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Book Review Of Bruce M. Owen Et Al., The Economics Of A Disaster - The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, William C. Shaw Ii

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of Bruce M. Owen, David A. Argue, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth, Gloria J. Hurdle & Gale Mosteller, The Economics of a Disaster - The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Quorum Books 1995). Acknowledgments, appendices, author index, figures, selected bibliography, subject index, tables. LC 95- 3782; ISBN 0-89930-987-9. [200 pp. Cloth $55.00. 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.]

Instructional Lessons And Activities For Middle School Science Teachers, Sally Josephine Rich

All Graduate Projects

The significance of providing an inquiry based, hands-on approach to teaching science to middle school students was researched. Several sources supported this teaching method. The research suggested having students participate in engaging, thought provoking, and problem solving science activities to optimize successful student learning. Lessons and activities, which focus on active student learning, critical thinking and problem solving, were developed to enhance and revise the existing curriculum for five chosen textbooks. These selected science texts were intended for middle school sixth and seventh grade students.

An Administrative Guide For Developing A Tech Prep Program For Horticulture Education At South Kitsap High School, Patrick L. Oster

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this study was to develop a Tech Prep Program for horticulture education. This program focused on career goals of students enrolled at South Kitsap High School and South Seattle Community College. To accomplish this purpose, current research and literature on Tech Prep models, career paths, and the horticulture industry were reviewed. Additionally, selected materials were obtained from model Tech Prep programs throughout the State of Washington.

Course Catalog 1997-1998, Laguardia Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

A New Distributed Constant False Alarm Rate Detector, Hamid Amirmehrabi, R. Viswanathan

Articles

A new constant false alarm rate (CFAR) test termed signal-plus-order statistic CFAR (S+OS) using distributed sensors is developed. The sensor modeling assumes that the returns of the test cells of different sensors are all independent and identically distributed. In the S+OS scheme, each sensor transmits its test sample and a designated order statistic of its surrounding observations to the fusion center. At the fusion center, the sum of the samples of the test cells is compared with a constant multiplied by a function of the order statistics. For a two-sensor network, the functions considered are the minimum of the order …

Book Review Essay - Who's In And Who's Out: Racial Discrimination In Sports, A Review Of In Black And White: Race And Sports In America. By Kenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.

Faculty Publications And Creative Works 1997, Office Of The Vice President For Research

Office of the Vice President for Research

One of the ways we recognize our faculty at the University of New Mexico is through this annual publication which highlights our faculty's scholarly and creative activities and achievements and serves as a compendium of UNM faculty efforts during the 1997 calendar year. Faculty Publications and Creative Works strives to illustrate the depth and breadth of research activities performed throughout our University's laboratories, studios and classrooms. We believe that the communication of individual research is a significant method of sharing concepts and thoughts and ultimately inspiring the birth of new of ideas. In support of this, UNM faculty during 1997 …

Dicta, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

This is the third year of Dicta, the law school's literary journal and a child of the vision of two 1996 graduates, Miles Yanick and Matt Morris. We hope that this creative forum will continue to grow and to flourish, enriching the law school community by offering a spectrum of poetry, fiction, essays, photography, and artwork. The editors faced a difficult task again this year as we again received more material than we could publish. We continued the policy of considering all submissions anonymously. This final product reflects the often conflicting views of the editors who tried to select a …

Recurrent Geomagnetic Storms And Relativistic Electron Enhancements In The Outer Magnetosphere: Istp Coordinated Measurements, D. N. Baker, X. Li, N. Turner, J. H. Allen, L. F. Bargatze, J. B. Blake, R. B. Sheldon, Harlan E. Spence, R. D. Belian, G. D. Reeves, S. G. Kanekal, B. Klecker

Physics & Astronomy

New, coordinated measurements from the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) constellation of spacecraft are presented to show the causes and effects of recurrent geomagnetic activity during recent solar minimum conditions. It is found using WIND and POLAR data that even for modest geomagnetic storms, relativistic electron fluxes are strongly and rapidly enhanced within the outer radiation zone of the Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind data are utilized to identify the drivers of magnetospheric acceleration processes. Yohkoh solar soft X-ray data are also used to identify the solar coronal holes that produce the high-speed solar wind streams which, in turn, cause the recurrent …

Descartes On Love And/As Error, Byron Williston

Philosophy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Quantum Coherence In Small Antiferromagnets, S. E. Barnes, R. Ballou, B. Barbara, J. Strelen

Physics Articles and Papers

An antiferromagnetic particle with an excess spin j⃗ has 2 degrees of freedom. The one associated with j⃗ is ferromagnetic, while the antiferromagnetic behavior involves Néel vector n⃗. It is shown that the spin-parity effect described by Loss et al. has to do with the ferromagnetic degree of freedom and does not imply the localization of n⃗ for small enough particles for half-integer spin. It is also shown that the tunnel splitting associated with n⃗ is insensitive to applied fields.

How Do Bacteria Move Through Soil?, Mark S. Coyne, J. M. Howell, R. E. Phillips

Soil Science News and Views

The contamination of water supplies by fecal bacteria is an important water quality issue in Kentucky. Contamination may come from point sources, such as straight pipes depositing raw sewage into streams, or nonpoint sources, such as manure runoff from cropland. A direct cost of contaminating water supplies is the expense that homesteads or water companies incur to chlorinate, filter, and otherwise treat water to make it potable. Indirect costs are the time lost to illness from drinking inadequately treated water, slower weight gain in livestock drinking contaminated water, and the degradation of aquatic habitats.

