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Wavelet-Based Testing For Serial Correlation Of Unknown Form In Panel Models, Chihwa Kao Jan 2000

Wavelet-Based Testing For Serial Correlation Of Unknown Form In Panel Models, Chihwa Kao

Center for Policy Research

Wavelet analysis is a new mathematical tool developed as a unified field of science over the last decade. As spatially adaptive analytic tools, wavelets are useful for capturing serial correlation where the spectrum has peaks or kinks, as can arise from persistent/strong dependence, seasonality or use of seasonal data such as quarterly and monthly data, business cycles, and other kinds of periodicity. This paper proposes a new class of wavelet-based tests for serial correlation of unknown form in the estimated residuals of an error component model, where the error components can be one-way or two-way, the individual and time effects …

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Testing For Structural Change Of A Time Trend Regression In Panel Data, Jamie Emerson, Chihwa Kao Jan 2000

Testing For Structural Change Of A Time Trend Regression In Panel Data, Jamie Emerson, Chihwa Kao

Center for Policy Research

In this paper we propose two classes of test statistics for detecting a break at an unknown date in panel data models with time trend. The first one is the fluctuation test of Ploberger-Kramer-Kontrus (1989). The second one is based on the mean and exponential Wald statistics of Andrew and Ploberger (1994) and maximum Wald statistic of Andrew (1993). We derive the limiting distributions of the proposed test and tabulate the critical values. Asymptotic results were derived I(0), I(1) and nearly I(1) error terms. We also show that these tests have non-trivial local power only when the error terms are …

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Symposium: Rational Actors Or Rational Fools? The Implications Of Psychology For Products Liability: Introduction, Carl T. Bogus Jan 2000

Symposium: Rational Actors Or Rational Fools? The Implications Of Psychology For Products Liability: Introduction, Carl T. Bogus

Roger Williams University Law Review

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The Growth And Distribution Of The Green Alga Cladophora At Presqu'ile Provincial Park: Implications For Management (Ontario), Dolf Craig Dejong Jan 2000

The Growth And Distribution Of The Green Alga Cladophora At Presqu'ile Provincial Park: Implications For Management (Ontario), Dolf Craig Dejong

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The Green alga genus Caldophora is one of the most abundant kinds of algae worldwide, found in both freshwater and marine environments. It prefers nutrient-rich waters and requires a rocky substrate and water movement for growth. When water temperatures reach 22 to 26 C, the alga dies and washes into shore in large mats. Dead Cladophora produces a terrible odour, reduces property values and can alter the taste of drinking water. At Presqu’ile Provincial Park, maximum Cladophora sloughing occurred July 22 1999, the same time as peak summer park visitation begins. This results in the fouling of the Park’s beaches …

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The Paradoxes Of Free Software, Stephen M. Mcjohn Jan 2000

The Paradoxes Of Free Software, Stephen M. Mcjohn

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

This paper describes the legal structure of open source software and analyzes the likely issues to arise. A combination of copyright law and trademark law serves to permit the free distribution of open source software. The software is kept under copyright, but freely licensed under one of various open source licenses. The legal structure of open source is an elegant and robust use of intellectual property law that turns the customary use of intellectual property on its head, by using intellectual property laws, which normally are used to guard exclusive rights, to safeguard free access to and use of software. …

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Hi-O-Hi 2000, Oberlin College Jan 2000

Hi-O-Hi 2000, Oberlin College

Hi-O-Hi Yearbooks

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Time Domain Probabilistic Risk Assessment:, George Baker Jan 2000

Time Domain Probabilistic Risk Assessment:, George Baker

Selected Works

For critical facilities, survivability and reconstitution in stressful environments generated by electromagnetic transients, sabotage, terrorist activity, military conflict, or Murphy’s laws are issues of concern. Critical fixed facilities are likely to be functionally complex and their system-wide failure probabilities, modes, and consequences are often not obvious. To analyze and quantify survivability, existing probabilistic risk assessment tools usually provide a “snapshot” of failure modes at a single point of time for certain initiating conditions. Likewise, elaborate physics models developed to treat weapons effects on structures and individual functional components compute effects at a single time point. We have developed a tool …

