The artist speaks: the interview as documentation

Nearly every exhibition catalogue now contains an interview with, or related statement by, the artist. How and why did this become the norm? The increasing popularity of the artist's words is traced back in this article to its roots in Romanticism, the rise of the mass media and the cult of the avant-garde artist. The value and reliability of the transcribed and printed words is questioned and a bibliography of published interviews with artists follows

Modeling the Rise in Internet-based Petitions

Contemporary collective action, much of which involves social media and other Internet-based platforms, leaves a digital imprint which may be harvested to better understand the dynamics of mobilization. Petition signing is an example of collective action which has gained in popularity with rising use of social media and provides such data for the whole population of petition signatories for a given platform. This paper tracks the growth curves of all 20,000 petitions to the UK government over 18 months, analyzing the rate of growth and outreach mechanism. Previous research has suggested the importance of the first day to the ultimate success of a petition, but has not examined early growth within that day, made possible here through hourly resolution in the data. The analysis shows that the vast majority of petitions do not achieve any measure of success; over 99 percent fail to get the 10,000 signatures required for an official response and only 0.1 percent attain the 100,000 required for a parliamentary debate. We analyze the data through a multiplicative process model framework to explain the heterogeneous growth of signatures at the population level. We define and measure an average outreach factor for petitions and show that it decays very fast (reducing to 0.1% after 10 hours). After 24 hours, a petition's fate is virtually set. The findings seem to challenge conventional analyses of collective action from economics and political science, where the production function has been assumed to follow an S-shaped curve.Comment: Submitted to EPJ Data Scienc

The requirement of excusable mistake in the context of the condictio indebiti: Scottish and South African law compared

Both Scotland and South Africa recognize a requirement of excusable mistake in the context of the condictio indebiti, the action for the recovery of mistaken payments. Since the law of unjustified enrichment in both jurisdictions is essentially civilian in origin, this resemblance is unsurprising. However, the requirement has in fact evolved very differently in each of these jurisdictions. While Scottish law demonstrates the relatively orderly and linear development of the excusability requirement from its origins in Roman law, the influence of the ius commune remedy of restitutio in integrum on the South African condictio indebiti has been a decisive factor in the progressive strengthening of this requirement in South African law. Drawing on Scottish and South African case law, this article identifies three distinct ways in which the concept of 'excusable mistake' can be understood, dubbed careless mistake, blameless mistake and justifiable mistake. Each of these versions of the requirement is evaluated, first, according to whether it is compatible with the principles underlying the condictio indebiti and, secondly, according to whether it is supported by any compelling argument of policy or equity. It is concluded that whereas the version of the requirement dominant in modern Scottish law is defensible as a matter of principle, any role which it might play as a mechanism for protecting the security of receipts is largely obviated by the defence of change of position or loss of enrichment. The second and third versions of the requirement, however, are found to be wholly incompatible with the principles underlying the condictio: whereas the second rests on an inappropriate analogy between mistake as a reason for restitution and mistake as an excuse for wrongful conduct, the third rests on a conception of the condictio indebiti - as a form of equitable intervention based on of the unconscionable conduct of the recipient - which is entirely alien to the principled basis of the action

Unjustified Enrichment

Nel v Jonker [2011] ZAWCHC 5 (17 February 2011) an unreported judgment discussed in 2011 Annual Survey 1257 and which dealt with maintenance paid in respect of a child which was later shown to be unrelated to the plaintiff, and the condictio indebiti , has in fact now been reported as MN v AJ 2013 (3) SA 26 (WCC)

Nonprofit Capacity Assessment: Indiana Charities, 2007

Presents findings from a survey of Indiana nonprofit organizations about their needs for technical assistance and capacity building. Aims to provide grantmakers with reliable data to inform charitable efforts and strategies in these areas

A New System: Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information

Social and natural scientists face a burgening volume of informatio

The SEC, the Audit Committee Rules, and the Marketplaces: Corporate Governance and the Future

The “Audit Committee Rules” (the Audit Rules) comprise an integrated set of regulations issued by the Securities Exchange Commission (the SEC), the marketplaces, and the accounting profession. The genesis of the Audit Rules was a determination by the SEC that the quality of the financial data reported by companies with publicly traded securities was susceptible to distortion (intentional or otherwise) in response to the pressures of the new, increasingly volatile and demanding marketplace. The SEC further determined that altering the information flow and relationships within a company and between the company and its outside auditors could minimize this potential for distortion. This change focused on the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. Several different pieces of the overall puzzle, however, had to be changed to do this: the structure and function of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, the applicable independence standards or the company’s outside financial auditors, the relationship between the Audit Committee and the auditors, and the public disclosure of this information flow and review of the company’s financial statements

An evaluation of two types of workbook exercises for the improvement of recall

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive