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Kinds of Bulletin Terms modified by Bulletin Selected AbstractsSOG BULLETIN: THE ULRICH KLOETI AWARDGOVERNANCE, Issue 4 2008Article first published online: 22 SEP 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] SOG BULLETIN: CALL FOR PAPERSGOVERNANCE, Issue 2 2007Article first published online: 3 MAY 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] SOG BULLETIN: CALL FOR PAPERSGOVERNANCE, Issue 1 2007Article first published online: 22 JAN 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Prolegomenon to a history of paleoanthropology: The study of human origins as a scientific enterprise.EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 5 2004Part 1. Interest in the history of paleoanthropology and the other disciplines related to human origins studies has grown considerably over the last several decades. Some very informative historical surveys have been written by prominent scientists reflecting on the major developments in their fields. Some well-known early examples include Glyn Daniel's The Idea of Prehistory (1962) and The Origins and Growth of Archaeology (1967), which focus primarily on the history of archaeology, Kenneth Oakley's "The problem of man's antiquity: an historical survey" published in the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) [Geology] (1964), and L. S. B. Leakey's Unveiling Man's Origins; Ten Decades of Thought about Human Evolution (1969), with the latter two focusing on the contributions of geology, paleontology, and biology to the problem of human evolution. [source] An analysis of P times reported in the Reviewed Event Bulletin for Chinese underground explosionsGEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2005A. Douglas SUMMARY Analysis of variance is used to estimate the measurement error and path effects in the P times reported in the Reviewed Event Bulletins (REBs, produced by the provisional International Data Center, Arlington, USA) and in times we have read, for explosions at the Chinese Test Site. Path effects are those differences between traveltimes calculated from tables and the true times that result in epicentre error. The main conclusions of the study are: (1) the estimated variance of the measurement error for P times reported in the REB at large signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is 0.04 s2, the bulk of the readings being analyst-adjusted automatic-detections, whereas for our times the variance is 0.01 s2 and (2) the standard deviation of the path effects for both sets of observations is about 0.6 s. The study shows that measurement error is about twice (,0.2 s rather than ,0.1 s) and path effects about half the values assumed for the REB times. However, uncertainties in the estimated epicentres are poorly described by treating path effects as a random variable with a normal distribution. Only by estimating path effects and using these to correct onset times can reliable estimates of epicentre uncertainty be obtained. There is currently an international programme to do just this. The results imply that with P times from explosions at three or four stations with good SNR (so that the measurement error is around 0.1 s) and well distributed in azimuth, then with correction for path effects the area of the 90 per cent coverage ellipse should be much less than 1000 km2,the area allowed for an on-site inspection under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,and should cover the true epicentre with the given probability. [source] Introduction: Overcoming Barriers to the Extension of Social Protection: Lessons from the Asia RegionIDS BULLETIN, Issue 4 2010Naila Kabeer The contributions to this IDS Bulletin report on some of the findings from research undertaken under the Social Protection in Asia programme. This is a three-year policy-oriented research and network building programme, funded by the Ford Foundation and IDRC, with project partners in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The research focuses on examining interventions aimed at extending social protection to those sections of the population, the majority in many Asian countries, who are excluded from formal social security systems. It has sought to identify and address barriers to the establishment of more comprehensive social protection systems that could address such difficult-to-reach groups. This issue of the IDS Bulletin brings together some initial reflections on the findings from this research. These relate to advocacy efforts to draw attention to those groups that have been largely invisible in the social protection agenda; to the importance of civil society and grassroots mobilisation in creating access to state provision and to lessons from social protection efforts to go to scale. These reflections are intended to feed into current debates about the design of appropriate social protection schemes that effectively meet identified needs. [source] Introduction , The MDGs and Beyond: Pro-poor Policy in a Changing WorldIDS BULLETIN, Issue 1 2010Andy Sumner This issue of the IDS Bulletin is dedicated to discussing and reviewing the MDGs and the global effort that grew from the UN Millennium Declaration. This article provides an overview of this IDS Bulletin and introduces the key themes. [source] Introduction: The Global Financial Crisis, Developing Countries and Policy ResponsesIDS BULLETIN, Issue 5 2009Neil McCulloch How is the global financial crisis affecting developing countries and what should policy responses be? This is the subject of this IDS Bulletin. In this introduction, we summarise the key findings of a set of research projects on the financial crisis undertaken at IDS between February and April 2009 and propose policy responses. [source] Introduction: Researching Democracy and Social Change with Violence in the ForegroundIDS BULLETIN, Issue 3 2009Jenny Pearce There are many studies of violence within specific fields of the social sciences, but the next stage in our evolving understanding of violence may lie with interdisciplinary approaches. By traversing traditional academic categories, violence as a variable may become more visible in its multiple modes. It is through