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Inequality and the Inflation Tax

Abstract Numerous studies document a positive correlation between inflation and income inequality. I show that this correlation has reversed, most notably in the European economies. More generally, the sign of the correlation depends on the time period and sample of countries. In the literature on the political economy of inflation, monetary financing and income taxes are substitutes. Correspondingly, as the correlation between inequality and inflation has become more negative, the correlation between inequality and income tax revenue has become more positive. Cross-country and panel regression analysis suggests that in democracies, independent central banks can resist political pressures for inflation that rise with inequality. (D31, E31, E50, P16)
Social Support and Career Motivation in Public Service

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A Quality of Life Perspective on the New Eugenics

Quality of life is a concept that has had robust development and application in the field of intellectual disability in recent decades. It functions as an apt goal for individuals to enhance their lives, as well as for policy and disability support. Quality of life helps address ethical issues by acting as a key guidepost in ethical considerations. Current philosophical and human rights approaches to disability support the view that intellectual disability is no reason to assume poor quality of life. Moreover, individuals with intellectual disabilities themselves typically rate their own quality of life quite high. Similarly, families perceive disability as contributing to family quality of life in some ways, although this is tempered by social constructs, especially normalcy, that support marginalization and discrimination. Disability Studies, and critical disability theory that constitutes much of its foundation, offer an alternative perspective of intellectual disability that values its contribution to larger society-intellectual disability as a positive and necessary aspect of the diversity within the human mosaic. It is argued that this perspective of intellectual disability negates the necessity of new eugenics practices.
THE EFFECT OF JOB CRAFTING ON JOB SATISFACTION: A RESEARCH ON TEACHERS

The current study aims to determine the relationship between job crafting and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 239 primary school teachers. The results showed that only the gender and age differentiate the levels of job crafting and job satisfaction. There were no differences in job crafting and job satisfaction levels of the teachers participating in the survey due to other demographic characteristics. The analyses found that, as a on its own behalf job design, job crafting effects job satisfaction positively, and has significant effect on. Results of the regression analyses it was found that job crafting has causal effect on job satisfaction. According to these results, the job satisfaction' of the teachers who are more flexible in functioning and more effective in the decision process will be high and this situation can increase the educational quality. The findings of the study emphasize the need for management to improve the initiatives of teachers on their job. Applied implications of the results are discussed.
Insolvency risk determinants and capital regulation effect on conventional and Islamic banks of Pakistan

In the wake of several recent bank collapses following the 2008 global financial crisis, insolvency risk, previously understudied, emerges as one of the key risks in the banking sector. Hence, this study aims to fulfill this gap by investigating insolvency risk ( measured by Z-SCORE) and its dependency on asset quality (nonperforming loans (NPL), provision for nonperforming loans (PNPL)), income structure (IATA, IITA, FBTA), macroeconomic factors (GDP growth, inflation (INF), Interest (INT) and Corruption (CUR). Capital regulation (CAR) is incorporated in the research model to assess its moderating effect on the relationships between those independent variables and insolvency risk. 161 conventional banks and 35 observations from Islamic banks of Pakistan were analyzed from 2007 to 2015 period. The data were collected from the several sources such as Annual report of banks, Economic Surveys of Pakistan, World Bank database and Transparency International reports. Random Effect, Common Effect model and Hierarchical Regression were performed to identify the determinants of insolvency risk and the moderating effect of CAR on the banks. The results show that NPL, IITA, FBTA, GDP, INF and CUR were found significant with insolvency risk in conventional banks, while CAR moderated NPL, PNPL and INF with insolvency risk. For Islamic banks, GDP was negatively whilst CUR was positively related to insolvency risk. Both were significant. In contrast to conventional banks, CAR strengthened NPL, PNPL, IATA, IITA and FBTA relationship with the Z-SCORE. The findings of CAR effect on the relationship between asset quality, income structure and macroeconomic factors with insolvency risk were mixed in conventional and Islamic banks of Pakistan. The mixed results imply that policy makers and practitioners should develop different prudential regulations and risk management strategies to conventional and Islamic banks in order to mitigate insolvency risk, hence increase the sustainable growth of Pakistani banks.
Concept Image And Symbol The Cognitive Basis Of Grammar

