September 6, 2008 at 11:57 pm
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Noble fundraising effort that happens to be completely illegal.
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Specific physical or mental practice may induce short- and long-term neuroplastic changes in the motor system and cause tools to become part of one’s own body representation. Athletes who use tools as part of their practice may be an excellent model for assessing the neural correlates of possible bodily representation-changes that are specific to extensive practice. We used single-pulse trans-cranial magnetic stimulation to measure cortico-spinal excitability in forearm and hand muscles of expert tennis players and novices while they mentally practiced a tennis forehand, table tennis forehand, and a golf drive. The muscles of expert tennis players showed increased cortico-spinal facilitation during motor imagery of tennis but not golf or table tennis. Novices, although athletes, were not modulated across sports. Subjective reports indicated that only in the tennis imagery condition did experts differ from novices in the ability to form proprioceptive images…
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September 3, 2008 at 11:57 pm
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The lofty theory, and tough reality, of a link between two peoples who have always known the meaning of diaspora
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Tourism is a phenomenon that can cook your food or burn your house down. In other words, we all risk destroying the very places that we love the most. Nowhere more so than on islands. Islands symbolize vacation. Escape! Their very insularity makes them more attractive than a comparable piece of real estate on the mainland. They are worlds unto themselves—their own traditions, ecosystems, cultures, landscapes. That’s what attracts us. But as microworlds, islands are also more vulnerable to population pressure, climate change, storm damage, invasive species, and now, tourism overkill.
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For all that is great in Granada. For all there is to experience in this unique Andalucian City. Learn to speak Spanish, or to Dance, Walk Granada or Eat Tapas. Discover all (todo) that is available in Granada via this informative site. Written by people who live there.
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After centuries of denying a common history with Islam, Spaniards are once again trying to live together with Muslims. In Granada, home of the Alhambra and former center of Moorish Spain, a multicultural revival is taking shape that sees Christians and Muslims coexisting in mutual respect.
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September 2, 2008 at 11:56 pm
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FMO provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users. We have prepared an introductory guide to forced migration for visitors who are new to the subject.
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A campuswide research unit of the University of California-San Diego, established in 1999, CCIS conducts basic and policy-oriented Research Projects on international migration and refugee flows throughout the world. We seek to illuminate the U.S. immigration experience through systematic comparison with other countries of immigration, especially in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Each year, our Visiting Fellowship Program brings together a multidisciplinary, multinational community of researchers sharing these interests.
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At Beyond Solar, we believe that through the use of solar power, we can dramatically improve the health, educational and economic well being of individuals throughout the developing world. The concept is simple: access to clean and renewable energy can be the springboard to an improved standard of living. By providing basic electricity through solar power, we can set in motion a domino effect of transformative change that is felt by the individual, the family, and the surrounding community. We deliver value Beyond Solar.
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One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this - the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a simple theoretical model of accountability in the absence of regularized elections. Leadership turnover is managed by a selectorate - a group of individuals on whom the leader depends to hold onto power. Good policy is institutionalized when the selectorate removes poorly performing leaders from office. This requires that the selectorate’s hold on power is not too dependent on a specific leader being in office. The paper looks empirically at spells of autocracy to establish cases where it has been successful according to various objective criteria. We use these case studies to identify the selectorate in specific instances of successful autocracy.
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One of the few stylized facts in international relations is that democracies, unlike autocracies, very rarely fight each other. We examine the sustainability of international peace between democracies and autocracies, where the crucial difference between these two political regimes is whether or not policymakers are subject to periodic elections. We show that the fear of losing office can deter democratic leaders from engaging in military conflicts. Crucially, this discipline effect can only be at work if incumbent leaders can be re-elected, implying that democracies in which the executives are subject to term limits should be more conflict prone.
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August 30, 2008 at 12:14 am
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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign was undone by a clash of personalities more toxic than anyone imagined. E-mails and memos—published here for the first time—reveal the backstabbing and conflicting strategies that produced an epic meltdown.
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August 29, 2008 at 12:44 am
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Welcome to Venture Voice, a podcast that explores how entrepreneurs build their businesses and live their lives. We're posting audio shows of our conversations on this site, along with notes on each interview. Enjoy!
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August 28, 2008 at 12:44 am
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While assessing the hazards of hydrazine reentry from space, a journalist discovers the hazards of media commentary as well
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That's Wolof for "one hand can't clap" and this is Matt Yanchyshyn's world music for the masses.
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Sounds and experiences from the motherland.
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The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) is state-level health policy analysis and research center at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. SHADAC's affiliated faculty and staff conduct a variety of research and consultation projects for state and federal agencies. It was founded in 2000 with principal funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Center for an Urban Future is a New York City-based think tank that fuses journalistic reporting techniques with traditional policy analysis to produce in-depth reports and workable policy solutions on the critical issues facing our cities.
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Airplanes as billboards?
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August 26, 2008 at 12:45 am
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August 22, 2008 at 12:45 am
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Flows of official development assistance (ODA) to recipient countries have been highly volatile and this reduces their value. At the macro level, empirical evidence suggests that volatile ODA can negatively impact growth through several channels. At the micro level, volatility can affect fiscal planning and the level and composition of investment. This working paper develops a simple financial metric that policy makers can use to estimate (and reduce) the cost of aid volatility. Unlike other estimates, our measure does not depend on parameter estimates from cross-country regressions, nor on country-specific model simulations.
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