30,526 research outputs found
Measuring mortality : a self-teaching guide to elementary measures
No full textThis paper is a preliminary document and is primarily expository in nature. The author would appreciate it if readers would notify him of any errors in fact or explanation they discover.For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/</a
The mark of excellence: The UWI Vice-Chancellor's awards for excellence 2016-2017
No full textThis collection comprises newspaper articles, advertisements, images and announcements from newspapers (local and regional) which highlight the activities of The University of the West Indies. The collection has been compiled by the Marketing & Communications Office of The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Meet the Half-Marathon Winners
No full textThis collection comprises newspaper articles, advertisements, images and announcements from newspapers (local and regional) which highlight the activities of The University of the West Indies. The collection has been compiled by the Marketing & Communications Office of The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Western Samoa and American Samoa : history, culture and communication
No full text"Draft: not for quotation, citation or reproduction without permission of author"--t.p.For more about the East-West Center, see https://www.eastwestcenter.org/Informed decisions on implementation of new communication systems are better made with a thorough understanding of the society's existing patterns of communication and their interrelationship with political, social and economic factors in historical context. This paper provides necessary background information for both Western Samoa and American Samoa based on the existing literature. It is a first step in providing essential information for future field research projects that will explore communication behavior.Introduction -- Geography, history and external communication in Samoa -- Ethnography -- Symbolic communication -- Modern communication in Samoa
The politics of monetary sector cooperation among the Economic Community of West African States members
No full textThe author tries to explain why monetary cooperation and integration have been difficulty to achieve among member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He shows how different interest groups--both members and nonmembers--have over time influenced policies and positions on various ECOWAS member states. Unfortunately, most negotiations for cooperation among ECOWAS member states have a much better monetary cooperation and integration program, mainly because of France's active support and participation in negotiations, mediation, and consensus building. Unfortunately, Nigeria-which has been the main force behind bilingual regional integration in West Africa--has a different agenda from France. Its promotion of a bilingual economic grouping in West Africa was in part an attempt to reduce France's influence in West Africa, so France is unlikely to allow economic and monetary cooperation and integration along Nigerian lines. The fact that Nigeria is still a weak state does not help. The choice for francophone West African countries is therefore between closer ties with France--which has provided development aid, ensured currency convertibility, and guaranteed monetary stability in those francophone countries--and closer ties with Nigeria (which has done none of the above for itself, much less for its neighbors). The increasing convergence of macroeconomic indices among ECOWAS member countries--which is essential for monetary cooperation and integration--has come about largely because of events outside of ECOWAS or because of externally (International Monetary Fund) imposed structural adjustment programs. France's support is essential for the development of a meaningful ECOWAS.Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Earth Sciences&GIS,Economic Theory&Research,National Governance,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,National Governance,Trade and Regional Integration,Earth Sciences&GIS,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research
The Marshall Islands : history, culture and communication
No full text"Draft: Not for Quotation, Citation or Reproduction without Permission of Author."For more about the East-West Center, see https://www.eastwestcenter.org/Policy decisions about communication system resources are an important part of controlled development in any society. Informed decisions are better made with a thorough understanding of the society's existing patterns of communication and their interrelationship with political, social and economic factors in historical context. This paper will present a concise historical overview of Marshallese culture. The purpose is to provide the essential background, based on existing literature, for future field research projects that will explore communication behavior.I. INTRODUCTION -- II, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION. Geography -- History -- Relocations (Bikini-Enewetak-Rongelap. Kwajalein) -- III. ETHNOGRAPHY. Traditional Economy. Political Organization, Social Organization and Land Tenure (Kinship. The Social Effects of Relocation). Events of the Life Cycle. Interpersonal Communication. Religion. Education -- IV. MODERN COMMUNICATION. Newspapers -- Television -- Cinema -- Radio -- Two-Way Communication -- Satellite Communication -- Modern, External Communication in the Marshalls -- Transportation -- APPENDIX I: Marshallese kinship terms
Representation of national and regional political units in a computerized world future model
No full textFor more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Recent, highly-publicized computerized world future models developed by Jay W. Forrester and by Donella H. Meadows and others have formed the basis for suggested policies that would require major changes in international and national legal rules. These models make no attempt, however, to incorporate the existing world legal structure.The author has rewritten one of these models, that by Forrester, to incorporate variables representing legal controls of international movement of population, natural resources, food, and pollution. Results from computer runs with this revised model suggest that a wide range of national policies on such questions as population growth, economic growth, and national resource usage may be compatible with world equilibrium.Appendices to the paper present FORTRAN computer programs for both the original model and the author's extended model
Directions for getting lost: or how to change your mind
No full textMark W. West (MEF Author)Architect Mark W West creates work that is incredibly delicately drawn. Here he documents the construction of his drawings, while his friend, whose name is also Mark West, contributes a commentary about the creative process behind them. The two texts reveal how the works defy the damage caused by reductive traditional architectural education and general experience, and open the viewer to a sense of greater wholeness, however disturbing this may be.WOS:000426491500018Arts and Humanities Citation IndexArticleUluslararası işbirliği ile yapılan - EVETMartYÖK - 2017-1
West, fire, archive: poems
No full textTitle appears on the title page with each word separated by a space-colon-space. Commas added for clarity.West : Fire : Archive is a poetry collection that challenges preconceived, androcentric ideas about biography, autobiography, and history fueled by the western myth of progress presented in Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier thesis." The first section focuses on mending the erasure of the life of Charmian Kittredge London, the wife of the famous author Jack London, a woman who broke gender norms, traveled the world, and wrote about it. The second section examines the act of autobiography (or what defines the author). In it, Dunkle writes through the complex grief of losing her mother and her community when it is devastated by wildfires and reflects on how these disasters echo the one that brought her family to California, the Dust Bowl. The third section questions the authenticity of the definition of recorded history as it relates to the American West.--Provided by publisher.Box 1: Biography -- Box 2: Autobiography -- Box 3: Recorded History
On aggregative economic models and population policy
No full textFor more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/The aim of this paper is to set out the requirements of a theory of optimal economic--demographic growth. There are three sections. The first is a discussion of the ethical assumptions that necessarily underlie the choice of an index of social welfare in a policy model. Economic optimization theory can and usually does take as self-evident what should be maximized. When the size of population is assumed to be influenced by policy decisions, however, the ethical bases of policy come to the forefront.The second section provides a categorization of aggregative economic-demographic models, and identifies some likely directions of advance in this presently underdeveloped field. Most of the existing literature derives from (and shares the weaknesses of) optimal capital accumulation theory, with an inordinate concern for golden ages and Pontryagin's Maximum Principle. In an appendix, the author adds a model of his own in the same tradition.The final part of the paper explores the interconnections between abstract policy models and the actual decisions that policymakers are confronted with (or make implicitly), issues discussed include the inherent strengths and limitations of policy models, and the extent to which it is useful to analyze population policy separately from "social policy at large"
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