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Disarticulation And Dissolution Of Crab Remains Across A Depth Gradient In The Bahamas: A Taphonomic Study, Rebecca A. Lincoln Jan 2000

Disarticulation And Dissolution Of Crab Remains Across A Depth Gradient In The Bahamas: A Taphonomic Study, Rebecca A. Lincoln

Honors Papers

The fields of Paleontology and Paleoecology would not be complete without taphonomy, the study of the processes affecting organisms between death and fossilization. Taphonomy is important because it allows us to make more complete conjectures about prehistoric organisms and environments, and makes us aware of possible holes and biases in the fossil record due to highly destructive processes or the loss of delicate, non-resistant organisms. Studies on the processes affecting modern organisms have contributed greatly to the understanding of ancient processes; however, most of these studies are nearshore and short-term. What is lacking is information on the effects of these …

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The Us School Breakfast Program: Short- And Long-Term Academic Effects, Chris Rohlfs Jan 2000

The Us School Breakfast Program: Short- And Long-Term Academic Effects, Chris Rohlfs

Honors Papers

This paper evaluates short- and long-term academic effects of the US School Breakfast Program (SBP). The paper divides into four sections: an introduction (page 4), a literature review (page 11), a statistical model (page 31), and an empirical model (page 38). In the first section, we cover general facts and details about the SBP. In the second section, we first review literature relevant to the SBP (supply, demand, and short-term effects studies). Next, we explore studies of the long-term effects of schooling and of school quality. Many of the techniques and information from these studies relate to our discussion of …

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Asset Price Inflation- Theory, History, And An Alternative Model, Christian Fitchett Jan 2000

Asset Price Inflation- Theory, History, And An Alternative Model, Christian Fitchett

Honors Papers

This paper takes a different approach by developing a model based on the boom and bust cycle of Japan during the mid to late 1980's, using currently accepted theory. In section II, I review the general characteristics of asset bubbles to familiarize the reader and offer some historical examples. Section III offers a review of many of the theoretical papers on asset bubbles, as well as empirical papers, which involve similar phenomena in order to gain some insight in building the model. In section IV, I build a theoretical model. Section V begins preliminary testing to examine this theory and …

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Metametascience Towards Reconciliation, John P. Kennedy Jan 2000

Metametascience Towards Reconciliation, John P. Kennedy

Honors Papers

The ideal of consilience - the inductive concurrence of seemingly disparate ways of thinking into a single, unified, all-encompassing intellectual system - or more simply put, "unified learning" - has been largely set aside since the rise of the industrial age and the championing of the industrious, better-be it individualized mind of the enlightenment. The Catholic Church was the last western world-dominant institution to actively perpetuate and work according to the rubric of a unified field of knowledge. Our thoughts and everything else were under God and indivisible: our ethics and our physics alike were the immaterial idea-stuff of the …

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Phylogenetic Inference And Neanderthal Mitochondrial Dna: Comparison Of Parsimony And Distance Models, Menahem Baguio Doura Jan 2000

Phylogenetic Inference And Neanderthal Mitochondrial Dna: Comparison Of Parsimony And Distance Models, Menahem Baguio Doura

Honors Papers

Recently, mtDNA was successfully extracted and sequenced from the Neanderthal type specimen (Krings et al, 1997, 1999). Researches attempted to determine the genetic relationship between the Neanderthal specimen and modem human populations using phylogenetic analysis and concluded that the variation existing between the Neanderthal specimen and the modem lineages falls outside the range of variation of modem human populations. Using molecular mutation rate assumptions, it has been concluded that the Neanderthal line diverged from the line leading to modem humans hundreds of thousands of years previous to earlier estimates. This suggests that Neanderthals went extinct without contributing genes to the …

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Bad-Boy Bryozoan Biomarkers: Cheilostome Distribution Patterns Along A Bahamian Depth Gradient, Christopher J. Nytch Jan 2000

Bad-Boy Bryozoan Biomarkers: Cheilostome Distribution Patterns Along A Bahamian Depth Gradient, Christopher J. Nytch

