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Protecting Surface Transportation Systems And Patrons From Terrorist Activities, Research Report 94-04, Brian M. Jenkins Dec 1997

Protecting Surface Transportation Systems And Patrons From Terrorist Activities, Research Report 94-04, Brian M. Jenkins

Mineta Transportation Institute

Contemporary terrorists have made public transportation a new theater of operations. Algerian extremists set off bombs on the subways of Paris in 1995 and 1996; the Irish Republican Army has waged a long running terrorist campaign against Britain’s passenger trains and London’s subways; Palestinian terrorists have carried out suicide bombings on Israel’s buses; and an individualor a group calling itself “Sons of the Gestapo” derailed a passenger train in Arizona in 1995. Islamic extremists planned to set off car bombs in New York’s tunnels and bridges in 1993 and in 1997 they plotted suicide bombings in New York subways. The …

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Entrepreneur, Lorna Van Gilst Dec 1997

Entrepreneur, Lorna Van Gilst

Pro Rege

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Electrodiagnosis Of Median-To-Ulnar Nerve Anastomosis And Anomalous Innervation Of The Intrinsic Hand Muscles, Chih-Liang Wu, Huann Chang, Pi-Chang Sun, Su-Fen Liao, Rai-Chi Chan Dec 1997

Electrodiagnosis Of Median-To-Ulnar Nerve Anastomosis And Anomalous Innervation Of The Intrinsic Hand Muscles, Chih-Liang Wu, Huann Chang, Pi-Chang Sun, Su-Fen Liao, Rai-Chi Chan

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Communication between the median and ulnar nerves is a common anomaly in the forearm (Martin-Gruber anastomosis, MGA). The knowledge of these anastomoses and the resulting anomalous innervation patterns is of crucial importance to the clinicians and electromyographers in the performance of nerve conduction and electromyographic studies in normal patients and those with peripheral nerve lesions. One hundred forearms (fifty cases) were examined for median-to-ulnar or ulnar-to-median nerve anastomoses using surface electrodes. We found a motor median-to-ulnar nerve anastomosis occurring in 12% of forearms studied. The incidence of innervation of the different intrinsic hand muscles: abductor pollicis brevis (APB) 17%; abductor …

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Pant-Legs And Pathology: The Marriage Of Individual And Family Assessment, Steven M. Harris, Dean M. Busby Dec 1997

Pant-Legs And Pathology: The Marriage Of Individual And Family Assessment, Steven M. Harris, Dean M. Busby

Faculty Publications

Bowen family systems theory suggests that individuals who report high levels of individual pathology will also report having been raised in families characterized by high conflict and low adaptability. Combining individual and family assessment measures, or using one type of measure to understand the results of the other may be possible through the application of systems theory. Therapeutic implications of the study reported here indicate that practitioners should consider the value of focusing on family of origin processes before a primary focus on isolated traumatic events guides the direction of therapy.

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Problems And Solutions In Future Coalition Operations, Phillip Kaiser Mr., Jon Kessmeier Mr., Thomas J. Marshall Mr. Dec 1997

Problems And Solutions In Future Coalition Operations, Phillip Kaiser Mr., Jon Kessmeier Mr., Thomas J. Marshall Mr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Each year, the United States Army, Europe (USAREUR) undertakes a conference-study program on a matter of strategic significance, with several objectives. The topic relates to USAREUR’s mission; anticipates future requirements; contributes toward building democratic norms within the militaries of emerging democracies; and serves to inform the USAREUR staff, higher headquarters and other U.S. Government agencies of active measures to improve current practices. Examples of topics in the last several years are Preventive Diplomacy, Planning and Conducting Large Scale Emergency Operations, and Military Support to Democratization in Europe.

In 1996, USAREUR undertook to study “Problems and Solutions in Future Coalition Operations.” …

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The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, December, 1997, Dit : Students' Union Dec 1997

The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, December, 1997, Dit : Students' Union

DIT Student Union

The DIT Examiner : the Newspaper of the Dublin Institute of Technology Students' Union.

