Conclusion: Patterns of Non-Territorial Autonomy

Habsburg Austria: Experiments in Non-Territorial Autonomy

In the early twentieth century, three provinces of the Austrian half of the Habsburg Empire enacted national compromises in their legislation that had elements of non-territorial autonomy provisions. Czech and German politicians in Moravia reached an agreement in 1905. In the heavily mixed Bukovina, Romanian, Ukrainian, German, Jewish and Polish representatives agreed on a new provincial consti...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Shifting Patterns of Global Agricultural Productivity: Synthesis and Conclusion

Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Julian Alston is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, and associate director, Science and Technology, at the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. Bruce Babcock is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Agricultu...

Autonomy and non-autonomy in Drosophila mesoderm determination and morphogenesis.

The mesoderm in Drosophila invaginates by a series of characteristic cell shape changes. Mosaics of wild-type cells in an environment of mutant cells incapable of making mesodermal invaginations show that this morphogenetic behaviour does not require interactions between large numbers of cells but that small patches of cells can invaginate independent of their neighbours' behaviour. While the i...

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