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- Executive-Legislative Deadlocks in the Dominican Republic
- ABSTRACT This study analyzes the causes of executive-legislative deadlocks in the Dominican Republic in the period 1978-2005. Deadlocks are considered a pernicious element in presidential democracies. The study applies a combination of simple statistical techniques and process tracing to test four institutional hypotheses, which argue that certain institutional and party...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Investigating the impact of organizational excellence and leadership on business performance: an exploratory study of Turkish firms
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction One of the realities of the current global marketplace is that consumers expect more, have more choices, and are less brand-loyal (Best, 2004). Yesterday's invincible companies with their market domination and leadership, such as GM, Sears, AT&T, and IBM to name few, have had to...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Teaching Strategic Thinking
- ABSTRACTThis study addresses the question of whether strategic thinking can be taught (Liedtka, 1998). The author starts by reviewing the strategic management literature. The conclusion is, as complexity increases, traditional strategic planning become less useful. By contrast, more and more focus will be given to systems-based strategies. With this backdrop,...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Problem and Opportunity: Integrating Anthropology, Ecology, and Policy through Adaptive Experimentation in the Urban U.S. Southwest
- Natural resource management agencies and governmental programs that fund research are increasingly calling for interdisciplinary research that integrates biological ecology and the social sciences in a way that can inform policy. One fundamental impediment to collaboration derives from the emphasis that biological scientists place on experimentation, which is generally not...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Blame it on Teletubbies.
- Byline: Claudia Wallis Oct 31, 2006 (Time Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) -- It is still not known what causes autism. One of the latest hypotheses is that autism is triggered by watching television by toddlers. Economist Michael Waldman, of Cornell University's...
- Research articles 2006-10-31
- Document image analysis by probabilistic network and circuit diagram extraction
- The paper presents a hierarchical object recognition system for document processing. It is based on a spatial tree structure representation and Bayesian framework. The image components are built up from lower level image components stored in a library. The tree representations of the objects are assembled from these components. A...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM: TESTING THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF EDIACARAN AND PALEOZOIC PROBLEMATIC FOSSILS USING MOLECULAR DIVERGENCE DATES
- ABSTRACT-Many of the late Neoproterozoic "Ediacaran fossils" have been referred to the Cnidaria, often on the basis of vague or poorly known features. However, representatives of the living Chondrophorina (=Porpitidae, Hydrozoa), Pennatulacea Anthozoa, and Coronatae and/or Stauromedusae Scyphozoa have all been identified in Ediacaran biotas, based on specific morphological features...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Evaluating internal versus external characters: Phylogenetic analyses of the Echinoconchidae, Buxtoniinae, and Juresaniinae (Phylum Brachiopoda)
- ABSTRACT-Evolutionary relationships between the Echinoconchidae, Productidae, Buxtoniinae, and Juresaniinae (Phylum Brachiopoda. Order Productida) have been the subject of debate for the better part of a century. The original (Muir-Wood and Williams, 1965) and revised (Brunton et al., 2000) Brachiopoda volumes of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology use markedly different classifications...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Scientific research and the Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis): Opportunities for major contributions to avian population ecology
- OVERVIEW AMONG ALL avian research programs, results from investigations into the ecology, behavior, life history, and demography of Spotted Owls Strix occidentalis may have had the single greatest effect on land-use policy in the United States. The reasons for that are simple: in general, throughout their ranges, populations of all...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Ghosts of the past, present, and future in brachiopod systematics
- ABSTRACT-Three historical phases can be distinguished in the study of brachiopod systematics over the past 75 years. Prior to 1956, systematic neontologists and paleontologists struggled to reconcile differences in perceived evolutionary patterns and thus classifications based largely on static morphological differences observed separately among living brachiopods and among fossil brachiopods....
- Research articles 2001-11-01
- State Politics and Policy Section Launches Journal.(Brief Article)
- APSA's Organized Section on State Politics and Policy proudly announces the establishment of a new journal: State Politics and Policy Quarterly. SPPQ, the official journal of the section, will be published out of the Illinois Legislative Studies Center at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Christopher Z....
- Research articles 2000-03-01
- Default Bayes factors for nonnested hypothesis testing.
- Various default Bayes factors such as the fractional factor; the median intrinsic factor; the encompassing and the expected intrinsic factors are used in assessing the applicability of Bayesian hypothesis testing in untested hypotheses. Results indicate that the default tests obtain more accurate answers in one-sided testing than p value or...
- Research articles 1999-06-01
- Interpreting the earliest metazoan fossils: What can we learn?
- SYNOPSIS. The Ediacaran fossils of the latest Precambrian have at one time or another been grouped with almost every extant kingdom, and also lumped into separate kingdom-level taxa. This has often been based on the facile use of a few characters, or on some sort of "overall similarity." This has...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- Effects of fire regime and habitat on tree dynamics in north Florida longleaf pine savannas.
- Frequent, low intensity fire was an important component of the natural disturbance regime of presettlement savannas and woodlands in the southeastern USA dominated by longleaf pine Pinus palustris, and prescribed burning is now a critical part of the management of these endangered habitats. Fire season, fire frequency, and fire intensity...
- Research articles 1995-11-01
- Is FDI Indeed Tariff-Jumping?: Firm-Level Evidence
- This paper analyzes the variations in modes of foreign market access for different levels of trade costs and firm specific assets. It first develops a simple model of this decision process to derive testable hypotheses and then study these hypotheses using firm level data on Swedish multinational corporations. The paper...
- White papers 2006-07-02
- The Perception Of Time, Risk And Return During Periods Of Speculation
- This paper has derived the consequences of two hypotheses for the relationship between risk and return. The first hypothesis states that assets with the same risk must have the same expected return. From this, one derives the well-known invariance of the Sharpe ratio for uncorrelated stocks, as well as the...
- White papers 2002-01-10
- Evidence of Cycles in European Commercial Real Estate Markets and Some Hypotheses
- This paper seeks to achieve four objectives. First, it provides some contextual material concerning the performance of the UK real estate market relative to stocks and bonds over a long period. Second, it provides UK รป and some non-UK European - evidence of the tendency for property demand, supply, prices,...
- White papers 2000-05-12
- Insects Cause Double Stall
- Several large commercial wind turbines demonstrate drops in maximum power levels up to 45%, under apparently equal conditions. A number of hypotheses was formulated, three of which were useful. By performing stall flag measurements, as well as two other experiments, one of the three hypotheses was confirmed: the Insect Hypothesis....
- White papers 2001-09-26
- Estimating the Proportion of False Null Hypotheses Among a Large Number of Independently Tested Hypotheses
- This paper considers the problem of estimating the number of false null hypotheses among a very large number of independently tested hypotheses, focusing on the situation in which the proportion of false null hypotheses is very small. They propose a family of methods for establishing lower 100% confidence bounds for...
- White papers 2004-10-14
- Healthcare-Associated Infections and Length of Hospital Stay in the Medicare Population
- This study uses cross-sectional analysis of huge Medicare hospital discharge databases to test the hypothesis that hospitals with longer inpatient average lengths of stay ALOS will have a higher healthcare associated infection HAI rates. This article offers hypotheses on the casualty of the ALOS-infection rate correlation and suggests ways to...
- White papers 2004-06-01
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