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Grassland Birds, Bill Whan

Ohio Cardinal

No abstract provided.

The Law Of Group Polarization, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

In a striking empirical regularity, deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own predeliberation judgments. For example, people who are opposed to the minimum wage are likely, after talking to each other, to be still more opposed; people who tend to support gun control are likely, after discussion, to support gun control with considerable enthusiasm; people who believe that global warming is a serious problem are likely, after discussion, to insist on severe measures to prevent global warming. This general phenomenon -- group polarization -- …

Jurisdiction, Choice Of Law, Copyright, And The Internet: Protection Against Framing In An International Setting, Kai Burmeister

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, December 01, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 1999

No abstract provided.

December 1, 1999 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Economic Thresholds In Soybeans: Grasshopper And Bean Leaf Beetle, Michael A. Catangui

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

Main Hall To Main Street, December 1999, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

Main Hall to Main Street, 2005-2010

This is volume 5, number 12 of Main Hall to Main Street.

Student Body Constitution, Eiu Student Government

Student Government Constitution & By-Laws

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: December 01, 1999, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Strategy And Circumstance: The Response Of American Firms To Japanese Competition In Semiconductors, 1980-1995, Richard N. Langlois, W. Edward Steinmueller

Economics Working Papers

The transistor was an American invention, and American firms led the world in semiconductor production and innovation for the first three decades of that industry's existence. In the 1980s, however, Japanese producers began to challenge American dominance. Shrill cries arose from the literature of public policy, warning that the American semiconductor industry would soon share the fate of the lamented American consumer electronics business. Few dissented from the implications: the only hope for salvation would be to adopt Japanese-style public policies and imitate the kinds of capabilities Japanese firms possessed. But the predicted extinction never occurred. Instead, American firms surged …

Technological Standards, Innovation, And Essential Facilities: Toward A Schumpeterian Post-Chicago Approach, Richard N. Langlois

Economics Working Papers

In this essay, I attempt to take seriously Schumpeter's perspective on competition as fundamentally about innovation. Drawing on literatures that concern themselves centrally with the patterns and processes of technological change, I focus on a set of issues very much on the present-day agenda: antitrust policy toward network industries in which technological standards are important. As both scholars and legal cases have suggested, one might logically view a set of standards as an "essential facility" - a technological bottleneck - for those who wish to connect to the network.. I attempt to define the limits of the standard price-theoretic account …

Legacy - December 1999, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Stanley Austin South Awarded Order of the Palmetto.....p. 1
Director’s Notes.....p. 2
Santa Elena Update.....p. 3
Ceramic Workshop.....p. 6
International Rock Art Conference.....p. 7
Pumpkin Site Update.....p. 7
Petroglyph Survey Update.....p. 7
Allendale 1999 Field Season.....p. 8
ART Activities in 1999.....p. 14
SCIAA Researchers Funded.....p. 18
ART Donors.....p. 20
Housatonic Investigation.....p. 22
Prehistoric Dugout Canoe.....p. 26
Historic Ship Supply.....p. 26
State House Project.....p. 26
H.L. Hunley Update.....p. 27
Le Prince Update.....p. 27
Pimlico Shipwreck....p. 28
Student Intern.....p. 28
Confederate Burials Exhumed at The Citadel.....p. 29
SC National Guard Projects.....p. 30
American Battlefield Site Protection Grant.....p. 30
Research at Big …

Unit Root Log Periodogram Regression, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Log periodogram (LP) regression is shown to be consistent and to have a mixed normal limit distribution when the memory parameter d = 1. Gaussian errors are not required. Tests of d = 1 based on LP regression are consistent against d < 1 alternatives but inconsistent against d > 1 alternatives. A test based on a modified LP regression that is consistent in both directions is provided.

