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Measurement Of The Spectral Functions Of Vector Current Hadronic Tau Decays, R. Barate, M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A measurement of the spectral functions of non-strange τ vector current final states is presented, using 124 358 τ pairs recorded by the ALEPH detector at LEP during the years 1991 to 1994. The spectral functions of the dominant two- and four-pion τ decay channels are compared to published results of e + e - annihilation experiments via isospin rotation. A combined fit of the pion form factor from τ decays and e + e - data is performed using different parametrizations. The mass and the width of the ρ ±(770) and the ρ 0(770) are separately determined in order …

Hong Kong In United States-China Relations: The International Politics Of Hong Kong's Reversion To Chinese Sovereignty, James T. H. Tang

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article examines the implications of the political transition of Hong Kong onUS-China relations in strategic, political and economic dimensions. It evaluates the impactof Hong Kong's changing status in the context of the engagement-containment debate onChina policy in the US. It suggests that US concerns over questions such as democracy andhuman rights and China's rejection of foreign interference' in Hong Kong would turn theterritory into a source of political conflict between the US and China. Finally it points outthat any major trade confrontation between the two countries would have serious implicationsfor the territory. The article concludes by arguing that if …

Nature And Nurture, Danger And Delight: Urban Women's Experiences Of The Natural World, Lily Kong, Belinda Yuen, Clive Briffett, Navjot S. Sodhi

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this paper, we address a research lacuna in the area of human experience of, and interaction with, nature. We focus on women in an urbanized setting, exploring their actual and desired experiences of the natural world, using Singapore as a case study. Our intention is to contribute to both the evolving theoretical and empirical discussions on this subject. Based on data collected from focus group discussions and household questionnaires, we conclude that women's relationships with nature in Singapore are underscored by a strong inclination towards nurturing: teaching, tending and caring, in a way that is not as apparent in …

Moderating Effects Of Tolerance For Ambiguity And Risktaking Propensity On The Role Conflict-Perceived Performance Relationship: Evidence From Singapore Entrepreneurs, Hai Yap Teoh, See Liang Foo

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

This study investigates the effects of tolerance for ambiguity and risktaking propensity in mediating the relationships between role conflict and perceived performance among 70 entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses in Singapore. Entrepreneurial activity has been widely recognized as a major factor driving Singapore's economic development. Further insights therefore can be gained by this study, which addresses the above issues from the perspective of Singaporean entrepreneurs. As founders of their enterprises, entrepreneurs are often involved with many aspects of activities that create a high potential for conflict, having to play multiple roles, coping with competing and conflicting demands, and overcoming …

Concert Recording 1997-10-27, David Saladino, Eddie W. Jones Sr., Theresa Delaplain, Heidi Warren, Sally Wall, Stephen Gates, Zachary Koenig, Gretchen Hare, Mandy Williams, Paul Summerlin, Christopher Thomson, Donna Wiggins, Brocha Strausberg, Bobby Richardson, Dennis Lynch, Katrina Twitty, Jeannie Lee, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Concert Choir, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Schola Cantorum

Concert Recordings & Programs

Cantata no. 6. Bleib bei uns, den es will Abend werden / Johann S. Bach -- A girl's garden / Randall Thompson -- Choose something like a star / Randall Thompson -- I wanna be ready / James Miller;Spherical madrigals (1914). All circling point. Love is a circle / Ross Lee Finney -- St Matthew Passion. Ehre sei dir, Christe / Heinrich Schutz -- Motet VI. Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden / Johann S. Bach;Psalm 136. Give thanks unto the Lord / Robert Starer -- Path to the moon / Eric Thiman -- Four songs from the British Isles, no. …

Concert Recording 1997-12-08, David Saladino, Eddie W. Jones Sr., Angela Campbell, Terry Hicks, Paul Wagner, Robert Lindsey, Bobby Richardson, Jeannie Lee, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Concert Choir, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Schola Cantorum, Bentonville High School (Bentonville, Ark.). Chamber Choir

Concert Recordings & Programs

Angels we have heard on high / arr. John Rutter -- O holy night / arr. George F. Strickling -- Three choruses from Messiah. And the glory of the Lord ; For unto us a child is born ; Hallelujah chorus / G.F. Handel -- I wonder as I wander / arr. John Rutter -- There is no rose. Resmiranda (wondrous thing) ; Paresforma (the trinity) ; Gaudeamus (gloria in excelsis) ; Transeamus (leave we this worldy place and travel to that heavenly place) / John Paynter -- Regem natum (And the angel announed) / Jocobus Gallus ; Ed. by …

Armstrong Atlantic State University 1997-1998 Catalog, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Undergraduate Catalogs (Archived)

Academic catalog for Armstrong Atlantic State University.

