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Humanities and Social Sciences25%
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting25%

Selected Abstracts

Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Alleviation

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 4 2001
Xavier Irz
How important is agricultural growth to poverty reduction? This article first sets out the theoretical reasons for expecting agricultural growth to reduce poverty. Several plausible and strong arguments apply - including the creation of jobs on the land, linkages from farming to the rest of the rural economy, and a decline in the real cost of food for the whole economy - but the degree of impact is in all cases qualified by particular circumstances. Hence, the article deploys a cross-country estimation of the links between agricultural yield per unit area and measures of poverty. This produces strong confirmation of the hypothesised linkages. It is unlikely that there are many other development interventions capable of reducing the numbers in poverty so effectively. [source]

Four New Families with Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy with Auditory Features: Clinical Description and Linkage to Chromosome 10q24

EPILEPSIA, Issue 1 2002
Melodie R. Winawer
Summary: ,Purpose: Autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features (ADPEAF) is a rare form of nonprogressive lateral temporal lobe epilepsy characterized by partial seizures with auditory disturbances. The gene predisposing to this syndrome was localized to a 10-cM region on chromosome 10q24. We assessed clinical features and linkage evidence in four newly ascertained families with ADPEAF, to refine the clinical phenotype and confirm the genetic localization. Methods: We genotyped 41 individuals at seven microsatellite markers spanning the previously defined 10-cM minimal genetic region. We conducted two-point linkage analysis with the ANALYZE computer package, and multipoint parametric and nonparametric linkage analyses as implemented in GENEHUNTER2. Results: In the four families, the number of individuals with idiopathic epilepsy ranged from three to nine. Epilepsy was focal in all of those with idiopathic epilepsy who could be classified. The proportion with auditory symptoms ranged from 67 to 100%. Other ictal symptoms also were reported; of these, sensory symptoms were most common. Linkage analysis showed a maximum 2-point LOD score of 1.86 at (, = 0.0 for marker D10S603, and a maximum multipoint LOD score of 2.93. Conclusions: These findings provide strong confirmation of linkage of a gene causing ADPEAF to chromosome 10q24. The results suggest that the susceptibility gene has a differential effect on the lateral temporal lobe, thereby producing the characteristic clinical features described here. Molecular studies aimed at the identification of the causative gene are underway. [source]

Self-Assembly of Ordered Patterns: Stressed Triangular Tessellations and Fibonacci Parastichous Spirals on Ag Core/SiO2 Shell Microstructures (Adv. Mater.

ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 45 2009
45/2009)
Stress engineering offers an effective route for self-assembly of ordered patterns. By stressing Ag core/SiO2 shell microstructures, spontaneous occurrence of triangular tessellations and Fibonacci parastichous spirals can be observed on the spherical and conical cores and shells, respectively. On p. 4652, Ze-Xian Cao and co-workers demonstrate that the stressed patterns are an immediate response to the geometry of the shrinking core/shells. The reproduction of Fibonacci spirals, ubiquitous in the world of plants, on the surface of totally inorganic microstructures provides strong confirmation of the mechanical principle of phyllotaxis. [source]

Stressed Triangular Tessellations and Fibonacci Parastichous Spirals on Ag Core/SiO2 Shell Microstructures

ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 45 2009
Chao-Rong Li
Abstract Triangular tessellations and Fibonacci parastichous spirals were assembled via thermal stress engineering of Ag-core/SiO2 -shell microstructures, for which the geometry and topology of the primary core/shells play a pivotal role. Patterns on slightly stressed spherical surfaces are simply triangular tessellations with 12 pentamers, whereas additional pentamer,heptamer chains emerge when more vertices are available (>360) on heavily stressed surfaces, all showing an excellent agreement with numerical solutions to the Thomson's problem. Defect-free triangular lattice can be produced on a pierced spherical cap prepared via the draining effect. Remarkably, Fibonacci spirals of definite chirality, 3 by 5 through 13 by 21, and in both sinister and dexter forms, emerge on the conical supports. These results provide strong confirmation of the mechanical principle for phyllotaxis that the phyllotatic patterns are the least-elastic-energy configuration in a confining receptacle, and meanwhile demonstrate an effective path for the en masse fabrication of patterned structures on curved surfaces. [source]

