... Gerard Braunthal ofthe University of Massachusetts, and Peter Euben ofthe University of California at Santa Cruz all read parts ofthe work and offered advice John Fairleigh ofthe Queen's University ... appreciation ofthe limits of constitutionalism as a basis for political community Hence questions of whether and when the constitution governs are also questions ofthe limits (and perhaps ofthe different ... life ofthe nation; the President must define and explain to Congress andthe people the nature of this threat; the perception ofthe emergency, the judgment that the life ofthe nation is truly...
... the formula ofthe Boussinet, then the assumption about the random force will lead, in particular, to the results ofthe work The physical reason ofthe assumption about the uncorrelativity of ... uncorrelativity ofthe random force is the shortness of its time ofthe correlation as compared with the time ofthe relaxation ofthe velocity for the large Brownian particles (large frequency ofthe collisions) ... the results ofthe work (perhaps he means to the satisfying results?) The physical reason ofthe assumption about the uncorrelativity ofthe random force, is the shortness of time of its correlation...
... left blank Democratic Accountabilityandthe Use of Force in International Law The spread of democracy to a majority ofthe world’s states andthe legitimization ofthe use of force by multilateral ... Uses of military forces under the auspices ofthe UN and NATO page 24 1.2 Uses of force and forms of authorization and responsibility: the framework for analysis 29 1.3 The nine states and their ... rights of passage.” These agreements were to have the advantage of defining, from the point of view of member states, the limits of their obligation to provide such assistance, and, from the point of...
... microfinance’s expansion into the provision of public goods It focuses on theproblemof public goods and collective action and refers to the specific example of water and sanitation The microfinancing ... Denmark, Australia andthe Netherlands The predicted full cost ofthe various latrine options (and the size ofthe loans) was between 40 and 160 euros, though households complained that the costs were ... context of neoliberal restructuring andthe rise ofthe vision of fragmented entrepreneurial development Section discusses the characteristics ofthe water and sanitation sector and examines the...
... avant-garde artworks in the domain ofthe aesthetic Since the era of Duchamp’s Fountain, avant-garde artworks have developed to the point of once again challenging the aesthetic theory of art Counterexamples ... (S) and proposes the third solution’ as a way to incorporate avant-garde artworks into the aesthetic theory of art The third solution invokes the idea of non-perceptual aesthetic properties and ... works thus removing the majority of counterexamples to the aesthetic theory of art However, the nature of avant-garde art means that since the era of Duchamp’s readymade artworks, the boundaries have...
... particular type of social group Thus theproblemofpolitical obligation meets the theory of social groups The Membership Problem Are there political obligations? Given the preceding definition of such ... State of a certain kind) ought to obey the laws and directives oftheof cials of that State? This, in broad terms, is theproblemofpolitical obligation, which concerns whether and when there ... coalition of mother and son within the family of father, mother, and son One would suppose, however, that the larger the group, the more likely its inclusion of smaller groups within it.35 Finally, and...
... sending copies to the Fiscal Assistant Secretary ofthe Treasury, the Director of OMB, the Deputy Director for Management of OMB, andthe Acting Controller of OMB’s Office of Federal Financial ... appendix This appendix includes the status ofthe 56 remaining open recommendations, according to the Department ofthe Treasury (Treasury) andthe Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as ... to begin with the fiscal year 2004 CFS, the Secretary ofthe Treasury should direct the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, in coordination with the Controller ofthe Office of Management and Budget (OMB),...
... 02-20 The Secretary ofthe Treasury should direct the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, in coordination with the Controller of OMB, to develop and implement a process to ensure that the Statement of Changes ... exist between what the agency auditor reported andthe representations made by the agency, including the resolution of such discrepancies Treasury and OMB revised their policies and procedures in ... Specifically, these policies and procedures should require an analysis and aggregation of federal agencies’ summary of unadjusted misstatements to determine the completeness ofthe summaries and to...
... Value Problems problem Therefore, in the following we just consider the direct scattering problem for a mixture of a crack Γ and a bounded domain D, andthe corresponding inverse scattering problem ... see 13–17 andthe reference therein A few authors have applied such method to study the scattering problem with mixture of cracks and obstacles In the following, we will use the method of boundary ... establish uniqueness to theproblemand reformulate theproblem as a boundary integral system by using single- and double-layer potentials The existence and uniqueness of a solution to the corresponding...
... evaluate the qualities ofthe three schemes (SISO, AF, and NLOS) and to select the best of them Generalization to the N-relay case S and destination D is g0 , the one between source S and relay ... Indeed, the adaptive NAF protocol is then the result ofthe selection ofthe best transmission scheme between the SISO scheme, the NAF schemes using only one relay, andthe NLOS schemes using either ... comparison ofthe performance ofthe noncooperative case, the NAF protocol, andthe adaptive NAF for bits pcu Figure 8: 1-relay scheme: comparison ofthe performance ofthe noncooperative case, the...
... Bush, and Barack Obama and on those they chose to serve in their cabinets and in the Executive Office in the White House and to run regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve andthe Securities ... discussion ofthepolitical underpinnings ofthe financial crisis has centered on thepolitical interests ofthe financial sector, we stress the Three I’s: ideology, institutions, and interests The ... leveraged (the ratio ofthe loan to the true value ofthe asset is very high) But the belief that the price ofthe bubble asset will rise even further leads to even laxer lending standards, magnifying...
... ideological role ofthe media in the presentation ofthe policies favoring the economic, financial andpolitical elites A highly recommended read for its analyses ofthe crises andofthe neo-liberal ... through the Bretton Woods agreements, and institutions like the World Bank, the IMF andthe United The crisis andthe role ofthe media Nations were set up to regulate the global economy under the ... such ties is the acquisition by theThe crisis andthe role ofthe media 21 Irish media of a direct financial interest in the sustenance ofthe housing bubble through the purchase of property websites...
... changed since the end of 1970s The failure ofthe planned economy andthe goal of facilitating the economic development ofthe country made China shift to the market economy and adopt the “Open-up” ... to the building of democracy, improvement of human rights, rule of law and facilitation ofpoliticaland social change in China This thesis approached these questions from the perspective ofthe ... submerged in the 1950s and 1960s, andthe number and diversity of these organisations have grown rapidly since the 1990s The re-emergence of NGOs raises the questions whether, and to what extent,...
... book-length projects, the three volumes ofThe History of Sexuality The first volume was first published in 1976 The second and third volumes, subtitled The Use of Pleasure andThe Care ofthe Self respectively, ... discovering and exposing it, the fascination of seeing it and telling it, of captivating and capturing others by it the specific pleasure ofthe true discourse on pleasure (71) The proliferation of ... equivalents to the author function, according to Foucault, are thethe idea ofthe work” andthe notion of writing (écriture)” (11) Without referring to the author, the idea ofthe “work” inevitably...
... from the time of Leviathan to that ofThe Wealth of Nations consisted ofthe watering down of Hobbes's problemof order by arguing that certain human motivations kept others under control and ... view of embeddedness alters our theoretical and empirical approach to the study of economic behavior I first narrow the focus to the question of trust and malfeasance in economic life and then ... industrial and organizational sociology to be important within firms The distinction between the "formal" andthe "informal" organization ofthe firm is one ofthe oldest in the literature, and it...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief ofthe ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result ofthe crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy andthe rise of new aspirations for democracy andthe self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character ofthe Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities ofthe Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...