our ability to see the linkages between interpersonal, cultural, collective, political, state, interstate and structural violences that we can gain a better understanding of its persistence in human interactions. Researchers for this IDS Bulletin set out not only to understand contemporary dynamics of violence, but also to work with people trapped in violent places, spaces and histories who were willing to talk about and act upon their situation. Researching violence in an interactive way with those living in the thick of it posed many ethical, safety, epistemological and methodological challenges. These are documented in this IDS Bulletin alongside findings on the dimensions and impact of violence in different contexts. [source] Performance on Stroop-like assessments of inhibitory control by 4- and 5-year-old childrenINFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2010Dave S. Pasalich Abstract The rapid development of an aspect of executive functioning (EF), inhibitory control (IC), between the ages of 3- and 5-years, leads to an increase in a child's capacity to suppress inappropriate responding and therefore activate the necessary resources to carry-out goal-directed activity (Psychological Bulletin, 1997, 121, 65,94). To measure EF in children, tasks administered clinically to adults are adapted. The Day,Night Stroop (DNS) is a pictorial modification of the Stroop Test (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1935, 18, 642,662), developed for pre-literate children. Although suitable as a measure of IC in 3- to 4-year-old children, ceiling effects have been reported on the DNS in slightly older preschoolers. The present study attempted to overcome this limitation by examining the suitability of two modified versions of the DNS in 4- to 5-year-old preschoolers. To investigate the executive demands made by both Stroop-like tasks, their associations with another measure of IC (stop-signal task) and a measure of working memory were examined. Counter to expectations, no significant association was found in performance between the two Stroop-like tasks; however, the modified DNS developed in this study showed significant relationships with the other executive tasks. The results are discussed in relation to the different methodologies used by these Stroop measures. Implications of this study suggest that researchers should consider more test-specific factors when assessing EF in young children. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Simulation of the Impact of the Recognition of Stock Options on the Earnings: The case of Canadian Companies,ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVES, Issue 1 2005SILVA BODJOVA ABSTRACT One of the most controversial accounting issues pertains to stock compensation. In Canada, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) approved section 3870, Stock-based Compensation and Other Stock-Based Payments, on November 13, 2001, to take effect in January 2002. Section 3870 forces companies to "take a look at the real economic cost of most of the stock-based compensation mechanisms" (AcSB Bulletin, October 2001, 1). The adoption of section 3870 was aimed at harmonizing Canadian accounting practice with U.S. standards. The new standard, which was initially based on two American accounting standards - APB Opinion No. 25 and SFAS No. 123 - gave companies the choice of using either the fair value method or the pro forma disclosure of net income and adjusted earnings per share to account for stock-based compensation. The Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) nevertheless recommended that Canadian companies use the fair value method, which consists in estimating and recognizing the value of the stock options at the grant date. [source] Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses Research Board BulletinINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 2 2004Article first published online: 11 AUG 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Role of Feelings in Investor Decision-MakingJOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, Issue 2 2005Brian M. Lucey Abstract., This paper surveys the research on the influence of investor feelings on equity pricing and also develops a theoretical basis with which to understand the emerging findings of this area. The theoretical basis is developed with reference to research in the fields of economic psychology and decision-making. Recent advancements in understanding how feelings affect the general decision-making of individuals, especially under conditions of risk and uncertainty [e.g. Loewenstein et al. (2001). Psychological Bulletin 127: 267,286], are covered by the review. The theoretical basis is applied to analyze the existing research on investor feelings [e.g. Kamstra et al. (2000). American Economic Review (forthcoming); Hirshleifer and Shumway (2003). Journal of Finance 58 (3): 1009,1032]. This research can be broadly described as investigating whether variations in feelings that are widely experienced by people influence investor decision-making and, consequently, lead to predictable patterns in equity pricing. The paper concludes by suggesting a number of directions for future empirical and theoretical research. [source] Cytological Alterations Produced by Sweet Potato Mild Speckling VirusJOURNAL OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY, Issue 7-8 2006C. F. Nome Abstract The potyvirus sweet potato mild speckling (SPMSV) has the biological properties and the coat protein sequence already described. In this work, cytological alterations and the intracellular localization in Ipomoea setosa and Ipomoea batatas was studied. The observations were carried out by means of transmission electron microscopy, complemented with immunogold techniques for the viral localization with SPMSV antiserum of local production. The observations carried out showed almost no alteration on cell components but the presence of cylindrical inclusion in the cytoplasm (bundles, laminate aggregates, and pinwheels, neither circles nor scrolls) belonging to the type-2 in the classification of Edwardson and Christie (Cylindrical Inclusions. Bulletin 894, 1996, pp. 1,11). Gold particles