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Notes On Goodwin's Model Of Growth With A Reserve Army Of Labor, Anwar Shaikh Phd Jan 2008

Notes On Goodwin's Model Of Growth With A Reserve Army Of Labor, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1988, November 1). Notes on Goodwin’s model of growth with a reserve army of labor [Unpublished typed manuscript].


• Shaikh, A. (1986, October). Goodwin wage-employment cycle model: “Goodwin” in TUTSIM [Unpublished handwritten manuscript].


• Shaikh, A. (2008, April 23). Neoliberalism, globalization & financial capital [Unpublished handwritten manuscript].


Good Planning, Good Health: An Interview With Rajiv Bhatia, Vivek Shandas Jan 2008

Good Planning, Good Health: An Interview With Rajiv Bhatia, Vivek Shandas

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH, is the Director of Occupational and Environmental Health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. He is also a faculty member at both the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. He is a founding member of the Health and Social Justice Committee for the National Association of County and City Health Officials. Nationally recognized for leadership in developing the health impact assessment tool, Bhatia thinks poor health resulting from social factors can be combatted by cooperation among health officials, policy makers, and …


Front Matter, Reagan L. Grimsley Jan 2008

Front Matter, Reagan L. Grimsley

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Reagan L. Grimsley Jan 2008

Back Matter, Reagan L. Grimsley

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Provenance Xxvi, Reagan Grimsley Jan 2008

Provenance Xxvi, Reagan Grimsley

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Archival Allegory? Cultural Studies And T.R. Schellenberg's Modern Archives: Principles And Techniques, Cheryl Beredo Jan 2008

Archival Allegory? Cultural Studies And T.R. Schellenberg's Modern Archives: Principles And Techniques, Cheryl Beredo

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in 1934, the same year that Theodore Roosevelt Schellenberg earned his doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania and began a career in archives. Schellenberg slowly and surely climbed the archival ranks, holding federal posts in Washington, D.C., and teaching archival-training courses at local universities; he later lectured on a variety of topics relating to archives in Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1950 Schellenberg was appointed to the prestigious position of director of Archival Management at NARA. Schellenberg soon published Modern Archives: Principles …


Where's The Context? Enhancing Access To Digital Archives, Abigail R. Griner Jan 2008

Where's The Context? Enhancing Access To Digital Archives, Abigail R. Griner

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Providing access to original materials is an ethical responsibility for all professional archivists. In the Code of Ethics for Archivists, access is the sixth tenet, stating that archivists not only provide equal and open access to records, they preserve the intellectual integrity of collections. In an analog environment, this responsibility is somewhat straightforward and uncomplicated. However, technology has advanced rapidly over the past decade, and digitization projects are at the forefront of library and archival news. In a digital world, the once-simple tasks of promoting access to original materials and preserving their intellectual integrity are far more complicated. Although digitization …


Archival Work In A Surreal World: The Imagination Of George Saunders, Erica Olsen Jan 2008

Archival Work In A Surreal World: The Imagination Of George Saunders, Erica Olsen

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

When George Saunders’s first collection of short stories, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, came out in 1996 reviewers emphasized the surrealism of his fictional world of run-down theme parks and virtual-reality franchise businesses: "… a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world that might have been envisioned by Walt Disney on acid," wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer, while Newsweek called it "a cybernetic, postapocalyptic dystopia."


Iowa Academy Of Science: The New Bulletin, V04n4, Winter 2008, Iowa Academy Of Science Jan 2008

Iowa Academy Of Science: The New Bulletin, V04n4, Winter 2008, Iowa Academy Of Science

New Bulletin

Inside This Issue:

--Message from the Executive Director

--IAS NWR Website

--Science: Our Past and Future

--Iowa Academy of Science Fellows

--IAS Board Retreat

--Announcements, Events & Deadlines

--Spotlight on Des Moines University

--Iowa Academy of Science Membership Overview

--ISTJ—Practical Science Education Applications from Iowans to the World


Ant Diversity In Two Southern Minnesota Tallgrass Prairie Restoration Sites, Pamela M. Kittelson, Monica Paulson Priebe, Phillip J. Graeve Jan 2008

