106,473 research outputs found
Risk and the Limits of Governance. Exploring varied patterns of risk-based governance across Europe.
No full textRothstein H, Borraz O, Huber M. Risk and the Limits of Governance. Exploring varied patterns of risk-based governance across Europe. Regulation and Governance. 2013;7(2):215-235
The Risk Organisation. Or how organizations reconcile themselves to failure
No full textHuber M, Rothstein H. The Risk Organisation. Or how organizations reconcile themselves to failure. Journal of Risk Research. 2013;16(6):651-675
A Theory of Risk Colonisation: the spiralling logics of societal and institutional risk
No full textRothstein H, Huber M, Gaskell G. A Theory of Risk Colonisation: the spiralling logics of societal and institutional risk. Economy and Society. 2006;35(1):91-112
Homesteader, Pennington County
No full text3.5 x 5 b/w negative, man standing in a vacant field wearing a hat, denim pants with suspenders, long sleeve shirt, and carrying a canePurchased from Library of Congress, 1976. RA-4515-D.S-H 82.27 Homesteader - One of the original homesteaders in Pennington County, SD. A. Rothstein photo 5/1936
GENETICS AND LIFE INSURANCE: MEDICAL UNDERWRITING AND SOCIAL POLICY
No full textSeries foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contributors - - Ch. 1. Public attitudes / Mark A. Rothstein and Carlton A. Hornung -- Ch. 2. The insurer perspective / Roberta B. Meyer -- Ch. 3. The economics of risk selection / Arnold A. Dicke -- Ch. 4. Medical underwriting / Robert K. Gleeson -- Ch. 5. Genetic risks and mortality rates / J. Alexander Lowden -- Ch. 6. The functions of insurance and the fairness of genetic underwriting / Norman Daniels -- Ch. 7. Perspectives of consumers and genetics professionals / Wendy R. Uhlmann and Sharon F. Terry -- Ch. 8. A comparative international overview / Bartha Maria Knoppers, Beatrice Godard, and Yann Joly -- Ch. 9. Antitrust implications of insurers' collaborative standard setting / Robert H. Jerry II -- Ch. 10. A consumer agenda / J. Robert Hunter -- Ch. 11. Policy recommendations / Mark A. Rothstein -- Appendix: life insurance and genetic testing general population -- Survey Questionnaire -- Inde
Student Sorting and Bias in Value Added Estimation: Selection on Observables and Unobservables
No full textNon-random assignment of students to teachers can bias value added estimates of teachers’ causal effects. Rothstein (2008) shows that typical value added models indicate large counter-factual effects of 5th grade teachers on students’ 4th grade learning, implying that assignments do not satisfy the imposed assumptions. This paper quantifies the resulting biases in estimates of 5th grade teachers’ causal effects from several value added models, under varying assumptions about the assignment process. Under selection on observables, models for gain scores without controls or with only a single lagged score control are subject to important bias, but models with controls for the full test score history are nearly free of bias. I consider several scenarios for selection on unobservables, using the across-classroom variance of observed variables to calibrate each. Results indicate that even well-controlled models may be substantially biased, with the magnitude of the bias depending on the amount of information available for use in classroom assignments.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
GENETIC TIES AND THE FAMILY: THE IMPACT OF PATERNITY TESTING ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN
No full textList of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: the many-stranded tapestry of parenthood / Gregory E. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray -- Pt. I. Family values: the shifting ground of the parent-child relationship -- Ch. 1. Paternity palaver in the media: selling identity tests / Dorothy Nelkin -- Ch. 2. Three meanings of parenthood / Thomas H. Murray -- Ch. 3. Ethical issues in DNA-based paternity testing / Jeffrey Blustein -- Ch. 4. Paternity testing, family relationships, and child well-being / Diane Scott-Jones -- Ch. 5. Family therapists and parentage testing / Dan Wulff -- Ch. 6. From genes, marriage, and money to nurture: redefining fatherhood / Nancy E. Dowd -- Pt. II. Parentage in American family law: trends and recommendations -- Ch. 7 Duped dads and discarded children: a historical perspective on DNA testing in child custody cases / Michael Grossberg -- Ch. 8. Guiding principles for picking parents / Elizabeth Bartholet -- Ch. 9. Reforming American paternity procedures / Jeffrey A. Parness -- Ch. 10. Disestablishment suits: daddy no more? / Mary Anderlik Majumder -- Ch. 11. Assisted reproductive technology and the challenge for paternity laws / Lori B. Andrews -- Ch. 12. Translating values and interests into the law of parentage determination / Mark A. Rothstein -- Inde
