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... accommodation to maintain conditions of mutual respect Mutual respect goes beyond toleration, for it insists on the value of keeping open the channels of continued interaction and conversation with ... versions of democratic theory that flatten the landscape of politics into a low contest among interests and preferences Gutmann and Thompson set out to counterbalance not only liberal constitutionalism's ... this volume is itself a contribution to the democratic deliberation that Gutmann and Thompson have so ably championed and advanced Contents Contributors, ix Introduction, Stephen Macedo PART...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... These surveys contain information on demographics, education, income and expenses The second source is FITEL’s administrative information containing the GPS location of each phone and the date ... of cell phones introduction among fishermen in the Indian state of Kerala The results show that the adoption of mobile phones was associated with a dramatic reduction in price dispersion, the complete ... of cell phone introduction in Niger She focuses on grain markets and suggests that cell phones reduced price dispersion across markets by 6.4 percent and intra-annual price variation by 12 percent...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:00

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:39

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:40

... Islands, FS Micronesia, Mongolia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam 6 genders (residual gap) Second, the Juhn, Murphy, and ... and implements the parametric methodologies (BO and JMP) Section 1.6 explains the relationship between the parametric and the nonparametric decomposition methodologies (BO and DFL) The section ... education has expanded during Thailand’s modernization Education for women and the closing of the gender gap in schooling in Thailand will be discussed Finally, this section examines the existence and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:46

... (1983b), ‘Glymour on Evidence and Explanation’, in Earman 1983, 165–76 (1983c), ‘Theory Confirmation: Tension and Conflict’, in P Weingartner and M Czermak (eds.), Epistemology and Philosophy of ... conclusively provided A second line of argument for the first premise trades on conventionalist insights A theory only has its full empirical content when conjoined with auxiliary hypotheses, and ... general impression is one of an attenuation of van Fraassen’s position Andr´ Kukla sums up the situation as e follows: In 1980, constructive empiricism is presented as a conclusion that follows...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:06

... his own conception of it with the one he takes to be more common, the common conception being that Convention T and the definitions it certifies allow us to discern nothing in common among the various ... contributors focus on the significance of Tarski’s definitions and method, and on the conception of truth on which they are based Mancosu carefully reviews the debate over Tarskian definition among ... eliminated, and that for this reason the semantic conception of truth is altogether sterile and useless And since the same considerations apply to other semantic notions, the conclusion has been...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:45

... answer the questions that Elster raises, one must say more about the normative standards for rational consensus, the relation between deliberation and decision, and proper institutional design In ... tensions between procedural justiªcation and the need for independent standards of judgment and reason; tensions between freedom and equality; tensions between pluralism and publicity; and the ... facing contemporary democracy Rather than focusing on the outcome of deliberation, Bohman and Knight and Johnson take up the most fundamental condition of deliberation for either epistemic or nonepistemic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:23

... Hui Jen, Xiong Gaogao, Zhu Qingdi and Ping Yuan – for assistance in DNA extraction and genotyping, Roy Chen, Song Changcheng, and Zhong Songfa for insightful comments and suggestions in the data ... Avoidance and λ 1.3.6 HTR2A Expression and Genetic Variation The HTR2A gene contains exons and introns and is characterized by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the gene   22   region As ... association between HTR2A gene expression and SNPs in HTR2A region Every blue dot represents one SNP The coordinates of dots on X-axis show location of SNPs on the chromosome The coordinates on Y-axis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:13

... returns and conditional versions of CCAPM conditioning on the ratio of consumption to wealth perform much better than the unconditional versions Santos and Veronesi (2006) incorporate the ‡ uctuation ... wealth ratio, and both have the similar mean and autocorrelation 2.4.2 Consumption Data In this estimation, the consumption data includes two series: one is the nondurable consumption without housing, ... based on the non housing consumption and the housing consumption The descriptive statistics in Table 2.2 show that the share of non housing consumption is highly persistent — its autocorrelation...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:07

... the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention; the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the National Institutes ... middle school attendance and completion The reason for focusing on middle school education is the lack of variation in primary school enrollment According to China Education and Research Network ... background information about China’s education system, Section 1.3 details the data we use for estimation, Section 1.4 explains our identification strategy, Section 1.5 presents the estimation results,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:09

