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on applying scientific principles to domestic situations. At the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, she designed the Rumford Kitchen, which was a tiny kitchen that served nutritious meals to thousands of fair goers, along with a healthy dose of nutrition education. She shunned an invitation to participate in the Women’s Building as she said none of her research was just women’s work, but rather information for all. Late in the 19th century, Richards convened a group of contemporaries to discuss the essence of domestic science and how the elements of this discipline would ultimately improve the quality of life for
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of Puerto Rico. Returning to Antigua, Peters worked at the Green Bay Government School in Saint John Parish, teaching domestic science. In 1952, the Caribbean Conference of Home Economics was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad, prompting the Antiguan government to create a training program focused on home economics. Peters was placed in charge of the program as its first supervisor. She developed a three-year certification program for primary and secondary schools. Hearing about a program the Macdonald Institute which later became part of the University of Guelph, she applied to further her studies in Canada. Her scholarship application to
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Leaders". On 23 March 2013, the first London Economics Symposium was held at the Millbank Centre in Central London. It featured speeches from 11 professionals from the Banking, Insurance, Technology, Legal, Financial Research and Alternative Energy industries as well as academia. The conference saw approximately 200 students from over 40 universities from around the world attending. Speakers: London Economics Symposium The London Economics Symposium (commonly referred to as "LES") is an international economics and politics conference, organised by students for students, and held annually in London, United Kingdom. The London Economics Symposium is independent from any university, and is organised
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U Nu. The term was used in his essay named "Buddhist Economics", which was first published in 1966 in "Asia: A Handbook", and republished in his influential collection "Small Is Beautiful" (1973). The term is currently used by followers of Schumacher and by Theravada Buddhist writers, such as Prayudh Payutto, Padmasiri De Silva, and Luang Por Dattajivo. The 1st Conference of the Buddhist Economics Research Platform was held in Budapest, Hungary from 23–24 August 2007. The second conference was held at Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand from 9–11 April 2009. Unlike traditional economics, Buddhist economics considers stages after the consumption of
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of the attendees invited to attend the first Lake Placid Conference on home economics in 1899. She led a session at the conference with the title "The Kitchen-Garden and the Kindergarten." She died of arteriosclerosis in 1909 in Windham, Connecticut after a lingering illness and was buried in Yantic Cemetery in Norwich, Connecticut. Emily Huntington Emily Huntington (January 3, 1841 – December 5, 1909) was an American author and home economics educator. She is credited as the originator of the phrase 'kitchen-garden' which was used by early home economics groups. Huntington was born in Lebanon, Connecticut on January 3, 1841
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in New York (United States), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Thessaloniki (Greece), Bogota (Colombia), Lisbon (Portugal), Beijing (China), Montréal (Canada), London (UK), Turku (Finland), Pamplona (Spain), Zurich (Switzerland), and Stockholm (Sweden). The 2018 conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa organized by Rhodes University. The next conference 2020 will be held in Rome, Italy. Since 2018 the chair is Gregory F. Lowe (Northwestern University in Qatar) and vice chair is Sylvia Chan-Olmstedt (University of Florida). World Media Economics and Management Conference The World Media Economics and Management Conference (World Media Economics Conference until 2006) is the biennial meeting of the
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World Media Economics and Management Conference The World Media Economics and Management Conference (World Media Economics Conference until 2006) is the biennial meeting of the global community of media business scholars. The academic conference brings scholars worldwide together to reflect on contemporary issues in the economics and management of media industries and firms and is sponsored by The Journal of Media Economics to help improve knowledge and scholarship. The conference was established in 1994 by Robert G. Picard who acted as conference chair until 2018. The conference moves to a different location every two years. Previous meetings have been held
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studies on Islamic banking (Conference of the Finance Ministers of the Islamic Countries held in Karachi in 1970, the Egyptian study in 1972, The First International Conference on Islamic Economics in Mecca in 1976, and the International Economic Conference in London in 1977) were instrumental in applying the application of theory to practice for the first interest-free banks. At the First International Conference on Islamic Economics, "several hundred Muslim intellectuals, Shari'ah scholars and economists unequivocally declared ... that all forms of interest" were "riba" . By 2004, the strength of this belief (which is the basis of Islamic finance) was
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organizer for the next year), deputy vice-president, past president, secretary, treasurer, and the editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics. Since 1994, the CEA has awarded the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize for the past year's best work on Canadian economic policy. The CEA is a non-profit corporation, registered under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. The annual conference has been held, or will be held, as follows: In 2006 and 2009 the CEA conference was held jointly with the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. Until 1998 the CEA conference was held jointly with the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Global Policy Global Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal based at Durham University focusing on the "point where ideas and policy meet", published in association with Wiley-Blackwell. The journal was launched at the 4th Global Public Policy Network conference at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Monday 22 March 2010, with near simultaneous launch events held in Beijing and Brussels. The theme of the one-day conference was "Global Challenges: Global Impact". The General Editors are David Held, Eva-Maria Nag and Dani Rodrik. Its first issue included articles by UK Development Secretary Douglas Alexander, General David Petraeus, Head
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held at Carnegie Mellon in November and a conference held at Rochester each April. Each year the department sponsors several guest lecture series, including the Gilbert Lecture Series (1957 —Present) and the McKenzie Lecture Series (1986 — Present). Fifteen Gilbert Lecturers and thirteen McKenzie Lecturers subsequently received the Nobel Prize in Economics. University of Rochester Economics Department The Rochester Department of Economics is an academic department of the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York. The Rochester Department of Economics was established in 1957 when Lionel W. McKenzie was appointed as the first chairman. McKenzie was chosen on the recommendation
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The Institute's philosophy is summarized as follows: The Green Economics Institute runs several international conferences. The main one is the annual Green Economics Conference, held every summer at Oxford University. Other conferences include the Women's Unequal Pay Conference in March 2009, the Green Built Environment and Long-Termism Conference in January 2011, the Green Economics Methodology Conference in October 2011, the One World Conference in October 2011, and the South Africa Conference in December 2011. The Green Economics Institute produces several publications, such as its magazine "The Green Economist" and books the "Green Economics Reader" and the "Handbook of Green Economics
