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Consistently Wrong: The Single Product Issue And The Tying Claims Against Microsoft, Norman W. Hawker

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Nfl Salary Cap : A Tool Necessary To Maintain Competitiveness?, Christopher Oliphant

Honors Capstones

How is it that certain teams, like the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers can dominate football year after year while some other teams, such as the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals, seem to stay at the bottom of their divisions? Or how come some teams can lose key free agents year after year, such as the Pittsburgh Steelers, and remain competitive while other teams spend their money obtaining the services of the other clubs best players and have little to show for their investments? Has free agency affected the whole league, or has it really only hurt …

Transnational Technology And The Death Of The Other : An Essay About Khmers In Cyberspace, Tyrone Wayne Siren

Honors Capstones

Throughout this essay, I attempt to come to terms with anthropology as an human science. I look at it as both an empirical and theoretical discipline, discussing the role anthropology should play in an age of transnational culture and media technologies. First, I discuss contemporary theoretical anthropology, describing its philosophical motivations and associations-a topic that is all too neglected in anthropological theory, as if theoreticians are not in the social nexus and philosophical milieu of their time. I begin with hermeneutics and then describe the postmodern reaction to it. However, I critique the postmodernists for being even more arrogant than …

Time Passage And The Economics Of Coming To The Nuisance: Reassessing The Coasean Perspective, Roy E. Cordato

Campbell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reversible Association Of Free Radicals With Benzene. The Seed Of An Idea, Jack Saltiel

The Spectrum

No abstract provided.

Defying Political Boundaries: Transborder Tourism In A Regional Context, Walter Leimgruber

Visions in Leisure and Business

Political boundaries have traditionally been considered barriers, or obstacles, to all kinds of communication and interaction. The end of the 20th century has seen a gradual defunctionalisation of many political boundaries and a subsequent increase in transborder cooperation. Among the economic sectors that benefit from such an opening of borders is tourism, particularly on a regional scale. This paper examines the specific case of Switzerland, a landlocked country with a long tradition of regional transborder collaboration. After a general introduction, four examples are presented to demonstrate the rich variety of local transborder attractions that are complementary to each other and …

Dialogue: A Qualitative Study Of A Faculty Development Intervention To Assist Faculty In Exploring The Practitioner Assumptions That Impact Their Role In Higher Education And Medical Education, Donna M. Qualters

Educational Studies Dissertations

The Dialogue study is concerned with understanding how Dialogue could be applied to faculty development. Dialogue is a structured form of group interaction developed as an organizational behavior tool (Isaacs, 1993) which creates space for practitioner assumptions to be probed and insight into practice be achieved. It provides an intervention for faculty at the pre-contemplative stage of change (Prochaska, 1986), who are not motivated to modify their practice. The study focused on self-selected multi-discipline faculty from a four year institution and a public medical school. Participants ranged in experience from one to thirty five years of practice. This study was …

Case Study Of Assessment In A High School Classroom: The Impact Of Changes In Assessment On Curriculum, Instruction, Teachers, And Students, Deborah A. A Brady

Educational Studies Dissertations

This study examined the impact of changes in assessment on curriculum, instruction, teachers, and students. The study describes the complex, developmental process by which a particular course, teachers, and a class evolved, articulated goals and standards, and assessed their learning. My co-teacher and I used a variety of assessments: conferences, peer review, reflections, portfolios, group projects, and presentations in addition to traditional tests and quizzes. The methodology was a qualitative study by a teacher/researcher in a high school Humanities class.

The Characteristics Of Learners Enrolled In Advanced Level Courses In Hebrew, Chinese, And Japanese At Brandeis University, Vardit Ringvald

Educational Studies Dissertations

Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the field of foreign language study in higher education in the United States are familiar with the phenomenon of declining numbers among learners in advanced foreign language courses. The studies that have examined this phenomenon such as Graman (1987) and Dupuy (1994) investigated the learners of so-called "easy" and commonly taught languages, such as French, German and Spanish and suggest that the learners' positive learning backgrounds outside the formal language program are the main factors that influence the learners' decision to continue their language study in the advanced level courses. This study offers new …

Connecting School To Work & Service Learning: Building A Competent, Caring Workforce For The 21st Century, Quest International

School K-12

With the year 2000 virtually upon us, the clarion call from both America's businesses and educational institutions is for education reform initiatives to implement creative ways to equip our young people with the skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed to be successful in the world of work and as contributing members of a democracy. What responsibility do we as educators have to provide young people with opportunities to discover and apply their special talents and fulfill their personal commitments within the crucible of real work and service experiences? How can our schools help young people develop the skills and attitudes required …

New Rules And Regulations, Constantine N. Katsoris, Richard Lindsey, Robert Mcsweeney, Eugene Lopez, Yusif Simaan, Edward Fleishmann

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.

Development Of A Geothermal Heat Pump Test Facility, Chris Collins

Theses

Current environmental concerns have led to large scale research and development in the area of alternative energy supplies. The alternative energy system of interest in this study is the heat pump. Heat pumps extract heat from a variety of sources such as air, water and the earth, upgrade and transmit it to the required location. The aim of this thesis is to develop mathematical and experimental models to evaluate the performance of a heat pump which uses the earth as its thermal source. These models will then form the basis of design aids for installers sizing closed loop collection systems …

Reflections On Judge Donald Porter And His Contributions To Free Speech Jurisprudence, David Day

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Automatic Granularity Control For Load Balancing Of Concurrent Particle Simulations, Marc Rieffel, Stephen Taylor, Jerrell Watts

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

This paper demonstrates the use of automatic granularity control as part of dynamic load balancing for irregular, particle-based simulations. Performance optimization techniques are considered in the context of a concurrent Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method used to study the rarefied gas flow inside three-dimensional plasma reactors. Several computational techniques are used to reduce the overall time to deliver realistic threedimensional results. The effectiveness of dynamic load balancing and granularity control are presented for large-scale simulations on distributed-memory multicomputers.