were localized in cytoplasms of all tissues of the leaf. [source] Informational Digest Bulletin From San Raffaele Foundation and Tosinvest Sanità (No. 20).JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Issue 4 2009A New Protocol for the Quantitative Evaluation of Graphic Gesture: First Application in Subjects With Parkinson's Disease [source] Informational Digest Bulletin From San Raffaele Foundation and Tosinvest Sanità (No. 13).JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Issue 3 2007The Participation of IRCCS San Raffaele as a Partner to the TRAMA (TRAining in Motion Analysis) Project [source] Informational Digest Bulletin from the San Raffaele Foundation and Tosinvest Sanità (No. 8).JOURNAL OF POLICY AND PRACTICE IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Issue 2 2006Adult, Aging Developmental Centre Silvana Paolini Angelucci, Child, a Modern Concept of Rehabilitation: Our Model in Cassino [source] Labour Flows as Determinants of the Wage,Price Spiral: An Empirical Analysis for The NetherlandsLABOUR, Issue 2 2001Lourens Broersma This study presents an empirical analysis of the influence of labour market flows on wage and price formation. A system of wage, price and employment equations after Nickell (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 49: 103,128, 1987) is estimated, including labour flows as indicators of labour market tightness in the wage equation. An impulse response analysis using this system shows how changes in the flow of layoffs (flow from employment to unemployment) may be the basis of short-run Phillips curve effects in The Netherlands [source] "Street Haunting": Phantasmagorias of the Modern Imperial Metropolis1LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 1 2007Sara Gerend This paper forms part of a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Virgina Woolf Studies and aims to provide a snapshot of the field. Urmila Seshagiri (University of Tennessee) and Rishona Zimring (Lewis and Clark College) first provide an introduction for this paper along with Benjamin Harvey's article, "The Twentieth Part: Virginia Woolf in the British Museum Reading Room." The full text of Sara Gerend's piece then follows. These papers grew out of the 15th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (College of Lewis and Clark, Portland, OR, June 9,12, 2005). The full cluster is made up of the following articles: "Introduction: Virginia Woolf and The Art of Exploration," Urmila Seshagiri and Rishona Zimring, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00393.x "Virginia Woolf's Sense of Adventure," Maria DiBattista, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00394.x "The Twentieth Part: Virginia Woolf in the British Museum Reading Room," Benjamin Harvey, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00395.x ",Street Haunting': Phantasmagorias of the Modern Imperial Metropolis," Sara Gerend, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00396.x "Hyde Park Gate News," Gill Lowe, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00397.x "The Art of ,Scene-Making' in the Charleston Bulletin Supplements," Claudia Olk, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00398.x "A Camera of Her Own: Woolf and the Legacy of the Indomitable Mrs. Cameron," Emily Setina, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00399.x "Woolfian Resonances," Anne Fernald, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00400.x "Early Twentieth-Century British Women Travellers to Greece: Contextualizing the Example of Virginia Woolf," Martha Klironomos, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00401.x ",Others Wanted to Travel': Woolf and ,America Herself'," Thaine Stearns, Literature Compass 3 (2006), 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00402.x [source] From the Editors of NAPA BulletinAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009Satish Kedia Co-General Editor No abstract is available for this article. [source] We Ran One Regression,OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 5 2004David F. Hendry The controversy over the selection of ,growth regressions' was precipitated by some remarkably numerous ,estimation' strategies, including two million regressions by Sala-i-Martin [American Economic Review (1997b) Vol. 87, pp. 178,183]. Only one regression is really needed, namely the general unrestricted model, appropriately reduced to a parsimonious encompassing, congruent representation. We corroborate the findings of Hoover and Perez [Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2004) Vol. 66], who also adopt an automatic general-to-simple approach, despite the complications of data imputation. Such an outcome was also achieved in just one run of PcGets, within a few minutes of receiving the data set in Fernández, Ley and Steel [Journal of Applied Econometrics (2001) Vol. 16, pp. 563,576] from Professor Ley. [source] Commentary: The federal ,Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act'PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS, Issue 9 2009Philip R. Reilly Abstract The recently enacted federal law, the ,Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act' (United States Public Law 110,374) seeks to improve opportunities for parents and pregnant women to anticipate and understand the likely life course of children born with Down syndrome and other (unspecified) conditions. The law is in part a response to the continued growth of prenatal screening and testing. For example, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Practice Bulletin 77 recommends that ,Screening and invasive diagnostic testing for aneuploidies be available to all women who present for prenatal care before 20 weeks of gestation regardless of maternal age.' Emerging technologies anticipate an era in which the scope of prenatal screening and testing will be much larger than it is today. Inevitably, more women will find themselves facing the hard question of whether to continue or end a pregnancy in which a fetus has been found to have a significant abnormality. While the new federal law is not likely to have a major impact on obstetric practice, it may be a harbinger of renewed wide-scale public debate concerning the ethics of prenatal screening. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] MEAN REVERSION OF THE FISCAL CONDUCT IN 24 DEVELOPING COUNTRIESTHE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 4 2010AHMAD ZUBAIDI BAHARUMSHAH In this paper, we examine the mean reverting behaviour of fiscal deficit by analysing the fiscal position of 24 developing countries. Using annual data over the period 1970,2003 and the series-specific panel unit root test developed by Breuer et al. (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 64 (2002), pp. 527,546), we found the budget process for most developing countries fails to satisfy the strong-form sustainability condition. Further investigation shows the budget process for a majority of the countries is on a sustainable path (weak form) when a one-time, structural break is allowed in the model. Therefore, our empirical results suggest that the budget process in most of the sample countries is in accordance with the intertemporal budget constraint. [source] THE BLUR: BALANCING APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY, ACTIVISM, AND SELF VIS-À-VIS IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIESANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2009Alayne Unterberger Anthropologists who work with immigrant communities engage in culture change while balancing challenges, competing priorities, and politics. This Bulletin provides a rare view into the personal and professional when working as both an advocate and an academic simultaneously. I provide a basic overview of the history of anthropologists engaging immigrant communities, which overlaps with the movement of anthropology and education, Americanization projects, and refugee anthropology. Next, I present an overview of three themes that emerge from the articles in this Bulletin. I end with a series of discussion points that could be utilized for classes or as a framework for anthropologists engaged with vulnerable immigrant groups in social change. I appreciate the amazing efforts of all the contributors in this Bulletin and the unwavering support provided to us by David Himmelgreen and Satish Kedia, coeditors of the NAPA Bulletin series, without which this Bulletin would not have happened at all. [source] Anthropology and Fisheries Management in the United StatesANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2007Palma Ingles The collection of articles in this volume of NAPA Bulletin describes various types of social science research currently conducted in support of federal and state fisheries management by anthropologists and sociologists studying fishing-dependent communities and fisheries participants. The contributors work for NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); various state fisheries agencies; in academia; or as contract researchers. These articles represent a wide geographical range, employ a diverse set of methods, and demonstrate different research goals ranging from responding to specific statutory or management requirements to establishing broader baseline social information to exploring the theoretical constructs that constrain or advance the field of applied anthropology in fisheries. This introduction provides background to the recent expansion of anthropological capacity in U.S. fisheries management and the divergent methods employed by practitioners. The range of methods includes classic ethnography and survey methods, cultural modeling, participatory research, and quantitative indicators-based assessment. The compilation of articles presents an opportunity to think about standardizing some methodological approaches for certain types of tasks, while expanding the array of accepted methodologies available to anthropologists advising fisheries managers. [source] Occupational injuries by hour of day and day of week: a 20-year studyAUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Issue 6 2006Eric Wigglesworth Objective: To examine by hour of day and day of week the 750,000 compensation claims that were lodged by male workers in Queensland, Australia, during the 20-year period from 1968 to 1988, including an investigation into some possible reasons for the increased number of claims on Mondays and the reduced number of claims on Fridays. Method: The study was based on the collection entitled Industrial Accident Statistics (Bulletin 79), published annually by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Queensland office. This was the only State collection to include data on compensated injuries categorised by hour of day and day of week. There was no Australia-wide dataset of compensated occupational injuries. Results: Compensation claims were not evenly distributed through the working week. There were more injuries on Mondays (23.6% of the total) than on Tuesdays (21.8%), than on Wednesdays (20.3%), than on Thursdays (18%), than on Fridays (16.3%). There were more injuries in the mornings than in the afternoons for every day of the working week. Conclusions and Implications: This study confirms the existence of a steady reduction in workers' compensation injury claims on successive days of the working week. One possible explanation for this finding is offered as a basis for further research into the reasons for this trend. Hopefully, the results of these and later studies may suggest remedial measures that will help reduce the number of occupational injuries. [source] Exotic Animal Diseases BulletinAUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL, Issue 11 2004Tim Buick No abstract is available for this article. [source] Exotic Animal Disease BulletinAUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL, Issue 5 2004Article first published online: 10 MAR 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Exotic Animal Diseases BulletinAUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL, Issue 2 2001Article first published online: 10 MAR 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Buchbesprechung: fib Bulletin 38: Fire design of concrete structures , materials, structures and modellingBETON- UND STAHLBETONBAU, Issue 9 2007Frank Fingerloos No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||