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Western News, Oct. 1, 1998, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Floyd lays out vision; planning details for BOT, Student families on campus this weekend for annual Family Festival celebration activities, Nursing chair named for Lacey, Upton aide tapped for legislative affairs post, Coming Out Day marked, Africa's economic impact is visiting scholar's topic, Stoltman honored by national geography group, Day-long arts festival planned for Oct. 10.

Circulation, Vol. 6, No. 1, Center For Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University

CCPO Circulation

Fall 1998 issue of CCPO Circulation featuring article "Renewed Effort by Mexican Oceanographers to Understand the Dynamics of Coastal Lagoons"

Announcements: October 1998

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

Contents:

IUGG–99 XXII General Assembly - Inter-Association Symposium on Geophysical Hazards: Risk Assessment, Mitigation and Warning Systems

1999 National Disaster Medical System Conference

International Conference on Integrated Drought Management—Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

4th International Congress on Energy, Environment and Technological Innovation

Comparative Hydrometeorology Of Temperate And Semiarid Environments In India, Badrul Hasan

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

Out of a total cropped area of 178 m ha, India has 59 m ha of irrigated cropland. The remaining 119 m ha is rainfed. Crop production under rainfed conditions either occurs during the rainy season or depends on conserved or residual soil moisture. In temperate countries, the economy largely depends on production of goods and services that are less affected by the variabilities of weather. Although India receives adequate amounts of rainfall annually through the four different types of weather phenomena—southwest monsoon (74%), northeast monsoon (3%), pre-monsoon (13%), and post-monsoon (10%)—the distribution in time and space is erratic, resulting …

Persian Gulf Sea Surface Temperature As A Drought Diagnostic For Southern Iran, M. Jafar Nasemosadat

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

The Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, situated over the northwestern extremity of the tropical Indian Ocean, make up the southern border of Iran (Figure 1). During hot seasons, the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of these water bodies are high, and a huge thermal trough system is usually dominant over the region (Bitan and Sa’aroni, 1992). The summer SSTs of the Persian Gulf are reported to be the highest in the world (Gabler, 1977).

About 30% of the total rain-bearing air masses coming to the country originate in north Africa, the Red Sea, and western Saudi Arabia (Khalili, 1992). These air …

Droughts In Tamil Nadu: A Qualitative And Quantitative Appraisal, K. K. Nathan

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

Tamil Nadu experiences recurrent droughts. Tamil literature also indicates that famine-like conditions prevailed during the Pandiyan Kingdom for nearly 12 years. The state normally benefits from northeast monsoon rainfall from October to December, unlike other regions of India, which are dominated by southwest monsoon rainfall.

In general, four major parameters determine the nature and extent of drought conditions in Tamil Nadu: (1) rainfall, (2) ground water, (3) reservoir levels, and (4) crop conditions. It is estimated that nearly 50% of the districts in the state are drought-prone. The state receives nearly 80% of its annual rainfall during the northeast monsoon, …

From The Director: October 1998, Donald A. Wilhite

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

On July 16, 1998, President Clinton signed the National Drought Policy Act into law. This law creates the National Drought Policy Commission (NDPC), which will examine current laws and programs and make recommendations to the president and Congress on the needs for a national drought policy. The Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will serve as the chair for the Commission, which will comprise 16 members. In addition to the Secretary of Agriculture, other members of the Commission will include the Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of the Army, Secretary of Commerce, Director of the Federal Emergency …

Chairman Alan Greenspan On Ltcm (Us House Testimony), Alan Greenspan

Documents

No abstract provided.

Free Market Environmentalism: Hindsight And Foresight, Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Determinants Of Loan Losses In National Banks: Size, Regulation, And The Aicpa Model, Randy Marl Reed

Doctoral Dissertations

Because of recent failures, the AICPA Banking Committee has developed a normative model citing specific variables for auditors to use in bank audits. This research has examined that AICPA model.

In addition, the Auditing Principles Board has identified several areas of concern for auditing internal control structures. Research into size and regulation from other sources has indicated that both are significant modifiers of financial models. Regulations now require banks and holding companies of more than $500 million in assets to submit to an annual independent audit.

The primary purpose of this research was to determine whether the AICPA normative model …

Catalog, 1998-1999, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1998-1999 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Fall 1998, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

Towards Foundations For Traditional Oriental Medicine, Hoang Phuong Nguyen, Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

No abstract provided.

Volume 12, Number 01, Don Forrester Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 12, Number 01 of Reaching Through Teaching.

Directions - Fall 1998, Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Directions (Sterne Library, 1985-2015)

No abstract provided.

Theories Of Structure Versus Theories Of Change, Melanie Mitchell

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

The dynamics/computation debate recalls a similar debate in the evolutionary biology community concerning the relative primacy of theories of structure versus theories of change. A full account of cognition will require a rapprochement between such theories and will include both computational and dynamical notions. The key to making computation relevant to cognition is not making it analog, but rather understanding how functional information-processing structures can emerge in complex dynamical systems.

