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Divergent Effects Of Job Control On Coping With Work Stressors: The Key Role Of Self-Efficacy, John Schaubroeck, Deryl E. Merritt Jan 1997

Divergent Effects Of Job Control On Coping With Work Stressors: The Key Role Of Self-Efficacy, John Schaubroeck, Deryl E. Merritt

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

This study identifies job self-efficacy as a moderating variable that may determine whether job control contributes positively or negative to coping with work stressors. Data from two samples (health professionals and an occupationally diverse group) demonstrated similar interactions between demands, control, and self-efficacy predicting blood pressure. These results may reconcile the previous inconsistent and largely method-bound support for Karasek's job demands-control model and suggest that efforts to improve job self-efficacy may be as important to reducing the cardiovascular consequences of job stress as efforts to enhance control.


Introduction: How Can Property Be Political?, Zev Trachtenberg Jan 1997

Introduction: How Can Property Be Political?, Zev Trachtenberg

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.


Policing Hatred: Police Bias Units And The Construction Of Hate Crime, Jeannine Bell Jan 1997

Policing Hatred: Police Bias Units And The Construction Of Hate Crime, Jeannine Bell

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Much of the scholarly debate about hate crime laws focuses on a discussion of their constitutionality under the First Amendment. Part of larger empirical study of police methods of investigating hate crimes, this Note attempts to shift thinking in this area beyond the existing debate over the constitutionality of hate crime legislation to a discussion of how low-level criminal justice personnel, such as the police, enforce hate crime laws. This Note argues that, since hate crimes are an area in which police have great discretion in enforcing the law, their understanding of the First Amendment and how it relates to …


The Implications Of The Equal Protection Clause For The Mandatory Integration Of Public School Students, Kevin D. Brown Jan 1997

The Implications Of The Equal Protection Clause For The Mandatory Integration Of Public School Students, Kevin D. Brown

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


"My God!": A Feminist Critique Of The Excited Utterance Exception To The Hearsay Rule, Aviva A. Orenstein Jan 1997

"My God!": A Feminist Critique Of The Excited Utterance Exception To The Hearsay Rule, Aviva A. Orenstein

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Accounting For Sustainable Development, Daniel H. Cole Jan 1997

Accounting For Sustainable Development, Daniel H. Cole

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Field Trip Guide (For The Nebraska Well Drillers Association) Northeastern Nebraska Geology, S. Olafsen Lackey, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., R. R. Burchett, D. A. Eversoll, R. A. Tremblay Jan 1997

Field Trip Guide (For The Nebraska Well Drillers Association) Northeastern Nebraska Geology, S. Olafsen Lackey, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., R. R. Burchett, D. A. Eversoll, R. A. Tremblay

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Field trip guide for the Nebraska Well Drillers Association covering northeastern Nebraska geology from 1997.


A Method To Partially Suppress Is1 And Ma1 For Ds Ss Cdma Wireless Networks, Beata J. Wysocki, Tadeusz A. Wysocki Jan 1997

A Method To Partially Suppress Is1 And Ma1 For Ds Ss Cdma Wireless Networks, Beata J. Wysocki, Tadeusz A. Wysocki

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)

We propose a method to partially suppress ISI and MAI for US SS CDMA schemes in wireless LANs. The method can be regarded as an alternative approach to combat ISI and in particular MAI by the use of advanced multiuser detection. Instead of using very sophisticated detectors, we propose introduction of a simple modification to the carrier waveform which results in very substaiitial reduction in cross-correlation belween users and an off-peak auto-correlation. The method can be applied to any DS SS CDMA scheme, but should be particularly useful in the case of short spreading signatures, as is the case of …


Using Atm Networks For Processing Global Earth Data, Barbara L. Kess, Phillip R. Romig Iii, Stephen E. Reichenbach, Ashok K. Samal Jan 1997

Using Atm Networks For Processing Global Earth Data, Barbara L. Kess, Phillip R. Romig Iii, Stephen E. Reichenbach, Ashok K. Samal

