Major League Baseball Players, Big Data, and the Right to Know: The Duty of Major League Baseball Teams to Disclose Health Modeling Analysis to Their Players

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If We Build It They Will Come: Human Rights Violations and the Prison Industrial Complex

This paper utilizes the concept of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) in order to examine the complex configuration comprised of the US prison system, multi-national corporations, small private businesses and the inmate population in the social and political economy of the 21st century US. Utilizing data on the PIC we pose the question: What is the purpose of prison, the rehabilitation of the inmates or the exploitation of prison labor? Specifically we argue, using Wright\u27s neo-Marxist theory, that the current system of incarceration in the US mimics the exploitation characteristic of the slave plantation economy of the southern US, ripe with human rights violations, the products and profits of which are exported daily through the expansion of global markets

If We Build It They Will Come: Human Rights Violations and the Prison Industrial Complex

This paper utilizes the concept of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) in order to examine the complex configuration comprised of the US prison system, multi-national corporations, small private businesses and the inmate population in the social and political economy of the 21st century US. Utilizing data on the PIC we pose the question: What is the purpose of prison, the rehabilitation of the inmates or the exploitation of prison labor? Specifically we argue, using Wright\u27s neo-Marxist theory, that the current system of incarceration in the US mimics the exploitation characteristic of the slave plantation economy of the southern US, ripe with human rights violations, the products and profits of which are exported daily through the expansion of global markets

Reflections on Women Scientists and the Iowa Academy of Science

In this centennial year of the Iowa Academy of Science, various facets of scientific activity and development in the state of Iowa and the impact of the Iowa Academy are being examined. With our current awareness of equality, the contribution of women scientists to the Academy is a logical topic for comment. Perhaps in another hundred years it will not seem a necessary separate item to consider

A Study of the Connotations and Meanings of the Greek Word [Philos] and Its Cognates in the Works of Homer, Hesiod and Selected Lyric Poets

This project is the study of the wide range of meaning for Greek word [philos]. It also traces the development of the meaning of the word in literature from the eighth century B.C. to the end of the sixth century B.C

Existing Conditions Summary--Rhinebeck Highway Study

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ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING STATE AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN NEW YORK

This paper simulates alternative distributions of general purpose state aid to local governments under different combinations of criteria: tax capacity, effort, and revenue needs. Revenue needs are based on Tobit estimates of the costs of providing average levels of 16 categories of services. Segmenting the sample into high and low population jurisdictions provided a more realistic set of cost estimates. Available revenues or capacity are determined by multiplying each jurisdiction's tax bases by standard tax rates. A Need-Capacity gap, the difference between needed revenues and available revenues, is used as a needs-based distribution strategy for general purpose aid. Finally an effort gap, based on above average tax efforts was added to the Need-Capacity gap to define a Need-Capacity-Effort strategy.Public Economics,

Teaching Feminist Research Methods: A Comment and an Evaluation

What are feminist research methods and how are they different from other, non-feminist research methods? This paper begins by interrogating the question of how research methods become labeled as feminist. Building on this knowledge, we detail how this investigation guided our implementation of a new feminist research methods course sequence in a Women and Gender Studies program. This article is not an evaluation of our course; it is a feminist exercise in self-reflection on the feminist processes that, when invoked, results in feminist teaching of any course. But in this case, it is a course that is not always identified as being ripe for a feminist approach: methods. We conclude by drawing upon our experience to discuss some of the structural and pedagogical challenges when teaching feminist research methods

2019 Survey of New York’s Local Chief Elected Officials: The Details

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Information Technology Use by Local Governments in the Northeast: Assessment and Needs

How local governments are using information technology is important to understand if extension teaching on local government and economic development issues is to be effective. This study uses results from surveys of local officials in New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia to examine the potential for delivering extension programs to local officials through information technology. The responses suggest that local officials predominantly prefer face-to-face training, but many are willing to try distance education. In addition, even though many governments are using the Internet, there still are significant numbers who do not yet have access to these technologies