A Five Year Retrospective Study Of Tuberculosis At A Public Hospital In The Ecuadorian Highlands, Eric Gary Shmookler

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

No abstract provided.

Annual Report For The Period Ending June 30, 1998., New Castle Town Representatives

New Castle, NH Annual Reports

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

Ab Initio Study Of Formazan And 3-Nitroformazan, G. Buemi, F. Zuccarello, P. Venuvanalingam, M. Ramalingam, Salai Cheettu Ammal

Faculty Publications

Formazan and 3-nitroformazan have been investigated at abinitio level (MP2/6-31G** and B3LYP/6-31G**) in all their possible conformations, for studying the various possibilities of intramolecular hydrogen bonding formation. The trans-syn-s-cis (TSSC), known also asyellowform, has been found to be the most stable conformer (at least in the gas phase) in both compounds. This particular structure is strongly stabilized by a N–H···N hydrogen bridge, which gives rise to a hexatomic chelate ring, with the possibility of a proton transfer process.This closely resembles that of malondialdehyde, previously studied, in the evolution of the …

Well Characteristics Influencing Microscopic Particulate Analysis Risk Index, Robert Christopher Sharek

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Cryptosporidium parvum is a common surface water contaminant that can cause illness in human beings. The presence of this etiological agent in groundwater identifies the groundwater as under the direct influence (GWUDI) of surface water. Currently the determination of GWUDI water sources requires an expensive, labor-intensive laboratory procedure called the Microscopic Particulate Analysis (MPA). The results of the MPA provide a risk index that rates the degree of surface water contamination. The objective of this study is to identify other methods of identifying GWUDI of surface waters, such as well characteristics and hydrogeologic factors which may contribute to higher MPA …

Puerto Rico 1898-1998: The Institutionalization Of Second Class Citizenship?

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Peter Kutulakis Remembered, Ellen Wayne

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

United States V. O'Hagan: The Misappropriation Theory Under Section 10(B) And Rule 10b-5-Can The Judicial Oak Grow Any Higher?, J. Dormer Stephen Iii

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

The Incineration Of Chemical Warfare Agents By The United States Army: Is It The Best Method For Disposal, Christopher T. Delisi

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Last Owner Liability For Passive Migration Under Cercla, Joseph Lipinski

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

The Privilege For Self-Critical Analysis In Statutory And Common Law, Phillip Leahy

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of The Operation And Plasma Dynamics Of Extreme-Ultraviolet And Soft X-Ray Lasers, Howard A. Bender

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Extending lasing action into the extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum has been a natural progression in the continuing development of short wavelength radiation sources. However fundamental difficulties with the media used to produce short wavelength lasers has in general hindered the widespread development and use of such lasers in applications. Up to now all EUV and soft x-ray lasers have operated with plasmas as the gain medium to support lasing. This is a general requirement imposed by 1) the characteristics of short wavelength radiation as it originates from highly energetic atomic transitions and 2) the …

Parent Childrearing Beliefs And Child Externalizing Behaviors In Families Of Adhd And Odd Children, June E. Hoefling

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the relationship between the perceived externalizing behaviors of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and the maladaptive childrearing beliefs of their parents. The study used archival survey data provided by Intervention Services, Inc., a community mental health center. Data from 338 families with a child diagnosed with ADHD or ODD were analyzed. The study used the Conners' Parent Behavior Rating Scale short version to measure the level of conduct problems, impulsivity, and hyperactivity of the children as perceived by the parents. The Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory was used to measure the degree of parental …

Étude De L'Effet De L'Interaction Entre L'Asymétrie Du Mouvement Et La Coactivation Musculaire Sur Le Chargement Lombaire Chez Des Sujets Sains Et Lombalgiques. Phase 1 : Développement Et Validation D'Un Modèle Biomécanique Articulaire À Solution Physiologique Optimale, Denis Gagnon, Patrick Loisel

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les maux de dos sont coûteux pour les travailleurs et les employeurs. Il est reconnu que l’origine des maux de dos réside partiellement dans des perturbations du rôle mécanique normal des tissus et structures internes du tronc. Pour la plupart des activités de la vie courante, le tronc joue un rôle primordial dans la transmission des forces entre les membres inférieurs et supérieurs. Les muscles du tronc sont les principaux responsables de sa stabilité et de sa mobilité en fonction des besoins de l’activité effectuée.

Pour quantifier et étudier les phénomènes internes se produisant au niveau des structures anatomiques, une …

Philosophical Foundations And The Biblical Sanctuary, Fernando L. Canale

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Report Of The 1997 Excavations And Restoration Work At Tall Hisban (June 18 To July 11, 1997), Øystein Sakala Labianca, Paul J. Ray Jr.

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Ghosts In The Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence In The Sea Novels Of Edgar Allan Poe And Herman Melville, Peter F. Decataldo

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The attempt to situate historically the connections between African blacks and the sea represents just one aspect of the broader effort to assess how the presence of blacks operated to determine the language, choices, representations, and directions of the narratives that Poe and Melville set at sea. What is proposed here is a rethinking of American sea fiction from the unique perspective of its racial dynamics, especially with regard to what Toni Morrison has called the "Black/Africanist presence" in American literature, a presence that she justifiably claims to have been silenced, degraded, and distorted in American criticism. This work examines …