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Houses Of Straw, David A. Bainbridge Jan 2005

Houses Of Straw, David A. Bainbridge

David A Bainbridge

Straw bale building offers high performance at a low cost. Bale building, developed on the grasslands of Nebraska at turn of the last century, has been rediscovered. High insulation values and high interior thermal mass make straw bales a good choice for passive solar design.


Green Space, Ellen Mcmahon Jan 2005

Green Space, Ellen Mcmahon

Ellen McMahon

Thoughts triggered by the view from my apartment in Grbavica.


Thoughts On Travel And Doors, Ellen Mcmahon Jan 2005

Thoughts On Travel And Doors, Ellen Mcmahon

Ellen McMahon

Sometimes the most basic and common activities pose the biggest challenges when you travel. With a bit of humor and a commitment to solve the problem much can be learned, about your host country and yourself.


Financial Crises And The Presence Of Foreign Banks, Adrian E. Tschoegl Jan 2005

Financial Crises And The Presence Of Foreign Banks, Adrian E. Tschoegl

Adrian E Tschoegl

Foreign banks have entered many transition and emerging economies in recent years, sometimes before economic and banking crises have developed, and often after. Today, in a number of countries foreign banks own as much as 90 per cent or more of the banking systems’ assets. The question then arises as to what the effect of the foreign presence is on crises. This chapter first discusses the motives, modes and regulation of foreign banks. In analyzing foreign entry, it is important to distinguish between classic or traditional foreign banks and the innovators, which in turn one can classify either as “bettors”, …


Destiny - The Reflections Of A Surfing Professor, Dave Robinson Dr. Jan 2005

Destiny - The Reflections Of A Surfing Professor, Dave Robinson Dr.

Dave Robinson Dr.

No abstract provided.


Historia Del Cacao Guayaquileño, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2005

Historia Del Cacao Guayaquileño, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


The Attitudes Of Educators To Information Technology Adoption In Schools Settings, Manoj Maharaj, Wesley Govender Jan 2005

The Attitudes Of Educators To Information Technology Adoption In Schools Settings, Manoj Maharaj, Wesley Govender

Manoj Maharaj

No abstract provided.


« Les Multinationales Et L’Avenir Des Sweatshops » (“Multinational Corporations And The Future Of Sweatshops”), Laura Hartman, Denis Arnold Jan 2005

« Les Multinationales Et L’Avenir Des Sweatshops » (“Multinational Corporations And The Future Of Sweatshops”), Laura Hartman, Denis Arnold

Laura Hartman

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we explore the tension between the perspective of the free-trade economists and that of the labor advocates with regard to voluntary responses to the sweatshop dilemma. Second, we introduce and define the concept of positive deviancy and relate it to the apparel and footwear global labor markets. Third, we explain how moral imagination is one possible rationalization for this deviancy and then demonstrate how moral imagination may lead to the enhancement of norms in the area of global labor challenges. In order words, what are the root causes behind mistreatment of workers? …


The Role Of Age In The Perceptions Of Politics-Job Performance Relationship: A Three-Study Constructive Replication Jan 2005

The Role Of Age In The Perceptions Of Politics-Job Performance Relationship: A Three-Study Constructive Replication

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.


An Examination Of The Curvilinear Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange And Intent To Turnover Jan 2005

An Examination Of The Curvilinear Relationship Between Leader-Member Exchange And Intent To Turnover

L. A. Witt

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Regional Innovation And Change: Path Dependency Or Regional Breakthrough?, Gerhard Fuchs, Philip Shapira Jan 2005

Rethinking Regional Innovation And Change: Path Dependency Or Regional Breakthrough?, Gerhard Fuchs, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change is an edited volume bringing together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. Contributors to the book examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures in influencing regional innovation capacity. The invariably complex interrelationships between technical and industrial development paths and regional institutions are explored, using cases from both highly developed and lagging regions. The book offers an assessment of the extent to which regional innovative capacity can be increased by strengthening, re-orientating, or creating institutions and policies and examines opportunities for reflexive practice at the regional …


Succeeding In A Cross-Disciplinary, International, Student Design-Team Project: Auburn University/University Of Plymouth Experience, Paul Swamidass, Bob Bulfin, David Grieve, Chetan Sankar, Venu Vulasa Jan 2005

