... affect the daily lives of all Californians – from the quality of our public schools to the roads we drive on and the air we breathe Many of the decisions made as part of budget deliberations ... spending, and a structural imbalance between the cost of programs and services and the revenues raised by the state’s tax system The budget agreement included $41.6 billion in “solutions” to close the ... of corporate profits If corporations had paid the same share of their profits in taxes in 2006 as they did in 1981, corporate tax collections would have been $8.4 billion higher – The yield of...
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... California and Illinois Raymond W Cox III is a professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the University of Akron He is the author of some fortyfive academic and professional ... AM 129 The Art and Practice of Court Administration, Alexander B Aikman 130 Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration, Ali Farazmand and Jack Pinkowski 131 Handbook of Globalization ... auditing of warehouses, and outlet limits are among the types of laws that impact the three tiers The framework for the post-Prohibition control of alcohol consumption began with the repeal of the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Research evaluation of economic, social, and ecological implications of the programme for commercial tree plantations: case study of rubber in the south of Laos PDR pptx
... the development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and the process of ... the context of the management and use of forest and land resources in the midst of the transition process of economic development of the country Changes in the meaning of “land” in Laos “Land of ... crops and it is one of the ten top export commodities of Thailand The area of rubber production has expanded from the South to the Eastern region, the Northeast and the North In the Northeast,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20
Greasy palms - The social and ecological impacts of large-scale oil palm plantation development in Southeast Asia docx
... policies they have on palm oil, whether they are enforced, and whether they can identify the source of their palm oil d) To the Indonesian Government Friends of the Earth demands that the Indonesian ... used the land in the way they stated they would (e.g in the case of logging/ oil palm companies, whether the companies did develop oil palm plantations as they said they would, or whether they ... with the parent estate, which is appointed as the manager of the land The parent still guarantees the repayment of the development loan from the bank.124 However, from another point of view, the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PROBLEMS OF THE ELDERLY doc
... on the duration of life of one’s mother and father and grandmothers and grandfathers If someone’s grandmothers and grandfathers had lived 80 years, it gives him the chance to live years over the ... have lost the halo of wisdom and their social prestige has been degraded These social and ethical deformations are the darker side of our civilization Differentiation of the degree of mental ... sequence of social interventions for the management of the elderly These measures among other things may involve the work of the gerontological and geriatric centers, advisory offices and services...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Communities Benefit! The Social and Economic Benefits of Transportation Enhancements pot
... install the canal’s floor, walls, and edges, and the walk- called Triple Cross, and near I-95, way the length of the funded section This portion of the the modern highway artery along the east ... $168,000 These funds around the winter holidays and a local match of $84,400 paid Professional and community busi- for repairs and improvements to the roof, structure, and interiors, modi- meetings and ... their studies Montpelier to the Center and is of westward expansion The Center’s Allinger Community thriving as a result During the first Theatre was built in the style of an 1860s theatre, and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20
the social and economic challenges of nanotechnology, p.63
... cheapen the production of all goods and services, permit the development of new products and self-assembly modes of production, and allow the further miniaturisation of control systems They see these ... operation of DNA is much simpler to understand Attached to the backbone of a single strand of the DNA molecule is a sequence of ‘bases’, 12 the social and economic challenges of nanotechnology each of ... by the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate the current state of nanotechnology research and development in the UK, and produced under the chairmanship of the Director General of the...
Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:20
The stinky king a social and cultural history of the durian
... Tasting the durian has become a sort of rite of passage through which the newcomer approaches the colonial‟s Other But the risk of becoming the Other, the risk of hybridisation, is high And so the ... here: the jungle and the dining room These two contexts were among the main tropes of the late colonial imagination Between them the colonials negotiated part of their relationship with their Other, ... Certainly, officers and clerks could not feast on durians as coolies did The durian was diverted from the office, another central arena of the colonial social life But the officers, clerks, and other...
Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:54
Assessing the Legal and Regulatory Context of a Corridor
... reflects the willingness and commitment of the parties concerned by the development of the corridor and endorsed by them, including a memorandum of understanding, a convention, a treaty, or other ... July 1996, the Council of heads of states of the members of the Economic Community of Central African States (UDEAC) agreed on the legal framework of road transport of general cargo in the subregion ... March 2007 by Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, this agreement extends the mandate and scope of the 1985 agreement, renews the protocols, and develops new ones...
Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 08:07
Th e Care of Brute Beasts A Social and Cultural Study of Veterinary Medicine in Early Modern England pot
... our image’ and given him dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.16 ... Beliefs and Medicine in Early Modern England’ in H Marland and M Pelling (eds.) The Task of Healing: Medicine, Religion and Gender in England and the Netherlands 1450–1800 (Rotterdam, 1996), p 145 and ... occupations and the emergence of professions The examination of medical beliefs and practices provides glimpses of the ways in which animals were perceived and valued by the societies in which they lived...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
A Directory, Business Mirror, and Historical Sketches of Randolph County pdf
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20
social and psychological bases of ideology and system justification mar 2009
... highlighted the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of ideology and system justification By alluding to the fable of the blind men and the elephant at the outset of the ... such as the two-part definition offered in the fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, ... the focus of these commentators differed the small size of the federal government in the case of Kingdon (1999), the ostensible American crisis of values in the case of Baker (2005)— they shared...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:37
báo cáo hóa học:" Semantic structures of timbre emerging from social and acoustic descriptions of music" pptx
... around the mean of the Y -axis, and it is in terms of the shape of the spectrum (e.g spectral spread) that they differ most, hence their positions at the end of the X-axis In sum, despite the modest ... their acoustic profiles at the generic, meta-cluster level; this was not the case at the level of the 19 individual clusters Nevertheless, the organization of the individual clusters across the ... dimension of the direct cluster analysis, and in the perceptual space depicting the spliced stimuli (from the same 19 clusters) In the first case, it takes the form of “brigthenss SD”, and in the second,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20
SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HIV/AIDS AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS potx
... quality of life (QoL) Some of the aspects of the disease which influence QoL include: The proportion of time the patient spends in the ‘OFF’ state; The severity of the ‘OFF’ periods; The predictability ... represent the progression of the disease, the effect of treatment upon symptoms and other outcomes, and the duration of treatment effect Furthermore, there is currently an absence of an analysis ... The costs of the devices and components of CDLCI and CSIA (infusion pump, catheters, etc.) were not included; thus it was assumed that they were provided free of charge by the supplier, and therefore...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 19:20
SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HIV/AIDS AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS docx
... behaviours The book is titled Social and Psychosocial Aspects of HIV/AIDS and their Ramifications” to reflect the multi-dimensionality of the HIV/AIDS epidemic The book addresses key areas of HIV and ... book was born out of desire among scholars researching in the field of HIV and AIDS to document the social and psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the impact that these aspects have ... of PLWHA, is a function of various factors; and these factors have to be considered from a wider perspective of the social structural context The first component of the explanatory model is the...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 03:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Health and historical levels of freedom" ppt
... to their current (as of 2005) freedom status and measure the duration of the particular freedom level in the country Another consideration in the interpretation of our results is the lack of ... components of freedom, however defined, the effect of conflict on the interplay between freedom and health, the characteristics of the temporal relationship between freedom and health and the impact of ... [3] Results Our sample of 181 countries represents 98.5% of the world's population and includes 94.3% of the states recognized by the United Nations As of 2005, 44% of the countries were considered...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Organizing pairwork and groupwork in the context of high school classrooms at pham van nghi upper secondary school, nam dinh province: A case study
... activities and the ways to carry out these activities, the ways to group the students, the appropriate amount of time for them and the purposes of the activities They have adapted or expanded the exercises ... affect the success of a pair and group work ? Please, tick one option only Teaching experience The age of teacher The proficiency of the teacher The hard work of the students The cooperation of the ... most of the teachers requested some pairs or the representatives of some groups to stand up and report their work for the others in the class to comment and correct the mistakes The teachers often...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54
Tài liệu Central bank rates, market rates and retail bank rates in the euro area in the context of the recent crisis docx
... degree of transmission over the long term, the coefficients θ and δ measure the shortterm dynamic, and u are the error terms The term in the parentheses is the cointegration vector and represents the ... at the time of running the estimations The results of these estimations are summarised in a table in the annex For each of the estimated models, the analysis of the impulse response functions and ... explains the low level of the synthetic interest rate The moderate increase in Belgian interest rates since the start of 2010 corroborates the conclusion cited above, i.e that the repercussions of the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu The Social Benefits and Economic Costs of Taxation doc
... Zealand, Ireland, Australia, and Canada were the countries in the black, with a surplus of 5.5%, 1.4%, 1% and 0.7% of GDP, respectively But the U.S and the U.K were in the red, with a deficit of ... the haves from the life of the community and the exclusion of the have-nots; and, generally, inequality diminishes the richness and flourishing of a society Moreover, extreme levels of inequality ... geography or other characteristics beyond the control of the country’s government, by the method used to aggregate individual indicators, by the comparability of the data, and by the purpose of the evaluation...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
JOHN GREGORY AND THE INVENTION OF PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ETHICS AND THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE ppt
... knowledge and power that such knowledge was about to create In short, the concept of the physician as a professional in the intellectual and moral senses of the term and therefore the concept of the profession ... 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 as ... 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...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20