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Modelling The Dynamics Of Public Attention Towards Environmental Issues, Jens Newig, Julia Hesselmann Jul 2004

Modelling The Dynamics Of Public Attention Towards Environmental Issues, Jens Newig, Julia Hesselmann

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Public attention, traced over time, often displays seemingly paradox behaviour: Contrary towhat one might expect, public concern is seldom highest when the environmental conditions are the worst.Rather, concern most often rises when conditions have already become better. Furthermore, public attentiondynamics frequently shows self-reinforcing behaviour resulting in distinct cycles, e.g. due to sometrigger event. In this paper, public attention is viewed as a social macro-level phenomenon that is soughtto be explained by the interaction of a multitude of single actors, namely individual citizens, the press, andpoliticians. First, a causal model based on rational choice theory is constructed in order to elucidate …

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Renaissance Retirees, No. 3, Summer 2004, College Of Arts And Sciences Jul 2004

Renaissance Retirees, No. 3, Summer 2004, College Of Arts And Sciences

Renaissance Retirees

Newsletter profiling retirees from Illinois State University's College of Arts and Sciences

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Financial Planning For Postsecondary Education In Canada: A Comparison Of Savings And Savings Instruments Employed Across Aspiration Groups, Paul Anisef, Robert Sweet, Peggy Ng Jul 2004

Financial Planning For Postsecondary Education In Canada: A Comparison Of Savings And Savings Instruments Employed Across Aspiration Groups, Paul Anisef, Robert Sweet, Peggy Ng

Journal of Student Financial Aid

Canadians have experienced a reduction in government funding toward postsecondary education over the past ten years, as well as a shift in student-support policies. Historically, paying the costs of postsecondary education in Canada has been a responsibility shared by the state, and students and parents. Changes in government policy have forced families to assume a greater share of their children’s postsecondary costs and have required a shift in their educational planning priorities. There is a corresponding need on the part of policy researchers to better understand this reorientation. The purpose of this paper is to document how parents save for …

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A Guide To Uniform Citation Of Inter-American Sources For W Riters And Practitioners Jul 2004

A Guide To Uniform Citation Of Inter-American Sources For W Riters And Practitioners

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

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News You Can Use, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Jul 2004

News You Can Use, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

News You Can Use

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Impulse, Dave Graves, Kyle Johnson, Greta Stewart, Denise Watt Jul 2004

Impulse, Dave Graves, Kyle Johnson, Greta Stewart, Denise Watt

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

Features:
[Page] 2 Expo's physics wizard captures attention of high schoolers: The "Wonders of Science" never get old for Professor Larry Browning.
[Page] 4 Science and Engineering Fair: The campus attracts nearly 500budding scientists every year
[Page] 6 Key donation, cooperation create observatory at Oak Lake: Two remotely controlled telescopes will be in operation the fall.
Faculty:
[Page] 8 A Storry worth telling: Co-workers and former students remember late dean Junis Storry.
[Page] 10 Math Professor Ken Yocom isn't about to retire: Long-time department head has taken a new position.
[Page] 12 Dennis Loban is remembered for quality and …

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Another Kind Of E-Mail: The Electronic Edition Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey: Review Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1871-1918, 2nd Ed.; Volume 2: 1919-1939, Past Masters Series. Edited By Larry A. Hickman, General Editor; Barbara Levine, Editor; Anne Sharpe, Editor; Harriet Furst Simon, Editor., Martin A. Coleman Jul 2004

Another Kind Of E-Mail: The Electronic Edition Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey: Review Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1871-1918, 2nd Ed.; Volume 2: 1919-1939, Past Masters Series. Edited By Larry A. Hickman, General Editor; Barbara Levine, Editor; Anne Sharpe, Editor; Harriet Furst Simon, Editor., Martin A. Coleman

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Correspondence of John Dewey in electronic form consists of three volumes and is edited by Larry Hickman. It is a title in the PAST MASTERS series from InteLex Corporation, along with the electronic edition of The Collected Works of John Dewey, also edited by Hickman. The first volume of the Correspondence covers the years 1871 to 1918 and includes more than 3,500 documents. The second volume covers the years 1919 to 1939 and includes over 5,000 documents. The first two volumes are currently available, and the third is due to be released this fall. It begins with documents from …

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Court Review: Volume 41, Issue 2 - The Resource Page Jul 2004

Court Review: Volume 41, Issue 2 - The Resource Page

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Court Review: Volume 41, Issue 2 - Resource Materials On Judicial Independence, Roy Schotland Jul 2004

Court Review: Volume 41, Issue 2 - Resource Materials On Judicial Independence, Roy Schotland

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

In addition to the articles found in this issue of Court Review, which present the considered views of the authors on various subjects, we also seek to stimulate the thinking of the reader regarding judicial independence. For those attending the annual conference of the American Judges Association this year, this will involve review of the materials in this issue and interchange with authors of the articles and a number of others who have given substantial thought to the topic—as well as interchange with other judges in attendance.

