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Reasons For Iraq War Lack Weight, David R. Keller

David R. Keller

No abstract provided.

知理的民主, 还是盲情的媒主? (中文完整版) = Informed Democracy, Or Involuntary Mediocracy? (Uncensored Chinese Rewrite), Xinshu Zhao

Professor Xinshu ZHAO

No abstract provided.

Marxist Institutionalism, Howard J. Sherman

HOWARD J SHERMAN

This is a review article of Phillip Anthony O'Hara, Marx, Veblen, and Contemporary Institutional Political Economy: Principles and Unstable Dynamics of Capitalism, Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar, 2000. O'Hara has fashioned a new synthesis of institutionalism and Marxism, which may be called Marxist Institutionalism.

Substance Or Style? An Investigation Of The Neo-Pi-R Validity Scales, Leslie C. Morey, Brian D. Quigley, Charles A. Sanislow, Andrew E. Skodol, Thomas H. Mcglashan, M. Tracie Shea, Robert L. Stout, Mary C. Zanarini, John G. Gunderson

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992b) has been criticized for the absence of validity scales designed to detect response distortion. Recently, validity scales were developed from the items of the NEO-PI-R (Schinka, Kinder, & Kremer, 1997) and several studies have used a variety of methods to test their use. However, it is controversial whether these scales are measuring something that is substantive (such as psychopathology or its absence) or stylistic (which might be effortful distortion or less conscious processes such as lack of insight). In this study, we used a multimethod-multitrait approach to examine the validity …

Can The Maac Bounce Back?, Jack Styczynski

Jack Styczynski

Applications Of Underground Structures For The Protection Of Critical Infrastructure, George H. Baker, Richard G. Little, Don A. Linger

George H Baker

The U.S. President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP), convened in the wake of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, concluded that the nation’s physical security and economic security depend on our critical energy, communications, and computer infrastructures. While a primary motivating event for the establishment of the commission was the catastrophic physical attack of the Murrah Building, it is ironic that the commission focused its attention primarily on cyber threats. Their rationale was that cyber vulnerabilities posed a new, unaddressed challenge to infrastructure security. This approach was further questioned by the events of September 11, …

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (Scada) Systems, George H. Baker, Allan Berg

George H Baker

Our critical national infrastructure systems have become almost universally dependent upon computer-based control systems technically referred to as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. SCADA systems evolved from the telemetry and event-alarm systems developed in the early days of utilities. With the widespread use of SCADA systems, computers have become the "basis element" for much of our critical infrastructure. Thus, the disruption of controlling computer terminals and networks due to natural disasters, electric power failure, accidents or malicious activity can have catastrophic consequences.

Sentencia Sobre Dolo., Rafael Gomez Betancur

Rafael Angel Gómez Betancur

Dolo como causal de nulidad matrimonio canónico.

La Cultura Del Narcotráfico Y Las Secuelas En Nuestra Sociedad., Rafael Angel Gomez Betancur

Rafael Angel Gómez Betancur

Police Research In Slovenia: Political And Cultural Obstacles, Joanne Ziembo-Vogl

Joanne Ziembo-Vogl

Appointed a Fulbright Scholar, the objective of my proposed Fulbright research was to examine the practice of community policing in Slovenia, to examine community policing within the broader context of the newly independent country's transition to democratic law enforcement -a transition from its former Yugoslav political history. Anticipating the unforeseen obstacles inherent when conducting international research, the planned methodology was modest in nature with hopes of setting an initial framework for more complex research in the future. Predominantly qualitative, methodology included field observation, interviews, and a random sample survey of officers from Slovenia's eleven police directorates. Instead, the resulting research …

A Fitting Strategy, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

Take advantage of the tools available to check the fit between HRM and business strategy

Cap And Trade Policies In The Presence Of Monopoly And Distortionary Taxation, Don Fullerton, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Don Fullerton

Dediction, Kirk W. Junker

Kirk W Junker

Overall, Duke's No. 1, Jack Styczynski

Jack Styczynski

7. Expert Testimony On The Suggestibility Of Children: Does It Fit?, Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

Review Of The Book Reflections On Multiliterate Lives, Elizabeth C. Scheyder

Elizabeth C Scheyder

Many authors write books and papers about deficits in second language teaching and competence, shining a spotlight on what teachers are doing “wrong” or what students are lacking. In this volume, Diane Belcher and Ulla Connor set out to provide a model that bypasses these negative perspectives and showcases success stories in second (or nth) language learning. The result is a compilation of auto-ethnographies from 18 adults with successful professional careers who were asked to provide their “L1/L2 literacy autobiograph(ies)” (p. 209).

Brownfields Neighborhood Revitalization, Bhavna Shamasunder

Bhavna Shamasunder

Brownfields issues are significant points of advocacy and activism for creating substantial social change in low-income communitites. The authors identify key environmental justice issues present in the brownfields debate; provide an overview of existing laws, regulations, and policies that are currently in place to address brownfields contamination and revitalization; discuss the effectiveness of these current strategies; discuss emerging and potential innovative strategies for brownfields revitalization, and provide a set of "best practices" and resources that are being developed nationally to address brownfields in low-income communities and communities of color.

