In 2014, John Loxley was called as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a legal case filed 2007 by First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Caring Society) Assembly of (AFN) against Government Canada. The alleged that Canadian government's choice to underfund child welfare other children's services on reserves Yukon amounted racial discrimination. Loxley's expertise, context, derived f...

Since the beginning of this century the German financial system has changed from an extreme universal banking system to a more financial market oriented system in various aspects. Most importantly and most visibly, the corporate governance and corporate control structure underwent substantial changes. In fact, hedge funds and other activist investors are increasingly taking advantage of a contr...

We present a simple model of the macroeconomy that includes a role for an assetprice bubble, and derive optimal monetary policy settings for two policy-makers. The first policy-maker, a sceptic, does not attempt to forecast the future possible paths for the asset-price bubble when setting policy. The second policy-maker, an activist, takes into account the complete stochastic implications of th...

Recent developments in the domain of Information Retrieval triggered a revolution in social sciences. NLP and the semantic web provide methods to study various social phenomena from a crowd angle, instead of a domain expert angle. Extracting meaningful entities from raw text and aggregate the information gathered provides a basis for all kinds of visualizations. The MONA project is such a proje...

This article presents an electoral model where activist groups contribute resources to their favored parties. These resources are then used by the party candidates to enhance the electoral perception of their quality or valence. We construct an empirical model of the United States presidential election of 2008 and employ the electoral perception of the character traits of the two candidates. We...

BACKGROUND This paper analyzes the strategies used by activist health professionals in Argentina who justify providing abortion despite legal restrictions on the procedure. These "insider activists" make a case for abortion rights by linking pregnancy termination to a woman's ability to exert agency at a key point in her reproductive life, and argue that refusing women access to the procedure c...

www.ee.usp.br/reeusp Rev Esc Enferm USP · 2016;50(3):495-501 1 Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil. 2 Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 3 Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. 4 Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem, Departamento de Orientação Profissional, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. ABSTRACT Objective: To analy...