346 research outputs found
Author ID’s: enhance visibility and accessibility: Workshop 2
No full textPapers presented at the second workshop on Author ID’s: enhance visibility and accessibility , Auditorium, Merensky Library, University of Pretoria, 28 October 2015Follow up on the first workshop (Researcher ID Workshop), the aim of this workshop was to continue discussion on the information specialists' role in enhancing research visibility and accessibility. A large part of the workshop was devoted to a discussion and practical demonstration of ORCID ID by Mr Matthew Buys, the Regional Director of ORCID. Author IDs were also discussed from different perspectives, including a junior information specialist (Ms Lesego Makhafola); a cataloguer (Ms Martha De Waal); a researcher (Prof. Estelle Venter) and a case study at GIBS (Ms Beulah Muller).mn201
An Interview with an Author and Editor: The View from Taiwan
No full textORCID Engagement Manager Asia-Pacific, Estelle Cheng, recently spoke with Wen-Yau Cathy Lin, an academic, author and scholarly journal editor about ORCID and its use in Taiwan
The Passion of Estelle Jordan
No full textSometimes the characters in Ernest Hebert\u27s Darby Chronicles hew close to real life. When the author was a college student pulling shifts part time at a hospital laundry, he worked alongside a woman in her fifties--unadorned, sweet-natured, and with long gray-black hair that was her pride. Nights, Hebert frequented the beer bar in Keene, New Hampshire, where he encountered a sassy, self-empowered, forty-something bleached blonde who could bamboozle any man she met. Borrowing qualities from these women, Hebert would shape one of his most memorable characters: Estelle, the witch of the Jordan clan.
A major character in earlier Darby novels A Little More Than Kin and Whisper My Name, Estelle takes center stage in The Passion of Estelle Jordan. Presently she is sliding into late middle age, drawn to two lovers who could not be more different: the widowed farmer Avalon Hillary and a mysterious young punk Estelle calls Trans Am in honor of the car he drives. And there\u27s a threat, not to Estelle--she can take care of herself--but to Noreen Cook, a younger woman Estelle sees as a version of her own secret, vulnerable self. Putting herself in Noreen\u27s shoes to save her, Estelle may be in for way more than she bargained for. The Passion of Estelle Jordan, like that of Christ, is rife with sin, suffering, sacrifice, and perhaps redemption.
The Passion of Estelle Jordan is for anyone--male or female--going through a change of life
Regional Income Inequality in the United States (1917-2011)
No full textEstelle Sommeiller is a socio-economist at the Institute for Research in Economic and Social Sciences (IRES) in France. She holds a Ph.D. in economics, jointly awarded by the University of Delaware and the Université Lumière in Lyon, France. Her doctoral dissertation, "Regional Inequality in the United States, 1913-2003", analyses a set of panel data by state cross-sections and annually, using the Statistics of Income publications by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Sommeiller's theoretical approach was inspired by the economist Thomas Piketty, who pointed out the strong heterogeneity of the top decile in his book "Les hauts revenus en France au XXème siècle. Inégalités et redistributions 1901-1998." and distinguished a certain number of intermediary revenues classes (the fractiles), until the highest 0.01. The same distinction was used by Sommelier, with the use of the desegregation by state as a difference. Two variables were extracted by the author from the publications of the IRS: the number of individual returns and the total income expressed in dollars. Both variables are ranked by size of income and by state. The database represents well the top 10 percent of the income distribution. Sommeiller's Ph.D. thesis covers the period from 1913 to 2003 with deflated measures, using the 2003 dollars value. For the purposes of the paper "The Increasingly Unequal States of America", Sommeiller updated the data by adding the 2004 to 2011 series and excluding the ones from 1913 to 1916. All the measures are expressed in 2011 current dollars. These are the data that we are disseminating here
Can reforming global institutions help developing countries share more in the benefits from globalization?
