Reflection on Benin Repatriation Conversation

Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions

This paper analyzes the effect of repatriation taxes on dividend payments by the foreign affiliates of American multinational firms. The United States taxes the foreign incomes of American companies, grants credits for any foreign income taxes paid, and defers any taxes due on the unrepatriated earnings for those affiliates that are separately incorporated abroad. This system thereby imposes re...

Reflection-in-action and Reflection-on-action*

Since the publication of Schon's (1983) book on the character and development of professional knowledge, our research has been directed at applying his theoretical position to the problem of how teachers acquire the knowledge of practice that allows them to teach as they do. Briefly, we have attempted to understand what lies behind the apparently simple notion that teachers learn to teach by te...

Establishing a Community of Conversation: Creating a Context for Self-Reflection Among Teacher Scholars

On Reflection Length in Reflection Groups

Let W be the Weyl group of a connected reductive group over a finite field. It is a consequence of the Borel-Tits rational conjugacy theorem for maximal split tori that for certain reflection subgroups W1 of W (including all parabolic subgroups), the elements of minimal reflection length in any coset wW1 are all conjugate, provided w normalises W1. We prove a sharper and more general result of ...

Is this conversation on track?

Confidence annotation allows a spoken dialog system to accurately assess the likelihood of misunderstanding at the utterance level and to avoid breakdowns in interaction. We describe experiments that assess the utility of features from the decoder, parser and dialog levels of processing. We also investigate the effectiveness of various classifiers, including Bayesian Networks, Neural Networks, ...