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The Estonian Folklore Archives was established as the central folklore archives of Estonia in 1927.1 The original collections of the archives were built upon manuscript reports and accounts of Estonian folklore, consisting of over 115,000 pages of material contributed primarily by the noted

The Internet provides scholars with an ever-expanding variety of ways to interact with the public. Crowdsourcing, or putting one’s research tasks online and asking for help from volunteers, is perhaps one of the most rewarding things an academic can do. The assistance one gets is not only free

alliance of industrialists, professionals and academicians to record and study the evolution and use of the digital computer and modern electronic communication technology. CBI is a research institute dedicated to promoting the study of the history of information processing, bringing historical

in the archives available in the internationally recognized university folklore departments of Ireland and Scotland. This was augmented by 40 indepth personal interviews with Gaelic- and English-speaking residents in rural communities of both countries, recalling local customs and practices in the care

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This study examines the sharing of public policy preferences between American state political party elites and party followers in the mass public on ten matters of state policy. Employing responses from about 1600 county political party chairmen in the 50 states and responses of party followers in several national-level surveys, we find meaningful differences between Democratic and Republican party elites, with the Democratic chair-men consistently more liberal on the ten matters of state policy than the Republican chairmen. Smaller differences in policy preferences, generally, are reported between the Democratic and Republican followers in the mass public. Spatially, the Democratic elite, the Democratic mass, and the Republican mass are grouped together near a centrist position on the policy questions, while the Republican elite is positioned at a distance in the conservative direction on most of the ten matters of state policy. While numerous studies have focused upon the distribution of opinion across various segments of American society, relatively few have analyzed the structure of opinion within the major

for empirical evidence that CALL systems have a beneficial effect. This point is reiterated by Chapelle [2002] who defines the goal for Computer Assisted Second Language Research as the gathering of evidence for the effect of CALL and instructional design. This paper presents results of a field test of our

The implementation of public assistance and related forms of social insurance, based on existing social welfare legislation, often disc-riminates against new and emerging social institutions such as coll-ective families residing in a communal situation. A recent case study of the Danish experience

in formal proofs for functional programs. This lead to a Master Thesis, the Sparkle dedicated proof assistant for the language CLEAN, a pile of papers and a Ph.D. manuscript in preparation. Henk taught us how to perform research on a fundamental level without loosing sight of the applications of your work