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Reform of metropolitan governments
Steven P. Erie, John J. Kirlin, Francine Rabinovitz, Lance Liebman, and Charles M. Haar
Originally published in 1972, this study aims to explore governmental interaction with people and publics interests and institutions in Metropolitan America. These papers discuss issues of how governance can be improved and the federal role in Metropolitanism as well as suggesting ways in which political reform can help. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Economics and professionals.
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Reciprocal research and design: The wicked problem of changing math in the family
Shelley Goldman and Osvaldo Jiménez
This chapter demonstrates how a reciprocal research and design (RR&D) model is possible and has value in design. The authors see other design-based researchers in the learning sciences relying on basic studies as part of their development projects. The RR&D process had the benefit of creating links between the theory-building work we do in learning research while keeping us involved with and contributing to the lives of families. The authors are pleased that we have been able to engage in a process that enables us to manage professional missions while maintaining the spirit of empathy-driven design processes. The social experiences with math that the chapter uncovered in its initial interview study did not carry forward when families were not setting aside special family time to meet with us. Therefore, this is a cautionary tale for those practicing user-centered design that includes human-computer interface design and field testing.
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Serving students who are homeless: A resource guide for schools, districts and educational leaders
Ronald E. Hallett and Linda E. Skrla
Schools and districts are seeing unprecedented numbers of students and families living without residential stability. Although the McKinney-Vento Act has been around for over 2 decades, many district- and site-level practitioners have a difficult time interpreting and implementing the Act’s mandates within their local contexts. This book provides much-needed guidance to help educational leaders support students who are homeless and highly mobile students who face significant barriers related to access and academic success. The authors employ several different strategies to help translate complex state and federal policies into effective practices. They include policy analysis, examples of successful approaches, tools for training staff, youth experiences, and address the role school districts play in serving marginalized students. Serving Students Who Are Homeless can be used as a professional development tool at the local and district level, and as a textbook in higher education settings that prepare entry-level and advanced-credential administrators, counselors, school psychologists, and curriculum leaders.
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Nonlinear Systems: Design, Analysis, Estimation and Control
Dongbin Lee, Tim Burg, and Christos Volos
The book consists mainly of two parts: Chapter 1 - Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 - Chapter 14. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 treat design techniques based on linearization of nonlinear systems. An analysis of nonlinear system over quantum mechanics is discussed in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 to Chapter 7 are estimation methods using Kalman filtering while solving nonlinear control systems using iterative approach. Optimal approaches are discussed in Chapter 8 with retarded control of nonlinear system in singular situation, and Chapter 9 extends optimal theory to H-infinity control for a nonlinear control system.Chapters 10 and 11 present the control of nonlinear dynamic systems, twin-rotor helicopter and 3D crane system, which are both underactuated, cascaded dynamic systems. Chapter 12 applies controls to antisynchronization/synchronization in the chaotic models based on Lyapunov exponent theorem, and Chapter 13 discusses developed stability analytic approaches in terms of Lyapunov stability. The analysis of economic activities, especially the relationship between stock return and economic growth, is presented in Chapter 14.
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Against order(s): Dictatorship, absurdism and the plays of sony labou tansi
Macelle Mahala
Congolese playwright, director and novelist Sony Labou Tansi created a large body of work during his most prolific period, the late 1970s to mid-1990s, while living through a series of political coups and authoritarian governments.1 For two decades, Tansi’s plays, novels and essays offered an array of diverse forms of resistance to dictatorship. Alternately celebrated for his international success,2 harassed by state authorities,3 and posthumously accused of ethnic factionalism,4 Tansi’s career is a searing example of an artist writing through authoritarian conditions and political upheavals. Educated under a repressive colonial system, Tansi witnessed independence and the establishment of a Marxist state, participated in political efforts that brought about the creation of a new constitution and the emergence of an ostensibly multiparty democratic system in 1992, and suffered from the state of violence and chaos into which the Congo was plunged after the parliamentary elections of 1993 were contested and the nation entered a prolonged period of civil strife that eventually escalated into civil war. At the end of his life Tansi suffered personally for his political activities when his passport was revoked; the medical treatment he sought for himself and his wife in France for their AIDS-related illness was fatally delayed and they both died upon their return to the Congo in 1995 (Thomas 2002: 57; Kirkup 1995: n.p.).
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Business Planning: From the Perspective of the Dentist and the Banker
Nader A. Nadershahi, Lucinda J. Lyon, and L. Itaya
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Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Agricultural Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s
Gregory Rohlf
Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s examines rural resettlement to the Sino-Tibetan cultural borderlands in the 1950s. More than 100,000 eastern Han and Hui Chinese were sent to Qinghai province—known in Mongolian as Kokonor and Amdo to Tibetans—to plow up new fields in areas that were being incorporated into the Chinese state for the first time. The settlers were to bring their skilled labor, literacy, and modern thinking to “backward” Qinghai to fully exploit its natural resources of oil, natural gas, gold, and empty lands for the benefit of the industrializing nation. The book is a social and political history of resettlement, focusing on the people who were moved and the overall impact the program had on the province. It is a frontier history, but it also narrates a story of state building in modern China that spans the twentieth century and the opening years of the twenty-first.
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Contested Environments: Drivers and Dynamics in the US Marijuana Industry
Dara Szyliowicz and Tammy Madsen
A common view in institutional theory is that, over time, fields and industries will become more settled and stable. Yet, under certain conditions, change and contention are often more frequent and enduring. If contestation is persistent then actors must continuously contend with how to respond to shifting environmental conditions. But what conditions contribute to ongoing industry contestation? We posit that when an industry is characterized by multiple, conflicting normative, cognitive and regulatory orders as well as multiple heterogeneous actors who are endogenous and exogenous to the industry, it will be more susceptible to substantial ongoing contestation. We examine the US marijuana industry in order to understand these dynamics. Specifically, we identify and test the role of five primary drivers of contestation — heterogeneity of actors and practices, regulations, competing institutional logics, institutional voids and competing social belief systems. Our findings suggest that all five sources are crucial to understanding an industry’s development.
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Small Scale Credit Institutions: Historical Perspectives on Diversity in Financial Intermediation
R. Daniel Wadhwani
This chapter begins by examining the reasons for the growing historiographical and theoretical interest in small-scale credit institutions, and in understanding variations in the institutional arrangements of intermediaries more broadly. It then briefly surveys the literature on a selection of these institutions—ROSCAs, savings banks, credit cooperatives, and building associations—to identify patterns of organization and development over time and place. Finally, it examines a number of theoretical perspectives that have been used to account for variation in in the organizational size, form, and practices that such small credit institutions embody. Specifically it considers transaction cost theories, location-based theories, socio-political theories, and cultural/narrative theories, and assesses their contributions and limitations in understanding the sources of variation and change in institutional arrangements.
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