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... collection of a broad array of current and retrospective socio-economic and health information among individuals, households, and communities2 The selection of households is representative of 83% ofthe ... constraints The reduced-form is obtained by substituting the determinants ofthe chosen health behaviors into equation (1) for the xht To derive the determinants ofthe xht, we make the standard assumption ... constrained by available time and resources, by the health production function, andthe price and quality of all available medical services Therefore, the health behavior demands in period t are: xt...
... outside ofand beyond the institutional and aesthetic orbit of dominant cultural centers of power and authority like the Lincoln Center, PBS, andthe New York Times The concept ofthe jazz left then ... are the erosion of moral standards; the loss ofthe work ethic (e.g., the 1996 Welfare Bill); law and order (e.g., the 1995 Crime Bill); the decay of Western civilization (the culture wars ofthe ... ofthe innate ability of early jazz musicians Because of these writers’ lack of understanding ofthe mechanics of music, they thought there weren’t any mechanics It is the ‘they all can sing, they...
... struggles and learning about the lives of women in different parts ofthe world Their commitment to social change and their insights into the effects of socialist collapse on the lives of everyday ... The concept ofthe transition economy justifies the disintegration of society andthe social costs accompanying market reforms, including the worsening ofthe situation of women and other vulnerable ... are reworked, andthe rights and needs of various categories of citizens redefined These women’s social justice struggles and their uneven success highlight some ofthe social costs of economic...
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... The same kind of problem may arise in the context of debates over prayer in public schools, the rights of homosexuals, traditional sex 24 Religion andthePoliticsof Tolerance roles, and other ... explained within the body ofthe analysis 36 Religion andthePoliticsof Tolerance The Data for the Analysis The data for this chapter comes from a random sample phone survey of 601 individuals ... America, the work of John Stuart Mill and John Locke has led to the argument that what tolerance best exemplifies is the freedom to enter and exit the marketplace ThePoliticsof Tolerance 21 of ideas...
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... from private and commercial sources was closed In July 1991, 47 tonnes of gold from the reserve assets ofthe Reserve Bank of India was shipped to the vaults ofthe Bank of England in a dramatic ... Petition was then filed with the Supreme Court of India on the limited question of whether the Court could dismiss the petition on ground that it was purely "academic" and there was no "cause of action." ... and collective level efforts not exist There are many such efforts ongoing in different parts ofthe country and many of them operate without any funding whatsoever, and without the context of...
... studies ofthe crisis rhetoric ofthe leaders ofthe United Kingdom, France, Ireland andthe European Commission andthe European Central Bank The crisis hit hard and fast in the United Kingdom and ... focus ofthe bulk of existing research on emergencies and crises) In formal terms, the ultimate explanandum ofthe study ofthe rhetoric of crisis exploitation is twofold: the nature and depth of ... 2004).1 The sense of threat and uncertainty they induce can profoundly impact people’s understanding ofthe world around them The occurrence of a large-scale emergency or the widespread use of the...
... Liquidity Scheme, andthe cost of nationalizing Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley But if we add all the other Bank of England and HM Treasury loans and guarantees to the banking system, the IMF calculates ... model ofthe spread of SARS and HIV, or the collapse of fish stocks There is an isomorphism about ‘seizures in the electrical grid, degradation of eco-systems, the spread of epidemics andthe disintegration ... some ofthe new concepts and apparatus which we bring to analysing and understanding the operations ofthe finance sector andthe difficulties of political reform Bernanke’s story, illustrated in the...
... part ofthe SNCC skin.62 It was a defining attribute of who they were, how they believed the activist body should appear, andthe political and aesthetic value they placed on their style The same ... 646 THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY had begun to understand and question the class politicsofthe black community, Baker noted that they would have to “break through the pseudo-sophistication of ... in the national office and in the field.”63 The women came in as individuals, carrying the markers of their class backgrounds, and emerged as SNCC people, who wore their hair natural and made themselves...
