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[News Clip: Poll tax]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Tarrant county residents paying their poll tax. Robert L. Brooks and Mrs. Harold Davis are among the first to pay their taxes
Estimating income poverty and inequality from the Gallup World Poll. The case of Latin America and the Caribbean
No full textThis paper takes advantage of a new source of information – the Gallup World Poll 2006 – to estimate and characterize income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to those in other regions of the world. The Gallup survey has the advantage of being conducted in over 130 nations with almost the same questionnaire in all countries, and then it stands as a complement to national household surveys for international comparison purposes.Multidimensional poverty measurement, deprivation, counting approach, dimension adjusted headcount ratio, ordinal data
The case of Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877-1939): A German-Jewish geneticist, eugenicist, twin researcher, and victim of the Nazis
No full textThis paper uses a reconstruction of the life and career of Heinrich Poll as a window into developments and professional relationships in the biological sciences in Germany in the period from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Poll's intellectual work involved an early transition from morphometric physical anthropology to comparative evolutionary studies, and also found expression in twin research - a field in which he was an acknowledged early pioneer. His advocacy of eugenics led to participation in state-sponsored committees convened to advise on social policy, one of which debated sterilisation and made recommendations that led eventually to the establishment of the notorious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. However, his status as a prominent geneticist and, in particular, as a eugenicist had an ironic and ultimately tragic dimension. Heinrich Poll was of Jewish birth, and this resulted in his career being destroyed by an application of the population policies he had helped put in place
Impact measures for libraries and information services
No full textPURPOSE - To demonstrate the importance of impact / outcome research in libraries.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH - The paper gives an overview of purposes and methods used in impact research and illustrates this through project experiences.
FINDINGS - Various projects worldwide are trying to prove that use of library services can positively influence skills and competences, attitudes and behaviour of users. The benefits that users experience by using library services can be assessed in terms of knowledge gained, higher information literacy, higher academic or professional success, social inclusion, and increase in individual well-being.
RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS - The main problem of impact research is, that influences on an individual are manifold and that therefore it is difficult to trace changes and improvements back to the library. The paper shows methods that are tested and used at the present. More investigation is needed to identify methods that could be used to show a library’s overall impact or to develop measures that would permit benchmarking between institutions.
PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS - The paper shows practical examples of impact assessment, covering “soft” methods like surveys, interviews, focus groups, observation and quantitative methods like tests, analysis of publications, or usage data.
ORIGINALITY/VALUE - The paper acquaints libraries with a topic that is not yet well known and, by showing practical examples, demonstrates how libraries can attempt to assess their impact
[Stammbuch Henriette Knispel] / Henriette Knispel. L. W. Wittich. T. V. Poll
No full text[STAMMBUCH HENRIETTE KNISPEL] / HENRIETTE KNISPEL. L. W. WITTICH. T. V. POLL
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Data Mining in an Electronic Poll (e-Poll) System
No full textThis paper introduces the Final Year Project entitled Data Mining in an
Electronic Poll (e-Poll) System, with the problem being how the use of Data Mining
in an Online Poll System can help managers to obtain statistics of customer feedback
or opinions to help achieve their company objectives. The project's objectives are to
conduct study on the use of Data Mining for an e-Poll system and how it affects the
decision of system owners, to design a Data Mart for the Poll that will allow
effortless management of the system's information, and lastly, to produce a working
prototype of the system that allows capturing and retrieval of poll participation
information from store members. The procedures identified to accomplish these tasks
are by going through literature sources to better understand the proper tools and
technique in the development of the system, by observing current online polling
systems and online stores, and by creating a functional prototype of the e-Poll system
to capture poll participation information in order for analysis to be performed unto
them using Data Mining tools. Through the development of this system, the author
finds that Data Mining offers managers to transform their raw data into useful data,
save time in uncovering data trends and analyze vast amounts of data at a time.
Proper design of the Data Mart using Dimensional Modeling or Star Schema allows
optimal query performance and greater understandability without any loss of
information. The e-Poll design allows correlation of the poll participant's feedback to
their personal information, allowing proper analysis and a gateway for managers to
gather potentially important information from all or a sample of their customers,
regardless of geographical boundaries and/or time.
