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Front Matter, Mary K. Bendixen-Noe, Kim Metcalf

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Front Matter

Be An American Reconstructioneer Of Culture, John Sikula

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

In this presentation the author argues that improvement in schooling and teacher education in the United States will be successful to the extent that educators establish via research and practice and make known to the public and to budget controlling authorities the clear relationships which exist between investment in education and productive citizenship. Until educators become more proactive, demanding, political, and willing to serve as American Reconstructioneers of Culture (ARCs), our educational institutions will continue to drift with a tide of mediocrity as resources flow to other more viable and vocal areas.

Front Matter, Mary K. Bendixen-Noe, Kim Metcalf

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Front Matter

Mid-Western Educational Research Association 2001 Annual Meeting Call For Proposals, Robert S. Barcikowski

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Call for Proposals

Effective School Administration In An Age Of Educational Reform, Theresa A. Quigney

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

A major educational reform issue relates to the evolving role of school leadership. This study investigated which characteristics and behaviors educators perceived as being in the repertoire of successful school administrators in this time of educational restructuring. Interpretation of the results yielded a prioritization of competencies valued in today’s educational administrators, as well as differences in perception among specific groups of educators. The results were also compared to a similar investigation completed more than 10 years ago, which provided insight regarding the influence of school leadership reform initiatives on educators’ views of effective school administration.

Index Of Articles: 2000, Mary K. Bendixen-Noe, Kim Metcalf

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Index of Articles

Buyer Liability And Voluntary Inspections In International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study, Timothy N. Cason

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of tradable instruments that represent greenhouse gas emissions allowances. In one half of the sessions these investments are unobservable, while in the other half traders can invite costless and accurate inspections that make reliability investments public. We implement a buyer liability rule, so that if emissions reductions are unreliable (i.e., sellers default), the buyer of the allowances cannot redeem them to cover emissions. We find that allowing inspections significantly increases the reliability investment rate and overall efficiency. Prices of uninspected allowances usually trade at …

A Disinflation Tradeoff: Speed Versus Final Destination, John A. Carlson, Neven T. Valev

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

Does a central bank, when introducing a new monetary regime designed to reduce inflation, prefer more or fewer economic agents who form informed forecasts of inflation? The relevance of the question arises because the central bank can make a decision about how much information to disseminate about the nature of the new regime. We find that the central bank will prefer a higher proportion of agents who form rational expectations if it disinflates from a high level of inflation but not so if it disinflates from a moderate or low inflation level.

Internal Capital Markets And Investment Efficiency: Evidence From Janpanese Industrial Groups, Mark D. Walker

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

Using a sample of 12,136 firm-years between 1993 and 1998, I examine the investment policies of firms in Japanese industrial groups. My findings indicate that internal capital markets among keiretsu firms are active. Investment at the firm level is positively correlated with cash flows from the remainder of the keiretsu. Furthermore, firms in industrial groups tend to invest more than predicted if their growth opportunities are below-average and invest less than predicted if their growth opportunities are above-average. These findings suggest that the reallocation of capital within keiretsu firms is inefficient.

Selective Asymmetric Interventions, John A. Carlson, Melody Lo

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

Interventions in foreign exchange markets are commonly used by monetary authorities to influence exchange rates. Whether or not the interventions are symmetrical in response to external shocks representing depreciation or appreciation pressures depends on other objectives of the monetary authority. If the goal of maintaining low inflation is more important than exchange-rate stabilization, then when inflation is considered to be too high asymmetrical interventions are likely to arise with more vigorous interventions to offset depreciation pressures than to offset appreciation pressures. Evidence from Taiwan supports this pattern.

The Evolution Of Hot Spots In The U.S. Biotechnology Industry, Timothy B. Folta, Yoon-Suk Baik

Purdue CIBER Working Papers

This study empirically tests Pouder & St. John's propositions (1996) on the evolutions of geographic clusters, in the context of the U.S. biotechnology industry. We find that during the origination period of the cluster evolution clustered biotechnology firms exhibit higher cost economies and legitimacy in obtaining resources than non-clustered competitors. While, after the early period, such clustered firms' advantage in resource access and innovations are statistically significantly declining. These findings evidence the decline of positive net benefits from geographic clustering over time. Given the inconsistent empirical results in the literature on whether there are positive net benefits to geographically clustered …

Refrigeration And Air Conditioning With Reduced Environmental Impact, D. B. Bivens

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Reciprocating Compressor Performance Simulation, R. Xin, P. Hatzikazakis

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

2000 Directory Of Indiana State, County, City And Town Officials Responsible For Road And Street Work, Indiana Ltap

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Directory

Contact information for agency officials and employees responsible for Indiana’s local road infrastructure.

