legalization information and the mobilization of domestic groups

... Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act How the rights created by the Family and Medical Leave Act operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This ... shape the process of rights mobilization Catherine R Albiston is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley She is active in the American Sociological Association and the Law and ... in their roles as workers, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title I of the ADA, and most recently the FMLA Although these statutes explicitly recognize the status of women and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... imagined other ‘homeland’, upon the possibility of migration, and upon their mother’s or father’s migration histories to construct a sense of who they are with regards to their mixed-ethnic and cross-national ... construction of the “JFC” is part of a political and a symbolic struggle by individuals and NGOs which have established themselves as legitimate mouthpieces of the “JFC” and their Filipino mothers As ... include the determining and legalization of their status in Japan (Kyodo News Int 1994 e) The request for cooperation emerged at around the same time as the case of “Baby Andrew”, an abandoned...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:18

... (Goetz and Shenoi 2008), the protection of intellectual property of firms and countries (Andrijcic and Horowitz 2006), the financial integrity of investment firms (Jolly 2008), and the control of ... main safeguards in place, and concludes that there may be a need to reconsider some of them in view of the growing role of nonbanks and of the global reach of risks in the electronic era Introduction ... Technology and Policy Adoption, Combating Cybercrime, Privacy and Trust Information Risk and the Economics of Security presents the latest research on the economics driving both the risks and the solutions...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 17:15

... Second Law of Thermodynamics For them, the origin of life is nothing more or less than the emergence of sufficient biological information to enable a system of biopolymers to (1) store information, ... account for the diversity of life in the biosphere, it is generally recognized that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved mysteries in science (Radetsky1992; Wade 2000) At the heart of this ... quantify the information in biopolymers – especially DNA, RNA, and protein, the molecules that are essential for information storage, replication, and metabolism Then we will explore the concept of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... shows that the cost of capital of the firm depends on four factors: the risk free rate, the aggregate risk tolerance of the market, the expected cash flow of the firm, and the covariance of the firm’s ... ours, the nature of the cross-sectional impact on the covariance, and therefore the cost of capital, differs in their paper because of the different information structure assumed When the information ... the ratio of the expected future cash flow to the covariance of the firm’s cash flow with the sum of all cash flows in the market is a key determinant of the cost of capital Next, we add an information...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... ING Barings is also the fifty per cent owner of the Netherlands Post With the Postbank and the Netherlands Post under the same ownership, the two institutions can again tap the synergies possible ... Savings and the Provision of Financial Services widely seen as part of the agenda of Germany’s commercial banks to force the privatization and then take over the Landesbanks Even though the Sparkassen ... corporation, and several to privatized systems Europe has had the most occurrences of privatization of postal operations, and the entire systems of the Netherlands and Germany have been privatized The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... decrease the ffects of the tax rate increase on the quantity of labour supplied and he quantity of leisure demanded Estimates of the marginal cost of public funds: In Australia and other OECD ... prevails q is the probability of the high price prevailing (1-q) is the probability of the low price prevailing r is the rate of interest The expected value of information is: The expected project ... work out the cost to the economy of displacing $50 worth of private consumption and $50 worth of private investment: • the loss of $50 worth of private consumption costs $50 • the $50 worth of private...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... notion of information on ideas from information theory The function of various measures of information content for quantum systems is explored and the applicability of the Shannon information in the ... currently made of the concept of information in physics, following the rapid growth of the fields of quantum information theory and quantum computation These are new and exciting fields of physics ... to the question of the implications of quantum information theory for our understanding of the meaning of the quantum formalism Following some preliminary remarks, two particular information- theoretic...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:42

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:23

... more turns, and so on, if they can point in the general direction of the entrance, they have demonstrated that they can visualize the real world in their mind, and sequentially follow their steps ... fundamentally, security is about the management of loss or risk Information security is about the management of loss of information and the resulting cost of that loss, a.k.a risk It is therefore important ... caused tens of billions of dollars in damage and the loss of thousands of lives Power outages have a cumulative cost of billions of dollars as well, and are caused by a wide variety of natural...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 11:56

