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Letter to the Editor/Erratum
No full textWiig, Øystein, Gjertz, Ian, Lydersen, Christian, Stewart, Robert E. A., Ready, Elspeth, Monchot, Hervé (2016): Letter to the Editor/Erratum. Anthropozoologica 51 (1): 67-69, DOI: 10.5252/az2016n1a
sj-docx-1-jcc-10.1177_00220221231155105 – Supplemental material for An Ethnographic Model of Stress and Stress Management in Two Canadian Inuit Communities
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jcc-10.1177_00220221231155105 for An Ethnographic Model of Stress and Stress Management in Two Canadian Inuit Communities by Peter Collings, Elspeth Ready and Oswaldo M. Medina-Ramírez in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology</p
Valuing Transgenic Cotton Technologies Using a Risk/Return Framework
No full textStochastic Efficiency with Respect to a Function (SERF) is used to rank transgenic cotton technology groups and place an upper and lower bound on their value. Yield and production data from replicated plot experiments are used to build cumulative distribution functions of returns for nontransgenic, Roundup Ready, Bollgard, and stacked gene cotton cultivars. Analysis of Arkansas data indicated that the stacked gene and Roundup Ready technologies would be preferred by a large number of risk neutral and risk averse producers as long as the costs of the technology and seed are below the lower bounds calculated in this manuscript.cotton, financial risk, market value, SERF, transgenic, Agribusiness, Crop Production/Industries, Risk and Uncertainty, Q12, Q16,
Democratic oversight and the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme in Europe
No full textOne of the many findings that the inquiry about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme has revealed is that the Agency – when almost obliged to delocalize detainees from US bases abroad following the Pentagon’s reluctance to continue such a programme – had carefully chosen its partners over the world on the criteria of absence of accountability and effective oversight of these specific services by their national authorities. They have been more successful than NGOs in ranking secret services in Europe (and beyond) that have the worst practices in terms of human rights records and those that have potential to betray their own politicians when US national security interests are at stake. It has been suggested by many academics, after operation Stay Behind and the follow-up Gladio, that some secret services in Europe were ready, if given specific rewards in terms of money and technology, to consider their loyalty to the “big brother” of the US as more important for the security of the West than their loyalty and strict obedience to their own national governments, especially if these were not in alignment with US and NATO official positions
Democratic oversight and the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme in Europe
No full textOne of the many findings that the inquiry about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme has revealed is that the Agency – when almost obliged to delocalize detainees from US bases abroad following the Pentagon’s reluctance to continue such a programme – had carefully chosen its partners over the world on the criteria of absence of accountability and effective oversight of these specific services by their national authorities. They have been more successful than NGOs in ranking secret services in Europe (and beyond) that have the worst practices in terms of human rights records and those that have potential to betray their own politicians when US national security interests are at stake. It has been suggested by many academics, after operation Stay Behind and the follow-up Gladio, that some secret services in Europe were ready, if given specific rewards in terms of money and technology, to consider their loyalty to the “big brother” of the US as more important for the security of the West than their loyalty and strict obedience to their own national governments, especially if these were not in alignment with US and NATO official positions
Sharing-based social capital associated with harvest production and wealth in the Canadian Arctic
No full textSocial institutions that facilitate sharing and redistribution may help mitigate the impact of resource shocks. In the North American Arctic, traditional food sharing may direct food to those who need it and provide a form of natural insurance against temporal variability in hunting returns within households. Here, network properties that facilitate resource flow (network size, quality, and density) are examined in a country food sharing network comprising 109 Inuit households from a village in Nunavik (Canada), using regressions to investigate the relationships between these network measures and household socioeconomic attributes. The results show that although single women and elders have larger networks, the sharing network is not structured to prioritize sharing towards households with low food availability. Rather, much food sharing appears to be driven by reciprocity between high-harvest households, meaning that poor, low-harvest households tend to have less sharing-based social capital than more affluent, high-harvest households. This suggests that poor, low-harvest households may be more vulnerable to disruptions in the availability of country food.</div
Valentine. Getting Ready for Business
No full textA Cupid figure is sharpening his arrows. Text: Getting ready for business. Date is approximate.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/romance_revelry/1004/thumbnail.jp
Book review of Not Ready for Prime Time, which was written by Portland author,
No full textBook review of Not Ready for Prime Time, which was written by Portland author, actor and playwright Brent Askari and was published by Carroll & Graff
Is Arizona college ready?
No full textabstract: The Arizona Community Foundation College Readiness Report provides a real-world indicator of how well Maricopa County high schools are preparing their graduates for postsecondary success. For the class of 2009, 76% of Maricopa County high school graduates were college-ready in English and approximately 46% were college ready in Mathematics.Policy points ; volume 3, issue 2The Arizona Indicators Panel is a partnership of Arizona State University, The Arizona Republic, Arizona Community Foundation, Valley of the Sun United Way, and the Arizona Dept. of Commerce
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