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Developing Understandings Of Racial Profiling Issues And Practices: An Annotation And Analysis Of Key Documents, M. Bortner, Heather Campbell, Rob Melnick, Michael Musheno, Carlos Posadas, Anne Schneider, Christine Yalda

Michael Musheno

No abstract provided.

Exploring Racial Profiling: Research Design Recommendations For The Chandler Police Department, M. Bortner, Heather Campbell, Rob Melnick, Michael Musheno, Carlos Posadas, Anne Schneider, Christine Yalda

Michael Musheno

No abstract provided.

Income And Mental Health: Unraveling Community And Individual Level Relationships, Carole Gresenz, Roland Sturm, L. Tang

Roland Sturm

No abstract provided.

Applied Communication Research, Katherine B. Novak, Judith M. Buddenbaum

Katherine B. Novak

Policies For Improving Accessible Web Development Techniques And Management, Michelle Armstrong

Michelle Armstrong

When examining web site accessibility for individuals with disabilities, it is important to address development from the premise that web sites should be aesthetically pleasing and usable – as well as accessible. By applying these criteria, developers are encouraged to work as teams, utilize comprehensive management techniques, and address the need for long-term maintenance. This approach ultimately results in a web development infrastructure that can handle both high demand, as well as change. In the case of the WIND Web Services Team this infrastructure takes the form of a “Development and Guidelines and Recommendations” document, core values conveyed to all …

Keynes' Beauty Contest: Speculative Price Bubbles In Absence Of Common Knowledge In Experimental Stock Markets, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.

What Free Election Is Meant For Taiwan. Taipei Times, Chiehwen Ed Hsu

Chiehwen Ed Hsu

No abstract provided.

University Of Tennessee's Digital Media Service & The Studio: Partnership Approaches To Digital Media Creation, Barbara I. Dewey

Barbara I. Dewey

No abstract provided.

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 …

Conflicts And Common Interests In Committees , Hao Li, Sherwin Rosen, Wing Suen

hao li

Committees improve decisions by pooling independent information of members, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private evidence when members have conflicting preferences. We study how self-interest mediates these conflicting forces. When members' preferences differ, no person ever submits a report that allows perfect inference of his private information. Instead, equilibrium strategies are many-to-one mappings that transform continuous data into ordered ranks: voting procedures are the equilibrium methods of achieving a consensus in committees. Voting necessarily coarsens the transmission of information among members, but is necessary to control conflicts of interest. The degree of coarseness of the equilibrium voting procedure …

Electronic Journals: How User Behaviour Is Changing, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

Entropy In Pynchon's "Entropy" And Lefebvre's The Production Of Space, Jason Snart

Jason A Snart

In his paper, "Entropy in Pynchon's 'Entropy' and Lefebvre's The Production of Space," Jason Snart examines Thomas Pynchon's short story "Entropy" for the ways in which it deals with the kinds of disorder(s) associated with entropy as a thermodynamic and informational concept. Those concepts are installed as a framework within which to consider cultural studies work like Henri Lefebfre's thought in his The Production of Space and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's general systems theory and themodynamics: disorder is rendered not as confusion, but rather as a state of potential energy and productivity and Lefebvre's and Bertalanffy's concepts serve to show how …

Desert Of The Heart (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Reviews the book "Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas," by Odette Larson. New York: Verso, 2001.

Income And Mental Health: Unraveling Community And Individual Level Relationships, Carole Gresenz, Roland Sturm, L. Tang

Carole Roan Gresenz

No abstract provided.

Flooded: The Excesses Of Geography, Gender, And Capitalism In Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Cynthia Dobbs

Cynthia Dobbs

No abstract provided.

Does Implied Volatility Imply Volatility In Bonds?, Michael T. Maloney, Eric Bertonazzi

Michael T. Maloney

No abstract provided.

Steel City Speak, Barbara Johnstone, Scott F. Kiesling

Barbara Johnstone

Creating An Instant Messaging Reference System, Jody C. Fagan, Michele Calloway

Jody C Fagan

Libraries are expanding digital references services to include chat and instant messaging. Various companies have developed systems for purchase that meet this need without requiring users to download new software or learn a new skill. These systems share many features in common, including transcript storage, sending URLs, and pushing Web pages. Several librarians at an Association of Research Libraries academic library wished to test instant messaging reference with the ability to control and experiment with different implementations of these features. This article describes the features of instant messaging reference systems and the in-house development of a system that incorporates them.

Creating Inspiration Spaces, Virtual Places: The 21st Century Academic Library, Barbara I. Dewey

Barbara I. Dewey

No abstract provided.

Hombres, Diablos Y Animales: Exposición De Máscaras De Las Tradiciones Festivas Centroamericanas, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Exhibit project from the Cultural Association InCorpore on masks and performative traditions, cultural diversity. A version relating the topis to natural diversity was also developed. The tool "Red narrativa de la productividad cultural" was part of the conceptualization of the exhibit.

Muchos Caribes: El Caribe Mesoamericano En El Festival Internacional De Las Artes Fia 2002, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Music artistic proposal to the Costa Rica International Festival of the Arts 2002. It summarizes Cultural Association InCorpore´s research-production projects on Central American music during 1998-2001.

A Organização Comum Do Mercado De Açúcar Na União Europeia: Estrutura, Instrumentos Regulatórios E Interesses, Heitor Moura Filho

Heitor Moura Filho

The subsidies and protection structure of the sugar sectors in the European Union originated from the individual national protection systems, unified with the creation of the Common Agricultural Policy. The main form of protection for agricultural products in the EU are the Common Organisations of the Market, which fix rules for planting, sale, prices, subsidies, storage and foreign trade. The COM for Sugars is based on an intervention price, at present quite higher than international prices. To determine who benefits from this intervention price, production quotas are established and distributed to each Member-State, producer and raw-material supplier. In parallel, levies …

Russian Organized Crime And Money Laundering, Debra Ross, Skarly Mendoza, John Song

Debra E. Ross

No abstract provided.

Review Of Peacekeeping In Africa: Capabilities And Culpabilities., Ruth Connell

Ruth R. Connell

No abstract provided.

Current Issues Related To The Administration Of Electronic Monitoring Programs, Kristine Botsford Mullendore, James Ballard

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

No abstract provided.

Adolescent Identities In A Globalized Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

Tell A Vision: Three Vignettes, Denise Troll Covey

Denise Troll Covey

No abstract provided.

No Place Like Home: Housing And The Ex-Prisoner, Katharine H. Bradley, Noel C. Richardson, Elspeth M. Slayter

Elspeth Slayter

Peace Corps And People-Centered Development, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

Absence Of Common Knowledge As A Source Of Speculative Bubbles, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.