Is Anchorage the Capital of Alaska: Catching Errors With Recent Experience vs. One's Own Knowledge

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Arnold ◽  
Sharda Umanath ◽  
Elizabeth Marsh
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1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Church ◽  
Robert Martin ◽  
Susan Garnsey
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2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Oliver Wang

Oliver Wang interviews documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong. Originally from San Francisco, Dong began his career as a student filmmaker in the 1970s before releasing the Oscar-nominated short film, Sewing Woman in 1982. Since then, his films have focused on the role of Chinese and Asian Americans in entertainment industries as well as on anti-LGBQ discrimination. In the interview, Wang and Dong discuss Dong's beginnings as a high school filmmaker, his decision to turn the story of his seamstress mother into Sewing Woman, his struggle to bring together the Asian American and queer film communities and his recent experience in staging a “Hollywood Chinese” exhibit inside a renovated bar in West Hollywood.


1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. G. O'Loughlin

The New South Wales State Government has embarked on a multi-billion dollar programme of pollution abatement in Sydney, The socio-economic and political factors which have prompted this are described, These illustrate the complexities of dealing with pollution problems while social values alter, public organisations experience administrative change and financial pressures, and politicians try to balance environmental and economic objectives, The technical progress of the Sydney initiatives to reduce storm water runoff and sewer overflow pollution is also outlined.


NASPA Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R Baker

When suicidal behavior is reported, student affairs officers on many campuses notify parents as one component of a multifaceted campus suicide prevention plan. In response to proposals to mandate parent notification, the author argues that practical considerations warrant against expanding state laws to require notification following campus suicide attempts. The recent experience with parent notice at one university confirms the work of earlier researchers who concluded that parents rarely withdraw suicidal students from enrollment. Although a policy of sending the letters may deter further episodes of selfdestructive behavior, parents once alerted to the situation are not likely to intervene in a manner that will reduce significantly the risk of suicide.


Author(s):  
Paul D. Kenny

This chapter addresses India’s more recent experience of populism at the national level. While India has avoided a return to authoritarianism since the Emergency, populism has been a recurrent feature of Indian politics. The persistence of divided party rule between the national and subnational levels has meant an uneasy tension between two different modes of political mobilization for national office. National–subnational coalitions based on the distribution of pork have undergirded several Congress party governments. However, such coalitions remain inherently unstable given the autonomy of India’s subnational unit, and they are vulnerable to outflanking by populist appeals over the heads of state governments. The electoral success of the BJP under Modi in 2014 illustrates the appeal of populist mobilization in a vertically fragmented patronage-based system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (913) ◽  
pp. 261-285
Author(s):  
Amandeep S. Gill

AbstractThis article examines a subset of multilateral forums dealing with security problems posed by digital technologies, such as cyber warfare, cyber crime and lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).1 It identifies structural issues that make it difficult for multilateral forums to discuss fast-moving digital issues and respond in time with the required norms and policy measures. Based on this problem analysis, and the recent experience of regulating cyber conflict and LAWS through Groups of Governmental Experts, the article proposes a schema for multilateral governance of digital technologies in armed conflict. The schema includes a heuristic for understanding human–machine interaction in order to operationalize accountability with international humanitarian law principles and international law applicable to armed conflict in the digital age. The article concludes with specific suggestions for advancing work in multilateral forums dealing with cyber weapons and lethal autonomy.


Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 771
Author(s):  
Cathy Gobert ◽  
Pascal Semaille ◽  
Thierry Van der Schueren ◽  
Pierre Verger ◽  
Nicolas Dauby

General practitioners (GPs) play a critical role in patient acceptance of vaccination. Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is a growing phenomenon in the general population but also affects GPs. Few data exist on VH among GPs. The objectives of this analysis of a population of GPs in the Belgian Wallonia-Brussels Federation (WBF) were to: (1) determine the prevalence and the features of VH, (2) identify the correlates, and (3) estimate the discrepancy in vaccination’s behaviors between the GPs’ children and the recommendations made to their patients. An online survey was carried out among the population of general practitioners practicing in the WBF between 7 January and 18 March 2020. A hierarchical cluster analysis was carried out based on various dimensions of vaccine hesitancy: perception of the risks and the usefulness of vaccines as well as vaccine recommendations for their patients. A total of 251 GPs answered the survey. The average percentage of moderate to high vaccine hesitancy was 50.6%. Three factors were independently associated with increased risk of vaccine hesitancy: an age <50 years old, having no children, and having no contact with selected vaccine-preventable disease (measles, complicated influenza, chronic hepatitis B (HBV), bacterial meningitis, or cervical cancer) in the past 5 years. VH was associated with controversies on vaccines’ safety. GPs who had vaccinated their children against six diseases (MMR, meningococcus C (MenC), HBV, and HPV) tended not to recommend the same vaccines to their patients. Among GPs with all children vaccinated against HBV, only 37.5% recommended catch-up HBV immunization to their patients. In this small cohort of GP, moderate to high VH was associated with controversies on vaccines’ safety and with specific personal characteristics (age <50, no children, and no recent experience with a serious VPD). As previously reported, GPs have different vaccine prescription attitude toward their patients and children. These findings should be confirmed in larger cohorts.


2014 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 1450001 ◽  
Author(s):  
BO LI ◽  
XIANGWU ZENG ◽  
HAO YU

The micro-fabric of deposition reflects the imprints of its geologic and stress history, its depositional environment, and its weathering history. Recent experience shows that the fabric anisotropy does influence the static and dynamic behavior of granular materials. In this study, a series of centrifuge tests are conducted to investigate the effects of fabric anisotropy on the dynamic response in the free field. The results show the acceleration, pore pressure, and residual settlement is significantly affected by the fabric anisotropy of the ground, which shows the liquefaction resistance of the ground. Meanwhile, the response of acceleration is analyzed in frequency domain, which shows that the model prepared by 90° absorbs more energy than that of 0°. To verify the effects induced by the initial fabric, permeability test are conducted and related to the liquefaction potential. The results indicate the fabric anisotropy should be incorporated into the design method.


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