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The Influence Of Political Ideologies In The Organization And Development Of Sport In Greece, Yanni D. Afthinos

Yanni D Afthinos

No abstract provided.

Las Políticas De Intervención Municipal En El Centro Histórico De Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Los Centros Históricos se han convertido en tema central de debate y discusión dentro de la ciudad de Quito, entre otras razones por la agudización del deterioro urbano-arquitectónico y de las condiciones de vida de la población que allí habita. Pero también por la formación de una institucionalización que promueve su desarrollo y conservación, a través de la asistencia técnica, el financiamiento y la actuación. En este contexto debe ubicarse el avance en la concepción de la planificación urbana al haber incorporado dentro de sus postulados la temática de los centros históricos y la del análisis del problema nacional que …

Urbanización Y Desarrollo Humano, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Vaya exponer cuatro reflexiones que he realizado durante este último tiempo, y que quiero compartirlas con ustedes porque son de fundamental importancia para la comprensión de los procesos nacionales de urbanización y urbanos. Pero también, por el estado de elaboración que evidencian, con el fin de debatir y discutir.

En primer lugar, pienso que ha llegado la hora de repensar la ciudad ecuatoriana, en vista de que existen muchos análisis con diversidad de situaciones metodológicas, temáticas, etc., lo cual amerita hacer un alto para repensar nuestra ciudad.

El segundo tiene que ver con el proceso por el que transita la …

A Descriptive Study Of The Functional Components Of Browsing., Barbara H. Kwasnik

Barbara H. Kwasnik

The paper describes a descriptive study of the functional components of browsing, which is viewed as the strategic and adaptive technique that people use to search, scan, navigate through, skim, sample, and explore information systems. Data on browsing is collected from thirty participants -- ten each in three browsing formats: print, command-driven computer version, and hypertext window-environment version. Data collection is by means of several techniques: the collection of thinking-out-loud, task-concurrent protocols; open-question interviews during the task; observation; and video and sound recording. The aim of analysis is to describe functions of browsing such as: orientation, place-marking, transition, comparison, identification, …

An Income-Satiation Model Of Efficiency Wages, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Efficiency wages are wages that exceed a worker's reservation wage. A standard explanation for such wages is ``bonding'': by increasing the worker's fear of discharge, high wages increase the worker's cost from punishment. A neglected alternative is ``satiation'': by decreasing the worker's marginal utility of income, the high wage decreases the benefit from misbehavior. Satiation, unlike bonding, applies even in a one- period model, but it relies on the misbehavior having a monetary benefit and on at least part of the punishment being nonmonetary.

Lógica Del Tugurio, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La segregación residencial en Quilo varía en su forma y contenido desde los años sesentas, debido a que los sectores populares enfrentan el dilema de su inserción residencial desde una situación de carencia de alternativas. Ante la ausencia de OPCIONES residenciales, los sectores populares se han visto en la obligación de desarrollar extremas ESTRATEGIAS de reproducción.

La distinción entre opción y estrategia, permite diferenciar a los mecanismos individuales de comportamiento en un mercado, con las formas sociales de resistencia-sobrevivencia-transformación que son propias de la condición de existencia de los sectores populares. La estrategia es un ámbito específico de conflicto social; …

Analyzing Performance Skewness In Public Agencies: The Case Of Urban Mass Transit, Herman L. Boschken

Herman L. Boschken

Previous studies of public organizational performance have focused mostly on operating efficiency, without dealing with the complex accountability problems associated with plural public interests. The fact that an agency exhibits multiple and often paradoxical performances has not been of comparable concern. This failure to account for performance in a multiple-constituencies context has led to a narrow view of how well agencies do. To broaden the research on agency performance, a multiple-constituencies model is introduced and tested for statistically significant variances. The findings confirm the model's robustness in structuring a dependent variable for empirical research on why agencies perform toward different …

Discourse-Level Analysis Of Abstracts For Information Retrieval: A Probabilistic Approach, Robert N. Oddy

Robert Oddy

The objective of this research is to contribute to our knowledge of how people seek information, and how computer systems can be designed to help in this process. Most information retrieval research since the field emerged in the 1950's has reduced these questions to that of trying to determine how documents relevant to a user's query might be selected from a large collection of texts---a question that has proved remarkably difficult to answer. The present work takes the stance that this particular reduction increasingly limits progress towards the objective stated above. It is directed instead towards the development of a …

The Geographical Concentration Of Employment And Its Implications For Trade And Adjustment, Robert C. Shelburne, Robert W. Bednarzik

