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Chapter 4, The Maintenance Of Ethnic Identity In Catalonia, Oriol Pi-Sunyer

Research Report 09: The Limits of Integration: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Modern Europe

No abstract provided.

Chapter 3, Breton Nationalism And Modern France: The Permanent Revolution, David H. Fortier

Research Report 09: The Limits of Integration: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Modern Europe

No abstract provided.

Chapter 1, Some Sociolinguistic Observations On The Relationship Between Czech And Slovak, Zdeněk Salzmann

Research Report 09: The Limits of Integration: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Modern Europe

No abstract provided.

Chapter 5, Basque Nationalism, William A. Douglass, Milton Da Silva

Research Report 09: The Limits of Integration: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Modern Europe

No abstract provided.

A Soulful Memoir Of 1980s China

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

I think that no matter when I read it, I would have been impressed by Lijia Zhang’s“Socialism is Great!” A Worker’s Memoir of the New China. There is simply a lot to like about any book that is well crafted, unsparingly honest, and alternately poignant and amusing. And these adjectives all apply to Zhang’s tale.

One sign of the care the author takes is that she neatly bookends the part of her life story she gives up with a pair of very different sorts of acts of rebellion. Readers first meet the narrator as she chafes at the idea of …

Cedarville Vs. Central State, Cedarville University

Women's Basketball Statistics

No abstract provided.

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for December 2, 2008 meeting.

Potter, Phyllis M. (Fa 326), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 326. Paper: "Psalm-singing in 17th Century New England" written by Potter for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Spartan Daily, December 2, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 48

The Economic Crisis Is Showing The Decline Of Western World-Wide Hegemony - Portuguese Translation -, Ugo Mattei

Ugo Mattei

O Ocidente está em recessão, o que significa estagnação e a interrupção do crescimento. Por si só, poderia se tratar de uma simples interrupção cíclica, e boa parte dos meios de comunicação “oficiais” procuram veicular essa idéia. Um, dois anos de “vacas magras”, um novo “Bretton Woods”, como se costuma dizer agora, e o modelo capitalista, fundado na democracia-liberal, voltará a ser o melhor sistema possível. Segundo outros observadores, poderemos, pelo contrário, nos encontrar frente a um colapso sistêmico, semelhante ao que sacudiu o modelo soviético. Ambas as perspectivas são compatíveis com o fato de que a liderança do Ocidente …

Risk Exposure And Management In Cross-Border Banking., Sheriffdeen A. Tella

Economic and Financial Review

The title of this paper connotes the fact that risk-based supervision and inflation targeting are mutually inclusive policies that have to be carried out simultaneously. This is not true. The two frameworks can be adopted at the same time but they do not need to go pari passu. To that extent the paper can be regarded as two-in-one. In this connection, the two frameworks are treated separately but within the context of a single paper. We looked at their challenges and prospects in monetary policy formulation and implementation in the Nigerian economy. The rest of this paper is divided into …

The Implementation Of Basie Ii: Issues, Challenges And Implications For Nigeria., O. K. Ibedu

Economic and Financial Review

The significant development of Basle II throughout the world has meant that financial institutions and insurance companies must manage and measure risk in new ways. This paper is intended to provide the participants at the Executive Seminar with a firm foundation of the state of Basle II Accord principles and provide the tools and techniques to grapple with its implementation. This paper is divided into eight parts. Following this introduction, Part 2 discusses the necessity for a capital accord, the emergence of Basle I and the Basle II Accord. Part 3 discusses in brief the concept of Risk Management and …

The Imperatives Of Developing Risk Management Framework For Individual Risk Elements In Nigerian Banks., Emmanuel M. Abolo

Economic and Financial Review

This paper states that for a bank to be successful over the long term, it has to effectively manage its opportunities, threats and uncertainties. The point of risk management is not to eliminate it. That would eliminate reward. The point is to manage it. That is, choose where to place bets and where to avoid betting altogether.

Special Remarks At The Seminar On: "Financial Sector Developments: Challenges For Risk Based Supervision And Effective Monetary Policy Implementation, C. N. Mordi O.

