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South Sudan: Civil Service, Training And Development, Aggripa Wajo

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Between The West & The East In State Supervised Control Through The Power Of Eminent Domain, Eman Mga Eshmawy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

Eminent domain is a problem that effects both the West and the East. This thesis focuses on blighted homes that are confiscated by government and later used for private if not corporate reasons rather than for public use intentions. The comparison is between the United States and Egypt, and three neighborhoods are discussed from each country separately. The comparison is between two quantitative analyses' between the United States and Egypt showing that this type of eradication of property allows for the authority and power of government to be used negatively towards society. The surveys were collected during approximately a two …

Marketing Research In Egypt... Truth Or A Myth, Samar Ibrahim

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Plea For Total Care: An Examination Of The Doctor-Patient Relationship In The Context Of Breast Cancer Care In Egypt, Mai Kabbani

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Transition From Relational To Legal Contract Enforcement, Fali Huang

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper studies the transition of contract enforcement institutions. The prevalence of relational contracts, low legal quality, strong cultural preference for personalistic relationships, low social mobility, and highly unequal endowment form a cluster of mutually reinforcing institutions that hinder economic development. The cultural element per se does not necessarily reduce social welfare though it may slow down the legal development, while the real problem lies in endowment inequality and low social mobility. Thus a more equal distribution of resources may be the ultimate key to unravel the above interlocking institutions. These results are generally consistent with the empirical evidence.

Contribution Of Natural Food Sources To Reproductive Behaviour, Fecundity And Longevity Of Ceratitis Cosyra, C. Fasciventris And C. Capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae), A. Manrakhan, S. A. Lux

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

The influence of food sources comprising the natural diet on the reproductive behaviour, fecundity and longevity of three African fruit flies Ceratitis cosyra (Walker), C. fasciventris (Bezzi) and C. capitata (Wiedemann) was investigated. Three natural food sources, varying in protein and sugar content, were evaluated. These included bird droppings (farm chicken), aphid honeydew and guava (Psidium guajava L.) juice. For C. fasciventris and C. capitata, flies fed on a protein-rich diet displayed higher frequency of calling, mating and oviposition than flies fed on a protein-poor diet, whilst for C. cosyra, quality of diet significantly influenced the mating behaviour of the …

The 2006 Citizen Recovery Survey - New Orleans And Jefferson Parish, Susan Howell, Jeanne S. Hurlburt, John Beggs, Valerie A. Haines

Survey Research Center Publications

No abstract provided.

The Inadequacy Of Forrester System Dynamics Computer Programs For Institutional Principles Of Hierarchy, Feedback, And Openness, F. Gregory Hayden

College of Business: Faculty Publications

The purpose here is to discuss the institutional systems principles of hierarchy, feedback, and openness, and to explain the inadequacy of Forrester-type system dynamics programs to apply those principles.

Dialectical Regulation, Robert B. Ahdieh

Faculty Scholarship

While theories of regulation abound, woefully inadequate attention has been given to growing patterns of "intersystemic" and "dialectical" regulation in the world today. In this rapidly expanding universe of interactions, independent regulatory agencies, born of autonomous jurisdictions, nonetheless face a combination of jurisdictional overlap with, and regulatory dependence on, one another. Here, the cross-jurisdictional interaction of regulators is no longer the voluntary interaction embraced by transnationalists; it is, instead, an unavoidable reality of acknowledgement and engagement, potentially culminating in the integration of discrete sets of regulatory rules into a collective whole.

