From Electioneering to Governing: Obama’s Transition as Legitimation Ritual

Curriculum Policy as Compensatory Legitimation? a View from the Periphery

The continuing debate on the relevance and imposition of `Western theories' for explaining educational policy in the Third World is fascinating on a rhetorical level but lacking in the actual `testing' of such theories in a crossnational context. Responding to the general debate, and to a particular paper by Hans Weiler included in this issue of the Oxford Review of Education, on curriculum ref...

Governing Stock Markets in Transition Economies: Lessons from China

Jump-starting stock markets in transition economies has proved difficult. These countries lack effective legal governance structures and face severe information problems. Yet not all financial markets failed because of adverse conditions. Using China’s initial stock market development as a case study, this article suggests that administrative governance can substitute for formal legal governanc...

An Uncertainty-based Transition from Open Pit to Underground Mining

There are some large scale orebodies that extend from surface to the extreme depths of the ground. Such orebodies should be extracted by a combination of surface and underground mining methods. Economically, it is highly important to know the limit of upper and lower mining activities. This concern leads the mine designers to the transition problem, which is one of the most complicated problems...

Bringing Ritual to Mind

Male circumcision as a religious ritual.

Congenital satellite nevi are known risk factors for neurocutaneousmelanosis.1 Their impact on the risk formalignant melanoma is not as well established, but some studies point to a possible increased risk in patients with GCMN and satellite nevi.1,3 In summary, our patient is an example of the need for continued dermatologic follow-up and high index of suspicion for newnodules appearing in pat...