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Ocena Składu Gazów Odlotowych Z Procesów Spopielania Odpadów Niebezpiecznych Pod Kątem Trudności Oczyszczania I Toksyczności, Robert Oleniacz Dec 2001

Ocena Składu Gazów Odlotowych Z Procesów Spopielania Odpadów Niebezpiecznych Pod Kątem Trudności Oczyszczania I Toksyczności, Robert Oleniacz

Robert Oleniacz

Tightening of the European Union law in the field of the air emission limit values from waste incineration causes necessity for existing and new incineration plants to conform to the standards. It will often involve modernization of the flue gas cleaning system. Proposed in the paper the methodology of evaluation of the combustion gases composition in point of view cleaning difficulty should be useful to this end. Average toxicity factors for hazardous waste incineration flue gases were defined as well. Among other things they can be used in comparative analysis of the air pollutant concentration in the raw gas (before …

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Review Of: David Matthews, The Invention Of Middle English, Richard Utz Dec 2001

Review Of: David Matthews, The Invention Of Middle English, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.

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Morning Coffee, Robert A. Zordani Dec 2001

Morning Coffee, Robert A. Zordani

Robert A. Zordani

No abstract provided.

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A Neural Network-Based Approach For Control Of Capacitors Installed On Distribution Systems For Power Loss Reduction, Almoataz Youssef Abdelaziz Dec 2001

A Neural Network-Based Approach For Control Of Capacitors Installed On Distribution Systems For Power Loss Reduction, Almoataz Youssef Abdelaziz

Almoataz Youssef Abdelaziz

A neural network for capacitor switching in electric distribution systems for the purpose of power loss reduction is presented in this paper. An optimization technique (sensitive node method) for allocating the compensating capacitors is used to generate the training set patterns of the neural network. The required input data of the neural network at varying loading conditions are directly obtained from a load flow study of the distribution system. Load variations are assumed to follow a randomized function that generates a randomized matrix which is employed for implementing the different load levels. The developed neural network is based on a …

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South Park Campaign Of The Community Coalition For Environmental Justice, Jonathan Betz-Zall Dec 2001

South Park Campaign Of The Community Coalition For Environmental Justice, Jonathan Betz-Zall

Jonathan Betz-Zall

This case study evaluated the effectiveness of the community organizing techniques used by the Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) in promoting the principles of grassroots organizing in its work in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. This campaign, part of the SouthSeattleToxics Project, focused attention on the pollution caused by the Long Painting Company's activities. The CCEJ used traditional community organizing techniques to help South Park residents oppose this pollution; the residents formed their own organization to monitor progress even after the offending company has left town. The case study evaluated this work of the CCEJ in terms …

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Changing Incidence Of Oral And Maxillofacial Tumours In East Java, Indonesia, 1987-1992. Part 2: Malignant Tumours, T. I. Budhy, S. D. Soenarto, H. B. Yaacob, W.C. Ngeow Dec 2001

Changing Incidence Of Oral And Maxillofacial Tumours In East Java, Indonesia, 1987-1992. Part 2: Malignant Tumours, T. I. Budhy, S. D. Soenarto, H. B. Yaacob, W.C. Ngeow

Wei Cheong Ngeow

A total of 2193 tumours of the mouth and jaw diagnosed at the Laboratorium Patologi Anatomi Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia from 1987 to 1992, inclusive, was studied. Malignant tumours constituted 45.3% of the lesions. Almost 71% of the malignant tumours were squamous cell carcinomas. The remainder were salivary gland tumours (21.5%) and sarcomas (4.5%). The male to female ratio for malignant tumours was 5.1:4.7. The incidence of malignant tumours per 100,000 population over the 6-year study period was 2.64. The yearly incidence seemed to increase except in 1990, when it dropped. The incidence of squamous cell carcinoma over the …

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An Investigation Of The Rank Transformation In Multple Regression, Todd C. Headrick, Ourania Rotou Dec 2001

An Investigation Of The Rank Transformation In Multple Regression, Todd C. Headrick, Ourania Rotou

Todd Christopher Headrick

Real world data often fail to meet the underlying assumptions of normal statistical theory. The rank transformation (RT) procedure is recommended and used in the context of multiple regression analysis when the assumption of normality is violated. There is no general supporting theory of the RT. In view of this, the current study examined the Type I error and power properties of the RT in terms of multiple regression. The investigation included both additive and nonadditive models. Results indicated that there were severely inflated Type I error rates associated with the RT procedure under both normal and nonnormal distributions (e.g., …