Calliope, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Calliope Magazine

Volume 14

Concert Recording 1997-11-03, Hong Le, Jennifer Bray, William Blanton, Alanna Hutchens, Henry Runkles, Jeneen Hollingsworth, Donald Bohanon, Sally Wall, Heidi Warren, Jamie Johnston, Jennifer Carter, Scott Villines, Rob Sullivan, Dustin Medley

Concert Recordings & Programs

12 trios for two horns and bassoon, op. 93 (c. 1815). Allegro moderato. Allegro scherzando. Canon. Allegro assai. Allegretto scherzando -- Fantasy trio, op. 26 (1969) / Robert Muczynski -- Octoot, s. 8 / P.D.Q. Bach;Sept impromptus / Jean Francaix -- La revue de cuisine (1927) / Bohuslav Martinu

Concert Recording 1997-03-11, Hong Le, Heidi Warren, Sally Wall, Beth Chouinard, Richard Ramey, Paul Wagner, Jerome Rappaport, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Bassoon Ensemble

Concert Recordings & Programs

String quartet in E minor, F. XI, no. 33. Allegro ; Andante ; Allegro assai / Antonio Vivaldi -- Carry on, Bach!. Bach goes to sea ; Bach goes east ; Bach goes north / Paul Arden Taylor -- Shepherds of Provence, op. 43. Pastorale provencale / Eugene Bozza -- Suite for six bassoons (1970). Introduction ; Arioso ; Finale / Ronald Lo Presti -- You made me love you / James Monaco ; arranged by Bill Holcombe -- Fifteen Two-Part Inventions. no. 13 in A minor, BWV 784 ; no. 14 in B{lcub}266D{rcub} major, BWV 785 ; no. 4 …

Concert Recording 1997-03-14, Carlton Woods, Kierstin Blanchard, Lindsay Sinclair, Mitzi Lester, William Farlow, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Chorus

Concert Recordings & Programs

Orpheus and Euridice / Willibald Gluck

Breaking The Silence: New Immigrant Children Affected By War Trauma. Community Needs And Resources Assessment, Danijela Seskar-Hencic

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The main purpose of this study was to provide a basis for and facilitate the development of strategies and programs based on actual life experiences of the refugee families and their children and on present needs and resources in the Kitchener-Waterloo community. The participants in the study included three refugee families and their children from Somalia, Kurdistan and Bosnia, English as a Second Language teachers, cultural assistants (settlement counsellors), and a local community group. Qualitative data obtained from the participants were complemented with demographic characteristics relevant to the phenomenon of war trauma among children in the K-W Region The qualitative …

Newsletter, Florida Ornithological Society Newsletter, Volume 23, No. 1, Winter 1997, Katy Nesmith

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

A contingency copy of Vol. 23, No. 1 of the Florida Audubon Society Ornithological Research Division Newsletter.

The Influence Of Reading Comprehension And Other Selected Factors On Student Dropouts In An Urban Southeastern School District In Virginia, Viola Garris Morgan

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of reading achievement on the dropout status. The major research question was to determine to what extent does reading comprehension influence the dropout rate after controlling for demographic and performance characteristics?

