Edwin Meléndez is a Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. He was appointed as the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies in 2008. An economist by training, he has conducted considerable research in the areas of Puerto Rican and Latino studies, economic development, labor markets, and poverty. In addition to numerous scientific papers and other publications, he is t...

Every fall since 1950, the New Mexico Geological Society (NMGS) has held an annual Fall Field Conference that explores some region of New Mexico (or surrounding states). Always well attended, these conferences provide a guidebook to participants. Besides detailed road logs, the guidebooks contain many well written, edited, and peer-reviewed geoscience papers. These books have set the national s...

2014 A review of low temperature techniques as applied to neutron scattering studies is presented. Methods of temperature measurements especially carbon thermometry are discussed. Problems of heat transfer are treated in detail for different kind of samples and some solutions are proposed. Revue Phys. Appl. 19 (1984) 677-683 SEPTEMBRE 1984, The number of neutron scattering studies at temperatur...

This investigation, in Bishop’s constructive mathematics in sense of well-known books [2], [3], [6] and Romano’s papers [9]-[15], is continuation of forthcoming Crvenkovic, Mitrovic and Romano’s paper [4], and the Romano’s paper [16]. Bishop’s constructive mathematics is developed on Constructive logic (or Intuitionistic logic ([19])) logic without the Law of Excluded Middle P ∨¬¬P . Let us not...

Mumtaz Ahmad is professor in Hampton University’s Department of Political Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ “Fundamentalism Project,” Dr. Ahmad has been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Fellow of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Fulbright Professor in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and a Vis...

Posner`s (2010) analysis offers many exciting insights into the principal-agent problem, particularly with respect to the secret service. I argue that it would be useful to consider a broader model of human behaviour, which includes awards as extrinsic incentives beyond pay, as well as intrinsic motivation. A more comparative stance that goes beyond the United States would be a useful check of ...

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It took the author 30 years to develop the Viable System Model, which sets out to explain how systems are viable – that is, capable of independent existence. He wanted to elucidate the laws of viability in order to facilitate the management task, and did so in a stream of papers and three (of his ten) books. Much misunderstanding about the VSM and its use seems to exist; especially its methodol...

interest demonstrated by a case study of liquid milk. French and Phillips indicate the importance of pressure groups in influencing the views of both civil servants and politicians about the regulatory framework that was desirable and practicable, the latter amounting to the exercise of "bureaucratic discretion". Moreover, the authors hint at a problematized version of Whitehall and Westminster...