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Counter-economics Counter-economics is a term originally used by libertarian activists and theorists Samuel Edward Konkin III and J. Neil Schulman. The former defined it as "the study or practice of all peaceful human action which is forbidden by the State." The term is short for "counter-establishment economics" and may also be referred to as counter-politics. Counter-economics was integrated by Schulman into Konkin's doctrine of agorism. The first presentation of the theory of counter-economics was made by Samuel Edward Konkin III at a conference organized by J. Neil Schulman in 1974 held in Cheshire, Massachusetts. The first book to portray counter-economics
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economics, forestry, and natural resource economics. The first EAERE Annual Conference Dates back 1999. Every year, participants convene to promote economic discovery, research, policy analysis and collaboration. Conferences are held in European countries and unite European participants with many colleagues from around the world. The activities at the Annual Conference include keynote speeches and policy panels, contributed papers presented in parallel sessions, and the General Assembly of EAERE members. Every four years since 1998, EAERE's Annual Conference is held within the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, an important international event organised together with the sister Association, Association of
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Edith Kuiper Edith Kuiper (born 1960) is the assistant professor of economics at State University of New York at New Paltz, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2006 to 2007. In 1993 Kuiper organized a conference in Amsterdam called, "Out of the Margins: feminist perspectives on economic theory." The conference provided a networking opportunity which resulted in the founding of FENN, the Feminist Economics Network in the Netherlands. Further networking led to the formation of the European 'chapter' of IAFFE being established, IAFFE European chapter's first meeting was held at the second
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Circle, Africa and the large metropolises featured. On 9 March 2009, a press-conference was held in Paris, France, where Yann Arthus-Bertrand and various producers talked to the media about the issues raised in the film, as well as confirming that "Home" would be the first film ever to be simultaneously released in theaters, on television, on DVD and on the Internet in five continents. On 5 May 2009, a second press-conference was held again in Paris, where the same crew members announced that the film's release date would be 5 June 2009, World Environment Day. Here, they also announced that
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"Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique" (CJE) and organizes an annual conference that is usually held in the last week of May or first week of June. During the first week of December the CEA holds the Canadian Economics Employment Exchange (CEEE) in Toronto, providing an opportunity for recruitment of graduate students to faculty positions at universities, colleges, the Bank of Canada, and other agencies. The CEA is governed by the Association's Board of Directors, which is composed sixteen Directors, who are elected by the CEA membership. The officers of the Association are the president, vice-president(who is always the conference
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year, she moved on to the school at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, where she remained until 1914. At both of the reservations, she not only taught, but served as housemother to the boarders, occasionally as their cook, and even treated the students for trachoma. She returned to Hampton to complete a Home Economics course in 1914 and 1915. During this same time frame, she attended the Fourth Annual Conference of the Society of American Indians held between October 6 and 11, 1914 in Madison, Wisconsin. Bender had joined the organization when she graduated and it was at
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Economics Network The Economics Network is one of the subject networks originally established by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). On its founding it was known as the "Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) for Economics" later becoming independent of the HEA. It has as its aims the improvement of learning and teaching in economics in the UK's higher education. It lists its strategic aims as: In March 2015 the Economics Network (supported by the Royal Economic Society) held a notable conference on "Revisiting the State of Economics Education" as a follow up to the conference at the Bank of England
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2002 World Bank Oslo protests During the World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Oslo, Norway in 2002 large globalization-critical protests were held. A coalition of many organizations organized an alternative conference and a demonstration with more than 10 000 participants, thus making it the largest mass mobilisation in Norway in recent history. Before the protests, there was much concern about violence and riots, but the actual protest was almost entirely peaceful with a few minor incidents. The World Bank has held its Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) since 1988. The June 24–26, 2002 conference
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McIntyre, Willam Gray, Tom McClintock and Christopher Booker. The 3rd conference was held in Washington, D.C. The 2009 report of the NIPCC, "Climate Change Reconsidered", was released in conjunction with the conference. The 4th conference was held in Chicago, Illinois with the theme, ""Reconsidering the Science and Economics."" The 5th conference was held in Sydney, Australia. The 6th conference was held in Washington, D.C. with the theme, ""Restoring the Scientific Method."" The 7th conference was held in Chicago, Illinois, in May 2012. The theme was ""Real Science, Real Choices."" Due to a controversial billboard ad run by the Heartland Institute
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and chair of its awards committee. In 1895 Meredith was invited to speak at a farmers' institute at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where she delivered a speech titled "Profitable Sheep Husbandry" during a time in the Deep South when is was considered inappropriate for women to speak in public. On the final evening of the conference Meredith was surprised with a gold medal that proclaimed her "the Queen of American Agriculture." In 1896 Meredith moved to Minnesota, where she was the first preceptress at the University of Minnesota's School of Agriculture. Meredith was responsible for forming the university's home economics program and
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won 4-0) (2) New Jersey Nets vs. (3) Detroit Pistons: "Pistons win series 4–3" Last Playoff Meeting: 2003 Eastern Conference Finals (New Jersey won 4-0) (1) Indiana Pacers vs. (3) Detroit Pistons: "Pistons win series 4–2" Last Playoff Meeting: 1990 Eastern Conference First Round (Detroit won 3-0) The Finals were played using a 2-3-2 site format, where the first two and last two games are held at the team with home court advantage. This was only used in the Finals, all other playoff series are held in a 2-2-1-1-1 format (the team with home court advantage starts). The Lakers had
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His Life and Economics" organized by his former students was held on June 3–4 at the ILR Conference Center in King-Shaw Hall, Cornell University. A conference volume "Ron Ehrenberg: His Life and Economics" provides conference details, a biography, a list of doctoral students, a series of articles and photographs offering tributes, five essays by Ehrenberg ("My Life and Economics," "Last Lecture," "Being a Quadruple Threat Keeps it Interesting," "Coauthors and Collaborations," and "Involving Undergraduates in Research to Encourage Them to Undertake Ph.D. Study in Economics"), and a "List of Completed Articles & Books by Ronald G. Ehrenberg." Ronald G. Ehrenberg
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commerce program in return. The title of the university's lead administrator was changed from chancellor back to the original title of president. Sanford was named UGA's first president since 1860 and was succeeded by Harmon Caldwell (1935–1948). In 1933, the Division of Home Economics was reorganized as the School of Home of Economics, with UGA's first female graduate Creswell appointed as dean. The university also became a founding member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and established the University of Georgia Press in 1938. Throughout this period, UGA's enrollment grew every year with student population reaching 3,000 by 1937 and almost
