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One Giant Leap. Review Of: Consilience: The Unity Of Knowledge By Edward O. Wilson, Robert Costanza

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

Book review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Edward O. Wilson. Knopf, New York, 1998.

Flatness Properties Of Acts Over Commutative, Cancellative Monoids, Sydney Bulman-Fleming

Mathematics Faculty Publications

This note presents a classification of commutative, cancellative monoids S by flatness properties of their associated S-acts.

On Congruence Compact Monoids, Sydney Bulman-Fleming

Mathematics Faculty Publications

A universal algebra is called congruence compact if every family of congruence classes with the finite intersection property has a non-empty intersection. This paper determines the structure of all right congruence compact monoids S for which Green’s relations J and H coincide. The results are thus sufficiently general to describe, in particular, all congruence compact commutative monoids and all right congruence compact Clifford inverse monoids.

A Critical Analysis Of Retroactive Economic Legislation: A Proposal For Due Process Revitalization In The Economic Arena, Matthew A. Schwartz

Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal

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"God's Litigator" A Review Essay Of Mere Creatures Of The State?: Education, Religion, And The Courts: A View From The Courtroom, Douglas W. Kmiec

Notre Dame Law Review

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Volume 28, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

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How Coasean Bargaining Entails A Prisoners' Dilemma, Wayne Eastman

Notre Dame Law Review

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Possible Explanations Of Phase Transitions In Highway Traffic, C.F. Daganzo, M.J. Cassidy, Robert L. Bertini

Civil and Environmental Engineering

It is shown that all the phase transitions in and out of freely flowing traffic reported earlier for a German site could be caused by bottlenecks, as are all the transitions observed at two other sites examined here. The evidence suggests that bottlenecks cause these transitions in a predictable way, and does not suggest that stoppages (jams) appear spontaneously in free flow traffic for no apparent reason. It is also shown that many of the complicated instability phenomena observed at all locations can be explained qualitatively in terms of a simple Markovian theory specific to traffic that does not necessarily …

Considerations For An Effective Telecommunications-Use Policy, Michael E. Whitman, Anthony M. Townsend, Robert J. Aalberts

Faculty Articles

Recent changes in federal telecommunications legislation have underscored the importance of an up-to-date and effective telecommunications-use policy in business organizations. With the proliferation of the Internet, intranets, and email as commonplace business tools, the potential for misuse and subsequent liability has become an increasing concern. Even though the recent Supreme Court decision struck down the obscenity provisions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), it left intact legislation that effectively mandates development of a sound telecommunications-use policy. In addition to potential liability for systems misuse, organizations have also had to address issues of individual employee privacy within the new systems.

This …

Characterizing Erythrocyte Motions In Flowing Blood, Markos Leggas

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

Characterizing the probabilistic motions of cells is a prerequisite for the development of a general model of transport and surface deposition of white cells and platelets (WBC/P). These phenomena differ greatly when red blood cells (RBC) are present at normal levels, but follow convective diffusion in dilute suspensions. A critical need is to understand and characterize dispersion and diffusion as they apply to red cells in suspension flow. The dispersive motions of
0.5-micrometer beads and fluorescently labeled human RBC flowing in dilute (0.003%) and concentrated (25%) RBC suspensions, respectively, were characterized using fluorescence videomicroscopy methods, and times for individual tracer …

Operational Flexibility And Market Valuation Of Earnings, Charles Y. Tang, Surinder Tikoo

Faculty Working Papers and Articles

This paper examines the association between the stock returns and accounting earnings of firms that have different levels of operational flexibility. Operational flexibility is a firm's ability to respond profitably to environmental fluctuations by shifting factors of production within a multinational network of subsidiaries. The geographic breadth and depth of a firm's multinational network are used as indicators of operational flexibility. We find there is a significantly greater coefficient between stock returns and accounting earnings for multinational firms that operate in many countries, but limit their concentration in any one foreign country, than for other multinational firms or domestic firms. …

Photochemistry And Pinhole Photography: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, Angeliki A. Rigos, Kevin Salemme

Visual & Performing Arts Faculty Publications

This interdisciplinary activity combines chemistry and art through the construction and use of a pinhole camera. We focused on the chemistry of the black and white photographic process as the science component of this activity. The reactions involved are good examples of photochemistry and multiphase chemical reactions, since the light sensitive materials (silver halides) are in the form of a gelatin emulsion of microscopic crystals.

