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Formalism And Realism In Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, Barry Cushman Jan 2000

Formalism And Realism In Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, Barry Cushman

Journal Articles

This Article attempts a reconceptualization of developments in Commerce Clause jurisprudence between the Civil War and World War II by identifying ways in which that jurisprudence was structurally related to and accordingly deeply influenced by the categories of substantive due process and dormant Commerce Clause doctrine. Antecedent dormant Commerce Clause jurisprudence set the terms within which Commerce Clause doctrine was worked out; coordinate developments in substantive due process doctrine set limits upon the scope of Commerce Clause formulations and thus played a critical and underappreciated role in maintaining the federal equilibrium. The subsequent erosion of those due process limitations vastly …

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A Research Study To Determine Customer Service At Universities In The Dominican Republic, Thelma Roman Jan 2000

A Research Study To Determine Customer Service At Universities In The Dominican Republic, Thelma Roman

Theses

This study was conducted at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), to determine customer service at universities in the Dominican Republic. The sample population consisted of 250 undergraduate students and 16 academic and administrative head of departments. As results indicate, there is lack of evaluating mechanisms to determine customer satisfaction in all departments at PUCMM. The only evaluation in place is a survey done by students every semester to evaluate faculty' s performance and academic quality; nevertheless, such evaluation does not determine customer satisfaction. Furthermore, there are few evaluations to determine students' needs . On the other hand, according …

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Education Virtual Communities, Stanley Andersen Jan 2000

Education Virtual Communities, Stanley Andersen

Theses

Distance Learning is a prime area for expansion of a new internet business/community model since there is currently no broad-based application servicing this function. The goal of this project is to investigate and prepare the basis for a proposal to a financial backer such as AT&T or one of the large internet service providers. A major part of the paper will investigate the current state of the distance learning internet environment and how to improve it. One of the main improvements concerns the need for a standard interface, which should include a learning tool such as RIT's colloquy software. Continuing/lifelong …

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Degradation And Uptake Of Benzene In Laboratory Phytoremediation Studies, Carla Ross, Lisa M. Harrison, Adrian Marsh, Lars Zetterstrom, Joel Gerard Burken Jan 2000

Degradation And Uptake Of Benzene In Laboratory Phytoremediation Studies, Carla Ross, Lisa M. Harrison, Adrian Marsh, Lars Zetterstrom, Joel Gerard Burken

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In Whole-Plant Laboratory Studies, Hybrid Poplar Trees Were Shown to Impact a Variety of Fate and Transport Mechanisms for Benzene. Laboratory Experiments Investigated the Distribution of the Contaminant in the Plant Tissues, Degradation in the Soil Profile, and Volatilization from Both the Soil and Leaf Tissues. a New Testing System Was Developed that Allowed for Rapid Testing that is More Field-Representative Than Earlier Studies. Whole Plants Were Utilized in a Reactor Design that Included Both a Saturated and a Vadose Zone. the Continuous Feed Reactors Were Supplied with a Steady Influent Benzene Stream to Mimic Plume Conditions. the Presence of …

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Essay: Policies Of Opportunity: Fairness And Affirmative Action In The Twenty-First Century, Robert M. Berdahl Jan 2000

Essay: Policies Of Opportunity: Fairness And Affirmative Action In The Twenty-First Century, Robert M. Berdahl

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Applications Of Wavelet Transforms In Biomedical Optoacoustics, Zibiao Wei, Shujun Yang, Amin N. Dharamsi, Barbara Hargrave Jan 2000

Applications Of Wavelet Transforms In Biomedical Optoacoustics, Zibiao Wei, Shujun Yang, Amin N. Dharamsi, Barbara Hargrave

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

We discuss the utility of wavelet transform methods in signal processing in general, and in particular, demonstrate the technique in optoacoustic applications. In several optoacoustic experiments with different samples, we have successfully enhanced the signal to noise ratios. Wavelet transforms optimize resolution by utilizing a tailored, variable time-window in different frequency regions. The technique's great advantage lies in the fact that the wavelet transform adds some redundancy to the original signal, and some desired features can be enhanced in the transformed space. In addition, proper choice of the basis set allows a sparse representation of the signal. Therefore, even when …

