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Fractals: A More Dynamic & Multidimensional Approach To Business Analytics, Priya A. Roy

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

This paper has two parts. In the first part, I articulate the short but significant evolution of the study of fractals. In the second part, I discuss the application of fractals to business models and business analytics. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line"(Mandelbrot, 1982, pg. 1). Thus began the study of fractals on a large scale. Fractals in their most common sense are nothing but interesting images. To scientists, however, they represent a fairly untrodden field in mathematics. Until the 1970s, …

The Nano Controversy: Peasant Identities, The Land Question And Neoliberal Industrialization In Marxist West Bengal, India, Sarasij Majumder

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

As the peasant-Nano opposition suggests, urban activists and intellectuals dubbed the movement against the land acquisition and building of the factory as a complete rejection of globalization and industrialization. This paper contests these public images of the protests against land acquisition by drawing attention to certain paradoxes that the Singur case presents (which I discuss below). I address these paradoxes through an ethnography done in villages where the controversy and the protests took place for two years (2006-2008). My ethnography suggests a perspective on protests against land acquisition in India, which is different from the usual narrative of capitalist industrialization …

International Trade As An Engine Of Economic Growth Revisited: A Case Of Egypt, Galen Smith, Kishore G. Kulkarni

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

The promotion of free trade is one of the oldest policy implications offered by international economic theory. While significant disconnects have historically existed between the politics and the economics of trade policy, the rapid economic growth experienced by the export-oriented Asian countries during the 1960s and 1970s amidst a largely stagnating and trade-restrictive developing world provided a precedent for effective development policy, especially within the world’s less developed countries (LDCs). Free trade arguments have since been championed by a majority of global institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF hereafter), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or World …

How Emerging Market Firms Compete In Global Markets, Rajaram Veliyath, Lance Brouthers

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

We posit that contexts in emerging markets are different from developed country contexts. These contextual differences necessitate the development and deployment of unique capabilities and strategies on the parts of companies operating there. While all emerging market countries are not uniform across all of the characteristics described below, there is a great deal of commonality on these conditions within the group of emerging market countries, by virtue of their similar stages of development. Thus, companies that develop their skill sets and products/services in one emerging market are likely to more easily be able to extend them to others. Conversely, there …

Editor-In-Chief's Note, Ashok K. Roy

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

In this issue, many remarkable conversations have been chronicled for the public square across a broad swatch and living tapestry of topics. The eclectic mix of authors has examined concepts, looked at regions, and expressed thoughts. In reviewing manuscripts, we continue, as always, to pose the essential question: “What is its value to our readership?” The result is, I believe, insights, often profound, from a diverse group of authors. In this issue, the authors are a mix of young scholars and professionals and seasoned academics, who provide a spate of methodological approaches and analytic perspectives to contemporary issues. The contents …

Foreword, Jagdish N. Sheth

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

The world continues to experience the aftershock of globalization of trade and collapse of communism as forecasted in Tectonic Shift (Sheth and Sisodia, 2004). It will resettle with the rise of a new Triad Power (China, India and America) replacing the old trial power (Japan, Europe and America). It is the emergence of the new trilateral relationship with respect to trade, monetary policy, fiscal policy, as well as geopolitical and military alignment which will shape the future of global economy and politics. In essence, the formation of India, China and America (ICA) Institute and all of its publications and conferences …

Energy And Economic Growth: A State-Level Analysis, Nathanael D. Peach

Faculty Publications - College of Business

No abstract provided.

Simple Sorghum Grain Quality Evaluation Procedures, Janet Taylor, John R.N. Taylor

INTSORMIL Presentations

Most Appropriate Sorghum Grain Quality Criteria Identified

•High tannin/non-tannin

•Hardness

•Germinability

•Grain purity

•Grain color

Tannin, hardness, germinability and grain purity have been accepted as draft ICC (International Association for Cereal Science and Technology) standard methods.

Cross-Sectional And Longitudinal Associations Of Neighborhood Characteristics With Inflammatory Markers: Findings From The Multi-Ethnic Study Of Atherosclerosis, Aydin Nazmi, Ana Diez Roux, Nalini Ranjit, Teresa E. Seeman, Nancy S. Jenny

Food Science and Nutrition

We investigated cross-sectional associations of neighborhood deprivation, problems, safety, and cohesion with circulating levels of fibrinogen, interleukin-6, and C-reactive protein (n=5370) and longitudinal associations with changes in IL-6 over a 3–4 year period (n=946). In cross-sectional analyses, higher levels of neighborhood deprivation and problems were associated with higher levels of all three inflammatory markers, whereas higher levels of safety were associated with lower levels. Fibrinogen remained associated with all neighborhood characteristics except cohesion and IL-6 remained associated with safety after adjustment for race and SES. In longitudinal analyses, higher levels of neighborhood deprivation and problems, and lower levels of safety …

Coda, James Smith Allen

A Privileged Past

"A Privileged Past" closes with the author’s reflections concerning globalization’s impact on recent social conditions in the US and its collective memory, especially as they apply to higher education. Thanks to the new technologies of communication and transportation, communities of belief and identity are more extensive geographically but also more diffused temporally. As a consequence, everyone of good will, collaboratively and collectively, must work harder to establish relations beyond personal, ethnic, and national boundaries.