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Autocracy vs. Democracy: Political Regimes and Punctuated Equilibrium in Brazil

I test the punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) developed by Jones and Baumgartner (2005) in the context of authoritarianism and democracy in Latin America. By analyzing public budgeting in Brazil, I find evidence that supports the PET. In both political regimes, there is a combination of policy stability and policy punctuations, implying that the distinction between authoritarianism and democracy is not fundamental for understanding budget allocation in Latin America. I find that the level of proportionality in governmental response in authoritarian regimes is greater than in democracies and that proportionality is substantially lower in democracies when centrist ideology and severe economic constraints lead policymakers to develop a narrower set of goals. Once severe economic constraints decrease and a left-wing political party assumes power, the level of proportionality increases. Nevertheless, I find that the level of proportionality can be at best medium because of policymakers' limited attention to all issues. iv ACKNOLEDGMENTS I am thankful for the support that I received from the faculty at UNC during the last two years. The guidance of Frank R. Baumgartner since the very first week of my Master's program was extremely important for my development as a graduate student. Graeme Robertson's class on Democratization provided me with a strong theoretical background that made me increasingly curious about the topic of this thesis. Finally, Evelyne Huber's classes encouraged me to think more and more about theoretical questions in the context of Latin America. : thank you for the countless days of laughs and tears. I thank the Rotary Foundation for offering me a fellowship that allowed me to study in this department. I am in eternal debt with my parents, Carlos and Cristina, whose hard work took me here. They taught me that there is nothing more important in life than studying and doing things right. To my dearest husband, Theo, without whom none of this would be possible: thank you for your endless support, love, and care. Being in this journey with you is what makes everything possible.
Virtual manipulatives and physical manipulatives: technology's impact on fraction learning

This dissertation examines the relative instructional efficiency of virtual fraction manipulatives and physical fraction manipulatives. More specifically, this dissertation uses a randomized experiment to determine if differences in students' knowledge of fraction magnitude exist when students learn basic fraction concepts using virtual manipulatives compared to when students learn basic fraction concepts using physical manipulatives. During the experimental study, students spent two weeks learning about fractions using different forms of manipulatives (i.e. physical or virtual), but other important variables such as the teacher, lesson plans, instructional scripts, the type of practice activities assigned to students, and the amount of time students spent practicing using manipulatives were held constant across conditions. Students completed assessments at the end of both the first and second weeks of the intervention, and the results of the assessments indicate that virtual manipulatives are at least as effective as physical manipulatives and possibly more effective. This dissertation also examines the time-efficiency of using virtual rather than physical manipulatives by tracking the number of practice activities students completed on each day of instruction and making comparisons between treatment conditions. Results indicate that when the amount of time spent practicing is held constant, students complete more practice activities using virtual rather than physical manipulatives. However, the impact on student learning of the additional practice is unclear. This dissertation is divided into 5 chapters. Chapter I discusses the significance of the study and the specific research questions and hypotheses that were tested. It also presents the background literature. Chapter II provides a critical review of the empirical literature and a conceptual framework, and Chapter III discusses methodology. Chapter IV summarizes the results, and Chapter V includes the discussion, limitations, recommendations for future research, and conclusions.
Clustering, resource management, and replication support for scalable network services

With the increasing demand of providing highly scalable, available and easy-to-manage services, the deployment of large-scale complex server clusters has been rapidly emerging in which service components are usually partitioned, replicated, and aggregated. This dissertation investigates techniques in building a middleware system, called Neptune, that provides clustering support for scalable network services. In particular, Neptune addresses three specific aspects in support of network service clustering: (1) the development of a flexible and scalable clustering architecture with efficient load balancing support for fine-grain services; (2) the design and implementation of an integrated resource management framework that combines the “response time”-based service quality, overall resource utilization efficiency, and service differentiation support; and (3) the design and implementation of a service replication framework focusing on providing flexible replica consistency, performance scalability, and failure recovery support. Neptune has been implemented on Linux and Solaris clusters and a number of applications have been successfully deployed on Neptune platforms, including a large-scale document search engine.
The spillover effects of coworker, supervisor, and outsider workplace incivility on work‐to‐family conflict: A weekly diary design

