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Faculty Senate Monthly Packet December 1999, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The December 1999 Monthly packet includes the December agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held November 1999.

1999 Performance Measures Report For South Florida Commuter Services: Update For Year-End, Cutr

CUTR Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Florida Alcohol-Related Motorcycle Crash Study, Cutr

CUTR Research Reports

No abstract provided.

The Spinnaker Vol. 23 No. 14, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

Unofficial Grapevine, December 1999, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Unofficial Grapevine

The December 1999 issue of the Unofficial Grapevine. Improperly labeled as Vol. 6, No. 11. This issue should be Vol. 6, No. 12.

Financing Telecommunications Projects In Asia: A Promising Regulatory Perspective, Rachelle B. Chong, Wendy Chow

Federal Communications Law Journal

Asia's telecommunications market has long been viewed as lucrative and fast growing. As the benefits of a competitive telecommunications market become apparent, many Asian governments recognize that global corporations require, and in fact demand, state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastructure. After several years of strong growth, however, the severe economic crisis that affected all industry segments in Asia caused investors to pause and reevaluate the risks involved in financing infrastructure projects. Despite the recent Asian economic crisis, the overall picture for Asian telecommunications infrastructure projects remains promising. Asian governments continue to liberalize their regulatory schemes, thus reducing regulatory and political risks to investors. …

Privatization And The Freedom Of Information Act: An Analysis Of Public Access To Private Entities Under Federal Law, Craig D. Feiser

Federal Communications Law Journal

Congress drafted the Freedom of Information Act to ensure that the public would always be able to keep track of the events happening behind governmental agency doors. In an age of privatization of governmental services in the name of efficiency, the Act needs to be adapted to ensure that its original purpose remains sound. Thus far, courts have not kept pace with this purpose by interpreting agency and agency record under the Act too narrowly. This may very well result in government secrecy as services are farmed out to entities not covered under the Act. This Article analyzes the various …

Cable Internet Unbundling: Local Leadership In The Deployment High Speed Access, Marcus Maher

Federal Communications Law Journal

With the pending merger of TCI and AT&T and their promise of "one-stop" television, Internet, and telephone service, the cable Internet issues move to the forefront. The desire of traditional Internet Service Providers to gain access to new high-speed technologies for Internet access led to requests for unbundling or open access to cable systems. Despite the heated debate on the need for unbundling that has occurred at the federal level, local authorities have taken the lead in requiring open access to cable for competing ISPs. General anticompetitive concerns with cable Internet dominated by the cable company could be alleviated in …

Oddzon Products And Derivation Of Invention: At Odds With The Purpose Of Section 102(F) Of The Patent Act Of 1952?, Brian P. Murphy

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Media Access To Juvenile Records: In Search Of A Solution, Shannon Mclatchey

Georgia State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Index To Volume 111, 1999, Kathleen G. Beal

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Job Outlook Remains Bright For Graduates With Technical Degrees, Salary Projections Increase For Other Fields As Well

News Releases

News release announces that UD students graduating this month with degrees in technical fields are the most heavily recruited students on campus.

Sfra Review, December 1999, Science Fiction Research Association

SFRA Newsletter (Science Fiction Research Association)

The December 1999 issue of the SFRA Review.

The Constitutionality Of The Driver’S Privacy Protection Act: A Fork In The Information Access Road, Angela R. Karras

Federal Communications Law Journal

The Driver's Privacy Protection Act, instituted in 1997, regulates the disclosure of personal information in motor vehicle records. New controversy surrounds it today as the U.S. Supreme Court evaluates the arguments presented in November 1999 regarding its constitutionality. A split among circuit courts, coupled with the tremendous growth in technology and subsequent new in-roads for information access, draw increased attention toward the Act. The concern for information access in light of the Act, however, reaches beyond the courts' elucidated concerns about dual sovereignty and the public's right to privacy. This Note argues that there is a forgotten argument: the Act's …

Strike Two: An Analysis Of The Child Online Protection Act’S Constitutional Failures, Heather L. Miller

Federal Communications Law Journal

Congress's first attempt to regulate minors' access to sexually explicit material via the Internet failed. Congress responded with the Child Online Protection Act, which, despite its narrower scope, cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny. This Notes delves into the constitutionality of Congress's second attempt by addressing the difficulty of applying the vague "harmful to minors" definition to the Internet medium and the economic and technological unavailability of the Act's affirmative defenses. This Note concludes with an explanation as to why legislation is an ineffective mechanism to address the problem of minors' access to online pornography.

Prospectus, December 1, 1999, Liz Davis, Neil Bernstein, Philip Gioja, Mitchell E. Wilson

Prospectus 1999

No abstract provided.

