Methods and materials for teaching English as a second language

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University. Missing pages 5-2

A study of some of the quantitative measures used in the guidance office of a liberal arts college to aid students to achieve success in their freshman year

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

[Review of] Wen-Shing Tseng and David Y. H. Wu, eds. Chinese Culture and Mental Health

Tseng and Wu have performed a creditable task in editing this book that involved twenty-nine delegates from the Conference on Chinese Culture and Mental Health (Hawaii, 1982). Their purpose was to have insiders produce a definitive work on the Chinese culture and its interaction with the mental component of health. The Chinese are described in the preface as having a history of at least 5000 years of civilization, with China comprising ... one quarter of the world\u27s people, but having people of the Chinese culture who live in various geographical areas, including ... Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Canada, and the United States

Pica: Consideration of a Historical and Current Problem with Racial Ethnic/ Cultural Overtones

Pica is an eating disorder that affects an individual who experiences a craving that is satisfied by ingestion of either unusually large amounts of selected food items (e.g., baking soda) or repeated ingestion of nonfood items (e.g., clay, laundry starch). Pica is more than an anomaly of human behavior; it is an eating disorder that carries all the risks that are inherent to impaired nutrition, including death. Pica can be dated to antiquity, yet there is little question that it continues as a current practice. As an eating disorder, pica has implications for persons who are in positions to influence human behavior, those in education and social service as well as those in clinical settings

Markets, Institutions and Sustainability

Encouraging and stimulating markets for new and innovative environmental goods and services is crucial to move our economy towards sustainability. Formal legislation, government policies, and price mechanisms alone, are not however, sufficient to guarantee the development of new markets. This paper demonstrates the importance of market participants developing their own ‘rules of the game’, their own sets of informal practices, routines, and institutions to make the market work. A case study on Australia’s successfully developing wind energy market is utilised to illustrate these market processes in action. Market ‘emergence’ or market ‘creation’ is explored from an institutional and evolutionary perspective. The first section is dedicated to elaborating the markets as institutions perspective whilst theoretical insights into how markets as institutions might emerge are detailed in the second section. In the third section institutional emergence of the wind energy market in Australia is explained by means of a theoretical framework developed from the case study. The research points to unique market behaviours, committed buyer-seller relationships, learned exchange capabilities, and institutionalised market practices as necessary features of successfully emergent markets. The paper concludes with directions to support new market development for environmental sustainability.Market, Institution, Emergence, Learning, Exchange

The optimal prize structure of symmetric Tullock contests

We show that the optimal prize structure of symmetric n-player Tullock tournaments assigns the entire prize pool to the winner, provided that a symmetric pure strategy equilibrium exists. If such an equilibrium fails to exist under the winner-take-all structure, we construct the optimal prize structure which improves existence conditions by dampening efforts. If no such optimal equilibrium exists, no symmetric pure strategy equilibrium induces positive efforts