No full textGlobalization could significantly expand trade, international investment, and technological advances, but the gains from global integration have been unevenly distributed across and within nations. Greater global interdependence has also brought greater macroeconomic volatility, resulting in several serious financial crises in the second half of the 1990s. The global matrix of Bretton Woods and United Nations institutions that developed starting in the 1940s, formed under a different balance of power, in a world of fixed exchange rates and limited capital mobility. Since the 1960s regional financial institutions have emerged because of the greater autonomy of different regions and the greater financial needs of development. The author reviews different proposals for reform of the international financial institutions and changes in the roles of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. He highlights the implications for developing countries of (1) Policy conditionality. (2) The countercyclical role of multilaterals'lending. (3) Greater lending to middle-income than to low-income developing countries. (3) Access to liquidity at times of crisis. (4) Mechanisms for giving low-income countries a greater voice in IMF and World Bank decisionmaking. The author streses the overlapping responsibilities of the Bretton Woods and regional financial institutions and the need to reassess the allocation of responsibilities and to develop better coordination mechanisms between these institutions. Those designing institutional reform must consider the corporate capabilities of each type of institution. The corporate cultures of global and regional institutions differ. So does the kind of knowledge they generate and disseminate, and so do patterns of interactions with, and mechanisms for representation of, client countries.Finally, the author calls attention to the need to harmonize national and global growth-oriented policies in a way that reduces volatility and promotes social equity.Environmental Economics&Policies,Governance Indicators,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform
Planning space versus planning time: analysis of planning across contexts
No full textThis study investigated the contribution of task constraints to planning processes and outcomes across four tasks which contained varying numbers of spatial and temporal constraints. Verbal protocols were obtained during forty-five young adults' planning of the four tasks. Participants' conceptualizations in terms of space or time, and their focus on sequencing task elements during planning were clearly related to the spatial, temporal and order constraints in the tasks. Participants were very consistent in the degree to which they focused on time and the amount of verbalizations across tasks, and they were somewhat consistent in their focus on sequencing. They were not consistent in their focus on space. Of the planning outcomes investigated, constraint violations on tasks were related to the proportion of implicit constraints, spatial and temporal efficiency were related to spatial and temporal constraints, and total verbalizations were related total constraints in the tasks. Individual participants' planning outcomes were not related across tasks. The degree to which participants focused on location during planning of a task with mostly spatial constraints was related to spatial efficiency of their plan, this relationship was not seen in a task with spatial and temporal constraints. Various cognitive abilities of were measured, verbal and visuospatial working memory, verbal and nonverbal fluency, processing speed, updating, shifting and inhibition. One measure of visuospatial memory as well as nonverbal fluency was related to the degree to which participants focused on sequencing actions. The results indicate that planning processes are somewhat general, and that planning processes and outcomes vary with constraints contained in planning tasks. It is suggested that conceptualizing planning tasks in terms of constraints allows for valuable comparison across tasks.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105).by Estelle-Marie Yvonne Mayhe
Why is there proportionately more enrollment in private schools in some countries?
No full textThe proportion of students enrolled in private rather than public schools varies greatly among countries. The author tries to explain (1) the systematically higher proportion of enrollment in private schools in developing countries than in developed countries, at the secondary level, and (2) the seemingly random variation across countries within a given level of education and stage of development. The author argues that differentiated demand and nonprofit supply - both of which stem from cultural heterogeneity, especially religious heterogeneity - are the major explanations for variations in the proportion of private education within a given stage of development and educational level. By contrast, the author hypothesizes that the proportionately heavy enrollment in private secondary schools in developing countries stems from limited public spending, which creates an excess demand from people who would prefer to use the public schools but are involuntarily excluded and pushed into the private sector. Limited public spending on secondary education, in turn, is modeled as a collective decision which is strongly influenced by the numerous families that opt for many children, and that consequently can only afford to invest small amounts in each child, in developing countries. The results of regressions that determine private-sector size recursively and simultaneously with public educational spending are consistent with these hypotheses.Economic Theory&Research,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Gender and Education,Inequality,Environmental Economics&Policies
[Newspaper clipping titled:] Days of waiting tells Arthur-Estelle Ishigo story
No full textNewspaper clipping regarding a film by Steve Okazaki on Estelle Ishigo, a non-Japanese woman who chose to accompany her husband, a Japanese American, to Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Covers the making of the film and background on the life of Estelle Ishigo.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
How adverse selection affects the health insurance market
No full textAdverse selection can be defined as strategic behavior by the more informed partner in a contract against the interest of the less informed partner(s). In the health insurance field, this manifests itself through healthy people choosing managed care and less healthy people choosing more generous plans. Drawing on theoretical literature on the problem of adverse selection in the health insurance market, the author synthesizes concepts developed piecemeal over more than 20 years, using two examples and revisiting the classical contribution of Rothschild and Stiglitz. He highlights key insights, especially from the literature on"equilibrium refinements"and on the theory of"second best."The government can correct spontaneous market dynamics in the health insurance market by directly subsidizing insurance or through regulation; the two forms of intervention provide different results. Providing partial public insurance, even supplemented by the possibility of opting out, can lead to second-best equilibria. The same result holds as long as the government can subsidize contracts with higher-than-average premium-benefit ratios and can tax contracts with lower-than-average premium-benefit ratios. The author analyzes the following policy options relating to the public provision of insurance: a) Full public insurance. b) Partial public insurance with or without the possibility of acquiring supplementary insurance and with or without the possibility of opting out. In recent plans implemented in Germany and the Netherlands, where competition among several health funds and insurance companies was promoted, a public fund was created to discourage risk screening practices by providing the necessary compensation across riks groups. But only"objective"risk adjusters (such as age, gender, and region) were used to decide which contracts to subsidize. Those criteria alone cannot correct the effects of adverse selection. Regulation can exacerbate the problem of adverse selection and lead to chronic market instability, so certain steps must be taken to prevent risk screening and preserve competition for the market. The author considers the following three policy options for regulating the private insurance market: 1) A standard contract with full coverage. 2) Imposition of a minimum insurance requirement. 3) Imposition of premium rate restrictions.Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Insurance Law,Financial Intermediation
Melville Freeman Correspondence
No full textEntries incude letters of correspondence from co-author Estelle Perry. Date range: 1963-02/1963-0
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