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Economic Scholars Program The Economic Scholars Program (ESP) is an annual conference in Dallas, Texas that highlights undergraduate research in economics and business. It is co-hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Austin College. The conference is typically held on the last Friday in March or first Friday in April and is modeled after professional economics conferences. Undergraduate students participate in the conference as presenters of original or faculty-coauthored research, discussants, session chairs or audience member participants. Each level of participation in the program is designed to reflect the growing interests and skills of undergraduate students. Additionally, the
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ESP added a poster session in 2011 to accommodate more student research. The 6th annual conference, held in 2012, hosted undergraduate students and faculty mentors representing 35 different undergraduate institutions from 19 states. In terms of the number of attendees, papers, and posters presented it is the largest conference focusing on undergraduate research in economics. Economic Scholars Program The Economic Scholars Program (ESP) is an annual conference in Dallas, Texas that highlights undergraduate research in economics and business. It is co-hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Austin College. The conference is typically held on the last Friday
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with farmers, and talked to their wives about food, housecleaning, and health. She was instrumental in the passing of the Smoot Bill, which provided funds to states for research in home economics. She organized the first Agricultural College Women's Institute in 1903. She was one of the founders of the Salt Lake City Federation of Women Voters, and was president from 1919 to 1921. She also participated in the Salt Lake Council of Women, the National League of Pen Women and the Women's Legislative Council. In 1923, she attended the National Home Economics Movement Conference as the Utah representative. Widtsoe
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2000 and co-chair with Victor Stango for the conference on Standards and Public Policy, held at the Chicago Federal Reserve Board in 2005. He is a participant in many national research organizations, including National Bureau of Economic Research and Conference on Research, Income and Wealth. As a fellow of Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University he researches slant and bias in Wikipedia. Greenstein sits on numerous editorial boards, including "Journal of Regulatory Economics", "Economics Bulletin", and "Information and Economics Policy", and holds or has held several oversight responsibilities, including advisory committee for the U.S. Census, and National
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held volunteer positions in the LDS Church while working in the home caring for Virginia and her six siblings. Cutler grew up in Murray, Utah and graduated from Murray High School in 1922. At that time, Cutler entered and won a local home economics competition, for which she was awarded a four-year scholarship to the University of Utah. During her time at the University of Utah, Cutler participated in the school's home economics club. She graduated in 1927 with a degree in Education. With her degree, Cutler went on to teach high school economics first in Manti, Utah and in
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the University of California, Berkeley. It is also member of many exchange networks : The World Inequality Report 2018 compiled by Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chanel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman was released on December 14, 2017 at the Paris School of Economics during the first WID.world Conference held on December 14 and December 15, which was sponsored by the Paris School of Economics, the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), the Washington Center for Equitable Growth (CEG), the Ford Foundation, and the European Research Council. World Wealth and Income Database (WID), an open source database, which is part
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scheduled to take place Sept. 19-25, 1899. Melvil Dewey, one of the club's trustees, personally invited Richards to attend. She gave a lecture on standards of living and was elected chairman of the conference. In 1908, Richards was chosen as the first president of the newly formed American Home Economics Association, which was renamed the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. She also founded and funded the Association's periodical, the "Journal of Home Economics", which began publication in 1909. It was renamed the "Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences" in 1994 when the Association changed its name.
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LSE Alternative Investment Conference The LSE SU Alternative Investments Conference (also known as the LSE AIC) is an international conference on hedge funds, private equity and venture capital held annually in London, United Kingdom by the Alternative Investments Society (AIS), a Student’s Union society at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The Alternative Investments Society was founded in 2006 by a group of undergraduate students at the LSE, and continues to be run by students from the university. The first Alternative Investments Conference was a one-day event hosted on the LSE campus in 2007, and was attended
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of covering conventional banking with an Islamic facade. (Sohrab Behada has argued that the economic system proposed by Islam is essentially a capitalist one.) As of 2008 there were: King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah hosted the first international conference on Islamic economics in 1976. Thereafter the International Association for Islamic Economics in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank has held conferences in Islamabad (1983), Kuala Lumpur (1992), Loughborough (2000), Bahrain (2003), Jakarta (2005) and Jeddah (2008) Iqbal 2008). Along with these achievements, some Islamic economists have complained of problems in the academic discipline: a shift in interest away from Islamic Economics
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sustainable material management through better product design and interdependence between industrial projects, where China has advanced these techniques in their own sustainability endeavours. There has also been a rise in university collaboration between Chinese and German institutions over the years, which has allowed for more research and development of better strategies that China can implement. Sustainable economics started to surface in China around 1973, when the first ever National Environmental Protection Conference was held to discuss new environmental policies and guidelines. The following year Chinese State Council created The Leading Group of Environmental Protection, who's task was to formulate effective
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fil Islam" (The Economic System of Islam) by Taqiuddin Nabhani (1953)) combined public ownership of large chunks of the economy (utilities, public transport, health care, energy resources such as oil, and unused farm land), with use of the gold standard and specific instructions for the gold and silver weights of coins, arguing this would "demolish ... American control and the control of the dollar as an international currency." In the Sunni world the first international conference on Islamic economics was held at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah in 1976. Since then the International Association for Islamic Economics in collaboration
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director, David Neyland. The conference included presentations on the technology, biology, physics, philosophy, sociology, and economics of interstellar flight. Selected papers from the conference were published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. After the Jemison Foundation was named as winner of the grant, a second symposium was held in 2012 in Houston. Papers on a number of subjects related to interstellar flight and organization of the foundation were presented. 2013 and 2014 Symposia were held in Houston, and a fifth on September 2015. In 2015, the 100 Year Starship project hosted its first annual Canopus Awards for excellence
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young woman needs two careers: One in the home, and one where she can earn a satisfactory living outside the home." Cutler herself continued to do both: raising her two sons while maintaining a growing professional career. Cutler was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954, Cutler was invited to be a technical advisor in home economics education for the U.S. International Cooperation Administration. She was sent to Thailand on her first assignment, where she helped establish a national home economics program. After two years in Thailand, Cutler was reassigned to Jakarta, Indonesia. She