Counting, Measuring And The Semantics Of Classifiers
No full textThis paper makes two central claims. The first is that there is an intimate and non-trivial relation between the mass/count distinction on the one hand and the measure/individuation distinction on the other: a (if not the) defining property of mass nouns is that they denote sets of entities which can be measured, while count nouns denote sets of entities which can be counted. Crucially, this is a difference in grammatical perspective and not in ontological status. The second claim is that the mass/count distinction between two types of nominals has its direct correlate at the level of classifier phrases: classifier phrases like two bottles of wine are ambiguous between a counting, or individuating, reading and a measure reading. On the counting reading, this phrase has count semantics, on the measure reading it has mass semantics.ReferencesBorer, H. 1999. ‘Deconstructing the construct’. In K. Johnson & I. Roberts (eds.) ‘Beyond Principles and Parameters’, 43–89. Dordrecht: Kluwer publications.Borer, H. 2008. ‘Compounds: the view from Hebrew’. In R. Lieber & P. Stekauer (eds.) ‘The Oxford Handbook of Compounds’, 491–511. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Carlson, G. 1977b. Reference to Kinds in English. Ph.D. thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.Carlson, G. 1997. Quantifiers and Selection. Ph.D. thesis, University of Leiden.Carslon, G. 1977a. ‘Amount relatives’. Language 53: 520–542.Chierchia, G. 2008. ‘Plurality of mass nouns and the notion of ‘semantic parameter”. In S. Rothstein (ed.) ‘Events and Grammar’, 53–103. Dordrecht: Kluwer.Danon, G. 2008. ‘Definiteness spreading in the Hebrew construct state’. Lingua 118: 872–906.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.05.012Gillon, B. 1992. ‘Toward a common semantics for English count and mass nouns’. Linguistics and Philosophy 15: 597–640.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00628112Grosu, A. & Landman, F. 1998. ‘Strange relatives of the third kind’. Natural Language Semantics 6: 125–170.http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008268401837Heim, I. 1987. ‘Where does the Definiteness Restriction Apply? Evidence from the Definiteness of Variables’. In A. ter Meulen & E. Reuland (eds.) ‘The Linguistic Representation of (In)definiteness’, 21–42. Cambridge: MIT Press.Krifka, M. 1989. ‘Nominal reference, temporal constitution and quantification in event semantics’. In R. Bartsch, J. van Bentham & Peter van Emde Boas (eds.) ‘The Linguistic Representation of (In)definiteness’, 75–155. Dordrecht: Foris.Landman, F. 2003. ‘Predicate-argument mismatches and the Adjectival theory of indefinites’. In M. Coene & Y. d’Hulst (eds.) ���From NP to DP Volume 1: The Syntax and Semantics of Noun Phrases’, 211–237. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Landman, F. 2004. Indefinites and the Type of Sets. Oxford: Blackwell.http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470759318Link, G. 1983. ‘The logical analysis of plurals and mass terms: a lattice-theoretic approach’. In Rainer Bäuerle, Urs Egli & Arnim von Stechow (eds.) ‘Meaning, Use and the Interpretation of Language’, 303–323. Berlin: de Gruyter.Partee, B. H. 2010b. ‘Bare ‘milk’ in ‘glass of milk’ in English and Russian’. Handout, Workshop on Bare NPs, Bar-Ilan University.Partee, B. H. & Borschev, V. 2010a. ‘Sortal, relational and functional interpretations of nouns and Russian container constructions’. To appear in Journal of Semantics.Pires de Oliveira, R. & Rothstein, S. 2011. ‘Bare singulars are mass in Brazilian Portuguese’. To appear in Lingua.Ritter, E. 1991. ‘Two functional categories in noun phrases: evidence from Modern Hebrew’. In S. Rothstein (ed.) ‘Perspectives on Phrase Structure’, 37–62. New York: Academic Press. Syntax and Semantics vol 25.Rothstein, S. 2009. ‘Individuating and Measure Readings of Classifier Constructions: Evidence from Modern Hebrew’. Brill Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics I: 106–145.http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187666309X12491131130783Rothstein, S. 2010. ‘Counting and the mass/count distinction’. Journal of Semantics 27, no. 3: 343–397.http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffq007Rothstein, S. ms. ‘Bare nouns, mass nouns and the universal grinder’. Ms based on talk presented at the Workshop on Bare Nouns, Université Paris VII, November 2009.Selkirk, L. 1977. ‘Some remarks on noun phrase structure’. In P. Culicover, T. Wasow & A. Akmajian (eds.) ‘Formal Syntax’, 285–316. New York: Academic Press.Shlonsky, U. 2004. ‘The form of Semitic nominals’. Lingua 114.12: 1465–1526.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2003.09.019</p
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