Honors Papers

In 1993 and 1994, the Shelf and Slope Experimental Taphonomy Initiative (SSETI) deployed thirty-five samples of sea urchins along the continental shelf/slope of the Bahamas in an effort to explore the paleoecology and taphonomic potentials of shallow water carbonate environments. Samples were retrieved at 1-, 2-, and 6-year intervals for examination and comparison of epibiont accumulation. Tests and spines of the sea urchin Eucidaris were examined for encrusting cheilostome Bryozoa. Specimens were identified to the genus level. Assessment of abundance and distribution patterns with water depth shows that cheilostomes are prevalent in photic waters, and lacking at depth. Burial of …

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Teaching Systems Science In High School Compared To Graduate School, Wayne W. Wakeland Jan 2000

Teaching Systems Science In High School Compared To Graduate School, Wayne W. Wakeland

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper compares System Dynamic models built by graduate students to those built by high school students. The motivation behind this comparison is to explore the question: "How effectively is feedback-oriented system dynamics being taught in secondary schools compared to graduate school?" The paper will also speculate regarding implications for other systems concepts.

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Annual Report 2000, Czech National Bank Jan 2000

Annual Report 2000, Czech National Bank

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Commencement Program 2000, Whitworth University Jan 2000

Commencement Program 2000, Whitworth University

Commencement Programs

Undergraduate Commencement exercises of Whitworth College in May 2000.

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Separation Property Of Solutions For A Semilinear Elliptic Equation, Yi Liu, Yi Li, Yinbin Deng Jan 2000

Separation Property Of Solutions For A Semilinear Elliptic Equation, Yi Liu, Yi Li, Yinbin Deng

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

In this paper, we study the following elliptic problem[formula]where K(x) is a given function in Cα(n\0) for some fixed α∈(0, 1), p>1 is a constant. Some existence, monotonicity and asymptotic expansion at infinity of solutions of (*) are discussed.

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The Cypress Dome Spring 2000 Issue 11, David Cropper, Managing Editor Jan 2000

The Cypress Dome Spring 2000 Issue 11, David Cropper, Managing Editor

The Cypress Dome

This year's Cypress Dome staff would like to express its sincere gratitude to all who made this publication possible. We especially wish to thank the Student Government Association, the Office of Academic Affairs, Dean Seidel and the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Dawn Trouard and the Department of English, and Dr. Joyce Lilie and the Art Department. For their guidance and time, thank you to Dr. Don Stap, Jeanne Leiby, Ru Kesler, and Carey Tibbetts.

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Business To Business Marketing: Service Recovery And Customer Satisfaction Issues With Ocean Shipping Lines, Srinivas Durvasula, Steven Lysonski, Subhash Mehta Jan 2000

Business To Business Marketing: Service Recovery And Customer Satisfaction Issues With Ocean Shipping Lines, Srinivas Durvasula, Steven Lysonski, Subhash Mehta

Marketing Faculty Research and Publications

The tenets of relationship marketing are useful in understanding the success of a service provider. Based on a sample of 221 firms in Singapore that use ocean freight shipping services, examines service recovery issues related to satisfaction. It was found that service recovery methods such as claims handling, problem handling and complaint handling are associated with the level of satisfaction of customers. In addition, interfacing departments also have varying association with levels of satisfaction of customers. Finds that users of these services can identify problems they experience with ocean freight shipping services, and this may impact their choice of most …

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Laree R. Nielsen V. Robin A. Nielsen And Rod Nielsen : Brief In Opposition To Certiorari, Utah Supreme Court Jan 2000

Laree R. Nielsen V. Robin A. Nielsen And Rod Nielsen : Brief In Opposition To Certiorari, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

An Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District Court for Utah County, State of Utah, Honorable Steven L. Hanson

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Patrick K. Hogle; Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Company, A Utah Corporation; Ronald A. Johnson; J.W. Gallivan Children's Trust; H. Mack Brown; Jeff Owen; And Claire A. Singleton, Plaintiffs, Vs. Zinetics Medical, Inc., A Utah Corporation; Medtronic, Inc., A Minnesota ; Corporation, Defendants : Zinetics Medical, Inc., Petitioners, Vs. Ayyoob Abbaszadeh; Kenneth Anderson; Richard Belliston, Et Al. Respondents,: Brief Of Appellant, Utah Supreme Court Jan 2000