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Stewartstown, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 1996 Including Report Of The School Directors., Stewartstown Town Representatives

Stewartstown, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Maturity Model Linkages Between Software Development Teams, Users And Quality, Eugene G. Mcguire

Journal of International Information Management

Information Systems literature has shown clear linkages between the selection of software development methodologies, the actions of software development teams, overall product quality, and user satisfaction. Rarely are these linkages emphasized, however, in current research on process improvement. This paper examines the convergence of these areas and discusses current research designed to further explore these linkages within the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) framework.

Ripples 1997, Bridgewater College

Ripples/College Yearbooks

Bridgewater College 1997 Yearbook. This volume appears as a service to the Bridgewater College community and Alumni. This is a derivative version of the original work where portions may be redacted according to institutional policy or practicality. Not all images include original captioning.

Wofford College Catalogue, 1997-99, Wofford College. Office Of The Registrar

College Catalogues

No abstract provided.

Campbell University School Of Law Placement Bulletin 1997

Placement Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs In Eastern Usa—A Taphonomic And Biogeographic Model Of Occurrences., David R. Schwimmer

Faculty Bibliography

The eastern Coastal Plains of the USA contain a Late Cretaceous dinosaur assemblage of limited taxic diversity, but with wide distribution and reasonably good abundance. The ages of specimens range from Santonian through late Maastrichtian. All Late Cretaceous eastern dinosaur specimens occur in pericontinental or marine strata, and therefore all such fossils are likely to be allochthonous. New materials and insights bear on the taphonomy of these marine occurrences, suggesting that fluvially-transported, floating carcasses, many scavenged by sharks, make up most of the eastern marine dinosaur record. There is little evidence of faunal provinciality across the entire eastern outcrop: fossil …

On Power Bounded Operators., Eugen J. Ionascu

Faculty Bibliography

In this paper we generalize the following consequence of a wellknown result of Nagy: if T and T −1 are power bounded operators, then T is a polynomially bounded operator.

On Tuesday Morning: The Case For Standards For The English Language Arts, James Brewbaker

Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

The Selachian Genus Sqaulicorax As Preeminent Scavengers In Upper Cretaceous Marine Sediments Of North America, David R. Schwimmer

Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Umsl Bulletin 1997-1998, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

1997-1999 Catalog, Governors State University

Catalogs

No abstract provided.

New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, The Siberian City Of Science, Paul R. Josephson

Faculty Books

In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields. In a lively history of this city, a symbol of de-Stalinization, Paul Josephson offers the most complete analysis available of the reasons behind the successes and failures of Soviet science--from advances in nuclear physics to politically induced …

Undergraduate Catalog, 1997-1998, Valparaiso University

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Land Use Patterns In Relation To Lake Water Quality In The Messalonskee Lake Watershed, Problems In Environmental Science Course (Biology 493), Colby College, Colby Environmental Assessment Team, Colby College

Colby College Watershed Study: Other Area Studies

The main purpose of this study is to assess the current land use patterns and their influences on the water quality of Messalonskee Lake, including the biotic and abiotic parameters which are involved. More specifically, four main objectives were proposed. First, was to calculate the water budget and flushing rate for Messalonskee Lake. Second, was to determine the influence of current and historical land use patterns on lake water quality. Third, was to utilize gathered information to construct a phosphorus model, which will enable future water quality predictions to be made. Our fourth and final objective was to make recommendations …

An Error Handling Framework For The Orbwork Workflow Enactment Service Of Meteor, Davasish Worah, Amit P. Sheth, Krzysztof J. Kochut, John A. Miller

Kno.e.sis Publications

Workflow Management Systems (WFMSs) can be used to re-engineer, streamline, automate, and track organizational processes involving humans and automated information systems. However, the state-of-the-art in workflow technology suffers from a number of limitations that prevent it from being widely used in large-scale mission critical applications. Error handling is one such issue. What makes the task of error handling challenging is the need to deal with errors that appear in various components of a complex distributed application execution environment, including various WFMS components, workflow application tasks of different types, and the heterogeneous computing infrastructure.

In this paper, we discuss a top-down …

Pegasus 1997, Bronx Community College

Yearbooks

1997 yearbook from Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.

Profitability Of Variable Rate Fertilization On A Kentucky Soil (A Theoretical Analysis), Lloyd W. Murdock, Paula L. Howe

Soil Science News and Views

Grid soil sampling and variable rate fertilizer applications are a part of the precision agriculture movement that has captured the interest of many farmers. Variable rate fertilization requires extra expense and effort plus the use of often unfamiliar technology. Global Positioning Systems (GPS) equipment and computer software are used to outline and grid the field into small manageable units or “cells” (usually 2.5 acres). Each grid cell is soil sampled and tested for pH and available nutrients. Fertilizer recommendations are made on each grid cell and the fertilizer is spread by each grid cell using a truck equipped with GPS …

1997 - 1998, Gardner-Webb University Graduate Academic Catalog, M. Christopher White School Of Divinity, Gardner-Webb University

Graduate School of Divinity Academic Catalogs

1997 - 1998, Gardner-Webb University Graduate Academic Catalog, School of Divinity. M. Christopher White, president.