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Las Nuevas Adhesiones A La Union Europea De Los Paises De Europa Central Y Oriental: La Estrategia De Adhesion Y Sus Implicaciones En El Ambito De La Politica Comunitaria Ambiental, Mar Campins Eritja, Andreu Olesti Rayo

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

A partir de la dcada de los afilos noventa y coincidiendo con la nueva situaci6n creada en Europa por la desintegraci6n de la Uni6n Sovi~tica, el canbio de circunstancias en el contexto mundial, especialmente en el Anbito europeo, ha comportado que determinados Paises de Europa Central y Oriental (desde ahora, PECO's) hayan solicitado su adhesi6n a la Uni6n Europea.

Alternative Dispute Resolution In Cyberspace: There Is More On The Line, Than Just Getting "Online", Rachel I. Turner

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The potential plaintiff is in Dallas, the potential defendant in Tiruporur, and the mediator in Hong Kong? They never leave their home cities.

Ph.D. In Dispute Resolution Student Handbook, Nova Southeastern University

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

School Of Social And Systemic Studies Catalog 2000-2001, Nova Southeastern University

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Neopa Executive Board Minutes- January 2000

NEOPA Minutes

No abstract provided.

Issues In The Measurement Of Metacognition--Complete Work, James C. Impara, Linda L. Murphy, Gregory Schraw

Issues in the Measurement of Metacognition

Issues In The Measurement Of Metacognition- Complete Work

Buros-Nebraska Series on Measurement & Testing

346 pages

Developing Sustainable Management Policy For The National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, Tim W. Clark, Denise Casey, Anders Halverson

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

No abstract provided.

South Dakota Library Network Annual Report & Factbook 2000, South Dakota Library Network

South Dakota Newspaper Indexes and SDLN Reports

An annual report from the South Dakota Library Network for the year of 2000.

On Cites And Conservation Related Issues, Ronald I. Orenstein

Elephant

No abstract provided.

Jackrabbit Women's Basketball 2000-2001 Media Guide, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Women's Basketball Media Guides (1998-2014)

This is the South Dakota State University Jackrabbit Women's Basketball Media Guide for the 2000-2001 season.

College Teachers' Perceptions Of English Language Characteristics That Identify English Language Learning Disabled Deaf Students, Gerald Berent, Vincent Samar, Ila Parasnis

Articles

Deaf individuals typically experience English language difficulties at all levels of linguistic knowledge. Hearing individuals with English language learning disabilities (LD) can exhibit the same kinds of English language difficulties as deaf individuals. Although the existence of deaf individuals who also have LD has long been recognized, no definite criteria for identifying them exist, partly because of the confounding effects of deafness and LD on English language development. Despite the confound, previous surveys suggest that teachers believe atypical English-language behavior is a potential diagnostic marker for LD in deaf individuals. In the present study, a survey solicited the intuitions of …

Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Acceptance Charts, Donald Holmes

Articles

A description of acceptance charts, which use subgroup averages, was published by Freund in 1957 (Industrial Quality Control 1957; (October); 13-23). The purpose of these charts is to evaluate a process in terms of whether or not it could be expected to satisfy product tolerances. This paper combines the acceptance chart concept with the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA). An example is included to illustrate the proposed concept.

A Problem-Based Learning Approach To Business Software Skills, Victor Perotti, Patricia Sorce, Ben Isselhardt

Articles

Today, computer software skills are a fundamental requirement for every businessperson. It is difficult to imagine how an individual could even survive in the current business atmosphere without the ability to use basic computer applications. Thus, the instruction of theses skills has become an important facet of all Business education. Unfortunately, the traditional lecture and repetition approach to these skills seldom work well. It becomes very obvious that learning computer software requires practice with the software, rather than lengthy discourse on the subject. This paper presents an overview of our transition to an alternative teaching methodology, problem-based learning, for the …

Current-Voltage Characteristics Of High Current Density Silicon Esaki Diodes Grown By Molecular Beam Epitaxy And The Influence Of Thermal Annealing, Michael Dashiell, Ralph Troeger, Sean Rommel

