POLICY AND institutional quality are to a large extent endogenous. While the truth of this statement is familiar to most development scholars, the implications of it have drawn relatively little empirical attention. Understanding more about this relationship matters, because ‘‘poor institutional quality’’ and ‘‘failure to implement better policies’’ are so frequently identified as the causes of...

Semantic technology provides an abstraction layer above existing computational environments, especially the Web, to give information a well-defined meaning. Moving toward semanticaware environments imposes new security requirements. One of the most important requirement is the authorization and security policy inference based on the existing semantic relationships in the abstract (conceptual) l...

Privacy (broadly speaking) in the electronic age has become a valuable commodity as pointed out in [1]. Theoretical investigations of computational privacy games have been dominated by database centric models epitomized by the -differential privacy model introduced and developed by Dwork et all [5]. The inherent connections between privacy cryptography and mechanism design has also been emphasi...

This paper uses theories of policy learning and of policy-making to examine how global institutions such as the WTO can influence policy choices. In pure learning by doing, policy choices are based on information relating to the history of an active policy; there is no information on alternative policies. New information on priors provides an incentive to choose a different policy. In the case ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between test anxiety with mental health and implicit-explicit self esteem. the comparison of these constructs between talented and normal schools students was assessed as well.  112 talented school male students and 96 normal school male students from khorasan razavi were selected by convenience sampling and completed the package of inst...

this study examines the efficiency of pedagogical intervention in raising l2 pragmatic awareness of the iranian efl learners. more specifically, it seeks to investigate the difference between explicit and implicit instructions in improving pragmatic appropriateness of the english refusals by adult persian native speakers in an efl classroom context. fifty-four participants, with approximately t...

BACKGROUND Citation data can be used to evaluate the editorial policies and procedures of scientific journals. Here we investigate citation counts for the three different publication tracks of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). This analysis explores the consequences of differences in editor and referee selection, while controlling for th...

Proceso editorial, justicia 1 (peor) 6 2,8 2 26 12 3 59 27,3 4 93 43,1 Durante el año 2012, el equipo editorial de Gaceta Sanitaria iseñó y envió una encuesta a los 2760 socios y socias de SESPAS. l cuestionario se diseñó en formato online y se envió por correo lectrónico a través de SESPAS en dos rondas: el primer envío se fectuó el 17 de abril y el segundo el 3 de mayo. Posteriormente e puso ...

This paper uses theories of policy learning and of policy-making to examine how global institutions such as the WTO can influence policy choices. In pure learning by doing, policy choices are based on information relating to the history of an active policy; there is no information on alternative policies. New information on priors provides an incentive to choose a different policy. In the case ...

The EDEE system provides a framework through which businesses may store the data pertaining to business events, contracts and organizational policies, within a single repository using the unifying notion of an occurrence. A collection of stored queries (cf. SQL views) is maintained. Each query describes the desirable, undesirable, and not-undesirable occurrences under the provisions (obligation...