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View From The Gallery, Geetha Mehra

IIMB Management Review

To develop a successful business in art, one has to rely a lot on intuition. Unlike other businesses, there is no data available, no rules to go by, and the product itself is, in a sense, intangible. Each work of art is unique, with a unique value. Stepping into this arena in the mid 80s, intrepid artrepreneur Geetha Mehra set up the Sakshi Gallery in Chennai to provide a space for Indian artists to exhibit their work to the public, and to further the cause of contemporary art in India. Learning and growing in the business, Ms Mehra went from …

Entrepreneurship: The Social Science View Edited By Richard Swedberg, Oxford University Press, 2000, Pp 403. Price: Rs 545, Puneet Arora

IIMB Management Review

Entrepreneurship: A Social Science View explores entrepreneurship through social, cultural, organizational, and economic perspectives. The essays challenge the belief that entrepreneurship flourishes only under favorable conditions, with Gerschenkron’s theory of substitution showing how societies can compensate for missing elements. Rose Kanter highlights the role of organizational culture in fostering innovation through idea generation, support, implementation, and diffusion. Ronald Burt emphasizes social capital and networks as valuable entrepreneurial resources. Other contributors examine culture, ethnicity, industrial networks, market timing, and public policy. Overall, the book demonstrates that entrepreneurship is deeply influenced by social structures and relationships, making it a rich interdisciplinary field.

Researching The Public Opinion Environment By Sherry Devereaux Ferguson, Sage, 2000, Pp 296, Price: $30 (Cloth)., Vijay G Vancheswar

IIMB Management Review

Researching the Public Opinion Environment examines theories, systems, and methods for understanding and managing public perceptions that shape governments and corporations. Ferguson emphasizes environmental intelligence systems, research, and continuous feedback as essential tools for navigating rapid change and media scrutiny. The book critiques reliance on media reports alone, arguing that organizations should validate public opinion through surveys, focus groups, and other research techniques. It explains sampling methods, questionnaire design, and analytical tools such as content analysis, Delphi technique, and Q methodology. Ferguson also explores media influence, highlighting concepts like the spiral of silence and third-person effect in public opinion formation.

Small Groups As Complex Systems: Formation, Coordination, Development, And Adaptation By Holly Arrow, Joseph E Mcgrath And Jennifer L Berdahl, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000, Pp 336, Price: $ 69.95 (Cloth); $ 31.95 (Paper)., Ravindra Singh Bangari

IIMB Management Review

Small Groups as Complex Systems presents a theory of small groups as adaptive, dynamic, and complex systems rather than collections of independent individuals. Drawing on systems, dynamical, and complexity theories, Arrow, McGrath, and Berdahl argue that group behaviour emerges through interactions among members, tasks, tools, and contexts. The book examines group formation, operation, adaptation, and transformation, while proposing new research methods such as experimental simulations, comparative field studies, and computational modelling. Challenging traditional positivist approaches, it advocates a broader understanding of causation, context, and change. The work lays a foundation for future research on group dynamics and organizational behaviour.

Business On The Net : An Introduction To The ‘Whats‘ And ‘Hows‘ Of E-Commerce By Kamlesh N Agarwala, Amit Lal And Deeksha Agarwala, Macmillan India, 2000, Pp 227, Price: Rs 198., Sudha K Rajagopal

IIMB Management Review

Business on the Net: An Introduction to the ‘Whats’ and ‘Hows’ of E-commerce provides a clear and accessible overview of the Internet and its role in electronic commerce. The authors explain the evolution of e-commerce from Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and electronic funds transfer systems to modern online business practices. The book details key concepts such as security, encryption, online transactions, customer acquisition, and global market reach. While technically comprehensive and supported by a useful glossary, it offers limited discussion of business models and market projections. Overall, it serves as a practical introductory guide for students and readers seeking to …

Intercom, Volume 38, No. 6, November-December 2002, Scott Dankof

Intercom

Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Real Cavers Don't Stop and Ask Directions -- Not Today -- Mop Up -- Jackpot -- Last Ever Trip -- I Can't Believe I'm Carrying This *%!# Gear through the Iguana Crawl -- Last Trip (At Least for Now) -- Picking Up the Slack -- Grumbling -- Reluctant Cave and Grumbling Cave Maps -- Labrador Cave and Doubtful Cave Maps -- Unlikely Cave Map

The Texas Caver, Volume 48, No. 7, December 2002, Don Arburn

The Texas Caver

Contents: News: Feature, Bustamante, Graffiti, Banjercito, Chiquihuitillos -- Taking Your Vehicle -- News: Feature, Sonora Restoration -- News: Trip Reports, Govt. Canyon Award, Karst Survey -- How To & Not To

Pages News, Volume 10, No. 3, December 2002, Christian Pfister, Heinz Wanner

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Documentary Data -- Conferences: Upcoming PAGES Sessions -- Tales from the Field -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- LAMSCAN: Lake Sediments, Scandinavia -- National Page -- USA -- Science Highlights -- Documentary Data: An Overview -- LOTRED: Paleoreanalysis for Europe -- The Potential in Latin America -- ENSO Reconstructions in South America -- Temperature Reconstructions in Japan -- China: A 2000 Year Temperature History -- USA: Past Climate and Cyclones -- Floods in Europe -- Art and Climate -- Workshop Reports -- Holocene Catastrophes and Recoveries -- Swiss NCCR-Climate Summer School -- Last Page -- Calendar -- …

Volume 22, Number 4, December 2002, Jain Fletcher, Mary Konkel, Jay Weitz, Barbara Vaughan, Vicki Toy-Smith, Nancy B. Olson

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2002 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Lake Tahoe Bottom Characteristics Extracted From Shoals Lidar Waveform Data And Compared To Backscatter Data From A Multibeam Echo Sounder, G. Elston, James V. Gardner

