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Structural Biology Metaphors Applied To The Design Of A Distributed Object System, Ladislau Bölöni, Ruibing Hao, Kyungkoo Jun, Dan C. Marinescu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Pythia-Ii: A Knowledge/Data Base For Testing And Recommending Scientific Software, Elias N. Houstis, Vassilios S. Verykios, Ann C. Caitlin, Naren Ramakrishnan, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Computer-Aided Mechanical Design Using Configuration Spaces, Leo Joskowicz, Elisha Sacks

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

A Library Staff Becomes A Team, Judith M. Nixon

Libraries Research Publications

The staff of the Management & Economics Library of the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University used group problem solving techniques developed by The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA to redesign the floor plan of the circulation, periodicals, and reference areas of the library to best utilize the space. The ToPtm (Technology of Participation) planning process utilizes visualizing, brainstorming, and clustering of ideas. Its planning process consists of five workshops: mapping out the practical vision; analyzing the underlying contradictions; setting the strategic directions; designing the systematic action plan; and drawing up the implementation timeline. Each of these workshops …

Bond System Security And Access Control Models, Buibing Hao, Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Legally Speaking - The Public Domain: Caution!, Anne Jennings

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Rescuing Rover: A First Aid And Disaster Guide For Dog Owners, Sebastian E. Heath

Purdue University Press Books

Whether you're hiking with your canine friend in a remote area or work with a dog on a search-and-rescue team or police force, you need to be prepared for emergencies when veterinary service is not available. Rescuing Rover: A First Aid and Disaster Guide for Dog Owners provides dog owners, handlers, and emergency physicians with an understandable guide for safe treatment until the dog can be transported to a veterinarian. Although a number of books describe some techniques for the emergency care of dogs, there is no single illustrated summary that is as practical. With its concise, easy-to-read instructions, detailed …

Changes In The Structure Of Global Food Demand, John A L Cranfield, Thomas W. Hertel, James S. Eales, Paul V. Preckel

GTAP Working Papers Archive

A newly developed demand system is used to estimate the response of food and food product demand to per capita expenditure changes. The resulting Engel elasticities are then used to project food and food product demand in 2020 assuming per capita expenditure and population changes.

Results suggest that while food expenditure is projected to grow, it accounts for a smaller proportion of total expenditure. Further analysis indicates change in the composition of food demand away from a grain and towards livestock is projected to occur in lower income countries in 2020.

Understanding The Determinants Of Structural Change In World Food Markets, William Coyle, Mark Gehlhar, Thomas Hertel, Zhi Wang, Wusheng Yu

GTAP Working Papers Archive

This study assesses the interaction between climate change and agricultural trade policies. We distinguish between two dimensions of agricultural trade policy: market insulation and subsidy levels. Building on the previous work of Tsigas, Frisvold and Kuhn (1997) we find that, in the presence of current levels of agricultural subsidies, increased price transmission --as called for under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture-- reduces global welfare in the wake of climate change. This is due to the positive correlation between productivity changes and current levels of agricultural support. Increases in subsidized output under climate change tend to exacerbate inefficiencies in the …

Child Care: It's Good Business. The Indiana Tool-Kit For Employers And Community Planners, Elizabeth Windecker-Nelson, Shelley M. Macdermid

Center for Families Publications

Tools to help employers and communities develop and implement strategies for increasing the availability, accessibility and quality of child care. Features include materials for a 20 minute presentation. Distributed through the Indiana Child Care Fund.

Bikeways Guide, Jay Grossman

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

This guide is intended to familiarize counties and cities with the basic aspects of bicycle facilities.

