Opposition to development or opposition to developers? Experimental evidence on attitudes toward new housing

Exploring Homeowner Opposition to Public Housing Developments

Android in opposition to iPhone

The paper is an analysis and comparison of the android mobile OS with the iPhone which have ruled the mobile market in past years today is facing a downfall just because of the introduction of this new OS. Android with its new and extraordinary features is being loved by all and is promising various amendments and introduction of newer applications to give the best to its users.Paper also highl...

Religious Opposition to Polio Vaccination

To the Editor: In 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was formed, with the aim of reducing infection with poliomyelitis virus. Two decades later in 2008, a total of 1,625 children contracted acute flaccid paralysis caused by poliovirus infection (1). This finding represented a 150% increase over the number of cases in 2007 (1) and resulted in the reemergence of polio as one of the wor...

Whites' Opposition to Busing: Symbolic Racism or Realistic Group Conflict?

The theory of symbolic racism contends that whites' opposition to busing springs from a basic underlying prejudiced or intolerant attitudinal predisposition toward blacks, not self-interest or realistic-group conflict motives. The present research argues that realistic group conflict motives do help explain whites' opposition to busing. Two major criticisms of the symbolic racism approach are m...

University opposition to unfettered research: a new bedfellow for biotech?

This Article examines university opposition to a proposed statutory exemption to infringement liability for basic genetic research and patient care. Gene patenting has allowed patentees to bar basic genetic research, slowing the progress of developing and administering diagnostics and gene-targeting therapeutics. Debates over the merits of gene patents have been heated, most recently leading to...