A critical evaluation of the zonalistic foundations of soil science in the United States. Part I: The beginning of soil classification

AbstractThis article provides a critical evaluation of the main provisions of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions. It examines the Guide in the context of other international and national secured transactions instruments including article 9 of the United States Uniform Commercial Code. The clear objective of the Guide is to facilitate secured financing. It is very facilitating and enabling, and permits the creation of security in all sorts of situations. Security is seen as a good thing, through enhancing the availability of lower-cost credit. The paper suggests that this closeness in approach to article 9 is likely to militate against the prospects of the Guide gaining widespread international acceptance. This is the case for various interlocking reasons including the battering that American legal and financial norms have taken with the global financial crisis.

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The Cause of Auditing Expectation Gap

Journal of Finance Research ◽

10.26549/jfr.v4i2.4963 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

Gao Mengyan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

The United States ◽

Previous Literature ◽

Performance Gap ◽

The Public ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Expectation Gap

Previous literature show that auditors and the public have different understandings and beliefs about the auditor’s responsibilities. The public’s expectation of statutory audit may exceed the responsibility required by the auditing standard, which leads to the audit expectation gap. Since the 1980s, there are more and more criticisms on statutory auditors especially after the appearance of some auditing fraud such as Enron case in the United States and Maxwell’s case in the United Kingdom. The misunderstanding from the public makes the auditor face more and more challenges. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the components of the gap, and discuss the main reasons based on the existing literature and cases. This paper makes a critical evaluation of the audit expectation gap from three parts: performance gap, standard gap, and reasonableness gap, respectively.

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La educación bilingüe en los Estados Unidos: Programas, perspectivas, retos y lecciones

Revista Española de Educación Comparada ◽

10.5944/reec.36.2020.26753 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 130

Author(s):

David Nieto

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Bilingual Education ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

The United States ◽

Educational Programs ◽

The Us ◽

The U.S

The present paper engages in a historical analysis and interpretation of the policies that have contributed to develop bilingual education in the United States. Departing from the U.S. interpretation of bilingual education, this study examines each of the educational programs that have been implemented in the country since the twentieth century, its pedagogical underpinnings, and the critical evaluation of its outcomes. The paper concludes with an analysis of potential interpretations and lessons that the US case may have for other contexts.

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Towards diverse representation and inclusion in soil science in the United States

Soil Science Society of America Journal ◽

10.1002/saj2.20210 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Tiffany L. Carter ◽

Lydia L. Jennings ◽

Yamina Pressler ◽

Adrian C. Gallo ◽

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Soil Science

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Internal Colony as Political Perspective

Cultural Politics an International Journal ◽

10.1215/17432197-7725493 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 343-357 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Morgan Adamson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin American ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

The United States ◽

Law And Order ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

Kwame Nkrumah ◽

Us Imperialism ◽

Political Perspective ◽

The 1960S

In the midst of struggles against racial oppression in the United States that intensified in and around 1968, activists developed the theory of the internal colony to contend that US imperialism was essential to understanding racial oppression in the heart of empire. The theory of the internal colony foregrounded alliances with struggles for national liberation abroad, articulated through an internationalist and Third Worldist position. This essay is a critical evaluation of the theory of the internal colony as a political perspective, its use and circulation within militant movements against racial oppression during the long 1960s, and its cultural and theoretical resonances today. Through the work of Robert L. Allen, the essay argues that the internal colony was a crucial lens through which to read both the rise of law and order and neoliberal political formations. Furthermore, drawing on the critiques of imperialism and finance, first developed by Lenin, that inspired movements for Third World emancipation through dependency theory from Latin American scholars and the theory of neocolonialism developed by Kwame Nkrumah in the 1960s, the author argues for a reevaluation of the theory of the internal colony in the context of contemporary financialization in the United States and elsewhere as a way to reinvigorate theories of geographical dislocation that remap solidarities in struggles against the financial dispossession today.

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Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Vol. I,

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.23.4.737 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 737-737

Author(s):

M. M. GRUMBACH

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Great Britain ◽

Clinical Significance ◽

Clinical Chemistry ◽

Medical Science ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

The United States ◽

Foreign Literature ◽

Initial Volume ◽

Recent Advances

In this initial volume of a new series of "Advances," the editors state in the preface that their aim "is to provide a readable account of selected important developments [in clinical chemistry], of their roots in the allied fundamental disciplines, and of their impact upon the progress of medical science." The editors have drawn on eminent authorities from Australia, Sweden and Switzerland as well as Great Britain and the United States to contribute nine chapters on a wide variety of subjects. The reviews, which in general are of exceptional quality, provide a critical evaluation of important advances in methods of analysis and their clinical significance. In addition to much useful information on analytic techniques of value to the investigator, the reviews contain a wealth of information clearly and succinctly presented which reflect the authors' thorough syntheses of recent advances in their special fields. The extensive bibliographies include a large number of references in the foreign literature.

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