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    Statement that Nelly Shorter is being unjustly held in slavery by Jason Philips, August 9, 1808

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    Statement that Nelly Shorter is being unjustly held in slavery by Jason Philips, [Frederick County], August 9, 1808. Signed M. Lawrence, attorney

    Jason M. Solomon delivers talk on regulatory theory and practice

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    Assistant Professor Jason M. Solomon delivered a talk titled New Governance: Blurring Boundaries in Regulatory Theory and Practice at the Transatlantic Conference on New Governance and the Transformation of Law held at the University of Wisconsin in November. He also served on the steering committee that organized the conference

    Jason M. Solomon delivers talk on regulatory theory and practice

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    Assistant Professor Jason M. Solomon delivered a talk titled New Governance: Blurring Boundaries in Regulatory Theory and Practice at the Transatlantic Conference on New Governance and the Transformation of Law held at the University of Wisconsin in November. He also served on the steering committee that organized the conference

    Legal regulation of prices in Tanzania : an examination of the Regulation of Prices Act 1973 as a tool of social change and development

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    Drawing mainly from the Tazanian experience this study attempts to review the principal issues in the legal regulation of prices, by identifying both the general and specific importance of law in this respect. The position I shall present is that legal control is both necessary and desirable for the welfare and social development of the people. The key issue is whether the market-place will perform its function satisfactory: Will it produce socially desirable results? If it will not, why will it not? And will legal regulation help to do the job a little better? In an attempt to answer some of these questions, first of all, outline the basic issues raised by the study in the first Chapter. Then I examine the general case for price controls - the theory about the controls, the motives and reasons for their imposition and the manner in which they are effected in different economic systems. This is done in Chapter Two. Relying most on the available literature on the regulatory process, this Chapter also looks at the relationship between law and economic regulation and concludes that the effectiveness of law depends on the existence of a conducive socio-economic environment. In Chapter Three I describe the past record of price control laws in Tanzania. I conclude that despite the failure in the past, the controls still constitute an important policy instrument in the transition to socialism. In Chapters Four and Five I describe the manner in which the current regulations are implemented and the problems encountered. I conclude that the operational performance of the controls is constrained by internal and external influences on the economic and political life of the country. In the concluding Chapter I assess the impact of the controls: Do the controls work? Do people buy goods at the controlled prices? Why today the controls are almost popularly accepted as worthwhile? I conclude that while there may be no measurable economic gains derived by consumers, the controls have a stabilising effect on the social and political front. In the final section I argue that the future success of the legislation depends on creating a correspondence between the economic structures and the control system. What makes the controls ineffective is not so much defects in the law but the contradictions between the orientation of and functioning of the economic system and the ideological commitment

    Cade presents at the Texas A&M School of Law

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    Assistant Professor Jason A. Cade presented Immigration Equity\u27s Last Stand: Sanctuaries and the Rule of Law at the 4th Biennial Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference held at the Texas A&M University School of Law during May

    Self-archiving practice and the influence of publisher policies in the social sciences

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    Authors in different disciplines exhibit very different behaviours on the so-called ‘green’ road to open access, i.e. self-archiving. This study looks at the self-archiving behaviour of authors publishing in leading journals in six social science disciplines. It tests the hypothesis that authors are self-archiving according to the norms of their respective disciplines rather than following self-archiving policies of publishers, and that, as a result, they are self-archiving significant numbers of publisher PDF versions. It finds significant levels of self-archiving, as well as significant self-archiving of the publisher PDF version, in all the disciplines investigated. Publishers’ self-archiving policies have no influence on author self-archiving practice

    Review of <i>Second Temple Jewish Paideia in Context</i>, edited by Jason M. Zurawski and Gabriele Boccaccini

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    Despite the impressive strides made in the past century in the understanding of Second Temple Jewish history and the strong scholarly interest in paideia within ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antique Christian cultures, the nature of Jewish paideia during the period has, until recently, received surprisingly little attention. The essays collected here were first offered for discussion at the Fifth Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, held in Naples, Italy, from June 30 – July 4, 2015, the purpose of which was to gain greater insight into the diversity of views of Jewish education during the period, both in Judea and Diaspora communities, by viewing them in light of their contemporary Greco-Roman backgrounds and Ancient Near Eastern influences. Together, they represent the broad array of approaches and specialties required to comprehend this complex and multi-faceted subject, and they demonstrate the fundamental importance of the topic for a fuller understanding of the period. The volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the history and culture of the Jewish people during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, ancient education, and Greek and Roman history. Contributors include Samuel L. Adams, Sean A. Adams, Luca Arcari, David A. deSilva, Jason von Ehrenkrook, Kathy Ehrensperger, Matthew Goff, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Patrick Pouchelle, William M. Schniedewind, Gregory E. Sterling, Frank Ueberschaer, Elisa Uusimäki, Benjamin G. Wright, and Jason M. Zurawski

    Intern experience at Honeywell, Inc., Large Information Systems Division: an internship report

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    Includes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-173)This report describes the author's internship assignment at Honeywell Inc. - Large Information Systems Division from January, 1982 through August, 1982. The purpose of the assignment was to fulfill the internship requirements of the Doctor of Engineering Program. During the internship, the author held the position of VLSI design engineer, where he worked on a predefined project. The project's objective was to evaluate how circuit designs based on an advanced CMOS process, can be applied to hardware products at LISD. The internship allowed the author to successfully apply the MOS circuit design training, which ws developed at Texas A&M, to an industrial project. In addition, involvement in different activities and exposure to the various problems not encountered in academia, made this internship an invaluable experience

    Projection methods and scenarios for public and private pension information

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    Public pensions - the primary pillar of old-age income provision - will, in the future, be less generous than they have been in the past, in particular owing to the impact of demographic change. The pension gap is supposed to be plugged by the second and third pillars of pension provision. However, people require reliable planning information if they are to exercise greater individual responsibility. It is therefore absolutely essential that adequate information is made available about the level of pension benefits that will be generated by each pillar of old-age pension provision. This paper outlines a number of different means of presenting the level of future pensions and the assumptions on which such extrapolations are necessarily based. Our work is based on an assumed average rate of inflation of 1.5% and an average rate of real income growth not exceeding 1.5%. This last figure is derived from calculations made in the framework of a macroeconomic simulation model. This model also shows that while the funded pillar of old-age pension provision is not entirely immune to population aging, it is not substantially threatened by a substantial decrease in stock market prices, the so-called "asset meltdown".
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