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The Holocaust: Does Time Heal All Wrongs?, William Schwartz Dec 1998

The Holocaust: Does Time Heal All Wrongs?, William Schwartz

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Justice, Dignity, And Restitution Of Holocaust Victims' Assets, Alfonse D'Amato Dec 1998

Justice, Dignity, And Restitution Of Holocaust Victims' Assets, Alfonse D'Amato

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Neutrality Law In World War Ii, Detlev F. Vagts Dec 1998

Neutrality Law In World War Ii, Detlev F. Vagts

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Culturally Congruent Care: Predictors Of Patient Satisfaction Among Adult Mexican Americans, Shannon Marie Dowdall, Alma Rosa Flores, Karyn Elizabeth Taplay Dec 1998

Culturally Congruent Care: Predictors Of Patient Satisfaction Among Adult Mexican Americans, Shannon Marie Dowdall, Alma Rosa Flores, Karyn Elizabeth Taplay

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Predictors of patient satisfaction among hospitalized adult Mexican Americans were examined in this pilot study. Acculturation as determined by the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II (ARSMA-II), ethnicity of the nurse, age, gender, socioeconomic status, level of education and marital status were examined as predictors of patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction was measured by the Patient Satisfaction Inventory (PSI). The pilot study was conducted in an acute care setting in the lower Rio Grande Valley, where 81 participants provided the data. The questionnaires were offered in both English and Spanish. Two qualitative questions were asked regarding the patients' perception of culturally …


Memorial For Larry L. Cummings, Donald L. Ferrin, M. E. Latham, B. S. Chakravarthy, A. H. Van De Ven Dec 1998

Memorial For Larry L. Cummings, Donald L. Ferrin, M. E. Latham, B. S. Chakravarthy, A. H. Van De Ven

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.


Bond Rating Agencies And Stock Analysts: Who Knows What When?, Louis H. Ederington, Jeremy C. Goh Dec 1998

Bond Rating Agencies And Stock Analysts: Who Knows What When?, Louis H. Ederington, Jeremy C. Goh

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Both bond ratings agencies and stock analysts evaluate publicly traded companies and communicate their opinions to investors. Comparing the timelines of each, it is found that Granger causality flows both ways. While most bond downgrades are preceded by declines in actual and forecasting earnings, both actual earnings and forecasts of future earnings tend to fall following downgrades. Although part of this post-downgrade forecast revision can be attributed to negative news regarding actual earnings, most appears to be reaction to the downgrade itself. Little change is found in actual earnings following upgrades. Analysts, however, tend to increase their forecasts of future …


Alcalá View 1998 15.04, University Of San Diego Publications And Human Resources Offices Dec 1998

Alcalá View 1998 15.04, University Of San Diego Publications And Human Resources Offices

Alcalá View (1985-2006)

Celebrate the Season; Statement of Respect; Faculty Speaker Series; Benefits Brief; Big Love for Mini Homes; In Search of USD Memories; New Officers Poised for Service; University Ministry Events; New Hires and Promotions; Passages; Correction; Psst…Bits and Pieces from the Readers; Sweets For Sale


Sexual Politics And Subversion: Feminist Utopia As Praxis, Jennifer Sue Boyers Dec 1998

Sexual Politics And Subversion: Feminist Utopia As Praxis, Jennifer Sue Boyers

Dissertations

Literary studies meets up with sociology as feminist utopian fiction Is examined for what sociologist Dorothy Smith (1990) labels normal narrative and counter-narrative articulations of gendered structures of power. The method of analytical Induction Is used both In the choosing of the four novels for study and the resulting textual analysis. Ursula Le Guln's The dispossessed (1974), Marge Plercy's Woman on the edge of time (1976), Suzy McKee Chamas's Motherllnes (1978), and Sally Miller Gearhart's The wandereround (1979) are examined for their constructions of dystopian normal narratives, as well as for their reconstructions of subversive utopian counter-narratives, both articulating gendered …


Max Horkheimer’S Critical Theory Of Religion:The Meaning Of Religion In The Struggle For Human Emancipation, Michael R. Ott Dec 1998