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agreed to be the first chairman of the organization's board of directors. In 1983, a group of Objectivists, including George Reisman, organized the Jefferson School of Philosophy, Economics and Politics. The Jefferson School held a two-week-long conference at the University of California, San Diego later that year, a conference which continued to occur every two years and is the predecessor of ARI's current annual Objectivist Conference. ARI began operations on February 1, 1985, three years after Rand's death, in Marina del Rey, California. The first board of directors included Snider and psychologist Edith Packer. Snider was also one of the
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first round. A third-place game was held on the last day. First Round games were played at the home court of the higher-seeded team. All remaining games were played at the Beaumont Civic Center in Beaumont, Texas, the home court of regular season champion Lamar. 1981 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament The 1981 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 3–5 at a combination of on-campus gymnasiums and the Beaumont Civic Center in Beaumont, Texas. This was the first edition of the tournament. The Cardinals, in turn, received a bid to the 1981 NCAA Tournament. They were the only
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in 2012 on economics teaching and the financial the crisis. Economics Network The Economics Network is one of the subject networks originally established by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). On its founding it was known as the "Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) for Economics" later becoming independent of the HEA. It has as its aims the improvement of learning and teaching in economics in the UK's higher education. It lists its strategic aims as: In March 2015 the Economics Network (supported by the Royal Economic Society) held a notable conference on "Revisiting the State of Economics Education" as a
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name of Vidial Kootany along with LJP and Actor Karthik's Natalum Makkal Katchi and thereafter, the party left the alliance and contested on its own in 9 constituencies The first conference of the Party held at Cuddalore on 2 September 2008 and theme of the conference was "Economic Sovereignty of Tamil People". The conference passed number of resolutions to protect the interest and welfare of the Tamil People. The basis of conference is that unless any race is powerful enough to compete with other races on the question of economics, the said race can not sustain in the world as
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the format was expanded to include the top six teams in conference play, and since 2005 it has included the top eight teams. From the 1983 tournament through 2001, all rounds were held at the home field of the regular-season overall conference champion, with the inaugural 1982 tournament being held at Ebert Field on the campus of Western Michigan University. Beginning in 2002, the tournament was held at Firestone Stadium in Akron, Ohio, where it was held through 2005. After two seasons at Currie Stadium in Midland, Michigan, the tournament returned to Firestone Stadium in 2008, and has remained there
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Cowles "created some of the first family economics courses in the nation" at the collegiate level. Cowles was born on September 25, 1892 in Sibley, Kansas. She attended Kansas State Agricultural College where she earned a B.S. in home economics in 1912 and entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1915 to earn her master's degree in home economics. From 1926 to 1929, Cowles studied for her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago. Her Ph.D. dissertation investigated the economics of clothing consumption and whether consumer behavior could be classified according to "laws." One of her studies reported that during
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aspects of the World Wide Web. Areas of interest include: Directors/Trustees Fellows Patron The first Web Science conference (WebSci09: Society on Line) was sponsored in part by WSRI and was held in Greece in March 2009. The conference had over 300 registrants from a number of fields including computing, social science, law, economics, philosophy, psychology. The conference has since continued as a yearly event. Web Science Trust The Web Science Trust is a UK Charitable Trust with the aim of supporting the global development of Web Science. It was originally started in 2006 as a joint effort between MIT and
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is a co-educational college that admits students and select teachers from all communities irrespective of gender, caste, religion and physical challenges. The institution believes in holistic education that goes beyond achieving academic excellence, and vocational training. In January 2004, the College organised the first ever Conference of Graduate Students of Economics from the SAARC countries. Department of Mathematics of the College is believed to be the best Department of Mathematics in University of Delhi.The Department of Mathematics, Ramjas College organised a two-day International Conference on Mathematics & Applications (ICMA – 2017). The conference was held between April 26-28. It covered
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London Economics Symposium The London Economics Symposium (commonly referred to as "LES") is an international economics and politics conference, organised by students for students, and held annually in London, United Kingdom. The London Economics Symposium is independent from any university, and is organised by students throughout Europe. The London Economics Symposium provides a forum for students, academics and prominent leaders to discuss contemporary socioeconomic and political issues. The LES was founded in 2012 by five undergraduate students at Royal Holloway University of London, and has expanded to include students throughout Europe, creating one of the largest international student conferences in
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Sweeney taught physics and chemistry at Campbell-Hagerman College before she came to work at the University of Kentucky as a specialist in home economics extension. After serving for five years in rural Kentucky where she introduced hot school lunches in rural schools and courses in cooking and sewing in elementary and high schools, she was promoted to serve as the head of the department of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture in 1913. She was the first dean of the university's new College of Home Economics that was formed in 1916. Sweeney wrote that this step in moving the
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economics, finance and management "for his seminal contributions to an unusually wide range of fields of economics including auctions, market design, contracts and incentives, industrial economics, economics of organizations, finance, and game theory." Milgrom won the 2012 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economy, Finance and Management category for his seminal contributions to a wide range of fields of economics. In 2013, Milgrom was elected as Vice President of the American Economic Association. On 19–20 April 2013, a conference was held in honor of Milgrom's 65th Birthday at Stanford University. In 2014, Milgrom won a Golden Goose Award for
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industries and provide a forum where policy issues are presented, considered and discussed at both formal sessions and informal social functions. IAEE typically holds five Conferences each year.The main annual conference for IAEE is the "IAEE International Conference" that is organized at diverse locations around the world. From year 1996 on these conferences have taken place (or will take place) in the following cities: Other annual IAEE conferences are the North American Conference European Conference. The Association’s Immediate Past President annually chairs the Awards committee that selects the award recipients. International Association for Energy Economics International Association for Energy Economics
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by the school in each of the following: Civics, Economics and Occupations. That year, the school expected to add units in the following: Home Economics, Shop, Mechanical Drawing, and Journalism. In 1949, Kermit High School won her first UIL state championship. The champion was Maurine Fraser, and the event she won was journalism. During the oil boom days, Kermit High School displayed some of her greatest successes: being a nationally recognized school playing in the Football State Championship (Conference A) in 1950 under the leadership of Head Coach, Neal Dillman; winning 15 UIL state championships in many different fields of
