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Organizational Determinants Of Is Performance- A Strategic Profile Perspective, Charles Apigian, Bhanu Ragu-Nathan, T.S. Ragu-Nathan

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As a strategic resource, an organization's information system (IS) often determines its competitive advantage. Literature have indicated that many organizational factors influence IS performance. However, the effects of these factors may be different for organizations with different distin ctive information management (IM) strategies. This applies the methodology developed by Sabherwal and Chan (2001) to convert organizational strategic profiles to Miles and Snow (1978) typology, validates the methodology and examines the impact of a set of organizational variables on IS performance in each IM strategic profile type. Managerial implications of the findings are also discussed.

Ramsey Numbers For Triangles Versus Almost-Complete Graphs, Brendan Mckay, Konrad Piwakowski, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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We show that, in any coloring of the edges of K_38 with two colors, there exists a triangle in the first color or a monochromatic K_10-e (K_10 with one edge removed) in the second color, and hence we obtain a bound on the corresponding Ramsey number, R(K_3, K_10-e) <= 38. the new lower bound of 37 for this number is established by a coloring of K_36 avoiding triangles in the first color and K_10-e in the second color. This improves by one the vest previously known lower and upper bounds. we also give the bounds for the next Ramsey number of this type, 42 <= R(K_3, K_11-e) <= 47.

Dit-Call: Naturally Speaking But Slow, Dermot Campbell, Marty Meinardi, Bunny Richardson, Eugene Coyle, Olivia Donnellan, Pak Kui Leung, Ciaran Macdonaill, Elmar Jung, Charles Pritchard

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This paper introduces a new development in speech technology and describes its planned application in an EFL context. Special attention is paid to the pedagogical potential of the resultant language tool.

The Fair City Production Line: An Examination Of Soap Opera’S Potential Contribution To The Public Sphere, Edward Brennan

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Between December 2000 and February 2001 the Irish soap opera Fair City ran an unprecedented, risky and controversial abortion storyline. This came before a looming referendum on the legality of abortion. Here, Fair City was not just offering entertainment, but provoking debate and discussion on a divisive issue in Irish society. In this case, and many others, it appears that soap opera, by promoting such discussion, may contribute to the formation of public opinion in contemporary civil society. Heretofore, most academic studies have overlooked the possible consequences of soap opera for civil society, public opinion and the democratic process. This …

Purchasing Consortia And Electronic Markets: A Procurement Direction In Integrated Supply Chain Management, Bernd Huber, Edward Sweeney, Austin Smyth

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In supply chain management literature, there has been little empirical research investigation on purchasing consortium issues focusing on a detailed analysis of information and communication (ICT) based procurement strategies. Based on the exploration of academic literature and two surveys among purchasing organisations as well as e-Marketplaces / procurement service providers (PSPs) in the automotive and electronics industry sectors, the research methodology follows a positivistic approach in order to assess the overall statement: ‘Effective participation in electronic purchasing consortia (EPC) can have the potential to enhance competitive advantage. Implementation therefore requires a clear and detailed understanding of the major process structures …

Mercy Lawyers, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Images Of Health Insurance In Popular Film: The Dissolving Critique, Elizabeth Pendo

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Several recent films have villainized the health insurance industry as central elements of their plots. This Article examines three of those films: Critical Care, The Rainmaker, and John Q. It analyzes these films through the context of the consumer backlash against managed care that began in the 1990s and shows how these films reflect the consumer sentiment regarding health insurance companies and the cost controlling strategies they employ. In addition, the Article identifies three key premises about health insurance in the films that, although exaggerated and incomplete, have significant factual support. Ultimately, the author argues that, despite their passionately critical …

Free Speech And Valuable Speech: Silence, Dante, And The 'Marketplace Of Ideas', James Boyd White

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This Essay is a slightly expanded version of the inaugural Mellinkoff Lecture in Law and Humanities, presented at the UCLA School of Law last April in honor of the memory of Professor David Mellinkoff, the distinguished author of ground-breaking work on the nature of legal language. It addresses four related questions. What is the nature of the kind of speech and expression that realizes most completely the human capacity for finding and expressing meaning? How does our own world of public speech measure up to that standard? How, indeed, does our own talk in the law measure up, especially our …

Constructive Lower Bounds On Classical Multicolor Ramsey Numbers, Xiaodong Xu, Xie Zheng, Geoffrey Exoo, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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This paper studies lower bounds for classical multicolor Ramsey numbers, first by giving a short overview of past results, and then by presenting several general constructions establishing new lower bounds for many diagonal and off-diagonal multicolor Ramsey numbers. In particular, we improve several lower bounds for R_k(4) and R_k(5) for some small k, including 415 < = R_3(5), 634 < = R_4(4), 2721 < = R_4(5), 3416 < = R_5(4) and 26082 < = R_5(5). Most of the new lower bounds are consequences of general constructions.