Max Horkheimer’S Critical Theory Of Religion:The Meaning Of Religion In The Struggle For Human Emancipation, Michael R. Ott

Dissertations

Over the past thirty years much has been written about the critical theory of society that was produced by a small group of left-wing Hegelians in the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and in the United States. However, except for the pioneering work of Rudolf Siebert, little has been written about the critical theory of religion as a fundamental and dynamic element of the entire critical theory’s struggle for human emancipation. This study seeks to make a contribution in the development of the critical theory of religion as a corrective to the one-sided, positivistic development of …


Worldview, Lorna Van Gilst Dec 1998

Worldview, Lorna Van Gilst

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Lament For Bert, Mike Vanden Bosch Dec 1998

Lament For Bert, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


To Robinson Jeffers, Mike Vanden Bosch Dec 1998

To Robinson Jeffers, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


War Games, Mike Vanden Bosch Dec 1998

War Games, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

This poem appeared in the 1998 edition of Lyrical Iowa, a publication of the Iowa Poetry Association.


Naked Ladies, David Schelhaas Dec 1998

Naked Ladies, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


What He Needed To Say, James C. Schaap Dec 1998

What He Needed To Say, James C. Schaap

Pro Rege

This story has been previously printed in The Christian Century.


Wittgensteinian Accounts Of Moorean Absurdity, John N. Williams Dec 1998

Wittgensteinian Accounts Of Moorean Absurdity, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.


Shaping The Future Of The Profession, David N. Smith Dec 1998

Shaping The Future Of The Profession, David N. Smith

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.


Visions Of Gender And Democracy: Revolutionary Photo Albums In Asia, William A. Callahan Dec 1998

Visions Of Gender And Democracy: Revolutionary Photo Albums In Asia, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.


The Basic Unit Of A Myofascial Trigger Point, Ta-Shen Kuan, Shu-Min Chen, Jo-Tong Chen, Chang-Zern Hong Dec 1998

The Basic Unit Of A Myofascial Trigger Point, Ta-Shen Kuan, Shu-Min Chen, Jo-Tong Chen, Chang-Zern Hong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

This report summarized recent studies on the basic structures of a myofascial trigger point (MTrP). A MTrP is a hyperirritable spot in a palpable taut band of skeletal muscle fibers. Spot tenderness, recognized pain, and taut band are now demonstrated to be reliable diagnostic criteria of an MTrP. Referred pain (ReP) or local twitch response (LTR) is a confirmatory sign of MTrP. There are multiple loci in an MTrP region. The basic unit of an MTrP is the MTrP locus which contains a sensory component (the sensitive locus) and a motor component (the active locus). A sensitive locus is the …


Forty-Third Annual Madrigal Dinners, December 1998, Illinois State University Dec 1998

Forty-Third Annual Madrigal Dinners, December 1998, Illinois State University

Madrigal Dinner Programs

Circus Room, Bone Student Center


Less Reliable Preliminary Hearings And Plea Bargains In Criminal Cases In California: Discovery Before And After Proposition 115 , Laura Berend Dec 1998

Less Reliable Preliminary Hearings And Plea Bargains In Criminal Cases In California: Discovery Before And After Proposition 115 , Laura Berend

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


What Can Humor And Advertising Teach Us About Legal Drafting?, Dallin D. Oaks, Jeremy Lewis Dec 1998

What Can Humor And Advertising Teach Us About Legal Drafting?, Dallin D. Oaks, Jeremy Lewis

Faculty Publications

In his book Legal Drafting in a Nutshell, Haggard includes a useful chapter of nearly 50 pages in which he lists various lexical and structural elements and explains how these can lead to ambiguous writing. The kind of inventory approach that he presents is helpful and reveals that ambiguity doesn't just happen but often results from the careless use of identifiable structures or particular words.


