.............................................................................................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................... 6 1. METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE: A REVIEW OF ARGUMENTS............................ 8 1.1 The debate on metropolitan governance: three waves ...

This report provides a comprehensive overview of 1990 and 2000 neighborhood dissimilarity indices measured for Blacks and Whites, Asians and Whites, and Hispanics and Whites among the nation’s 318 metropolitan areas, as well as 1220 places with populations exceeding 25,000 in 2000. Unlike most earlier studies which measure segregation on the basis of census tracts, this study measures segregati...

The paper describes the process of security sector reform in Guatemala with reference to efforts implement community-based policing practices. results point difficulties shaking-off public understandings honed during armed conflict and underscore a still young police institution position itself democratic context. study posits that community-oriented strategies open opportunities forward high-v...

Co-management is seen as a means to effectively manage common-pool resources, especially collaborations based on sharing of roles and responsibilities between state non-state actors. Collaborations depend certain key intermediary bridging actors who facilitate coordinate links these In this paper, we aim understand the role in shaping networks co-management by developing framework characteristi...

the increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raise the issue of trust. through the development of semantic web, one major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the semantic web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. this raises the question of how much credence to give each resource. each user knows the trustworthiness of ...

This paper extends the recent empirical literature on the relationship between local decentralization and growth using data from both metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions in the U.S. The analysis utilizes both metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions, and thus avoids the possible selection bias present in previous research. The results for non-metropolitan regions indicate a relatively we...

PURPOSE The relative absence of racial/ethnic minorities among medical research subjects is receiving considerable attention because of recent government mandates for their inclusion in all human subject research. We examined racial differences in the prevalence of sociocultural barriers as a possible explanation for the underrepresentation of African Americans in medical research studies. ME...

Key Findings. (1) Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) operate in non-metropolitan counties in every U.S. Census Region. (2) 79 Medicare ACOs operate in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties. (3) Medicare ACOs operate in 16.7% of non-metropolitan counties. (4) 9 ACOs operate exclusively in non-metropolitan counties, including at least 1 in every U.S. Census Region.

It is a common and useful task in a web of trust to evaluate the trust value between two nodes using intermediate nodes. This technique is widely used when the source node has no experience of direct interaction with the target node, or the direct trust is not reliable enough by itself. If trust is used to support decision-making, it is important to have not only an accurate estimate of trust, ...