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South Park Campaign Of The Community Coalition For Environmental Justice, Jonathan Betz-Zall

Jonathan Betz-Zall

This case study evaluated the effectiveness of the community organizing techniques used by the Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) in promoting the principles of grassroots organizing in its work in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. This campaign, part of the SouthSeattleToxics Project, focused attention on the pollution caused by the Long Painting Company's activities. The CCEJ used traditional community organizing techniques to help South Park residents oppose this pollution; the residents formed their own organization to monitor progress even after the offending company has left town. The case study evaluated this work of the CCEJ in terms …

Edible Oil Consumption: Need For Change In Rural India, Aneeja Guttikonda

aneeja guttikonda

In India, edible oils are a significant source of essential fats. however, fat intake is almost absent among the rural poor, for whom edible oils are largely unaffordable. Edible oil consumption should be encouraged among the rural poor by supply via PDS at low cost. Steps to boost cultivation and lower the cost of production and import will also help to meet requirements.

Mental Health Parity: National And State Perspectives 2001: A Report To The Florida Legislature, Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson, Richard Coe

Ardis Hanson

The federal Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 requires insurers to offer the same benefits for mental disorders and substance abuse as they would for physical disorders, including any annual or lifetime limitations and restrictions placed upon such coverage. This report examines actuarial studies, the current state of parity legislation across the nation, cost of treatment issues, and the impact on Florida should parity legislation be passed.

Chernobyl Stories And Anthropological Shock In Hungary, Krista Harper

Krista M. Harper

The Budapest Chernobyl Day commemoration generated a creative outpouring of stories about parental responsibilities, scientific knowledge, environmental risks, and public participation. I examine the stories and performances elicited by the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1996. In these “Chernobyl stories,” activists criticized scientific and state paternalism while engaging in alternative practices of citizenship. The decade between the catastrophic explosion and its commemoration coincides with the development of the Hungarian environmental movement and the transformation from state socialism. Chernobyl Day 1996 consequently became an opportunity for activists to reflect upon how the meaning of citizenship and public …

Isolated And Proximate Illiteracy, Srijit Mishra

Srijit Mishra

This paper is a discussion of the externality that an illiterate person would get from being in proximity to a literate person.

The Yugoslav Wars’ Implications On Romanian Security, Nikolaos Tzifakis

Nikolaos Tzifakis

This paper perceives Romania as an integral part of the Balkan sub-regional security complex and attempts to evaluate the implications of its participation in Balkan affairs on its security. More precisely, the article discusses the effects that the Yugoslav (Croat-Serbian, Bosnian and Kosovar) wars had on Romanian security and presents Bucharest’s endeavor to manage its insecurity. The research demonstrates that Romania envisaged the management of its insecurity by upholding its application for membership in Western security structures (NATO, WEU) rather than by institutionalizing Balkan cooperation. Considering that NATO and Yugoslavia were adversaries throughout the 1990s, the paper discusses Bucharest’s dilemma …

Softwareentwicklung In Deutschland: Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Michael Friedewald, Hans Dieter Rombach, Petra Stahl, Manfred Broy, Susanne Hartkopf, Simone Kimpeler, Kirstin Kohler, Robert Wucher, Peter Zoche

Michael Friedewald

Die hier vorgestellte Studie „Analyse und Evaluation der Softwareentwicklung in Deutschland" [2] wurde von der GfK Marktforschung GmbH in Zusammenarbeit mit den Fraunhofer-Instituten für Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE) und für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (ISI) für das Bundesmini¬sterium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) durchgeführt. Ziel der Untersuchung war es, den nationalen Softwaremarkt, der sich immer mehr zu einem der Schlüsselmärkte entwickelt, quantitativ und qualitativ zu charakterisieren sowie in seiner weiteren Entwicklung und seinen Anforderungen zu beschreiben.

Myopia Of Health-Care Reform Using Business Models, Macinnes Kenneth, Vivian C. Mcalister

Vivian C. McAlister

Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from supply-side management, hospitals are fragmenting into independent programs with demands to balance budgets regardless of the source of cost.

Methods: Costs from the institution’s perspective are compared with those of the payer (province) using an example of a proposal to reduce costs in the surgical program by buying disposable drapes.

Results: The actual cost of disposable drapes bought from …

La Sanidad Desde El Otro Lado, Manuel Fernández-Esquinas, Luís Gavira, Manuel Pérez Yruela, Manuel Trujillo Carmona, Rafael Serrano

Manuel Fernández-Esquinas

No abstract provided.

Us Manufacturing Extension Partnerships: Technology Policy Reinvented, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

The US manufacturing extension partnership (MEP) is examined as an example of the new partnership paradigm in US technology policy. The MEP provides technology assistance services, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. Influenced by aims to reinvent government and reorient technology policy, the MEP seeks to be comprehensive, collaborative, and demand-driven. However, the MEP’s partnered management style is constrained by political and industrial systems that continue to operate on traditional lines. After probing these tensions, the paper offers insights for the MEP’s future development and for other technology and innovation policies that seek to emulate the MEP’s partnership approach.

Application Service Providing, Michael Friedewald, Peter Georgieff, Markus Joepgen

Michael Friedewald

No abstract provided.

