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Basic Communication Course Annual Vol. 4

Basic Communication Course Annual

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Admiralty Jurisdiction: Agency Agreements Not Per Se Excluded, Robert J. Gruendel

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Maritime Liens And Mortgages In Israel - Who Has First Priority, P. G. Naschitz

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Admiralty Jurisdiction In American Samoa: Le Va'a Lagoa, Paul Myburgh

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Are The Visual Acuity Requirements For Pilots In The Airline Industry Justifiable?, William C. Gladish

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

The purpose of this review is to investigate and determine whether the airline industry is justified or unjustified in requiring a more stringent vision criterion than the Federal Aviation Administration. The new law established by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is applicable to this issue. This Act requires airlines to show that the selection criteria are job-related and consistent with a business necessity. This paper assumes that all such vision criteria would fall into three areas: safety, performance, and investment risk. The data indicate that pilots in the distant visual acuity range from 20/20 to 20/200 have nearly …

[Introduction To] Heidegger And The Earth: Essays In Environmental Philosophy, Ladelle Mcwhorter

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Though each essayist presents his or her thinking as it has arisen out of the texts of Martin Heidegger, as this brief overview surely makes clear, the thoughts a reader will encounter here are diverse and perhaps at points conflicting. However, the essayists' differences in many cases actually grow out of a common sense, namely, a sense of urgency born of the knowledge that for many regions of the earth and for many of the beings within them time is running out. The book itself, including its conflicting assertions, is the embodiment of a kind of anxiety and a kind …

[Introduction To] The Vax Book: An Introduction, John R. Hubbard

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This book is an expansion of the book, A Gentle Introduction to the Vax System. The purpose of the book is to guide the novice, step-by-step, through the initial stages of learning to use the Digital Equipment Corporation's Vax computers, running under the VMS operating system (Version 5.0 or later). As a tutorial for beginners, this book assumes no previous experience with computers.

[Introduction To] The Speaker And The Budget: Leadership In The Post-Reform House Of Representatives, Daniel Palazzolo

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One of the most important changes in Congress in decades was the extensive congressional reforms of the 1970s, which moved the congressional budget process into the focus of congressional policy-making and shifted decision-making away from committees. This overwhelming attention to the federal budget allowed party leaders to emerge as central decision makers. Palazzolo traces the changing nature of the Speaker of the House's role in the congressional budget process from the passage of the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to the 100th Congress in 1988. In the early 1970s, the Speaker attended to primarily supportive and managerial tasks …

[Introduction To] New World Adams: Conversations With Contemporary West Indian Writers, Daryl Cumber Dance

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In these interviews, held in the early 1980s, with twenty-two of the major writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, Daryl Dance brings together what is much more than just a valuable source book for readers of West Indian writing. The interviews are highly readable - by turns probing, combative and reflective and always absorbing. Daryl Dance brings to the interviews a rare breadth of knowledge and empathy with the work of the writers interviewed and the openly avowed insights of an African-American woman.

The writers interviewed include Michael Anthony, Louise Bennett, Jan Carew, Martin Carter and Denis Williams, Austin Clarke, Wilson …

[Introduction To] A Century Of Psychology As Science, Sigmund Koch, David E. Leary

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This reissued edition (originally published by McGraw-Hill in 1985) of A Century of Psychology as Science comprehensively assesses the accomplishments, status, and prospects of psychology at the end of its first century as a science, while offering a new postscript. The forty-three contributors are among psychology's foremost authorities. Among the fields addressed are sensory processes and perception, learning, motivation, emotion, cognition, development, personality, and social psychology.

Celebrating Garden Genius : A Handbook To Selected Gardens By Charles F. Gillette, Charles F. Gillette Forum, W. John Hayden, Sheila M. Hayden

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Celebrating Garden Genius : A Handbook to Selected Gardens by Charles F. Gillette was created as part of the 1992 Charles F. Gillette Forum at The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia. W. John Hayden, Professor of Biology at the University of Richmond, and Sheila Hayden, Biology Research Associate at the University of Richmond, served as editors of the handbook.

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Charles F. Gillette
(1886-1969)

Arriving in Richmond on November 9, 1911 —a dull, damp, dreary day—Charles F. Gillette began his career in the Southeast as "clerk of the record" for landscape architect Warren Manning, who, working with architects …

[Introduction To] The Promise Of The New South: Life After Reconstruction, Edward L. Ayers

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At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, Edward Ayers captures the history of the South in the years between Reconstruction and the turn of the century.

Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee …

Operation Desert Storm, R. E. Lee Or W. T. Sherman?, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Faculty Articles

History has shown that one of the most important elements in a successful combat operation is the quality of the commander. The success of Operation Desert Storm confirmed that American commander, General Norman Schwarzkopf, was no mediocre leader. By extension, the war also paid tribute, albeit a silent one, to a man who is arguably the greatest military leader the United States has ever produced—Robert E. Lee. Not only in the sphere of battlefield tactics, but also in ensuring strict adherence to the laws regulating warfare, Generals Lee and Schwarzkopf had much in common.