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:54

... at the end: “What about the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the ... colours, the seven notes of the musical scale, and the seven days of the week?” Miller’s idea is illustrated in Figure 1.1, where the xaxis gives the amount of information received and the yaxis ... blocks and then one block to the left and the right again for three blocks, then left and then three right, and you’re there,” your chances of getting lost start to increase It is too much information...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:09

... spacing of the transmitter and receiver (in units of wavelengths), respectively Let the weighted matrix M = I and g = in the case of the weighted norm constraint, and T = I and g = 0.5 in the other ... indicates the clutter data collected by the receiver, r (θi) is the reflect coefficient of the clutter patch at θi, and NC (NC ≫ MtMr the number of spatial samples of the clutter The term W denotes the ... relative error of the clutter estimate is defined as the ratio of the estimation error of the initial total clutter power to the exact one Figure shows the CRB versus the estimation error of the initial...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... in the compensation set, so that the peak value of the combined signal is reduced The location of these two sets remains fixed for all codewords and over all uses of the channel Of the handful of ... carry information, while the other is used to reduce the peak value We will call these two sets the information set and the compensation set Given a set of coefficients for the tones in the information ... an information set, and RN = {−N , , N } \ IN , a compensation set We call the ratio of the number of tones in the information set to the total number of tones available the efficiency of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... multiplication; the stabilizer of the coset W is W and therefore the stabilizer of a coset W τ i is the image of W under τ i Since such elements cover all elements of V , and since the only elements of p-power ... with the definition of the fB Now the Pi and Bj form a symmetric tactical decomposition of the tactical configuration whose points are the points of Σn−1 and whose blocks are the elements of B Therefore ... a subspace of V , say of co-dimension c, such that the union of all images of W under τ covers all elements of V Then G acts transitively on the set W \G of right cosets of W in G (of size kpc...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:23

... case of Theorem 1.4 In this section we give the proof of a special case of Theorem 1.4, namely when all the ni ’s are equal to n ≥ Throughout, G denotes the direct product of q copies of the symmetric ... ≥ Then I is closed under the fixing operation Proof Let L denote the set of all n-subsets L of Sym(Ω) such that for each i, the elements of L restricted to Ωi form the rows of a Latin square of ... contradicting the maximality of I So |I| = (m − 1)!m(n − 1)! Again, the maximality of I implies that m = n and so I has the required shape as above Proof of Theorem 1.4 As before, the upper bound of |I|...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... /u2 v2 and variance s2 The standard EM algorithm is developed to obtain the estimates of the unknown vector By differentiating the log-likelihood of equation (6) with respect to two groups of unknown ... Algorithm n can be estimated by treating the position is fixed Using a grid search, we can obtain the MLE of the QTL position from the peak of the profile of the log-likelihood ratio test statistics ... at the first and second QTLs; (12) J ag is the additive × dominant epistatic effect due to the interaction between the substitutions from allele to at the first QTL and the dominant effect at the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... analysis of the transcriptome and metabolome during ripening of Trincadeira grapes The combined analysis of transcripts and metabolites contributed to the elucidation of many aspects of carbohydrate, ... American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 1992, 129-133 37 Dartiguenave C, Jeandet P, Maujean A: Study of the Contribution of the Major Organic Acids of Wine to the Buffering Capacity of Wine in ... analysis and functional categorization of Unigenes The mRNA expression profiles of four time points (EL 32, EL 34, EL 35 and EL 36) and two seasons (2007 and 2008) were compared using the Affymetrix...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... Interactive nature of the clinical scenarios Worst feature Several of the vignettes contain unnecessary text that becomes a nuisance to skim through Wish list More scenarios in the format of the ‘trauma ... scenarios’ Other links MDchoice.com — http://www.MDchoice.com This website contains two interactive scenarios for each of the topic areas of advanced cardiac life support, of acute leg swelling and of ... Overall, I found the trauma scenarios to be well presented and educational More importantly, they were actually fun to work through, and seemed to be appreciated by a diverse group of medical users...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22