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The Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories
No full textThis article arises from work by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Working Group examining mechanisms to roll out audit and certification services for digital repositories in the United Kingdom. Our attempt to develop a program for applying audit and certification processes and tools took as its starting point the RLG-NARA Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories. Our intention was to appraise critically the checklist and conceive a means of applying its mechanics within a diverse range of repository environments. We were struck by the realization that while a great deal of effort has been invested in determining the characteristics of a 'trusted digital repository', far less effort has concentrated on the ways in which the presence of the attributes can be demonstrated and their qualities measured. With this in mind we sought to explore the role of evidence within the certification process, and to identify examples of the types of evidence (e.g., documentary, observational, and testimonial) that might be desirable during the course of a repository audit.
Capital Flight and Economic Performance
No full textCapital flight aggravates resource constraints and contributes to undermine long-term economic growth. Counterfactual calculations on the Philippines suggest that capital flight contributed to lower the quality of long-term economic growth. Sustained capital flight over three decades means that capital flight had a role for the Philippines to lose the opportunities to achieve economic takeoff. Unless decisive policy actions are taken up to address enduring capital flight and manage the macroeconomy more effectively, the Philippines remains caught in the perpetuity of crises, its economy hollowed-out, the people trapped in poverty, and once again, the country is frustrated from realizing a takeoff.Capital flight; economic growth; Philippines
Ross and Keith Smith Memorial
No full textMemorial to Ross Smith Pt Darwin 1st Aerial Flight England to Aust Memorial to Ross and Keith Smith and crew members Jim Bennett and Wally Shiers, commemorating their 29 day flight from England arriving on 10 December 1919 to Darwin in their Vickers Vimy biplane on the runway now Ross Smith Avenue, Fannie Bay. The monument still stands at the end of Ross Smith Avenue.Sporn, Stuart W
Measuring capital flight : a case study of Mexico
No full textThe authors show how the various methods commonly used to measure capital flight produce vastly different estimates (with a 100 percent difference between the lowest and the highest, in Mexico's case). They emphasize the importance of the conceptual approach to its measurement. First of all, they did not try to separate normal capital flows from capital flight. A capital shift outward because of expected taxation is as much a response to anticipated developments in rate of return as is a shift out in response to lower interest rates at home. Nor is it satisfactory to directly measure capital flight by taking short-term asset changes and the balance of errors and omissions from the balance of payments. Neither is necessarily related to the unreported private accumulation of foreign assets. They chose the residual approach, which assumes that capital inflows in the form of increases in external indebtedness and foreign direct investment should finance either the current account or reserve accumulation; any shortfall in reported use can be attributed to capital flight. Implementing the residual approach requires careful data selection and several adjustments. The authors contend that: introducing debt stock data into the analysis - instead of the changes in debt recorded directly in the balance of payments - requires many difficult adjustments and should be avoided; foreign asset changes of public corporations must be subtracted; rather than eliminate interest received on foreign assets from the current account, as some have done, earnings on private assets held abroad should be considered part of the flight capital that might have been repatriated, given different incentives and macroeconomic conditions; and the effect on capital flight of the faking of trade invoices should be assessed, since import overinvoicing and export underinvoicing can be used to channel capital abroad. They demonstrate the empirical importance of these choices with a new set of capital flight estimates for Mexico, based on the recommendations they present. They contrast the results of this approach with those of other approaches, to demonstrate the effect of conceptual choices.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Settlement of Investment Disputes
Capital Flight and Investment Dynamics in Nigeria: A Time Series Analysis (1970-2006)
No full textThis study critically examines the implications of capital flight on investment growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2006, because of the consequential effect it has on economic growth. The time series data properties incorporated were examined using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root test and the results revealed that Investment, capital flight, interest rate and exchange rate were stationary at levels excluding exchange rate found to be integrated at first difference. The Augmented Engle-Granger (AEG) co-integration test employed to investigate the dynamic relationship between capital flight and investment level in Nigeria, revealed that there exist long-run interaction. Though, capital flight was found to exert positive but insignificant effect on investment growth during the review period. While, the short-run dynamic interaction as a result of the structural instability in the long-run was captured by the Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) model which was found inestimable due to the high collinearity existing among the incorporated variables. Policy recommendations were proffered base on the research findings.Capital flight, Investment behaviour, Long-run, Stationarity, ECM, Cointegration, Nigeria
, Ross Laird
No full textRoss Laird, PhD RCC is a clinical consultant focused on trauma, addictions, and social vulnerability. He is also a best-selling author, award-winning scholar and educator, and clinical supervisor for BC’s largest licensed non-profit program in addictions, trauma, and mental health. Dr. Laird focuses particularly on traumatized and marginalized client populations — those navigating homelessness, mental illness, and complex trauma — and provides professional development training for organizations that serve them: social service agencies, first responders, cultural groups, nonprofits, and educational institutions. He also works extensively with organizations in arts and culture and Indigenous communities to develop trauma-informed practices for cultural programming, museum exhibitions, and community initiatives
Start of passenger flight in Wright Model A Flyer
No full textLeft rear view of the start of a passenger flight in a Wright Model A Flyer. Soldiers and other spectators are observing flight preparations. This image is attributed to W. R. Ross, Washington (D.C.).https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/1917/thumbnail.jp
Gay, Ross : poetry reading; September 13th, 2019
No full textContents:
All tracks Poetry reading [complete]
Track 01 Introduction
Track 02 The Mark of Lights
Track 03 To My Best Friend’s Big Sister
Track 04 An Ode To Buttoning And Unbuttoning My Shirt
Track 05 The High-Five From Strangers Eccetera
Track 06 To the Fig Tree On 9th and Christian
Track 07 Cup Liking
Track 08 An Abundance of Public Toilets
Track 09 Opera Singer
Track 10 Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Track 11  Q&A
Digital Projects SAN: folder location for wav and mp3 files: J:\Elliston Working\9-13-2019 (Ross, Gay
Ross Gay, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRoss Gay is the author of Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down. His work has appeared in several literary journals, including American Poetry Review, The Sun, and Ploughshares. He is an orchardist and kettlebell instructor. He teaches at Indiana University and in the Drew University low-residency MFA program
Author interview: Q and A with Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross, authors of Parenting for a Digital Future
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross about their new book, Parenting for a Digital Future, which draws on interviews and a national survey with UK parents to explore how hopes and fears about digital technologies are shaping parenting today
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