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

amount of computational power to researchers at an affordable cost, making it feasible to use workstations rather than expensive supercomputers to perform scientific analysis of large data sets, such as the Global Land 1-Km AVHRR data. In addition to this, inexpensive high speed ATM networks have the potential to improve the overall computational efficiency of workstations by using several workstations in a distributed environment. This research studies the practicality of using distributed workstations interconnected with a 155 Mb ATM network for analysis and compression of the Global Land 1-Km AVHRR data versus sequential computing on one of the workstations. Performance …


Synthesis For Testability By Two-Clock Control, Shashank K. Mehta, Sharad C. Seth, Kent L. Einspahr Jan 1997

Synthesis For Testability By Two-Clock Control, Shashank K. Mehta, Sharad C. Seth, Kent L. Einspahr

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

In previous studies clock control has been inserted after design to improve the testability of a sequential circuit. In this paper we propose a two-clock control scheme that is included as a part of the logic synthesis of a finite state machine (fsm). The scheme has low area overhead and competes well with scan methods in its ability to initialize and observe circuit states. The states of the machine are assigned a pair of binary values using a novel split coding system. The purpose of the encoding is to ease navigation between any pair of states using a combination of …


Minimizing The Number Of Optical Amplifiers Needed To Support A Multi-Wavelength Optical Lan/Man, Byrav Ramamurthy, Jason Iness, Biswanath Mukherjee Jan 1997

Minimizing The Number Of Optical Amplifiers Needed To Support A Multi-Wavelength Optical Lan/Man, Byrav Ramamurthy, Jason Iness, Biswanath Mukherjee

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Optical networks based on passive star couplers and employing wavelength-division multiplexing (WDhf) have been proposed for deployment in local and metropolitan areas. Amplifiers are required in such networks to compensate for the power losses due to splitting and attenuation. However, an optical amplifier has constraints on the maximum gain and the maximum output power it can supply; thus optical amplifier placement becomes a challenging problem. The general problem of minimizing the total amplifier count, subject to the device constraints, is a mixed-integer non-linear problem. Previous studies have attacked the amplifier placement problem by adding the “artificial” constraint that all wavelengths, …


Resource Notes-Academic Year 1996-97 Jan 1997

Resource Notes-Academic Year 1996-97

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Resource News-Spring 1997 Jan 1997

Resource News-Spring 1997

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Resource News-Summer 1997 Jan 1997

Resource News-Summer 1997

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Composite Section Of Cretaceous Rocks In Nebraska, R.R. Burchett Jan 1997

Composite Section Of Cretaceous Rocks In Nebraska, R.R. Burchett

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Geology Of The Montrose, Orella, Wolf Butte, Roundtop And Horn 7.5' Usgs Quadrangles, Sioux And Dawes Counties, Nebraska, Hannan E. Lagarry, Leigh Anne Lagarry Jan 1997

Geology Of The Montrose, Orella, Wolf Butte, Roundtop And Horn 7.5' Usgs Quadrangles, Sioux And Dawes Counties, Nebraska, Hannan E. Lagarry, Leigh Anne Lagarry

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Composite Section Of Cretaceous Rocks In Nebraska, R. R. Burchett Jan 1997

Composite Section Of Cretaceous Rocks In Nebraska, R. R. Burchett

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Explanation Of Geologic Map Units For Use With University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Conservation And Survey Division Open-File Maps Nos. 53-65., Hannan E. Lagarry, Leigh Anne Lagarry Jan 1997

Explanation Of Geologic Map Units For Use With University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Conservation And Survey Division Open-File Maps Nos. 53-65., Hannan E. Lagarry, Leigh Anne Lagarry

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Geology, Robert F. Diffendal Jr. Jan 1997

Geology, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

An overview of the geology of Cheyenne County, Nebraska.


