Environmental Kuznets Curves: Mess or Meaning?

The shape of the relationship between the rate of environmental degradation and income per capita has been the subject of much empirical examination. When test results based around this so-called ‘environmental Kuznets curve’ are compared, the empirical evidence is neither consistently supportive of its traditional inverted-U shape nor uniform across pollutants. A deeper understanding of the characteristics of pollutants and of the derived demand and derived supply of pollutants needs to be achieved if environmental Kuznets curves are to be useful.Environmental Kuznets Curves, Empirical Evidence

Attendance and Exam Performance at University

Marburger (2006) explored the link between absenteeism and exam performance by assessing the impact on absenteeism of removing a university wide policy of mandatory attendance for a single class. His results indicate that while an attendance policy has a strong impact on reducing absenteeism the link between absenteeism and exam performance is weak.This paper presents an alternative exploration into the link between absenteeism and exam performance by assessing the impact of implementing a module-specific attendance policy. Our results suggest the link between absenteeism and exam performance is strong, and that student-specific factors are important, including revision strategies and peer group effects. These results question the uniformity of the relationship between attendance and exam performance.absenteeism, attendance, exam performance, undergraduate, peer groups

USE OF ANONYMITY AND RANDOM SELECTION WITHIN A GROUP CHAT TO FACILITATE GROUP DISCUSSIONS

Corporations often seek honest feedback from their employees for different issues, such as changes to benefits, policies, strategies, product designs, etc. However, there are a number of factors that typically prevent employees from providing such feedback—fear of consequences. Many times, processes that are marketed as anonymous may not be totally anonymous such that when employees provide purported anonymous feedback, such feedback may not be completely anonymous and can cause employees to lose face with management or senior technical leaders, which can harm their careers. Open group dialog has demonstrated superior results to problems compared to individual inputs. Presented herein is an anonymous, representative group chat capability that can be utilized by corporations to facilitate employee discussions while removing factors that often prevent employees from honest participation in traditional settings

Mysteriously Meant

In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past

Empirical analysis and evaluation of the California Department of Youth Authority\u27s post parole substance abuse treatment program: El Centro, California

Adolescent parolee revocations

The anointed pulpit

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A tackle box guide to: common saltwater fishes of southwest Florida

There are well over 150 species of fish caught by hook and line in local waters. The 86 species included in this book were selected by the author and editors because they are the most frequently encountered. For eachspecies, important informationabout distinguishing features, biology/habitat, and fishing methods is provided. The often confusing common nicknames applied to each fish are noted, as well as the fish's preferred common name. (56pp.

NETWORK TOPOLOGY RECONSTRUCTION FROM OPERATIONAL LOGS

Techniques are presented herein that support a new, low-overhead network topology discovery mechanism that is based on data from existing operational log sources such as, for example, syslog entries. Such an approach lowers the operational cost of any solution that requires knowledge of a network’s topology. Additionally, such an approach allows for the ongoing rediscovery of a network’s topology to track over time the documented or undocumented evolution of the same

Convergence across Spanish Provinces:Cross-section and Pairwise Evidence

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties, the paper presents results that suggest convergence is dominant for the full sample over the entire period, swings in this trend between convergence and divergence are present and switching in rank does take place. When provinces are analysed in pairs some show strong evidence of divergence.Convergence; Steady state; Average UK regional male wages