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How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.

Technology On The Factory Floor Ii: Benchmarking Manufacturing Technology Use In The Usa, Paul Swamidass

Paul Swamidass

This monograph is the result of the second joint effort of the Manufacturing Institute of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the author for studying the use of fifteen different manufacturing technologies in the US. Timely support by the National Science Foundation enabled this second study to be expanded to a larger number of participants. A total of 1,121 members of NAM participated in this study. Hard technologies studied were: AGV, CAD, CAM, CIM, CNC, FMS, LAN, Robotics and automated inspection, and soft technologies studied were: TQM, JIT, SQC, MRP, MRP II, and manufacturing cells.

Selected findings are: CAD, …

De La Violencia Urbana A La Convivencia Ciudadana, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

No SE PUEDE DESCONOCER QUE EL problema de la violencia delincuencial, como fenómeno social que tiene expresión en las ciudades, existe desde tiempos inmemoriales y que, por tanto, no es nuevo, al grado que se podría decir que es consustancial a la ciudad. Tal afirmación nos debe llevar a replantear la tradicional aproximación que se ha hecho al tema ya lo urbano, desde aquellas metodologías que los interpretan como resultado de un conjunto de patologías.

Por ello quizá sería mejor reconocer a la ciudad como un escenario de relaciones sociales. Así, la violencia urbana aparecería menos como «un problema y …

Use Today's Technology To Improve Customer Contact, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

No abstract provided.

The Battle That Disney Should Have Won, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

An oldie but goodie

Patient Adherence And Adjustment In Renal Dialysis: A Person X Treatment Interactive Approach, Alan Christensen, Timothy Smith, Charles Turner, Kirt Cundick

Alan J. Christensen

We classified 52 in-center hemodialysis patients and 34 self-treated, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients on two latent variable indices reflecting patient coping style (i.e., Information Vigilance and Active Coping). The concurrent and prospective interactive effects of Dialysis Type and Coping Style were examined on patient dietary and medication adherence and on patient depression. In cross-sectional analyses, higher Information Vigilance was associated with better dietary adherence for CAPD patients but poorer adherence for In-Center Hemodialysis patients. No significant effects were found on a measure of medication adherence. Information Vigilance exerted a concurrent main effect on depression, such that higher scores …

How Radical Is Lani Guinier? , Michael E Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

In 1993, Lani Guinier was nominated to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Her nomination was withdrawn after she was accused of being too liberal, if not radical, on issues relating to voting rights law. This article discusses her views, and finds that her writings were not clear enough to either support or debunk the accusations of radicalism.

La Violencia Urbana, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El predominio de la población urbana (58%), el incremento del número de ciudades (196 municipios) y la generalización de la urbanización en el territorio nacional, llevan a concluir que el Ecuador se ha convertido en un país de ciudades. Esta realidad trae nuevos problemas, entre los cuales se debe mencionar el incremento significativo de la violencia delictiva urbana.

La crisis económica y las políticas implantadas, generalizan la inseguridad social y económica, y contribuyen a reducir los mecanismos de representación, a limitar los espacios de solución de los conflictos, a mercantilizar las relaciones sociales y a restringir las manifestaciones culturales, propias …

Stalking: Student As Victim, Kristine Botsford Mullendore, Gary Ebels

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

No abstract provided.

Predictors Of Survival Among Hemodialysis Patients: Effect Of Perceived Family Support, Alan Christensen, John Wiebe, Timothy Smith, Charles Turner

Alan J. Christensen

The authors examined the role of perceived family support and symptoms of depression as predictors of survival in a sample of 78 in-center hemodialysis patients. Cox regression analysis revealed significant effects for family support (p<.005), blood urea nitrogen (p<.01), and age (p<.005). The effect for depression was not significant. The Cox model indicated that a 1-point increase on the family support measure was associated with a 13% reduction in the hazard rate (i.e., mortality). Estimated 5-year mortality rates among low family support patients were approximately 3 times higher than estimated mortality for high support patients. Differences in patient adherence to the dietary and medication regimens failed to explain the significant effect of family support. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved)

