Interactive question answering: Is Cross-Language harder than monolingual sea…

Is Cross-Language answer finding harder than Monolingual answer finding for users? In this paper we provide initial quantitative and qualitative evidence to answer this question. In our study, which involves 16 users searching questions under four different system conditions, we find that interactive cross-language answer finding is not substantially harder (in terms of accuracy) than its mo…

Explaining change in the Mexican public sector: the limits of New Public Mana…

The Mexican public sector has undergone significant transformations in recent decades. This article argues against the view that these changes are the result of New Public Management-style reforms. Even though the Mexican government has applied some of the tools associated with this paradigm, the essential NPM doctrines — granting more autonomy to public agencies and government officials, and…

On the Path to Mediation

A commentary on mediation is presented. The commentary begins with a brief history of the author's interest in mediation. This is followed by some ideas about why there continues to be interest among organizational researchers in mediation. Last, comments are offered on the articles that are the center of attraction.

Group Therapy for Children After Homicide and Violence: A Pilot Study

Objective: This pilot study evaluated a group intervention designed to reduce posttraumatic stress among children after homicide and/or violence. Method: Employing a secondary data analysis of 117 participants in 21 group interventions, pretest and posttest differences in posttraumatic stress levels and between child witnesses and nonwitnesses, males and females, and younger and older children …

Terrorism, American Style

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Vol. 24, No. 1, Page 44-45

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0740-2775

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From Stalin to Putin, An Insider's View: Talking with Georgi Arbatov

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Vol. 24, No. 3, Pages 83-88

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Domestic Violence and Mandatory Arrest Laws: To What Extent Do They Influence…

Current research on domestic violences indicates that intimate partner violence arrest rates have risen as a direct result of the implementation of mandatory and preffered arrest domestic violence laws. However, this research also suggests that part of this increase can be attributed to an increase in the arrest rate of females i case of domestic assault. In addition, the arrest of both parties…

The Cartagena Protocol: Implications for Regional Trade and Technology Develo…

The majority of African countries have ratified or acceded to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and many have received support through the Global Environment Facility and the UN Environment Programme for development of their National Biosafety Frameworks. This article examines the extent to which these frameworks are aligned with the goals of the Regional Economic and Regional Research Commu…

Central versus Local Service Regulation: Accounting for Diverging Old-age Car…

In Sweden and Denmark, the development of old-age care has followed markedly divergent paths over the past 20 years. In both countries, the level of old-age care universalism was exceptionally high in the early 1980s. Since then it has dropped sharply in Sweden, while remaining constantly high in Denmark. These divergent trends are clearly irreconcilable with the common image of a coheren…

The UK's gamete donor `crisis' - a critical analysis

Since April 2005, individuals donating sperm, eggs or embryos for the treatment of others in the UK have been required to agree to the disclosure of their identity to any child conceived as a result of their donation on reaching the age of 18. The main arguments advanced against the removal of donor anonymity are: first, it is responsible for a dramatic decline in the number of donors; se…

Single-Mother Families and Air Pollution: A National Study

Objective. This study uses tract-level demographic data and toxicity-weighted air pollutant concentration estimates for the continental United States to determine whether (1) single-mother families are overrepresented in environmentally hazardous Census tracts and (2) the percentage of single-mother families in a Census tract is a significant predictor of tract-level toxic concentration estimat…

Exploring the Roles of Extracurricular Activity Quantity and Quality in the E…

This longitudinal study examines how extracurricular activity involvement contributes to "educational resilience" —the unexpected educational attainments of adolescents who are otherwise vulnerable to curtailed school success due to personal- and social-level risks. Educationally vulnerable youth characterized by significant risks and an absence of assets were identified during early ado…

Partisan Politics, Globalization, and the Determinants of Privatization Proce…

The 1990s have witnessed unprecedented attempts at privatizing state-owned enterprises in virtually all OECD democracies. This contribution analyzes the extent to which the partisan control of the government can account for the differences in the privatization proceeds raised by EU and OECD countries between 1990 and 2000. It turns out that privatizations are part of a process of economic…

Calibrating Prejudice in Milliseconds

Psychological social psychologists have devoted great effort to measuring the elusive construct of unconscious prejudice. However, recent work underscores both the psychometric flaws of these measures and the weaknesses in claims that they predict behavior in realistic organizational settings. Before accepting unconscious prejudice as an inevitable source of individual-level disparate treatment…

Citizens and Resource Allocation: Improving Decision Making with Interactive …

Collective consumption and benefit characterize many government services. Moreover, government services are mostly paid for collectively through taxes—there is little or no relationship between the taxes paid by a household and its use of a particular service. Public sector decision makers face complex budget problems with difficult solutions. Involving citizens meaningfully in these deci…

Postponed Marriage: Exploring Women's Views of Matrimony and Work in Japan

Sociologists have argued that marriage today is based on individual desires, democratic contracts, and self-development. However, feminist scholars have criticized such a view of modern marriage, arguing that it obscures persistent inequality and social restrictions in marriage. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 26 highly educated Japanese women, this article argues that persistent gend…

Using Cumulative Risk to Screen for Mental Health Problems in Child Welfare

This study tests the hypothesis that information typically collected during a maltreatment investigation can be used to screen children for mental health problems. Method: Data are from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Cumulative risk scores were created for 3,022 children and compared to reports of clinical-level problems using standardized measures. Bivariate, mul…

Place Branding: The State of the Art

This article examines the relevance of place branding as a political phenomenon in international politics. After setting place branding in a historical and conceptual context, it maps out the connections between branding and international politics by looking at three examples. First, it examines the challenges facing the European Union to strengthen its image as a global player. Second, i…

Harmonizing the Resistance, Resisting the Harmony: A Critical Discourse on th…

In Hong Kong, even though the Bill of Rights Ordinance (the localized version of ICCPR), Sex Discrimination Ordinance and a series of legal reforms were enacted and introduced respectively in 1991 and 1994, gender discrimination in legal discourse still persists. Chinese customary law, which only recognises the male's right to build small houses in the New Territories, remains an exceptio…

The ambivalent dynamics of loyalty in mentorship

This investigation shows that mentorship loyalty is an ambivalent source of tension in the relationship. Data from in-depth interviews show that the mentoring attachment that is rooted in a protective, devoted, affectionate side of loyalty can also compel conformity, suppress dissent, and curb professional growth. The ambivalence stirred up by loyalty issues manifests itself in the nuts a…