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2003

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Using Information Literacy Standards To Improve Geoscience Courses, Aimee Dechambeau, Ira Sasowsky Oct 2003

Using Information Literacy Standards To Improve Geoscience Courses, Aimee Dechambeau, Ira Sasowsky

Aimee deChambeau

Information literacy (IL) is the set of skills that enables a person to find, evaluate, and use information. Although IL is important in the geosciences, it is hard to teach because the information comes in so many forms. Most geoscience courses include work that implicitly addresses some IL issues. However, because of the importance of IL, it is worthwhile to explicitly include it as part of the curriculum. The Association of College and Research Libraries has developed Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education that may be used to assess an individual's level of information literacy. We introduce a method for …

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Nullificatory Juries, David A. Hoffman, Kaimipono D. Wenger Oct 2003

Nullificatory Juries, David A. Hoffman, Kaimipono D. Wenger

David A Hoffman

In this Article, we argue that current debates on the legitimacy of punitive damages would benefit from a comparison with jury nullification in criminal trials. We discuss critiques of punitive damages and of jury nullification, noting the surprising similarities in the arguments scholars use to attack these (superficially) distinct outcomes of the jury guarantee. Not only are the criticisms alike, the institutions of punitive damages and jury nullification also turn out to have many similarities: both are, we suggest, examples of what we call "nullificatory juries." We discuss the features of such juries, and consider recent behavioral data relating to …

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Case-Based Reasoning In Fixture Design, David Brown, Iain Boyle, Kevin Rong Sep 2003

Case-Based Reasoning In Fixture Design, David Brown, Iain Boyle, Kevin Rong

David C. Brown

Fixtures are designed to accurately locate and secure a part during machining operations such that the part can be manufactured to design specifications. To reduce the design costs associated with fixturing, various computer-aided fixture design (CAFD) methods have been developed through the years to assist the fixture designer. One approach is to use a case-based reasoning (CBR) approach where relevant design experience is retrieved from a design library, and adapted to provide a new fixture design solution. Indexing design cases is a critical issue in any CBR approach, and CBR systems can suffer from an inability to distinguish between cases …

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Progressing Towards Governance For Sustainability At Parkfield School: Making Connections Through Dialogical Design, Sandra Wooltorton, Alan Kidd Jun 2003

Progressing Towards Governance For Sustainability At Parkfield School: Making Connections Through Dialogical Design, Sandra Wooltorton, Alan Kidd

Sandra Wooltorton

No abstract provided.

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Quelques Conseils À Nos Nouveau Diplomés, Fathi Habashi Jun 2003

Quelques Conseils À Nos Nouveau Diplomés, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

An advice, the old wise man Polonius offered to the young Hamlet was “Neither a borrower, nor a lender be”, may be no longer pertinent. Some more relevant advices are offered to new graduates of the twentieth century. Available in English, French, and Spanish

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The Press For Help Project Concept, Program And Working Paper Of Emmanuel Mario B Santos And His Marc Guerrero Communications Inc., Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero Jan 2003

The Press For Help Project Concept, Program And Working Paper Of Emmanuel Mario B Santos And His Marc Guerrero Communications Inc., Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero

Emmanuel Mario B Santos aka Marc Guerrero

FORETHOUGHT. DECLARATION OF IDEAOLOGY AND PRINCIPLES. VISION. MISSION. VALUES. GOALS. BASIC HELP project. EDUCATIONAL HELP project. MEDICAL HELP project. LEGAL HELP project. EMERGENCY HELP project. LIVELIHOOD HELP project. SPIRITUAL and CULTURAL HELP project. ENVIRONMENTAL HELP project. REENGINEERING HELP project. INTERNATIONAL HELP project. QUADRO CREDO Matthew 5.1-12, the Jerusalem Bible. The Universal Filipino Beatitudes. SALIN SA FILIPINO. DESIDERATA. AFTERTHOUGHT.

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From Alchemy To Atomic Bombs. Book Review By George Kauffman, Fathi Habashi Jan 2003

From Alchemy To Atomic Bombs. Book Review By George Kauffman, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

Review of the book "From Alchemy to Atomic Bombs" by Fathi Habashi published by Métallurgie Extractive Québec. The review is written by Professor George Kauffman at California State University, Fresno.

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Oil And Product Price Dynamics In International Petroleum Markets, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera, Massimo Giovannini Jan 2003

Oil And Product Price Dynamics In International Petroleum Markets, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera, Massimo Giovannini

Matteo Manera

In this paper we investigate crude oil and products price dynamics. We present a comparison among ten price series of crude oils and fourteen price series of petroleum products, considering four distinct market areas (Mediterranean, North Western Europe, Latin America and North America) over the period 1994-2002. We provide first a complete analysis of crude oil and product price dynamics using cointegration and error correction models. Subsequently we use the error correction specification to predict crude oil prices over the horizon January 2002-June 2002.The main findings of the paper can be summarized as follows: a) differences in quality are crucial …

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Star-Garch Models For Stock Market Interactions In The Pacific Basin Region, Japan And Us, Giorgio Busetti, Matteo Manera Jan 2003

Star-Garch Models For Stock Market Interactions In The Pacific Basin Region, Japan And Us, Giorgio Busetti, Matteo Manera