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The waveforms recorded by airborne lidar bathymetry (ALB) systems are currently processed only for depth information. In addition to bathymetry, multibeam echo sounder (MBES) systems provide backscatter data in which regions of different acoustic properties are distinguishable. These regions can often be correlated to different bottom types. Initial attempts to extract equivalent data from the ALB waveforms have confirmed the expectation that such information is encoded in those waveforms. Water clarity, bathymetry, and bottom type control the detailed shapes of ALB waveforms in different ways. Specific features of a bottom-reflected signal can be identified, for example its rise-time and amplitude, …

Understanding Animation's "Re-Presentation" Of Space In Terms Of Theatre And Architecture, Xyna Cabuling

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Bodybuilding: An Exploratory Look Inside An Obscure Culture, Kenneth Roundtree

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Government Taxation And Economic Development In Modern Ghana, Clara Saldivar

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Sexual Harassment And Communication Responsibility, Rodrick Dangerfield

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Group Litigation Under Foreign Legal Systems: Variations And Alternatives To American Actions , Edward F. Sherman

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Fall 2002), Calliope

Calliope

Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, Visual Arts

From Social Work To Human Services, David Stoesz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Social work has forfeited its professional mandate and should be replaced by "human services." In three traditional areas of responsibility-child welfare, public welfare, and mental health-social work has failed to meet its societal obligation. Meanwhile the profession has used postmodern thought to justify a focus on internal constituency groups. A template for professional education in human services is proposed.

"For Their Own Good?": Sex Work, Social Control And Social Workers, A Historical Perspective, Stéphanie Wahab

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article provides an overview of the social responses to prostitution since the mid 1800s and how the responses of social workers have been shaped by shifting social contexts. Understanding the complex interplay of these forces is key to mapping out the divergent social work practice approaches with sex workers and their influence over time. The article presents three main constructs which have influenced social work responses to sex work; 1) the notion that women needed to be protected for their own good, 2) competing class values and, 3) social control.

Metallothionein Overexpression Prolongs Grafts Survival In The Early Phase Of Pancreatic Islet Transplantation., Xiaoyan Li

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Pancreatic islet transplantation is a very promising treatment for type I diabetes. Many clinical trials have failed due to early islet loss and immune rejection. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been demonstrated to be involved in graft damage during transplantation. Metallothionein (MT) is an inducible antioxidant protein. Prior studies in our laboratory have shown that overexpression of MT in beta-cells reduces DNA damage and diabetes induced by streptozotocin (STZ), which damages beta cells by generating ROS. Therefore in this study we examined whether overexpression of MT in beta cells is beneficial to pancreatic islet transplantation. Isolated MT transgenic and normal …

The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography Of Power, Politics And Impoverished People In The United States. Judith Goode And Jeff Maskovsky (Eds.).

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky (Eds.), The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 2001. $55.00 hardcover, $19.50 papercover.

Negotiated Families: Lesbians And Institutions In Southwest Michigan, Cynthia E. Foor

Masters Theses

In this thesis, I look at the practices of certain lesbians and locate them within a particular historical and cultural context. I argue that the resources, the capital, both material and social, as well as the internalized orientations and expectations each woman brings to the crafting of her family, accounts for the particular family each has negotiated. It is within the particular historical constraints and opportunities that we can understand each family's experiences. The uniqueness of family experience is predicated on differences in the women's ages linked to the particular historical trajectory of sociopolitical changes in the U. S. Yet …

The Ada Through The Looking Glass, Lisa A. Sciallo

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

Regulation And Investors' Trust In The Securities Markets, Tamar Frankel

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Investor Confidence Game, Lynn A. Stout

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

Satisfaction Of Orthognathic Surgical Patients In A Malaysian Population, K.K. Siow, S.T. Ong, C.B. Lian, Wei Cheong Ngeow

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

Thirty-one patients treated at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, were assessed for their satisfaction following orthognathic surgery. The female to male ratio was 22:9 with an age range of 17 to 36. Almost all patients (97) listed appearance as one of their rationales for surgery. More males (78) than females (59) wanted functional improvement, while more females (91) than males (33) hoped for improvement in self-confidence. All patients reported esthetic improvement while 68 each reported improvement in mastication and self-confidence. Slightly more than half (52) chose esthetic improvement as the single most important factor resulting in satisfaction. Almost …

Forage News [2002-12], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Kentucky Grazing Conference
• Forages at KCA
• 23^RD Annual Conference Set for February 20
• What is ArkPlus Tall Fescue?
• Grazing Can Be Just as Profitable
• Fertility of Kentucky Pasture Fields
• Meat Goat Wether Performance on Endophyte-Infected Tall Fescue – A Pilot Study
• Spoilage Losses in Large Round Bales
• KFGC Awards
• Upcoming Events

“Private” Crime In Public Housing: Violent Victimization, Fear Of Crime And Social Isolation Among Women Public Housing Residents, Claire M. Renzetti, Shana L. Maier

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

Although public housing is typically associated with high crime rates, little research has been done on fear of crime or violent victimization experiences among public housing residents. Moreover, there are few studies that look specifically at women’s fear of crime or violent victimization experiences in public housing, despite the fact that women constitute the majority of public housing residents. These issues were examined in the present study through interviews with female public housing residents in Camden, New Jersey (NJ). The interviews reveal high rates of violent victimization, especially at the hands of intimates and acquaintances. Fear of crime is also …

Economic Impact Of Brickell Avenue Bridge Openings, Cutr

CUTR Research Reports

No abstract provided.

District Hospital Based Injury Data-Are They An Option In A Developing Country?, Junaid Abdul Razzak, David Marsh, S. Stansfield

Department of Emergency Medicine

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Sven Erik Holmes

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.