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The Economics Of Prefunding Social Security And Medicare Benefits, Martin Feldstein, Andrew Samwick

Dartmouth Scholarship

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the economics of prefunding benefits for the aged, focusing on social security but indicating some of the analogous magnitudes for prefunding Medicare benefits. We use detailed census and social security information to model the transition to a fully funded system based on mandatory contributions to individual accounts. The funded system that we examine would permanently maintain the level of benefits now specified in current law and would require no new government borrowing (other than eventually selling the bonds that are officially in the social security trust fund). During the transition, the combined rate …

Matching Numerical Simulations To Continuum Field Theories: A Lattice Renormalization Study, J Borrill, M. Gleiser

Dartmouth Scholarship

The study of nonlinear phenomena in systems with many degrees of freedom often relies on complex numerical simulations. In trying to model realistic situations, these systems may be coupled to an external environment which drives their dynamics. For nonlinear field theories coupled to thermal (or quantum) baths, discrete lattice formulations must be dealt with extreme care if the results of the simulations are to be interpreted in the continuum limit. Using techniques from renormalization theory, a self-consistent method is presented to match lattice results to continuum models. As an application, symmetry restoration in ϕ4 models is investigated.

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: Baby boomers are telling a PSU prof what life will be like when they’re sixty-four; students give PSU’s new inquiry courses high marks—and so do some key national foundations; the Helen Gordon Center comes of age as the first child of an alum joins its sandbox student body; thwarting electronic sabotage and theft is the research subject of four computer scientists an alumna is helping people who are battling poverty help themselves; the university is honoring its own coaches and student athletes from Vanport to today; and more

Predicate Clefting In Kisi, George Tucker Childs

Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper examines the focus construction of Kisi, an Atlantic language (Niger-Congo) spoken by some half a million people primarily in Guinea but also in nearby Sierra Leone and Liberia. The data come from work done in 1983-84 on the southern dialect spoken in the Foya area of Upper Lofa County, Liberia. Of particular interest is the presence of what has been known in the literature as "predicate clefting'', e.g., DeGraff 1996. Its interactions and complementarity with negation, an inherently focusing construction (Marchese 1983), evince some complexity. Despite some superficial similarity, however, substantial syntactic differences exist. More similarities exist in …

Greening Our Cities: An Analysis Of The Benefits And Barriers Associated With Green Roofs, Stephanie Beckman, Sev Jones, Kevin Liburdy, Connie Peters

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

This document investigates green roofs as one piece in a larger strategy that should be taken to maintain the health of the natural environment and the quality of life experienced in Portland. By adding more greenspace to urban areas, green roofs have the potential to bring substantial benefits to our community through mitigating some of the negative impacts of development.

The conclusion reached regarding the feasibility of a widespread implementation of green roofs is that the barriers are not insurmountable (with the exception of retrofitting cost for intensive roof gardens in some cases). What is lacking, beyond a need for …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet January 1997, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The January 1997 Monthly packet includes the January agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 1996.

Cyclic Amp And Its Receptor Protein Negatively Regulate The Coordinate Expression Of Cholera Toxin And Toxin-Coregulated Pilus In Vibrio Cholerae, Karen Skorupski, Ronald K. Taylor

Dartmouth Scholarship

Insertion mutations in two Vibrio cholerae genes, cya and crp, which encode adenylate cyclase and the cyclic AMP (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP), respectively, derepressed the expression of a chromosomal cholera toxin (CT) promoter-lacZ fusion at the nonpermissive temperature of 37 degrees C. In the classical biotype strain O395, the crp mutation increased the production of both CT and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) in vitro under a variety of growth conditions not normally permissive for their expression. The most dramatic increase in CT and TCP was observed with the crp mutant in Luria-Bertani (LB) medium pH 8.5, at 30 degrees C. El …

The Problem Of Statutory Detail In National Park Establishment Legislation And Its Relationship To Pollution Control Law, Robert L. Fischman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Notes From The Eye Of The Storm, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Adolescent Suicide Prevention Programs: From A Suicide Victim To A Survivor, Chikako Webb

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of the study was to identify effective adolescent suicide prevention programs. Three major causes of adolescent suicide in Japan were discussed: (1) intense pressure of examinations to enter schools; (2) peer bullying; and (3) teacher violence toward their students. Suicide in Japan's past, education reform and moral education, and bullying were also addressed. Features of existing suicide prevention programs were examined. This was followed by a description of two successful prevention programs: (1) successful counseling system as professional help; and (2) desirable educational system including proper communication. Conclusions and implications for parents, teachers, and school administrators of this …

Back Matter, Visions Editors

Visions in Leisure and Business

Includes announcement of Visions special issue and back cover.