Unfortunately, however, many are unaware of …

Evidence Of Religion And The Religion Of Evidence, Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

When testimony about the religiosity of a victim is elicited, a jury will likely become aware of the religious affiliation of the victim. Any revelation to a jury of the religiosity of a victim can be an aid to the jury in assessing the punishment to be given to the defendant, since being religious and talking with people about religion is deemed a communal good. However, prescribing a harsher punishment to a defendant because of the religious affiliation of a victim is a form of religious discrimination which is unconstitutional. In light of this inherent difficulty of evidence of religion, …

Practical Reason: The Commercial Speech Paradigm, Edward J. Eberle

Law Faculty Scholarship

First Amendment jurisprudence incorporates a continual struggle to balance coflicting interests. Free speech values must be weighed against communitarian interests in a rational manner. The article examines the foundationalist approach to this task, and finds it incapable of providing a unified First Amendment theory. Through examination of the treatment of commercial speech, the article arrives at a more coherent approach through the application of practical reasoning. The proposed methodology allows for principled analysis and decisions which yield an internally consistent body of law.

Acceptance Of Higher Visby Liability Limits By U.S. Courts, William Tetley

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Why The U.S. Did Not Ratify The Visby Amendments, Allan I. Mendelsohn

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

The Spatial Dimension Of Time, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Archaeological research depends on the temporal structural of archaeological deposits. Temporal structure includes deposit age and the sequencing or the relative temporal order of one deposit to another. Another aspect is the temporal scale and resolution, or the degree of contemporaneity shared by deposits, Archaeology is also concerned with ethnographic time, that domain in which formation events occur, i.e., the temporal characteristics of activities with respect to the piece of land on which those activities occur. This chapter explores the issue of temporal resolution or deposit grain is it relates to the tempo of use witnessed by a locale.

Soil Science Research Report - 1992

Soil Science Research Reports

Weather Data - 1992 .......... 1

Influence of Anhydrous Ammonia Band Spacing on Irrigated Corn Grain Yield and Band Persistence .......... 9

Variable Rate Nitrogen Fertilization with Furrow Irrigation - Milton Ruhter Farm .......... 17

Burlington Northern Nitrogen Management Study .......... 25

The Effects of a Urease Inhibitor on Volatile Ammonia Loss and Urea Hydrolysis on Irrigated, Ridge Till Com .......... 37

Nitrogen Fertilization of Smooth Brome .......... 43

Evaluation of Soil Testing for Nitrate-Nitrogen .......... 47

Horizontal Sampling to Assess Agrichemical Movement .......... 55

Water Movement in Soils and Porous Media .......... 57

A Natural Gradient Transport Study of …

Oil, Gas, And Mineral Law, Stuart C. Hollimon, Robert E. Vinson Jr.

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Texas Limited Liability Company - A Possible Alternative For Business Formation, Matthew W. Ray

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Institutional Effectiveness: A New Hurdle For Collegiate Aviation, Henry R. Lehrer

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

No abstract provided.

Aviation Safety As A Function Of Pilot Experience: Rationale Or Rationalization?, Bill D. Bell, Charles L. Robertson, Gregory S. Wagner

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

This study tests the effectiveness of an experience model in predicting aviation safety behavior. The elements comprising the model include: (a) flight hours, (b) ratings and flight characteristics, (c) career status, and (d) malfunction history. Data were derived from a random sample of U.S. pilots in the fall of 1990 by means of a survey instrument. Significant variance in aviation safety is not explained by the model. The key predictor of safety behavior is the career status (i.e., certificate duration) of the pilot. Flight hours, ratings, and malfunction history are negatively and non-significantly associated with aviation safety. The research: (a) …

A Comparison Between Airline Cost Structure Pre- And Post-Deregulation, Atef Ghobrial

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

This study compares the pre- and post-deregulation changes in the cost structure of two carrier groups: majors and nationals. A dummy-variable model was estimated, using data from 1970 to 1988. The results suggest that while the percentage of total cost incurred in maintenance decreased, costs of promotion, sales, and advertisement increased. It also appears that the percentage of some cost components differs among the two carrier groups; the percentage of total cost incurred in aircraft-traffic servicing seems to be higher for the nationals than for majors.

Back Matter

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

No abstract provided.

Learning Takes Flight: Award-Winning Educators Use Aviation To Spark Student Achievement, Frank G. Mitchell

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Eleven teachers from eight different states were chosen as 1991 winners of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) annual Award for Excellence in Aviation Education. The award honors grade school and high school teachers who bring general aviation into the classroom, either as a specific topic of discussion or as a teaching tool. Most of the winning projects included activities spread over an entire semester or school year. From each winning entry, two or three of the most original or vivid ideas were selected for this article. Enough detail was included so that another teacher can take the ideas and …

The Bridge (Law School Special Issue), Roger Williams University

Founding of the Law School (1991-1993)

No abstract provided.

Making Sense Of Animal Pain: An Environmental Theodicy, L. Stafford Betty

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Topics In Nonlinear Stochastic Control, Estimation, And Decision, Using A Measure Transformation Approach, Charalambos Demetriou Charalambous

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

We discuss topics in the theory of nonlinear stochastic control, estimation, and decision via a probabilistic approach using measure transformations and martingale theory. First, we investigate the problem of estimating a diffusion process using coordinate transformations and measure transformations, both locally and globally; this is the analog of nonlinear coordinate and state feedback transformations used to obtain exact linearization in nonlinear deterministic control problems. Our results are new in that we use a probabilistic approach rather than a purely geometric one, and also in that we derive representations when the processes are defined locally rather than just globally. A gauge …