For those whose involvement with the National Forum on Judicial Independence will come …

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Living And Serving In Rural Nebraska, John C. Allen, Rebecca J. Vogt, Randolph L. Cantrell Jul 2004

Living And Serving In Rural Nebraska, John C. Allen, Rebecca J. Vogt, Randolph L. Cantrell

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Published by the Center for Applied Rural Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Copyright © 2003 by J. Allen, R. Vogt, S. Cordes, and R. Cantrell. Many rural communities are experiencing population decline. However, rural residents have continued to show a strong attachment to their communities. How do rural Nebraskans feel about their community? Are they satisfied with the services provided? Have they served their community or county by holding a public office? Why or why not?

This report details 2,915 responses to the 2004 Nebraska Rural Poll, the ninth annual effort to understand rural Nebraskans’ perceptions. Respondents were asked a series …

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2004 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Jul 2004

2004 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for July of 2004.

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Newscope - Summer 2004 Jul 2004

Newscope - Summer 2004

Newscope

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The City As Refuge: Constructing Urban Blackness In Paul Laurence Dunbar’S 'The Sport Of The Gods' And James Weldon Johnson’S 'Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man.', Thomas Lewis Morgan Jul 2004

The City As Refuge: Constructing Urban Blackness In Paul Laurence Dunbar’S 'The Sport Of The Gods' And James Weldon Johnson’S 'Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man.', Thomas Lewis Morgan

English Faculty Publications

This essay analyzes the narrative strategies that Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson used to represent black characters in The Sport of the Gods and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as a means of examining the authors' construction of the city as an alternative space for depicting African Americans. In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, the majority of African American images in popular fiction were confined to Southern-based pastoral depictions that restricted black identity to stereotypically limited and historically regressive ideas, exemplified in such characters as Zip Coon, Sambo, Uncle Tom, Jim Crow, and Mammy Jane. The …

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A Conceptual Model About The Application Of Adaptive Management For Sustainable Development, Markus Knoflacher, U. Gigler Jul 2004

A Conceptual Model About The Application Of Adaptive Management For Sustainable Development, Markus Knoflacher, U. Gigler

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This conceptual model is based on theoretical implications and analyses of empirical examples, and focuses on how functional processes in the environmental system affect decisions taken in the social system. Complex functional relationships at several temporal and spatial scales such as climate conditions or pollutant emissions characterise functional processes in the environmental system. Actions of humans in the environmental system are crucially constrained by limited information about system conditions, and limited predictability of system development. Both constraints are not equally valid for all functional processes, and all interactions between humans and the environmental system, because diverse human activities and interests …

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Heuristics To Characterise Human Behaviour In Agent Based Models, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Eva Ebenhöh Jul 2004

Heuristics To Characterise Human Behaviour In Agent Based Models, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Eva Ebenhöh

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Human behaviour is one of the key factors to understand the causes for common pool resourceproblems and to develop policies to promote more sustainable resource management regimes. Agent basedmodels can help to investigate the role of important processes in this respect such as factors determining thedegree of trust and cooperation in a group. We have chosen a pragmatic approach to represent humanbehaviour by assuming that agents can be characterised by a set of attributes and their behaviour can bedescribed by a set of simple decision heuristics. Individual agents differ in their importance of attributes (e.g.fairness, cooperativeness, trust), in their rules …

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Tools To Think With? Towards Understanding The Use And Impact Of Model-Based Support Tools, Brian Mcintosh, R. A. F. Seaton, P. Jeffrey Jul 2004

Tools To Think With? Towards Understanding The Use And Impact Of Model-Based Support Tools, Brian Mcintosh, R. A. F. Seaton, P. Jeffrey

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Formal models are an established technology for research in the environmental sciences. For several years now there has been an effort to enhance the re-usability of computer models for research purposes and to transfer the perceived benefits of formal modelling to environmental planning and policymaking. These efforts have resulted in the creation of a variety of support tools including DSS and modelling frameworks. However, there are a number of issues which may pose barriers to the uptake and use of such tools. We contend that new technologies and new techniques for exploring and manipulating them have to be translated into …

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Simulating Global Feedbacks Between Sea Level Rise, Water For Agriculture And The Complex Socio-Economic Development Of The Ipcc Scenarios, Saskia Werners, Roelof Boumans, Laurens Bouwer Jul 2004

Simulating Global Feedbacks Between Sea Level Rise, Water For Agriculture And The Complex Socio-Economic Development Of The Ipcc Scenarios, Saskia Werners, Roelof Boumans, Laurens Bouwer

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The Global Unified Meta-model of the BiOsphere (GUMBO) was used to simulate how the socioeconomicconditions specified in the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) of the IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) influence vulnerability to climate change. Input parametersare the consumer preferences, investment strategies, natural resources management and technologicaldevelopment associated with the SRES scenarios. From this input the characteristic SRES driving forcespopulation growth, economic development and fossil fuel use were reproduced in GUMBO with thecorresponding climate scenarios (temperature change, sea level rise and rainfall patterns). This articleshows alternative pathways of development exist that yield the same SRES driving forces but that …

