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We revisit the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces. A comparison of off-sample (1996-2004) predictions to actual emissions indicates that more stringent rules are still needed to fight industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution; and, commitment to control industrial dust pollution is correlated with local governments' budget balance.

Статья посвящена актуальному и малоразработанному в отечественной науке вопросу о понятии и видах норм права Европейского Союза. Проводится четкое различие между категориями «источник» права ЕС и норма права ЕС. Дается научно обоснованная основная и вспомогательная классификация норм права ЕС. ; The article is devoted to an urgent and non touched in a domestic science question on concept and kinds of norms of the right of European Union. The precise distinction between categories "source" of the right of the EU and norm of the right of the EU will be shown. The reasonable scientific basic and auxiliary classification of norms of the right of the EU is given.

War and military institutions have played a crucial part in the history of Angola. Colonial wars, auxiliary armies, expeditions, and soldiergovernors fill the pages of this history, and it is no exaggeration to recall that military expenses have, except for some years during 1930–58, represented the major item in annual budgets since the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese began to conquer the Luanda hinterland. The character and role of the armed forces in Angola, however, have undergone changes: especially since 1961, new developments promise possibly important influences on future events in that territory, events which may not follow traditional patterns in history.

Experiments were conducted to determine: 1) sets of geometric symbols which can be discriminated from each other and recognized with high accuracy under a variety of display conditions, especially those involving degradation of the image in ways similar to those that occur on radar displays, and 2) the size and strokewidth to height ratio desirable for symbols to be used on complex displays. The recommended symbols are illustrated in the report; symbol height should be 1/2 inch or more and the strokewidth should be 1/8 to 1/10 of the height. Suggestions for combining auxiliary symbols with primary symbols are given.

Children with attention deficits are usually integrated in regular primary school classes in Croatia, without any special educational treatment nor interventions. Teachers, whose primary education does not include educational methods for working with children with developmental disabilities or procedures of inclusion of such children in regular classes, must do their best to be successful in education and integration of this specific group of children. The main objective of this research was to determine the differences in use of educational strategies (upbringing and teaching) and misbehavior management (positive and negative) among primary school teachers working with children with attention deficits in respect of their gender, level of education, years of work experience and whether they teach in lower or upper grades of primary school. The research covered 31 primary schools from 3 counties of the eastern part of the Republic of Croatia. Participants were teachers (N=103) teaching in lower grades (from 1st to 4th) (51%), and in higher grades (from 5th to 8th) (49%) of primary schools. 12.8% of them were male and 87.2% female teachers. Teachers gave estimations for their students who had attention deficits (N=305), 85.6% (N=261) were male and 14.4% (N=44) were female students. The age span of estimated students was 7 to 15 years, and the average age was 10.69 years (SD=2.26). Teachers filled out the Educational desirable behavior-oriented strategy scale (upbringing and teaching subscales) and the Scale of misbehavior management strategy (positive and negative discipline subscales). The results implicate that teachers in the lower grades of primary school use more positive disciplinary strategy than teachers in the higher grades of primary school. The results of the research have shown that teachers working with children having attention deficits more often use the educational strategy of upbringing than teaching. Teachers from lower grades of primary school and also female teachers more often used the ...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhetorics of democracy in the Americas -- Part 1 Questioning the Narratives of Democracy Beyond the West -- 1 The democratic hemisphere -- 2 A strange democracy: rhetoric, Posthegemony, and Latinamericanism -- 3 Draining the democracy: Donald J. Ttrump and anti-immigrant rhetoric -- 4 Revisiting the seeming impossibility of migrants as political actors -- 5 American Exceptionalism, baseball diplomacy, and the normalization of us-cuban relations -- Part 2 Problematizing and Reconstructing Democracy in Latin America -- 6 Communicating about corruption: Guatemalan Rhetorics of corruption -- 7 Re/tracing the local grassroots women activists' crafting of rhetorical agency in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico -- 8 The peace agreement and the rhetoric of religion in the Colombian plebiscite: religious activism and democracy -- 9 People, media, and democracy in Brazil: discourses about Lula's oratory in the Brazilian press -- 10 The farewell speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner -- 11 Spectacular crisis: Rhetorics of representation in Venezuela -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

This article introduces a theoretical model that shows how four mechanisms (work–life balance, psychological, gatekeeper bias and diversity mechanisms) explain why pursuing a nomination as list Members of Parliament is the more attractive option for women in mixed-member electoral systems. It also demonstrates how women's resulting greater likelihood of being list Members of Parliament creates what we call a gendered cycle, further reducing women's interest in the single-member district tier. To empirically test our model, we present quantitative data for the case of New Zealand and Germany, as well as qualitative interview data collected from members of German parties' women's auxiliary organisations.

