacher associations. Those countries (e.g., the United States)—where citizens think that individuals should take responsibility for dealing with social problems—will tend to have more participation in nonembedded, organizations, such as Greenpeace. These hypotheses are tested …
The Eu Challenge: A View From The Turkish Grand National Assembly, Neophytos Loizides, Elif Ersin
The Eu Challenge: A View From The Turkish Grand National Assembly, Neophytos Loizides, Elif Ersin
Neophytos Loizides
No abstract provided.
Guiding Of Laser Beams In Plasmas By Radiation Cascade Compression, Serguei Y. Kalmykov, Gennady Shvets
Guiding Of Laser Beams In Plasmas By Radiation Cascade Compression, Serguei Y. Kalmykov, Gennady Shvets
Serge Youri Kalmykov
The near-resonant beatwave excitation of an electron plasma wave (EPW) can be employed for generating trains of few-fs electromagnetic pulses in rarefied plasmas. The EPW produces a co-moving index grating that induces a laser phase modulation at the beat frequency. Consequently, the cascade of sidebands red- and blue-shifted from the fundamental by integer multiples of the beat frequency is generated in the laser spectrum. When the beat frequency is lower than the electron plasma frequency, the phase chirp enables laser beatnote compression by the group velocity dispersion [S. Kalmykov and G. Shvets, Phys. Rev. E 73, 46403 (2006)]. In the …
A Constitutional Amendment To Reform Kentucky’S Courts, Kurt X. Metzmeier
A Constitutional Amendment To Reform Kentucky’S Courts, Kurt X. Metzmeier
Kurt X. Metzmeier
Responding to a confused patchwork of trial courts with overlapping jurisdiction, uneven justice around the state, and a growing backlog of appellate cases, voters in Kentucky went to the polls on November 4, 1975, to approve a sweeping constitutional amendment that radically revised Kentucky’s court system. Although reformers had decried Kentucky’s confusing court system since the 1940s, the real roots of the revision of the judicial article can be found in the failed movement in the late 1960s to replace Kentucky’s 1891 constitution. Unbowed by the defeat, judicial reformers immediately set out to pass a separate amendment reforming the courts, …
Public Interest Litigation And Role Of The Supreme Court In Ensuring Social Justice In Bangladesh, K. T. Alam, Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali
Public Interest Litigation And Role Of The Supreme Court In Ensuring Social Justice In Bangladesh, K. T. Alam, Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali
Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali
No abstract provided.
Don’T Forget The Lawyers: Legal Human Capital And The Role Of Lawyers In Supporting The Rule Of Law, Gillian K. Hadfield
Don’T Forget The Lawyers: Legal Human Capital And The Role Of Lawyers In Supporting The Rule Of Law, Gillian K. Hadfield
Gillian K Hadfield
No abstract provided.
Modeling An Outbreak Of Anthrax, Ron Brookmeyer
Modeling An Outbreak Of Anthrax, Ron Brookmeyer
Ron Brookmeyer
Introduction
On October 2, 2001 a sixty-three-year-old Florida man who worked as a photo editor at a media publishing company was admitted to an emergency department complaining of nausea, vomiting, and fever. His symptoms began four days earlier on a recreational trip to North Carolina. The man died shortly thereafter. An astute clinician quickly made the surprising diagnosis of inhalational anthrax, which is a serious and deadly disease. The diagnosis was surprising because inhalational anthrax is extremely rare; only 18 cases were reported in the United States between 1900 and 1978. Public health officials at first believed that the Florida …
Intergenerational Mobility And Interracial Inequality: The Return To Family Values, Patrick Leon Mason
Intergenerational Mobility And Interracial Inequality: The Return To Family Values, Patrick Leon Mason
Patrick L. Mason
This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of childhood family environment – parental values versus parental class status – for young adult economic outcomes? Second, are interracial differences in labor market outcomes fully explained by differences in family environment? We find that both family values and family class status affect intergenerational mobility and interracial inequality. Consideration of racial differences in parental values and class status alters but does not eliminate the impact of race on the labor market outcomes of young adults.
History Of The Courts Of Kentucky, Kurt X. Metzmeier
History Of The Courts Of Kentucky, Kurt X. Metzmeier
Kurt X. Metzmeier
A survey of the history of Kentucky courts from the foundation of the commowealth in 1792 to the ratification in 1891 of the state's fourth constitution.