Robert C. Shelburne

This paper examines the geographical concentration of employment by detailed industrial categories by state using a Department of Labor dataset not available to the public. It discusses the theoretical reasons for geographical concentration, and provides detailed Gini coefficients for both 3 and 4 digit SIC categories. It discusses how concentration varies by type of industry, and by the intensity to which the industry either exports or imports. Its provides information on the location of industries intensively involved with trade. This information in then used to assess the possible adjustment pressures that might result from NAFTA. A condensed version of this …

Can Small-Area Analysis Detect Variation In Surgery Rates? The Power Of Small-Area Variation Analysis., Paula Diehr

Paula Diehr

A variety of statistical methods can be used in small-area analysis to test whether there is more variation than would be expected by chance alone. However, the power of these methods to detect existing variation has never been studied. The authors used data regarding back surgery in Washington State to suggest several types of variation that might exist (alternative hypotheses), and then used computer simulation to determine the power, or the probability of detecting this variation. The chi-square test had the highest power of all methods considered against most alternative hypotheses. Power is higher if there are no multiple admissions, …

Trends In Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

No abstract provided.

Une Nouvelle Aperçue Sur Le Tableau Périodique, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

As science advances, its laws become fewer but of greater scope. In this respect the Periodic Law, which is the basis of the Periodic Table, represents a major step in the progress of chemistry - - it affords the natural classification of the elements. The Periodic Table was developed by chemists more than one hundred years ago as a correlation for the properties of the elements. With the discovery of the internal structure of the atom, it became recognized by physicists as a natural law. When the crystalline structure of solids was studied, the nature of the chemical bonds was …

Separate, But Not Equal: Racial Segmentation In Cigarette Advertising, Richard W. Pollay

Richard W. Pollay

No abstract provided.

Managerial Conservatism And Rational Information Acquisition, Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

Conservative managerial behavior can be rational and profit- maximizing. If the valuation of innovations contains white noise and the status quo would be preferred to random innovation, then any innovation that does not appear to be substantially better than the status quo should be rejected. The more successful the firm, the higher the threshold for accepting innovation should be, and the greater the conservative bias. Other things equal, more successful firms will spend less on research, adopt fewer innovations, and be less likely to advance the industry 's best practice.

Gain Enhancement Of Dielectric Resonator Loaded Waveguide Antennas With Dielectric Overlays, M. Hakkak, Hossein Ameri Mahabadi

Hossein Ameri Mahabadi

The gain characteristics of a dielectric resonator loaded coaxial probe fed circular waveguide antenna (DRLWA) with overlaying parasitic discs have been investigated experimentally. Results indicate that, when properly spaced, the overlays can enhance the gain by more than 6 dB.

Quito: Una Política Urbana Alternativa, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

De un tiempo a esta parte, la problemática de los Centros Históricos se ha convertido en tema de debate y discusión dentro de las políticas urbanas en América Latina. Hoy, por lo menos, el caso de Quito es uno de los puntales de la polémica sobre la ciudad. Esta conversión tiene que ver con algunos de los siguientes aspectos que merecen ser destacados:

a. El creciente deterioro que vienen sufriendo los centros históricos como consecuencia de hechos sociales, económicos y naturales, así como de los procesos de modernización que se han desarrollado. en su momento, en cada uno de los …

Quito: Una Política Urbana Alternativa, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

De un tiempo a esta parte, la problemática de los Centros Históricos se ha convertido en tema de debate y discusión dentro de las políticas urbanas en América Latina. Hoy, por lo menos, el caso de Quito es uno de los puntales de la polémica sobre la ciudad. Esta conversión tiene que ver con algunos de los siguientes aspectos que merecen ser destacados:

El creciente deterioro que vienen sufriendo los centros históricos como consecuencia de hechos sociales, económicos y naturales, así como de los procesos de modernización que se han desarrollado. en su momento, en cada uno de los países …

Red Latinoamericana "Ciudades, Gobiernos Locales Y Políticas Urbanas", Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La principal preocupación que se puso de manifiesto desde un inicio fue la relacionada con la construcción de una ciudad latinoamericana democrática que modifique su actual fisonomía de espacios marcados por la segregación y la exclusión de las grandes mayorías. Revertir esta situación exige revisar el modo de actuar de un conjunto muy amplio de instancias nacionales, con las especificidades que cada una de ellas presenta.

En la transición es necesario reflexionar sobre la naturaleza y composición de los Estados nacionales latinoamericanos, y uno de los temas ineludibles es el de la existencia de los grupos que asumieran tareas de …

High Profile Athlete Endorsements Vs Doping In Sports, Yanni D. Afthinos, Terry Furst

Yanni D Afthinos

No abstract provided.