The Evolution Of Probability Functions In An Inelasticly Deforming Two-Phase Medium, Brent L. Adams, H. Garmestani, S. Lin Dec 1998

The Evolution Of Probability Functions In An Inelasticly Deforming Two-Phase Medium, Brent L. Adams, H. Garmestani, S. Lin

Faculty Publications

A formulation is introduced here for the evolution of correlation functions in an inelastically deforming two phase medium. Probability functions play a major role in describing the statistical distribution of different phases in a heterogeneous medium in the development of statistical continuum theory. Proper formulation of statistical continuum model for inelastic deformation requires better understanding of the evolution of the corresponding probability functions. A two point probability function representation is used to approximate the statistical correlation functions. The evolution of these functions requires the information from higher order probability functions, in this case, a three point probability function. A decomposition …


A Recursive Green's Function Method For Boundary Integral Analysis Of Inhomogeneous Domains, Jim D. Freeze, Michael A. Jensen Dec 1998

A Recursive Green's Function Method For Boundary Integral Analysis Of Inhomogeneous Domains, Jim D. Freeze, Michael A. Jensen

Faculty Publications

The recursive Green's function method (RGFM) for computation of fields scattered by two-dimensional (2-D) inhomogeneous dielectric bodies is presented. The algorithm efficiently constructs the Green's function for the inhomogeneous region by recursively combining known Green's functions from smaller subdomains. The fields on the scatterer surface are then computed using a boundary integral formulation. Proper implementation of the RGFM results in computational and storage complexities which scale as N1.5 and N, respectively, where N is the total number of discrete cells in a domain. Comparisons of results obtained using the RGFM with those computed from moment method and exact solutions show …


Corporate Strategies For The 21st Century With Special Emphasis On Global Marketing Strategies, Dong Ki Kim Dec 1998

Corporate Strategies For The 21st Century With Special Emphasis On Global Marketing Strategies, Dong Ki Kim

Asia Marketing Journal

No abstract provided.


The Catalyst, December 1998, Illinois State University, Center For The Advancement Of Teaching Dec 1998

The Catalyst, December 1998, Illinois State University, Center For The Advancement Of Teaching

The CATalyst

Newsletter of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) at Illinois State University


1998 Preliminary Snowmobile Emission Survey In Yellowstone National Park, Gary A. Bishop, Donald H. Stedman Dec 1998

1998 Preliminary Snowmobile Emission Survey In Yellowstone National Park, Gary A. Bishop, Donald H. Stedman

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.


A Work Minimization Approach To Image Morphing, Peisheng Gao, Thomas W. Sederberg Dec 1998

A Work Minimization Approach To Image Morphing, Peisheng Gao, Thomas W. Sederberg

Faculty Publications

An algorithm is presented for morphing two images, often with little or no user interaction. For two similar images (such as different faces against a neutral background) the algorithm generally can create a pleasing morph completely automatically. The algorithm seeks the minimum work to deform one image into the other, where work is a function of the amount of warping and recoloration. A hierarchical method for finding a minimal work solution is invoked. Anchor point constraints are satisfied by imposing penalties on deformations that disobey these constraints. Good results can be obtained in less than ten seconds for 256 x …


Powergraf: An Educational Software Package For Power Systems Analysis And Design, Tian Yane, Max Darwin Anderson Dec 1998

Powergraf: An Educational Software Package For Power Systems Analysis And Design, Tian Yane, Max Darwin Anderson

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The purpose of PowerGraf is to present a graphical user interface (GUI) and a convenient tool for building one-line diagrams displaying data. The GUI is open and friendly for power systems design, analysis and control, because a picture provides a better illustration of cause-and-effect relationships than a tabular printout does. Basic elements such as buses, lines and transformers are given such that the power system topology is easily drawn with this tool, and the system parameters are entered on the picture and checked visually. This enables the power system topology and the system data to be shown on one picture …


An Image Model Based On Occluding Object Images And Maximum Entropy, John A. Stuller, Rahul Shah Dec 1998

An Image Model Based On Occluding Object Images And Maximum Entropy, John A. Stuller, Rahul Shah

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This Paper Introduces a Statistical Image Model based on Occlusion and Maximum Entropy. the Statistical Model Combines a Fundamental Property of Image Formation, Occlusion, with Both Object-Image Shape and Nonuniform Object-Image Intensity. the Model is a Composition of Individual Object-Images that Have Random Positions, Shapes, and Intensities, and that Occlude Both Background and One Another. We Derive the Autocorrelation and Second-Order Probability Density Functions of This Model and Give Several Examples. © 1998 IEEE.