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Profiting From Adversity - Meeting The Challenge Of Salinity Through New Industry Development, Andrew Quinn, Tamara Law, Peter Rowe

Natural resources published reports

Salinity in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia is one of the most significant challenges facing the State's agricultural sector.

Efforts to manage the increasing effect of salt influenced and threatened farming land requires not only the implementation of new farming systems, but a new way of thinking and attitude to production more in tune with environmental and technological limitations.

While past environment lobby pressures have significantly focused on other production activities such as mining and forestry, the future is likely to see increased community interest in agricultural production systems.

Consumers World wide are becoming more environmentally sensitive, with global media …

Edited And Unedited Writings Of St. Justin De Jacobis, Giuseppe Guerra C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Le Sacerdoce Vincentien En Tant Que Missionnaire: Essai Composé Pour Le 400Ème Anniversaire De L’Ordination De S. Vincent, Robert P. Maloney C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Moral And Legal Rhetoric In International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective, Eric A. Posner, Jack L. Goldsmith

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Critics of realist and rational choice approaches to international law argue that if nations were motivated entirely by power or self-interest, their leaders would not make moral and legal arguments because no one would believe them. Thus, the prevalence of moral and legal rhetoric on the international stage refutes the behavioral assumptions of realism and rational choice. This paper argues that even if nations are not motivated by a desire to comply with morality or law, the use of moral and legal arguments could occur in equilibrium. Signaling and cheap talk models show that nations may engage in talk in …

The Dormant Commerce Clause And The Internet, Jack L. Goldsmith, Alan O. Sykes

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

The Zen Of Corporate Capital Structure Neutrality, Herwig J. Schlunk

Michigan Law Review

It is well understood that corporate capital structure affects tax collections. Most basically, corporate interest expense is deductible. With each interest accrual, the corporate tax base shrinks. Thus, there is a broad range of circumstances in which corporate managers are encouraged by the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") to load their corporate capital structures with debt. But there is little support for the proposition that Conpress desires corporations to adopt such debt-laden capital structures. Indeed, much tax legislation suggests congressional displeasure with the achievable degree of corporate self- integration. On the other hand, corporate equity has its charms: shareholders are …

Performance Enhancement By Memory Reduction, Yonghong Song, Rong Xu, Cheng Wang, Zhiyuan Li

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

An Access Protocol To Provide Qos In Wireless :Networks, Xin Liu, Edwin K. P. Chong, Ness B. Shroff

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In wireless networks, contention-and-reservation schemes provitle promising implementations of packet switching, which efficiently multiplexes different classes of traffic. In this report, we present an access scheme to satisfy the QoS requirements for two classes of traffic during the contention-based communicat,ion. In this algorithm, different classes of users contend with other users for resources based on controlled class-dependent permission probabilities. We prove that our algorithm is stable for a large class of arrival processes. Under certain QoS requirements, we derive an upper-bound for the throughput for a general class of random access algorithms. We show that the throughput of our algorithm …

Taking Pierce Seriously: The Family, Religious Education, And Harm To Children, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

Many States exempt religious parents from prosecution, or limit their exposure to criminal liability, when their failure to seek medical care for their sick or injured children is motivated by religious belief. This paper explores the question what, if anything, the debate about these exemptions says about the state's authority to override parents' decisions about education, particularly religious education. If we accept, for example, that the state may in some cases require medical treatment for a child, over her parents' objections, to avoid serious injury or death, should it follow that it may regulate, or even forbid, a child's religious …

Review Of The Cold War: A History In Documents, David Lindsey Snead

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, November 1, 2000

Central Florida Future

High tide for UCF; Cultural Awareness provided by annual International Fair; Students take part in debate held at UCF.

Adult Student Satisfaction With Overall Learning Experiences At East Tennessee State University., Linda Gale Wyatt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined adult students' perceptions of satisifaction levels within specific areas of the ETSU campus. The population surveyed included 106 undergraduate adult learners aged 25 years and older. The Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory, 4-year College and University Version was the survey instrument used to share feedback about the adult learners' collegiate experiences thus far. Responses received would give campus leadership feedback about the satisfaction levels of adult learners at ETSU.

The purpose of this study was to determine if the adult learner at ETSU is satisfied with his/her overall learning experience. Adult students were asked to rank programs …

Dielectric Function Of Amorphous Tantalum Oxide From The Far Infrared To The Deep Ultraviolet Spectral Region Measured By Spectroscopic Ellipsometry, Eva Franke, C. L. Trimble, M. J. Devries, John A. Woollam, Mathias Schubert, F. Frost

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Amorphous tantalum oxide thin films were deposited by reactive rf magnetron sputtering onto [001] silicon substrates. Growth temperature, oxygen partial pressure, and total gas pressure have been varied to obtain thin films with different densities. The thin films were analyzed by glancing angle-of-incidence x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, and variable angle-of-incidence spectroscopic ellipsometry in the near infrared to vacuum ultraviolet spectral region for photon energies from E=1 to 8.5 eV, and in the infrared region from E=0.03 to 1 eV. We present the dielectric function of amorphous tantalum oxide obtained by line shape analysis of the experimental ellipsometric …

Electrophysiological Studies Of Olfaction In The Whip Spider Phrynus Parvulus (Arachnida, Amblypygi), Eileen Hebets, Reginald F. Chapman

