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Visualizing Three-Dimensional Configuration Spaces For Mechanical Design, Elisha Sacks, Charles Pisula, Leo Joskowicz

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Least Squares Approximation Of Bezier Coefficients Provides Best Degree Reduction In The L 2-Norm, J. Peters, U Reif

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Pre-1900 German-Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Thematics And Intellectual Content: The Xvth Triennial Congress Of The International Comparative Literature Association In Leiden, Marko Juvan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Marko Juvan's article, "Thematics and Intellectual Content: The XVth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association in Leiden," offers an in-depth view of the intellectual structure and atmosphere of the Congress. The author describes both in detail and in an overview the thematics of the Congress, Literature as Cultural Memory, and explicates the intellectual content of a good number of important panels and papers presented at the Congress. The article represents in a concise manner the current situation of the discipline of Comparative Literature in an international context.

Indiana Model Zoning Ordinance, Indiana Ltap

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

This publication is targeted to community leadership and concerned citizens in the smaller counties, cities, and towns in Indiana about to begin the process of planning and zoning.

The objectives of this revision are (1) to present the planning and zoning process in layman's terms; (2) to render the following model zoning ordinance more understandable to those who may not possess a professional planning background; (3) to briefly present and discuss significant zoning issues facing Indiana communities; (4) to provide a brief summary of the changes in the Indiana statutes concerning planning and zoning since 1990; and (5) to provide …

Record Matching To Improve Data Quality, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Elias N. Houstis

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Gas Turbine Engine Compressor- Combustor Dynamics Simulation Design, Sanford Fleeter, Elias N. Houstis, John R. Rice, Chem Zhou

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Conditions For Stripping Using Accelerated Testing, Changlin Pan, Thomas D. White

JTRP Technical Reports

A laboratory study was conducted to determine water sensitivity and rutting potential of asphalt mixtures. Two major tests were included in the study: AASHTO T-283 and a laboratory wheel tracking device (PURWheel). AASHTO T-283 has been adopted in the Superpave system for evaluating mixture stripping potential. The PURWheel device and test method was developed with the concept creating conditions associated with stripping, i.e. moisture, high temperature, and a moving wheel load. The laboratory wheel track tests can be conducted with hot/wet or hot/dry environments. The objective of the study is to determine the factors that most influence bituminous mixture stripping …

Postcolonialism And The Idea Of A Writing Center, Anis Bawarshi, Stephanie Pelkowski

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Tariff And Non-Tariff Barriers To Trade In Agricultural Commodities: A Disaggregated Approach, Jon Haveman, Jerry G. Thursby

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Stock Index Futures Trading And Volatility In International Equity Markets, Huseyin Gulen, Stewart Mayhew

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

We examine stock market volatility before and after the introduction of equity index futures trading in twenty-five countries using various models that account for asynchronous data, conditional heteroskedasticity, asymmetric volatility responses, and the joint dynamics of each country's index with the world market portfolio. We find that futures trading is related to an increase in conditional volatility in the United States and Japan, but in nearly every other country, we find either no significant effect, or volatility-dampening effect. This result appears to be robust to model specification, and is corroborated by further analysis of the relationship between volatility, trading volume …

Skills, Labour Costs, And Vertically Differentiated Industries: A General Equilibrium Analysis, Stefan Lutz, Alessandro Turrini

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

The effect of labour costs on industry profits, employment and labour income is at the heart of the current European debate on industry competitiveness. High wages paid in European countries such as Germany are generally considered harmful for industry profitability. Though, high wages appear also to be associated with high labour skills and then with superior product quality. Similarly, a reduction in labour taxes is often invoked as a tool t improve industry profitability, but this argument hardly takes into account the demand effects of such a tax reform. In this paper we analyse the trade-off between labour costs and …

The Effect Of National Culture On Partner Buyouts In Cross-Border Biotechnology Alliances, Timothy B. Folta, Walter J. Ferrier

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

This study examines how national culture influences the likelihood and rate of buyouts amont R&D equity alliances and joint ventures in the biotechnology industry. We hypothesize that the interaction of specific national culture attributes and cultural differences between alliance partners bear upon: a) the amount of endogenous uncertainty surrounding the potential integration of the target firm and b) the marginal rate of learning in hierarchical versus collaborative governance. Applying a competing hazard model to a sample of 173 joint ventures and minority equity collaborations in the biotechnology industry, we found that investing firms from high power distance and high uncertainty …

Stores, Prices, And Currency Substitution, Camera Gabriele, Johannes Winkler

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

We study endogenous currency substitution in a decentralized trade environment. Sellers maximize profits from sales of imperfectly substitutable goods by posting prices in either one of two currencies. A unique symmetric equilibrium exists where goods are priced only in the local currency. This occurs if foreign trade is sporadic, there is sufficient but not excessive liquidity, and discounting is low. Excess or scarcity of liquidity, however, induces sellers to extract all surplus from buyers. This destroys the monetary equilibrium and shuts down trade. Equilibria with and without currency substitution coexist on some redion of the parameter space, and may be …

The Cadbury Committee, Corporate Performance And Top Management Turnover, Jay Dahya, John J. Mcconnell, Nicolaos G. Travlos

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

In December 1992, the Cadbury Committee published the Code of Best Practice which recommended that boards of publicly-traded UK corporations include at least three outside directors and that the positions of the chairman of the board and chief executive officer not be held by a single individual. The underlying presumption was that these government-sponsored recommendations would lead to enhanced board oversight. As a test of that presumption, we analyze the relation between top management turnover and corporate performance. We find that CEO turnover increased following publications of the Code, that the relationship between CEO turnover and performance was strengthened following …

Toward A Geography Of Trade Costs , David Hummels

GTAP Working Papers Archive

What are the barriers that separate nations? While recent work provides intriguing clues, we have remarkably little concrete evidence as to the nature, size, and shape of barriers. This paper offers direct and indirect evidence on trade barriers, moving us toward a comprehensive geography of trade costs. There are three main contributions.

