• In one recent study (Pew Research Center 2007), most African Americans reported that discrimination, while a regular and important presence in their lives, may be secondary to individual effort when it comes to ―getting ahead.‖ While public opinion data have limited value for making causal inferences, they do provide useful insight into perceptions that reflect life experiences. Discriminatio...

Some of the material here was originally presented at the World Bank Conference on Culture and Development, June 2002, as comments on Arjun Appadurai's paper (Appadurai (2002)). I am indebted to this paper for provoking some of the observations made here. I thank Dilip Mookherjee, Jonathan Morduch, Rohini Pande, and especially Srirupa Roy and Nilita Vachani for useful comments. I gratefully ack...

..............................................................................................................1 Background ..........................................................................................................2 Pew Center Coal Initiative Policy Evaluation Criteria Objectives and Description of CO2 Performance Standards ........................................5 Performance St...

*I want to thank Elliot Saltzman, Steven Keele, and Herbert Heuer for helpful comments on the manuscript. Preparation of this paper was supported in part by a grant from ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Laboratories, by a grant from Siemens Corporation, by a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program, by a grant from the McDonnell-Pew Foundation, and by grant N00014-90-J-1942 awar...

Number of figures: 4 Number of tables: 0 Number of pages (including front page): 24 Six keywords: neurons, motor cortex, decoding, finger movements, readout, neuronal population Acknowledgments: Ben Hamed and Pouget were supported by NIH MH57823 and research grants from the ONR, and the McDonnell-Pew, Sloan and Schmitt foundations. Schieber was supported by NIH NS27686. Page 1 of 31 Articles in...

*Fish Museum, Zoology Department, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard,Vancouver, BC,V6T 1Z4, Canada. ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research, PO Box 48561, 595 Burrard Street,Vancouver, BC,V7X1A3, Canada. Pew Institute for Ocean Science, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA. Shark Research Committee, PO Box 3483,Van Nuy...

In mid August Dexter Kozen, Joseph Newton Pew, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, will give a short course of six lectures on Set Constraints. Set constraints are inclusions between expressions denoting sets of ground terms. They have been used extensively in program analysis and type inference. The course will give an introduction to the theory and applications...

in the Sacramento River, California? By E. A. Mora, S. T. Lindley, D. L. Erickson and A. P. Klimley Joint Institute for Marine Observations, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA; Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, CA, USA; Pew Institute for Ocean Science, Rosenstiel School of marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; Depar...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Protein-energy wasting (PEW) is a well-known risk factor of long-term survival in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. Serum albumin is a measure of visceral protein, lean body mass is a measure of somatic protein stores and normalized protein nitrogen appearance is a measure of daily protein intake. A protein nutrition index (PNI) that combined these 3 factors was designed and te...