scholarly journals Countries in the hamster’s wheel?: Nurkse- Duesenberry demonstration effects and the determinants of saving.

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (82) ◽  
pp. 193-226
Author(s):  
Carolina Román Ramos ◽  
Andrés Rius
Keyword(s):  
Negative Association ◽  
Sample Period ◽  
Regional Patterns ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Demonstration Effect ◽  
The World ◽  
International Data ◽  
Private Savings ◽  
Foreign Consumption

Throughout the world, stable regional patterns relating to private savings are hard to access. This article revisits the hypothesis that, as there is evidence of emulation patterns between consumers, there might be international (macroeconomic) “emulation”. We test demonstration effect theories exploiting international data on savings, incomes, and means of global exposure. We use two methods of media communication given that their penetration peaked at different times in the sample period: TV and internet were a means of discovering foreign consumption standards. With the resulting country panels, we find some evidence in favour of a statistically significant negative association for the demonstration effect.

Number of Siblings in Childhood, Social Outcomes in Adulthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-234
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Merry ◽  
Donna Bobbitt-Zeher ◽  
Douglas B. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

In many parts of the world, fertility has declined in important ways in the past century. What are the consequences of this demographic change? Our study expands the empirical basis for understanding the relationship between number of siblings in childhood and social outcomes among adults. An important recent study found that for each additional sibling an individual grows up with, the likelihood of divorce as an adult declines by 3%. We expand this work by (a) determining whether the original pattern replicates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and (b) extending the analysis beyond divorce to consider whether growing up with siblings is related to prosocial adult behaviors (relationships with parents, friends, and views on conflict management with one’s partner). Our results confirm a negative association between number of siblings and divorce in adulthood. We find mixed results related to other prosocial adult behaviors.

scholarly journals The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafaël Govaerts ◽  
Eimear Nic Lughadha ◽  
Nicholas Black ◽  
Robert Turner ◽  
Alan Paton
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Data Reuse ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Full Dataset ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Validation ◽  
International Data ◽  
Data Collation

AbstractThe World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is a comprehensive list of scientifically described plant species, compiled over four decades, from peer-reviewed literature, authoritative scientific databases, herbaria and observations, then reviewed by experts. It is a vital tool to facilitate plant diversity research, conservation and effective management, including sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits. To maximise utility, such lists should be accessible, explicitly evidence-based, transparent, expert-reviewed, and regularly updated, incorporating new evidence and emerging scientific consensus. WCVP largely meets these criteria, being continuously updated and freely available online. Users can browse, search, or download a user-defined subset of accepted species with corresponding synonyms and bibliographic details, or a date-stamped full dataset. To facilitate appropriate data reuse by individual researchers and global initiatives including Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Catalogue of Life and World Flora Online, we document data collation and review processes, the underlying data structure, and the international data standards and technical validation that ensure data quality and integrity. We also address the questions most frequently received from users.

scholarly journals PKM KATEKESE TENTANG MENGHAYATI NILAI KERAJAAN ALLAH DALAM ERA DIGITAL BAGI ANGGOTA KMK. ST. MARTINUS PAROKI PERSIAPAN ST. MARINUS PU’URERE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Aurelius Fredimento ◽  
John M. Balan
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

The development and the progress of media communication at the present is a fact of the knowledge and the technology development that must be accepted. It presence like the flowing water which has a fast current that brings also two influences both positive and negative that must be accounted for the members of the Catholic Students Community Of St. Martinus Ende (KMK St. Martinus Ende). Both positive and negative influences the media community like a kinetic energy or a power attraction that attract  them in a tiring ambiquity. Let them walk alone without escort of a decisive compass where they should have a rightist attitude and responsible. On the point, the guidance and assistance of the church is an  offering  if the church will be born a generation  of the future  of the  church  that is mature and has a certain quality  based  on the growth  and the development  of acuteness and inner  to determine the attitude to the development of media communication. The process of sharpening of mind and the sharpeness of the participants can be realized by giving some activities such as: awareness, deepening and even  the sharpeness of the actor of  media communication as an  alternative of reporting work of the God Kingdom for human beings. It becomes the main moving spirit or activator  for the board of KMK Of St. Martinus Ende  to plan and boring  about the activity of catechism. The activity rise the method of Amos.  By this method, the participants are invited to build a deeply reflection that based on thein real experiences about the media communication, while keep on self opening to the God planning will come  to them  and  give them via  the commandment of God.  The commandment  of God  come to light, inspiration, motivate, power and critics to the  participants about the using of the media communication as a media of the commandment of the kingdom of God  to the world that is more progress and development lately.

