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A death radically rearranges kinship, debt, obligation, and responsibility, and it also triggers prescribed routines for mourning and material disposal of the corpse. It is into this complex and fraught unfolding of events that the rhetorics of corporeal charity must be introduced and acted upon. In this article, I describe practices and practicalities of cornea donation in Sri Lanka in relation to ideas about merit and the nation state. In contrast with discourses about 'shortages', corneas, which are often elsewhere a particularly difficult tissue to elicit because of their links to the eye, appearance, identity, and inner consciousness (Hayward and Madill 2003), are in Sri Lanka not in short supply. Nor is religion an impediment to donation but rather, the day-to-day practice of Sinhala Buddhists provides an extremely compelling affective, moral, and political justification when it comes to pledging to donate. The article illustrates how and why this is the case.

Federal workforce : additional analysis and sharing of promising practices could improve employee engagement and performance / United States Government Accountability Office -- The power of federal employee engagement / U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.

The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transmigrant marriages, transmigrant workers in the entertainment industry and asylum seekers and refugees who are the victims of domestic violence.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Appendixes -- Preface -- 1 Livestock Systems in Investment and Economic Analysis -- Systems Analysis and Investment Decisionmaking -- Research Methods in Livestock Analysis -- Factors Influencing Livestock Systems -- Approaches to Systems Categorization -- Extensive Versus Intensive Cattle Systems -- Measurements with Animal Units -- Intensive Cattle Systems -- Other Livestock Systems -- 2 Budgeting and Production Economic Theory -- The Budgeting Process -- Production Functions -- Optimal Output -- Production Costs -- 3 Optimization: Marginal Principles and Linear Programming -- How Much Input to Use: Marginal Principles -- Decision Rule Application -- Purebred Dairy Breed Costs and Returns -- Dual-Purpose Breed Costs and Returns -- Discussion -- A Beef Cow/Calf Operation as a Last Example -- Linear Programming in Livestock Production Economics -- Notes -- 4 Cattle Systems in Whole-Farm Analysis -- Whole-Farm Planning -- Description of the Operation -- Weaning at 205 Kilos -- Growing -- Semiconfinement Grain-Finishing Operation -- Forage Finishing -- Combination Forage and Short-Term Grain Finishing -- Integrated System -- 5 Partial Budgeting: Techniques and Application -- The Partial Budgeting Technique -- Early Weaning: An Example -- Preconditioning Calves for Sale to Feedlots -- Supplemental Feeding of Steers on Pasture -- Parasite Control -- Economics of Anabolics -- 6 Economic Analyses in Fattening Cattle to Slaughter Weight -- Types and Economics of Feeding Facilities -- Methods for Carrying out Economic Analyses of Beef Cattle Feeding Trials -- Anabolics and Ionophores in Feedlot Cattle -- Feasibility Studies -- Worldwide Experiences with Feedlots -- Cooperative Feedlots -- 7 Goat and Sheep Systems and Economics.

This review examines the book Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia, an impact study of the widely lauded Kecamatan Development Program (KDP). The authors argue that KDP contributes to greater accountability, transparency, civic engagement—especially by previously marginalized populations—and nonviolent conflict resolution in areas where it is operating well, primarily through indirect feedback mechanisms poorly accounted for in the traditional economic metrics for evaluating such programs. The review suggests that the authors remain wedded to a set of neoliberal assumptions about development and insufficiently historicize the program's origins and role in Indonesian politics.

Abstract. Interviews and participation with members of rural volunteer fire departments (VFDs) in New York State, indicate that local communities in rural regions are structured around VFDs. Such "communities" involves both the fraternity of the fire house, resting on the teamwork essential to firefighting, and a wider locality, which the VFDs spatially define and symbolically integrate through a ritual of parades, fund raising efforts, and their example of community service. The working class, attached to the locality by stable residence and recruited intergenerationally into the fire service, supplies the majority of volunteers.Neoliberal modernization threatens this recruitment pattern. Problems have developed because the "new middle class" rejects VFD participation, except as ambulance volunteers. As localities compete for outside investment through the reduced cost of their services, they have exploited volunteers to provide fire protection at less cost than that of paid departments. This commodification of the VFDs risks destroying their character as a system of moral obligation unifying a locality and is an inequitable, and unsustainable, "tax" on working class volunteers. But innovative systems of emergency and other services can be used to attract the new male and female middle class into volunteer local activities.