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Understanding The Reasons For And Impact Of Legislatively Mandated Benefits For Selected Workers, John Donohue Dec 2001

Understanding The Reasons For And Impact Of Legislatively Mandated Benefits For Selected Workers, John Donohue

John Donohue

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Equally Bad Is Not Good: Allowing Title Ix “Compliance” By The Elimination Of Men’S Collegiate Sports, Donald E. Shelton Dec 2001

Equally Bad Is Not Good: Allowing Title Ix “Compliance” By The Elimination Of Men’S Collegiate Sports, Donald E. Shelton

Hon. Donald E. Shelton

Athletic participation is an important part of the educational process, instilling important lessons about discipline and teamwork. Title IX was intended to address the historic lack of opportunities for women and girls to participate in school athletics. Unfortunately, the current administrative interpretation of Title IX permits the elimination of male athletic opportunities as a means of complying with the statute's equality standard. This result undermines the purpose of Title IX and the role of athletics in the educational process for all students.

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Conflicts And Common Interests In Committees , Hao Li, Sherwin Rosen, Wing Suen Dec 2001

Conflicts And Common Interests In Committees , Hao Li, Sherwin Rosen, Wing Suen

hao li

Committees improve decisions by pooling independent information of members, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private evidence when members have conflicting preferences. We study how self-interest mediates these conflicting forces. When members' preferences differ, no person ever submits a report that allows perfect inference of his private information. Instead, equilibrium strategies are many-to-one mappings that transform continuous data into ordered ranks: voting procedures are the equilibrium methods of achieving a consensus in committees. Voting necessarily coarsens the transmission of information among members, but is necessary to control conflicts of interest. The degree of coarseness of the equilibrium voting procedure …

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Development Of Hiv Model And Its Simulation, D. K. Chaturvedi, Pritam Singh, S. K. Gaur, D. S. Mishra Dec 2001

Development Of Hiv Model And Its Simulation, D. K. Chaturvedi, Pritam Singh, S. K. Gaur, D. S. Mishra

D. K. Chaturvedi Dr.

The article discusses model developmetn for HIV infected population using the System Dynamics technique. The technique has an advantage over conventional modeling technique as it is dependent more on causal relationships that involve qualitative and quantitative variables to model socioeconomic problems of a complex nature. The model has been simulated and the results haven been compared witht he available data.

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Electronic Journals: How User Behaviour Is Changing, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King Dec 2001

Electronic Journals: How User Behaviour Is Changing, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

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La Subsidiaria Y La Sucursal En El Mundo Empresarial, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Nov 2001

La Subsidiaria Y La Sucursal En El Mundo Empresarial, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.

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Hombres, Diablos Y Animales: Exposición De Máscaras De Las Tradiciones Festivas Centroamericanas, Sylvie Duran Nov 2001

Hombres, Diablos Y Animales: Exposición De Máscaras De Las Tradiciones Festivas Centroamericanas, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Exhibit project from the Cultural Association InCorpore on masks and performative traditions, cultural diversity. A version relating the topis to natural diversity was also developed. The tool "Red narrativa de la productividad cultural" was part of the conceptualization of the exhibit.

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Muchos Caribes: El Caribe Mesoamericano En El Festival Internacional De Las Artes Fia 2002, Sylvie Duran Nov 2001

Muchos Caribes: El Caribe Mesoamericano En El Festival Internacional De Las Artes Fia 2002, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Music artistic proposal to the Costa Rica International Festival of the Arts 2002. It summarizes Cultural Association InCorpore´s research-production projects on Central American music during 1998-2001.

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Killing Them Softly: Building The Blind Assassin, Lina Carro, Nancy A. Knowles Nov 2001

Killing Them Softly: Building The Blind Assassin, Lina Carro, Nancy A. Knowles

Lina Carro

Margaret Atwood’s Blind Assassin is an enthralling novel whose sensationalist mysteries could leave some readers feeling manipulated. This paper examines the use of narrative structure as a device to strengthen protagonist characterization and proposes that Atwood self-consciously employs a deftly woven, multi-tiered plot structure to challenge conventional reader responses to sensationalist fiction.