Annual Summary of Vital Statistics—1976

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 797-804
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
The World ◽  
States Data ◽  
International Data ◽  
Health Organization

Data for this article, as in previous reports,1 are drawn principally from the Monthly Vital Statistics Report,2-5 published by the National Center for Health Statistics. The international data come from the Demographic Yearbook6 and the quarterly Population and Vital Statistics Report,7 both published by the Statistical Office of the United Nations, and the World Health Statistics Report,8 published by the World Health Organization. All the United States data for 1976 are estimates by place of occurrence based upon a 10% sample of material received in state offices between two dates, one month apart, regardless of when the event occurred. Experience has shown that for the country as a whole the estimate is very close to the subsequent final figures.

Technology and Teenage Pregnancy

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Hatem Bata
Keyword(s):  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Technology plays a fundamental part in teenagers' lives since the majority of them are deemed digital natives having grown using communications, media, and digital technologies. As technology evolves, it becomes more available and more affordable to more young people. There are 104 countries where 80% of youth have internet connection. In Africa and Asia, there are more females online than males. Several educators, academics, and public health practitioners expect technology to be a remedy to all social problems or a cause for all evil in the world due to the ubiquity of technology. This chapter takes a skeptical outlook at technology by demonstrating how technology could be a cause of social problems and also be a part of the solution if used properly. The author attempts to refute the notion of technological determinism. This chapter aims to look at the role of media, communication, and educational technology, and their relationship with teenage pregnancy.

scholarly journals Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Couture ◽  
Gretchen King ◽  
Sophie Toupin ◽  
Becky Lentz
Keyword(s):  
Communication Media ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Compte Rendu ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
Free Media ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Communication And Technology

This research-in-brief summarizes activities of our research delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis, including our participation in two associated events: the World Forum on Free Media (WFFM) and preparatory meetings for an eventual global Internet Social Forum (ISF). The WFFM and ISF provided rich terrain for our delegation to document and study contemporary struggles around communication media and technology issues. We report on these encounters as a way to foreground the many similar opportunities available to Canadian media, communication, and technology scholars at annual WSFs, in particular, the WSF coming to Montréal in August 2016. Notably, the 2016 WSF will be the first forum held since its inception in 2001 outside the global south.Ce texte résume les activités de notre délégation de recherche lors du Forum social mondial (FSM) de Tunis. Ces activités incluaient notre participation à deux événements associés : le Forum mondial des médias libres (FMML) et des rencontres préparatoires pour un éventuel Forum social d’Internet (FSI). Ces rencontres ont constitué de riches terrains pour documenter et étudier les luttes contemporaines concernant les médias et la communication. Ce compte-rendu vise à faire connaître aux médias et aux chercheurs canadiens les multiples opportunités offertes lors des forums sociaux annuels, en particulier lors du prochain Forum social mondial qui se déroulera à Montréal en août 2016. Ce forum sera le premier à se dérouler à l’extérieur du Sud global depuis sa création en 2001.

Diffusion, Development, and Democracy, 1800-1999

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Wejnert
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Regional Patterns ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

While a trend of growth in democratization over the past two centuries has been generally observed, it is the remarkable growth in the democratization of the world over the past 30 years that has truly captured the imagination of social scientists, policymakers, and the general public alike. Two major sets of factors have dominated studies attempting to predict democratization. One set characterizes endogenous or internal features of countries, and may be referred to as socioeconomic development. The other set, less often tested, characterizes exogenous variables that influence democratization via forces at work globally and within the region in which a country resides; this set may be referred to as diffusion processes. This study provides the first systematic comparison of these two sets of variables. When assessed alone, development indicators are robust predictors of democracy, but their predictive power fades with the inclusion of diffusion variables. In particular, diffusion predictors of spatial proximity and networks are robust predictors of democratic growth in both the world and across all regions. The results demonstrate that regional patterns in democratization are evident, and hence world analyses are only the first approximation to understanding democratic growth. Finally, this study introduces an application of Multilevel Regression Models to studies on democratization. Such models fit observed data on world democratization better than the simple regression models used in most previous studies.

