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On The Difference Between Raising And Control, Jill Heather Flegg, Ileana Paul Dec 2001

On The Difference Between Raising And Control, Jill Heather Flegg, Ileana Paul

Ileana Paul

No abstract provided.

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Interlibrary Loan: Integral Component Of Global Resource Sharing, Robert A. Seal Dec 2001

Interlibrary Loan: Integral Component Of Global Resource Sharing, Robert A. Seal

Robert A Seal

No abstract provided.

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Richard Riordan And Los Angeles Charter Reform.Pdf, Matthew J. Parlow Dec 2001

Richard Riordan And Los Angeles Charter Reform.Pdf, Matthew J. Parlow

Matthew Parlow

When the new City Charter took effect on July 1, 2000, Los Angeles cast aside a seventy-five year old governing structure in favor of a streamlined system more reflective of the political realities of a twenty-first century metropolis. It was in many ways a typical Los Angeles moment. Dissatisfied with a municipal institution designed for another age, voters looked to the future and embraced sweeping changes in the fundamental operations of the city. Fully sixty percent of voters rejected a venerable but outdated document and chose a new but unproven one. More importantly, voters opted for legislation that reflected the …

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Are Employee Appraisals Making The Grade? A Basic Primer And Illustrative Application Of Federal Private Employment Discrimination Law, Thomas E. Geu Dec 2001

Are Employee Appraisals Making The Grade? A Basic Primer And Illustrative Application Of Federal Private Employment Discrimination Law, Thomas E. Geu

Thomas E. Geu

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Does Study Abroad Make A Difference? An Investigation Of Linguistic And Motivational Outcomes, Heather W. Allen Dec 2001

Does Study Abroad Make A Difference? An Investigation Of Linguistic And Motivational Outcomes, Heather W. Allen

Heather Willis Allen

Investigated linguistic and affective outcomes of summer study abroad participation by 25 college French students. Sought to determine if significant changes occurred in two linguistic factors--oral and listening French skills--and two affective factors--integrative motivation and language anxiety after study abroad.

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Democratization As A Cultural Confluence: Re-Examining The Un-Led Peace Process In Cambodia, Tatsushi Arai Dec 2001

Democratization As A Cultural Confluence: Re-Examining The Un-Led Peace Process In Cambodia, Tatsushi Arai

Tatsushi Arai

Culture is a web of meaning-making patterns that consciously and sub-consciously guide, legitimize, and routinize human behaviors and perceptions evolving in a given communal context. The question under study for this essay is: what happens when different cultures interact with one another in a dynamic interplay of conflict resolution and national reconstruction in post-war societies? Analysis of the United Nations’ peace-building operations in Cambodia offers valuable insights into this inquiry. The case study will illustrate the turbulence of cultural confluence in which Cambodian Theravada Buddhism and Brahmanism interact with the distinct cultural tradition of Western democracy. The sustained tension that …

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Animal Problems/People Skills: Emotional And Interactional Strategies In Humane Education., Leslie Irvine Dec 2001

Animal Problems/People Skills: Emotional And Interactional Strategies In Humane Education., Leslie Irvine

Leslie Irvine, PhD

Recent changes in the organizational culture of nonhuman animal sheltering, coupled with attitudes that are more progressive toward companion animals, have made shelters into resources rather than last resorts. Consequently, shelter workers need the “people skills” to communicate to a public that urgently needs accurate information about animal behavior and training. This poses a difficulty for workers drawn to working with animals but who find themselves working with people. Based on participant observation and informed by social psychology and the sociology of emotions, this study articulates three primary dimensions of shelter workers’ interactions with clients: (a) Narrative Knowing, (b) Emotion …

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Book Review: Steven Selden, Inheriting Shame: The Story Of Eugenics And Racism In America (New York: Teachers College Press 1999)., Ann Marie Ryan Dec 2001

Book Review: Steven Selden, Inheriting Shame: The Story Of Eugenics And Racism In America (New York: Teachers College Press 1999)., Ann Marie Ryan

Ann Marie Ryan, PhD

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Pisa 2000 Technical Report, Ray Adams (Ed), Margaret Wu (Ed) Dec 2001

Pisa 2000 Technical Report, Ray Adams (Ed), Margaret Wu (Ed)

Professor Ray Adams

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) was launched by the OECD to provide internationally comparable evidence on student performance. This technical report is the product of a collaborative effort between the countries participating in PISA and the experts and the institutions working within the framework of the International PISA Consortium.