Articles

We present the characteristics of uniformly doped silicon Esaki tunnel diodes grown by low temperature molecular beam epitaxy (Tgrowth=275°C) using in situ boron and phosphorus doping. The effects of ex situ thermal annealing are presented for temperatures between 640 and 800°C. A maximum peak to valley current ratio (PVCR) of 1.47 was obtained at the optimum annealing temperature of 680°C for 1 min. Peak and valley (excess) currents decreased more than two orders of magnitude as annealing temperatures and times were increased with rates empirically determined to have thermal activation energies of 2.2 and 2.4 eV respectively. The decrease in …

Comparing Lifetime Emissions Of Natural Gas And Conventional Fuel Vehicles: An Application Of The Generalized Ancova Model, Michael Deaton, James Winebrake

Articles

New regulations and incentives are encouraging the use of clean, alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) in urban areas. These vehicles are seen as one option for reducing air pollution from mobile sources. However, because of the limited number of AFVs on the road, little is known about actual lifetime emissions characteristics of in-use AFVs. This study describes the use of a generalized analysis of covariance model to evaluate and compare the emissions from natural gas vehicles with emissions from reformulated gasoline vehicles. The model describes fleet-wide emissions deterioration, while also accounting for individual vehicle variability within the fleet. This ability to …

A Treatise On Signed And Spoken Language In Early 19th Century Deaf Education In America, Harry Lang, W. Stokoe

Articles

This article introduces a reprint of an 1835 article by Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard entitled, "Existing State of the Art of Instructing the Deaf and Dumb". It reviews Barnard's background and achievements (including 25 years as the president of Columbia College), his familial progressive deafness, and his advanced views on communication methods (he urged use of both sign language and English).

Heterodyne Detection For Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors, Hedi Bellil, Mustafa Abushagur

Articles

In this paper, we present a Fiber-Bragg-Grating-based temperature sensor. The technique employs heterodyne detection using two Fiber Bragg Gratings. One of the gratings is used as a reference (local oscillator) and the second as a sensing arm. This sensor uses a Folded Mach-Zehnder interferometer. As the temperature changes, the Bragg wavelength of the FBG shifts. The heterodyne detection is used to detect the frequency difference between the reference and sensing signals that is caused by the temperature change. The dynamic range and sensitivity of the sensor were analyzed and presented.

Habitat Conversion, Information Acquisition, And The Conservation Of Biodiversity, Amitrajeet Batabyal

Articles

We analyze two questions concerning the conservation of biodiversity in a dynamic and stochastic framework. First, given the link between natural habitats and biodiversity, when should a social planner stop the habitat conversion process? Second, what is the nexus between a social planner's optimal conservation policy And the length of this individual's planning horizon? We obtain the following two results. First the optimal conservation policy calls for the social planner to wait a while, i.e. not act upon receipt of the first (1/e) fraction of all utility packets. The social planner should then stop the habitat conversion process upon receipt …

An Empirical Study Of Student Attitudes Toward Group Learning Experience, Khondkar Karim, Robert Rutledge, Pierre Titard

Articles

This study examines business students' attitudes and beliefs about the non-performance benefits of cooperative learning used to address changes in business education (Accounting Education Change Commission, 1990). In doing so, this paper seeks to fill the gap between learning outcomes and the students' perceived value of this learning experience (cottell & Millis, 1992; 1993; Peek, Peek, & Horras, 1994; Peek Winking, & Peek, 1995; Fellers, 1996; Hite. 1996). The remainder of this paper presents a discussion of the background and application of cooperative learning, and describes the research methodology used. The analysis of data and empirical results are presented, followed …

Quality Management Applied To Higher Education, A. Erhan Mergen, Delvin Grant, Stanley Widrick

Articles

In the last decade, many universities and American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) have increased their interest in applying principles of quality management, however, there is limited discussion and no universally agree upon model of quality management. We propose a model of quality management that has three components: quality of design, quality of conformance, and quality of performance. The model is applied to Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Business. It provides a framework to identify research, teaching and operational improvement opportunities.