Religion and Innovation

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 346-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Bénabou ◽  
Davide Ticchi ◽  
Andrea Vindigni
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Attitudes Toward Science ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Us States ◽  
High Significance ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
And Control

In earlier work we identified a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states. In this paper we relate 11 indicators of individual openness to innovation (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, agency, imagination, and independence in children) to 5 measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We use five waves of the World Values Survey and control for sociodemographics, country and year fixed effects. Across the 52 regressions, greater religiosity is almost uniformly associated to less favorable views of innovation, with high significance.

scholarly journals La transferencia internacional de datos de carácter personal

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Guasch Portas
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
The World ◽  
European Union Legislation ◽  
International Data ◽  
Data Transfers ◽  
The Moment ◽  
International Data Transfers ◽  
Shed Light

La normativa de la Unión Europea en el campo de la protección de datos es la más exigente del planeta. En cambio hay países con una regulación poco exigente, o incluso sin regulación de ningún tipo. Estas diferencias pueden conducir a que la protección conseguida en el seno de la Unión se pierda en el momento en que los datos puedan ser localizados en naciones con un nivel inferior o completamente nulo de protección. Para evitarlo se han regulado minuciosamente las transferencias internacionales de datos. En este trabajo se pretende dar luz a algunos de los aspectos menos conocidos de los movimientos internacionales de datos personales. Analizamos un documento fundamental del Grupo de Trabajo del artículo 29 de la Directiva 95/46/CE: el WP 12. Revisamos la competencia de la AEPD en cuanto a la evaluación de los Estados que proporcionan un nivel adecuado de protección. Examinamos la necesidad de cumplir con las disposiciones legales en el caso de transferencia internacional. Por último reflexionamos sobre los cambios previstos en la propuesta de Reglamento comunitario de protección de datos.The European Union legislation in the field of data protection is the most demanding in the world. But there are countries with lax regulation, or no regulation of any kind. These differences may lead to the protection achieved within the Union lost in the moment that the data may be located in countries with a lower level of protection or completely invalid. To avoid this we have carefully regulated international data transfers. This paper aims to shed light on some of the lesser known aspects of international flows of personal data. We analyzed a fundamental document of the Working Group of Article 29 of Directive 95/46/EC: the WP 12. We review the jurisdiction of the AEPD regarding the evaluation of states that provide an adequate level of protection. We examined the need to comply with the laws in the case of international transfer. Finally we reflect on the changes envisaged in the proposed EU regulation on data protection.

scholarly journals Rhetoric appropriateness in view of contemporary media communication and journalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Worsowicz
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Rhetorical Model

In the article, I present deliberations on the theme of the rhetorical category of appropriateness in the context of its original sources and contemporary media practice. Upon presenting the theory formed in line with the understanding developed in antiquity, I accept as a functional division for the purpose of the discussion the prépon/aptum (decorum) division, i.e. into the historical and literary notion, and appropriateness as a general principle of rhetorical communication to subsequently present a discussion organised on the basis of three theses: 1) The major factor defining the rhetorical model of appropriateness is the mass nature of media communication in the presence of freedom of speech, a democratic system of authority, and economic liberalism; 2) The on-going presence of disputes regarding the appropriateness of public behaviour is a manifestation not as much of its norm-building potential as of the functional approach – of senders, participants of the reported events, and message receivers – towards media communication, which inevitably results in a distinct over-representation of messages the content of which applies to the manifestations of inappropriateness; 3) The appropriateness principle is associated with the difficult task for the receiver to understand her/his role in the world of the media, and its various consequences. I posit that the principle does, in fact, indicate certain criteria which can become a basis for classifying specific messages as those which do or do not meet the requirements of rhetorical tact, yet it does not enable one to define an a priori applicable borderline between appropriateness and inappropriateness in contemporary media. Therefore, it seems that the settlement of any doubts and dilemmas associated with appropriateness ought to be founded on a good upbringing-based social stance and a system of values, i.e. maturity achieved regardless of the influence of the media.

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