Keywords: Data mimng, e-Poll system, online stores, Data Mart, segmentation,
classification, analysis
Exit poll – Its History, Function and Specifity
No full textW artykule Autor prezentuje historię oraz funkcje badań exit poll, a także zalety i wady takiego sposobu analizowania zachowań wyborczych.
Badania exit poll są współcześnie wykorzystywane nie tylko do predykcji wyników wyborów (do czego były pierwotnie projektowane), ale służą również weryfikacji uczciwości elekcji, analizie uwarunkowań zachowań wyborczych i wyznaczaniu kierunków działań politycznych na przyszłość.
Autor zwraca uwagę na następujące zalety exit poll: a) ograniczenie koniunkturalizmu deklaracji powyborczych w zakresie preferencji, opinii i deklarowanej partycypacji w wyborach; b) ograniczenie błędów wynikających z niedoskonałości pamięci; c) uodpornienie na ewentualne zmiany postaw i opinii w czasie; oraz d) zapewnienie kontaktu z wyborcami, którzy dla typowych badań sondażowych są trudno dostępni.
Autor omawia także wady interesującego go sposobu badań, do których należą: błąd pokrycia populacji, błąd nierealizowalności próby; błąd próby i błąd pomiaru.In the article the Author presents history and functions of exit poll and also advantages and disadvantages of such a method of analysing voting behaviour.
Nowadays exit poll is used not only to predict voting results (as it was originally meant to), but also to verify transparency of election, to analyse conditioning of voting behaviour and to specify directions of future political actions.
The Author draws attention to the following advantages of exit poll: a) limiting opportunism of post-poll declarations within the range of preferences, opinions and declared participation in polls; b) limiting the range of mistakes resulting from the deficiency of memory; c) resisting possible changes of attitudes and opinions in time; and d) ensuring contact with electorate who are hardly accessible for typical opinion poll.
The Author also discusses disadvantages of the method of study in question, among them: coverage error, nonresponse error, sampling error and measurement error
The popular politics of the poll tax: An active citizenship of the left?
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 19/10/2000.The Community Charge (poll tax) was seen by both its supporters and opponents alike as an attempt to promote the British New Right's concept of responsible active citizenship in local politics. The reaction of different groups of citizens to the tax is explored through a detailed case study of events in the London Borough of Ealing, an archetypal London suburb. Here, as in most urban areas, organised anti-poll tax protestors clashed with MPs, councillors and the local magistracy, who played a large role in enforcing the measure. It shows how the protestors attempted to mobilise a 'moral community' built around the idea of 'fair' taxation and promote a campaign of civil disobedience to force abolition. This in turn compelled local actors to make principled choices about the enforcement of a law of which many of them strongly disapproved. The protestors' tactics seemed to strike a popular chord and at least a fifth of all Ealing charge-payers (and eight million people nationally) failed to pay the tax in 1990/91. However, the detailed evidence also suggests that non-payment can best be seen as a mass expression of bloody mindedness, rather than a concerted and organised campaign of civil disobedience. Nevertheless the protests had important implications for the practise of left-wing citizenship in contemporary Britain and served to highlight growing divisions between the mainstream and radical Left. Previously published academic accounts have addressed the 'high' politics of the poll tax. The thesis explores instead the 'popular' politics of the poll tax crisis in a suitably local setting and so redresses an imbalance in the literature. It therefore makes an original contribution to knowledge and understanding of the relationship between conventional means of political participation, radical popular protest movements and competing concepts of citizenship
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Poll Taxes Levied By States
No full textThis report documents how every state deals with the poll tax, and the effect of the poll tax on the voting rights of citizens
Sardinella rouxi Poll 1953
No full textSardinella rouxi (Poll, 1953) CAS 224092 (4 specimens), Praia das Agulhas, Príncipe Island. Dense swarms of this species were commonly seen near the pier of Bom Bom islet, Príncipe (SMNS 24245, 1 specimen). Another specimen was obtained from a fisherman at Lagoa Azul (SMNS 25240, 1 specimen).Published as part of Peter Wirtz, Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronald Fricke, Joao Luiz Gasparini, Tomio Iwamoto, Luiz Rocha, Claudio L. S. Sampaio & Ulrich K. Schliewen, 2007, Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update., pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 1523 on page
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