Ant Diversity In Two Southern Minnesota Tallgrass Prairie Restoration Sites, Pamela M. Kittelson, Monica Paulson Priebe, Phillip J. Graeve

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

There is little basic information about ant species richness and abundance in tall grass prairie restorations despite the importance of ants to plant community structure and function. We compared ant abundance and richness, vascular plant cover and richness, and soil compaction at two southern Minnesota grassland restoration sites, a prairie reconstruction and a prairie remnant undergoing rehabilitation. We collected a total of 3,523 ants from 12 different species. Plant species richness ranged from 45 in the prairie reconstruction to 95 in the remnant prairie. We found five more species of ants and significantly higher mean ant species richness per plot …


Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors Jan 2008

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.


Fostering A Healthy Body Image: Prevention And Intervention With Adolescent Eating Disorders, Michelle Giles, Michael Hass Jan 2008

Fostering A Healthy Body Image: Prevention And Intervention With Adolescent Eating Disorders, Michelle Giles, Michael Hass

Education Faculty Articles and Research

Eating disorders are among the most frequently seen chronic illnesses found in adolescent females. In this paper, we discuss school-based prevention and intervention efforts that seek to reduce the impact of this serious illness. School counselors play a key role in the prevention of eating disorders and can provide support even when not directly involved in psychological or medical treatment. Because of their ability to play a leadership role in school-based prevention of eating disorders, school counselors are essential in facilitating a collaborative approach to the prevention of and intervention in eating disorders and their associated risk factors.


'Pudding-Like' Identity Of Our Times. Yage Ritual, Andrzej Pankalla Jan 2008

'Pudding-Like' Identity Of Our Times. Yage Ritual, Andrzej Pankalla

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

No abstract provided.


The Discursive Construction Of Selfhood In Chinese And Euro-American Mother-Infant Interactions, Heidi Keller, Carolin Demuth Jan 2008

The Discursive Construction Of Selfhood In Chinese And Euro-American Mother-Infant Interactions, Heidi Keller, Carolin Demuth

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

No abstract provided.


Morality From A Cultural Psychology Perspective, Lutz H. Eckensberger Jan 2008

Morality From A Cultural Psychology Perspective, Lutz H. Eckensberger

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

No abstract provided.


Spotlight On Construction: New Coweta County Library Inspired By Frank Lloyd Wright, Patricia Palmer Jan 2008

Spotlight On Construction: New Coweta County Library Inspired By Frank Lloyd Wright, Patricia Palmer

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on the construction of a new library in Coweta County, Georgia. The construction of a new library was primary in the plan of the Coweta County Board of Commissioners and represents the first library built in Coweta County in 20 years. According to Barbara Osborne-Harris, Coweta County Library director, the vision has always been to create a library that facilitates, in many ways, vibrant, energetic and interactive learning. Kathleen Curry is the project architect. She referred to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for architectural inspiration.


The Economics And Ethics Of Executive Compensation, Annie Parker Jan 2008

The Economics And Ethics Of Executive Compensation, Annie Parker

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

No abstract provided.


Fighting For Success: Lessons From The Cage Applied To Life, Randy Borum Jan 2008

Fighting For Success: Lessons From The Cage Applied To Life, Randy Borum

Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Father Absence On Adolescent Depression, Sexual Attitudes, And Substance Use, Nicole M. Hurtack Jan 2008

Effects Of Father Absence On Adolescent Depression, Sexual Attitudes, And Substance Use, Nicole M. Hurtack

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between father absence and depression, sexual attitudes, and substance use on adolescents. Data were collected from forty-nine high school students (28 males, 21 females) from ninth to twelfth grade from a private high school in Pennsylvania. The Beck Depression Inventory-II was used to measure levels of depression. A sexual attitudes and substance use, and family demographic survey were also administered. The results of this study provided no support for the hypothesized relationship between adolescent adjustment and father absence. Father absence did not significantly predicted sexual attitudes, depression or substance …


Quisqueya On The Hudson: The Transnational Identity Of Dominicans In Washington Heights, Jorge Duany, Cuny Dominican Studies Institute Jan 2008

Quisqueya On The Hudson: The Transnational Identity Of Dominicans In Washington Heights, Jorge Duany, Cuny Dominican Studies Institute

Publications and Research

This field research study of ethnic identity, popular culture, and everyday life of the Dominican community of Washington Heights examines the social adaptation of Dominican immigrants to the host country.