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Unfolding Of The Period-Two Bifurcation In A Fiber Laser Pumped With Two Modulation Tones, Scott Glasgow, T. C. Newell, A. Gavrielides, V. Kovanis, D. Sukow, T. Erneux Dec 1997

Unfolding Of The Period-Two Bifurcation In A Fiber Laser Pumped With Two Modulation Tones, Scott Glasgow, T. C. Newell, A. Gavrielides, V. Kovanis, D. Sukow, T. Erneux

Faculty Publications

The effect of a small second frequency component on a pump modulated neodymium fiber laser is investigated experimentally and theoretically. This term, whose frequency is exactly half the primary driver, incites an unfolding of the attractor. It breaks the period two pitchfork bifurcation and splits the period one orbit. The modification of the bifurcation diagram is studied analytically by employing a map derived from the class B laser rate equations. We determine specific conditions and scaling laws for this phenomenon. Our analytical predictions are in good agreement with recorded experimental data.

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Absolute Measurements Of The High-Frequency Magnetic Dynamics In Hihg-Tc Superconductors, Stephen M. Hayden, Gabriel Aeppli, Pengcheng Dai, Herbert A. Mook, Toby G. Perring, S-W Cheong, Zachary Fisk, Fatih Dogan, Thomas E. Mason Dec 1997

Absolute Measurements Of The High-Frequency Magnetic Dynamics In Hihg-Tc Superconductors, Stephen M. Hayden, Gabriel Aeppli, Pengcheng Dai, Herbert A. Mook, Toby G. Perring, S-W Cheong, Zachary Fisk, Fatih Dogan, Thomas E. Mason

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

We review recent measurements of the high-frequency dynamic magnetic susceptibility in the high-T~ superconducting systems La2-xSrxCuO4 and YBa2Cu3O6+x. Experiments were performed using the chopper spectrometers HET and MARI at the ISIS spallation source. We have placed our measurements on an absolute intensity scale; this allows systematic trends to be seen and comparisons with theory to be made. We find that the insulating S = ½ antiferromagnetic parent compounds show a dramatic renormalization of the spin wave intensity. The effect of doping on the response is to cause broadenings in …

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Pseudogap And Incommensurate Magnetic Fluctuations In Yba2cu3o6.6, Pengcheng Dai, Herbert A. Mook, Fatih Dogan Dec 1997

Pseudogap And Incommensurate Magnetic Fluctuations In Yba2cu3o6.6, Pengcheng Dai, Herbert A. Mook, Fatih Dogan

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Unpolarized inelastic neutron scattering is used to study the temperature and wave vector dependence of the dynamical magnetic susceptibility X"(q,w) of a well-characterized single-crystal YBa2Cu3O6.6 (Tc = 62.7 K). We find that a pseudogap opens in the spin-fluctuation spectrum at temperatures well above Tc. We speculate that the appearance of the low-frequency incommensurate fluctuations is associated with the opening of the pseudogap. To within the error of the measurements, a gap in the spin-fluctuation spectrum is found in the superconducting state.

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New Perspectives For Maximum Likelihood Time-Delay Estimation, John A. Stuller Dec 1997

New Perspectives For Maximum Likelihood Time-Delay Estimation, John A. Stuller

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This Paper Introduces a New Realization for Maximum Likelihood Time-Delay Estimation (TDE) that Illuminates the Relationships between Maximum Likelihood TDE and Other Methods. We Obtain the Result by Deriving the Likelihood Function using a Fundamental Method that Appears to Be New to the Field of Array Processing. This Method is a Natural Complement to the Generalized Karhunen-Loève Expansion. © 1997 IEEE.

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Temperature-Dependence Studies Of Photorefractive Effect In A Low Glass-Transition-Temperature Polymer Composite, Bogdan Swedek, Ning Cheng, Yiping Cui, Jaroslaw W. Zieba, Jeffrey G. Winiarz, Paras N. Prasad Dec 1997

Temperature-Dependence Studies Of Photorefractive Effect In A Low Glass-Transition-Temperature Polymer Composite, Bogdan Swedek, Ning Cheng, Yiping Cui, Jaroslaw W. Zieba, Jeffrey G. Winiarz, Paras N. Prasad

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The temperature dependence of the photorefractive effect in a polymer composite containing poly(9-vinycarbazole), tricresyl phosphate, buckminsterfullerene, and 4-(N,N-diethylamino)-β-nitrostyrene is presented. The photoconductive, electro-optic and photorefractive properties of the material have been studied in the temperature range of 22-61°C. An apparent increase of electro-optic modulation with temperature and its eventual saturation is observed. This behavior is attributed to the temperature activated orientational mobility of the second-order nonlinear chromophores. The polarization anisotropy between the p- and s-polarized readouts is consistent with what would be expected on the basis of directly measured effective electro-optic coefficients. By correlating the electro-optic value with the diffraction …