Succeeding In A Cross-Disciplinary, International, Student Design-Team Project: Auburn University/University Of Plymouth Experience, Paul Swamidass, Bob Bulfin, David Grieve, Chetan Sankar, Venu Vulasa

Paul Swamidass

Globalization has turned product design upside down. Members of a single design team in multinational firms may be located in several countries such as the USA, UK, Italy, India and so on. It is a challenge to give engineering and business students a taste of this experience. Auburn University’s Business-Engineering-Technology (B-E-T) program, and the College of Engineering, University of Plymouth, participated in a joint effort to replicate real-life product design process with a mixture of engineering and business students. This paper describes the experience, its lessons and compares it with other attempts at multinational student design-team projects.


Update New England, Pingkang Yu Jan 2005

Update New England, Pingkang Yu

Pingkang Yu

Quarterly publication from 2003 to 2005 for the comprehensive coverage of economic conditions


Assessing Thevalue Provided By Erp Applications Through Organizational Activities, Arik Ragowsky, Toni M. Somers Jan 2005

Assessing Thevalue Provided By Erp Applications Through Organizational Activities, Arik Ragowsky, Toni M. Somers

Toni M. Somers

No abstract provided.


Female Managers And Entrepreneurs:Barriers And Opportunities. Some Evidences From An Empirical Research1, Mara Del Baldo Jan 2005

Female Managers And Entrepreneurs:Barriers And Opportunities. Some Evidences From An Empirical Research1, Mara Del Baldo

mara del baldo

No abstract provided.


Materialism And Food Security., Michael W. Allen, Marc Wilson Jan 2005

Materialism And Food Security., Michael W. Allen, Marc Wilson

Michael Allen

The present studies examined if materialists have an elevated concern about food availability, presumably stemming from a general survival security motivation. Study 1 found that materialists set a greater life goal of food security, and reported more food insecurity during their childhood. Materialists reported less present-day food insecurity. Study 2 revealed that materialists stored/hoarded more food at home, and that obese persons endorsed materialism more than low/normal weight persons. Study 3 found that experimentally decreasing participants’ feelings of survival security (via a mortality salience manipulation) led to greater endorsement of materialism, food security as goal, and using food for emotional …


Corporate Social Responsibility And The Non-Commercial Sector. What Does Corporate Social Responsibility Mean For The Non-Commercial Sector? And Is It Different From The Csr For Businesses?, Maria May Seitanidi Jan 2005

Corporate Social Responsibility And The Non-Commercial Sector. What Does Corporate Social Responsibility Mean For The Non-Commercial Sector? And Is It Different From The Csr For Businesses?, Maria May Seitanidi

Maria May Seitanidi

The paper offers a definition of the noncommercial sector (NCS) and outlines its properties in order to provide a comparison between the social responsibilities of businesses and the non-commercial sector. It suggests that assigning different levels of responsibility to the different categories of organisations within the NCS will assist in defining those responsibilities.


Architektur Für Die Kooperative Auftragsabwicklung, Dimitrios Gizanis, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle Jan 2005

Architektur Für Die Kooperative Auftragsabwicklung, Dimitrios Gizanis, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Anwendungsszenarien Des Mobile Und Ubiquitous Computing In Der Instandhaltung, Daniel Hanhart, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle Jan 2005

Anwendungsszenarien Des Mobile Und Ubiquitous Computing In Der Instandhaltung, Daniel Hanhart, Christine Legner, Hubert Oesterle

Hubert Oesterle

No abstract provided.


Cdo Rating Methodology: Some Thoughts On Model Risk And Its Implications, John Kiff, Ingo Fender Jan 2005

Cdo Rating Methodology: Some Thoughts On Model Risk And Its Implications, John Kiff, Ingo Fender

John Kiff

No abstract provided.


Reservoirs Of The Future, Karl P. Sauvant Jan 2005

Reservoirs Of The Future, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows could be considerably higher than they are currently. This article looks at the various reservoirs from which additional FDI flows cold come from in the future.


The International Transmission Of Capital Shocks: Implications Of A Revised Basel Accord For Developing Countries, Kevin T. Jacques Jan 2005

The International Transmission Of Capital Shocks: Implications Of A Revised Basel Accord For Developing Countries, Kevin T. Jacques

Kevin T Jacques

No abstract provided.


Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities, And Organizational Maintenance: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1955 To 1994, Jeff L. Yates, Andrew B. Whitford, William Gillespie Jan 2005

Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities, And Organizational Maintenance: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1955 To 1994, Jeff L. Yates, Andrew B. Whitford, William Gillespie

Jeff L Yates

In this study, we examine agenda setting by the U.S. Supreme Court, and ask the question of why the Court allocates more or less of its valuable agenda space to one policy issue over others. Our study environment is the policy issue composition of the Court's docket: the Court's attention to criminal justice policy issues relative to other issues. We model the Court's allocation of this agenda space as a function of internal organizational demands and external political signals. We find that this agenda responds to the issue priorities of the other branches of the federal government and the public. …


Review Of The Proposed Reserve Markets In New England, Peter Cramton, Hung-Po Chao, Robert Wilson Jan 2005

Review Of The Proposed Reserve Markets In New England, Peter Cramton, Hung-Po Chao, Robert Wilson

Peter Cramton

New England Power Pool, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.


Review Of The Proposed Reserve Markets In New England, Peter Cramton, Hung-Po Chao, Robert Wilson Jan 2005

Review Of The Proposed Reserve Markets In New England, Peter Cramton, Hung-Po Chao, Robert Wilson

Peter Cramton

ISO New England proposes reserve markets designed to improve the existing forward reserve market and improve pricing during real-time reserve shortages. We support all of the main elements of the proposal. For example, we agree that little is gained by allowing reserve availability bids in the day-ahead market. Doing so greatly increases the complexity of the market without the prospect of more efficient pricing. Rather, offline reserves are most efficiently priced and awarded well in advance, as is done by the improved forward reserve market.


Zarządzanie: Teoria I Praktyka Od Podstaw, Dariusz Jemielniak, Dominika Latusek Jan 2005

Zarządzanie: Teoria I Praktyka Od Podstaw, Dariusz Jemielniak, Dominika Latusek

Dariusz Jemielniak

Podręcznik do podstaw zarządzania, przeznaczony dla studentów programów MBA, stanowiący zwięzły przegląd historycznych koncepcji zarządzania i podstawowych pojęć z zakresu podstaw teorii organizacji i zarządzania.


Consumer Loyalty Behaviour Towards Typical Food Products: Analysis Of French Consumer Panel Data On Dry-Cured Ham, Georges Giraud, Polymeros Chrysochou Jan 2005

Consumer Loyalty Behaviour Towards Typical Food Products: Analysis Of French Consumer Panel Data On Dry-Cured Ham, Georges Giraud, Polymeros Chrysochou

Polymeros Chrysochou

Within the European project so-called TYPIC Typical Food Products in Europe: Consumer Preference and Objective Assessment, supported by the European Commission, DG Research, Quality of Life, www.typic.org which intends to cross-tabulate consumer responses and instrumental analysis of the same origin labelled products: Spanish and French dry-cured hams and German and French red wines. We will present the French results focusing on consumer purchasing behaviour and a descriptive analysis with respect to brand effect for dry-cured ham.


Cultural Chameleons: Biculturals, Conformity Motives, And Decision Making, Donnel A. Briley, Michael W. Morris, Itamar Simonson Jan 2005

Cultural Chameleons: Biculturals, Conformity Motives, And Decision Making, Donnel A. Briley, Michael W. Morris, Itamar Simonson

Donnel A Briley

Prior research suggests that bicultural individuals (i.e., individuals with 2 distinct sets of cultural values) shift the values they espouse depending on cues such as language. The authors examined whether the effects of language extend to a potentially less malleable domain, behavioural decisions, exploring the extent to which bilingual individuals shift the underlying strategies used to resolve choice problems. Although past research has explained language-induced shifts in terms of knowledge accessibility principles, the motivation to conform to observers’ norms can also drive these shifts. This article focuses on shifts in the general strategy of avoiding losses rather than pursuing gains, …


Involvement Of Porin N,N-Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-Reactive Domain In Hexokinase Binding To The Outer Mitochondrial Membrane, Philadelphia University Jan 2005

Involvement Of Porin N,N-Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-Reactive Domain In Hexokinase Binding To The Outer Mitochondrial Membrane, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.


Modeling And Analysis Of An On Line Fms, Philadelphia University Jan 2005

Modeling And Analysis Of An On Line Fms, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.