Learning African-American History In A Synthetic Learning Environment, Adams Greenwood-Ericksen Jan 2008

Learning African-American History In A Synthetic Learning Environment, Adams Greenwood-Ericksen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Synthetic Learning Environments (SLEs) represent a hybrid of simulations and games, and in addition to their pedagogical content, rely on elements of story and interactivity to drive engagement with the learning material. The present work examined the differential impact of varying levels of story and interactivity on learning. The 2x2 between subjects design tested learning and retention among 4 different groups of participants, each receiving one of the 4 possible combinations of low and high levels of story and interactivity. Objective assessments of participant performance yielded the unexpected finding that learners using the SLE performed more poorly than any other …


Migrant Workers In South-East Asia:Economic And Social Inequality In Indonesia, Malaysia, And Singapore, Patricia Hajek Jan 2008

Migrant Workers In South-East Asia:Economic And Social Inequality In Indonesia, Malaysia, And Singapore, Patricia Hajek

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores migrant labor in South-East Asia by addressing the topic of migration, specifically its causes and consequences. Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are countries that experienced rapid industrialization from the mid-1960s throughout the 1990s. Simultaneously, the migration of people within the region increased. A key focus is how regional development has contributed to migration flows and to the position of migrants in these countries. Using a migration systems framework from Castles' and Miller's The Age of Migration (2003) that draws on theoretical elements from economics, historical-structuralism and transnationalism, this thesis finds that several factors explain the causes of migration …


The Relationships Between Leader Behavior, Follower Motivation, And Performance, Melissa Harrell Jan 2008

The Relationships Between Leader Behavior, Follower Motivation, And Performance, Melissa Harrell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary goal of this study was to examine ways in which leaders can influence followers motivation. Motivation is a key construct in industrial and organizational psychology due to its impact on employee performance. Modern motivation theories adapt a more sophisticated view of motivation in terms of definition, relationships, and operationalization. In particular, one new theory of motivation is the Pritchard and Ashwood Theory (2008). This theory proposes that motivation is comprised of four perceived relationships that, in combination, reflect the extent to which employees believe that their actions on the job will lead to need satisfaction. These four relationships …


The Caspian Sea Region's Key Position In The Rise Of Militant Islam, Graham Cage Jan 2008

The Caspian Sea Region's Key Position In The Rise Of Militant Islam, Graham Cage

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Researchers and policy experts point to key issues and groups such as the Palestinian/Arab Israeli Conflict, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Saudi exported Wahhabism, and, in more recent times, the Iraq wars as being the source of militant Islam in this day in age. However, this perspective ignores key issues and ideals in to how this new form of Islam has emerged in recent decades. For instance, with all the conflicts that have occurred in recent decades, except for the 1979 Revolution in Iran, why have they not yielded Shari'a inspired Islamic states in Yemen, Lebanon, the Occupied Territories and …


Living And Thriving In The Land Of Milk And Honey: Religion And The Success Of Mexican Immigrants To The United States, Jamie Dodge Jan 2008

Living And Thriving In The Land Of Milk And Honey: Religion And The Success Of Mexican Immigrants To The United States, Jamie Dodge

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the role of religion in promoting the success of Mexican immigrants, as measured by typical U.S. standards of success, including income, education, assets (such as homeownership), and health, including access to health insurance, controlling for age, education, gender, and ability to speak English. These measures are analyzed against various indicators of religiosity. The hypothesis driving the research is: religiosity increases an immigrant's success in the United States. This hypothesis was informed by social capital theory, and a distinction is made between bridging and bonding forms of social capital. The results show only a very weak correlation between …


