Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Using previously unreleased data on nearly every work stoppage that occurred between 1984 and 2000, this paper tests whether the positive wage-strike relationship held following the breakdown of the post-war labor-capital accord. Unlike in decades past, these findings indicate a complete decoupling of the wage-strike relationship within most industries during the last years of the twentieth century. In those industries with the highest rates of unionization, the data suggest that increased strike activity is negatively associated with median worker pay. The findings of this paper highlight the need for rethinking existing theoretical models on strike activity and wages in an era of capital dominance.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The paper will examine the underlying principles of the Dayton Accords which work to construct a framework of cultural cohesion, forming the foundation on which the nation can survive. This particular understanding of state borders which secure the basic survival of groups and nations has been contested on a number of levels during its many stages of implementation. Focusing on some of the contemporary criticisms of the Dayton Accords and the subsequent military intervention in Kosovo, this paper will work to gain more understanding of the moment of sovereign decision in the circumstances which exceed modern conception of borders and national imageries.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The use of preferential trade agreements often fails to account for institutional differences between agreements, instead treating them as dichotomous variables. This paper attempts to explain one aspect of institutional difference, legalism

Publication Type: Individual Poster
Abstract: Depressive and anxious people tend to engage in negative interaction with others due to deficits of social skills and positive emotional expression. It is caused to impairment of intimate relation, such as couple and parent-child (Rutter & Quinton, 1984). Depression and anxiety is important internal variables affecting to mother-infant interaction. Especially, depressive mothers’ infants tend to be low to social stimulus. Depressive mothers are not only interactional partners who significantly affect to low stimulus to their infants, but they also are lower interacted by themselves (Field, Hernandez-Reif, Vera, Gil, & Diego, 2005). In addition, it occurs to problems about mother-infants interaction through depressive mothers tend to show irritation without waiting for infant’s repeated behaviors (Pickens, Hansen, Rieppi, & Quale, 1996). The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between maternal depression and anxiety and their infants' lexical development and behavior problem at 18 months.
A total of three hundred twenty mothers and their 18-months infants participated in this study. Interviewers visited each participant’s home and mothers completed questionnaire. BDI (Beck Depression Inventory, Beck, Ward, Mendalson, Mock, & Ergaugh, 1961) and BAI (Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck, Epstein, Brown, & Steer, 1988) were used for investigating maternal depression and anxiety, while Korean MCDI (Korean McArthur Communicative Development Inventories. Pae, Kwak, Song, & Sung, 2004) and TBC (Toddler Behavior Checklist, Goldsmith, 1996) were used for investigating infant's lexical development and behavior problem.
Mothers were categorized into two groups based on their both BDI and BAI scores: high depressive and high anxious mothers (N=76) and low depressive and low anxious mothers (N=96). Results are as follows: First, infants with high depressive and anxious mothers had less expressive words than infants with low depressive and low anxious mothers (t=2.04, p<.05). Second, high depressive and anxious mothers had more perceived that their infants engage in resistant behavior (t=2.34, p<.05), immaturity (t=2.88, p<.01) and physical aggression (t=2.02, p<.05) than low depressive and anxious mothers. However, there were no significant effects in emotional instability and shyness.
These results of this study revealed that maternal depression and anxiety had affected to their infants' lexical development and behavior problem. Depressive and anxious mothers tend to perceive their infant’s salient problematic behaviors in their interaction. These results support studies that maternal variables such as depression and anxiety decided to the sensitivity of infant’s responsiveness and affect to child development (Campbell, Cohn, & Meyers, 1995; van den Boom, 1995).

Publication Type: Abstract Proposal
Abstract: In a paper given at last year's ARCE annual meeting, I wished to demonstrate that the numerous references to snw nsw 'Kings' brothers' in major kushite sources signaled the emergence of a new pattern of royal succession under 8th Century B.C. 25th Kushite kings in Egypt and their descendents, the rulers of the independent Kingdom of Napata, a territory that covered more or less present-day Sudan from the 7th Century to the 2nd Century B.C. The main purpose of my paper was to show that an important political and religious ideological shift had occurred. Whereas the fratrilineal succession, during the 13th dynasty and at other times in pharaonic history, was seen as exceptions to the rule, the advent of the Kushite dynasties did necessitate thorough structural changes in both royal phraseology and mythology.
This year, through the examination of a major kushite document (Cairo Stela JE 48866), known as the Enthronement inscription of the Napatan king Aspalta (6th century B.C.), I would like to put forward another particular feature that illustrates the way Nubia, a society of oral tradition, was able to re-appropriate the written heritage of Pharaonic Egypt in order to suit its own particular needs. More specifically, a new translation of a passage in the Stela is ground for a reassessment of the role played by the Egyptian god Ra in choosing rulers in Ancient Kush. Not only does the text stress the predominance of a local solar Nubian god (Amen-Ra of Napata) over an Egyptian one, it also shows, in a subtle and implicit way, the renunciation of the traditionally important role played by the Heliopolitan god Ra as the ultimate judge between Horus and Seth in their fight over the Osirian kingship.