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Is That Letter-String Really A Word?, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Most people would agree that SORNIE looks like a word, but DKYODZ does not. Can subjective judgements like these be codified? Can they be translated into explicit rules that rate the word plausibility of a letter-string? This article suggests a few rules, and speculates how they might be combined to forms a super-rule for discriminating between plausible words and impossible combinations. For strings of any length, such rules are likely to be computationally burdensome, requiring a computer to implement them. I propose several rules for letter-strings of length three, and show how well they perform. I then take the best …

The Grinning Cow And His Successors, Mike Morton

Word Ways

As an anagrammist I found the game of musical chairs for the House speakership in late 1998 too good to ignore. Newton Gingrich (the grinning cow) resigned shortly after the November elections, to be replaced by candidate Bob Livingston (glib bison on TV). He in turn removed himself from consideration after certain infidelities came to light, and was supplanted by Dennis Hastert (I hasten trends), another guy we've never heard of.

Eva, Eh? In A Can I Heave!, John E. Connett

Word Ways

In I Love Me, Vol. I, Mike Bonner recognizes a handful of palindromes involving Eva and a cave, including "Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave" and "Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?," both attributed to Leigh Mercer, and "Eva can, I see, bone no bees in a cave," by J.A. Lindon. However, there's lots more that can be said about our troglodytic Eva.

A Statename Chain Revisited, Dan Tilque

Word Ways

"Where are you from?"

"Indiana, Pennsylvania."

"Huh? Make up your mind. Are you from Indiana or Pennsylvania?"

"Both. I'm from the town of Indiana in the state of Pennsylvania."

Top Row Typing, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

A deservedly favourite question is: what is the longest English word that can be typed using only the top row of the typewriter? The very apt answer is TYPEWRITER, at 10 letters. Staying with the QWERTY (not, newspaper column that QUIETWRITER at 11 letters was longer, and also appropriate, as the IBM Quietwriter (a high quality quiet electronic typewriter or printer) also had the QWERTY layout.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Het Clabbers Downplay, William Webster

Word Ways

Eth wot slag ewer ta het mage moor leary; agree, deray. Ungird mage eon, earn eth den, ti saw Savin runt; Barde soling baldy. Myna shook ewer garnets. Fro ancients, ate no REHEAT; ta het felt. Wot sword lustering--MOTHERS drawdown. Eth eon cores earn het einstein.

Retention Of Academic Skills Over The Summer Months In Alternative And Traditional Calendar Schools, Christy Nofsinger

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Alternative calendar schools are increasingly popular alternatives to the traditional nine-month school year and a three-month summer vacation. One purported advantage of a shorter summer vacation is the greater retention of academic material because there is less time to "forget" what was learned. While alternative calendar schools appear to be increasing in number, little research has been conducted to actually measure academic differences in these schools. The purpose of this research was to systematically compare the retention of academic skills of students in traditional and alternative calendar schools over the summer months. Three county-wide school districts participated in this study. …

Alphabetic Trigrams And Tetragrams, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

Many words contain a trigram comprising three consecutive letters of the alphabet. The most commonly occurring are DEF (DEFine, DEFeat, DEFt, etc.) and STU (STUck, STUb, paSTUre, etc.).

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 32 Issue 2

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

William Wheatley: A Retrospective, Melissa K. Kaup

Theses

William F. Wheatley was an active participant during the "turbulent" typesetting years. His first years in the typographic field were spent working beside Bently Raak at Varityper Corporation. They worked with character designs for the Varityper and the Headliner "cold-type" line of machines and moved into collaborating with Photon, Inc. for photo typesetting machines. As the necessity for typographic experience increased for foreign languages, Mr. Wheatley was transferred to Varityper s European division. In the daily effort of obtaining typefaces and designing proper character sets, he became associated with many of the European type foundries and companies. Mr. Wheatley's experience …

Faculty Senate Senate Membership, 1998, Vol 24, P 8, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Elections Result Memo, 1998, Vol 24, P 7, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

Cultural Competence In Medicaid Managed Care Purchasing: General And Behavioral Health Services For Persons With Mental And Addiction-Related Illnesses And Disorders, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Joel B. Teitelbaum

Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs

This Issue Brief explores cultural competence. Employing the data base from the large-scale Medicaid contract analysis conducted annually by the Center for Health Services Research and Policy (CHSRP) (now CHPR), we examine the approaches that state agencies take in implementing the concept of cultural competence in the design and implementation of their managed care systems.

The Assault That Failed: The Progressive Critique Of Laissez Faire (Reviewing Barbara H. Fried, The Progressive Assault On Laissez Faire : Robert Hale And The First Law And Economics Movement (1998)), Richard A. Epstein

Articles

No abstract provided.

