Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn /

Bibliography: v.1, p. [ix]-xii.

Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., Xerox University Microfilms, 1972. 35 mm. (American Culture Series, reel 535.6)

Preparing for high school entrance and scholarship examinations; with separate answer key, for use in parochial, private, and public schools.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of George the Fourth, descriptive of the most interesting scenes of his private and public life, and the important events of his memorable reign; with characteristic sketches of all the celebrated men who were his friends and companions as a prince, and his ministers and counsellors as a monarch.

Parts of v. 1 follow verbatim the anonymous work: Memoirs of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. 2d ed. London, 1808.

Letters of Walter Savage Landor, private and public;

Title in red and black.

It's the law! Recognizing and handling the legal problems of private and public construction.

Mode of access: Internet.

Organizational commitment profiles and job satisfaction among Greek private and public sector employees

Recent research into organizational commitment has advocated a profiles-based approach. However, with the exception of Wasti, published findings are confined to North American samples. This article examines the relationships between organizational commitment profiles and job satisfaction in Greece. Greek organizations have rarely been the subject of detailed examination, so the study provides baseline information regarding levels of organizational commitment and job satisfaction in Greece. Both private sector (N = 1119) and public sector (N = 476) employees in Greece were surveyed, as this sectoral distinction is regularly associated with different patterns of job-related attitudes. The contrasts between Greek and Anglo-American values present a new challenge to the profiles approach. The results confirm the utility of the profiles approach to the study of organizational commitment. Affective organizational commitment was found to be most influential with respect to levels of intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. This concurs with other studies of the behavioural outcomes of commitment. Copyright © 2007 Sage Publications.

The economics of enhanced landfill mining: private and societal performance drivers

This paper addresses the economics of Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM) both from a private point of view as well as from a society perspective. The private potential is assessed using a case study for which an investment model is developed to identify the impact of a broad range of parameters on the profitability of ELFM. We found that especially variations in Waste-to-Energy (WtE efficiency, electricity price, CO2-price, WtE investment and operational costs) and ELFM support explain the variation in economic profitability measured by the Internal Rate of Return. To overcome site-specific parameters we also evaluated the regional ELFM potential for the densely populated and industrial region of Flanders (north of Belgium). The total number of potential ELFM sites was estimated using a 5-step procedure and a simulation tool was developed to trade-off private costs and benefits. The analysis shows that there is a substantial economic potential for ELFM projects on the wider regional level. Furthermore, this paper also reviews the costs and benefits from a broader perspective. The carbon footprint of the case study was mapped in order to assess the project’s net impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Also the impacts of nature restoration, soil remediation, resource scarcity and reduced import dependence were valued so that they can be used in future social cost-benefit analysis. Given the complex trade-off between economic, social and environmental issues of ELFM projects, we conclude that further refinement of the methodological framework and the development of the integrated decision tools supporting private and public actors, are necessary.

Third ordinary meeting of the conference of South American ministers of transport, communications and public works

The third ordinary meeting of the Conference of South American Ministers of Transport, Communications and Public Works was held from 6 to 8 November 1996 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela took part. Representatives of the following organizations were present as observers: the Latin American and Caribbean Federation of National Associations of Cargo Agents, the Latin American Railways Association, the Latin American Association for Automated Highway Transport, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the International Road Federation/German Agency for Technical Cooperation (IRF/GTZ); and other representatives from both the private and public sectors.

Contesting Sphere Boundaries Online: Private/Technical/Public Discourses in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Discussion Groups

The internet is fast becoming a means for people to obtain information, creating a unique forum for the intersection of the public, technical, and private spheres. To ground my research theoretically, I used Jürgen Habermas’s sphere theory. Habermas (1987) explains that the technical sphere colonizes the private sphere, which decreases democratic potential. In particular, the internet is a place for altering technical colonization of the private and public spheres. My research focuses on women’s health because it is a particularly useful case study for examining sphere tensions. Historically, the biomedical health establishment has been a powerful agent of colonization, resulting in detrimental effects for women and their health. The purpose of this study is to examine how the internet encourages expert and female patient deliberation, which empowers women to challenge the experts and, thus, make conversations between the private/technical spheres more democratic. I used PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) as a case to observe the changing sphere boundaries by studying the discourse that took place on multiple patient and doctor websites over a four-year period. Through my research, I found that the PCOS women challenge the biomedical model by appropriating medical language. By understanding the medical talk, the women are able to feel confident when discussing their health conditions with the doctor and with each other. The PCOS women also become lay-experts who have personal and medical experience with PCOS, reducing private sphere colonization. This case study exemplifies how female empowerment can influence expert culture, challenging our conventional understanding of democracy.

