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Table Générale - Année 1999

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Market Signaling Of Personal Characteristics, Richard A. Posner, Gertrud M. Fremling

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

The Graduation Prayer Cases: Coercion By Any Other Name, Colin Delaney

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Supreme Court's decision in Lee v. Weisman held clergy- delivered invocations at public-school graduation ceremonies unconstitutional. In the wake of this landmark case, school boards across the country instituted a variety of policies to avoid the establishmentarian attributes fatal to the prayers in Lee. Several Courts of Appeals soon heard cases involving authorities seeking to divorce themselves from speakers and speaker selection, in the apparent belief that school involvement placed the imprimatur of the state on graduation prayer. Yet two facts mark all of the situations challenged to date. First, an agent of the state, the school board, exercised …

Yield Potential Trends Of Tropical Rice Since The Release Of Ir8 And The Challenge Of Increasing Rice Yield Potential, S. Peng, Kenneth G. Cassman, S. S. Virmani, J. Sheehy, G. S. Khush

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Since the release of IR8 in 1966, 42 additional indica rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for the irrigated and favorable rainfed lowlands have been released in the Philippines. The maximum yield of IR8 has been reduced by about 2 Mg ha^-1 during the past 30 yr. Empirical breeding for population improvement within the indica germplasm has in the maintenance of rice yield potential in the tropics of about 10 Mg ha^-1. To break the yield barrier, several approaches are being explored. These include development of a new plant …

Kronos: A Java-Based Software System For The Processing And Retrieval Of Large Scale Avhrr Data, Z. Zhang, J. Jájá, D.A. Bader, S. Kalluri, H. Song, N.Z. El Saleous, E. Vermote, J.R.G. Townshend

Electrical & Computer Engineering Technical Reports

At regional scales, satellite-based sensors are the primary source of information to study the earths environment, as they provide the needed dynamic temporal view of the earth's surface. Raw satellite orbit data have to be processed and mapped into a standard projection to produce multitemporal data sets which can then be used for regional or global earth science studies. In this paper, we describe a software system Kronos for the generation of custom-tailored data products from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor. Kronos allows the generation of a rich set of products that can be easily specified through …

Guideline Policy For Snow And Ice Control, Aaron W. Braun, Dirk J. Medema

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

These Guidelines are a compilation of information given by several agencies, such as the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, the Salt Institute, American Public Works Association, AASHTO, and many others.

Our goal was to was to gather all the information that could be useful for the Indiana Counties and Cities, add our own experience and expertise, and place it in one report.

These Guidelines are Divided into three sections. The first section is the Guidelines. It gives information and suggestions on all aspects of snow and ice control. The second section is a template for a snow and ice control …

Compression Of Biological Sequences By Greedy Off-Line Textual Subsitution, Alberto Apostolico, Stefano Lonardi

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Data Organization Issues For Location-Dependent Queries In Mobile Computing, Sunjay Kumar Madria, Bharat Bhargava, Evaggelia Pitoura, Vijay Kumar

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Performance Evaluation Of Cpu Isolation Miechanisms In A Multithreaded Os Kernel, David K.Y. Yau

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Leveraging Legacy Scientific Software With Mobile Agent Technology, Shanhani Markus, Elias N. Houstis

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Richmond Music Journal (1999-11)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.

Low-Frequency Noise In N-Gan With High Electron Mobility, M. E. Levinshtein, S. L. Rumyantsev, D. C. Look, R. J. Molnar, M. Asif Khan, Grigory Simin, V. Adivarahan, M. S. Shur

Faculty Publications

We report on the results of measurements of low frequency noise in n-type gallium nitride (GaN) grown on sapphire with 300 K electron mobility of 790 cm²/V s. The noise spectra have the form of 1/f noise with a Hooge parameter α of approximately 5×10⁻². This value of α is two orders of magnitude smaller than that observed before in n-GaN. The obtained results show that the level of flicker noise in GaN, just like that in GaAs and Si, strongly depends on the structural perfection of the material (the amplitude of the 1/f …

Condon V. Reno And The Driver's Privacy Protection Act: Was Garcia A Bump In The Road To States' Rights, Stephen G. Hartzell-Jordan

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

To Host A Legacy System To The Web, Miguel Angel Bustamante

Student Work

The dramatic improvements in global interconectivity due to intranets, extranets and the Internet has led to many enterprises to consider migrating legacy systems to a web based systems. While data remapping is relatively straightforward in most cases, greater challenges lie in adapting legacy application software. This research effort describes an experiment in which a legacy system is migrated to a web-client/server environment. First, this thesis reports on the difficulties and issues arising when porting a legacy system International Invoice (IIMM) to a web-client/server environment. Next, this research analyzes the underlying issues, and offer cautionary guidance to future migrators and finally …

