1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451726303321

Autore

Saxon Dan <1958->

Titolo

To save her life [[electronic resource] ] : disappearance, deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala / / Dan Saxon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-77224-4

9786612772245

0-520-94111-X

1-4356-0386-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

972.8105/3

Soggetti

Disappeared persons - Guatemala

Political persecution - Guatemala

Human rights - Guatemala

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Guatemala

Guatemala Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Map of Guatemala -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Thursday, July 23, 1992 -- 2. Thursday Morning and Afternoon -- 3. Friday, July 24, 1992 -- 4. Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26, 1992 -- 5. The Catholic Church in Guatemala, 1524-1992 -- 6. Monday and Tuesday, July 27-28, 1992 -- 7. Wednesday, July 29, 1992 -- 8. Thursday, July 30, 1992 -- PART TWO: THE VISA -- 9. Friday, July 31, 1992 -- 10. Saturday, August 1, 1992 -- 11. Sunday, August 2, 1992 -- 12. Monday, August 3, 1992 -- 13. Tuesday, August 4, 1992 -- 14. Wednesday, August 5, 1992 -- 15. Thursday, August 6, 1992 -- The Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Part human rights drama, part political thriller, part love story, this riveting narrative chronicles the disappearance of one woman as it tells the larger story of the past fifty years of violence and struggle for social



justice and democracy, and U.S. intervention in Guatemala. Maritza Urrutia was abducted from a middle-class neighborhood while taking her son to school in 1992. To Save Her Life tells the story of her ordeal which included being interrogated in secret by army intelligence officers about her activities as part of a political opposition group. Chained to a bed, blindfolded, and deprived of sleep, Maritza was ultimately spared because her family was able to contact influential intermediaries, including author Dan Saxon, who was in Guatemala working for the Catholic Church's Human Rights Office. Here Saxon brings to life the web of players who achieved her release: the Church, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Congress, numerous NGOs, guerrilla groups, politicians, students, and the media. Reaching back to 1954, when Maritza's grandparents were activists, the book is a study of the complex and often cruel politics of human rights, and its themes reverberate from Guatemala to Guantánamo to Iraq.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961030003321

Autore

Khandker Shahidur R

Titolo

Handbook on impact evaluation : : quantitative methods and practices / / Shahidur R. Khandker, Gayatri B. Koolwal, Hussain A. Samad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2010

ISBN

9786612450747

9781282450745

1282450743

9780821380291

082138029X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xx, 239 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

KoolwalGayatri B

SamadHussain A. <1963->

Disciplina

338.90072

Soggetti

Economic development projects - Evaluation

Economic assistance - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Part 1 Methods and Practices; Figure 2.1 Monitoring and Evaluation Framework; Box 2.1 Case Study: PROGRESA (Oportunidades) in Mexico; Box 2.2 Case Study: Assessing the Social Impact of Rural Energy Services in Nepal; Figure 2.A Levels of Information Collection and Aggregation; Figure 2.B Building up of Key Performance Indicators: Project Stage Details; Box 2.3 Case Study: The Indonesian Kecamatan Development Project; Box 2.4 Case Study: Monitoring the Nutritional Objectives of the FONCODES Project in Peru

Box 2.5 Case Study: Mixed Methods in Quantitative and Qualitative ApproachesBox 2.6 Case Study: An Example of an Ex Ante Evaluation; Figure 2.2 Evaluation Using a With-and-Without Comparison; Figure 2.3 Evaluation Using a Before-and-After Comparison; Figure 3.1 The Ideal Experiment with an Equivalent Control Group; Box 3.1 Case Study: PROGRESA (Oportunidades); Box 3.2 Case Study: Using Lotteries to Measure Intent-to-Treat Impact; Box 3.3 Case Study: Instrumenting in the Case of Partial Compliance; Box 3.4 Case Study: Minimizing Statistical Bias Resulting from Selective Attrition

Box 3.5 Case Study: Selecting the Level of Randomization to Account for SpilloversBox 3.6 Case Study: Measuring Impact Heterogeneity from a Randomized Program; Box 3.7 Case Study: Effects of Conducting a Baseline; Box 3.8 Case Study: Persistence of Unobserved Heterogeneity in a Randomized Program; Figure 4.1 Example of Common Support; Figure 4.2 Example of Poor Balancing and Weak Common Support; Box 4.1 Case Study: Steps in Creating a Matched Sample of Nonparticipants to Evaluate a Farmer-Field-School Program; Box 4.2 Case Study: Use of PSM and Testing for Selection Bias

Box 4.3 Case Study: Using Weighted Least Squares Regression in a Study of the Southwest China Poverty Reduction ProjectFigure 5.1 An Example of DD; Box 5.1 Case Study: DD with Panel Data and Repeated Cross-Sections; Figure 5.2 Time-Varying Unobserved Heterogeneity; Box 5.2 Case Study: Accounting for Initial Conditions with a DD Estimator-Applications for Survey Data of Varying Lengths; Box 5.3 Case Study: PSM with DD; Box 5.4 Case Study: Triple-Difference Method-Trabajar Program in Argentina; Box 6.1 Case Study: Using Geography of Program Placement as an Instrument in Bangladesh

Box 6.2 Case Study: Different Approaches and IVs in Examining the Effects of Child Health on Schooling in GhanaBox 6.3 Case Study: A Cross-Section and Panel Data Analysis Using Eligibility Rules for Microfinance Participation in Bangladesh; Box 6.4 Case Study: Using Policy Design as Instruments to Study Private Schooling in Pakistan; Figure 7.1 Outcomes before Program Intervention; Figure 7.2 Outcomes after Program Intervention; Box 7.1 Case Study: Exploiting Eligibility Rules in Discontinuity Design in South Africa; Figure 7.3 Using a Tie-Breaking Experiment

Figure 7.4 Multiple Cutoff Points

Sommario/riassunto

Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank, for example, succeeded in lowering consumption poverty among the rural poor in Bangladesh? Can conditional cash transfer programs in Mexico and Latin America improve health and schooling outcomes for poor women and children? Does a new road actually raise welfare in a remote area in Tanzania, or is it a ""highway to nowhere?"" This book reviews q



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143392703321

Titolo

American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : American Thoracic society, 1989-

ISSN

1535-4989

Disciplina

599/.012/05

Soggetti

Lungs - Physiology

Lungs - Cytology

Cell respiration

Molecular biology

Lung - cytology

Lung

Molecular Biology

Poumons - Physiologie

Poumons - Cytologie

Cellules - Respiration

Biologie moléculaire

Poumons

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

"Official journal of the American Thoracic Society, the medical section of the American Lung Association."

Abstracts only for: v. 10-16 (1994-June 1997); full-text begins with v. 17 (July 1997).