Matteo Manera

We investigate the financial interactions between countries in the Pacific Basin region (Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japan and US. The originality of the paper is the use of STAR-GARCH models, instead of standard correlationcointegration techniques. For each country in the Pacific Basin region, we find statistically adequate STAR-GARCH models for the series of stock market daily returns, using Nikkei225 and S&P500 as alternative threshold variables. We provide evidence for the leading role of Japan in the period 1988-1990 (pre-Japanese crisis years), whereas our results suggest that the Pacific Basin region countries are more closely linked with the …

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Modelling The Load Curve Of Aggregate Electricity Consumption Using Principal Components, Matteo Manera, Angelo Marzullo Jan 2003

Modelling The Load Curve Of Aggregate Electricity Consumption Using Principal Components, Matteo Manera, Angelo Marzullo

Matteo Manera

Since oil is a non-renewable resource with a high environmental impact, and its most common use is to produce combustibles for electricity, reliable methods for modelling electricity consumption can contribute to a more rational employment of this hydrocarbon fuel. In this paper we apply the Principal Components (PC) method to modelling the load curves of Italy, France and Greece on hourly data of aggregate electricity consumption. The empirical results obtained with the PC approach are compared with those produced by the Fourier and constrained smoothing spline estimators. The PC method represents a much simpler and attractive alternative to modelling electricity …

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Synthesis Of 3- Or 4-Phenyl-1,8-Naphthyridine Derivatives And Evaluation Of Antimycobacterial And Antimicrobial Activity, Philadelphia University Jan 2003

Synthesis Of 3- Or 4-Phenyl-1,8-Naphthyridine Derivatives And Evaluation Of Antimycobacterial And Antimicrobial Activity, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

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Bayesian Modelling And Forecasting Of Intra-Day Electricity Load, Remy Cottet, Michael Smith Dec 2002

Bayesian Modelling And Forecasting Of Intra-Day Electricity Load, Remy Cottet, Michael Smith

Michael Stanley Smith

With the advent of wholesale electricity markets there has been renewed focus on intra-day electricity load forecasting. This paper employs a multi-equation regression model with a diagonal first order stationary vector autoregresson (VAR) for modeling and forecasting intra-day electricity load. The correlation structure of the disturbances to the VAR and the appropriate subset of regressors are explored using Bayesian model selection methodology. The full spectrum of finite sample inference is obtained using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling scheme. This includes the predictive distribution of load and the distribution of the time and level of daily peak load, something …

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Working Across Cultures, John Hooker Dec 2002

Working Across Cultures, John Hooker

John Hooker

No abstract provided.

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Classifying Instantaneous Cognitive States From Fmri Data, Tom Mitchell, Rebecca Hutchinson, Marcel Just, Radu Niculescu, Francisco Pereira, Xuerui Wang Dec 2002

Classifying Instantaneous Cognitive States From Fmri Data, Tom Mitchell, Rebecca Hutchinson, Marcel Just, Radu Niculescu, Francisco Pereira, Xuerui Wang

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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Neuroindices Of Cognitive Workload: Neuroimaging, Pupillometric, And Event-Related Potential Studies Of Brain Work, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter, Akira Miyake Dec 2002

Neuroindices Of Cognitive Workload: Neuroimaging, Pupillometric, And Event-Related Potential Studies Of Brain Work, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter, Akira Miyake

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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Ambiguity In The Brain: What Brain Imaging Reveals About The Processing Of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences, Robert A. Mason, Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A. Keller, Patricia A. Carpenter Dec 2002

Ambiguity In The Brain: What Brain Imaging Reveals About The Processing Of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences, Robert A. Mason, Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A. Keller, Patricia A. Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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Brain Imaging Of Tongue-Twister Sentence Comprehension: Twisting The Tongue And The Brain, Timothy A. Keller, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just Dec 2002

Brain Imaging Of Tongue-Twister Sentence Comprehension: Twisting The Tongue And The Brain, Timothy A. Keller, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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Strukturationen Der Interaktivität, Rudolf Kaehr Dec 2002

Strukturationen Der Interaktivität, Rudolf Kaehr

Rudolf Kaehr

No abstract provided.

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Long-Run Models Of Oil Stock Prices, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera, Massimo Giovannini, Margherita Grasso Dec 2002

Long-Run Models Of Oil Stock Prices, Alessandro Lanza, Matteo Manera, Massimo Giovannini, Margherita Grasso

Matteo Manera

The identification of the forces that drive oil stock prices is extremely important given the size of the Oil&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with international policies to contrast climate change. This issue is likely to affect companies’ shareholder values. In this paper we focus on the long-run financial determinants of the stock prices of six major oil companies (Bp, Chevron-Texaco, Eni, Exxon-Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Total-Fina-Elf) using multivariate cointegration techniques and vector error correction models. Weekly oil stock prices are analyzed together with …

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Differential Effects Of Syntactic And Semantic Processing On The Subregions Of Broca's Area, Sharlene D. Newman, Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A. Keller, Jennifer Roth, Patricia A. Carpenter Dec 2002

Differential Effects Of Syntactic And Semantic Processing On The Subregions Of Broca's Area, Sharlene D. Newman, Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A. Keller, Jennifer Roth, Patricia A. Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

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