Act 1: The Ocean Smell (1624-1938), James Smith Allen

A Privileged Past

The first act of "A Privileged Past" recounts the history of four families – the Allens of Manchester, Massachusetts; the Roomes of New York, New York; the Kruegers of Newark, New Jersey; and the Smiths also of Newark – since their arrival from Europe (the first two in the seventeenth century, the latter two in the nineteenth). These people brought with them distinct ethnic identities, which helped define the communities they joined, and in some cases led, as immigrants to the new world. Their experiences across and by the Atlantic Ocean are captured by this chapter’s prevailing figure of speech, …

The Daily Egyptian, November 01, 2010, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2010

No abstract provided.

Betrayal Poster [2010], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2010-2011 Season

by Harold Pinter

Directed by Thomas Power

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Postcard included, dimensions 4" x 6"

What's Going On Here? Deconstructing The Interactive Encounter., Janice P Burke

Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty Papers

Eleanor Clarke Sagle Lecture

Achieving Middle-Income Status By 2030: Is This The Most Appropriate Objective For Zambia?, Venkatesh Seshamani

Zambia Social Science Journal

On the backdrop of three important quotes and based on a wealth of underlying research, this article presents a systematic review of growth and development measurement in general and specifically in relation to Zambia’s prospects of achieving middle income status by 2030. It highlights what it takes to achieve middle income status and what the limitations of such ambitions are. In commenting about Zambia’s prospects, the article presents detailed cross-country comparisons with selected African economies. Attention is paid to aspects of economic (income) growth, human development and true human progress, using a range of international indicators in the analysis. Ultimately …

Mugabe’S Zimbabwe, 2000–2009: Massive Human Rights Violations And The Failure To Protect, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Political Science Faculty Publications

This article reviews human rights violations in Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2009, under the rule of Robert Mugabe. It argues that these violations, including state-induced famine, illegal mass expulsions, and systemic rape, constituted crimes against humanity. This article considers what African regional organizations, including the African Union and the Southern African Development Community, and various organs of the international community did, and might have done, to restrain Mugabe and his inner circle from committing these violations. It concludes that the lack of forceful action by African and international organizations constituted a failure to protect the people of Zimbabwe.

Color Changes In Stochastic Light Fields Propagating In Non-Kolmogorov Turbulence, Olga Korotkova, Elena Shchepakina

Physics Articles and Papers

The dependence of spectral shifts and switches in optical stochastic beams propagating through nonclassic turbulent medium on the slope of the power spectrum of fluctuations in the refractive index is revealed.

From The Editors, Bryant G. Garth, Gowri Ramachandran, Molly Selvin

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Animal Law: Moving Beyond Preaching To The Choir, Megan A. Senatori, Pamela D. Frasch

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Growing Up With Animal Law: From Courtrooms To Casebooks, Bruce A. Wagman

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Bob Barker Gifts To Support Animal Rights Law, Taimie L. Bryant

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Thanking Lester Smith And Rethinking William Faulkner, Kenney Hegland

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Review Essay--The Arc Of Triumph And The Agony Of Defeat: Mexican Americans And The Law, Michael A. Olivas

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of The Supreme Court And The American Elite, 1789-2008, By Lucas A. Powe, Jr., Joerg Knipprath

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

A "Sending Down" Sabbatical: The Benefits Of Lawyering In The Legal Services Trenches, Suzanne Rabe, Stephen A. Rosenbaum

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Animal Law In Court And Congress: A Roundtable With Practitioners, Nancy Perry, Coby Dolan, Jessica Almy, Zak Smith

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Technology: Teaching Students Internet Manners, Kathie C. Morgan Ed. D.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Students must be taught how to use the computer and Internet. Language arts now includes viewing and visually representing, but often teachers neglect to instruct on the correct format and use of correspondence and presentation using technology.

Technology: The Teacher That Is Prepared, Kathie C. Morgan Ed. D.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Using technology is more than having a computer in the classroom. Having that computer in the classroom won't necessarily improve test scores. Knowing the right technology to use and how to use it in the classroom can implement learning and access wonderful resources that the school could never afford otherwise. This presentation examines the various possibilities and offers suggestions for classroom instruction.

Technology: Safe Internet Use For Your School, Kathie C. Morgan Ed. D.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Teaching students about the ethical use of materials located on the Internet is the job of every teacher that uses computers and technology in the classroom. The millennial generation has never known life without the computer. While these students are often knowledgeable about how to navigate the Internet and "at home" in cyberspace, often they are very ignorant of the potential of danger for themselves and others.

The Effects Of Poverty In The Role Of Schools: Implications For Teacher-Preparation Programs, Deanna L. Keith Dr., Lucinda S. Spaulding, Andrea P. Beam

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.