Ruminations, mostly editorial
English to English translationsstrictly editorial
March 9, 2004
From this ...
As we see it, the question for policy is this: given the fragmentation and temporal variation in the provision of the parental function by the contemporary family, what is the most constructive response of policy?
...to this...
As we see it, the question for policy is this: what is the most constructive response to parents sharing responsibility for their children but not in a shared household and not at the same time?
Some food tastes bad no matter what way you cook it.
The many authors of this volume, I am told, thought that my edits infringed too much on their voice. The publishers thought I'd done a good job of translating the authors' English into the English that the rest of us speak.
March 9, 2004 4:38 PM | Add comment | Read comments (0)
Academic bogstrictly editorial
March 8, 2004
I am at work on a Criminology article. I am stultified and terrified and long to change the subject, but there's only more of the same and I have got to get through one paper before noon. But here, and they call this communicating ...
A multivariate analysis of the independent effect of each of the illegal gun trafficking indicators on time-to-crime was conducted to examine whether the trafficking indicators we identified remained significant predictors controlling for the effects of the other factors. As with the bivariate analysis, the indicator variables are examined in terms of their substantive/temporal position in the process of illegally diverting guns from legitimate firearms commerce to the ultimate possessors of the crime gun. The independent effects of individual trafficking indicators (along with the effects of control variables) on time-to-crime are assessed in terms of the substantive/temporal category in which they enter the illegal firearms diversion process. This also enables us to examine to what extent the effects of individual indicators are mediated by the addition of later indicator variables that operate at later stages in the process of the illegal diversion of firearms. However, we examine overall effect of each independent variable in terms of the last stage in the analysis that includes each of the independent variable.
Long pause ....
We conducted a multivariate analysis of the independent effect of each illegal gun trafficking indicator on time-to-crime to determine whether those we identified remained significant control predictors. The variables were examined for their relevance in trafficking. The effects of the indicators, and of the control variables, are assessed in terms of the substantive/temporal category in which they enter the trafficking process. We can thus examine to what extent the effects are mediated when other variables are introduced later in the process. We also examine the overall effect of each variable in terms of the last stage in the analysis that includes it.
I wonder if that's the same. I also wonder if it says anything.
March 8, 2004 10:48 AM | Add comment | Read comments (0)
Harlequin romancesstrictly editorial
March 4, 2004
Dare I o dare I go out to either the secondhand shop or a new one and buy a couple Harlequin romances, read them, and write two critical assessments? Many things I have done in 48 years, but reading a Harlequin romance or a Barbara Cartland is not one of them.
Mediabistro today ran a listing for Harlequin, in which Harlequin was looking for manuscript readers. The Barnes and Noble is open until 11. Second Story Books probably only another hour, if that. I could set off now. The alternative, to sit here and work on the diplomacy book and the encyclopedia. Hmmm. They probably pay $10 an hour, but having that on the resume were one to choose it would be worth it?
At the same time, there is serious work on the desk to be done.
March 4, 2004 8:02 PM | Add comment | Read comments (0)
Books, inch by inchstrictly editorial
March 2, 2004
The doorbell rang just now: UPS with an air overnight from the —— Foundation and the manuscript of the Moynihan edited book on poverty. I look forward to May.
Half of the —— issue is in the door, as is all of the commercial diplomacy book. The tobacco report will get here when it gets here any day now by early report. Criminology articles will begin to trickle in before too long. Ten to one the Staten Island boys will squawk for some time and produce goodness knows when. They're low on the totem pole with all their delays (thank god, but then, they're the ones who pay well). I think I've figured a workable system.
From 6 until noon I work on the regular Syracuse while it lasts, and the Russia news. The rest of the day, from about 1 pm until I cannot hold my eyes open any longer, will go to one of the books or journals. Days will rotate from book to journal to book and back.
It's spring.
March 2, 2004 7:05 PM | Add comment | Read comments (0)
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