J Organ Behav. 2019;1–13. Summary This study used an experience sampling design to examine the spillover effects of experienced workplace incivility from organizational insiders (coworkers and supervisors, respectively) and organizational outsiders (patients and their visitors) on targets' work‐to‐family conflict and to test the mediating effect of burnout and the moderating effect of display rules. Data collected over five consecutive weeks from 84 full‐ time nurses showed that within individuals, weekly experiences of coworker incivility and outsider incivility were positively related to weekly experience of work‐to‐family conflict, and burnout mediated these relationships while controlling for initial level of burnout before participants started a week's work. In addition, display rules, defined as the extent to which individuals perceive they are expected to display desired positive emotions and suppress negative emotions at work, moderated the relationship between outsider incivility and burnout; specifically, the positive relationship between weekly outsider incivility and burnout was stronger for individuals who perceived a higher level of display rules. Our findings contribute to the literature by demonstrating the mediating effect of burnout and the moderating effect of perceived display rules in the relationship between workplace incivility from multiple sources and work‐to‐family conflict from a resource perspective.
Optimizing Youth Risk Assessment Performance: Development of the Modified Positive Achievement Change Tool in Washington State

The Positive Achievement Change Tool (PACT) was developed in 1997 using a theoretical construction of items, responses, and weights. While derived from an original tool created for a Washington State probation population, the risk-need assessment is one of the most widely used youth tools utilized today. To advance the model from its theoretical construction, the current study demonstrates tool updates making use of a large sample of Washington State youth (N = 50,862). Specifically, several mechanisms were utilized to customize the assessment, including (a) item weighting, (b) outcome specificity, and (c) gender responsivity. Based on the updated design, we identify improvements in predictive validity of the continuous risk scale, accuracy of risk-level assignment, and reductions in racial/ethnic disparity. Scheduled to be implemented in the coming year, this article describes the development of the Modified Positive Achievement Change Tool (M-PACT).
Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?

In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career advancement. In this paper, we show that these evaluations contribute to improving students' performance, especially in math. This effect is seen not only for students taught by teachers the year of their evaluations but also for students taught by the same teachers the subsequent years, suggesting that evaluations improve teachers' core pedagogical skills. These positive effects persist over time and are particularly salient in education priority schools, in contexts where teaching is often very challenging. Overall, a system of light touch evaluations appears to be much more cost-effective than more popular alternatives, such as class size reduction.
Simulated vs. Hands-on Laboratory Position Paper

Virtual reality software has evolved to create ever more realistic virtual environments. Sophisticated virtual education laboratory experiments are now possible. Some educators and researchers question the value of hands-on laboratories relative to virtual laboratories. Researchers have investigated students’ acceptance of virtual laboratories and the relative effectiveness of virtual laboratories compared to traditional hands-on laboratories. Research results indicated that students’ attitudes toward virtual laboratory experiments are positive, and researchers found virtual laboratory experiments to be as effective as or more effective than traditional hands-on laboratories. However, researchers have not measured simulated laboratory effectiveness for all standard education laboratory goals. Simulated laboratory technology will be part of science education, but how to introduce laboratory simulations and the appropriate role for simulated laboratories remains a subject of debate. Are virtual laboratory experiments acceptable substitutes for hands-on laboratories in secondary education? To explore this question, laboratory goals and effectiveness criteria must be defined and measured for secondary education. This paper explores the goals and effectiveness of virtual and hands-on education laboratories. This paper also outlines the arguments for and against the replacement of traditional hands-on labs with simulated laboratories in secondary science education and makes a case for using laboratory simulations to supplement rather than replace traditional hands-on laboratories.
Leadership and School Culture of Mainstream and Special Primary Schools

