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This paper assesses the relevance of the knowledge base conceptualization and the relationship between the symbolic knowledge base and the spatiality of knowledge flow in the context of the animation industry in Ireland. The paper draws on findings from a study of four innovation case studies. In broad terms, the findings provide further support for the applicability of the knowledge base approach and the association of the animation industry with the symbolic knowledge base. However, in relation to the spatiality of knowledge flows, the findings contradict the theoretically deduced postulations. Nearly all of the knowledge sources are located overseas. In addition, the study finds little support for the role of local buzz in knowledge flow. The local animation community “buzzes globally” at international events. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the current climate of welfare reform, it is important to understand how perceptions of the poor affect policy decisions. This paper examines how people distinguish between the undeserving poor and the deserving poor, and how this differentiation affects policy decisions. Survey respondents rated each policy in a set of hypothetical policies on a liberal-conservative continuum. Analyses were then conducted to explore differences in the respondents' likelihood of recommending the most liberal and the most conservative of these policies. Study I demonstrated that liberal policies were more likely to be recommended and conservative policies were less likely to be recommended when the target group was perceived to be deserving rather than undeserving. Study 2 replicated this effect of perceived deservingness and demonstrated an effect of attribution of responsibility. That is, liberal policies were more likely to be recommended and conservative policies were less likely to be recommended when the responsibility for the target's poverty was attributed to society rather than to the individual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an examination of some of the ways in which social criticism can be developed on the basis of the analysis of everyday life in modern societies. An attempt is made to combine the results of phenomenological (Schutz), ethnomethodological (Garfinkel), and dialectical (Kosik) approaches to the everyday world as the world-taken-for-granted, with the study, founded on semiological theory, of social images and the ideological elements implicit in them. At the centre of the discussion lies the mechanism of thematization by which the subjects assign predicates to persons, objects and events in a given social context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the status of case studies in professional examinations. In the context of Association of certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) examinations a case study can be defined as: A question with a lot of information, not all necessarily relevant; Placing candidates in a problem situation which attempts to simulate a real-life situation and; Covering a variety of issues drawn from several different areas of the syllabus. In its own external examinations, ACCA uses a variety of case study type questions, ranging from mini scenario questions to quite complex mini case studies. The author thinks it would be fairer to say ACCA uses a variety of case problems rather than case studies. But the author emphasizes that not one paper uses a case problem as its sole assessment technique, they vary from questions worth 20 marks out of 100, to paper 5 with a case problem worth 55 marks. Examiners and ACCA want to keep a balance of case studies and more traditional essay/computational questions.

The article focuses on the further reading related to electronic discovery. It states bthe Sedona Conference is an association of legal practitioners and mentions that conference devoted to e-discovery and has produced over two dozen widely-cited white papers on matters in e-discovery practice, aimed at a legal audience.

This article responds to the diversity of approaches in the five papers presented at the Matthew Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, held in Boston (Massachusetts), 21-25 November 2008. This response focuses on an overarching question: what does it mean to read Matthew in a global context? It considers two key areas. The first is location and voice/language and the second, the hermeneutics and methodologies employed and how these enabled John Y.H. Yieh (Virginia Theological Seminary), Andries van Aarde (University of Pretoria), Dorothy Jean Weaver (Eastern Mennonite Seminary), Laura Anderson (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley) and Lidija Novakovic (Baylor University, Waco) to read Matthew within a global context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author announces that the Society of American Foresters made the printing of the "Journal of Forestry" on Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)-certified paper. The journal is also printed through a SFI chain-of-custody certified printer. The organization, who believes in the value of forest certification, plans to continue to print with certified paper whenever possible.

The article offers world news briefs related to technology. Agfa Graphics won first prize during a national award competition organized by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in Great Britain. Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. have signed a definitive merger agreement which the latter paid $5.6 billion. Xerox Corp. has introduced a new paper for digital printing that could lower the cost to mail printed material.

This article reports on IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society soliciting the submission of original papers for Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. Papers should relate to concepts, theory, techniques, and applications of remote sensing of the earth and space including the processing, dissemination, and interpretation of the information.

Reports on the use of acid-free paper to print the "Reviews of Modern Physics," as well as the "Physical Review." Reasons for the American Physical Society to change the paper that these publications were printed on; How the publications had previously been printed on acid-free paper prior to 1984; Increase in member subscription rates to cover the cost of using acid-free paper.