Moral Cosmology, Religion, and Adult Values for Children

JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 1 2007
BRIAN STARKS
We hypothesize that the religiously orthodox, who are theologically communitarian/authoritarian in seeing individuals as subsumed by a larger community of believers and as subject to timeless divine law, are more likely to value obedience in children over autonomy than are theological modernists, who are theologically individualistic in seeing individuals, not a deity, as the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong. We hypothesize further that differences in moral cosmology (orthodoxy vs. modernism) within faith traditions are more important for the values adults seek to instile in children than are differences between traditions. Through analyses of national data from the 1998 General Social Survey, we find strong confirmation of both hypotheses. Moral cosmology is the single-most important factor in valuations of obedience and autonomy in children. While evangelical Protestants differ from Catholics, mainline Protestants, and those with no religion in their values for children, moral cosmology is associated with differences in values for children within each of the faith traditions, including evangelical Protestants. We conclude that intra-faith differences in moral cosmology are key in explaining values for children, but have not completely supplanted interfaith differences. [source]

Trusting souls: A segmentation of the voting public

PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, Issue 12 2002
Leon G. Schiffman
When a 30-year decline in the American voters' trust of political office holders and the election process is contrasted to their enduring trust of the democratic form of government, there is strong confirmation of the need to take a multidimensional approach in measuring political trust. To this end, a segmentation scheme based on two well-established political trust measures (i.e., incumbent-based trust and regime-based trust) is proposed. In particular how two specific trust segments differ in terms of the time they spend on various political and election-related activities is examined. Among other things, the findings reveal that the dual-trusting segment (i.e., those who were both regime and incumbent trusting) were substantially more likely than the regime-only trusting segment (i.e., those who were regime trusting and incumbent untrusting) to watch television debates or speeches and have informal discussions with friends and co-workers on topics related to the election. There were no meaningful differences between the two segments when it came to giving or raising funds, or campaigning for a candidate or political party. However, when it came to voting-related decision making, the results suggest that dual-trusting individuals were significantly more likely to spend more than a little time considering how they were going to vote for President, U.S. Senate, and on particular political issues. The article ends with suggestions for future research, as well as some thoughts on how politicians and their advisers might more fully embrace the relational marketing paradigm, especially as it pertains to the connection between elected officials and the voting public. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [source]

The Empirics of International Currencies: Network Externalities, History and Persistence,

THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 537 2009
Marc Flandreau
Using a new database for the late nineteenth century, when the pound sterling was the world's leading international currency, this article provides evidence on the empirical determinants of international currency status. We report evidence in favour of the search-theoretic models to international currencies. Using a microeconomic model of currency choice, we provide empirical support to strategic externalities. We find strong confirmation of the existence of persistence, but reject the view that the international monetary system was subject to pure path dependency and lock-in effects, suggesting that, even in the absence of WWI, the USD was bound to overtake sterling. [source]

With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time

COGNITIVE SCIENCE - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, Issue 3 2006
Rafael E. Núñez
Abstract Cognitive research on metaphoric concepts of time has focused on differences between moving Ego and moving time models, but even more basic is the contrast between Ego- and temporal-reference-point models. Dynamic models appear to be quasi-universal cross-culturally, as does the generalization that in Ego-reference-point models, FUTURE IS IN FRONT OF EGO and PAST IS IN BACK OF EGO. The Aymara language instead has a major static model of time wherein FUTURE IS BEHIND EGO and PAST IS IN FRONT OF EGO; linguistic and gestural data give strong confirmation of this unusual culture-specific cognitive pattern. Gestural data provide crucial information unavailable to purely linguistic analysis, suggesting that when investigating conceptual systems both forms of expression should be analyzed complementarily. Important issues in embodied cognition are raised: how fully shared are bodily grounded motivations for universal cognitive patterns, what makes a rare pattern emerge, and what are the cultural entailments of such patterns? [source]