Relations Between Directional Spectral Vegetation Indices And Leaf Area And Absorbed Radiation In Alfalfa, Elizabeth Walter-Shea, Jeffrey L. Privette, D. Cornell, Mark A. Mesarch, C. Hays Jan 1997

Relations Between Directional Spectral Vegetation Indices And Leaf Area And Absorbed Radiation In Alfalfa, Elizabeth Walter-Shea, Jeffrey L. Privette, D. Cornell, Mark A. Mesarch, C. Hays

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

s ensors on satellite platforms with extreme view angles have been increasingly used to analyze regional and global vegetation cover and productivity because of frequent observations. This study, using experimental and theoretical methods, analyzed variations in vegetation indices with sun-view geometry as a means of understanding the sensitivity of relations beween vegetation indices and the biophysical properties, the leaf area index (LAI), and the instantaneous fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR). Canopy bidirectional reflectance factors (BRFs) of an alfalfa crop were measured and simulated at a variety of solar and view zenith angles. Also, fAPAR, LAI, and leaf optical …


Strategies For Sprinkling Spice On An Elementary Physical Education Program: Thematic Instruction Comes To The Gym!, Kristine Lee Whitcher Jan 1997

Strategies For Sprinkling Spice On An Elementary Physical Education Program: Thematic Instruction Comes To The Gym!, Kristine Lee Whitcher

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this project was to identify curriculum design strategies that would assist elementary physical education teachers in producing thematic units for elementary physical education classes. Strategies for integrating curriculum were identified in the literature then used to create and implement a thematic physical education project. Specific strategies were explained in detail through examples associated with the project. The strategies demonstrate that thematic instruction can successfully meet the needs of many children, invite new learning, and will assist teachers in coordinating themes with elementary physical education classes. A school-wide Olympic Fest was the culminating event of this project. There …


Prediction Of Firing Pin Shape And 3d Matching Of Shells And Firing Pins Based On Firing Pin Impressions In Primers, Donald W. Dawson, Chris Hart, Bernard S. Gilbert Iii, Rafael A. Andrade, Joel H. Blatt Jan 1997

Prediction Of Firing Pin Shape And 3d Matching Of Shells And Firing Pins Based On Firing Pin Impressions In Primers, Donald W. Dawson, Chris Hart, Bernard S. Gilbert Iii, Rafael A. Andrade, Joel H. Blatt

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

A variable resolution video machine vision system has been built which will determine the 3-D shape of a firing pin from the dent it has made in the primer of a shell. The system can also compare primer dents in different shells and determine if a 3-D match exists. A real time optical 3-D shape recognition feature allows the operator to align the shells, determine if there is a match, and quantify the quality of the 3-D match. The system uses a laser interferometer to project variable spatial frequency structural illumination on the shells which are viewed by video cameras. …


Real Time 3-D Video Moire Inspection System With Enhanced Depth Resolution, Donald W.W. Dawson, Chris L. Hart, Bernard R. Gilbert, Gary L. Wallace, Joel H. Blatt Jan 1997

Real Time 3-D Video Moire Inspection System With Enhanced Depth Resolution, Donald W.W. Dawson, Chris L. Hart, Bernard R. Gilbert, Gary L. Wallace, Joel H. Blatt

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

A variable resolution video machine vision systems has been built which generates twice the number of depth contours for a given grating spacing as a conventional moiré system. This variable resolution system uses a Mach-Zender interferometer to project interference fringes onto a reference surface and onto a target surface. Video images of the two structurally illuminated surfaces are mixed in a video mixer with the resulting output being moiré contours which are the intersections of the two surfaces. If the reference surface is a flat plate, we get equal depth contours of the target surface, and if the reference surface …


Design Considerations For A Small Ultraviolet-Visible Space Telescope For Amateur And Professional Use, Donald Platt Jan 1997

Design Considerations For A Small Ultraviolet-Visible Space Telescope For Amateur And Professional Use, Donald Platt

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

Presented is a preliminary design for a small ultraviolet- visible (uv-vis) sensitive space telescope. Included will be optical, sensor, and spacecraft subsystem design considerations. With recent advances in charge coupled device (CCD) technology it is now possible to build a space telescope system with wavelength sensitivity from 200 to 1000 nm. A main objective of this design is to keep costs to a minimum and use commercial off the shelf (COTS) components wherever possible. Such a low-cost system could provide a platform for studying such untested techniques as small space-based optical interferometry. The observatory could be open to a guest …


