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Milstats 101: Introduction to Milstats
(2008-04-26)
Presentation for the Innovative Users Group Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2008. Millennium Statistics is a very powerful tool that enables libraries to create statistical reports with ease. MilStats is available in ...
Do Elections Slow Down Economic Globalization Process in India? It's Politics Stupid!
(2008-08-01)
I investigate whether timing of the elections impact economic globalization process or not in India. In other words, do elections slowdown economic globalization process? The theoretical underpinning is that, policies of ...
Overcoming the Social and Psychological Barriers to Green Building
(2008-09)
The green building movement has made tremendous achievements in the past decade. Technological advances in building systems and materials have made revolutionary possibilities in reducing the environmental impact of ...
Goods Market Integration in Russia during the Economic Upturn
(2008-05-01)
This paper obtains an evolving pattern of goods market integration in Russia, considering the period of economic upturn, since the second half of 2000 through the end of 2007. In an integrated market, the price of a tradable ...
Funds (Huh!): What are they good for!
(2008-04-26)
Funds are the building blocks of Acquisitions - allowing us to pay for orders and report expenditures. But for many sites, the fund structure lacks the ability to truly capture the information that the library wants and ...
Contextualizing instruction: Leveraging students' prior knowledge and experiences to foster understanding of middle school science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-01)
Contextualizing science instruction involves utilizing students' prior knowledge and everyday experiences as a catalyst for understanding challenging science concepts. This study of two middle school science classrooms ...
Exploring the Relationship Between Military Spending & Income Inequality in South Asia
(2008-02-01)
The basic objective of this paper is to examine the effect of military spending on income inequality in four major South Asian economies. In the process, we also control for other possible key determinants of income ...
Internet Business Practices Across the Globe: Lessons from Emerging Economies
(2008-08)
Firms in emerging economies are rapidly becoming formidable competitors to long-established industry leaders from developed economies. In some cases, emerging-economy firms are acquiring developed-economy firms, such as ...
Estimating Poverty for Indigenous Groups in Chile by Matching Census and Survey Data
(2008-08-01)
It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous Chileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In ...
Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs.
(2008)
This dissertation consists of three essays whose unifying topical theme is the study and application of semiparametric methods for the evaluation of social programs. The first essay evaluates the federal urban Empowerment ...