Multi-Flux Formulation Of The Boltzmann Equation For Carrier Transport In Semiconductors, Kausar Banoo, Mark Lundstrom

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

This report describes how the Boltzmann Transport Equation for carrier transport in s~~miconductocrasn be formulated in a manner suit able for numerical simulation. It arose from an effort to generalise earlier work which used pre-computed scattering matrices to solve the Boltzmann Transport Equation. It also generalises the formulation used to treat neutron transport so that energy band-structure, scattering in semiconductors and electric fields can be treated. We present two different, but relat, ed formulations here. One is a first-order formulation in terrns of directed fluxes in 3 dirnensional space and the other is a second-order form which can be written …

Seamless Metacomputing With Bond, Ladislau Bölöni, Kyung Koo Jun, Mihai Sirbu, Dan C. Marinescu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Library Profile: Arlington County Department Of Public Libraries, Arlington, Va, Barbara C. Dean

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Purdue Road School

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Animal Disposal Alternatives, Terry Byrns

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Utilities And The Public Roadway - Just Whose Property Is It, Anyway?, James O. Mcdonald

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Structured Assessment Of Benefits And Costs In Transportation Projects, Brad L. Steckler

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Current And Future Federal Highway Programs, Anthony R. Kane

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Directory Of Officials 1998, Purdue Road School

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Upcoming Clean Air Act Changes As They Relate To Transportation, Janice Osadczuk

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Message Patterns In The Bond Distributed Object System, Ladislau Bölöni, Kyung-Koo Jun, Thomas Danials, Dan C. Marinescu

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Bond Objects - A White Paper, Ladislau Bölöni

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The Legal Deposit Of Electronic Publications, Jim Vickery

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

The Supermarket Supply Chain In Shanghai, Gavin Sinclair, Ananth Iyer, Jane Anderson

Department of Management Faculty Publications

The authors conducted a series of structured interviews with managers of ten supermarket chains in Shanghai to compare supermarket business practices in Shanghai with those in the United States, emphasizing logistics management issues. Shanghai supermarkets tend to be smaller than U.S. stores, but the store layout and product selection are similar in both countries. While the Shanghai supermarkets have modern scanning equipment, they do little quantitative sales or inventory analysis.

Voluntary Participation And Spite In Public Good Provision Experiments: An International Comparison, Timothy N. Cason, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, T. Yamato

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

This paper studies public good provision in the laboratory using the voluntary contribution mechanism, in a cross-cultural experiment conducted in the United States and Japan. Our environment differs from the standard voluntary contribution mechanism because in one treatment, subjects first decide whether or not to participate in providing this public good. This participation decision is conveyed to the other subject prior to the subjects' contribution decisions.

Expectations Formation And Inflation Persistence, J. A. Carlson, Neven Tomov Valev

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

This paper studies the dynamics of inflation if monetary policy is transparent only to part of the population. We find that average long-run inflation decreases in the proportion of agents with naive expectations and, because of tradeoffs between speed of adjustment and long-run inflation, central banks prefer a higher proportion of agents who form informed expectations in high inflation periods but not so in lower inflation periods. We use survey data on expectations of inflation from Bulgaria collected at the time a currency board was introduced in that country to test for influences on the heterogeneity of expectations across agents.

Financing Publicly Traded U.S. Corporations In Public And Private Security Markets, 1970-1997: Where, How, How Much, With What, When And Why, Kenneth A. Carow, Gayle R. Erwin, John J. Mcconnell

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

No abstract provided.

For The Greater Good: Contributions Of The School Of Consumer & Family Sciences At Purdue University To Family Well-Being, Susan Kontos, Shelley M. Macdermid

Center for Families Publications

A monograph summarizing the contributions of the School of Consumer and Family Sciences at Purdue University to family well-being. Features an introductory chapter by Dean Dennis Saviano and a chapter by Founding Director of The Center for Families Susan Kontos.

Determinants Of Currency Risk Premiums, J. A. Carlson, C. L. Osler

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

The risk premium is a function of both the interest rate differential and the gap between the current exchange rate and its long-run equilibrium in a model of the foreign exchange market with both non-speculating traders and rational speculators. If the speculators have an alternative to specializing in exchange-rate speculation, then there should be no presumption that uncovered interest rate parity will hold even approximately with a long-run equilibrium number of speculators. Furthermore, when other traders respond to interest-rate differentials, the model can give rise to a negative relationship between the interest-rate differential and the subsequent change in the exchange …