243,753 research outputs found
Interview with Sherwood Berg
No full textAnn Pflaum interviews Sherwood O. Berg about his educational and professional background, including a position as the dean of the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics.Berg, Sherwood Olman; Pflaum, Ann M.. (1999). Interview with Sherwood Berg. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/47904
Flogging a dead horse: Attempts by van der Berg et al to measure changes in poverty and inequality
No full textThis paper seeks an explanation for the large differences in the extent and severity of poverty published respectively in van der Berg et al (2005: 2007a) and Meth (2006b). Headcounts in 2004 suggested by van der Berg et al (2007a) exceed by five million, those reported by (Meth, 2006b). Household survey respondents often under-report income (and expenditure). To address this, it is common (if not necessarily wise) to scale household survey income means until the grossed-up survey income totals are approximately the same as those yielded by the national accounts. The apparent reason for the differences between our respective poverty estimates lies in the poor quality of the income estimates in the surveys used by van der Berg et al as primary data source for estimating income distributions (by race). Scaling these survey estimates to make them consistent with the national accounts, it is argued, causes them to under-estimate the extent and severity of the poverty problem. As part of their analysis of changes in the welfare of Africans in South Africa since the advent of democracy (and in support of their claim that poverty has fallen), van der Berg et al attempt to measure changes in the racial shares of remuneration. The present paper ends with a brief examination of some of the problems of doing so using Statistics South Africa household surveys (the Labour Force Surveys) as primary data source. Welcomed by government because of the apparent progress they report in the fight against poverty, the possible consequences for anti-poverty policy (and for the poor) of the van der Berg et al figures being wrong are non-trivial.
Gary M. Berg poses with football
No full textGary M. Berg, a freshman and Pacific University football player, poses with the ball. He graduated in 1962.[back] Gary Berg, R. H., Fros
Dissertatio iuridica de condemnatione absentium
No full textquam ... pro summis in utroque iure honoribus rite consequendis publico eruditorum examini submittit Leonardus Fridericus Voit a Berg Augusta Vindelicus, die ... Iunii, an. M. DC. XCIII.Enthält 5 Cap.Datum hs. ergänzt: fir 16 IuniiDiss. iur. Basel, 169
Berg, Temma, August 28, 2018 [Interview]
No full textEmerita Professor of English Temma Berg was interviewed on August 15, 2018, by Michael Birkner about her years on the faculty of Gettysburg College, including memories of administrators and faculty, students, courses taught, and social and cultural changes.Glassick, Charles E.; Haaland, Gordon A.; Will, Katherine H.; Riggs, Janet M.Charles E. Glassick Years; Gordon A. Haaland Years; Katherine H. Will Years; Janet M. Riggs Years
Morris Berg papers, undated, 1902-1972 (bulk 1930-1960)
No full textThis collection contains the papers of Morris "Moe" Berg, who was a professional baseball player, linguist, lawyer, and international spy during WWII. Berg's papers are in the form of correspondence, contracts, telegrams, newspaper and magazine clippings.The Berg papers span the years 1924 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930 to 1960. The collection features correspondences between Berg and Major League Baseball players: Alphonse âTommyâ Thomas, Ted Lyons, Johnny Neun, and Al Schacht. Included are correspondences about Berg between U.S Generals; Major Charles G. Wagner, Col. William J. Donovan, and U.S. diplomat Laurence Steinhardt, during his OSS employment. The Collection is organized in four series: Baseball Career, WWII Activities, Personal, and Object. This collection also includes all materials from a smaller collection (P-853) that has been dissolved and incorporated. The materials formerly in P-853 include the Berg Employment Application (copies) and the Moe Berg Medal of Freedom Correspondence which can now be found in Series II: WWII Correspondence.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Morris âMoeâ Berg Papers; P-924; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.Donated by Irwin M. Berg,Donated by Linda McCarthy,Donated by George Blumenthal of the Jewish Sports ArchivesFinding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.far031
M. Christian Hoffmanns Berg-Probe: Oder Reichsteinischer Göldner Esel
No full textM. CHRISTIAN HOFFMANNS BERG-PROBE: ODER REICHSTEINISCHER GÖLDNER ESEL
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Totalitarianism and geography: L.S. Berg and the defence of an academic discipline in the age of Stalin
No full textIn considering the complex relationship between science and politics, the article focuses upon the career of the eminent Russian scholar, Lev Semenovich Berg (1876–1950), one of the leading geographers of the Stalin period. Already before the Russian Revolution, Berg had developed a naturalistic notion of landscape geography which later appeared to contradict some aspects of Marxist–Leninist ideology. Based partly upon Berg's personal archive, the article discusses the effects of the 1917 revolution, the radical changes which Stalin's cultural revolution (from the late 1920s) brought upon Soviet science, and the attacks made upon Berg and his concept of landscape geography thereafter. The ways in which Berg managed to defend his notion of geography (sometimes in surprisingly bold ways) are considered. It is argued that geography's position under Stalin was different from that of certain other disciplines in that its ideological disputes may have been regarded as of little significance by the party leaders, certainly by comparison with its practical importance, thus providing a degree of ‘freedom’ for some geographers at least analogous to that which has been described by Weiner (1999. <i>A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachev</i>. Berkeley: University of California Press) for conservationists. It is concluded that Berg and others successfully upheld a concept of scientific integrity and limited autonomy even under Stalinism, and that, in an era of ‘Big Science’, no modernizing state could or can afford to emasculate these things entirely
A Mr. M. Hulsebos and P. Van Den Berg Have Written to the Editor of De Hope
No full textA Mr. M. Hulsebos and P. Van Den Berg have written to the editor of De Hope which appeared in the January 20 issue giving a description of the Amelia Colony which Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte has promoted. The land is good, the climate is pleasant, and people are friendly. Anyone willing to work can make good progress there.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1860s/1492/thumbnail.jp
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