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Proposed Statement Of Position: Reporting On The Costs Of Start-Up Activities, Draft - Not For Public Distribution, February 11, 1997; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants) 1997, February 11, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Statement Of Position: Accounting For The Costs Of Computer Software Developed Or Obtained For Internal Use, November 17, 1997, Draft - For Discussion Only, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Putting Presidential Performance In The Federal Appointments Process In Perspective, Michael J. Gerhardt

Faculty Publications

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Comment Letters To Proposed Statement Of Position: Reporting On The Costs Of Start-Up Activities;, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Providing Focus On Participatory Democracy In Academic Departments Of Communication, Timothy G. Hegstrom, Shawn Spano

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article aims to illustrate how academic departments of communication can help contribute to a revitalized public sphere. Some of the projects to enhance participative democracy in order to show one direction in which the public sphere seems to be changing have been highlighted. Academic departments of speech communication can do much to accommodate this change by focusing more on the relationship between communication and democracy. This intention can be formally stated in university planning documents, course titles and outlines, general education guidelines, the establishment of research and consulting consortia, and in partnerships with external institutions. Benefits to the department …

Student Perceptions Of General Education At A Comprehensive University And Implications, Kenneth E. Nuss

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Using a case study method, I investigated how students negotiate their way through the general education program at a middle-western comprehensive university, and consequently I increased my understanding of the student perspective of this portion of their undergraduate curriculum. From 34 semistructured qualitative interviews with general education science students, I discovered that they could articulate only a dim notion of the purpose of general education. I also became aware that the university structure failed to clearly communicate to students that the faculty values the general education curriculum.

The following themes for further analysis emerged from the student interviews: the purpose …

Solving The Year 2000 Dilemma, Sandi Smith

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Foucault In Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, And Hardwired Censors, James Boyle

Faculty Scholarship

This is an essay about law in cyberspace. I focus on three interdependent phenomena: a set of political and legal assumptions that I call the jurisprudence of digital libertarianism, a separate but related set of beliefs about the state's supposed inability to regulate the Internet, and a preference for technological solutions to hard legal issues on-line. I make the familiar criticism that digital libertarianism is inadequate because of its blindness towards the effects of private power, and the less familiar claim that digital libertarianism is also surprisingly blind to the state's own power in cyberspace. In fact, I argue that …

Firm Capabilities And Managerial Decision-Making: A Theory Of Innovation Biases, Janet E. L. Bercovitz, John M. De Figueiredo, David J. Teece

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Virtuous Warrior In A Savage World, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Divining the nature of future war is always problematic. President Eisenhower warned that "Every war is going to astonish you in the way it has occurred, and in the way it is carried out." The United States must, of course, be prepared to meet a wide range of contingencies. Paramount among them would be a threat posed by a "peer competitor," that is, a state capable of battling the United States with comparable forces employing largely orthodox tactics. Although it is almost certain that one will arise in the future, no nation exists today that can challenge America symmetrically as …

Serving The Public Interest : A New Conceptual Framework For Auditor Independence (Draft), American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Cpa's Guide To Intranets, John Graves, Jacqueline Justice

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Building Embankments Of Fly/Bottom Ash Mixtures, Ahmed M.K. Karim, C. W. Lovell, Rodrigo Salgado

JTRP Technical Reports

This research investigates the engineering properties of mixtures of bottom ash and Class F fly ash relevant to their utilization in highway embankment construction. The research included ash samples from two major power plants in Indiana that disposed of their ash differently. The first power plant disposes of the bottom ash and fly ash separately and hence explicit mixtures were synthetically formed and tested. The second power plant disposes of the bottom ash and fly ash together in a common location and hence they become homogeneous samples for the research. Characterization of the ash included grain size analysis, specific gravity, …

Development Of A Congestion Management System For Indiana, Robert K. Whitford, Jennifer L. Opsuth

JTRP Technical Reports

This study details a procedure used in determinng links with deficiencies. A procedure was developed by means of which congestion on raodways links can be identified as being congested will be subjected to a more detailed study to determine extent, duration, and severity of congestion. The procedure was developed by the use of the Highway C apacity Manual (HCM) and the Indiana Department of Transportation's (INDOT) Road Inventory Data Base.