Sound The Trumpets! Quebec Is Shouting, "Victory!" Despite The Canadian Supreme Court's Denial Of Unilateral Secession, Elizabeth L. Wiltanger

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Is There A Focal Meaning Of Being In Aristotle?, Jiyuan Yu

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

At the beginning of Metaphysics Γ Aristotle claims that there is a science which is concerned with being qua being. 'Being’ is said in many senses. Different beings are not said to be purely homonymous, but rather to be “related to one thing (πρόσ ἕν)”(1003a33- 4). G.E.L Owen translates this ττρός ἕν formula as "focal meaning", and in his paraphrase, it means that all the “senses [of ‘being’] have one focus, one common element”, or “a central sense”, so that “all its senses can be explained in terms of substance and of the sense of ‘being’ that is appropriate to …

A Work In Progress, Kelly Jean Throw

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

The Deaf Catholic, May-June 1999

ICDA The Deaf Catholic

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA The Deaf CatholicFinding Aid

Educating Chinese Seminarians In North America: A Cross Cultural Understanding Of Teaching And Learning, Alankalun Lai

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Preaching The Gospel From The Gospels, Henry Langknecht

Consensus

Beasley-Murray, George Raymond. Preaching the gospel from the Gospels. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson, 1996.

Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations & Mozart's Requiem, Desmond Manderson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vanity In Human Life-A Comparative Study Of The Role Of Hebel In Qoheleth And Wu In The Philosophical Thought Of Wang Bi, Samuel Hsiao-Yung Liu

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The aim of this study is to increase the mutual understanding between the Old Testament and ancient Chinese thought. The methodology is both cross-cultural and exegetical. Without the effort of exegesis, an understanding of hebel would be colored by one's own assumptions and prejudices. The same thing is true of ancient Chinese philosophy. The concept of wu was first discussed not by Wang Bi but by Lao Zia (in about the fifth century B.C.E.), the founder of Daoism. A$ a re-interpreter of wu, Wang-Bi developed the original meaning of Lao Zi and increased a new spirit for Daoism, Confucianism and …

Modes Of Law: Music And Legal Theory - An Interdisciplinary Workshop Introduction, Desmond Manderson, David Caudill

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dark Phoenix: The Representation Of Black Woman In Je Suis Martiniquais By Mayotte Capecia And Mon Examen De Blanc By Jacqueline Manicom, Sybil Shevron Jackson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Black women writers in the French West Indies were conspicuously absent from the literary canon during the negritude movement in the 1940's. Mayotte Capecia was one of the few who managed to write during this time. Capecia was criticized severely for her novel Je suis Martiniquais by Frantz Fanon and accused of betraying her race because of the inter-racial love affair between her heroine and a French soldier. Jacqueline Manicom, her literary descendant who wrote Mon Examen de Blanc in 1972, was ostracized from the medical profession for her political beliefs concerning women's rights.

This dissertation examines images and representation …

Perceptions Of American Indian Students Of Their Experiences And Factors Related To Retention In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education, Donald R. Day

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of American Indian students regarding higher education and to examine factors that contribute to or create obstacles to their retention and graduation. The sample of American Indian students was selected from five Upper Midwest institutions of higher education and was stratified by age and by gender. A total of 100 students participated in the study, with 20 from each institution representing equal numbers of traditional age females (18–24 years of age), traditional age males, females older than average (25 years of age or older), and males older than average.

All …

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Wayne Martino, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English, Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (July through December; 1998, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related studies that appeared in the period under review Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your suggestions …

Habitus Wars And Field(S) Of Dreams: Using Bourdieu To Reframe The Sense Of A Crisis, Louann Hofheins Cummings

Student Scholarship

The paper illustrates the application of Pierre Bourdieu's oeuvre to a qualitative research project regarding organizational change. Considerable attention is given to the interaction of field delineation, capital stakes struggle, interests, and individual/class habitus at both a church and a medical college. It is posited that a focus on field analysis considers the sources of capital struggle in a given realm. This, in turn, grants a researcher a new way to analyze who participates in these struggles, what prized capital stimulates interest, and how action and prctices are subsequently engendered. This body of work suggests that agents and/or classes have …

Economic Development And Health Status Among The Poor In Squatter Settlements Of Karachi., Fauziah Rabbani, Anwer T. Merchant

Community Health Sciences

OBJECTIVE:

Socioeconomic status is an important determinant of health outcome measures. This study examines and presents some of the important health outcomes amongst the higher and lower socioeconomic groups within the urban poor.

SETTING:

Data analysis is based on a Health and Demographic Survey conducted in urban squatter settlements of Karachi in 1996.

METHODS:

A structured questionnaire was administered to all households in the catchment area. The indicator used to assess economic status is ownership of assets.

RESULTS:

Comparison between the two economic levels shows that the lower socio-economic group was more likely to experience child mortality, (CI; 1.02-1.29, p …