Coordenadas marianas : Tiempos y espacios de devoción a la Virgen a través de las cofradías porteñas coloniales

En el presente trabajo intentamos aproximarnos al estudio de la devoción a la Virgen en la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante la colonia a través de la identificación de las conmemoraciones del calendario y de los lugares de culto. Para ello se rastrearon las asociaciones de laicos con fines religiosos, cofradías y hermandades. Las fuentes utilizadas son libros de constituciones y actas de diferentes cofradías, un almanaque del siglo XVIII y documentación emitida por la corona española sobre la organización de las festividades religiosas y las reuniones de las cofradías. También se ha usado bibliografía editada para rastrear información sobre asociaciones y espacios de culto. Este trabajo se propone construir una base empírica para poder analizar la construcción de escenarios religiosos que desbordan los límites de la devoción privada constituyendo un espacio público, hacia finales del período colonial.

Coordenadas marianas : Tiempos y espacios de devoción a la Virgen a través de las cofradías porteñas coloniales

En el presente trabajo intentamos aproximarnos al estudio de la devoción a la Virgen en la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante la colonia a través de la identificación de las conmemoraciones del calendario y de los lugares de culto. Para ello se rastrearon las asociaciones de laicos con fines religiosos, cofradías y hermandades. Las fuentes utilizadas son libros de constituciones y actas de diferentes cofradías, un almanaque del siglo XVIII y documentación emitida por la corona española sobre la organización de las festividades religiosas y las reuniones de las cofradías. También se ha usado bibliografía editada para rastrear información sobre asociaciones y espacios de culto. Este trabajo se propone construir una base empírica para poder analizar la construcción de escenarios religiosos que desbordan los límites de la devoción privada constituyendo un espacio público, hacia finales del período colonial.

Coordenadas marianas : Tiempos y espacios de devoción a la Virgen a través de las cofradías porteñas coloniales

En el presente trabajo intentamos aproximarnos al estudio de la devoción a la Virgen en la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante la colonia a través de la identificación de las conmemoraciones del calendario y de los lugares de culto. Para ello se rastrearon las asociaciones de laicos con fines religiosos, cofradías y hermandades. Las fuentes utilizadas son libros de constituciones y actas de diferentes cofradías, un almanaque del siglo XVIII y documentación emitida por la corona española sobre la organización de las festividades religiosas y las reuniones de las cofradías. También se ha usado bibliografía editada para rastrear información sobre asociaciones y espacios de culto. Este trabajo se propone construir una base empírica para poder analizar la construcción de escenarios religiosos que desbordan los límites de la devoción privada constituyendo un espacio público, hacia finales del período colonial.

Going public : do risk and choice explain differences in caesarean birth rates between public and private places of birth in Australia?

Background: Women who birth in private facilities in Australia are more likely to have a caesarean birth than women who birth in public facilities and these differences remain after accounting for sector differences in the demographic and health risk profiles of women. However, the extent to which women’s preferences and/or freedom to choose their mode of birth further account for differences in the likelihood of caesarean birth between the sectors remains untested. Method: Women who birthed in Queensland, Australia during a two-week period in 2009 were mailed a self-report survey approximately three months after birth. Seven hundred and fifty-seven women provided cross-sectional retrospective data on where they birthed (public or private facility), mode of birth (vaginal or caesarean) and risk factors, along with their preferences and freedom to choose their mode of birth. A hierarchical logistic regression was conducted to determine the extent to which maternal risk and freedom to choose one’s mode of birth explain sector differences in the likelihood of having a caesarean birth. Findings: While there was no sector difference in women’s preference for mode of birth, women who birthed in private facilities had higher odds of feeling able to choose either a vaginal or caesarean birth, and feeling able to choose only a caesarean birth. Women had higher odds of having caesarean birth if they birthed in private facilities, even after accounting for significant risk factors such as age, body mass index, previous caesarean and use of assisted reproductive technology. However, there was no association between place of birth and odds of having a caesarean birth after also accounting for freedom to choose one’s mode of birth. Conclusions: These findings call into question suggestions that the higher caesarean birth rate in the private sector in Australia is attributable to increased levels of obstetric risk among women birthing in the private sector or maternal preferences alone. Instead, the determinants of sector differences in the likelihood of caesarean births are complex and are linked to differences in the perceived choices for mode of birth between women birthing in the private and public systems.