Electronic Commerce On Business Application, Fang Xiao

Student Work

For some time now, Whole size business enterprises have used electronic commerce to conduct their business activities. The On-Line store is one of a number of popular web applications. This thesis focuses on one of the emerging On-Line store technologies which is known as Server-Side Java Application. In early 1960, private networks were dedicated for the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) and electronic funds transfer (EFT) in banking business. Recently, however, with the increased awareness and popularity of the Internet, electronic commerce has come to encompass individual consumers as well as businesses of all size. For most people, electronic …

Useful Arts In The Information Age, Alan L. Durham

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mandatory Community Service: Citizenship Education Or Involuntary Servitude?, Susan M. Anderson

Service Learning, General

A popular topic of conversation lately among parents, educators, policymakers, students and the media is the isolation of young people from their communities. Many people feel schools have a responsibility to build bridges among diverse populations of children and youth, provide nonviolent problem-solving experiences and promote positive activities for young people, even during after-school hours. Involving young people in community service is seen as one potential solution. Indeed, some citizens and educators would like to ensure that all students — including those least likely to participate voluntarily but most likely to benefit from the experience — have the opportunity to …

Allowing Large Hospitals To Merge: United States V. Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Kenneth E. Yeadon

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Regulating Your Internet Diet: The Can Spam Act Of 1999, Vasilios Toliopoulos

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Counselor, Vol. 20, No. 10, November 1, 1999, New York Law School

New York Law School Community Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 1, 1999, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 1, 1999. Volume 84-Issue 49.

Competence And Quality In The Training Of Teachers For The Post Compulsory Sector In The Uk , Bruce Russell, Peter Sanderson

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This issue addresses the broad theme of quality learning. When we invited authors to submit papers for this special issue. we were not prescriptive about what we meant by quality learning However. we were especially interested in some aspects of learning that are particularly important to teacher education at the present time. One of these relates to the quality of the learning outcomes that are achieved by teacher education students. What sort of outcomes should prospective teachers achieve before they take on the complex task of helping others learn?

The Gavel, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

WKU Student Government Association newsletter, The Gavel, November 1999, includes calendar of events.

Accuracy Of Scatterometer-Derived Winds Using The Cramer-Rao Bound, David G. Long, Travis E. Oliphant

Faculty Publications

A wind scatterometer makes measurements of the normalized radar-backscatter coefficient O of the ocean surface. To retrieve the wind, a geophysical model function (GMF), which relates O to the near-surface wind, is used. The wind vector can be estimated using maximum-likelihood techniques from several O measurements made at different azimuth angles. The probability density of the measured O is assumed to be Gaussian with a variance that depends on the true O and therefore, depends on the wind through the GMF. With this model for wind estimation, the Cramer-Rao (C-R) bound is derived for wind estimation, and its implications for …

Seeing More Than We Can Know: Visual Attention And Category Activation, Cn Macrae, Gv Bodenhausen, Ab Milne, G Calvini

School of Psychology

Extending existing work on the conditional automaticity of category activation, the present research investigated the extent to which category activation is moderated by the resolution of visual attention. As visual attention gates access to material in semantic memory, so too should it regulate the activation of social categories when triggering verbal labels are encountered. Accordingly, only when triggering stimuli fall within the spotlight of attention did we expect category activation to occur. The results of two studies supported this prediction. We consider the implications of our findings for recent treatments of category automaticity.

Altered, Pamela Bentzien

Theses

This thesis explores, through photography, the question: What will the landscape of next generations look like? What are we leaving behind for future generations? The author created images which impart a ponderous mood which reflects on how individual lifestyles affect our natural environment. Are we leaving behind any natural resources for our future generations?

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• 'Greek Street Trick-or-Treat' Gives Back to the Community
• Scholarship Fund Established for Former GSU Student
• Opinions
• Classifieds
• Sports

Dit Independent, 1st.-30th. Of November, 1999, Dit:Students Union

DIT Student Union

No abstract provided.

A Free Trade Agreement Between The United States And Mexico: The Right Choice, Jesus Silva, Richard K. Dunn

San Diego Law Review

In this Article, Messrs. Silva and Dunn demonstrate that the intended Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United States and Mexico is a natural and necessary step in the two countries' economic relations. Their approach is to trace the steps which have led to the FTA and to analyze the evolution and progression of Mexican economic, legal, and political polices which have reached a point permitting and necessitating a trade pact. An agreement between the two countries is both logical and compelled though it will have permanent consequences and potential obstacles. Nevertheless, the agreement must be implemented and with an …