Fast Out-Of-Core Sorting On Parallel Disk Systems, Matthew D. Pearson

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

This paper discusses our implementation of Rajasekaran's (l,m)-mergesort algorithm (LMM) for sorting on parallel disks. LMM is asymptotically optimal for large problems and has the additional advantage of a low constant in its I/O complexity. Our implementation is written in C using the ViC* I/O API for parallel disk systems. We compare the performance of LMM to that of the C library function qsort on a DEC Alpha server. qsort makes a good benchmark because it is fast and performs comparatively well under demand paging. Since qsort fails when the swap disk fills up, we can only compare these algorithms …

1999-2001 Wright State University Undergraduate Course Catalog, Wright State University

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This is a Wright State University undergraduate course catalog from 1999-2001.

Resources And Teaching Strategies To Support Aboriginal Children's Numeracy Learning : A Review Of The Literature, Tracey Frigo

Indigenous Education Research

This literature review focuses on teaching and learning strategies that support the development of numeracy skills in Aboriginal children. Its purpose is to provide a theoretical framework that will inform the development of numeracy materials to support teachers of Aboriginal children in New South Wales primary schools. The key themes which inform a framework for the development of numeracy resources for Aboriginal children are identified as: teaching Aboriginal students; cultural frameworks; engaging in the language of mathematics; and contextualising mathematics.

Open Code And Open Societies: Values Of Internet Governance, Lawrence Lessig

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Catalog | 1999-2000 (June), Jacksonville State University

Announcements, Bulletins & Catalogs | Undergraduate

Vol. 90, No. 1 (June 1999). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.

Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Summer 1999, Vol 26, P 218-276, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

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A Cooperative Effort By The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service, The Nez Perce Tribe, The National Park Service, And Usda Wildlife Services

Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery: Annual Reports

Gray wolf populations (Canis lupus) were extirpated from the western U.S. by the 1930s. Subsequently, wolves from Canada occasionally dispersed south into Montana and Idaho but failed to survive long enough to reproduce. Public attitudes toward predators changed and wolves received legal protection with the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973. Wolves began to successfully recolonize northwestern Montana in the early 1980s. By 1995, 6 packs lived entirely in northwestern Montana. In 1995 and 1996, 66 wolves from southwestern Canada were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park (YNP) (31 wolves) and central Idaho (35 wolves). The …

Spume Drops Produced By The Wind Tearing Of Wave Crests, Richard P. Barber Jr., Magdalena Anguelova, Jin Wu

Physics

The wind tearing of breaking wave crests produces spume drops. The authors report preliminary laboratory data from direct and unambiguous observation of this process under various wind conditions using a video imaging technique. Results include the size distribution and production rates of these drops. The curves for production rates at different wind speeds merge effectively when normalized by the number of breaking events. This confirms that wave breaking occurrence, not the wind speed, is a dominant factor in spume production.

Exploring The Complicationist Gambit: An Austrian Approach To The Economic Analysis Of Law, Gregory Scott Crespi

Notre Dame Law Review

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Exploring The Complicationist Gambit: An Austrian Approach To The Economic Analysis Of Law, Gregory Scott Crespi

Notre Dame Law Review

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On The Practical Meaning Of Secularism, John Finnis

Notre Dame Law Review

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Intensional Contexts And The Rule That Statutes Should Be Interpreted As Consistent With International Law, John M. Rogers

Notre Dame Law Review

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What Logic Can And Cannot Tell Us About Law, Kevin W. Saunders

Notre Dame Law Review

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It's A Wonderful Life: The Case For Hedonic Damages In Wrongful Death Cases, Andrew Jay Mcclurg

Notre Dame Law Review

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Nita And The University, Ronald J. Allen

Notre Dame Law Review

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First Amendment In A Hostile Environment: A Primer On Free Speech And Sexual Harassment, Jules B. Gerard

Notre Dame Law Review

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Affirmative Defense Of Reasonable Care Under Section 12(2) Of The Securities Act Of 1933, Therese H. Maynard

Notre Dame Law Review

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H. Jefferson Powell On The American Constitutional Tradition: A Conversation, Thomas L. Shaffer, John H. Robinson

Notre Dame Law Review

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