Analysis Of Scanning Tunneling Optical Spectroscopy Applied To Narrow Gap Semiconductors, James D. Patterson, James G. Mantovani Jan 1997

Analysis Of Scanning Tunneling Optical Spectroscopy Applied To Narrow Gap Semiconductors, James D. Patterson, James G. Mantovani

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

Homogeneous II-VI narrow gap semiconducting alloys are of interest because of their use in infrared detectors. These compound semiconductor materials are inherently difficult to grow in bulk due to gravity induced convective flows. A microgravity growth environment has therefore been considered. In order to evaluate the quality of crystals grown in space compared to those grown on the ground, it is necessary to characterize both. One important aspect of this characterization is the study of stoichiometry, x. A characterization scheme using scanning tunneling optical spectroscopy (STOS) involves determining the spectral response of the photoexcited tunneling current for a semiconductor. By …


Volumetric Exchanges Between A Managed Marsh And A Coastal Estuary, Ashok Pandit, John H. White, Antonis A. Kakoullis, Satish B. Akula, James R. David Jan 1997

Volumetric Exchanges Between A Managed Marsh And A Coastal Estuary, Ashok Pandit, John H. White, Antonis A. Kakoullis, Satish B. Akula, James R. David

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

The dominant term in the estimation of net flux calculation, between a marsh and a source of tidal water is often the exchange of water. The purpose of this study was to provide a description of the methodology used to estimate the volumetric exchange of surface waters between a managed marsh and the Indian River Lagoon during the managed and unmanaged periods. The paper also documents the simplifying assumptions that had to be made to estimate the exchanges both during the managed and unmanaged period. These assumptions had to be made either because the data were limited mainly due to …


The Synthetic A Priori Proposition Of Kant's Ethical Philosophy, Nelson T. Potter Jr. Jan 1997

The Synthetic A Priori Proposition Of Kant's Ethical Philosophy, Nelson T. Potter Jr.

Department of Philosophy: Faculty Publications

I will consider Kant's claim that the categorical imperative (CI) is a synthetic a priori proposition. We know from the first Critique that such propositions are likely to be very important, but also difficult to justify. Kant says exactly the same things about the CI in the Grundlegung: the CI is difficult to justify2, but if we do not succeed in justifying it, morality may be a mere "phantom of the brain.',3 Though little has been written on this topic, a correct understanding of this claim is important to understanding Kant's views.


Magnetic Response Of Fef2 Films On (100) Mgo (Abstract), Shireen Adenwalla, G. P. Felcher, J. Nogués, I. K. Schuller Jan 1997

Magnetic Response Of Fef2 Films On (100) Mgo (Abstract), Shireen Adenwalla, G. P. Felcher, J. Nogués, I. K. Schuller

Shireen Adenwalla Papers

Pairs of FeF2/Fe films show large exchange bias. In bulk FeF2 is antiferromagnetically ordered below 78 K, and the magnetic moments of the corner and center atoms in the rutile structure are respectively parallel and antiparallel to the tetragonal axis. Are the moments compensated in a thin film as well, or does a net magnetization develop, for instance at the interface with iron? A polarized neutron reflection measurement was taken on a single film of FeF2, 920 Å thick, grown in the (110) orientation on a MgO (100) face. In polarized neutron reflection is measured …


Convolution And Fourier-Feynman Transforms, Chull Park, David Skough Jan 1997

Convolution And Fourier-Feynman Transforms, Chull Park, David Skough

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

In this paper, for a class of funtionals on Wiener space of the form F(x) = exp{∫T0 f(t, x(t)) dt}, we show that the Fourier-Feynman transform of the convolution product is a product of Fourier-Feynman transforms. This allows us to compute the transform of the convolution product without computing the convolution product.


Nafta At Three-And-One-Half Years: Where Do We Stand And Where Should We Be Headed--A Cross-Cultural Analysis Of North American Legal Integration, Bradly Condon Jan 1997

Nafta At Three-And-One-Half Years: Where Do We Stand And Where Should We Be Headed--A Cross-Cultural Analysis Of North American Legal Integration, Bradly Condon

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.