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A Organização Comum Do Mercado De Açúcar Na União Europeia: Estrutura, Instrumentos Regulatórios E Interesses, Heitor Moura Filho Nov 2001

A Organização Comum Do Mercado De Açúcar Na União Europeia: Estrutura, Instrumentos Regulatórios E Interesses, Heitor Moura Filho

Heitor Moura Filho

The subsidies and protection structure of the sugar sectors in the European Union originated from the individual national protection systems, unified with the creation of the Common Agricultural Policy. The main form of protection for agricultural products in the EU are the Common Organisations of the Market, which fix rules for planting, sale, prices, subsidies, storage and foreign trade. The COM for Sugars is based on an intervention price, at present quite higher than international prices. To determine who benefits from this intervention price, production quotas are established and distributed to each Member-State, producer and raw-material supplier. In parallel, levies …

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The Artist Is A Thief, Matthew Rimmer Nov 2001

The Artist Is A Thief, Matthew Rimmer

Matthew Rimmer

Stephen Gray is a writer and law lecturer who has been living in Darwin since 1989. He started out writing formal legal pieces about how copyright law had unsuccessfully sought to accommodate Aboriginal art. Such work led him to further investigate the philosophical questions underlying the legal issues affecting both traditional and urban Indigenous people. Gray has also explored matters of bioprospecting in relation to Indigenous biological resources. He has investigated the introduction of a label of authenticity into Australia. Gray has also published a number of articles about other legal issues affecting Indigenous people. He has explored such topics …

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Artificial Neural Network Learning Using Improved Genetic Algorithms, D. K. Chaturvedi Nov 2001

Artificial Neural Network Learning Using Improved Genetic Algorithms, D. K. Chaturvedi

D. K. Chaturvedi Dr.

The feedforward back-propagation artificial neural networks (ANN) are widely used to control the various industrial process, for modelling, simulation of systems and forecasting. The backpropagation learning has various drawbacks such as slowness in learning, stuck in local minima, requies functional derivative of aggregation function and thresholding function to minimize error function. Various researchers have suggested a number of improvement in simple back-propagation learning algorithm developed by Widrow and Holf in 1956. In this paper, a program is developed for feedforward artificial neural network with genetic algorithm (GA) as the learning mechanism to overcome some of the disadvantages of back-propagation learning …

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Peace Corps And People-Centered Development, William G. Moseley Oct 2001

Peace Corps And People-Centered Development, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.

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C-E Dictionary Compilation From The Intercultural Perspective, Gang Zhao Oct 2001

C-E Dictionary Compilation From The Intercultural Perspective, Gang Zhao

Gang Zhao

No abstract provided.

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Czynniki Wpływające Na Skład Spalin I Wielkość Emisji Zanieczyszczeń Z Procesów Termicznego Przekształcania Odpadów Niebezpiecznych, Robert Oleniacz Oct 2001

Czynniki Wpływające Na Skład Spalin I Wielkość Emisji Zanieczyszczeń Z Procesów Termicznego Przekształcania Odpadów Niebezpiecznych, Robert Oleniacz

Robert Oleniacz

The work summarizes factors influencing on air emissions from various full-scale hazardous waste incinerators (rotary kiln, multiple hearth furnace, starved-air incinerator, fluidized bed incinerator, liquid injection incinerator). Air pollutant emissions from hazardous waste incineration can be minimized not only by flue-gas cleaning. There are many factors that influence on flue-gas composition and the quantity of air pollutants formed during incineration: the type, the composition and the quantity of waste, the way of waste introducing to the incinerator, excess air ratio, combustion temperature, retention time of exhaust gases etc. Special attention was paid to the loading of waste and incineration conditions …

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Odpady Pestycydowe Jako Paliwo Zastępcze W Piecach Obrotowych Do Wypalania Klinkieru Cementowego, Marian Mazur, Robert Oleniacz, Marek Bogacki, Stanisław Słupek Oct 2001

Odpady Pestycydowe Jako Paliwo Zastępcze W Piecach Obrotowych Do Wypalania Klinkieru Cementowego, Marian Mazur, Robert Oleniacz, Marek Bogacki, Stanisław Słupek

Robert Oleniacz

The clinker burning plant is ideally suited for processing a wide variety of hazardous waste materials. High temperatures existing in cement kilns (ca. 1350-1450 Centigrades in the burning zone) as well as long gas-residence time (ca. 6-10 s) provide potentially excellent conditions for destruction of toxic organic compounds. Non-volatile compounds are retained in the solid phase and built into the clinker. A lot of other (for example acid gases) can also be absorbed by alkaline solid phase. Old pesticide wastes present a big problem in Poland now. They can be use as waste-derived fuels in cement kilns, especially in the …

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El Dominio Del Mercado Y Su Regulación Jurídica, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Oct 2001

El Dominio Del Mercado Y Su Regulación Jurídica, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.