The target population consisted of 677 urban twelfth-grade students attending schools in an urban southeastern school district in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Of the 677 students, 142 were dropouts, and 535 were nondropouts. Simple and partial correlations were used to determine the relationship between variables after partialing out performance and demographic variables. In addition, the discriminant analyses were used …

The Effects Of Applied Technology Instruction On Mathematics Achievement And Career Interests Of Urban Seventh-Grade Students, Eric M. Fischer

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

The present study has been implemented to provide insight as to how, given limited resources, Technology Education curricula might be developed to best support the unique goals of an urban middle school aerospace magnet program. It was hypothesized that applied academic strategies, including interdisciplinary hands-on aerospace and computer-assisted instructional activities, would affect larger gains in mathematics achievement and would enhance career-interest development of urban seventh-grade students to a greater degree than would non-participation in such instruction. A randomized subjects, pretest-posttest control group design was used to assess treatment effects upon 71 urban seventh-grade students. Dependent variables were measured using the …

Hoarfrost, Mae Lynn Wallker

English Theses & Dissertations

Many of the poems in this collection reflect an engagement with an inherited literary tradition of ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebraic mythologies. The first section, entitled "Flint," deals with the ancient text of the Bible and with biblical and religious landscapes. The second section, "'The Seven," based on Aeschylus' The Seven Against Thebes, explores the possibilities of the reinterpretation and elaboration of an ancient story in a contemporary context. While "The Seven" literally refers to the seven gates at Thebes, the number is random, and does in fact represent an infinite number of stories. The penultimate section, "Hoarfrost," explores the …

The Effects Of Human-Computer Communication Mode, Task Complexity, And Desire For Control On Performance And Discourse Organization In An Adaptive Task, Cristina Bubb-Lewis

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The present study examined how different communication patterns affected task performance with an adaptive interface. A Wizard-of-Oz simulation (Gould, Conti, & Hovanyecz, 1983) was used to create the impression of a talking and listening computer that acted as a teammate to help participants interact with a computer application.

Four levels of communication mode were used which differed in the level of restriction placed on human-computer communication. In addition, participants completed two sets of tasks (simple and complex). Further, a personality trait, Desire for Control (DC), was measured and participants were split into high and low groups for analysis. Dependent measures …

Music, Identity, And Images Of India In The Indo-Caribbean Diaspora, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

Examines the role of one set of fragments in the identities of a diasporic population which is at once unique, and uniquely representative.

Of Pandas, People, And The First Amendment: The Constitutionality Of Teaching Intelligent Design In The Public Schools, Jay D. Wexler

Faculty Scholarship

Despite the Supreme Court's 1987 decision in Edwards v. Aguillard, striking down Arkansas' statute requiring equal time for the teaching of creationism and evolution, the debate over whether some form of creationism should be taught in public schools has recently enjoyed a resurgence. In this note, Jay Wexler applies the Supreme Court's Establishment Clause to a new variant of creationism that posits the existence of an intelligent designer as an alternative to evolution. Wexler argues that teaching intelligent design theory in the public schools violates the Establishment Clause. After explaining that the Supreme Court has always applied the Establishment Clause …

On The Economics Of Copyright, Restitution And "Fair Use": Systemic Versus Case-By-Case Responses To Market Failure, Wendy J. Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

The 'public goods' characteristics possess by intangible works of authorship and invention present the basic market failure problem usually relied on to justify intellectual property rights. What is ordinarily less emphasized is that such market failure is no more than half of the prerequisite for an economically desirable copyright or patent system: another requisite condition is that there be less costly market imperfections after intellectual property is instituted than there would have been in the absence of the intellectual property regime. Intellectual property rights are best justified in the presence of "asymmetric market conditions", that is where (1) in the …

Newsletter, Florida Ornithological Society Newsletter, Volume 23, No. 4, Fall 1997, Katy Nesmith

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

A contingency copy of Vol. 23, No. 4 of the Florida Audubon Society Ornithological Research Division Newsletter.

Newsletter, Florida Ornithological Society Newsletter, Volume 23, No. 2, Spring 1997, Katy Nesmith

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

A contingency copy of Vol. 23, No. 2 of the Florida Audubon Society Ornithological Research Division Newsletter.

Newsletter, Florida Ornithological Society Newsletter, Volume 23, No. 3, Summer 1997, Katy Nesmith

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

A contingency copy of Vol. 23, No. 3 of the Florida Audubon Society Ornithological Research Division Newsletter.

Earnings Trends Among Men In Albuquerque - 1979-1989, Selim Demusaj

Historic Publications

This master's thesis analyzes changes in earnings among White and Hispanic men in Albuquerque between 1979 and 1989, finding declines in real earnings alongside growing wage inequality. Using census microdata, the study examines the effects of education, labor market experience, industry, occupation, and demographic factors on earnings trends and disparities.