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State University. In 1925 she moved to the University of Chicago and remained employed by the university until her retirement in 1952. At the University of Chicago she first held a joint appointment as associate professor in the home economics and the economics departments. She was promoted to full professor in 1941. She broadened the economics curriculum to include consumer, consumption and consumer choice topics. Under her influence the University of Chicago became noted as the premier university for the study of consumer economics. Among others, she supervised the doctoral dissertation of Margaret G. Reid. Kyrk' academic interest in working
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(including 110 residences), its own theatre (seating capacity 1,200), library, boathouses, 21 tennis courts, seven golf courses, farms, a staff of 1100, a fire department and even a school, today known as Northwood School. Early in September, 1899, trustees of the Club found the time ripe to bring together those most interested in home science, or household economics. They sent out many invitations for the first "Lake Placid Conference" scheduled to take place Sept. 19-25, 1899. One of the attendees, Ellen Swallow Richards, a founder of the modern domestic science movement, was elected chairman of the conference. The conference took
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1988 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament The 1988 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 29th conference playoff in league history and 36th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between February 25 and March 7, 1988. First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Four' matches were held, for the first time, at the Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. This was the first year in the tournament's history that the championship game was held at a neutral site which it would continue to do henceforward . By winning the
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society in Croatia specialized in operational research. Two groups of OR people, one from Zagreb and the other from Split, were active in organizing the OR Conference KOI ‘91 and establishing the CRORS, together with colleagues from Varaždin, Rijeka, Ljubljana and Maribor. In March 1992, The Founding meeting of CRORS was held at the Faculty of economics in Zagreb. The Statutes of CRORS were acquired at that meeting, and the Board of directors with a Supervisory board was elected. The first president was Prof. Luka Neralić from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics Zagreb. The main board of the
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Paul Johnson (economist) Paul Gavin Johnson (born 5 January 1967) is a British civil servant and economist, currently serving as Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and as a member of the Committee on Climate Change and a visiting professor in Economics at University College London. The son of Robert and Joy Johnson, he was educated at Kings Manor School, Shoreham-by-Sea, then at Keble College, Oxford, where he held a college scholarship and gained a First in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and finally at Birkbeck College, London, where he graduated with an MSc in Economics. His first job was
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the AIC include: The Alternative Investments Conference 2019 will be held at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, on January 21 & 22 2019. This will be the thirteenth annual edition of the Conference, and will mark over 3,300 students having attended the AIC since its inception. LSE Alternative Investment Conference The LSE SU Alternative Investments Conference (also known as the LSE AIC) is an international conference on hedge funds, private equity and venture capital held annually in London, United Kingdom by the Alternative Investments Society (AIS), a Student’s Union society at the London School of Economics and Political Science
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the conference. In 2004, ECCB was jointly held with the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference for the first time. It was also co-located with the Genes, Proteins & Computers conference. This meeting, held in Glasgow, UK, was the largest bioinformatics conference ever held, attended by 2,136 delegates, submitting 496 scientific papers. ISCB Board member and Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute Alfonso Valencia considers ISMB/ECCB 2004 to be an important milestone in the history of ISMB: "it was the first one where the balance between Europe and the States became an important part of the conference. It
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to successfully tackle some of today’s world challenges. In specific, topics covered environmental, social, demographic and financial sustainability, but also emphasized on the economic perspective of global partnership focusing on education, technology and trade. Speakers: "EU - Lost in Transformation?" On 14 and 15 March 2014, the second London Economics Symposium was held at Europe House, Smith Square and Hallam Conference Centre, in central London. The event was attended by around 200 students from universities around the world. The extended, two-day conference featured speeches and panel discussion from some of the highest ranking professionals, politicians and academics. The event built
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2–3–2 site format, where the first two and last two games are held at the team with home court advantage's (Chicago's) home court (United Center). Had the Western Conference Finals between the Jazz and the Houston Rockets reached a Game 7, the Finals would have begun on Wednesday, June 4, and follow the similar Wednesday-Friday-Sunday rotation. Despite injuring his foot in the Eastern Conference Finals against Miami, Scottie Pippen helped the Bulls to an 84–82 victory over Utah on Sunday. He scored 27 points while Jordan scored 31. The Bulls trailed by one in the 4th, yet were able to
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international conferences (increasingly separate from their parent organisation) were branched off under the title International Indonesia Forum. That year's conference, taking the theme of education for the future, was held at Yogyakarta State University and drew a crowd of 150 audience members and presenters. In 2012 the conference, which received 171 submissions and saw nearly 100 speakers, was held at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta; speakers originated from a number of international and Indonesian universities, including Harvard, Cornell, Berkeley, Sydney, Leiden, and the London School of Economics. The rector of Gadjah Mada University, Pratikno, stated that the conference was relevant
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Parsons was introduced to chemistry and physiology through home economics classes. She described the "enriching [combination] of home economics with science" as "a very potent thing" and switched from wanting to become a Latin teacher to wanting to pursue both home economics and science. After another brief teaching job in Oklahoma, Parsons met Abby Marlatt, head of the Home Economics department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at a dinner party in 1913. Marlatt offered her an assistant job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where Parsons was intended to be the “bridge between science and home economics”. Parsons matriculated in the
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The Raisina Files, which contain a set of commentaries authored by high-profile speakers and delegates. Additionally, ORF publishes a Defence Primer and several policy reports to supplement the conversations held at each conference. Raisina Dialogue The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference held annually in New Delhi. Since its inception in 2016, the conference has emerged as India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics. The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, an independent think tank, in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs of India. The conference is structured as a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral discussion, involving a variety of
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King's college, took him to meet Sir Tennant Sloan, Under Secretary in the Home Department, who in turn took him to meet the Deputy Secretary, Mackworth Young. Two weeks later Mudie was transferred to United Provinces where he started his ICS career. Between 1919 and 1930 he served in various positions gaining a reputation for "vigorous personality and good sense". While on leave, Mudie was appointed as one of the secretaries to the first Indian Round Table Conference held in London. After the conference Mudie returned to India and was appointed as Collector in Allahabad. At the time the Congress