Patrick K. Hogle; Salt Lake, Garfield & Western Railway Company, A Utah Corporation; Ronald A. Johnson; J.W. Gallivan Children's Trust; H. Mack Brown; Jeff Owen; And Claire A. Singleton, Plaintiffs, Vs. Zinetics Medical, Inc., A Utah Corporation; Medtronic, Inc., A Minnesota ; Corporation, Defendants : Zinetics Medical, Inc., Petitioners, Vs. Ayyoob Abbaszadeh; Kenneth Anderson; Richard Belliston, Et Al. Respondents,: Brief Of Appellant, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

PATRICK K. HOGLE; SALT LAKE, GARFIELD & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, a Utah corporation; RONALD A. JOHNSON; J.W. GALLIVAN CHILDREN'S TRUST; H. MACK BROWN; JEFF OWEN; and CLAIRE A. SINGLETON, Plaintiffs, vs. ZINETICS MEDICAL, INC., a Utah corporation; MEDTRONIC, INC., a Minnesota ; corporation, Defendants. ; ZINETICS MEDICAL, INC., Petitioners, vs. AYYOOB ABBASZADEH; KENNETH ANDERSON; RICHARD BELLISTON, et al. Respondents, Court File No. 980905416 CR )\\ Appellate Court No. 20000470 I Subject to Assignment to the Court of i Appeals APPELLANTS' OPENING BRIEF APPEAL FROM THE THIRD JUDICIAL COURT FOR SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH THE HONORABLE RONALD N. NEHRING, …

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Hypothetical Origins Of Paleozoic Fossils From The Gulf Coastal Plain Of Arkansas, Karen Arbuckle Jan 2000

Hypothetical Origins Of Paleozoic Fossils From The Gulf Coastal Plain Of Arkansas, Karen Arbuckle

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

A fauna of reworked Paleozoic fossils has been found in chert pebbles from the Gulf Coastal Plain in eastern Columbia County, Arkansas, although the nearest mapped exposure of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian rocks are fifty-five miles northward in the southern edge of the Ouachita Mountains. The surficial rocks at the collection site have been referred to the Claiborne Group of Eocene age by the authors of the geological map of Arkansas. Additional outcrops containing similar Paleozoic fossils have been found within a 15-mile radius. The fauna includes both lacy and twig-like bryozoans, articulate brachiopods, tabulate and rugose corals, stalked echinoderms, gastropods, …

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Reaction Of Alpine-Borane With Aldehydes: Reactivity Rate Assessment By Observation Of The Disappearance Of The Carbonyl N - Pi* Peak By Uv-Visible Spectroscopy, Layla Bland, Michael J. Panigot Jan 2000

Reaction Of Alpine-Borane With Aldehydes: Reactivity Rate Assessment By Observation Of The Disappearance Of The Carbonyl N - Pi* Peak By Uv-Visible Spectroscopy, Layla Bland, Michael J. Panigot

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Due to an unexpectedly difficult reduction of indole-3-carbaldehyde and of isobutyraldehyde using the chiral reducing agent Alpine-Borane, the reactivity of several aliphatic, aromatic, and unsaturated aldehydes was investigated. This was done in order to determine whether there was a relationship between aldehyde structure and reduction rate. It was found that aliphatic aldehydes and aromatic aldehydes with no strongly electron-donating groups on the arene ring reduced faster than unsaturated aldehydes.