... institutional arrangements in the third and fourth essay In the first essay, I study the role of delegation in the principal-agent relationship based on the theoretical construction of Aghion and ... the Contribution Rate as the Dependent Variable 135 Table 5.6: OLS Regressions with the Absolute Contribution as the Dependent Variable 136 Table 5.7: OLS Regressions with the Contribution Rate ... Table of Contents Summary Page v List of Tables vii List of Figures ix CHAPTER I: Introduction CHAPTER II: Delegation of Formal and Real Authority in the Lab 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Aghion and Tirole...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:51

... Lessons and Implications in the New Economy, Information and Management, 42, 1009–1022 Roghieh Gholami, Sang-Yong Tom Lee, and Almas Heshmati (2006), The Causal Relationship between Information and ... Table 5.3 Operationalization of Confirmation……………………………………………….…116 Table 5.4 Operationalization of Continuance Intention………………….………………….….117 Table 5.5 Operationalization of Continuance… …………………………………………… ... business and consumer uptake and continuance as well 1.2 Definition of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) The acronym ICT is used to denote a concept which is a combination of two...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:52

... Corporation Definition Concession/Fiction Theory Corporation is only a state-created reification and a legal fiction Contractual/Aggregate Theory Corporation is formed by voluntary private contracting ... Corporation as an aggregation of contractual relationships – the Contractual/ Aggregation Theory Like the concession/fiction theory of the corporation, the growth of the contractual/ aggregation theory ... Expectation-Prediction (Classification) Table on Model 159 Table 4-15 Expectation-Prediction (Classification) Table on Model 159 Table 4-16 Expectation-Prediction (Classification) Table on Model...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:54

... Section 2.5 concludes 2.2 The Aghion and Tirole (2007) Model and the Testable Hypotheses In this section, we first outline the key theoretical constructions of Aghion and Tirole (1997) and the ... one common thread That is, they focus solely on factors that are directly related to the allocation decisions such as the motives and consequences behind those allocation decisions, but not on ... principal and the agent is a behaviorally relevant consideration for the participation constraint in the context of a principal-agent relationship Hamman, Loewenstein and Weber (2008) conducted...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01

... rate and hence the coefficient β in a regression of one on the other should be negative Sigma convergence, on the other hand, is concerned with the evolution of the cross-sectional dispersion over ... traditional concepts also passes the convergence test proposed by Phillips and Sul For that purpose, time series consisting of both a common and an idiosyncratic component are constructed and consequently ... corresponds to the equality of long-term forecasts of the series for regions i and j This situation of equation (1.8) with the restriction to γ = has been termed “strong convergence” by Bernard and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2015, 16:47

... Berkeley May 2000 Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds Copyright May 2000 by Kehong Wen Abstract Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds by Kehong Wen Doctor of ... focuses on econometric issues and model speci…cation See Ibbotson (1975) for the …rst systematic study on underpricing, and Ibbotson and Ja¤e (1975) for their early work on hot-issue markets Ibbotson ... break the CAPM: participation restrictions and investor heterogeneity Two types of participation restriction are considered: share-supply restrictions and shortsale restrictions It is well known that...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... fundamentally wrong with our appreciation of core examples from the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography? Kendall L Walton’s second contribution to our collection, “Landscape and Still ... journalistic, evidentiary, and scientific contexts Cynthia Freeland’s contribution (chapter 2) focuses on Walton’s contact and transparency theses With regard to the former, Freeland investigates the ... on a Hobby Horse,” and Other Essays on the Theory of Art (London, 1963), p Arnheim, “The Robin and the Saint,” in Toward a Psychology of Art, p 325 See Scruton, “Photography and Representation,”...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:22

... objectification is Eichberg’s own, and is drawn from his research on quantification and rationalisation The aspect of energy is a recent addition to the concept, and draws on notions like the ... Voilà—a concise example of how concepts of space and time, interpersonal relationships and objectification constitute a configuration The importance of space in the analysis of configurations opens ... fortius These are non-sportised forms of body discipline arising through physical education and ‘sport for all’, on the one hand, and the less constrained and freer bodily configurations achieved through...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:20

... Analysis of the second interview provided a lot of information on Hai’s process of writing and aspects he focused on during this process The second stimulated recall and the interpretation of the student’s ... would use footnotes and follow the conventions as explained in Essay and Report Writing published by the Faculty of Architecture The process of writing and aspects focused on during this process ... ideational or textual reasons” (Roca de Larios, Murphy and Manchon [11]) Unlike other studies reviewed above, the study by Roca de Larios, Murphy and Manchon focused on the particular writing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20