200,188 research outputs found
On financing global and international public goods
No full textThree dimensions of public goods--nonrivalry of benefits, the possibility of being excluded from benefits, and the technology for aggregating public supply--determine what kinds of institutions and transnational actions are required for their provision and financing. For some public goods--especially for those for which the exclusion of nonpayers is not feasible--these properties are such that a public sector push is needed or the good will not be financed. This push can come from a supranational structure (such as the World Bank, the United Nations, or the European Union) that directly or indirectly collects the requisite fees from its members to underwrite international public goods (IPGs). To understand the role of international institutions in promoting IPGs, one must ascertain the nature of the good and whether it requires a push, a coax, or no assistance from a supranational structure or influential nation(s) and agents (such as charitable foundations). The transnational community should explicitly direct scarce resources only to those global and international public goods that need either a significant push or only a smaller coax by the transnational community. When clubs or markets can finance international public goods, the community should sit back and let incentives guide the actions of sovereign nations.Decentralization,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Labor Policies,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Stabilization,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Carbon Policy and Trading
Humanity and the Animal Other: A Derridean Analysis of Waiting for the Barbarians
No full textIn “Humanity and the Animal Other,” Jacob Sandler explores animality as a pervasive metaphor for radical otherness in South African writer J. M. Coetzee‘s Waiting for the Barbarians, his famous allegory about the durable human drive to subjugate, torture, and enslave. Sandler‘s theoretically adroit and carefully argued analysis links the dehumanization that makes it possible for people to create divisions such as barbarian/civilized with animalization. As Sandler writes, in the end, “the animal is the only other,” and the surest way to make human beings ethically unrecognizable is to reduce them to the status of beasts. Dr. Alice Britta
Kallmann's syndrome with unilateral renal agenesis : a case report
No full textCITATION: Honiball, S. & Sandler, M. 1986. Kallmann's syndrome with unilateral renal agenesis : a case report. South African Medical Journal, 70:489-491.The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.zaA case of Kallmann's syndrome (hypogonadotrophic eunochoidism plus anosmia) in which further investigation revealed the association of unilateral renal agenesis is described. The importance of excretory urography in the investigation of patients with Kallmann's syndrome is stressed.Publisher’s versio
Cutaneous reaction to zinc - a rare complication of insulin treatment. A case report
No full textCITATION: Sandler, M. & Jordaan, H. F. 1989. Cutaneous reaction to zinc - a rare complication of insulin treatment. A case report. South African Medical Journal, 75:342-343.The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.zaA diabetic patient presented with furunculoid lesions at the sites of insulin injections. These lesions were diagnosed as representing a manifestation of a cutaneous reaction to the zinc component of an intermediate-acting insulin. The differential diagnosis of furunculoid lesions in insulin-dependent diabetic subjects is discussed.Publisher’s versio
Towards Music Structural Segmentation across Genres: Features, Structural Hypotheses, and Annotation Principles
No full textThis work is supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC) and EPSRC project (EP/L019981/1) Fusing Semantic and Audio Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption (FAST-IMPACt). Sandler acknowledges the support of the Royal Society as a recipient of a Wolfson Research Merit Award
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet's syndrome). A report of 2 cases
No full textCITATION: Jordaan, H.F., De Goede, F.H. & Sandler, M. 1989. Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet's syndrome). A report of 2 cases . S Afr Med J, 75(4):336-338.The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.zaENGLISH ABSTRACT: Two cases of Sweet's syndrome are described. The diagnostic criteria, clinical spectrum, complications, pertinent differential diagnoses and treatment modalities of this relatively rare clinical condition are described. The association of Sweet's syndrome with underlying haematological malignant disease is stressed.Publisher’s versio
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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