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Challenging or Reinforcing Social Prejudice?

Behavior genetics holds out the hope of unbiased study of the biological bases of human behavior. Without more rigorous reflection on behavioral concepts, however, behavior genetics will succeed only in reinforcing social biases. This point is illustrated with reference to studies on aggression, sexual orientation, and gender differences.

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Randolph v. Franklin Investment Co.: Forfeiture of Deficiency Judgement for Failure to Give Reasonable Notice of Resale under the Default Provisions of the U.C.C.

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Exact S-matrices for a class of 1+1-dimensional integrable factorized scattering theories with Uq(sl2) symmetry and arbitrary spins

In this thesis we will study the S-matrices associated to a new class of (1+1)-dimensional integrable models with Uq(sl2) symmetry, whose asymptotic particle states organize into a k/2 isospin multiplet, with k= 0,1,2,... Such S-matrices generalize the case study previously analyzed by S. R. Aladim and M. J. Martins, where it was only investigated the non-deformed limit q→1 of pure SU(2) symmetry. We check that the proposed S-matrix satisfies the constraints due to the the Yang-Baxter equation, crossing-symmetry requirement and unitarity and therefore defines a self-consistent integrable factorized scattering theory

Criminal Procedure

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Aristotle’s notion of proportional equality: A contribution to resolving socio-political discrepancies in Tanzania

Like other countries Tanzania makes effort to advocate and to enforce equality among citizens. Such effort is backed by the Constitution of the United Republicof Tanzania which states that all persons are equal before the law and that have a right to equal protection by law. Despite this Constitutional stipulation of equality Tanzanians in their socio-political lives experience instances of equality-discrepancy which are justified by culture, policies and law. It is against the background of such discrepancies that in this paper we seek to understand what kind of equality is cherished in the context of Tanzania. We bring onboard Aristotle’s concept of Proportional Equality as a guide to understand what is meant by equality of all persons in the Tanzanian context. With the help of Aristotle’s concept of Proportional Equality our discussion helps sort out such discrepancies by affirming that in its cultural frameworks, policies and legal systems Tanzania differentiates between mathematical equality and proportional equality, and between equality of the means and equality of the end. It is on such grounds, we maintain that in the Tanzanian context equality should be interpreted as equality of the end rather than confining it to the equality of the means, and that proportional equality takes preference over mathematical equality

Adult male coatis play with a band of juveniles.

This study examined the play behaviour in one group of coatis (Nasua narica) at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. We incidentally found adult males playing with juvenile coatis, and conducted post-hoc analyses to investigate this interaction. Coati groups consist of adult females and juveniles of both sexes until male juveniles reach two years of age and leave the band to become solitary. Adult males only tolerate juveniles for a brief period during breeding season when the males court females to mate. Outside of the breeding season, adult males are known to prey on juveniles. In this study, when adult males were present with the band, play occurred more than was expected by chance, and adult males engaged in many of these play bouts. Because the mechanisms driving infanticidal behaviour are not well understood, and adult male coatis show a range of behaviours from infanticide to highly affiliative interactions with juveniles, using coatis as a model system may elucidate mechanisms underlying infanticide.This research was partially supported by The Evergreen State College Foundation Activity Grant and The Explorers Club Youth Activity Grant.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Instituto Internacional de Ecologia via http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1519-6984201300020001

Factors Predicting Turnover of International Science and Engineering Faculty at US Research Universities

In today’s global knowledge-economy, US research universities seek to attract and retain the best and brightest faculty in the world to increase the university’s intellectual capital and compete on a global scale. Increasingly, universities hire talented international faculty to fulfill these needs, which is especially prevalent in the science and engineering fields (S&E). International faculty benefit US universities in areas of research and scholarship as well as increased diversity and internationalization of the campus, however, not all international S&E faculty are retained. In fact, higher turnover has been found among international S&E faculty than their domestic peers (Kim, Twombly, & Wolf-Wendel, 2012), which results in high financial costs of replacement and disruptions to research projects and education programs. To decrease these costs and continue to compete on a global scale, US research universities must seek to retain talented international faculty at their institutions. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of international S&E faculty who leave US institutions for another job and their career path after departure. Results of this research may inform programs and practices which seek to retain international faculty in S&E departments at US research universities. This study utilized a large, national dataset from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation and provided results through descriptive statistics summaries and binary logistic regression analyses. The dependent variable studied was job departure between February 2015 and February 2017. Independent variables were categorized as perceived desirability of movement factors, perceived ease of movement factors, and institutional factors. This study’s descriptive statistics summaries showed a higher percentage of female faculty than previous studies and a lower departure rate than previously reported. Most international faculty who leave their job remain in the US, however, almost a third leave higher education. Among predictors of international S&E faculty turnover, perceived desirability of movement and perceived ease of movement factors were both found to be significant, yet institutional factors were not significant. Perceived ease of movement factors, specifically employment factors within this category, had the greatest explanatory power of the decision to leave

Economic Diversity and Informed Old Age Social Policy

The issue explored here is an example of the interface between social research and social policy in the United States. The aging policy debate concerning the economic status of the elderly has tended to focus upon the disadvantaged; it is informed by a relatively selective view of the financial resources of older persons. The result has been policy that is vulnerable to the market attention given to the advantaged elderly by business as the economic status of the elderly improves. Sociological practitioners whose work focuses upon older Americans are in a unique position to understand this policy problem and to address the needs of the elderly on both ends of the economic spectrum