Internet For Everyone: By Alexis Leon And Matthews Leon, Vikas Publishing House, 1997., S Sadagopan

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

Chaos Prevailing On Every Continent: Towards A New Theory Of Decentralized Decision-Making In Complex Systems, David G. Post, David R. Johnson

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Internet For Everyone By Alexis Leon And Matthews Leon, Vikas Publishing House, 1997, Rs. 128.00, S Sadagopan

Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

Best Practices For Tourism Center Development Along The Red Sea Coast, Stephen M. Reeve, Stephen C. Jameson, Ragaei S. Abdel-Fattah, Bernhard Riegl, Randa Hassan, Alvin P. Newman

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

The spectacular coastlines along Egypt's Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba are the focus for one of the fastest growing tourism economies in the world. In order to accomplish national objectives for growth in permanent, well-paying jobs and in foreign exchange earnings, the Tourism Development Authority (TDA) has launched an initiative to make land available to investors for resort development along these coastlines. As of December, 1997, 6,000 hotel rooms are under construction in the Red Sea region and the TDA has proposals for at least 240 major resorts to be built by the year 2020.

While this program has …

Volume 1, No. 4 (Fall 1998), Office Of University Advancement, Bryant University

Bryant Magazine (1997-2019)(2024-present)

No abstract provided.

Magnetic Control Of Convection In Nonconducting Diamagnetic Fluids, J. Huang, D. D. Gray, Boyd F. Edwards

All Physics Faculty Publications

Inhomogeneous magnetic fields exert a body force on electrically nonconducting, diamagnetic fluids. This force can be used to compensate for gravity and to control convection. The field effect on convection is represented by a dimensionless vector parameter R_m=(μ₀αχ₀d³ΔT/ρ₀νD_T)(H⋅∇H)_r=0^ext, which measures the relative strength of the induced magnetic buoyancy force due to the applied field gradient. The vertical component of this parameter competes with the gravitational buoyancy effect and a critical relationship between this component and the Rayleigh number is identified for the onset of convection. …

1998 Scholars And Artists Bibliography, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University, Friends Of The Michael Schwartz Library

Scholars and Artists Bibliographies

This bibliography was created for the annual Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Scholars and Artists Reception, recognizing scholarly and creative achievements of Cleveland State University faculty, staff and emeriti

The Search For Constitutional School Choice, Suzanne H. Bauknight

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Impulse, Kate Gundvaldson, Lisa Umiker, Jennifer Widman

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

Features:
[Page 2] Enthusiastic enthusiasts
[Page 5] Building educational relationships
[Page 9] Energy Conversion Lab prepares for renovation
[Page 9] New director at helm of CPSS
[Page 10] Economic Development Center incubates businesses
[Page 11] Dynamark comes to town
College:
[Page 12] Stars singled out at Distinguished Engineers banquet
[Page 14] Visions challenges engineering alums
[Page 15] Scholarship program thriving
Faculty:
[Page 17] Nadim Hassoun's textbook is solid hit
[Page 17] Madeleine Andrawis spends summer studying soils and radar
[Page 18] MaryJo Benton Lee researches China
[Page 20] Mary O'Neill's outreach efforts span near and far
[Page 21] Richard Reid's …

Qed On A Circle, James E. Hetrick, Y. Hosotani

All Faculty Articles - School of Engineering and Computer Science

QED with massless fermions on a circle is exactly solved. The nonintegrable phase [see file], which is a dynamical degree of freedom on a circle, couples through the anomaly to the zero mode of the fermion-antifermion bound states, leading to the θ vacuum.

The Extension Newsletter, Issue 20, Fall Quarter 1998, Wright State University Retirees Association

The Extension Newsletter

A six page newsletter from the Wright State University's Retirees Association.

The Voice, Fall 1998: Volume 44, Issue 1, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Summer Work Puts Students in the Thick of Things; A Moral Academy; Covenant Hall Opens Its Doors at the Last Moment; Moes and Petersen Join the Pew Younger Scholars Program; Dordt Fall Enrollment Breaks Record Again; New Graduate Education Program Accreditation Opens Door to High School Teachers Too; Distinguished Scholars Come From Across the Country; A Little Relief for Canadians; Freshmen Bring Special Scholarships With Them; Education Program Reapproved; Math Students Give Good Showing on Putnam Exam; Men's 4x800 Relay Team Named All-American; Five Join Faculty; Dordt College Named a U.S. News "Best Value"; Three New Scholarships Announced; Theater Profs' …

Utb/Tsc This Week 1998-10, University Of Texas At Brownsville And Texas Southmost College. Office Of News And Information

UTB/TSC Archives - This Week Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Orange & White - Fall 1998, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

No abstract provided.