L argely unfettered by disciplinary dogma, Ester Boserup observed human–environment relationships through an expansive analytical lens. Her ideas on agricultural change, gender, and development shook up research and practice in the mid-1960s and early 1970s and remain cogent half a century later for the development dimensions of sustainability. In this 100th year since her birth, it is worthwhi...

The authors share their experiences of teaching computer science at Moscow universities since early 1970s. During this period the technical basis, as well as content and methods of teaching have dramatically changed. The authors state that studying of modern information technologies promotes the creative development of students; and the best way to prepare students for further work is involving...

We study the exact boundary controllability of two coupled one dimensional wave equations with a control acting only in one equation. The problem is transformed into a moment problem. This framework has been used in control theory of distributed parameter systems since the classical works of A.G. Butkovsky, H.O. Fattorini and D.L. Russell in the late 1960s to the early 1970s. We use recent resu...

Widespread interest in composting as a means of municipal sludge treatment began in the early 1970s, and has i n c r e d dramatically since that time. In 1984, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiated a technology evaluation of municipal sludge composting based on investigations at five o p erating facilities.' The facilities studied generally processed sludge reliably and effe...

Nowadays one of the most important issues in our economy, both from economic and political view is the link between monetary policy and business cycle fluctuations. Amongst the shocks related to the supply side, the shock of oil price is the important factor that has affected the world economy since the 1970s. This paper examines the effects of monetary policy and oil price shocks on the busine...

Since its inception in 1858 the General Medical Council has struggled with the difficult job of maintaining both public and professional interests, and many of the criticisms made of it now have been made since then. Its latest "revolution" grew out of protests mademostly by doctors-during the late 1960s and early 1970s and culminated in the Medical Act 1978. Now a new head of steam is building...

Behavioral research and analysis is prone to both error and bias, particularly in the early stages of a discipline, in part because it is widely (and erroneously) believed that “behavior” is rather simple and can be easily described or quantifi ed. However, since the 1970s for terrestrial animals, and since the late 1990s for marine mammals, systematic protocols of data gathering and ever more ...