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Diary of C. J. Sanders
No full textDiary - This document is the personal diary of Constance Jukes Sanders, daughter of Gilbert E. Sanders, Superintendent of the Northwest Mounted Police 1905-1908. The diary begins on August 27, 1910, and ends April 6, 1911. Diary entries include daily activities of C. J. Sanders during her nineteenth and twentieth years, while living in Athabasca Landing with her parents. C. J. spent her days doing housework at the family's home, and often taught Sunday School at the local church. A favourite pastime was having friends over to play bridge in the evening, or riding ponies during the daytime. Church was a big part of the family's week. The women also spent a lot of time cooking, cleaning and sewing. C. J. took a boat over to Europe with her mother and father just before Christmas in 1910. She was very seasick during the trip. While in Europe they visited family and friends in England, Ireland and France (45 pages
Should i publish in an open access journal?
No full textAn “author pays” publishing model is the only fair way to make biomedical research findings accessible to all, say Matthew Kurien and David S Sanders, but James J Ashton and R Mark Beattie worry that it can lead to bias in the evidence base towards commercially driven results
Correction to: The global technology frontier:productivity growth and the relevance of Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship
No full textThe article “The global technology frontier: productivity growth and the relevance of Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship”, written by Esteban Lafuente, Zoltan J. Acs, Mark Sanders and László Szerb was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 55, issue 1, pages 153– 178, the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication.</p
Theorising and practitioners in HRD: the role of abductive reasoning
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that abductive reasoning is a typical but usually unrecognised process used by HRD scholars and practitioners alike. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper that explores recent criticism of traditional views of theory-building, based on the privileging of scientific theorising, which has led to a relevance gap between scholars and practitioners. The work of Charles Sanders Peirce and the varieties of an abductive reasoning process are considered. Findings – Abductive reasoning, which precedes induction and deduction, provide a potential connection with HRD practitioners who face difficult problems. Two types of abductive reasoning are explored – existential and analogic. Both offer possibilities for theorising with HRD practitioners. A range of methods for allowing abduction to become more evident with practitioners are presented. The authors consider how abduction can be used in engaged and participative research strategies. Research limitations/implications – While this is a conceptual paper, it does suggest implications for engagement and participation in theorising with HRD practitioners. Practical implications – Abductive reasoning adds to the repertoire of HRD scholars and practitioners. Originality/value – The paper elucidates the value of abductive reasoning and points to how it can become an integral element of theory building in HRD
The sexual excitation/sexual inhibition inventory for women: psychometric properties
No full textThis is a post-print version of the article. The official published version can be found at the link below.This article reports on the development of a new questionnaire designed to assess the propensity for sexual excitation and sexual inhibition in women: The Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women (SESII-W). The theoretical model underlying this research, the Dual Control Model, postulates that sexual response depends on a balance between excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms and that individuals vary in their propensity for excitation and inhibition. This study describes the development and initial validation of the SESII-W in a sample of 655 women (M age, 33.9 years). Factor analysis identified eight factors and two higher-order factors: one related to sexual excitation and one to sexual inhibition. The measure demonstrated good test-retest reliability and discriminant and convergent validity. Our data underscore that a number of factors affect women's sexual arousal and these appear to be related to opposing processes of sexual excitation and sexual inhibition. Theoretical issues, possible gender differences, and the value of using qualitative data to inform questionnaire development are discussed.This study was funded, in part, by a grant from the Lilly Centre for Women‟s Health
Badges of trade: the protection of trade marks and related intangibles in unfair competition law
No full textPhDThe increasing efforts within the European Union to harmonise
intellectual property law also lead to the approximation of
some aspects of unfair competition law. Despite these
efforts, common standards for unfair competition law are
still not present.
To find a common legal norm defining the scope of
protection of trade marks and related intangibles in unfair
competition law, similarities and differences between various
national unfair competition provisions are explored in the
light of the Paris Convention.
Setting aside the clear examples of tortious behaviour
in competition, the difficulty surrounding the definition of
clear norms in other unfair competition cases is recognised.
Protection of intangible subject matter on an other basis
than tort can lead to idiosyncratic and circular reasoning.
It is shown that property theories and policy decisions have
to be dismissed as the sole basis in the determination
whether protection is due.
The author describes how a legal concept bearing close
resemblance to tort can overcome these problems. He describes
and argues for an action for 'malign competition', based on
the concept of unjust enrichment.
In examining selected legal systems in more detail,
several key aspects of the proposed action appear to be in
operation already, albeit not recognised.
Selected cases from several jurisdictions are
subsequently tested according to the model of the proposed
action for malign competition. It is demonstrated that the
legal reasoning is more satisfactory, offering a clear norm
and takingway the old idiosyncrasies. Where the outcome on
the basis of the same facts is different, it is shown that
this is the result of a more satisfactory implementation of
the notions of preemption and equitable remuneration than is
currently employed.
The fact that the principle of unjust enrichment is
universally recognised will in the opinion of the author
advance the prospects for future harmonisat
Using bacterial biomarkers to identify early indicators of cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbation onset
No full textAcute periods of pulmonary exacerbation are the single most important cause of morbidity in cystic fibrosis patients, and may be associated with a loss of lung function. Intervening prior to the onset of a substantially increased inflammatory response may limit the associated damage to the airways. While a number of biomarker assays based on inflammatory markers have been developed, providing useful and important measures of disease during these periods, such factors are typically only elevated once the process of exacerbation has been initiated. Identifying biomarkers that can predict the onset of pulmonary exacerbation at an early stage would provide an opportunity to intervene before the establishment of a substantial immune response, with major implications for the advancement of cystic fibrosis care. The precise triggers of pulmonary exacerbation remain to be determined; however, the majority of models relate to the activity of microbes present in the patient's lower airways of cystic fibrosis. Advances in diagnostic microbiology now allow for the examination of these complex systems at a level likely to identify factors on which biomarker assays can be based. In this article, we discuss key considerations in the design and testing of assays that could predict pulmonary exacerbations
Pricing Weather Derivatives
No full textThis article presents a general method for pricing weather derivatives. Specification tests find that a temperature series for Fresno, CA follows a mean-reverting Brownian motion process with discrete jumps and autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic errors. Based on this process, we define an equilibrium pricing model for cooling degree day weather options. Comparing option prices estimated with three methods: a traditional burn-rate approach, a Black-Scholes-Merton approximation, and an equilibrium Monte Carlo simulation reveals significant differences. Equilibrium prices are preferred on theoretical grounds, so are used to demonstrate the usefulness of weather derivatives as risk management tools for California specialty crop growers. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.
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