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Data Envelopment Analysis With Integral Targets, Gunter P. Sharp, Timothy R. Anderson

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) inherently assumes that the feasible targets for inputs and outputs are continuous. This paper develops and illustrates extensions to DEA that allow for integer valued inputs and outputs. It is found that DEA?s implicit assumption of continuous targets can be significant in certain applications.

Long-Inverse Pcr To Generate Regional Peptide Libraries By Codon Mutagenesis, Dominic P. Eisinger, Bernard L. Trumpower

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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

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 …

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 …

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

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Marine Magnetics : Development And Application In Placer Mineral Exploration / By Vijayan Vvrajan, Vijayan Vvrajan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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.

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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 …

The University Of North Florida Marks Of Excellence, University Of North Florida

25th Anniversary Printed Materials

Statistical and financial information relating to facilities, programs, and student success at the University of North Florida in 1997.

Segmentation As A Method For Improving Model Generated Estimates Of Recreational Boating Use, Tsung-Chiung Wu, Edward M. Mahoney, Daniel J. Stynes

Visions in Leisure and Business

The primary purpose of this study is to develop a system of models based on boat storage segments that can generate different estimates of boating use for regions and counties. It is based on the premise that models that incorporate market segmentation are more efficient and generate more accurate estimates of recreational use when a market is comprised of identifiable market segments. The results show that incorporating storage segments as part of the system of models improves estimates of both the amount and spatial distribution of boating use. The boating use estimates generated by the system of models captures the …

An Artist's Privilege, Niels B. Schaumann

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Impact Los Alamos Symposia: Audience Responses

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Iso 14000, Elizabeth Pinckard

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

China's Three Gorges Dam, William Shapiro

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Patterns In International Water Resource Treaties: The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database, Jesse H. Hamner, Aaron T. Wolf

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Modeling Of Fading Dynamics For The Indoor Microwave Channel, Mangeet Singh

Theses : Honours

This report outlines the multipath fading phenomenon and its relationship to wireless system design. The work was conducted for the academic year of 1996. This report provides the reader with an insight into the phenomenon called fading and its relevance when designing wireless systems. Fading is an important consideration when wireless systems are to be designed. Because fading is very unpredictable and it cannot to totally eliminated in a wireless system, systems engineers have a hard time trying to design and commission efficient communication systems for a particular environment. Over the years, there has been a existing need worldwide to …

Predation By Gambusia Holbrooki (Girard) (Pisces Poeciliidae) On Tadpoles : Feeding Trials And Microhabitat Utilisation In Two Contrasting Wetlands On The Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia, Beate Sommer

Theses : Honours

Predation by non-native Gambusia spp. (somewhat inappropriately referred to as “Mosquitofish”) has been implicated in the decline of some frog populations overseas and in eastern Australia. Originally introduced to control mosquito larvae, Gambusia holbrooki are now widely distributed and abundant in wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain (Western Australia). Anecdotal evidence suggests that some frog populations on the Swan Coastal Plain may be declining. Through a series of laboratory feeding trials and a field survey conducted in a permanent and a seasonal wetland on the Swan Coastal Plain, this study investigated whether predation by G. holbrooki has the potential to …

The Toysim Project, Anthony Rodriguez

Theses : Honours

No abstract provided.

Municipalization Of Electricity: The Allure Of Lower Rates For Bright Lights In Big Cities, Suedeen G. Kelly

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

No abstract provided.

Budgeting In The American States: Changes In Taxes And Spending, 1960-1992., David A. Ellis

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

We have seen policy makers in the American states reevaluate and reestablish their taxing and spending priorities throughout the past thirty years. Over the same period, we have also seen the birth and demise of incrementalism as a comprehensive theory of budgetary politics. Yet, no new comprehensive theory of budgetary politics has emerged to replace incrementalism. The current study attempts to help fill the theoretical void in the literature on budgetary politics by providing a new and different way of modeling budgetary outcomes. First, a definition of the budget is provided that shows budgets are best described as interrelated systems. …

Portrayal Of Teacher Image: An Exploration Of Perceptions And Behaviors Of Healthcare Educators., Carole Shockey Thomassy

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the image healthcare educators believed they portrayed as a teacher and the behaviors they believed actualized the image. A pilot study was completed to evaluate the data collection techniques. A purposive sample of healthcare educators participated in one-to-one semi-standardized interviews and was observed in a teaching situation for demonstration of self-identified behaviors they believed actualized their image. Thematic analysis of the data resulted in five categories: coming to the role, perceptions held by subjects regarding image, people who may have influenced the image, behaviors that actualized the image and self-perceived …

Physical, Chemical, And Microbial Analysis Of Domestic Wastewater Treated By Small Constructed Wetlands Designed For Individual Households., Keith R. Hench

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Many small communities located in rural areas of the United States lack adequate domestic wastewater treatment plants. Constructed wetlands are being promoted as low-cost, low-maintenance systems for treatment of domestic wastewater in areas where standard septic tanks fail. In order to evaluate the efficacy of small constructed wetlands, 20 small-scale wetlands mesocosms (100 gal each) containing five plant treatments (no plants/control, Typha, Scirpus, and Juncus monocultures, and all three species combined) were planted into pea gravel at either 18 or 24 inches in depth. Each mesocosm received 5 gal/day of primary-treated domestic sewage. Mesocosms were monitored on a monthly basis …

Washington University Magazine And Alumni News, Fall 1997

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Washington University Magazine And Alumni News, Winter 1997

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Intoxicating Liquors - Persons Liable: The North Dakota Dram Shop Statute Does Not Supersede The Common Law Duty Of A Tavernkeeper To Intervene In A Bar Fight, Rocky West Broncato

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Washington University School Of Medicine Bulletin, 1997-1998

Washington University School of Medicine Bulletins

No abstract provided.

A General Statistical Approach To Engineering Problem Solving., Ali Akbar Moshirpour

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A non-deterministic approach to engineering problem solving is developed, with the emphasis on the effects of manufacturing and service uncertainties on selected performance characteristics and economic factors. The approach integrates concepts from probability analysis, statistical inference, and decision making theory into a coherent framework, which is identified here as the Decision Model for Engineering (DME). The main innovative aspect of this approach is the application of a general method for statistical inference based on the Bayes' theorem to quantify probabilities of random variables for subsequent use as inputs to a decision making model. The solution to a Bayesian inference problem …