... Gomez cites the issue ofthe ethnic factor in the creation of two loose coalitions, that ofthe APU andthe Gagasan in the late 1980s and early 1990s.39 Khong Kim Hoong’s analysis ofthe 1990 Malaysian ... alliances ofthe main opposition parties.43 Antipathy towards Mahathir as an individual and to UMNO andthe BN as the government grew over the years The handling ofthe then recent events such as the ... on the publicity ofthe PAS, was not a determinant in the DAP’s termination of its membership in the BA The concluding chapter sums up the findings ofthe entire research andthe implications of...
... ofthe soft -the world of intangibles, of media, of software, andof services-will soon command the world ofthe hard -the world of reality, of atoms, of objects, of steel and oil." While Kelly ... scrolls and Greeks establishing schools andthe study of mathematics The ride skips forward to the invention ofthe printing press andthe subsequent flourishing of culture during the Renaissance, then ... This quality recalls another aspect of standardization: the degree to which it favors thepoliticsand practices of a specific group of actors to the exclusion of another In other words, a technology...
... distribution of information is triggered by the view on the relevance ofthe information, the 122 Knowledgeand Process Management power ofthe recipient, the level of workload and resources ... chain of hotels or supermarkets, a software vendor or a consulting company, regardless ofthe nature ofknowledgeThe method of analysis is generalization to theory, and given the level of abstraction ... to the differences between the plants in terms of transfer success or failure Plants and failed to take on theknowledge transfer, whereas the other four succeeded Transfer ofKnowledgeand the...
... secular, medical ethics and forging the intellectual and moral concept of medicine as a fiduciary profession and thereby inventing professional medical ethics and, therefore, the profession of medicine ... of Physicians of Edinburgh; the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; the National Library of Scotland; the Wellcome Institute for the ... History of Medicine, the University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Clinic, the New York Consortium for the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine, and the...
... and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fishes ofthe sea, andthe fowls ofthe air, andthe beasts, andthe whole earth, and every creeping creature that creepeth upon the earth.” And ... life ofthe child in order to increase the mother’s chances of living Andthe day may arrive when, by the law ofthe land, the act will be considered criminal and punished as such In support of ... right and praiseworthy, and others wrong and worthy of condemnation; even there Doctors and patients and their relatives would have certain rights and duties In such a land, the lecturer on Medical...
... step ofthe way, between choices of interest and values, on the one hand, andthe desire for process on the other This study brings together concern for the administrative process andthe role of ... the varieties of institutional form andthe nature ofthe policy area, but the unique features ofthe American system compound the problem and beg the question ofthe significance ofthe data reported ... studies of law in action; the sociology of law; the anthropology of law; cultural studies of law, including the role of legal discourses in social formations; law and economics; law and politics; and...
... merge the list of newly generated features with the list of bigrams20 and select the top 5000 features from the merged list according to their WLLR We then repeat procedure P for the trigrams and ... number of test documents and find that the feature vectors corresponding to some of these documents (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them In other words, none ofthe bigrams from the ... examination ofthe feature lists sorted by WLLR confirms our hypothesis that each ofthe two classes has its own set of distinguishing features Experiments with the book domain To understand whether these...
... Institutional Inequality andthe Mobilization ofthe Family andMedical Leave Act How the rights created by the Family andMedical Leave Act operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This ... disability, andthe appropriate roles of men and women in the family This study examines how these institutions shape the way courts, employers, and workers understand the meaning of family andmedical ... in their roles as workers, including Title VII ofthe Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title I ofthe ADA, and most recently the FMLA Although these statutes explicitly recognize the status of women and...
... technology in the prevention of stroke andthe corresponding rates of utilization in the US and Canada They show that utilization rates increased dramatically between 1989 and 1995 following the publication ... that explains the evolution in the value of life and its relation with health spending They calculate the marginal cost of saving a life at di¤erent ages and over time in the US, and …nd that ... report the dynamic …xed e¤ects estimator ofthe long-run coe¢ cients andofthe error correction term (Pesaran, Shin, and Smith, 1999) Results con…rm the signi…cant e¤ect of health spending on the...