An Examination And Correction Of Plant Tissue Culture Basal Medium Formulations, Henry R. Owen, A. Raymond Miller

Henry R. Owen

The inorganic formulations of fourteen common plant tissue culture basal media were examined from the primary literature. Inaccuracies and errors were found for molecular formulae, chemical hydrations, and molar equivalences for iron/EDTA complexation. A comparison with published basal medium formulations from six commercial suppliers uncovered additional inaccuracies, modifications, and errors, thereby emphasizing the need for investigators to examine and describe medium formulations precisely in future publications.

Biochemical Systematics Of Notothenioid Fishes From Antarctica, Mara A. Mcdonald, Michael H. Smith, Michael W. Smith, James M. Novak, Paul E. Johns, Arthur L. Devries

James M. Novak

Genetic variation at 30 protein-coding loci was examined in seven forms of notothenioid fishes from Antarctica. Multilocus heterozygosity varied from 0.018 to 0.078 across taxa. An analysis of the allozyme data revealed the probable existence of an unrecognized cryptic species within Trematomu5 bemacchii. Pagothenia borchgrevinki is as closely related to some species of Trematomus as are some species of Trematomus to each other. Speciation among the species of Trematomus and Pagothenia appears to have taken place primarily after the separation of Antarctica from Australia.

Multi-Ball Collisions, Terry L. Smith, Jay S. Huebner

Terry L. Smith

Explanation to use the "double-ball" demonstration as a model for the supernova core bounce.

Combination Of Orthogonality And Simplex Method For Solving Linear Programming, G.R. Jahanshahloo, S. Abbasbandy

Saeid Abbasbandy

For obtaining an optimal solution in L.P. combination of orthogonality and simplex method is used. It seems that the number of iteration is reduced.

Lisrel Analyses Of The Riasec Model: Confirmatory And Congeneric Factor Analyses Of Holland's Self-Directed Search, Gregory J. Boyle, Sergio Fabris

Gregory J. Boyle

A sample of 401 apprentice plumbers was administered the Australian version of Holland's [(1977) Self-Directed Search: A guide to educational and vocational planning. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press] Self-Directed Search (SDS), in an investigation of the construct validity of the multidimensional interest inventory. Both exploratory (iterative principal factoring with oblique simple structure rotation), as well as LISREL confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), provided only partial support for the six-factor RIASEC typological model on which the SDS instrument was structured. Indeed, only one RIASEC factor (Artistic) was supported unequivocally from the exploratory factor analysis while the CFA statistics indicated a poor …

Factor Structure Of The Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (Mdq): Exploratory And Lisrel Analyses, Gregory J. Boyle

Gregory J. Boyle

The Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) is the most frequently used self-report instrument for measuring menstrual cycle symptomatology. However, its internal structure has been criticized. In a review of the psychometric properties of the MDQ (covering more than 50 studies from 1968 onwards), Spalding and Oei concluded that "the MDQ appears to measure constructs unrelated to the menstrual cycle, [that] its definition of the premenstrual syndrome may be inaccurate and the factor structure of this instrument may be unreliable." In order to clarify the structural dimensionality of the MDQ, exploratory, congeneric and confirmatory factor analyses of the MDQ item intercorrelations were …

Le Teorie Del Segno Neoplatoniche, Riccardo Pelizzo

riccardo pelizzo

the paper investigates the theories of sign developed by three of the most important neoplatonic philosophers

La Enseñanza De La Ética A Los Abogados, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

No abstract provided.

Bulk Density Of A Sandy Loam: Traffic, Tillage, And Irrigation-Method Effects, Burl D. Meek, Eric A. Rechel, Lyle M. Carter, William R. Detar

William R DeTar

Modern crop production creates a cycle between soil compaction caused by traffic and alleviation of this condition by tillage or natural processes such as freezing and thawing. The objective of this study was to evaluate important management practices as they relate to changes in bulk density of a tilled sandy loam soil. Practices evaluated were irrigation method, time between tillage and traffic, tire pressure and wheel load of applied traffic, and controlled traffic. Relationships among bulk density, penetration resistance, and infiltration rate were determined. Experiments were conducted in the San Joaquin Valley of California, on a sandy loam soil (Entisol) …

The Author In Copyright: Notes For The Literary Critic, Monroe Price, Malla Pollack

Malla Pollack

This article discusses disparate approaches to the under-theorized concept of authorship in American copyright jurisprudence. This article has been reprinted in "The Construction of Authorship" (eds. Martha Woodmansee & Peter Jazi, 1994).

From Libertarianism To Egalitarianism, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A standard natural rights argument for libertarianism is based on the labor theory of property: the idea that I own my self and my labor, and so if I "mix" my own labor with something previously unowned or to which I have a have a right, I come to own the thing with which I have mixed by labor. This initially intuitively attractive idea is at the basis of the theories of property and the role of government of John Locke and Robert Nozick. Locke saw and Nozick agreed that fairness to others requires a proviso: that I leave "enough …