We utilize the Cox and Katz (1998, 2002) bargaining model of the redistricting process and data from the 1972-2000 House elections to answer two questions: first, does the creation of majority-minority districts increase the likelihood that minority candidates will be elected in those districts? Second, does the creation of majority-minority districts also generate pro-Republican gerrymanders? ...

Purpose – The paper aims to describe an electronic text project involving a scholarly history journal, and to share findings related to the encoding of serials using the text encoding interchange (TEI) guidelines. Design/methodology/approach – The project was completed using a combination of in-house and outsourced digitization and encoding, employing a variety of methods for quality control an...

Statoil has used an in-house developed MPC since 1997. Several applications are running in closed loop today, with quite a good performance and average service factors of approximately 99%. All application projects have used internal resources only, which means that the competence has been aggregated within the company and that the best practice has been integrated in the MPC software. The tota...

Background In 2006 Novo Nordisk decided to invest in building a pipeline within inflammatory disease management. To support this strategy the cell culture units had to establish technology for expression and production of monoclonal antibodies in CHO cells. A number of technology providers at that time offered proven platform processes for this purpose. It was decided to in-license one of these...

Copyright C 2014 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Asian Spine Journal • pISSN 1976-1902 e...

background: burnout syndrome is the most dangerous threatening factor of worker’s health working in health. the aim of this study was determined the relationship between burnout and performance of health house workers in east azerbaijan. method: this is a cross sectional study which have been done on 89 health house workers in east azerbaijan’s. data collection by jackson and mazlak’s standard ...

Organisations are becoming increasingly more reliant on leveraging their information and knowledge to gain competitive advantage. The creation, storage and dissemination of information and knowledge about customers, and products and services, is particularly important. Effective knowledge management also involves organisational changes including shifts in power, values and processes. In this pa...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank my faculty advisor, Professor Edward Tower, for his invaluable assistance and guidance at every stage of this paper's creation. I would also like to acknowledge Professor Kent Kimbrough for the useful feedback he provided as instructor of my Honors Seminar. Finally, I would like to thank my colleagues in that seminar for their comments and feedback: Abstra...

Using stable isotope tracers to identify hydrological flow paths, residence times and landscape controls in a mesoscale catchment P. Rodgers , C. Soulsby, S. Waldron, and D. Tetzlaff Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, United Kingdom Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East K...