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Greek System Stories: Fact or Fiction
No full textThis project explores the different stories and perceptions revolving around the University of Illinois Greek system, being the largest in the nation. The author seeks to answer the following questions: What magazines, movies, books or TV shows shaped student ideas of the Greek system? Did students who were interested in the Greek system also have a family member who was involved in the Greek system? How did that influence affect student perceptions of the Greek system? Why did students become members to particular houses? What activities did they do with their house? What is the role of the Greek system in university life? Based on individual interviews, this study concludes that stories surrounding the university’s Greek system influence opinions but do not deter new students from continuing to join fraternities and sororities at the University of Illinois.Submitted by David Mcdonald ([email protected]) on 2007-07-11T15:03:25Z
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iLife '05: The Missing Manual
No full textThe incomparable iLife '05 is the must-have multimedia suite for everyone who owns a Mac--and the envy of everyone who doesn't. iLife '05: The Missing Manual is the definitive iLife '05 book--and what should have come with the suite. There's no better guide to your iLife experience than the #1 bestselling Macintosh author and expert--and Missing Manual series creator--David Pogue. Totally objective and utterly in-the-know, Pogue highlights the newest features, changes, and improvements of iLife '05, covers the capabilities and limitations of each program within the suite, and delivers coun
Why ISU students use Facebook
No full textThis project explores ISU students’ use of the social networking website Facebook, and asks why students participate in Facebook. The author conducted six interviews and did participant observation by making a Facebook site as well. The results show that students use Facebook as a time filler. For example, a high rate of students used it strictly to “check-up” on others, in their own words to “creep” on them. As social networking sites continue to increase in popularity, despite all the risks involved for developing students ready to enter the business society, this study illuminates why Facebook is so appealing to ISU students.Submitted by Stephanie Renne ([email protected]) on 2007-08-22T02:47:16Z
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Representing citizens and consumers in media and communications regulation
Get PDFWhat do citizens need from the media, and how should this be regulated? Western democracies are witnessing a changing regulatory regime, from "command-andcontrol" government to discursive, multistakeholder governance. In the United Kingdom, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) is required to further the interests of citizens and consumers, which it does in part by aligning them as the citizen-consumer. What is meant by this term, and whether it captures the needs of citizens or subordinates them to those of consumers, has been contested by civil society groups as well as occasioning some soul-searching within the regulator. By triangulating a discursive analysis of the Communications Act 2003, key actor interviews with the regulator and civil society bodies, and focus groups among the public, the authors seek to understand how these terms ("citizen," "consumer," and "citizen-consumer") are used to promote stakeholder interests in the media and communications sector, not always to the benefit of citizens
Ensuring color legibility
No full textThere is little systematic, valid, quantitative data on the legibility of colored graphics. Most studies based on reading speed found that hue had no effect because they were insensitive to hue information conveyed by slow conducting parvo-cellular pathways. Measuring legibility by the number of visual pathways needed for legibility reveals the contribution of color. The legibility of 100 combinations of colored words printed on colored backgrounds are presented - based on 48,000 measurements. To ensure legibility of colored graphics, we propose a legibility standard and astandard method similar to the 20/20 system for specifying visual acuity.Source type: Prin
Bulletin No. 068 - Ration Experiments with Lambs, 1904-05
No full textBulletin No. 068 - Ration Experiments with Lambs, 1904-0
Euro area governance: What went wrong in the euro area? How to repair it? Bruegel Policy Contribution 2010/05, June 2010
Get PDFBruegel Director Jean Pisani-Ferry focuses on the institutional response to the euro area crisis with the Van Rompuy Task Force being set up to reform economic governance. The task force is due to present its progress report shortly and the author examines two basic questions in this context– what went wrong in the euro area (and the lessons learnt from this) and consequently what are the three choices for reforming governance. He explains why implementation of existing rules need to be strengthened and why the Van Rompuy Task Force should revisit the fundamental principles on which the EMU is founded and resist the temptation to solely address divergences
Author Correction: The future of Blue Carbon science
No full textCorrection to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11693-w, published online 05 September 2019.
The original version of this Article contained an error in the author affiliations.
Affiliation 24 incorrectly read ‘School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH11 4BN, UK’
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Private equity funds and hedge funds: a primer
Get PDFPrivate equity funds and hedge funds are both alternative asset classes that are continuously growing in importance. Although they have different focuses, they share some characteristics. First of all, both have or allegedly have a significant impact on the economy as well as the financial system they operate in. Therefore, the question of a potential regulation of both asset classes arises. Due to the lack of sophisticated knowledge about the differences of these asset classes, market players fear that attempts to regulate hedge funds will adversely affect private equity funds. Besides the regulatory issue, there are several other links between these two asset classes that have to be looked at. The relationship between those two asset classes is therefore of general importance. Last months' developments in the hedge fund industry (e.g. rumors about turbulences as well as hedge funds forcing the dismissal of the CEO of Deutsche Börse) have now even led to a broad public debate about private equity and hedge funds. At least in Germany the debate has been partly fueled by the fact that both types of funds are highly funded by institutional investors from abroad. Due to this the debate widened and included criticism on Anglo-Saxon style capitalism as well. In the light of the last German elections, hedge funds and private equity funds have even been compared to locusts, notorious for exhausting whole countries. However, the distinction between hedge funds and private equity funds remains very vague in this discussion, so that deep mistrust is spread among the public opinion against these new, mostly unknown and misunderstood types of investors. For this reason it is important to * discuss the arguments for or against regulation, * look at the major links between the two asset classes, * look at the major differences that exist between the asset classes, and * conceive a set of criteria to clearly distinguish between both types of funds. The purpose of this paper is to comment on possible solutions to the above mentioned tasks. It outlines preliminary thoughts and findings. Further, it comments on the steps that we think should be taken to further enhance perception of private equity funds as opposed to hedge funds from a public as well as a regulatory perspective. --Private Equity Funds,Hedge Funds
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