CONSOCIATIONAL THEORY, DEVELOPED BY AREND LIJPHART AND other scholars, is one of the most influential theories in comparative political science. Its key contention is that divided territories, be they regions or states, with historically antagonistic ethnically, religiously or linguistically divided peoples, are effectively, prudently, and sometimes optimally, governed according to consociation...

Demographic change can have profound effects on a country’s economy and public finances. These effects generally manifest themselves over multi-decade periods, but the deterioration in many countries’ public finances and concerns about their underlying growth potential have recently brought demographic issues to the fore. Against this background, this article reviews the medium-term demographic...

This paper examines a simple model of outsourcing involving matching frictions and home bias in firms’ acquisition of intermediate goods. Two groups of seller firms—local sellers and foreign sellers—may face different degrees of search frictions even though they are identical in terms of productivity. Two groups of buyer firms are considered: one group accepts local and foreign sellers equally,...

The most oft-repeated remark one hears these days in Pakistan is: What good is this $12 billion of foreign reserves when the plight of the common man is not improving. A lot of so-called learned economists have also opined that this money should be spent by the Government on increasing expenditure for reducing poverty. This paper attempts to address these issues and clarify the confused thinkin...

In this paper we study some aspects of North Korean economy through her import behavior. We have found that for North Korean economy some non-market factors are important determinants of the import behavior. Those non-market factors are the country’s political situations, its political relation with two communist superpowers, and its relation with the Western industrialized countries especially...

We present a method for identifying the positive or negative semantic orientation of foreign words. Identifying the semantic orientation of words has numerous applications in the areas of text classification, analysis of product review, analysis of responses to surveys, and mining online discussions. Identifying the semantic orientation of English words has been extensively studied in literatur...

A key issue in judging foreign accent is to isolate the phonetic component from potentially confounding higher-level factors such as grammatical or prosodic errors which arise when using natural sentence-length speech material. The current study evaluated accent and intelligibility ratings of children’s speech for isolated words spliced out of extemporaneous material elicited via a picture desc...

This article reviews empirical studies of organizational identity. It examines how the construct has been operationalized and measured. Most studies rely on Albert and Whetten’s (1985) definition of organizational identity, but differ in their interpretations of key dimensions, particularly in whether they rely on direct perceptions of organization members or more indirect measures to capture f...

Knowledge discovery systems for databases are employed to provide valuable insights into characteristics and relationships that may exist in the data, but are unknown to the user. This paper describes a methodology and system for performing knowledge discovery across multiple databases. These enhancements have been integrated into the prototype knowledge discovery system called INLEN. The enhan...

Introduction: Foreign-body aspiration is still considered one of the most important diagnostic and therapeutic issues for physicians. Mortality rates and the prevalence of diseases caused by foreign bodies in the airway are higher in children because of the relatively narrow airway and immature protective mechanisms. The aim of this study was to study the pattern of foreign-body aspiration in t...