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Price Dispersion On The Internet: Good Firms, Bad Firms, Kathy Baylis, Jeffrey M. Perloff Dec 2001

Price Dispersion On The Internet: Good Firms, Bad Firms, Kathy Baylis, Jeffrey M. Perloff

Kathy Baylis

Internet firms charge a wide range of prices for such homogeneous products, and high-priced firms remain high-priced and low-priced firms remain low-priced over long periods. One explanation is that high-price firms are charging a premium for superior service. An alternative explanation is that firms price discriminate across informed and uniformed consumers (Salop and Stiglitz 1977) or between serious shoppers and others (Wilde and Schwartz 1979). The pricing pattern for a digital camera and a flatbed scanner is consistent with the price-discrimination model and inconsistent with the service-premium story.

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Water-Based Recreational Benefits Of Conservation Programs: The Case Of Conservation Tillage On U.S. Cropland, Kathy Baylis, Peter Feather, Merritt Padgitt, Carmen Sandretto Dec 2001

Water-Based Recreational Benefits Of Conservation Programs: The Case Of Conservation Tillage On U.S. Cropland, Kathy Baylis, Peter Feather, Merritt Padgitt, Carmen Sandretto

Kathy Baylis

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Valuing Cooperation And Participation : A Challenge To Standard Normative Economics, Denis Claude Dec 2001

Valuing Cooperation And Participation : A Challenge To Standard Normative Economics, Denis Claude

Denis Claude

This paper focuses on the economic assessment of environmental policies that rely on the participation and cooperation of local communities. It argues that such policies have an intrinsic value that is ignored by the usual methods of economic valuation. This omission results from an adhesion to welfarism, a doctrine according to which the evaluation of public policy should be based solely on its consequences in terms of individual utilities. A number of authors reject this doctrine, however. They stress that public policy should not be narrowly interpreted as the choice of a social state since it also involves a choice …

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A Social Constructivist Approach To Computer-Mediated Instruction, Joseph J. Pear, Darlene E. Crone-Todd Dec 2001

A Social Constructivist Approach To Computer-Mediated Instruction, Joseph J. Pear, Darlene E. Crone-Todd

Darlene Crone-Todd

A computer-mediated teaching system, called computer-aided personalized system of instruction (CAPSI), has been developed that incorporates a social constructivist approach. This educational philosophy maintains that human learning occurs primarily through a socially interactive process. In CAPSI, course material is divided into study units, and the instructor prepares study questions on each unit. The study questions require verbally composed answers. In addition, the study questions in CAPSI often do not specify any one correct answer; instead the quality of the answer depends on how well it is argued as judged by the feedback it evokes from others. All students receive feedback …

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Incentivos Electorales Y Selección De Candidatos En Organizaciones Neopopulistas: El Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano (1984-2000), Flavia Freidenberg Dec 2001

Incentivos Electorales Y Selección De Candidatos En Organizaciones Neopopulistas: El Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano (1984-2000), Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

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Exotic Aquatic: The Culturing Of Native Vs. Exotic Species: A Dilemma, Paula Furey Dec 2001

Exotic Aquatic: The Culturing Of Native Vs. Exotic Species: A Dilemma, Paula Furey

Paula Furey

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School Quality, Race And Housing Values In Louisiana, Dave N. Norris Dec 2001

School Quality, Race And Housing Values In Louisiana, Dave N. Norris

Dave Norris

No abstract provided.

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Postcolonialism And Native American Geographies: The Letters Of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899, Karen M. Morin Dec 2001

Postcolonialism And Native American Geographies: The Letters Of Rosalie La Flesche Farley, 1896-1899, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.