Eileen Hebets Publications

The olfactory response of the whip spider Phrynus parvulus from Costa Rica was examined using a technique analogous to that used for insect electroantennograms on the tarsi of the antenniform legs which bear multiporous sensilla. Responses to 42 chemicals representing different chain lengths of alkanes, carboxylic acids, alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones, as well as some esters, monoterpenes, and phenolics were examined. Fifty-four percent of the chemicals tested elicited responses. Concentration–response curves were generated for guaiacol, hexanal, methyl salicylate, benzaldehyde, octanoic acid, and linalool. Guaiacol, benzaldehyde, and hexanol elicited the greatest responses and no differences were detected between the sexes. Compounds …

Report Of The Qcd Tools Working Group, R. K. Ellis, R. Field, S. Mrenna, Gregory R. Snow, C. Balazs, E. Boos, J. Campbell, R. Demina, J. Huston, C-Y. P. Ngan, A. Petrelli, I. Puljak, T. Sjostrand, J. Smith, D. Stuart, K. Sumorok

Gregory Snow Publications

We report on the activities of the “QCD Tools for heavy flavors and new physics searches” working group of the Run II Workshop on QCD and Weak Bosons. The contributions cover the topics of improved parton showering and comparisons of Monte Carlo programs and resummation calculations, recent developments in Pythia, the methodology of measuring backgrounds to new physics searches, variable flavor number schemes for heavy quark electro-production, the underlying event in hard scattering processes, and the Monte Carlo MCFM for NLO processes.

Clean Intermittent Catheterization In Saudi Children. Suggestion For A Common Protocol, Roberto De Castro, Ahmad M. Alshammari

Saudi Medical Journal

In the last thirty years, clean intermittent catheterization of urinary bladder has proven to be one of the most important advances in Urology. Clean intermittent catheterizationis already utilized in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but the materials and the methods in use are not always the most appropriate. The acceptance of the long-term treatment with clean intermittent catheterization among Saudi families does not seem to be adequate. Moreover, the knowledge and the agreement about clean intermittent catheterization by Saudi Medical Community, and even among Urologists, does not seem to be satisfactory everywhere. We analyzed many different catheters and their cost. …

Multiple Choice Questions In Medical Schools, Dirk Deleu, Awad M. Ahmed

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Comparative Studies Of Dissociative Electron Attachment To Methyl Halides, R. S. Wilde, Gordon A. Gallup, Ilya I. Fabrikant

Gordon Gallup Publications

The dissociative electron attachment cross sections for the methyl halides vary in an enormous range from the virtually unmeasurable 10⁻²³ cm² for CH₃Cl at room temperature to 10⁻¹⁴ cm² for CH₃I. In this paper we supplement our previous studies by calculations of dissociative electron attachment to CH₃Br and compare results for all methyl halides studied so far. The rate as a function of temperature for CH₃Cl and CH₃Br exhibits an exponential dependence on 1/T (Arrhenius law) with the activation energy lower for CH₃Br. …

The Zen Of Corporate Capital Structure Neutrality, Herwig J. Schlunk

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Given the current tax rate structure - where the marginal tax rate of some persons exceeds the corporate tax rate and the marginal tax rate of others is exceeded by it - corporations are generally well advised to employ both debt and equity in their capital structures. The former will be held by low tax rate taxpayers and will serve to lower the effective aggregate tax rate6 on the corporation's taxable income. The latter will be held by high tax rate taxpayers and will serve to keep low the effective aggregate tax rate on the corporation's unrecognized economic income (such …

Constitutional Change And International Government, Chantal Thomas

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Octofoil, November/December 2000, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Ccd Speckle Observations Of Binary Stars From The Southern Hemisphere. Ii. Measures From The Lowell-Tololo Telescope During 1999, Elliott P. Horch, Otto Franz, Zoran Ninkov

Articles

Speckle observations of 145 double stars and suspected double stars are presented and discussed. On the basis of multiple observations, a total of 280 position angle and separation measures are determined, as well as 23 high-quality nondetections. All observations were taken with the (unintensified) Rochester Institute of Technology fast-readout CCD camera mounted on the Lowell-Tololo 61 cm telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory during 1999 October. We find that the measures, when judged as a whole against ephemeris positions of binaries with very well-known orbits, have root mean square deviations of (1.8+/- 0.3) degrees in position angle and (13+/-2) …

The Exclusionary Rule And Damages: An Economic Comparison Of Private Remedies For Unconstitutional Police Conduct, Jeffrey Standen

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Let's Be Reasonable Here: Why The Ada Will Not Ruin Professional Sports, Michael Waterstone

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Preslar V. Commissioner: Debt-Discharge Income And Its Rationale, Chad J. Pomeroy

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Www.Wildwest.Gov: The Impact Of The Internet On State Power To Enforce The Law, Terrence Berg

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Clear Inarticulation--State Action Antitrust Immunity And State Agencies: Neo Gen Screening, Inc. V. New England Newborn Screening Program, Shane L. Keppner

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Case Briefs, Depaul College Of Law

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Applying Murphy Bros. V. Michetti Pipe Stringing, Inc To Removal In Multiple-Defendant Lawsuits, Barbara A. Wiseman

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Power Of Congress Over The Rules Of Precedent, John Harrison

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.