A Large-Scale Genetic Association Study Confirms Il12b And Leads To The Identification Of Il23r As Psoriasis Risk Genes, Michele Cargill, Steven J. Schrodi, Monica Chang, Veronica E. Garcia, Rhonda Brandon, Kristina P. Callis, Nori Matsunami, Kristin G. Ardlie, Lee A. Honigberg, Daniel Civello, Joseph J. Catanese, Diane U. Leong, Jackie M. Panko, Linda B. Mcallister, Christopher B. Hansen, Jason Papenfuss, Stephen M. Prescott, Thomas J. White, Mark F. Leppert, Gerald G. Krueger, Ann B. Begovich
A Large-Scale Genetic Association Study Confirms Il12b And Leads To The Identification Of Il23r As Psoriasis Risk Genes, Michele Cargill, Steven J. Schrodi, Monica Chang, Veronica E. Garcia, Rhonda Brandon, Kristina P. Callis, Nori Matsunami, Kristin G. Ardlie, Lee A. Honigberg, Daniel Civello, Joseph J. Catanese, Diane U. Leong, Jackie M. Panko, Linda B. Mcallister, Christopher B. Hansen, Jason Papenfuss, Stephen M. Prescott, Thomas J. White, Mark F. Leppert, Gerald G. Krueger, Ann B. Begovich
Steven J Schrodi
We performed a multi-tiered, case-control association study of psoriasis in three independent, white North American sample sets (1446 cases/1432 controls) with 25,215 gene-centric SNPs and found a highly significant association with an IL12B 3’UTR SNP (rs3212227) confirming the results of a small Japanese study. This SNP was significant in all three sample sets (ORcommon = 0.64, Pcomb = 7.85E-10). A Monte Carlo simulation to address multiple testing suggests this association is not a type I error. The coding regions of IL12B were resequenced in 96 individuals with psoriasis and 30 additional IL12B-region SNPs genotyped. Haplotypes were estimated and genotype-conditioned analyses …
Religião, Direitos Humanos E Educação, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Religião, Direitos Humanos E Educação, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Não admira que haja atritos, incompreensões, entre as religiões e os poderes. Porque, antes de mais, foi preciso a uns e a outros comprimirem-se para darem lugar (espaço, mesmo) ao outro tipo de normatividade e de poder. Em muitos casos históricos se terá começado com um poder de índole teocrática. E só com o tempo e o progresso social e político se passaria a admitir a cisão do mando, num ramo secular e num ramo sacral. O grande problema do tratamento da questão religiosa do ponto de vista dos Direitos Humanos, é que se trata, no limite, de pôr uma …
Passive Stiffness In Drosophila Indirect Flight Muscle Reduced By Disrupting Paramyosin Phosphorylation, But Not By Embryonic Myosin S2 Hinge Substitution, Yudong Hao, Mark S. Miller, Douglas M. Swank, Hongjun Liu, Sanford I. Bernstein, David W. Maughan, Gerald H. Pollack
Passive Stiffness In Drosophila Indirect Flight Muscle Reduced By Disrupting Paramyosin Phosphorylation, But Not By Embryonic Myosin S2 Hinge Substitution, Yudong Hao, Mark S. Miller, Douglas M. Swank, Hongjun Liu, Sanford I. Bernstein, David W. Maughan, Gerald H. Pollack
Mark S. Miller
High passive stiffness is one of the characteristic properties of the asynchronous indirect flight muscle (IFM) found in many insects like Drosophila. To evaluate the effects of two thick filament protein domains on passive sarcomeric stiffness, and to investigate their correlation with IFM function, we used microfabricated cantilevers and a high resolution imaging system to study the passive IFM myofibril stiffness of two groups of transgenic Drosophila lines. One group (hinge-switch mutants) had a portion of the endogenous S2 hinge region replaced by an embryonic version; the other group (paramyosin mutants) had one or more putative phosphorylation sites near the …
New Urbanist Zoning For Dummies, Michael E Lewyn
New Urbanist Zoning For Dummies, Michael E Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
This article compares the SmartCode (a model New Urbanist zoning code) to conventional pro-sprawl zoning codes, and concludes that in some respects, the SmartCode is actually more respectful of property rights than is conventional zoning.
Valuing Conflicting Public Information About A New Technology: The Case Of Irradiated Foods, M C. Rousu, J F. Shogren
Valuing Conflicting Public Information About A New Technology: The Case Of Irradiated Foods, M C. Rousu, J F. Shogren
Jason Shogren
Scientists and advocates can disagree on the value of new products or technologies, such as growth hormones, genetically modified organisms, and food irradiation. Both sides of the debate disseminate information to the public hoping to influence public opinion. This study assesses the economic value of both pro and anti public information using food irradiation as a case study. The value of information sources is estimated in isolation and in combination. In isolation, the results indicate each set of information has value. In combination, only the anti-irradiation information is found to have net positive value (persuading some consumers to purchase non-irradiated …
"Walk The Line" By Allen F. Victor, Vikas Singh
"Walk The Line" By Allen F. Victor, Vikas Singh
Vikas Singh
A classroom presentation about VHA and its importance for member healthcare institutions in todays highly dynamic healthcare environment.