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The Open Economy", looked at Britain’s role in the global economy, and how governance and changing trade patterns are causing this role to change. The theme was chosen to provide students with an opportunity to broaden their ideas and common perceptions about Britain’s economy. The event was supported by the University of Birmingham Economics Department, the University of Birmingham Economics Society and the University of Birmingham Investment Society. Speakers at the 2011 conference included: University of Birmingham Financial Forum The University of Birmingham Financial Forum is a student-run conference for hundreds of students that was founded in 2011 and held
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1982 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament The 1982 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 23rd conference playoff in league history and 30th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 4 and March 14, 1982. First round and semifinal games were played at home team campus sites while the championship match was held at the Winter Sports Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. By winning the tournament, Wisconsin received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. This as the first WCHA tournament held after the defection of
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diploma in Economics at Cambridge University and then a master's degree in Economics at the London School of Economics. Norgrove started his career as an economist at HM Treasury (1972–85), where his time included a secondment to the First National Bank of Chicago. Norgrove was private secretary to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher between 1985 and 1988. In 1988 he joined Marks and Spencer, where he held several positions: From 1988–99 he was Director of Europe; Worldwide franchising; Menswear and Strategy. In September 1999 he became chairman of Marks & Spencer's Ventures Division and a year later he was appointed to
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national survival. Carver also co-wrote a number of journal articles, presided over conference presentations, and published in conference proceedings. Thomas Nixon Carver Thomas Nixon Carver (25 March 1865 – 8 March 1961) was an American economics professor. He grew up on a farm, the son of Quaker parents. He received an undergraduate education at Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Southern California. After studying under John Bates Clark and Richard T. Ely at Johns Hopkins University, he received a Ph.D. degree at Cornell University under Walter Francis Willcox in 1894. He held a joint appointment in economics and sociology
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FC. However, Toronto's highly regarded Designated Player Sebastian Giovinco tallied a first half goal to knot up the score. In the 83rd minute, Giovinco again beat United's second-string goalkeeper, Dykstra, this time from distance, to earn all 3 points for the visiting team. The home defeat was the first for United since dropping a game to the Sounders nearly a year earlier in June 2014. United's home unbeaten streak ended at 20 games, but the team still held on to first place in the Eastern Conference. A week later, the team traveled to Orlando where they fell by a 1–0
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in this area. The party's first regional conference was held in 1951 at Abdullah Rimawi's home. At this meeting the party's first ideological programme was laid out, and a plan which mapped out the "future course of the party". The following year, in 1952, another meeting was held, this time in Abdullah Na'was' home. At this conference a Regional Command was elected with Rimawi as its General Secretary, while Shugyar, Gharbiyah and Na'was were elected to the Central Committee. Rimawi and Na'was would prove to be effective leaders, and their recruitment campaign proved successful in both Jordanian and Palestinian neighbourhoods
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the Montreal Impact home and away in a two-legged affair. It was the first time in USL history that two Canadian clubs would meet for the league championship. The Caps lost both fixtures, home and away, 6-3 on aggregate. On 30 November 2009 Teitur signed a one-year contract extension with the club. On 1 September 2010, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC held a press conference where Teitur was named as the coach for the Vancouver Whitecaps' first season in Major League Soccer. After producing only one win in three months of action, Teitur was released from his contract on 30 May
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and expenditures for co-operative extension work in agriculture and home economics throughout the United States under the Smith-Lever Act of 8 May 1914, together with investigations in home economics and agricultural education. In 1902 he was dean of the first graduate school of agriculture in the United States, held at the Ohio State University, and in 1914 he was president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. In 1875, he married Emma Fortune. They had two children. True particularly studied the organization and management of institutions for agricultural education and research, and published several monographs on this
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and interdenominational Conference on Christian Politics, Economics and Citizenship held in 1924 and participated in the ecumenical movement. One of the Anglican delegates to the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927, Rev. Temple both helped prepare and then chaired the second World Conference Faith and Order in Edinburgh 1937. He helped form the British Council of Churches after his elevation to the archbishopric in 1942, and the World Council of Churches in 1948. Rt. Rev. Temple was also influential in bringing together Britain's various churches to support the Education Act of 1944. Against the background
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1899, the assembly approved a motion to appropriate money for the construction of an agricultural building. He published his first textbook, "Principles of Breeding", in 1907. This was followed by "Education for Efficiency" in 1909, where he argued for teaching home economics and agriculture in public school. During World War I he was part of a committee advising the government on food policy. The connections that Davenport made during the war helped to provide more funds and influence for the college. In 1920, Davenport was named vice president of the university, a position he held until his retirement two years
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within the Zionist Organization (later the World Zionist Organization) at a time when the Zionist movement was becoming polarized between Labour Zionists and Revisionist Zionism. Eventually the General Zionists became identified with European liberal and middle class beliefs in private property and capitalism. In 1929, the General Zionists established a world organization, holding their first conference in 1931. At this conference, rifts opened up between the conservative right wing and those who held more moderate views. They were divided over social issues, economics and labour issues (e.g. the Histadrut). The "General Zionists A" favored the economic policies of Labour Zionism
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that competes in the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL). Ultimate (disc), in Canada, has its beginning roots in Toronto, with 3300 players competing annually in the Toronto Ultimate Club (League). The University of Toronto in Downtown Toronto was where the first recorded college football game was held. Many post-secondary institutions in Toronto are members of U Sports or the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association. Toronto was home to the International Bowl, an NCAA sanctioned post-season college football game that pitted a Mid-American Conference team against a Big East Conference team. From 2007 to 2010, the game was played at Rogers Centre
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of regular-season champion UNC Asheville. The championship game was held at the home arena of the higher surviving seed among the two finalists—in this case Radford's home of the Dedmon Center in Radford, Virginia. All 10 conference teams were eligible for the tournament. The top six teams received a first-round bye. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. 2018 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament The 2018 Big South Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament that ended the 2017–18 season of the Big South Conference.