The Dayton Its Demonstration Project: Simulating Existing Conditions, Jill A. Swaynos, Nikiforos Stamatiadis

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

The Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission is incorporating an Advanced Traveler Information System to alleviate real-time traffic problems associated with special events at the Ervin J. Nutter Center of the Wright State University. This study of the existing conditions is part of the evaluation plan and addresses two tasks: 1) documentation of the existing conditions; and 2) definition of measures of effectiveness. The existing conditions were depicted with the use of a computer simulation software package, Traffic Software Integrated System and separate scenarios were modeled for three existing conditions: ingress and egress for a special event and a major shopping …

A Primer For The First-Time Law Dean Candidate, Robert H. Jerry Ii

Faculty Publications

This article identifies fourteen principles of which the first-time dean candidate should be mindful. The prescriptions are aspirational in nature, and the article suggests the reader engage in some introspection about which of the fourteen items are most applicable on a personal level.

Design Research: The Newsletter Of The Design Research Society No.67, Stephen Little

Design Research Newsletters (1966-1999)

No abstract provided.

Wright State University Libraries Access Newsletter December 1999, Wright State University Libraries

Access Newsletter

A four page newsletter created by Wright State University Libraries that addresses the current affairs of the Libraries.

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.

Nonlinear Econometric Models With Cointegrated And Deterministically Trending Regressors, Yoosoon Chang, Joon Y. Park, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This paper develops an asymptotic theory for a general class of nonlinear nonstationary regressions, extending earlier work by Phillips and Hansen (1990) on linear cointegrating regressions. The model considered accommodates a linear time trend and stationary regressors, as well as multiple I(1) regressors. We establish consistency and derive the limit distribution of the nonlinear least squares estimator. The estimator is consistent under fairly general conditions but the convergence rate and the limiting distribution are critically dependent upon the type of the regression function. For integrable regression functions, the parameter estimates converge at a reduced n 1 /4 rate and have …

Maximum Likelihood Estimation In Panels With Incidental Trends, Hyungsik Roger Moon, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

It is shown that the maximum likelihood estimator of a local to unity parameter can be consistently estimated with panel data when the cross section observations are independent. Consistency applies when there are no deterministic trends or when there is a homogeneous deterministic trend in the panel model. When there are heterogeneous deterministic trends the panel MLE of the local to unity parameter is inconsistent. This outcome provides a new instance of inconsistent ML estimation in dynamic panels, and, unlike earlier results of this type, applies when both T approaches infinity and N approaches infinity.

Discrete Fourier Transforms Of Fractional Processes, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Discrete Fourier transforms (dft’s) of fractional processes are studied and an exact representation of the dft is given in terms of the component data. The new representation gives the frequency domain form of the model for a fractional process, and is particularly useful in analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the dft and periodogram in the nonstationary case when the memory parameter d > 1/2. Various asymptotic approximations are suggested. It is shown that smoothed periodogram spectral estimates remain consistent for frequencies away from the origin in the nonstationary case provided the memory parameter d < 1. When d = 1, the spectral estimates are inconsistent and converge weakly to random variates. Applications of the theory to log periodogram regression and local Whittle estimation of the memory parameter are discussed and some modified versions of these procedures are suggested.

An Analysis Of The Production Flow At Tmi Systems Design Corporation, Loren J. Zavalney

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to perform a detailed analysis of the production process flow at TMI Systems Design Corporation that will help improve the overall efficiency of the manufacturing process. The study was sectioned into three phases. Phase one of this study was to collect data on the manufacturing process. Phase two of this study was to incorporate the manufacturing process data into flow process charts and flow diagrams. Phase three of this study was to create an operations process flow chart for the model W2052 wall cabinet.

Phase one was accomplished by collecting data while observing the …

French Existentialism And American Popular Culture, 1945–1948, George Cotkin

History

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, December 1, 1999, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Class Ethos And The Politics Of Inquiry: What The Barroom Can Teach Us About The Classroom, Julie Lindquist

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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.

Introduction, Jody Allenrandolph

Colby Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Values-Based Strategies And Planning For Global Organisations, David Kimber

IIMB Management Review

As social, environmental and economic conditions change over the world, global managers must adopt new strategic planning techniques. Historically two contrasting motivations for global activity can be identified. The first, based on a need to enhance security, has led to aggression and conflict. The other is based on an interest in enhancing peoples' lives and an urge to share this understanding. David Kimber suggests that understanding the second perspective, helps managers maintain a stable and long term orientation to global development. Outlining a framework for considering values, he reviews a values focus to clarify first, how it relates to the …