Congress hears more and from everyday citizens. How do modern Congressional offices use this information to represent their constituents? Drawing on original interviews a survey of staff, we explore how representation works in practice when new data tools, such as databases downscaled public opinion polls, are available. In contrast with established theories that focus responsiveness, show is t...

An estimated 95 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies either have a data warehouse in place or are planning to develop one [2]. The Palo Alto Management Group predicts that the data warehousing market will grow to a $113.5 billion market in 2002, including the sales of systems, software, services, and in-house expenditures [1]. These trends indicate that data warehousing continues to be an impo...

see Leor Halevi, Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). See also Jane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981). On twentiethcentury reformist movements and political debates there is a vast literature; see, e.g., Richard P. ...

Yan Lavallée*, Fabian B. Wadsworth, Jérémie Vasseur, James K. Russell, Graham D. M. Andrews, Kai-Uwe Hess, Felix W. von Aulock, Jackie E. Kendrick, Hugh Tuffen, Andrew J. Biggin and Donald B. Dingwell 1 Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Earth and Environment, Ludwig Maximilan University of Munich, Munich, Germany 3 Volcanology and Petrology Laborator...

How should a monopolist price a durable good or a new technology that is subject to network externalities? In particular, should the monopolist set a low \introductory price" to attract a \critical mass" of adopters? In this paper, we provide intuition as to when and why introductory pricing might occur in the presence of network externalities. Incomplete information about demand or asymmetric ...

creativity or uncreativity of the rational soul is one of the oldest problem of philosophy. ibn sina by giving some proofs has proven the creativity of the rational soul. fakhr ad-din ar razi has propsed several critics to each of the avecina’s argument. in this article, we are going to prove that, the origin of razi’s critics is his misunderstanding in ibn sina’s philosophical views in potenti...

The greatest respect an author can receive is when another scholar offers a rejoinder to one of his articles. In the spring edition of AUSS, Richard Davidson has done me the honor of offering a criticism of my article in the same issue.' Davidson agrees that the veil mentioned in Heb 6:19 is the inner and not the outer veil of the tabernacle. This abandons the position so tenaciously defended b...