Different leadership models as well as leadership skills are of interest to both the research area and the school environment. More specifically, in recent years, school leadership and school culture have been studied as two interrelated parameters of school units. The purpose of the study reported here was to investigate the relationship between the leadership of mainstream and special primary schools in terms of Extra Effort, Effectiveness and Satisfaction and their correlation with the dimension of School Culture. Another goal of the study was to examine the influence of specific demographic variables on the key factors of Leadership and School Culture. The sample consisted of 526 primary school teachers working in primary schools (PS) across Greece: 120 Headteachers/Assistant Headteachers of mainstream PS, 106 Headteachers /Assistant Headteachers of Special PS, 150 teachers of mainstream PS and 150 teachers of Special PS. The participants completed the Multifactoral Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) (Avolio & Bass, 2004) and the Questionnaire for School Culture (SCEQ) (Cavanagh & Dellar, 1997). Results showed that there were statistically significant differences in the sub-scales of Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Effectiveness, and Joint Planning with regard to gender and type of school. In addition, Transformational Leadership is significantly related to Transactional Leadership and Leadership Outcomes, and Transformational Leadership is related to the subscales of School Culture. The findings of this research will be discussed in the context of formulating proposals for the key role of school leadership in the school environment of the future.
Space charge formation in gamma-irradiated low-density polyethylene

Energetic ionising radiation can alter the chemical structure of polymeric materials and may also give rise to the presence of trapped charge within the material, the trapping characteristics of which may be influenced by these radiation-induced structural alternations. In the present work, space charge formation in irradiated low-density polyethylene (LDPE) was investigated using the laser induced pressure pulse (LIPP) technique. Specimens of LDPE, /spl sim/350 /spl mu/m thick, were irradiated in a /sup 60/Co /spl gamma/-source in air at ambient temperature to various doses and the results indicate that space charge distributions are dependent on both dose and applied electric stress and the length of time for which the stress is applied.
Word Meaning And Montague Grammar The Semantics Of Verbs And Times In Generative Semantics And In Montagues Ptq

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The antecedents of tourist attitudes to revisit and revisit intentions for coastal tourism

PurposeThis study aims to empirically examine the factors that are likely to affect tourists’ attitudes to revisit, which, in turn, influence their revisit intentions towards beach destinations.Design/methodology/approachData were collected through a personal-administered survey of 601 tourists from three leading beach destinations in Bangladesh.FindingsThe empirical results indicate that perceived destination risks affect neither tourists’ attitudes to revisit nor their revisit intentions. However, tourists’ satisfaction and destination image directly affect both their attitudes to revisit and their revisit intentions.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study contribute to the extension of the body of knowledge, especially in beach tourism settings where the proposed relationships have yet to be studied.Originality/valueCoastal-based beach tourism is one of the least researched areas in tourism literature. The relationship between tourist attitude to revisit and revisit intention is exclusive in tourism literature.
The freshness of the fell streams: contextualizing the success of Lapin Kulta Beer in the 1960s

Purpose As Finland became an associate member of the European Free Trade Association in early 1960s, the domestic brewing industry faced a new threat posed by imported beer. It was neutralized effectively with joint and individual efforts of the breweries. This paper aims to analyze the maneuvers taken by Tornion Olut Oy to brand its new product, Lapin Kulta, which ultimately became the most popular beer in Finland. In addition, the contemporary changes in the Finnish society with related social tensions are shown to have contributed to its success significantly. Design/methodology/approach Archival research focusing on primary sources complemented with biographies, historical newspaper and magazine articles as well contemporary research papers with an aim to reconstruct and better understand the historical and social context of the events. Findings The success of the Lapin Kulta beer in 1960s was not only based on the effective marketing, although a well-thought name, the successful participation in international beer “competitions” enhancing the brand and both improved distribution and logistics certainly contributed to it. Instead the success is shown to have depended also on seemingly odd collection of external factors. However, when put together, the success is shown to have been based on brand's capability to address the social tensions present in Finland during 1960s. Originality/value The importance of the context reconstruction in historical marketing research is underlined as developments traditionally attributed solely to product qualities and marketing may equally stem from a multitude of external factors. As a case study, the research represents a fresh take on the subject through a variety of previously neglected sources.
Evaluation of acceptability, safety and expulsion rate of PPIUCD

Over the years, India’s Family Planning Programme has evolved with the shift in focus from mere population control to more critical issues like reducing maternal mortality and improving the health of mother and newborn. Ensuring healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies is now considered the most important intervention for reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health (RMNCH+A). Another shift is the ABSTRACT