Freeway Incident Likelihood Prediction And Response Decision-Making, Samer Madanat, Hongyu Pan, Pen-Chi Liu, Hualiang Teng

JTRP Technical Reports

This research project consisted of two parts. The first part developed a set of real-time incident likelihood prediction models. The second part developed a freeway incident response decision-making methodology based on sequential hypothesis testing methods. The freeway incident likelihoods predicted by the real-time prediction models act as prior probabilities for the freeway incident response decision-making system. The products of this research project will be incorporated in the Advanced Traffic Management System that is being implemented on the Borman Expressway, a 16-mile segment of I-80 in northwest Indiana. The decision-making system can be used by traffic management personnel to assist in …

Minimum Crushed Aggregate Requirements, Haiming Huang, Thomas D. White

JTRP Technical Reports

An accelerated pavement testing facility has been developed by Purdue University for the Indiana Department of Transportation. The test facility includes a test pit in which prototype scale pavement sections can be installed. The Accelerated Pavement Tester loading system has the capability of applying moving wheel loads to the test sections. An initial study utilizing the accelerated pavement test facility has been conducted at Purdue University to determine the minimum crushed aggregate requirements in asphalt mixtures in Indiana. This study addresses effects of various constituents of the asphalt mixture on pavement rutting. The factors included in this study are aggregate …

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.

Coercion, Deception, And Other Demand-Increasing Practices In Antitrust Law, Mark R. Patterson

Faculty Scholarship

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Development Of A Tire Pyrolysis Process And Apparatus Using Steam Displacement Of The Combustible Atmosphere, Timothy Whitney Burrell

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It is the purpose of this research to convert a batch vacuum pyrolysis process into a pyrolytic process that operates at ambient air pressure with the capabilities of a continuous material flow operation. Further, it is important to optimize the conditions of the pyrolysis process so as to reduce costs of operation and to reasonably maximize products that have value. Steam will be used to displace the combustible atmosphere which enables ambient air pressure operation and elimination of need for inert carrier gasses or evacuation of the apparatus. The use of steam also allows water traps to be used as …

Perceptions Of Businesses On Environmental Regulatory Information, Kimberly K. Gunderson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to determine the source and amount of information that a sample of businesses receive on environmental regulatory topics and from what sources they would prefer to receive this information. More specifically, the study demonstrated the discrepancy between the sources from which businesses currently receive their information and the sources from which they would prefer to receive it. The study also addressed how relevant this information was to the businesses and with which regulations the businesses were the most and least knowledgeable. The study was done by conducting a mail-back survey of 500 Iowa small …

Verification Of The End-Effect Weibull Model Of Tensile Failure, Matthew T. Sagendorf

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Annual Reports Of The Town Of Seabrook, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31st, 1996 As Compiled By The Town Officers., Seabrook Town Representatives

Seabrook, NH Annual Reports

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

Water Rights And Ecology On The Wind River Indian Reservation: The Collision Of Histories, A Tradition Of Neglect And Suggestions For Resolution, John F. Dillon

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In 1989, in a four-to-four vote without opinion, the United States Supreme Court let stand a senior priority, reserved Indian water right for the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Indian Reservation. Shortly thereafter, the Tribes issued a permit requiring a minimum flow of water, known as an 'instream flow/ on the Wind River for fishery, environmental and cultural purposes. In 1992 however, a Wyoming Supreme Court majority ruled the Tribes must divert their water from its stream channel in order to use it and that the State Engineer shall administer the Tribes' water. Without means to …

Living With Haiku| [Poems], Jamie Nicholson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Markings| Six Reflections Of Dag Hammarskjold| Personal Research, Gregory S. Larsen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study And Estimation Of The Life-Cycle Cost Impact Of Application Of Real-Time Non-Intrusive (Rtni) Monitoring Technology To Real-Time Embedded Systems, Michael D. Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

The use of real time non-intrusive (RTNI) monitoring has had an impact on life cycle costs of existing programs through a reduction in debug time. Other areas in which RTNI monitoring can provide potential benefits to future programs are through the use of increased dynamic testing and the sharing of testing time among more engineers. There are a number of areas in which software life cycle costs are impacted by various cost drivers. To determine which areas were affected by the use of RTNI monitoring, a panel of expert users of RTNI monitoring was created using a form of the …

Ecotourism Anthropology And The Ecosystem : Developing Sustainable Tourism : Case Study - Belize C.A., James Anthony Flanagan

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Space Vlbi User Assistance Software: An Object-Oriented Design Implemented In Java, IstvaìN Noszticzius

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Baseline Hydrological Conditions Willow Creek Basin Valley County Montana, Jennie Jennings

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Historical Channel Changes And Processes Of The Central Bitterroot River Ravalli County Montana, David Gaeuman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.