Such patterns of regulatory engagement are increasingly evident, across …

Sylvia Thrupp: The Making Of An Early Social Historian, Caroline M. Barron

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

The Photo Essay: A Visual Research Method For Educating Obstetricians And Other Health Care Professionals, Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Terrance L. Albrecht, Charles Mahan, Bethany A. Bell-Ellison, Tabia Henry Akintobi, Beth Reynolds, Delores Jeffers

The Qualitative Report

When it comes to issues related to low-income women seeking early, adequate, or continuous prenatal ca re, the public health and medical communities continue to tell women to take responsibility for their actions. Rarely are messages aimed at providers. To help physicians see how factors in their offices and clinics can affect service utilization, the photo essay, a visual qualitative research strategy was developed using low- income minority and disenfranchised women who had recently given birth or were near to giving birth. Eight photo essays were completed. Together, the narratives, in collaboration with the photos, provided an opportunity for physicians …

Contextualising The Research Process: Using Interviewer Notes In The Secondary Analysis Of Qualitative Data, John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor

The Qualitative Report

In this paper we argue that for the secondary analysis of qualitative data to be effective, researchers need to subject any accompanying interviewer notes to the secondary analysis process. The secondary analysis of interviewer notes can provide important insight into the research process and the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of those collecting the data. Such information is essential if meaningful analyses are to be offered. Using interviewer notes from a little known research project on youth transitions form the 1960s, this paper explores how the interviewers’ experiences of the research process and their perceptions are documented in the interviewer notes.

Nabokov And World Literature, Charles Stanley Ross

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, for example, shows that even Nabokov's tightly controlled fiction can generate diverse responses. The more complex modes of reading that form the basis of David Damrosch's What is World Literature? are used to interrogate just …

Interculturalism And New Russians In Berlin, Giacomo Bottà

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Interculturalism and New Russians in Berlin" Giacomo Bottá discusses aspects of the community of Russian artists in contemporary (post-1989) Berlin. The Berlin-based Russendisko night has been held in Tel Aviv, Milan, or Frankfurt, where enthusiastic people danced to songs of obscure Russian bands. In 2004, a new CD compilation, Russensoul, was published and in 2005 Karaoke, the ninth novel by Russion-born and Berlin-based author Wladimir Kaminer appeared in book stores. Russian culture is experiencing global success curiously tied to Berlin. How could the German capital have channelled this interest? Is there a particular historical, social, geographical, or …

Sex Differences In Regret: All For Love Or Some For Lust?, Neal J. Roese, Ginger L. Pennington, Jill Coleman, Maria Janicki, Norman P. Li, Douglas T. Kenrick

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Few sex differences in regret or counterfactual thinking are evident in past research. The authors discovered a sex difference in regret that is both domain-specific (i.e., unique to romantic relationships) and interpretable within a convergence of theories of evolution and regulatory focus. Three studies showed that within romantic relationships, men emphasize regrets of inaction over action (which correspond to promotion vs. prevention goals, respectively), whereas women report regrets of inaction and action with equivalent frequency. Sex differences were not evident in other interpersonal regrets (friendship, parental, sibling interactions) and were not moderated by relationship status. Although the sex difference was …

Make, Buy, Or Ally: A Transaction Cost Theory Meta-Analysis, Inge Geyskens, Jan-Benedict E. M. Steenkamp, Nirmalya Kumar

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Since the publication of Williamson's Markets and Hierarchies, many empirical articles have investigated the tenets of transaction cost theory. Using meta-analytic techniques, we quantitatively synthesized and evaluated transaction cost-based empirical research on organizational boundary (make, buy, or ally) decisions. We found strong support for the theory for both make versus buy and ally versus buy decisions. However, we did not find evidence that asset specificity had stronger predictive power than uncertainty. Hierarchical and relational governance appropriately aligned with transaction dimensions both led to enhanced performance. On the basis of our meta-analysis, we provide directions for future research.

Bridging The Digital Divide: An Evaluation Of A Train-The-Trainer, Community Computer Education Program For Low-Income Youth And Adults, Matthew S. Mutchler, Stephen A. Anderson, Umekia R. Taylor, Wanda Hamilton

Journal of Extension

This article details the evaluation of a train-the-trainer program aimed at bridging the digital divide among adolescents, youth, and adults in poor urban communities within the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Teens were trained in computer skills and teaching skills to others and then went into their communities and facilitated training sessions with children and adults of varying ages and abilities. The evaluation found that teen trainers experienced increases in computer skills, computer self-efficacy, and empathy for others and that the secondary participants experienced increases in computer skills. The article discusses implications for future efforts bridging the digital divide.

