Federal airport act, Alaska. Hearing, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session, July 13, 1959.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hearing to review U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development programs and the agency's rural development proposals for the 2007 farm bill : hearing before the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, March 21, 2007.

"Serial no. 110-6."

Hearings before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 15, to extend for five years certain elementary, secondary, and other education programs ... [microform].

Reuse of record except for individual research requires license from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act : hearings before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session.

"March 22, 1997--Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ... May 7 and June 6, 1997--Washington, DC"--Pt. 2.

Fiscal disparities : hearing[s] before the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session.

Pt. 1: "May 13, 1981" ; pt. 3: "November 4, 1981."

Oversight of federal debt collection : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, May 25, 1983.

Mode of access: Internet.

Reauthorization of TEA-21 : hearings before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Nuclear Safety and the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, on review of proposals to reauthorize Public Law 105-178, the Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-First Century.

Shipping list nos.: 2004-0089-P (pt. 1), 2004-0088-P (pt. 2).

Creative federalism : hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session [-Ninetieth Congress, first session]. ...

Pt. 1 on S. 3509 and S.J. Res 187; pt. 2A-B on S.671 and S. 698.

Population crisis : hearings ... Eighty-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 1676, bill to reorganize the Department of State and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Pt. 4, Appendix; pt. 5, Index--1965.

Donable surplus property program : hearings ... Eighty-ninth Congress, first session.

Part 1. May 27, June 10, 11, 1965. 169 p.--Part 2. August 26, 27, 1965. pp. 171-291.--Part 3. November 3, 4, 1965. 1966. pp. 293-370.

Increased allowances for food and clothing for children at Indian schools : Hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, second session, on increased allowances for food and clothing for children at Indian schools [held] February 27, 1930.

Mode of access: Internet.

National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 : hearings before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on S. 440, a bill to amend Title 23, United States Code ....

"March 30 and April 6, 1995"--Pt. 2.

The Vulnerable Animals That Therefore We Are : (Non-)Human Animals in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love

Central to animal studies is the question of words and how they are used in relation to wordless beings such as non-human animals. This issue is addressed by the writer D.H. Lawrence, and the focus of this thesis is the linguistic vulnerability of humans and non-humans in his novel Women in Love, a subject that will be explored with the help of the philosopher Jacques Derrida’s text The Animal That Therefore I Am. The argument is that Women in Love illustrates the human subjection to and constitution in language, which both enables human thinking and restricts the human ability to think without words. This linguistic vulnerability causes a similar vulnerability in non-human animals in two ways. First, humans tend to imagine others, including non-verbal animals, through words, a medium they exist outside of and therefore cannot be defined through. Second, humans are often unperceptive of non-linguistic means of expression and they therefore do not discern what non-human animals may be trying to communicate to them, which often enables humans to justify abuse against non-humans. In addition, the novel shows how this shared but unequal vulnerability can sometimes be dissolved through the likewise shared but equal physical vulnerability of all animals if a human is able to imagine the experiences of a non-human animal through their shared embodiment rather than through human language. Hence the essay shows the importance of recognizing the limitations of language and of being aware of how the symbolizing effect of words influences the human treatment of its others.

Putting people first? Chinese state-owned enterprises' adjustment to globalisation

This paper analyses the impact of FDI on the employment, productivity, profitability and survival performance of urban SOEs in China, with the aid of a rich panel data set over the period 1999–2005. Our estimation strategy controls for the endogeneity of a number of regressors and accounts for firm-level unobserved heterogeneity. Four key results emerge from the analysis: (i) Firmlevel foreign finance enhances the employment and productivity growth of SOEs, as well as their survival prospects; (ii) Competition from sectoral FDI has a deleterious impact on the growth and survival probability of SOEs without access to any foreign capital; (iii) Export-oriented FDI in downstream sectors has negative performance ramifications; and (iv) There are no discernible spillover effects that can be attributed to FDI in upstream sectors, suggesting limited linkages between multinational firms and SOEs.

Human performance modelling as an aid in the process of manufacturing system design

Manufacturing system design is an ongoing activity within industry. Modelling tools based on Discrete Event Simulation are often used by practitioners during this design cycle. However, such tools do not adequately model the behaviour of 'direct' workers in manufacturing environments. There is an important need to expand the capability of modelling to include the relationships between human centred factors (demography, attitudes, beliefs, etc), their working environment (physical and organizational), and their subsequent performance in terms of productive routines. Therefore, this paper describes research that has formed a pilot modelling methodology that is an important first step in providing such a capability.