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Curbing Urban Traffic Congestion In Singapore: A Comprehensive Review, Rex S. Toh, Sock-Yong Phang Dec 1997

Curbing Urban Traffic Congestion In Singapore: A Comprehensive Review, Rex S. Toh, Sock-Yong Phang

Research Collection School Of Economics

One of the most pervasive and frustrating of modern transportation problems is urban traffic congestion. Since 1975, Singapore has introduced a relentless series of traditional and experimental measures to slow down the growth of the motor vehicle population and to control its usage. While some of the measures have been somewhat successful, some of the problems were shifted or were substituted. The Area Licensing Scheme led to a shifting of the problem in time and place while the quota system has substituted uncertainty in quantity with uncertainty in price. Furthermore, the Preferential Additional Registration Fee system and the Quota System …

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Jury Reform: Of Myths And Moral Panics, Peter Duff, Mark Findlay Dec 1997

Jury Reform: Of Myths And Moral Panics, Peter Duff, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

It is now commonplace to assert that the jury performs an important ideological or symbolic role in the criminal justice process. Indeed, it is often argued that this function is more significant than the impact the jury has in practice (see Mungham & Bankowski 1976; Duff & Findlay 1982; Findlay & Duff 1988: 1–7; Darbyshire 1991). Certainly it is true that, in virtually every jurisdiction where the jury exists, only a very small proportion of alleged offenders have their cases heard before a jury. There are two principal reasons for this. First, the vast majority of those charged with criminal …

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Physician Assisted Suicide And The Supreme Court: Putting The Constitutional Claim To Rest, Wendy K. Mariner Dec 1997

Physician Assisted Suicide And The Supreme Court: Putting The Constitutional Claim To Rest, Wendy K. Mariner

Faculty Scholarship

Like the debate about many controversial questions of ethics and medical care in America, public debate about physician assisted suicide became focused on questions of constitutional law. On June 26, 1997, the United States Supreme Court unanimously rejected any constitutional right of terminally ill patients to physician assisted suicide. An analysis of the Court's reasoning reveals that its decisions resolved only a narrow constitutional question that affects relatively few people--mentally competent, terminally ill patients who wish to hasten their imminent deaths by having a physician prescribe medication that they intend to use to commit suicide. Although suicide is not a …

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Is It Lost Or Just Forgotten? The Use Of Age Regression In Recapturing A Second Language, Marlene J. Mowery Dec 1997

Is It Lost Or Just Forgotten? The Use Of Age Regression In Recapturing A Second Language, Marlene J. Mowery

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the question of whether a second language learned in early childhood and later forgotten is lost forever or is situationally unretrievable. The focus of this case study is the examination of hypnotic age regression as a means of retrieval and the use of posthypnotic suggestion in recapturing and maintaining a lost language. A multi-session single subject design was employed in this study. The participant was a nine-year-old American female who was exposed to Hungarian in a Budapest pre-school setting from age three years nine months to age four years seven months. The subject became as fluent as …

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A Comparison Of Listener And Speaker Perception Of Stuttering Events, Anne Jocelyn Schagen Dec 1997

A Comparison Of Listener And Speaker Perception Of Stuttering Events, Anne Jocelyn Schagen

Dissertations and Theses

Stuttering identification, measurement, research, and treatment have for many years had their basis in listener judgment of stuttering, but the covert aspects of stuttering are not behaviorally observable, and inter-rater reliability has repeatedly been shown to be low. Perkins (1990) has emphasized the importance of consulting the speaker for the most reliable perspective on stuttering identification. The question raised in this study is whether there is a significant correlation between stuttering identification based upon internal perception by a speaker who stutters, and identification based upon external perception of listeners, with points of inter-rater disagreement removed. Six adult males, aged 18 …

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Developing A Corpus Specific Stoplist Using Quantitative Comparison, Craig N. Berg Dec 1997

Developing A Corpus Specific Stoplist Using Quantitative Comparison, Craig N. Berg