Preservation Of Community Structure In Death Assemblages Of Deep‐Water Caribbean Reef Corals, John M. Pandolfi, Benjamin J. Greenstein

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

An in situ survey of deep reef environments (20 and 30 m) was conducted to determine the degree to which the community structure of live reef coral assemblages was faithfully represented in the adjacent death assemblages accumulating on the sea floor. Relative abundance of species was significantly different between life and death assemblages, and zonation patterns (in species relative abundance, coral growth form, and diversity) present in the life assemblages showed both similarities and differences to those found in the death assemblages. The difference in species distribution patterns between life and death assemblages is shown by a striking growth form …

An Assessment Of Hydrological Process And Landform Change: Slave River Delta, Northwest Territories, Ronald Brad Hill

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The Slave River Delta, 61˚15'N, 113˚30'W, is located at the mouth of the Slave River in the southeast arm of Canada's Great Slave Lake. Although the delta itself lies some 1600 km downstream from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam at Hudson's Hope, British Columbia, the mean annual discharge and sediment load of the Slave River have decreased by 16% and 33% respectively since regulation. Such alterations in the Slave River flow regime have significant implications for the growth of the River Delta since the transfer of sediment to the delta front is one of the most important factors in the landform’s …

Immune Responses To Final Exams In Healthy And Asthmatic Adolescents, Duck-Hee Kang, Christopher L. Coe, Donna O. Mccarthy, William B. Ershler

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Immune responses to an academic stressor were examined in healthy and asthmatic adolescents with regard to their illness symptom reports. Eighty-seven high school students completed a health diary for 2 weeks and provided three blood samples during midsemester, final-exam, and postexam periods. During exam week, all students showed significant immunological alterations from baseline: Natural killer cell activity was significantly lower, whereas lymphocyte proliferation and neutrophil superoxide release were significantly higher. These immune changes tended to return toward baseline during the postexam period, but the enhanced neutrophil reactivity continued to rise. Overall, immunological responses were similar between asthmatic subjects and controls. …

Multiobjective Optimum Design Of Static And Seismic-Resistant Structures With Genetic Algorithm, Fuzzy Logic And Game Theory, Dan Li

Doctoral Dissertations

"The goal of this research is to develop a constrained multiobjective optimization method in the form of a robust, practical, problem-independent algorithm, and to investigate the effect of multiobjective optimization on structural design.

This research studies the properties and characteristics of multiobjective optimization and solutions. Design objectives, constraints and design variables as well as their effect on structural design and behaviors are investigated. Dynamic input energy for a multidegree-of-freedom structure is formulated. A multiobjective optimization algorithm based on game theory is developed. Fuzzy set theory is introduced to construct a fuzzy constrained environment. A Pareto genetic algorithm is developed based …

Immobilization Of Radioactive Materials In Iron Phosphate Glass, Melissa G. Mesko

Doctoral Dissertations

"The current study investigates the feasibility of using iron phosphate glass for the immobilization of radioactive wastes considered incompatible with borosilicate glass. Wastes may be incompatible with borosilicate glass due to high phosphorus content (Hanford tank sludges), the presence of halides (CsCl and SrF₂ capsules), or large amounts of uranium (SNF).

Between 20 and 60 wt% Hanford tank sludge was vitrified with an iron phosphate glass at ≤ 1200°C in 1 hour. The chemical durability of iron phosphate glassy wasteforms was as good as, or better than a reference borosilicate glass (10^-9 g/cm²/min) in distilled water …

Reinforcement Of Web Openings In Cold-Formed Steel Members, Erika Kirsten Nelson

Masters Theses

"To expand on previous research concerning perforated cold-formed steel web elements, an experimental investigation was conducted to examine the influence of reinforcement on the behavior and strength of single web flexural members with web openings. In current design practice, reduction factors are applied to the strength equations to account for the debilitating effect of web openings. This reduction in capacity may lead to the selection of a greater member thickness or depth than would be required of a solid web member. A more economical approach may be to reinforce the web in the proximity of the opening to increase the …