Economic and Financial Review

This is the Special remarks.at the opening ceremony of the 16th edition of the annual in-house Executive Policy Seminar organized by the Research Department, in collaboration with the Human Resources Department. As usual, the seminar is aimed at availing the Executives of the Bank the opportunity of brainstorming on contemporary economic issues in the economy and the globe at large. In this respect, the theme of this year's Seminar "Financial Sector Development: Challenges for Risk-Based Supervision and Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Implementation" could not have come at a more opportune time, given the current financial meltdown ravaging global markets. This …

The Concepts And Practice Of Risk-Based Supervision., J. A. Afolabi

Economic and Financial Review

This paper seeks to examine the concept and practice of Risk-Based Supervision (RBS). For ease of discussion, the paper has been segmented into five sections. After the introduction, sections 2 and 3 examine the Conceptual Issues in Risk-Based Supervision and Country Experiences. Section 4 looks at the framework of RBS in Nigeria while section 5 concludes the paper.

Implementation Of Basel Ii: Any Role For International Financial Institutions?, C. E. Nwandikom

Economic and Financial Review

This paper examines the three pillars of Basel II which provide a broad and coherent framework for linking regulatory capital to risk, for improving internal risk measurement and management and for enhancing supervisory and market discipline at large, complex and internationally-active banks.

How Relevant Is Risk-Based Supervision For Pension Funds: The Regulators Perspective., Musa A. Ibrahim

Economic and Financial Review

Over the past two decades, privately managed pension systems have expanded greatly to play a central role in the provision of retirement income worldwide. The design and operation of these systems vary extensively, but the basic reason for their adoption remains unique across the board: countries need to provide affordable and sustainable income for their retired citizens. Achieving this objective becomes a challenging task in the face of the uncertainties created by globalization and rapid integration of financial markets. The utilization of risk-based methods originates primarily in the supervision of banks. In recent years, it has increasingly been extended to …

Overview Of Financial Sector Developments In Nigeria., S. N. Ibeabuchi

Economic and Financial Review

The objective of this paper is to review the various developments (reforms) in the Nigerian financial sector since 1986, including the recent banking industry consolidation.

The Challenges Of Good Corporate Governance For Effective Risk-Based Banking Supervision., Chris C. Itsede

Economic and Financial Review

Corporate governance has changed tremendously over the past two decades. These changes have been driven by new laws, regulations, guidelines and rising investor and public expectations. In the past, many boards were under the thumb of their chief executive officers (CEOs); this is no longer the case. Today, boards generally strive to govern their companies by benchmarking a set of best practices which have emerged and codified in corporate governance laws, stock exchange listing rules and company annual reports. Many individual directors are willing to accept these additional responsibilities. In this paper, the importance and principles of Corporate Governance is …

Monetary Policy, Risk-Based Supervision And Financial Sector Developments: International Experience., Ayodele Odusola

Economic and Financial Review

This paper describes an efficient banking supervision as essential to a virile and stable financial system and also fostering the linkage between the financial sector and the aggregate economy as well as to reduce the likelihood and magnitude of a financial crisis. Recent development across the globe has shown that dynamic diagnostic instruments are required for identifying and managing risks, vulnerabilities and development priorities in the financial sector. The need to address the unfolding complexity of supervising the banking system in the context of a globalized world underscores the introduction of the joint IMF-World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) …

Homeless Over 50: The Graying Of Chicago's Homeless Population, Center For Urban Research And Learning, Christine George, Marilyn Krogh, Dennis Watson, Judith Wittner

Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works

This is a report of a 2-year collaborative study of homeless people aged 50 to 64 in Chicago between Loyola University Center for Urban Research and Learning and the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness. This study had three goals: To obtain a demographic profile of people who are homeless in Chicago and are between the ages of 50 and 64; to understand how the various systems designed to serve this population do and do not meet their needs; and to begin to suggest a range of policy and programmatic responses to meet the needs of this population. Information for this …

Free Winona: Celebration, Free Winona

Free Winona Newspaper

Free Winona is a newspaper published in Winona, Minnesota in 2008 and 2009. This issue includes:

• Plan to Participate in the Really Really Free Markets;
• Interview with Variety Show Coordinator;
• Buying Gifts in a Failing Economy;
• Backmatter: Making Plans at the Hearth

Winona Currents Magazine, University Advancement - Winona State University

Winona Currents

Enchanted Forest: Alum Forrest Musselman updates favorite tales for fortieth Children's Theatre.