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The Wacky World Of Collision And Comprehensive Coverages: Intentional Injury And Illegal Activity Exclusions, Johnny Parker Jan 2000

The Wacky World Of Collision And Comprehensive Coverages: Intentional Injury And Illegal Activity Exclusions, Johnny Parker

Nebraska Law Review

The objective of this article is to develop an appropriate analytical basis for evaluating the illegal activity exclusion in the context of automobile comprehensive coverage. Because the illegal activity exclusion has not been the subject of any reported decision in the context of comprehensive coverage, this article attempts to achieve its goal by examining intentional injury and prohibitive use exclusions in the context of automobile liability and collision coverages, respectively. The purpose of this examination is to ascertain whether the analytical tools employed in the liability and collision coverages arenas are appropriate in the context of the primary thesis. Part …

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Notes, George Lopez On The Fishing Industry In Roberts City, Circa 2000s, George Lopez Jan 2000

Notes, George Lopez On The Fishing Industry In Roberts City, Circa 2000s, George Lopez

Roberts City Collection - Records

Handwritten notes on the fishing industry in Roberts City.

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Multi-Sensor 3d Image Fusion And Interactive Search, W. D. Ross, A. M. Waxman, W. W. Streilein, M. Aguilar, J. Verly, F. Liu, M. I. Braun, P. Harmon, S. Rak Jan 2000

Multi-Sensor 3d Image Fusion And Interactive Search, W. D. Ross, A. M. Waxman, W. W. Streilein, M. Aguilar, J. Verly, F. Liu, M. I. Braun, P. Harmon, S. Rak

Research, Publications & Creative Work

We describe a system under development for the 3D fusion of multi-sensor surface surveillance imagery, including electro-optical (EO), IR, SAR, multispectral and hyperspectral sources. Our approach is founded on biologically-inspired image processing algorithms. We have developed an image processing architecture enabling the unified interactive visualization of fused multi-sensor site data which utilizes a color image fusion algorithm based on retinal and cortical processing of color. We have also developed interactive Web-based tools for training neural network search agents that are capable of automatically scanning site data for the fused multi-sensor signatures of targets and/or surface features of interest. Each search …

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Insurance Panel Jan 2000

Insurance Panel

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

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The Exclusion Of Y2k Related Losses From Aviation Insurance Policies - Practicalities, Politics, And Legalities, Tony Pyne Jan 2000

The Exclusion Of Y2k Related Losses From Aviation Insurance Policies - Practicalities, Politics, And Legalities, Tony Pyne

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

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Ben Krentzman (1914-1998): Gentle In Spirit, Resolute In Robe, Morison Buck Jan 2000

Ben Krentzman (1914-1998): Gentle In Spirit, Resolute In Robe, Morison Buck

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges

A biography of Judge Ben Krentzman who served on the U.S. District Court's Florida Middle District as a judge and Chief Justice.

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Interview With The Kitchen, Nyc, Sheila A. Malone Jan 2000

Interview With The Kitchen, Nyc, Sheila A. Malone

SWITCH

Interview with Elise Bernhardt, Executive Director, and Christina Yang, Director of Media Arts, from The Kitchen in New York City. Elise & Christina describe The Kitchen as an art organization that provides a free vocal platform for artists who need funding wanting to create pieces without any interference using a variety of technology. They go on to discuss how project locations on both the west and east coasts like their collaboration with the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis) and GroundZero (Silicon Valley) provides funding to artists who need a place to express themselves but don’t have the means to do so, …

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Book Review: Ken Goldberg's "The Robot In The Garden", Cindy Ahuna Jan 2000

Book Review: Ken Goldberg's "The Robot In The Garden", Cindy Ahuna

SWITCH

In this book review, Cindy Ahuna summarizes Ken Goldberg's view on the relationships between technology and shared experiences of telepresence and cybernetic systems. The book, "Robot in the Garden" is a collective transcription of telerobotic research and documentation. In the article, Ahuna dissects this book as a breakdown of telerobotic and its relationship with the internet, epistemology, and subcategories of technology based around the internet. The book illustrates critical points of reference regarding telerobotic “case studies in progress; theoretical beliefs; telerobotic scenarios; arguments and parallels of epistemology; questions and approaches to mediation; differences between using the Internet and other acknowledge-based …