The Forms And Limits Of Medical Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster

C. Barry Hoffmaster

As medical ethics has evolved over the past several decades, it has come to be regarded as a domain of applied ethics, that is, the application of a rationally based, philosophical theory to moral problems in health care. But an array of difficulties arise in the attempt to apply general moral theories or norms to concrete problems, difficulties that expose the incompleteness and indeterminacy of philosophical moral theory. The doubtful ability of applied ethics to be practically helpful has led to the development of two main competitors. One is the attempt to reprise and rehabilitate the tradition of moral casuistry, …

Gallistel’S The Organization Of Learning: This Is Not Creation Science, James Dougan

James Dougan

No abstract provided.

How To Build A Bomb & Other Ethical Issues In The Library, Kathryn Waggoner, Laurel Balkema, Lee Lebbin, Debbie Morrow, Kim Ranger

Kathryn L Waggoner

No abstract provided.

"United We Govern - Clinton's First Congress," At Carol Swain's Class, Princeton University, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Primogeniture, Monogamy, And Reproductive Success In A Stratified Society, Ted Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper explores the workings of stratified societies in which there is primogeniture and where the nobility practice monogamous marriage with a double standard of sexual fidelity. We model a simple stratified society and define the reproductive values of the male and female nobility relative to that of commoners. We then explore implications of the hypothesis that preferences have evolved to favor maximization of reproductive value. The hypothesis is tested against fragmentary data from ancient civilizations and quite detailed information about the British aristocracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

"'Toy' Presses And The Rise Of Fugitive U.S. Government Documents", John Walters

John Walters

Explains how advances in the graphic arts, and the rise of executive agency duplicating plants in the early twentieth century, gave rise to a large body of U.S. government documents that were, and still largely are, unavailable to the public

Other Faces In The Mirror: Power, Conflict And Peacemaking In Our Daily Lives, Christine Yalda

Christine A. Yalda

No abstract provided.

Donohue Senate Testimony On Job Corps 1994, John J. Donohue

John Donohue

Testimony of John J. Donohue III, Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law, North-western University and Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, before the Senate Labor Committee.

Experiencias De Descentralización Y Regionalización En América Latina: Análisi Compartido, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El 10 de Agosto de 1992 ocurre un hecho inédito en la historia nacional: Sixto Durán Ballén, ex alcalde de Quito, asume la presidencia de la República; León Febres Cordero, ex Presidente Constitucional se convierte en alcalde de Guayaquil y Jamil Mahuad, ex-candidato presidencial, llega a la alcaldía de Quito. Pero llama aún más la atención, si se observa que en estas tres elecciones hubo una polarización evidente y que cada una de las autoridades proviene de tres partidos políticos distintos.

Pero también América Latina presenta el hecho político novedoso e interesante que algunos candidatos presidenciales surgen de administraciones municipales …

Reaching Entrepreneurs Where They Live And Work: A Communication And Marketing Strategy For The Oklahoma Home-Based Business Association, Douglas J. Swanson Ed.D Apr

Douglas J. Swanson, Ed.D APR

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Las Ciudades Intermedias En El Contexto De La Urbanización Ecuatoriana: Un Intento De Interpretación, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Las ciudades intermedias en el contexto de la urbanización ecuatoriana: un intento de Interpretación

En América Latina las tendencias generales que acompañan al proceso de urbanización -en tanto expresión fenoménica final- han sido extensamente debatidas y, hasta cierto punto, consideras como un "lugar común": creciente concentración urbana en uno o dos centros mayores, detrimento de la significación de las ciudades intermedias y pequeñas, y profundización de los desequilibrios interregionales. A pesar de ello, el énfasis general, tanto de la investigación como de las acciones de política -en coincidencia con el movimiento aparente?- se ha dirigido hacia las principales ciudades, adoptando, …

A Cross-Cultural Study Of Directive Sequences And Some Implications For Compliance-Gaining Research, Kristine Fitch