An Upper Bound Of 62 On The Classical Ramsey Number(3,3,3,3), Susan Fettes, Richard Kramer, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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We show that the classical Ramsey number R(3,3,3,3) is no greater than 62. That is, any edge coloring with four colors of a complete graph on 62 vertices must contain a monochromatic triangle. Basic notions and a historical overview are given along with the theoretical framework underlying the main result. The algorithms for the computational verification of the result are presented along with a brief discussion of the software tools that were utilized.

Gas Plume Species Identification By Regression Analyses, David Pogorzala, David W. Messinger, Carl Salvaggio, John R. Schott

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Identification of constituent gases in effluent plumes is performed using linear least-squares regression techniques. Overhead thermal hyperspectral imagery is used for this study. Synthetic imagery is employed as the test-case for algorithm development. Synthetic images are generated by the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation (DIRSIG) Model. The use of synthetic data provides a direct measure of the success of the algorithm through the comparison with truth map outputs. In image test-cases, plumes emanating from factory stacks will have been identified using a separate detection algorithm. The gas identification algorithm being developed in this work will then be used …

Methods Of Spectral Reflectance Reconstruction For A Sinarback 54 Digital Camera, Yonghui Zhao, Lawrence Taplin, Mahdi Nezamabadi

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There is an urgent need to build digital image databases with adequate colorimetric accuracy for museums, achieves and libraries. Traditional colorimetric imaging suffers from the possibilities of metameric problem, while spectral imaging can facilitate accurate tristimulus estimation and possibilities for spectral reconstruction of each pixel. Spectral image archives can be used to render accurate images both spectrally and colorimetrically to the original target for any illuminant and observer. The most convenient and practical capture system for spectral imaging combines a commercial trichromatic camera with two absorption filters to define image spectrally. Two images were taken for each target; so six-channel …

Modifications Of A Sinarback 54 Digital Camera For Spectral And High-Accuracy Colorimetric Imaging: Simulations And Experiments, Roy Berns, Lawrence Taplin, Mahdi Nezamabadi

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A search technique was used to identify sets of colored glass filters that could be placed in the optical path of the Sinarback 54 camera system resulting in improved color accuracy compared with a production unit and the ability to perform spectral estimation. A green and blue filter, each a pair of filters, were identified and constructed from Schott glass. RGB images were collected through these two filters resulting in six image planes. Using the Gretag Macbeth ColorChecker DC and a custom target of blue artist pigments, a transformation was derived that converted digitally flat-fielded and photometrically-linearized camera signals to …

Nuclear Properties Of A Sample Of Nearby Spirals From Stis [Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph] Imaging, Claudia Scarlata, Massimo Stiavelli, M. A. Hughes, David Axon, A. Alonso-Herrero, J. Atkinson, D. Batcheldor, J. Binney, A. Capetti, C. M. Carollo, L. Dressel, J. Gerssen, D. Macchetto, W. Maciejewski, A. Marconi, M. Merrifield, M. Ruiz, W. Sparks, Z. Tzvetanov, Roeland P. Van Der Marel

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We present surface photometry for the central regions of a sample of 48 spiral galaxies (mostly unbarred and barred of types Sbc or Sc) observed with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Surface brightness profiles were derived and modeled with a Nuker law. We also analyzed archival Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images with a larger field of view, available for 18 galaxies in our sample. We modeled the extracted bulge surface brightness profiles with an exponential, an r1/4, or an rn profile. In agreement with previous studies, we find that bulges of Sbc galaxies …

Distracting Or Desperately Needed?, Marigold Bethany

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Collection Of Three Poems: Diatribe, Proverb Of Futility & Salve, Frank Hilbert

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The Generalized Interpersonal Theory Of Personality And Psychopathology, G. Scott Acton

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Desirable Properties Of An Unconventional Population Control Policy, Amitrajeet Batabyal

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A great deal of concern has now been expressed about the authoritarian population control policies adopted by Asian countries such as Vietnam, India, and particularly China. Many of these autocratic policies and certainly the Chinese "one child policy" have failed in part because the framers of these policies have attempted to unsuccessfully circumvent a long standing cultural desire for male children. Therefore, in this note, we first propose an unconventional population control policy that is sensitive to this cultural desire for male progeny. Next, we show that this policy is desirable because (i)it is likely to ameliorate the "missing girls" …

Aod (Alcohol And Other Drugs) And Deaf Related Websites, Wendy Dimatteo

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Sober Camp 2004 Was Heart Warming, Jeff Rubin

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Depth Of Field Matters, Andrew Davidhazy

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Depth of field scales are disappearing from many modern camera lenses and DOF and hyperfocal distance and their relationship have acquired an almost magical status. This article covers the topic in question and answer form and served as the basis for a lecture on the subject presented in 2004. Added here in November 2007.

