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‘Scholemaister and Counsailour vnto Traianus’: Plutarch, the Institutio Traiani, and Humanist Political Advice in Renaissance England
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The Art of Life and Death:Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice
No full textThe Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being.Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people experience in the face of death. By bringing an “experience-near” ethnographic focus to the streams of inner dialogue, imagination, and aesthetic expression that are central to the experience of illness and everyday life, this monograph offers a theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological contribution to the anthropology of time, finitude, and the human condition. With relevance well-beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology, this book ultimately highlights the challenge of capturing the inner experience of human suffering and hope that affect us all—of the trauma of the threat of death and the surprise of continued lif
Analytic Error as an Important Component of Total Survey Error: Results from a Meta-Analysis
No full textThis chapter describes the results of a meta-analysis that sought to quantify the frequency with which researchers do not use correct analytic techniques for complex sample survey data when publishing secondary analyses of survey data arising from complex samples. It explores whether characteristics of the journals in which these articles were published were related to the prevalence of various errors. The chapter defines analytic error as the failure of the survey data user to employ appropriate estimation methods when analyzing the collected survey data. Survey organizations strive to minimize important sources of total survey error (TSE) paradigm, and these efforts come at significant expense to funding agencies and the tax-paying public in general. The chapter presents results from the analyses of these data, which suggest that analytic errors may in fact be quite prevalent in published analyses of complex sample survey data
Paternal involvement in childcare: how can it be classified and what are the key influences
No full textEstablishing a clear definition of 'paternal involvement' is important in light of debates about what the concept means and how it might be measured. The debates about how to conceptualise 'paternal involvement' in childcare are reviewed in the first section of this paper. I demonstrate how Lamb et al's (1987) three dimensions of paternal involvement - accessibility, responsibility and engagement - continue to provide a comprehensive way of summarising a plethora of parental activities that are not bound by time, locality or age of child. The second section of this paper discusses some of the key policy, workplace and individual factors that interact to shape and influence the three dimensions of involvement. Using Sen's (1992) capabilities framework, I argue that while fathers may have the motivation and desire to be an involved parent, structural factors often hinder their capbilities to be involved
The value relevance and information content of cash and stock dividends in China
No full textDue to their unique institutional features, the Chinese stock markets provide an interesting experimental setting in which to examine how cash and stock dividends convey value-relevant information about future performance and future cash dividends. Applying market valuation equations and prediction models to a large sample of Chinese firms from 2003 to 2011 produces several interesting results. When cash dividends are not paid, then stock dividends are positively associated with firm value, and convey information about future cash dividends and future earnings. When cash dividends are paid, however, it is these that convey information about future cash dividends. Following the share tradability reform and convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards, the value relevance and information content of cash dividends are predicted and found to be stronger, while the value relevance of stock dividends weakens over the same time period. Our evidence suggests that, in a weak information environment, where management have limited control over cash dividend distributions, stock dividends play an important role as information conduits