Theses and Dissertations

We have become overwhelmed with electronic information and it seems our situation is not going to improve. It is becoming increasingly common for people to work with information on a daily basis. We seem to spend more and more time looking for information, and it is taking longer because more information is available. This thesis will look at how we can provide faster access to the information we want to find. Today's requirements are closely related to searching for information using queries. At the heart of the query process is the removal of search terms having little or no significance …

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An Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Online Peer Feedback At The United States Air Force Academy, Annette M. Driscoll Dec 1997

An Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Online Peer Feedback At The United States Air Force Academy, Annette M. Driscoll

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the effectiveness of the Air Force Academy's Department of English local area network peer feedback system. Four main questions were examined. These questions explored a) whether students reported improvement in their writing, b) whether students reported that feedback is worthwhile, c) whether students reported that LAN sessions increase enjoyment of writing, and d) what types of feedback the students 1) received and 2) found most helpful. Three groups were studied. Forty-six students received feedback online, fifty students received feedback face to face, and thirty-three students did not receive feedback. Comparisons were made for the questions mentioned above …

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First Language And Gesture Acquisition In Children With Cerebral Palsy, Ann Christine Friel Dec 1997

First Language And Gesture Acquisition In Children With Cerebral Palsy, Ann Christine Friel

Dissertations and Theses

Many children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) will receive speech and language intervention throughout their lives. However, there is a lack of descriptive data for language and gesture development of children with CP. When assessing the skills of children with CP, standardized tests and clinical observations have several inherent faults due to time constraints, normative data, and physical constraints. An alternative method used to gather data in the area of language and gesture development is parent questionnaire. The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory: Words & Gestures was chosen for this study because it has been shown to be an efficient, valid, and …

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Origins Of The Fifth Amendment And Its Critics, Leonard W. Levy Dec 1997

Origins Of The Fifth Amendment And Its Critics, Leonard W. Levy

Cardozo Law Review

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The Murray Ledger And Times, November 29, 1997, The Murray Ledger And Times Nov 1997

The Murray Ledger And Times, November 29, 1997, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Predator Deterrence And 2,4-Dibromophenol Conservation By The Enteropneusts Saccoglossus Bromophenolosus And Protoglossus Graveolens, Cem Giray, Gary M. King Nov 1997

Predator Deterrence And 2,4-Dibromophenol Conservation By The Enteropneusts Saccoglossus Bromophenolosus And Protoglossus Graveolens, Cem Giray, Gary M. King

Faculty Publications

Saccoglossus bromophenolosus King et al., 1994 and Protoglossus graveolens Giray and King, 1996 contain high concentrations of 2,4-dibromophenol (DBP), the function of which is uncertain. Mature enteropneusts that were collected from the field and maintained in vitro without bromide retained DBP, which is inconsistent with active DBP secretion into the burrow environment. DBP was also conserved during field manipulations that decreased food availability in situ. Further, DBP did not deter predation in feeding experiments with the anomuran crab Pagurus longicarpus and the polychaetes Glycera dibranchiata, Nereis virens and Nepthys incisa. The hermit crabs fed on S. bromophenolosus readily, and in …

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The Weekly Challenger, November 29, 1997, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Nov 1997

The Weekly Challenger, November 29, 1997, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The November 29, 1997, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Chavez, Savas Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Geoffrey Reynolds Nov 1997

Chavez, Savas Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Geoffrey Reynolds

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

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Volume 35, Number 15: November 28, 1997, University Of North Dakota Nov 1997

Volume 35, Number 15: November 28, 1997, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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Volume 35, Number 15: November 28, 1997, University Of North Dakota Nov 1997

Volume 35, Number 15: November 28, 1997, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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Vol.25 N.43 November 27th 1997, Brown Publishing Company Nov 1997

Vol.25 N.43 November 27th 1997, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

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Casco Bay Weekly : 27 November 1997 Nov 1997

Casco Bay Weekly : 27 November 1997

Casco Bay Weekly (1997)

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Martinez, Imelda Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Kim Eckert Nov 1997

Martinez, Imelda Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Kim Eckert

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

No abstract provided.

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Moody's Downgrades Korea Development Bank's Commercial Paper, Agence France Presse (Afp) Nov 1997

Moody's Downgrades Korea Development Bank's Commercial Paper, Agence France Presse (Afp)

Documents

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