A Tradicional Política De Desenvolvimento Regional No Brasil E A Oportunidade De Sua Mudança, Eduardo Meira Zauli Dr.

Eduardo Meira Zauli

No abstract provided.

Agglomeration, Enterprise Size, And Productivity, Edward J. Feser

Edward J Feser

Much research on agglomeration economies, and particularly recent work that builds on Marshall's concept of the industrial district, postulates that benefits derived from proximity between businesses are strongest for small enterprises. This paper investigates this hypothesis, examining the degree to which local business externalities differ in magnitude and type among large and small enterprises in two U.S. manufacturing sectors. A four factor micro-level production function with oft-cited sources of agglomeration economies (local input supply, labor pools, knowledge spillovers) modeled as technology parameters and dummy variables representing varying definitions of plant size (and type, i.e., single or multi establishment unit) are …

World Investment Report, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "World Investment Report", World Chronicle, a half-hour unedited televised interview programme of the UN about major global issues, based on the World Investment Report 2001, October 17, 2001.

The Impact Of Fdicia And Prompt Corrective Action On Bank Capital And Risk: Estimates Using A Simultaneous Equations Model, Kevin T. Jacques, Raj Aggarwal

Kevin T Jacques

This paper develops and estimates a 3SLS model to examine the simultaneous impact of PCA on both bank capital and credit risk.

If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem: Archaeology, Religious Commemoration, And Nationalism In A Disputed City, 1801-2001, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.

Public Sector: Early Stage Of A Deep Transformation, Jane E. Fountain, Carlos A. Osorio-Urzua

Jane E. Fountain

American government is in the early stages of deep transformation as a result of the Internet and a host of related developments in information and communications technologies. Rapid growth of web-based applications in the government sector promises significant cost savings through structural changes in the production and delivery of government information and services. Deeper organizational and institutional restructuring in government is likely to generate further efficiency gains. But cost savings that result from institutional and organizational transformation are more difficult to calculate because savings due to technology cannot be disaggregated from those due to structural modification. Furthermore, it is in …

Paradoxes Of Public Sector Customer Service, Jane E. Fountain

Jane E. Fountain

The use of customer service ideas in government continues to be wide- spread, although the concept and its implications for public sector service production and delivery remain poorly developed. This paper presents a series of paradoxes related to customer service and its use in government. The central and most troubling paradox is that customer service techniques and tools applied to government may lead to increased political inequality even as some aspects of service are improved. The argument is structured by examination of the following: the predominant structural features of service management in the private sector, the assumption that customer satisfac- …

Preventing Targeted Violence Against Judicial Officials And Courts, Bryan Vossekuil, Randy Borum, Robert Fein, Marisa Reddy

Randy Borum

No abstract provided.

Chapter 10: Upper-Middle-Class Politics And Policy Outcomes: Does Class Identity Matter?, Herman L. Boschken

Herman L. Boschken

This chapter in Clark and lipset's book on class in American politics resulted from a multi-day workshop at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in the summer of 1999. The piece reverses the normal causality of class politics. It does not analyze citizens in elections, but government officials creating policies. It asks why policies differ across localities (specifically public transit decisions in 42 U.S. metropolitan areas). It probes how some government officials work with an "upper-middle-class" citizenry in mind, while others do so less. The chapter then tests for differences across localities and finds quite distinct patterns. The chapter …

The Rhetoric Of Fraternalism: Its Influence On The Development Of The Welfare State, 1900-1935, Brian J. Glenn

Brian J. Glenn

No abstract provided.

Understanding Mutual Benefit Societies At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, Brian J. Glenn

Brian J. Glenn

No abstract provided.

Tiger Restoration In Asia: Ecological Theory Vs. Sociological Reality, Ronald Tilson, Philip J. Nyhus, Neil Franklin

Philip J. Nyhus

No abstract provided.

Peirces Zeichenbegriff: Seine Funktionen, Seine Phänomenologische Grundlegung Und Seine Differenzierung, Michael H.G. Hoffmann

Michael H.G. Hoffmann

No abstract provided.

Wer Braucht Eigentlich Software-Patente? Ergebnisse Einer Empirischen Untersuchung, Knut Blind, Jakob Edler, Michael Friedewald

Michael Friedewald

No abstract provided.

Policy Implications Of The Kyoto Protocol For Canada: An Overview, Steven Bernstein, Christopher D. Gore

Christopher D Gore

No abstract provided.

Technology And Urban Labor Markets In The United States, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers

No abstract provided.

Innovation, Demand And Employment, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta

The paper examines the link between technological change and demand and their impact on employment in manufacturing industry. The specific nature of innovation, mainly oriented towards product or process innovations, is considered, in the light of the competitive strategies of firms and industries. An interpretative model is proposed and an empirical analysis is carried out, using the data of the European Innovation Surveys for five countries. The results of cross-industry regressions show that demand, structural change and orientation toward product innovations have a positive impact on employment change in the 1990s, while the intensity of innovative expenditure (including R&D, design, …

Globalizzazione Dal Basso. Economia Mondiale E Movimenti Sociali, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta

No abstract provided.

Trade And Labour, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta

No abstract provided.