Aristotle’S Contribution To Scholarly Communication, Stephen Edward Bales

Doctoral Dissertations

This historical study examines the Aristotelian foundations of the Library and Museum of Alexandria for the purpose of (1) understanding how the Library and Museum differed from preceding ancient Near Eastern information institutions (i.e., “protolibraries”) and (2) how Aristotle’s methodologies for producing scientific knowledge were carried out in Alexandria. While protolibraries served as safeguards for maintaining a static cultural/political “stream of tradition” and created, organized, and maintained “library” documents to this end, the Library of Alexandria was a tool for theoretical knowledge creation. The Library materialized Aristotelian pre-scientific theory, specifically dialectic, and served the scholarly community of the Museum …

Value Similarity And Its Relationship To Interpersonal Relationship Quality And Identity: Perceptions Of Self, Partner, And Ideal Partner, Jennifer G. Clement

Doctoral Dissertations

The exploration of interpersonal relationships has led to the recognition that similarity has played a large role in the relationship quality, e.g. satisfaction, of dyads, specifically romantic dyads. Three categories of similarity have been shown to best predict satisfaction: communication, attitudes, and values. This study examined the actual, perceived, and ideal value similarity of heterosexual romantic dyads at the University of Tennessee and assessed relationship quality which included satisfaction, intimacy, trust, and social provisions. Using stepwise regressions and Pearson Product correlations this study determined that actual, perceived, and ideal value similarity significantly predicted the relationship quality of the individual and …

Influences On Growth: Development Beyond Conventional Wastewater Infrastructure, Kendrick J. Curtis

Doctoral Dissertations

Wastewater treatment has long had a powerful restraining influence on land use patterns in the United States. The limited availability of central sewers confined intense property development to the sewered areas of cities and towns. The drawbacks associated with septic systems restrained even moderate-density development in areas with inappropriate soils. The advent of decentralized wastewater systems abolished these restraints, however. This technology made it possible to develop land at even high densities with no regard for the proximity of sewers and little for soil quality. This presented an opportunity for developers to pursue projects wherever attractive conditions prevailed. It also …

Backpack Journalism In Television Newsgathering: Audience Perceptions Of Quality, Charles Wesley Gee

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore preferences by younger news audiences of backpack journalism in local television news. Local television news has to compete with Internet and other media to attract viewers. The theoretical foundation for this study, uses and gratifications, proposes audience members will actively seek news information using television as a primary source.

The focus of the study centered around technology’s influence on television newsgathering techniques and if the techniques delineated the quality of journalistic presentation. Four hundred and ninety three college students were surveyed about their media use, news gratification, and preferences of production quality …

The Impact Of Role Conceptualization On The Process And Outcomes Of Decision Making In An Educational Context, Scott Richard Turner

Doctoral Dissertations

Research has shown that the traditional conceptualization of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs) is not tenable because some employees perceive OCBs to be part of their job or in-role behaviors (Morrison, 1994). Conceptualizing behaviors as in-role has been shown to increase the frequency of the behaviors but no study has investigated whether conceptualization of these behaviors influences the manner in which they are conducted. This study combined findings from OCB research with the Judgment and Decision Making literature in order to identify the impact that role conceptualization had on an ambiguous decision making exercise where the act of making the decision …

How Mexican-American Women Define Health: Cultural Beliefs And Practices In A Non-Native Environment, Emma Kathleen Wright

Doctoral Dissertations

Culture impacts the ways people evaluate and respond to health and illness. As a result, Mexican-American culture plays a part in how women take care of their heath and react toward the threat of breast cancer. Using previously identified dominant cultural factors that may influence the health of Mexican-American women as a foundation, this qualitative study describes how Mexican-American women define and maintain health, particularly breast health.

Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States. As a result, it is important to better understand how Mexican-American women define health and take care of themselves. Doing so will …

Mindfulness: Mediating The Relationship Between Attachment Security And Parenting Style, Ian P. Haag

Doctoral Dissertations

The current project examines the relationships between attachment security, parenting style, and mindfulness. The level of mindfulness an individual demonstrates is argued to mediate the relationship between an individual’s attachment security and her respective parenting style. The population is composed of 35 mothers who were drawn from a university clinic setting. Measures utilized included: the Relationship Questionnaire (RQ), which measures adult attachment security, the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), which measures the level of mindfulness an individual demonstrates, and the Parental Authority Questionnaire – Revised (PAQ-R), which measures parenting style attitudes. Results demonstrated no significant relationships between attachment security and …