The Effect Of International Institutional Factors On Properties Of Accounting Earnings, Ray Ball, S.P. Kothari, Ashok Robin

Articles

International differences in the demand for accounting income predictably affect the way it incorporates economic income (change in market value) over time. We characterize the "shareholder" and "stakeholder" corporate governance models of common and cod law countries respectively as resoling information asymmetry by public disclosure and private communication. Also, code law directly links accounting income to current.

Geometric Computation Of Value Set Boundaries, Juan Cockburn, Mario Lopez

Presentations and other scholarship

In this paper a general algorithm to find the boundaries of value sets bounded by elliptic arcs is developed. This algorithm uses a generalized line-sweep search procedure to extract the value set boundary from a set of generalized polygons describing the image of the bounding set or the extrema1 segments of the plant. The advantage of this approach is that, when the uncertainty is affine, it preserves the geometric parameterizations of value set boundaries. The effectiveness of this procedure is illustrated in the computation of value sets of affine uncertain plants.

Annual Report, 1999-2000, Bates College

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Colorism: A Darker Shade Of Pale, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, Professor Banks argues that colorism, skin tone discrimination against dark-skinned but not light-skinned blacks, constitutes a form of race-based discrimination. Skin tone discrimination coexists with more traditional forms of race discrimination that impact all blacks without regard to skin tone and phenotype, yet courts seem unwilling to recognize this point. Professor Banks uses employment discrimination cases to illustrate some courts' willingness to acknowledge subtler forms of race-based discrimination, like skin tone discrimination, for white ethnic and Latina/o plaintiffs, but not for black plaintiffs. The inability of courts to fashion coherent approaches to colorism claims involving black claimants …

Alternative Dispute Resolution And The Potential For Gender Bias, Leigh S. Goodmark

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Dordt College 2000-2001 Catalog, Dordt College. Registrar's Office

Academic Catalogs

Academic Catalog for 2000-01

Fy2000 National Center For Education Statistics (Nces) Academic Libraries Survey: University Of Rhode Island Data

University Libraries Reports & Statistics

The main document posted here is a report generated from the online subscription service ACRLMetrics. The report contains FY2000 data submitted by the University of Rhode Island Libraries to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) for their biennial Academic Libraries Survey. Two files are included as supplemental content: "NCES Academic Libraries Survey -- URI FY2000 data.xlsx," the report (above) in spreadsheet format, and "ACQuestionnaire_FY00.pdf," the Fiscal Year 2000 Questionnaire & Instructions from NCES.

Presence And Television., M. Lombard, R. D. Reich, M. E. Grabe, Cheryl C. Bracken

Communication Faculty Publications

Film and a number of emerging entertainment technologies offer media consumers an illusion of nonmediation known as presence. To investigate the possibility that television can evoke presence, 65 undergraduate students were shown brief examples of rapid point-of-view movement from commercially available videotapes on a television with either a small screen (12 inches [30.5 cm], measured diagonally) or a large screen (46 inches [116.8 cm]). Participants' responses were measured via a questionnaire and a computer-based recording of arousal (electrodermal activity). Viewers of both televisions reported an enjoyable sense of physical movement, excitement, involvement, and a sense of participation. Furthermore, as predicted, …

Condom Distribution-Who Is Benefiting?, Shannon Kelley

e-Vision Journal of Undergraduate Writing

I am confident that if we took the time to ask why so many teenagers are sexually active today, we would discover the solution is not a simple one.

Shannon Kelley _{is a sophomore at James Madison University. She is majoring in Dietetics and wrote this essay in the Spring 2000 semester in GWRIT 102.}

2000 - 2001 : Part - Time Courses, Dublin Institute Of Technology

DIT Publications

Directory of over 250 courses which the DIT offers to students wishing to undertake part -time study.

Book includes student information and regulations and details of what courses each faculty offers.