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to the 1993 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This was also the first time the tournament was held outside the home venue of a conference member. The 1993 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Matt Beaumont was named Most Outstanding Player. Beaumont was a pitcher for Ohio State. 1993 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament The 1993 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at C. O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek, Michigan from May 15 through 19. The top four teams
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Karl E. Case Karl Edwin "Chip" Case (November 5, 1946 – July 15, 2016) was Professor of Economics Emeritus at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, where he held the Coman and Hepburn Chair in Economics and taught for 34 years. He was a Senior Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and was President of the Boston Economic Club 2011-12. Professor Case was also a founding partner in the real estate research firm of Fiserv Case Shiller Weiss, Inc., which created the S&P Case Shiller Index of home prices. He served as a member
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returning to England and beginning graduate work. She received her doctorate in 1931 from the London School of Economics, where she was supervised by Malinowski. Though she was widely regarded for her academic accomplishments, Richards never held a chair in anthropology. She held lectureships at the London School of Economics, the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and the University of London. She also held various positions in the Colonial Office, participating in the formation of the Colonial Social Science Research Council (1944). In 1950 she became the first director of the East African Institute of Social Research (Makerere College,
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their approach and using peaceful interpretations of Islam in their work, they found a greater voice among both men and women. VLW's approach, using religion to "gain local-level support," has been a unique way to enact change in Libya. One Voice, which took place November 11–15 was organized by VLW and was the first International Women's Conference ever held in Libya. The conference included topics on politics, religion, economics and had a final, closed session for women-only on topics such as women's health and gender-based violence. Project Noor, which also means "light" in Arabic, is a program that seeks to
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on regular-season records. Additionally, the tournament was again held at the home court of the conference's regular season champion. 1979 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament The 1979 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 2–3 at the Dee Events Center at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah. Top-seeded defeated in the championship game, 92–70, to repeat as champions and clinch their second overall Big Sky men's basketball tournament. The Wildcats, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1979 NCAA Tournament, where they advanced to the Second Round. No changes were made to the tournament format: only
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given at the WEAI Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon in July 2010. North American Association of Sports Economists The North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) is an organization that promotes and facilitates research and teaching in the economics of sports. NAASE was founded in 2007. The organization emerged from the many sessions focused on sports economics at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) meetings held throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. NAASE maintains a close relationship to the WEAI and the annual NAASE business meeting takes place at this conference. Although many NAASE members are academics, membership is open
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a bachelor’s in economics and mathematics from Benedictine College and a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University. The 2009 Domenici Public Policy Conference, held Sept. 16-17, 2009 at NMSU's Corbett Center, was headlined by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. That year’s topics included the U.S. economy and national debt, homeland security, the U.S./Mexico border and nuclear energy. David Walker, former director of the U.S. Government Accountability Office spoke about the U.S. economy and the national debt. Alex Flint, senior vice president at the Nuclear Energy Institute, spoke about nuclear energy. As in the previous year’s conference,
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down the murder rate, though their effect on other crimes is ambiguous. A conference organized by the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School and held at American Enterprise Institute was published in a special issue of "The Journal of Law and Economics". Academics of all interests in the debate were invited to participate and provide refereed empirical research. As follows are some papers from that conference supported Lott's conclusions. Other refereed empirical academic studies besides the original paper with David Mustard that have supported Lott's conclusions include the following. Some academic studies that have rejected
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He studied economics at Dhaka University, where he obtained his BA (Hons) and MA in 1960 and 1961, respectively, standing first in his class both times. He earned a master's degree in development economics from Williams College in Massachusetts, and a doctorate in economics from Princeton University. Ahmed started his career as a lecturer of economics in Dhaka University. Later, he joined the civil service of Pakistan. After the Bangladesh Liberation War, he served the civil service of Bangladesh until 1978. That year, he joined the World Bank, where he held various mid-level positions. On retirement from the World Bank,
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of the organisation’s programmes. The ICOM General conference is held every three years and gathers museum professionals from several countries. The first meeting was held in Paris in 1948. In recent years, General Conferences have been held in Seoul in 2004 (the first meeting in Asia), in Vienna in 2007, and in Shanghai in 2010. This 22nd General Conference in Shanghai followed the World Expo where an ICOM’s Pavilion was inaugurated and named “Museums, Heart of the City”. The General Conference was held in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 and in Milan in 2016. The next one will be held
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2020. List of NCAA Division I FBS conference championship games Pac-12 Football Championship Game The Pac-12 Football Championship Game is an annual college football game held by the Pac-12 Conference to determine the season's conference champion. The game pits the champion of the North Division against the champion of the South Division.The inaugural game was held during the 2011 season. Since 2014, the game has been played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The first three editions were held at the home stadium of the division winner with the better conference record: Autzen Stadium in 2011, Stanford Stadium in
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1980 Eastern 8 Conference Baseball Tournament The 1980 Eastern 8 Conference Baseball Tournament was held on May 18 and 19, 1980 to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I Eastern 8 Conference, renamed in 1982 as the Atlantic 10 Conference, for the 1980 NCAA Division I baseball season. This was the second iteration of the event, and was held on The Ellipse, home field of George Washington, in Washington, D.C. won the championship and the conference's automatic bid to the 1980 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament followed a double-elimination format, with Duquesne receiving a first round bye.