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Uah Alumni News, Summer 2004, University Of Alabama In Huntsville Jul 2004

Uah Alumni News, Summer 2004, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

UAH Alumni News

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Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor) Jul 2004

Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

Today’s Boise State University is building on past success and setting the pace in a changing academic world. Leading that charge is a diverse array of faculty members from longtime professors to those fresh out of doctoral programs. They are researchers, writers, performers, lecturers and philosophers — more than 950 full- and part-time teachers dedicated to keeping Boise State on the leading edge of higher education. Pictured on the cover (clockwise from upper left) are Richard Klautsch, theatre arts; Susan Shadle, chemistry; Giselle Wyers, music; Tom Trusky, English; Marcellus Brown, music; and Yonnie Chyung, instructional and performance technology. Photos by …

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New Institutional Economics And The Failure Of Sustainable Foresty In Ghana, Kofi Oteng Kufuor Jul 2004

New Institutional Economics And The Failure Of Sustainable Foresty In Ghana, Kofi Oteng Kufuor

Natural Resources Journal

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Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Jul 2004

Women's Research Institute Of Nevada Newsletter, Women's Research Institute Of Nevada

Newsletters

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Wooster Magazine: Summer 2004, Lisa Watts Jul 2004

Wooster Magazine: Summer 2004, Lisa Watts

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the Summer of 2004. Five students are featured for their Independent Study projects: Kate Matthews, Samantha Ferm, Pat McKenzie, Hanneke Hoekman, and Angela Zombek. Wooster's improv group called Don't Throw Shoes is featured from page twenty-six to thirty. The Class Notes section is featured from page thirty-one to sixty-three from the class of 1931 to 2004. Births, adoptions, and obituaries end the section. Page sixty-four has a story of Wooster's first 'museum' (cabinet of curiosities) in Old Main and its most curious artifact, a skull that supposedly was Nat Turner's.

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The Dangerous Allure Of The Issue Class Action, Laura J. Hines Jul 2004

The Dangerous Allure Of The Issue Class Action, Laura J. Hines

Indiana Law Journal

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Intellectual Freedom And The Bible College Library, Gregory A. Smith Jul 2004

Intellectual Freedom And The Bible College Library, Gregory A. Smith

Faculty Publications and Presentations

A number of evangelical Christian authors have grappled with the subject of intellectual freedom--few, though, in the context of Bible college libraries. The secular concept of intellectual freedom is incompatible with Bible colleges in that it is absolutist and shuns any standard of morality. Theological, educational, and pragmatic factors indicate that Bible college libraries should provide access to a broad range of information resources, irrespective of the positions they espouse, except to the extent that such openness poses a serious threat to the fulfillment of their sponsoring institutions’ mission. To this end, Bible college libraries should take positive action to …

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Toward Global Democracy: Thoughts In Response To The Rising Tide Of Nation-To-Nation Interdependencies, Hassan El Menyawi Jul 2004

Toward Global Democracy: Thoughts In Response To The Rising Tide Of Nation-To-Nation Interdependencies, Hassan El Menyawi

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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A World Of Passions: How To Think About Globalization Now, Jedediah Purdy Jul 2004

A World Of Passions: How To Think About Globalization Now, Jedediah Purdy

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.

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Localizing Intellectual Property In The Globalization Epoch: The Integration Of Indigenous Knowledge, Chidi Oguamanam Jul 2004

Localizing Intellectual Property In The Globalization Epoch: The Integration Of Indigenous Knowledge, Chidi Oguamanam

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Requiring A True Choice In Housing Choice Voucher Programs, Kristine L. Zeabart Jul 2004

Requiring A True Choice In Housing Choice Voucher Programs, Kristine L. Zeabart

Indiana Law Journal

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Newscass: Newsletter Of The Center For Appalachian Studies And Services (Winter/Summer, 2004), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University Jul 2004

Newscass: Newsletter Of The Center For Appalachian Studies And Services (Winter/Summer, 2004), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University

NewsCASS: Newsletter of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services

NewsCASS (Winter/Summer, 2004), a newsletter of the Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services (formerly Center for Appalachian Studies and Services) at East Tennessee State University.

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Social Identity And Manipulative Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralists, Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. Mcpeak Jul 2004

Social Identity And Manipulative Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralists, Marieke Huysentruyt, Christopher B. Barrett, John G. Mcpeak

Economics - All Scholarship

We model interhousehold transfers between nomadic livestock herders as the state-dependent consequence of individuals' strategic interdependence resulting from the existence of multiple, opposing externalities. A public good security externality among individuals sharing a social
(e.g., ethnic) identity in a potentially hostile environment creates incentives to band together. Self-interested interhousehold wealth transfers from wealthier herders to poorer ones may emerge endogenously within a limited wealth space as a means to motivate accompanying migration by the recipient. The distributional reach and size of the transfer are limited, however, by a resource appropriation externality related to the use of common property grazing lands. …

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