Christian Publishing: A Panel Discussion, Dennis Hillman, Mark Hunt, Jim Kinney, Jon Pott, Gregory A. Smith Jan 2008

Christian Publishing: A Panel Discussion, Dennis Hillman, Mark Hunt, Jim Kinney, Jon Pott, Gregory A. Smith

The Christian Librarian

The 2007 conference of the Association of Christian Librarians convened in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the campus of Cornerstone University. Conference planners invited representatives of four prominent Christian publishers headquartered there (Baker, Eerdmans, Kregel, and Zondervan) to participate in a panel discussion on June 13. The panelists’ 65-minute exchange is transcribed here in slightly abbreviated form. At the beginning of the discussion, panelists were asked to reflect on general trends in the Christian publishing industry. This led naturally to a lengthy conversation about the publishers’ involvement in the creation and licensing of ebooks and other digital products. Finally, panelists were …


Face Value (An Examination Of The Qing Dynasty’S (1644-1911) Use Of Clothing And Hair As A Method Of Demarcation In Terms Of Social Status, Age, Gender, And Ethnic Identity), Stefano Fierro Jan 2008

Face Value (An Examination Of The Qing Dynasty’S (1644-1911) Use Of Clothing And Hair As A Method Of Demarcation In Terms Of Social Status, Age, Gender, And Ethnic Identity), Stefano Fierro

Whittier Scholars Program

This project examines the Qing’s dynasty’s (1644-1911) use of clothing and hair as a method of demarcation in terms of social status, age, gender, and ethnic identity. This includes the use of clothing that differentiated social class in Chinese society as well as the popular footbinding practice, it’s context and history. Further explained are the various hairstyles such as the chignon and bob.


The N.O.C. Project: A Musician’S Evolution, Nick Papageorge Jan 2008

The N.O.C. Project: A Musician’S Evolution, Nick Papageorge

Whittier Scholars Program

The contents of the project are a reflection paper titled “A Musician's Evolution”, an album titled The N.O.C. Project” and two dvds. One is a documentary titled When Papa Lost the Pimps” and a music video titled Rancid Reality”. In the paper the author writes out the lyrics of eight songs, out of the sixteen songs in the album, in order for the reader to analyze them. I chose these songs because I feel that they best represent the goals of my project. They reach a wide variety of emotions and situations. The author credits the understanding of music and …


Flow-Performance Relationship And Tournament Behavior In The Mutual Fund Industry, Baoling Ma Jan 2008

Flow-Performance Relationship And Tournament Behavior In The Mutual Fund Industry, Baoling Ma

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

In this paper, we interpret the flow-performance relationship as an incentive scheme implicitly given to mutual fund managers by mutual fund investors. We show that the flow-performance relationship varies not only with economic activity but also across fund attributes. We provide evidence that the degree of convexity of the flow-performance relationship has a positive effect on the magnitude of tournament behavior. Different from the conventional tournament hypothesis, we show that although the convexity of the flow-performance relationship does produce implicit incentives for fund managers to modify risk-taking behavior as a function of their prior performance, whether or not the mid-year …


Crude Birth Rates Among New York City’S Racial/Ethnic Groups And Latino Nationalities In 2002, Victoria Stone Jan 2008

Crude Birth Rates Among New York City’S Racial/Ethnic Groups And Latino Nationalities In 2002, Victoria Stone

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

Introduction: This report analyzes crude birth rates among women in the three primary racial/ethnic groups, White, Black, and Latina, and further examines birth rates by age-specific groups in the five boroughs of New York City in 2002. In addition, this report presents the crude birth rates for six Latino nationalities: Mexican, Ecuadorian, Dominican, Colombian, Puerto Rican and Cuban.

Methods: The data examined here was derived from the NYC Vital Statistics 2002 Report and the Census 2000 SF4 table on Sex by Age by race and Latino nationality. The birth rates were calculated by dividing live birth numbers (Vital Statistics report) …