2000 Bridge Sufficiency Rating Report For All Indiana Counties, Indiana Ltap

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

This report provides bridge sufficiency rating information for each county bridge in each Indiana county. County officials can view a quick overall assessment of their bridge needs. This information is a convenient starting point for formulating a long-range plan to cope with their county bridge deficiencies.

Contributing Input-Output Tables To The Gtap Data Base, Karen Huff, Robert Mcdougall, Terrie L. Walmsley

GTAP Technical Papers Archive

This document is written for those who wish to contribute to the GTAP data base, whether by providing an input-output table for a country not separately represented in the data base, or by updating the table for a region that is already represented. It provides specifications and advice on the structure of the table, sectoral classification, treatment of imports, and other key points. It also describes what we at the Center for Global Trade Analysis do once we receive your table.

This version has been revised for use by contributors to release 5 of the GTAP data base. In particular, …

A General Welfare Decomposition For Cge Models, Kevin J. Hanslow

GTAP Technical Papers Archive

Huff and Hertel (2001) derive a welfare decomposition for the equivalent variation in the GTAP model. The derivation appears to be very specific to GTAP. Nevertheless, it contains nearly all the ingredients required for performing welfare decomposition for any CGE model.

In this paper, the approach of Huff and Hertel (2001) is generalised to derive a welfare decomposition that can be applied to most, if not all, CGE models. General production and utility functions are accommodated, as are foreign income flows.

A brief guide to coding the proposed welfare decomposition in GEMPACK is also provided. The decomposition is applied to …

A Disequilibrium Model Of International Capital Mobility, Elena Ianchovichina, Robert Mcdougall, Thomas Hertel

GTAP Working Papers Archive

The paper proposes a new disequilibrium approach to modeling international capital mobility for a dynamic multi- region general equilibrium model. Key to this approach are errors in investors’ assessments of potential returns to capital, such as those recently observed in Asia. The investment theory, compatible with a simple recursive solution procedure, ensures the convergence of the model towards a stable equilibrium, brings realism into the analysis of international capital mobility and flexibility in tailoring to empirical data. The paper discusses two numerical examples, demonstrating the long- run convergence of the model and the dynamic adjustment to a deeper, longer crisis …

Real-Time Measurement Of The Oil Concentration In Liquid Refrigerant Flowing Inside A Refrigeration Machine, J. M. Lebreton, L. Vuillame, E. Morvan, O. Lottin

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Review Of Variable Geometry Techniques Applied To Enhance The Performance Of Centrifugal Compressors, A. Whitfield

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

A Study On Heat Transfer And Performance Analysis Of Hermetic Reciprocating Compressors For Refrigerators, Y. H. Sim, Y. Youn, M. K. Min

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Female Sexuality And The Body In Contemporary Southern Women's Literature, Judith Elizabeth Burke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Impact Assessment Of Cfcs Retrofitting Of Refrigeration Machines, S. Nowotny, N. Gessese

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

R32 As A Solution For Energy Conservation And Low Emission, R. Yajima, K. Kita, S. Taira, N. Domyo

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

The Analysis Of The Flow, Heat And Mass Transfer Process Inside A Cryogenic Ph3 Trapper, X. Yuan, X. Yang, X. Li

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Perspectives Of Aluminum As A Construction Material For Stationary Refrigeration And Air Conditioning Systems, F. Flohr, C. Meurer, H. W. Swidersky, H. J. Belt

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Ecological-And-Thermoeconomic Method Of Analysis Of Refrigerating Equipment Efficiency, V. P. Zhelezny, P. V. Zhelezny, O. V. Lysenko

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

A Real-Time Sitting Posture Tracking System, Lynne A. Slivovsky, Hong Z. Tan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

As cornputing becomes more ubiquitous, there is a need for distributed intelligent humancomputer interfaces that can perceive and interpret a user's actions through sensors that see, hear and feel. A perceptually intelligent interface enables a more natural interaction between a user ancl a machine in the sense that the user can look at, talk to or touch an object instead of using a, machine language. Although research on haptic (i.e., touch-based) interfaces has received less attention in the past as compared to that on visual and auditory interfaces, it is emerging as a new interdisciplinary field that holds much promise …

Numerical Simulation Of A Reciprocating Compressor For Household Refrigerators, F. Bassi, L. Pelagalli, S. Rebay, A. Betto, M. Orefice, A. Pinto

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Development Of A New Type Cylinder Head For Piston Compressors, E. Ayder, H. H. Arikan

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.