One, we provide detailed data on freight rates for a number of importers. Rates vary substantially over exporters, and aggregate expenditures on freight are at the low end of the observed range. This suggests import choices are made so as to minimize transportation costs. Two, we estimate the …

The Network Desktop Of The Purdue University Network Computing Hubs, Nirav H. Kapadia, José A. B. Fortes

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

A computing system that is universally accessible and is able to harness networked resources a,s and when necessary ca,n be said to provide computing on demand. This report describes and evaluates the design of a network desktop infrastructure tha,t provides access to distributed operating system services via standard world-wide web lsrowsers. Unmodified browsers can be used to access and use the desktop because it zippears as a normal web server to t'hem; the semantics associated with computing services are supported by treating URLs as locations in a dynamic, virtual, and sideeffect based address space. The desktop interface is not hard-wir'ed …

Review: Weaving Knowledge Together, Christina Murphy

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Avoiding The Proofreading Trap: The Value Of The Error Correction Process, Jane Cogie, Kim Strain, Sharon Lorinskas

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Clients Who Frequent Madam Barnett's Emporium, Scott Russell

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Lessons Of Inscription: Tutor Training And The "Professional Conversation", Peter Vandenberg

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Addressing Genre In The Writing Center, Irene L. Clark

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Censoring Students, Censoring Ourselves: Constraining Conversations In The Writing Center, Steve Sherwood

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Review: Approaches To Teaching Non-Native English Speakers Across The Curriculum, Carol Severino

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Steel Bridge Protection Policy: Warranty Clauses For Indot Steel Bridge Paint Contracts, Luh M. Chang, Tarek Zayed, Jon D. Fricker

JTRP Technical Reports

The study identifies various painting systems that are successfully used in Indiana’s surrounding states and other industries. The identified systems are further screened and evaluated. After prudently comparing INDOT’s inorganic zinc / vinyl system with the waterborne acrylic system, the moisture cure urethane coating system, and the 3-coat system of zinc-epoxy-urethane, the results show that the new 3-coat system fulfills INDOT’s needs with the most benefits. Therefore, the 3-coat system is recommended to replace INDOT present inorganic zinc / vinyl system. To deal with the problems facing the lead-based paint, a comparison between full-removal and over-coating alternatives is made. Results …

Landslide Remediation Using Unconventional Methods, Richard J. Deschamps, Cary B. Lange

JTRP Technical Reports

Landslides are very common within the residual soils and sedimentary rock of Southern Indiana. A substantial amount of the Indiana State budget is spent on road repair and maintenance from damage caused by landslide. The landslide remedial technique frequently applied by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is the excavation and backfill method, which in most instances is successful. However, in many cases more liberal landslide treatments may be applied that would arrest movement, provide a sufficient safety factor, and at a lower cost. The objective of this study is to propose economically feasible landslide remedial methods that may be …

Effects Of Salt And Its Trace Minerals On Aggregate In Bituminous Pavements, Terry R. West, H. J. Park, S. E. Grover

JTRP Technical Reports

Research on the effects of deicing salts and their trace minerals on bituminous highway wearing courses was prompted by early pavement deterioration of federal and state highways in Indiana. Several bituminous surface courses containing slag, slag-dolomite, or dolomite aggregates showed deterioration soon after deicing salts were first applied. Initially, a detailed literature review (Appendix A of report) was conducted. Data on eighteen dolomite sources from a previous study (Bruner, Choi and West, 1995) plus ten additional dolomite sources formed the basis for the brine freeze thaw testing program. Mercury intrusion porosimetry testing conducted on multiple specimens showed that rock texture …

Pile Design Based On Cone Penetration Test Results, Rodrigo Salgado, Junhwan Lee

JTRP Technical Reports

The bearing capacity of piles consists of both base resistance and side resistance. The side resistance of piles is in most cases fully mobilized well before the maximum base resistance is reached. As the side resistance is mobilized early in the loading process, the determination of pile base resistance is a key element of pile design. Static cone penetration is well related to the pile loading process, since it is performed quasi-statically and resembles a scaled-down pile load test. In order to take advantage of the CPT for pile design, load-settlement curves of axially loaded piles bearing in sand were …

Reconciled Platoon Accommodations At Traffic Signals, Jay Wasson, Montasir Abbas, Darcy M. Bullock, Avery Rhodes, Chong Kang Zhu

JTRP Technical Reports

The use of microprocessor-based traffic signal controllers introduced in the 1960s has allowed for the development of many new strategies to make traffic signal systems more responsive to traffic conditions. Many efforts have focused on the development of real-time, adaptive control strategies. While some of these strategies have been shown to improve intersection performance, there are several factors that have limited their deployment. Some of these include substantial capital cost, complicated calibration procedures, and the reluctance of practicing engineers to deploy strategies radically different from those currently in use. Therefore, lower cost strategies that are compatible with existing infrastructure continue …