Speeding, Spending, And Sponsors: Tourism And The Nascar Winston Cup Experience, Mark D. Howell

Visions in Leisure and Business

This article provides an overview of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series and an analysis of how stock car racing has become a focal point for tourism in the region around Charlotte, North Carolina. The article examines how businesses have capitalized on the loyalty and financial strength of Winston Cup race fans by making themselves spin-off attractions connected loosely to the sport of stock car racing.

Evidence to support claims made in this article comes from the author's fieldwork within the Charlotte-based Winston Cup community. This includes observations made by the author during the summer of 1997 while in North Carolina …

Front Matter, Visions Editors

Visions in Leisure and Business

Includes front cover, editorial board, table of contents, and issue introduction.

A Framework For The Analysis Of Sport Sponsorship And The Cola Wars, Duarte Morris, David L. Groves

Visions in Leisure and Business

The primary purpose of this article was to explore the concept of understanding sports contribution to sponsorship through understanding the structure and function of the sponsorship industry. The colas were selected as an example industry to develop the concept of understanding sponsorship using a molecular analysis. This type of molecular analysis will provide perspective and foster better relationships of how the sponsor can do business on the sport and its event. Sponsors are demanding accountability and this type of approach opens the dialogue for exploring symbiotic relationships among the sport and the sponsor.

Calliope: Volume 20, Number 2

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Calliope: Volume 21, Number 1

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Fdtd Analysis Of Square Printed Spiral Antennas, Jianbing (James) Chen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Human Rights In India - Fifty Years After Independence, Vijayashiri Sripati

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Serbian Nationalism And The Origins Of The Yugoslave Crisis, Cindy Ferrier

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Humanitatrian Intervention: The United Nations In An Evolving World Order, Cathleen Hopfe

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

The Misappropriation Theory Of Insider Trading: Outside The Lines Of Section 10(B), Joseph J. Humke

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Contracting For Indigent Defense: Providing Another Forum For Skeptics To Question Attorney's Ethics, Kelly A. Hardy

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Conflict Of Interest In The Legal Profession, Doug Downey

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

Book review of Conflict of Interest in the Legal Profession by Paul M. Perell and published by Butterworths (Toronto), 1995. (132 pp.)

Task 1c3 Humanitarian Demining Requirement Analysis Final Report, Cisr

Global CWD Repository

The Humanitarian Demining Information Center (HDIC) at James Madison University is developing a plan for identifying, analyzing, enhancing, and disseminating electronic and hard copy information relating to humanitarian demining. The first step toward realizing this objective was identifying the information needs, information availability and optimal methods for organizing and delivering information to the humanitarian demining community.

Broadly conceived, the humanitarian demining community consists of ten components.

• U.S. government agencies that have as part of their mission the development of programs for humanitarian demining in selected countries • volunteer organizations that are directly involved in the task of humanitarian demining …

“The Little Girl That Had No Tongue”: A Short Story By George Macdonald, Barbara Amell, Ed.

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

No abstract provided.

A Profile: Rolland N. Hein, Christopher W. Mitchell

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

No abstract provided.

The “Childish Imagination” Of John Ruskin And George Macdonald: Introductory Speculations, John Pennington

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

No abstract provided.

Coalition For Tobacco Responsibility Fact Sheet, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Coalition for Tobacco Responsibility Fact Sheet.

Inside Unf: 25th Anniversary In Review, University Of North Florida

25th Anniversary Printed Materials

The Inside UNF 25th Anniversary in Review is a collection of photos and profiles of the University founding faculty and staff published in Inside UNF during 1997. The photos document events include appearances by Karl Haas, Maya Angelou and Elie Wiesel, the homecoming celebration and parade, a birthday party and UNF Day at Alltel Stadium which included a Jaguars game.

A copy of the photograph of the Founding Faculty and Staff in front of the Arena is included with the remarks delivered by William Slaughter on the 25th anniversary birthday celebration on October 2, 1997.

http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/anniversary25_images/1

University Of North Florida Journal For Alumni & Friends Winter 1997, University Of North Florida

25th Anniversary Printed Materials

The UNF Journal is published three times a year by the University of North Florida, Division of Institutional Advancement, to communicate UNF’s mission and its accomplishments to alumni and friends of the University. Officers/Staff: Dr. Adam W. Herbert Jr. -President University of North Florida, Dr. Pierre Allaire -Vice President Institutional Advancement, Dan Dundon - Director News and Publications/UNF Journal Editor, Ron Natherson - Director Alumni Services, Ann Snyder Rishell - Designer Bad Dog Design. Includes a letter from Dr. Roland E. Buck and article about UNF’s Office of International Programs, Alex Diaz – a sophomore political science major, UNF being …