Kristine Muñoz

Compliance gaining has been widely studied in communication research as a phenomenon central to interpersonal life. Yet the category of attempts to compel the actions of others, labeled as directives in pragmatics and ethnography, has received little specific attention, despite its close connection to actual spoken life. This essay presents an ethnographic examination of directive sequences in two speech communities, one in the U.S. and one in Colombia, with emphasis on the distinctive belief systems revealed by directive use. Data from several earlier studies of compliance gaining are then reexamined to show that patterns of results obtained in those studies …

Public Information Arrival, Thomas Berry, Keith Howe

Thomas D Berry

The authors develop a measure of public information flow to financial markets and use it to document the patterns of information arrival, with an emphasis on the intraday flows. The measure is the number of news releases by Reuter's News Service per unit of time. The authors find that public information arrival is nonconstant, displaying seasonalities and distinct intraday patterns. Next they relate their measure of public information to aggregate measures of intraday market activity. The authors' results suggest a positive, moderate relationship between public information and trading volume but an insignificant relationship with price volatility. Copyright 1994 by American …

Civvies To Plod The Beat?, Brian Kingshott

Brian F. Kingshott

No abstract provided.

Thomas Hobbes's "A Discourse Of Laws", Noel B. Reynolds

Noel B Reynolds

The recent discovery that an anonymously published 1620 essay was an early writing of Thomas Hobbes invites investigation of his early thinking. Hobbes relied on mostly classical sources to advance a basically conventionalist theory of law and to anticipate twentieth century analyses of the principles of rule of law such as those made famous by F. A. Hayek and Michael Oakeshott.

On The Economics Of Polygyny, Ted Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

About 80% of all societies recorded by anthropologists are polygynous (men have many wives). Even our own society is less monogamous than claimed. This paper attempts to explain such mysteries as why bride prices and dowries are not ``opposites'', why polygamous societies are usually characterized by positive bride prices and dowry is mainly confined to monogamous societies, why polyandry (women having multiple husbands) is rare, but not extinct, and why the more you have to pay for a wife the better you will treat her.

'Once-Off' And Continuing Gains From Trade, M. Scott Taylor

M. Scott Taylor

Most Economists are familiar with the static or once-off welfare gains created by opening an economy to trade. Much less is known about how the resource reallocations necessitated by this move affect long-run growth, and hence whether they provide dynamic or continuing welfare gains in future periods. This paper employs a dynamic Ricardian trade model to provide a decomposition of the gains from trade into "once-off" and continuing categories. In one version of the model, trade is always welfare enhancing; in the other, "once-off" losses may occur alongside dynamic gains. In both versions the magnitude of the once-off and continuing …

North-South Trade And The Environment, M. Scott Taylor, Brian A. Copeland

M. Scott Taylor

A simple static model of North-South trade is developed to examine linkages between national income, pollution, and international trade. Two countries produce a continuum of goods, each differing in pollution intensity. We show that the higher income country chooses stronger environmental protection, and specializes in relatively clean goods. By isolating the scale, composition, and technique effects of international trade on pollution, we show that free trade increases world pollution; an increase in the Rich North's production possibilities increases pollution, while similar growth in the poor South lowers pollution; and unilateral transfers from North to South reduce worldwide pollution.

Toward A Systematic Method Of Measuring Recall From Printed News Stories, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

La Gestión Urbana: Estrategías, Dilemas Y Retos, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Con este trabajo se trata de aportar al conocimiento de la ciudad desde un claro énfasis en la gestión y planificación urbanas. La reflexión proviene desde la interna de un proceso particular de gestión-planificación municipal, como copartícipe del mismo. Esto, si bien tiene su propia riqueza, no es menos cierto que carece de la distancia tan necesaria para la objetividad. También es una reflexión en estado preliminar que no compromete a la Institución; es un trabajo personal en proceso de elaboración, sobre la base de una experiencia colectiva; no es propiamente la experiencia, sino reflexiones a partir de la misma. …