This is a critical study of political economy and economic history on the scientific-university problems of economics, due to its epistemological and methodological reduction, which goes from analytical-empirical science to experimental science, with an econometric emphasis. Faced with the risk of extinction, due to its excessive identification with the natural sciences and the state welfare economy model, an epistemological revolution of reconnection with its roots, such as the legal sciences, is proposed here, in addition to paying attention to the dual disciplines of fundamentals. This has been done from the renovating approach of global economy and intercultural management of freshwater economics schools and business schools, to prepare students with revised foundations, which allow them to successfully face the digital transition and the cultural business and professional transformation. ; Este es un estudio crítico de economía política e historia económica sobre los problemas científico-universitarios de la economía, por su reducción epistemológica y metodológica, que pasa de la ciencia analítico-empírica a la experimental, con énfasis econométrico. Ante el riesgo de extinción, por su excesiva identificación con las ciencias naturales y el modelo de economía de bienestar estatal, se plantea aquí una revolución epistemológica de reconexión con sus raíces, como son las ciencias jurídicas, además de prestar atención a las disciplinas duales de fundamentos. Así se viene haciendo desde el renovador enfoque de economía global y gestión intercultural de las escuelas de economía de agua dulce y las escuelas de negocios, para preparar a los estudiantes con fundamentos revisados, que les permitan afrontar con éxito la transición digital y la transformación cultural empresarial y profesional. ; este é um estudo crítico de economia política e história econômica sobre os problemas científico-universitários da economia, por sua redução epistemológica e metodológica, que passa da ciência analítico-empírica à experimental, com ênfase econométrica. Ante o risco de extinção, por sua excessiva identificação com as ciências naturais e o modelo de economia de bem-estar estatal, propõe-se aqui uma revolução epistemológica de reconexão com suas raízes, como são as ciências jurídicas, além de prestar atenção às disciplinas duais de fundamentos. Assim, vem sendo feito desde a renovadora abordagem de economia global e gestão intercultural das escolas de economia de água doce e as escolas de negócios, para preparar os estudantes com fundamentos revisados, que lhes permitam enfrentar com sucesso a transição digital e a transformação cultural empresarial e profissional.

This study developed a noncontact fiber-optic temperature sensor that can be installed in a spent nuclear fuel pool. This fiber-optic temperature sensor was fabricated using an infrared optical fiber to transmit the infrared light emitted from water at a certain temperature. To minimize the decrease in the detection efficiency of the fiber-optic temperature sensor due to vapor generation, its surface was coated by spraying an antifog solution and drying several times. The measurement data of the fiber-optic temperature sensor was almost linear in the range of 30~70°C. This sensor could be used as an auxiliary temperature monitoring system in a spent nuclear fuel pool.

Рассматриваются порядок формирования и эффективность работы вспомогательного аппарата депутата законодательного (представительного) органа государственной власти субъекта Российской Федерации, состоящего из помощников депутата. Помощник депутата является одним из активнейших политических акторов. Руководство деятельностью помощников депутата осуществляется непосредственно депутатом, который самостоятельно распределяет обязанности между ними и является единственным лицом, имеющим право давать и проверять свои поручения. Проблема отношений депутатов законодательных (представительных) органов государственной власти субъектов Российской Федерации со своими помощниками в части реализации депутатских полномочий, на наш взгляд, существует давно. В настоящее время актуально вернуться к этим вопросам, т.к. формируется новый состав вспомогательного аппарата депутатов различного уровня: от федерального до регионального. В результате проведенных авторами социологических исследований подтверждается, что в целом политический ресурс помощников депутата и их роль во взаимодействии депутатов и избирателей оценивается не всегда положительно ; The article examines the formation and effectiveness of the auxiliary unit legislative deputy (representative) body of state authority of the Russian Federation, consisting of assistant deputies. Assistant deputy is one of the most active political actors. Manual deputy assistant activities are carried out directly by a deputy who independently allocates responsibilities between them and the only person who has the right to issue and validate their order. The problem of relations of deputies of legislative (representative) bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation and his assistants exists with regard to the implementation of parliamentary powers, in our opinion for a long time. Today it is very important to return to these issues, because a new composition of the auxiliary unit of deputies of different levels, from federal to regional is formed. As a result, the political resources of assistant deputies and their role in the interaction between deputies and voters are not always evaluated positively. This fact has been confirmed by the conducted sociological studies