Substitution Or Symbolic Effects? A Reexamination Of Corporate Governance And Firm Performance, Xuesong Geng, Dean Hennessy, Kimberly Bates

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In this paper, we use a sample of large Canadian corporations to test the substitution hypothesis and the symbolic hypothesis. We find that the positive effect of board independence on firm performance declines as managerial ownership increases. This effect becomes non-positive when highly concentrated managerial ownership makes independent board more symbolic than effective.

Group Status And Criminal Defenses: Logical Relationship Or Marriage Of Convenience, Eugene R. Melhizer

Missouri Law Review

Section I provides a brief overview of the significance of group status generally and its traditional relevance and usage within the criminal justice system. This discussion places the novel, defense-oriented approach to group status in a proper historical and analytical context. Section II begins by sketching a generally accepted system of defenses and placing general defenses within this context. It next describes the proper understanding of justification and excuse, the two preeminent theories for exculpatory general defenses. This complicated and often-contentious area of law is exposited here only insofar as it is necessary to lay the groundwork for the critique …

The Cord Weekly (May 31, 2006)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Web Marketing By Using Ontology, Xuan Zhou

Dissertations

The existence of the Web has a major impact on people's life styles. Online shopping, online banking, email, instant messenger services, search engines and bulletin boards have gradually become parts of our daily life. All kinds of information can be found on the Web. Web marketing is one of the ways to make use of online information. By extracting demographic information and interest information from the Web, marketing knowledge can be augmented by applying data mining algorithms. Therefore, this knowledge which connects customers to products can be used for marketing purposes and for targeting existing and potential customers. The Web …

Cwu Faculty Senate Minutes - 05/31/2006, Janet Shields

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Faculty Senate Minutes for the 05/31/2006 regular meeting.

Demographer's Katrina Assessment Included In National Exhibition June 7, Edwin Smith, Cynthia Bullion

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - An investigation by a University of Mississippi sociologist into the effects of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi Gulf Coast residents is to be highlighted as part of a national science exposition June 7 in Washington, D.C.

Spectator 2006-05-31, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

Faculty Institute On Teaching And Learning (Fitl) Presentations (2006), Fitl Conference

RIT Digital Archives

The speakers this year included not only your RIT colleagues, but we welcomed back Luncheon Keynote speaker Tom Brown and Maryellen Weimer. In addition we welcomed visiting Keynote speaker Todd Zakrajsek (Central Michigan University), as well as Sharon Cramer and Gerard Puccio (Buffalo State College). Day One—a full day—featured two keynote addresses plus a variety of concurrent sessions. Day Two featured Kit Mayberry, and a campus resource fair that highlighted a variety of campus departments; the two-hour sessions allowed participants to delve deeper into teaching and learning issues.

After The Party, Is There A Cure For The Hangover? The Challenges Of The Global Economy To Westphalian Sovereignty, Jackson N. Maogoto, Andrew Coleman

ExpressO

Nation-States and their authority referred to here as national sovereignty is under threat from forces within the global economy. Although globalisation is considered to be a recent phenomenon that has now attracted the attention of writers, its origins lie with those of the nation-state as the nation-state clawed its way to dominate the international community. Nation-states achieved their pre-eminence and dominance of the international community on the backs of free enterprise and capitalism; and now this dependence threatens their very existence. Now belatedly nation-states are attempting to regulate the global economy through the IMF and the World Bank and other …

36th Chicano Commencement, 2006, San Jose State University, Associated Students

Chicano Commencement

36th Annual Chicano Commencement

"Recordando el pasado, fortaleziendo nuestro futuro = Remembering our past, empowering our future" The 36th Annual Chicano Commencement was held at the Mexican Heritage Plaza at San Jose State University on May 28, 2006.

2006 Commencement Program, Whittier College

Commencement Programs

Whittier College's One Hundred Third Commencement, May 26, 2006

Supplement file includes Spring Honors Convocation, May 9, 2006

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 25, 2006

J. Bonnie Newman Named Interim President Of The University Of New Hampshire, Matthew Cookson

Media Relations

No abstract provided.