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Apuntes Sobre La Teoría Tridimensional Del Derecho Y Su Aplicación Práctica, Daniel Echaiz Moreno Oct 2001

Apuntes Sobre La Teoría Tridimensional Del Derecho Y Su Aplicación Práctica, Daniel Echaiz Moreno

Daniel Echaiz Moreno

No abstract provided.

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Use Of Molecular Probes To Assess Geographic Distribution Of Pfiesteria Species, Torstein Tengs Oct 2001

Use Of Molecular Probes To Assess Geographic Distribution Of Pfiesteria Species, Torstein Tengs

Dr. Torstein Tengs

We have developed multiple polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods for the detection of Pfiesteria sp. in cultures and environmental samples. More than 2,100 water and sediment samples from estuarine sites of the U.S. Atlantic and gulf coasts were assayed for the presence of Pfiesteria piscicida Steidinger & Burkholder and Pfiesteria shumwayae Glasgow & Burkholder by PCR probing of extracted DNA. Positive results were found in about 3% of samples derived from routine monitoring of coastal waters and about 8% of sediments. The geographic range of both species was the same, ranging from New York to Texas. Pfiesteria spp. are likely …

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Classification And Identification Of Pfiesteria And Pfiesteria-Like Species, Torstein Tengs Oct 2001

Classification And Identification Of Pfiesteria And Pfiesteria-Like Species, Torstein Tengs

Dr. Torstein Tengs

Dinoflagellates can be classified both botanically and zoologically; however, they are typically put in the botanical division Pyrrhophyta. As a group they appear most related to the protistan ciliates and apicomplexans at the ultrastructure level. Within the Pyrrhophyta are both unarmored and armored forms of the dominant, motile flagellated stage. Unarmored dinoflagellates do not have thecal or wall plates arranged in specific series, whereas armored species have plates that vary in thickness but are specific in number and arrangement. In armored dinoflagellates, the plate pattern and tabulation is a diagnostic character at the family, subfamily, and even genus levels. In …

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Purveyance And Power Or Over-Priced Free Lunch: The Intellectual Property Clause As An Ally Of The Takings Clause In The Public’S Control Of Government, Malla Pollack Oct 2001

Purveyance And Power Or Over-Priced Free Lunch: The Intellectual Property Clause As An Ally Of The Takings Clause In The Public’S Control Of Government, Malla Pollack

Malla Pollack

Government can bypass citizen control if it can use revenue not publicly scrutinized through the public taxing/spending system. One method of bypass is paying with non-monetary compensation such as (i) property, or (ii) the right to charge others for some necessary good or service, intangible property. The Takings/Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment is one authority controlling government's ability to bypass financial scrutiny. In this article, I argue that the Intellectual Property Clause also should be used to control some governmental bypass. I attempt to justify this suggestion both theoretically and historically. The historical material included focuses on English …

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Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb Oct 2001

Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Analyses the guerrilla strategy of General A.H. Nasution, architect of Indonesia's guerrilla resistance to the Dutch in the late 1940s and finds that his strategy, unlike that of Mao or Giap, involved keeping the mass of the poeple at arm's length from the guerrilla army.

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Can High Prices Ensure Product Quality When Buyers Do Not Know The Sellers' Cost?, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Timothy Perri Oct 2001

Can High Prices Ensure Product Quality When Buyers Do Not Know The Sellers' Cost?, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Timothy Perri

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

The Klein-Leffler (1981) model of product quality does not explain why high-quality firms would dissipate the rents they earn from quality- assuring price premia, and it relies on consumers knowing the cost functions of firms. In the present paper, consumers do not know any firm's cost of producing quality goods, so high- quality firms must engage in conspicuous spending to demonstrate they earn a profitable mark-up over cost. Complete rent dissipation occurs only when high and low cost firms have the same cost of producing low quality.

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