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84th Annual Meeting, 2000. Secretary's Report And Financial Statement, Academy Editors Jan 2000

84th Annual Meeting, 2000. Secretary's Report And Financial Statement, Academy Editors

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Physicochemical Characteristics And Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Of Riffles Upstream And Downstream Of A Streambank Impacted By Unrestricted Cattle Access, Ronald L. Johnson, Daniel D. Ward, Richard S. Grippo Jan 2000

Physicochemical Characteristics And Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Of Riffles Upstream And Downstream Of A Streambank Impacted By Unrestricted Cattle Access, Ronald L. Johnson, Daniel D. Ward, Richard S. Grippo

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Riparian zones are important contributors to stream ecosystem health. Alteration of such areas can change stream structure and function, resulting in modified productivity and hydrologic patterns. We studied two riffle sites on the South Fork of the Spring River in Fulton County, AR upstream and downstream of a streambank ostensibly degraded by unrestricted cattle access. The two sites were measured for differences in physical habitat (including bank width, stream velocity, depth, substrate composition, and embeddedness), chemical characteristics (including dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, turbidity and total suspended solids) and biological characteristics (including benthic macroinvertebrate community composition, similarity, and standing crop). Measurements …

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Study Of The Amplitude Of Pressure And Thrust Oscillations In A Lab-Scale Hybrid Rocket, Ann Wright, Lawrence Dunn, Brian Alford, Justin Patton, M. Keith Hudson Jan 2000

Study Of The Amplitude Of Pressure And Thrust Oscillations In A Lab-Scale Hybrid Rocket, Ann Wright, Lawrence Dunn, Brian Alford, Justin Patton, M. Keith Hudson

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Hybrid rockets are being studied as a potential replacement for the solid rocket boosters on the NASA space shuttle. One physical characteristic of hybrid rockets that must be understood and overcome is potentially severe pressure oscillations during combustion. Pressure oscillations inside the rocket combustion chamber lead to oscillations in the thrust of the rocket. These oscillations are damaging to potential human passengers and cargo and must be minimized. Current theories surmise that the oscillations are caused by combustion chamber geometry, oxygen feed line parameters, and/or fuel combustion characteristics. This study focuses on the role of the fuel characteristics in pressure …

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Large Pleistocene Box Turtle From Southwest Arkansas, Leo Carson Davis, John G. Scoggins, J. Alan Holman Jan 2000

Large Pleistocene Box Turtle From Southwest Arkansas, Leo Carson Davis, John G. Scoggins, J. Alan Holman

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Gvsu Press Releases, 2000, Grand Valley State University Jan 2000

Gvsu Press Releases, 2000, Grand Valley State University

University Press Releases, 1961-Present

A compilation of press releases for the year 2000 submitted by University Communications (formerly News & Information Services) to news agencies concerning the people, places, and events related to Grand Valley State University.

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Wjct Jacksonville Jazz Festival Official Program, Jacksonville Magazine Jan 2000

Wjct Jacksonville Jazz Festival Official Program, Jacksonville Magazine

Jacksonville Jazz Festival Collection Materials

Official program of the 2000 WJCT Jacksonville Jazz Festival with the schedule of events and performer profiles, special section of Jacksonville Magazine.

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3-Hydroxykynurenine And 3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid Generate Hydrogen Peroxide And Promote Α-Crystallin Cross Linking By Metal Ion Reduction, Lee E. Goldstein, Michael C. Leopold, Xudong Huang, Craig S. Atwood, Aleister J. Saunders, Mariana Hartshorn, James T. Lim, Et Al. Jan 2000

3-Hydroxykynurenine And 3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid Generate Hydrogen Peroxide And Promote Α-Crystallin Cross Linking By Metal Ion Reduction, Lee E. Goldstein, Michael C. Leopold, Xudong Huang, Craig S. Atwood, Aleister J. Saunders, Mariana Hartshorn, James T. Lim, Et Al.

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The kynurenine pathway catabolite 3-hydroxykynurenine (3HK) and redox-active metals such as copper and iron are implicated in cataractogenesis. Here we investigate the reaction of kynurenine pathway catabolites with copper and iron, as well as interactions with the major lenticular structural proteins, the R-crystallins. The o-aminophenol kynurenine catabolites 3HK and 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3HAA) reduced Cu(II)>Fe(III) to Cu(I) and Fe(II), respectively, whereas quinolinic acid and the nonphenolic kynurenine catabolites kynurenine and anthranilic acid did not reduce either metal. Both 3HK and 3HAA generated superoxide and hydrogen peroxide in a copper-dependent manner. In addition, 3HK and 3HAA fostered copper-dependent R-crystallin cross-linking. 3HK- …

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