Delivering On The 256 Qam Promise, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

The accumulation of degradation factors in the downstream channels is reviewed with focus on headend/hub transmission-related noise aggregation due to a plurality of downstream Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) transmitters and upconverters. Substantial increase in the number of QAM transmitters based on frequency agile upconverters is expected. Unlike fixed channel upconverters, these do not have narrow band filters at their output, consequently imparting appreciable levels of broadband noise on the network when several such units are combined. Based on these factors and other noise contributions, it is shown that additional impairments due to fluctuations associated with composite distortion terms on the …

Sprawl, Growth Boundaries And The Rehnquist Court , Michael E Lewyn

Michael E Lewyn

This article addresses the constitutionality and wisdom of Oregon's urban growth boundary (UGB) program. The article concludes that the program is constitutional under current precedent, and that (contrary to claims made by UGB critics) there is little evidence that the UGB has caused Oregon's runup in housing prices. On the other hand, UGB supporters may have exaggerated the UGB's positive environmental results.

Skill And The Value Of Life, Jason Shogren, Tommy Stamland

Jason Shogren

The value of statistical life (VSL) can be inferred through real-world wage-fatality risk trade-offs made across different occupations. paper shows that the VSL based on the wage risk trade-off tends be biased upward if it does not account for the diversity of unobservable skill to cope privately with job risk. This upward arises because the highest required wage differential among the workers is divided by their average risk across the population.

Events That Shook The Market, Ray C. Fair

Ray C Fair

Tick data on the S&P 500 futures contract and newswire searches are used to match events to large one- to five-minute stock price changes. 69 events that led to large stock price changes are identified between 1982 and 1999, 53 of which are directly or indirectly related to monetary policy. Many large stock price changes have no events associated with them.

Hedonic Wage Equations For Higher Education Faculty, Philip E. Graves, James R. Marchand, Robert L. Sexton

Robert L Sexton

This paper discusses the use of hedonic techniques to theoretically and empirically understand the wages of higher education faculty. The paper first presents theoretical models of department and faculty choice. These models represent a synthesis of prior work in the hedonic area. The models imply a hedonic wage equation for faculty with wages dependent on productivity, departmental amenities and locational amenities. The theoretical discussion is followed by exploratory and illustrative empirical work. In summary, the reported regressions show that increased teaching loads and secretaries per faculty member tend to decrease salaries while increasing referred journal articles, hotter than average summers, …

Controversias Jurisdiccionales Por La Apropiación De Recursos Hídricos, Max Garcia

Max Garcia Sanchez

No abstract provided.

Viscoelastic Properties And Changes In Pasting Characteristics Of Trifoliate Yam (Dioscorea Dumetorum) Starch After Harvest, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Samuel Sefa-Dedeh

Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa

Studies were conducted on the viscoelastic properties, as well as the changes in pasting characteristics, of trifoliate yam, Dioscorea dumetorum, starch during post-harvest hardening of the tubers. A 3x4 factorial experiment with blanching treatment time (0, 15 and 30 s) and storage time (0, 12, 24 and 36 h) as the respective variables was performed. The samples were evaluated for pasting temperature, viscosity at 95 _C, viscosity at 95 _C-Hold, viscosity at 50 _C and viscosity at 50 _C-Hold, as well as their changes during storage of the tubers, to determine the starch behaviour of the D. dumetorum tubers during …

1848 In 1998: The Politics Of Commemoration In Hungary, Romania, And Slovakia, Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt

Rogers Brubaker

No abstract provided.

"Electoral Realignments - A Critique Of An American Genre," At The Miller Center, University Of Virginia, David R. Mayhew

David Mayhew

No abstract provided.

Children's Form Of The Competitive State Anxiety For Children (The Csai-2c), Robert E. Stadulis, Mary J. Maccracken

Dr. Mary J. MacCracken

6. Child Witnesses And The Oath., Thomas D. Lyon

Thomas D. Lyon

Textural And Microstructural Changes Associated With Post-Harvest Hardening Of Trifoliate Yam (Dioscorea Dumetorum) Pax Tubers, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Samuel Sefa-Dedeh

Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa

The textural and microstructural changes associated with the post-harvest hardening phenomenon of Dioscorea dumetorum tubers were studied to determine how texture relates to microstructure during the hardening process. A 2x2x4 factorial experiment with sample treatment,storage conditions and storage time as variables was performed. The tubers were harvested,matured and stored under prevailing tropical ambient conditions (28 _C) and cold room conditions (4 _C) for the study. All the samples were evaluated for their hardness (peak force) and adhesiveness (curve areas). Starch microscopy was done on the freshly harvested tubers,hardened tubers and tubers stored under low temperature conditions (4 _C) during the …

Classroom Guide To The Equilibrium Exchange Rate Model, Sergio Da Silva

Sergio Da Silva

The article presents a classroom-suited version of the equilibrium exchange rate model of Stockman (1987) that features Cobb-Douglas functional forms for both production and utility, and considers foreign exchange intervention explicitly.