Irish Critical Responses To Self-Representation In Eavan Boland, 1987-1995, Catriona Clutterbuck

Colby Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Heist Of Feist: Protection For Collections Of Information And The Possible Federalization Of "Hot News", Jason R. Boyarski

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Java Challenge Software Project, Karuna Annavajjala

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Programming contests are a means of exploiting the problem solving capabilities of developers and they provide a forum for display of extraordinary programming skills. The Java Challenge (JC) Software Project is the saga of creating an automated, secure and responsive programming contest system for deployment on the Internet and to collect information about programming practices, habits, and trends in coding in such restricted environment. The methodology followed to design, implement, and evaluate such a system uses new technologies such as the WWW, mail filtering and sandboxing techniques. The current Java Challenge implementation runs the Java Challenge on a Solaris 2.6 …

Size Fractionation Of Bacterial Functional Diversity Within Soils, Krista Lynne Kinneer

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

BIOLOGRTM GN and GP microtitre plates were used to compare functional diversity of large (>0.45 mum, LC) and small (<0.45 mum, SC) cells within A and B horizons of cultivated and forested Guernsey silt-loam soil without enrichment and following enrichment in dilution culture. Without enrichment, SC exhibited limited substrate utilization compared with LC. B horizon SC failed to positively utilize any carbon substrates, which suggests that they may be physiologically inactive and/or metabolically distinct from those in A horizon soils. Following enrichment, A horizon SC from highly diluted enrichment cultures produced substrate utilization patterns distinct both from all enrichments of LC and from SC obtained in less dilute enrichments. At any given inoculum dilution, A horizon SC exhibited greater substrate utilization than B horizon SC, which exhibited positive substrate utilization following enrichment. Amplified ribosomal DNA (ARDRA) analyses of SC dilution culture enrichments demonstrated distinct bacterial sub-populations from a single soil sample.

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 1999, Issue 3, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

Theresa Glennon, SALT Honors Marjorie Shultz, Barney Frank at the Annual Awards Dinner, at 1.

Stephanie M. Wildman & Phoebe A. Haddon, Presidents' Column, at 2.

Ann Shalleck, SALT Members Initiate "First Monday" Programs, at 3.

Joyce Saltalamachia, SALT Board Meets Twice in San Francisco, at 6.

Howard Glickstein, Urgent Call to Keep the SALT Salary Survey Alive, at 7.

Sharon Hom, Joan Howarth, Eileen Kaufman, Madeline Plasencia, Judith Reed & Margalynne Armstrong, SALT's San Francisco Conference Re-Examines the Bar Exam, at 8.

Barbara Aldave, Bar Examinations: A Call for …

Power And Paradox In The Trickster Figure, Jacob D. Campbell

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

…Of Cabbages And Kings. December, 1999, Emeriti Society, University Of The Pacific

Emeriti Newsletter: "...Of Cabbages and Kings"

"...Of Cabbages and Kings" is the newsletter of the University of the Pacific Emeriti Society. Read more about the Emeriti Society of Pacific by clicking here.

Shrinkwrap And Clickwrap Agreements: 2b Or Not 2b?, Garry L. Founds

Federal Communications Law Journal

Several problems plague typical mass-market software licensing agreement, specifically that the public is powerless to negotiate and the terms often are perceived as exceedingly broad and restrictive. The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act is designed to remedy those problems and establish the general enforceability of such agreements, with certain qualifications related to unconscionability, assent, and other caveats. UCITA, however, does not resolve, or even purport to resolve, the tension between federal copyright law and state contract law. This Note analyzes UCITA's attempt to resolve the enforceability issue; argues for an approach to preemption that promotes clarity and preserves the objectives …

On-Line Bayesian Tree-Structured Transformation Of Hidden Markov Models For Speaker Adaptation, Shaojun Wang, Yunxin Zhao

Kno.e.sis Publications

This paper presents a new recursive Bayesian learning approach for transformation parameter estimation in speaker adaptation. Our goal is to incrementally transform (or adapt) the entire set of HMM parameters for a new speaker or new acoustic enviroment from a small amount of adaptation data. By establishing a clustering tree of HMM Gaussian mixture components, the finest affine transformation parameters for individual HMM Gaussian mixture components can be dynamically searched. The on-line Bayesian learning technique proposed in our recent work is used for recursive maximum a posteriori estimation of affine transformation parameters. Speaker adaptation experiments using a 26-letter English alphabet …

Historical Roots Of Slovenian Christoslavic Mythology, Mitja Velikonja

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Cultural Commentary: Millenarian Visions In Spanish Cinema, Leora Lev

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, December 1999

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Faculty Profile: Beverly Lovett

Bridgewater Review

Profile of Professor Beverly Lovett of the Social Work Department.

Cart: Research On "The Impact Of Wellness Courses" And On "Brockton-Area Transit"

Bridgewater Review

CART grants enable faculty and librarians to pursue research projects. "The Impact of Wellness-Related Courses on BSC Women" (Pamela J. Russell and Kathleen M. Laquale) and "The Role of Brockton Area Transit in the Welfare to Work Program" (Uma Shama and Philip Klotzbach) are among the projects which were recently awarded CART grants.