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The Use Of Resighting Data To Estimate The Rate Of Population Growth Of The Snail Kite In Florida, Victoria Dreitz, James Nichols, James Hines, Robert Bennetts, Wiley Kitchens, Donald Deangelis Dec 2001

The Use Of Resighting Data To Estimate The Rate Of Population Growth Of The Snail Kite In Florida, Victoria Dreitz, James Nichols, James Hines, Robert Bennetts, Wiley Kitchens, Donald Deangelis

Victoria Dreitz

No abstract provided.

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Scaling Power Laws In The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, Iram Gleria, Raul Matsushita, Sergio Da Silva Dec 2001

Scaling Power Laws In The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, Iram Gleria, Raul Matsushita, Sergio Da Silva

Sergio Da Silva

The scaling of the probability distribution of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange index is shown to be described by a Levy stable stochastic process for the modal region of the distribution. The truncated Levy process is characterized by a scaling index of 1.66. Scaling power laws are also shown to be present in the mean and standard deviation of the series as the time horizon is increased. A power law is also found for the autocorrelation time of the natural logs of the index series. The deviations from the line that best fits the natural logs of the series are …

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Criticality, Sergio Da Silva Dec 2001

Criticality, Sergio Da Silva

Sergio Da Silva

This article reviews some current interdisciplinary work on power laws.

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A Brief Overview Of The Current State Of Exchange Rate Modeling, Sergio Da Silva Dec 2001

A Brief Overview Of The Current State Of Exchange Rate Modeling, Sergio Da Silva

Sergio Da Silva

The paper provides a brief overview of the current state of exchange rate modeling.

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Candidate Set Strategies For Ant Colony Optimisation, Marcus Randall, James Montgomery Dec 2001

Candidate Set Strategies For Ant Colony Optimisation, Marcus Randall, James Montgomery

Marcus Randall

Ant Colony Optimisation based solvers systematically scan the set of possible solution elements before choosing a particular one. Hence, the computational time required for each step of the algorithm can be large. One way to overcome this is to limit the number of element choices to a sensible subset, or candidate set. This paper describes some novel generic candidate set strategies and tests these on the travelling salesman and car sequencing problems. The results show that the use of candidate sets helps to find competitive solutions to the test problems in a relatively short amount of time.

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Reading Mainstream Possibilities: Canadian Young Adult Fiction With Lesbian And Gay Characters, Paulette Rothbauer Dec 2001

Reading Mainstream Possibilities: Canadian Young Adult Fiction With Lesbian And Gay Characters, Paulette Rothbauer

Paulette Rothbauer

No abstract provided.

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Obtrusiveness As Strategy In Ethnographic Research, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington Dec 2001

Obtrusiveness As Strategy In Ethnographic Research, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington

Brooke Harrington

No abstract provided.

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Larval Productivity Of A Mature Artificial Reef: The Ichthyoplankton Of King Harbor, California, 1974–1997, John Stephens Jr, Daniel Pondella Ii Dec 2001

Larval Productivity Of A Mature Artificial Reef: The Ichthyoplankton Of King Harbor, California, 1974–1997, John Stephens Jr, Daniel Pondella Ii

Daniel Pondella

Do artificial reefs serve as productive marine fish habitats (sources) or do fish assemblages of such reefs contribute little to the gene pool of succeeding generations (sinks)? Using data from a 24-year study of the breakwater at King Harbor (California, USA), annual densities of reef fish larvae were compared with densities observed elsewhere in the Southern California Bight. Larval production at King Harbor has decreased over the study period, as has the size of the fish assemblage. Both declines may be related to recorded increases in water temperature. Larval densities from similar water depths (0–15 m) throughout the bight vary …

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Natural Growth Goals And Short- Term Training: A Boomerang Effect, R Wayne Pace, Les Regan, Peter Miller, Lee Dunn Dec 2001

Natural Growth Goals And Short- Term Training: A Boomerang Effect, R Wayne Pace, Les Regan, Peter Miller, Lee Dunn

Peter Miller

The purpose of this research project was to determine the effect of a training session about achieving natural growth goals on perceptions of a university classroom as a learning organisation. The results indicated that a short training session on how to achieve natural growth goals in an organisation appeared to have a boomerang effect on perceptions of a university classroom as a learning organisation. This study should alert us to the inevitable consequence of having our best training efforts backfire when they conflict with powerful, though latent, beliefs or cultural values.

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