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1980 Eastern 8 Conference Baseball Tournament The 1980 Eastern 8 Conference Baseball Tournament was held on May 18 and 19, 1980 to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I Eastern 8 Conference, renamed in 1982 as the Atlantic 10 Conference, for the 1980 NCAA Division I baseball season. This was the second iteration of the event, and was held on The Ellipse, home field of George Washington, in Washington, D.C. won the championship and the conference's automatic bid to the 1980 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament followed a double-elimination format, with Duquesne receiving a first round bye.
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Marshall's last season in the conference, as they joined the Mid-American Conference prior to the 1997–98 season. <nowiki>*</nowiki> - Indicates extra innings. 1997 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament The 1997 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, SC from April 30 through May 3. Top seeded won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was the Catamounts eighth tournament win. This was the first tournament to be held at Riley Park, which opened as the home venue of The Citadel for the 1997
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is the birthplace of the Communist Party of India in kerala, where it held its first meeting in 1939. Young Balaram (His real name was Balaraman, which was somehow shortened to Balaram) was an active member of that landmark conference held in a house near the village library, hardly 200 meters away from his home. He did schooling at a nearby village school. He studied up to 8th standard, which was considered (comparatively) a good school education at that time. After completing school, he became a faculty in a nearby school for a while. By then he was a known
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Israeli Presidential Conference The Israeli Presidential Conference is a high level conference held in Jerusalem, once every 18 months originally, and more recently annually, under the auspices of the Israeli President and Nobel Prize laureate, Shimon Peres. The gathering, titled "Facing Tomorrow", brings together the world top leaders and thinkers in a wide variety of fields including policy, energy, science, economics, culture, art, religion, and thought, to navigate the most pressing global challenges ahead. The Conference was inaugurated in May 2008 by Israel's ninth President, Shimon Peres. The conference seeks to investigate the crises and solutions, trends and innovations, visions
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elected to the North Carolina Senate. Lilly Morehead Mebane was one of the first woman elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives. Jane Simpson McKimmon became the youngest graduate of Peace College, when she finished the then 2-year college program at age 16; she later became the first woman to graduate from NC State University. McKimmon became a leader in "home economics" and greatly advanced the state agriculture department's home extension service. NC State University's conference and continuing education center is named for her and the chair of Peace's Leadership Studies program is named for McKimmon. Addie Worth Bagley
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White House. As communications policy has grown in importance to where the very term “telecommunications” is inadequate, the conference has evolved and expanded. TPRC saw the birth of the discourse on spectrum auctions. TPRC offered the first panel on the social and political implications of e-commerce in 1994. Conference topics have increasingly emphasized the interaction among disciplines, including network science and engineering, economics, law, and social sciences. See, "From A Novel Conference: The Origin of TPRC", by Bruce M. Owen from the book: TELEPHONY, THE INTERNET, AND THE MEDIA Selected Papers from the 1997 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Edited by
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2017 Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Soccer Tournament The 2017 Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Atlantic Sun Conference held from October 28 through November 5, 2017. The first round of the tournament was held at campus sites, with the higher seed hosting. The semifinals and final took place at Lipscomb Soccer Complex in Nashville, Tennessee, home of the Lipscomb Bisons, the regular season co-champions and tournament #1 seed. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Florida Gulf Coast Eagles were the defending
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editorial board of the scholarly journal "Regional Science". Also that year, Dost was the only woman out of the nine economists invited to facilitate a National Conference on Mobility, sponsored by Cornell University. From 1967 to 1971 she became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Oregon State. In 1970 Dost was a part of the NSF Fellow in Urban Economics at Stanford University, where she was also the only female NSF Fellow. From 1972 to 1974 Dost was the first president of the Oregon Women’s Political Caucus, along with serving on the Steering Committee of the National Women's Political Caucus
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the MSC has been organizing the "Energy Security Summit" since 2013. The first meeting was held on 10 July 2013 in the ballroom of the Frankfurt Palmengarten under the auspices of Federal Economics and Technology Minister Philipp Rösler and Environment Minister Peter Altmaier. Other topics of the event were climate change, the geostrategic consequences of fracking and the German Energy transition. The second Energy Security Summit was held in Berlin on 27 and 28 May 2014. Key topics of the meeting included the "shale gas revolution" in the United States and the conflict in Ukraine. In his
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sessions at the Western Economic Association annual conference. NAASE sponsors sessions at numerous academic conferences, including the Western Economic Association International conference, the Southern Economic Association conference and the Eastern Economic Association conference. NAASE also sponsors a listserv to promote interaction among researchers in sports economics. NAASE, in conjunction with the International Association of Sports Economists, operates a working paper series that is part of Research Papers in Economics (Repec). NAASE confers an award every four years, the Larry Hadley Service Award, to recognize outstanding service to the field of sports economics. The first Larry Hadley Service Award will be
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record of 12–5 and earned the ECAC regular season title after completing a 7–0 conference record. Denver would earn just their third NCAA Tournament birth, where they would lose to Stony Brook, 9-7, in the first round. In 2011, the Pioneers completed a 15–3 record, again going undefeated in the ECAC at 6–0 to capture the conference regular season and tournament championships. In the 2011 NCAA Tournament the No. 6-seeded Pioneers hosted No. 11 Villanova in front of a standing room-only home crowd of 2,575. In the first NCAA Tournament game to ever be held west of the Mississippi River,
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first round. Missouri Valley finished the regular season with its third consecutive conference championship and an undefeated 10–0 record, while Ottawa entered into the game with its second consecutive conference championship and a record of 8–2. Missouri Valley earned the home field advantage for the first round. Missouri Valley scored 15 points in the first quarter and held Ottawa to zero, and held that lead for the entire game. Missouri Valley averaged 6.9 yards per play while holding Ottawa to 2.7. Missouri Valley's 487 total yards was made up of 229 yards rushing and 258 passing. With 13:46 left in
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