On The Links Between Managerial Actions, Keystone Species, And The Resilience Of Ecological-Economic Systems, Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

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Managerial actions influence the survival probabilities of the keystone species of an ecological-economic system. In turn, the well-being of these keystone species translates into the well being or the resilience of the underlying ecological-economic system. What are the theoretical links between managerial actions, keystone species, and the resilience of ecological-economic systems? Recently, Batabyal (2002) has addressed aspects of this question. In this paper, we extend the analysis in Batabyal (2002). First, we use a stochastic model to delineate a stylized ecological-economic system. Next, we discuss the links between managerial actions, keystone species, and this ecological-economic system’s resilience. Finally, we show …

Mechanical Time Delay Synchronizer For Splash Photography, Andrew Davidhazy

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Based on the pioneering work of A.M. Worthington this article describes how an ingenious mechanical solution can be applied to solving a complex synchronization problem associated with splash photography.

Home-Made Adapter For Canon Fd Lenses On Eos Bodies, Andrew Davidhazy

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When Canon went from manual focus to autofocus lenses they decided to change lens mounts. Some photographers devised ways to use their new cameras with older equipment fitted with FD mounts. When I bought a Digital Rebel I became part of this group and joined the group of "adapters" by making this home-made EOS/FD interface.

Alternative Velocity Measurement Techniques In Synchroballistic Photography, Andrew Davidhazy

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Synchroballistic cameras have many applications but mostly these are buried in specialized laboratories, hard to access military installations or in technical literary archives. This article illustrates and explains two data reduction approaches for obtaining useful data from synchroballistic photographs of missiles in flight.

Camera For Panoramic Photographic Lampshades And More, Andrew Davidhazy

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At one time I was hoping that I could interest Popular Photography magazine in publishing a piece on my work with a unique panoramic camera that is able to make conical projections or reproductions of scenes surrounding the camera as opposed to cylindrical ones made by all other rotating panoramic cameras. Well, this was the piece submitted for consideration. They were not interested.

The Process For Becoming A Law School Professor In The United States, Daniel H. Foote

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As the process of legal education reform in Japan, centered on the establishment of a new tier of professional graduate schools in law, moves forward, one issue that has arisen is how law professors will be trained in coming years. In that connection, I am frequently asked what the typical route is for training law school professors in the US. Based in part on an examination of the backgrounds prior to entering law teaching for over 500 law professors at eight US law schools and on personal experiences (including serving for three years on the appointments committee at the University …

Bankrupting Trademarks, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

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The explosive growth of technology in the last two decades has vastly expanded intellectual property jurisprudence and elevated intellectual property to a heightened status in the marketplace. Indeed, a company's intellectual property assets may now be its most valuable corporate assets. Moreover, the property value of some trademarks is significantly greater than that of the trademark owner's physical assets.

The term “intellectual property” is commonly understood to include patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks. Yet a paradigm has been constructed and enforced over the last fifteen years wherein only patents, trade secrets, and copyrights are included. The paradigm specifically excludes …

Taxing The New Intellectual Property Right, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine

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Current, albeit arbitrary, rules exist governing the tax treatment of traditional forms of intellectual property, such as patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and trade names. While tax principles exist for these traditional intellectual property and intangible rights, specific tax rules do not exist for new intellectual property rights, such as domain names, that are emerging with the arrival of global electronic commerce transactions on the Internet. This article explores the proper tax treatment of domain name registration and acquisition costs, addressing these parallel questions? Are domain names merely variations of traditional forms of intellectual property and other intangible rights to …

Collateralizing Internet Privacy, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

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Collateralizing privacy is a pervasive conduct committed by many on-line companies. Yet most don't even realize that they are engaging in collateralizing privacy. Worse yet, governmental agencies and consumer groups are not even aware of the violation of on-line consumer privacy by the collateralization of privacy. Professor Nguyen argues that collateralizing privacy occurs under the existing privacy regime and the architecture of article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Professor Nguyen critiques the violation of privacy through collateralization dilemmas and proposes a solution involving modifications of the contents of the financing statement and security agreement in secured transactions where consumer …