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The Wacky World Of Collision & Comprehensive Coverages: Intentional Injury & Illegal Activity Exclusions, Johnny Parker Jan 2000

The Wacky World Of Collision & Comprehensive Coverages: Intentional Injury & Illegal Activity Exclusions, Johnny Parker

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

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Prognosis - Historical Pattern Matching For Economic Forecasting And Trading, Georgios Nikolaos Banavas Jan 2000

Prognosis - Historical Pattern Matching For Economic Forecasting And Trading, Georgios Nikolaos Banavas

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

In recent years financial markets have become complex environments that continuously change and they change quickly. The strong link between the continuous change in the markets and the danger of losing money when trading in them, has made financial studies a domain that concentrates increasing scientific and business attention. In this context, the development of computational techniques that can monitor recent financial events can process them according to their similarity with historical data recordings, and can support financial decision making, is a challenging problem. In this work, the principal idea for tackling this problem is the integration of 'current' market …

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The Roles Of Motivation And Ability In Controlling The Consequences Of Stereotype Suppression, Na Wyer, Jw Sherman, Sj Stroessner Jan 2000

The Roles Of Motivation And Ability In Controlling The Consequences Of Stereotype Suppression, Na Wyer, Jw Sherman, Sj Stroessner

School of Psychology

Two experiments investigated the conditions under which previously suppressed stereotypes are applied in impression formation. In Experiment 1, the extent to which a previously suppressed racial stereotype influenced subsequent impressions depended on the race of the target who was subsequently encountered. Whereas impressions of race-unspecified targets were assimilated to the stereotype following its suppression, no such effects were observed when the target belonged to the racial group whose stereotype had been initially suppressed. These results demonstrate that when perceivers are motivated to avoid stereotyping individuals, the influence of a stereotype that has been previously activated through suppression is minimized. Experiment …

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Resin Infusion Under Flexible Tooling, James Antony Craen Jan 2000

Resin Infusion Under Flexible Tooling, James Antony Craen

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Resin infusion under flexible tooling (RIFT) can be considered to be a variant of resin transfer moulding (RTM) in which one stiff mould face is replaced by a flexible film. It is seen as an alternative to conventional hand lay-up techniques as it offers many benefits, particularly with regards to health and safety whilst not involving the high tooling costs of a change to RTM. It is a vacuum driven process and as such fibre compaction may occur during vacuum bag preparation, prior to resin infusion and during resin infusion. The aim of the work was to examine the effect …

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A Generic Approach, Employing Information Systems, For Introducing Manufacturing Information Systems In Sme 'S, Zahoor Ahmed Qurashi Jan 2000

A Generic Approach, Employing Information Systems, For Introducing Manufacturing Information Systems In Sme 'S, Zahoor Ahmed Qurashi

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis presents an approach which the small and medium size firms can use in-house to introduce manufacturing information systems. The approach developed is generic and employs information system design and analysis techniques to guide Small and Medium size Enterprises (SME's) from specification of their need, right through to the implementation of an appropriate solution. Although there are various tools and methodologies that are available for large organisations needs, none are available for SME's. Therefore, the approach presented in this thesis provides original and significant improvements on current practice. The approach emphasises the importance of taking a company wide approach …

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Evolutionary Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems For Conceptual Design, Dragan Cvetkovic Jan 2000

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems For Conceptual Design, Dragan Cvetkovic

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

In this thesis the problem of conceptual engineering design and the possible use of adaptive search techniques and other machine based methods therein are explored. For the multi-objective optimisation (MOO) within conceptual design problem, genetic algorithms (GA) adapted to MOO are used and various techniques explored: weighted sums, lexicographic order, Pareto method with and without ranking, VEGA-like approaches etc. Large number of runs are performed for findingZ Dth e optimal configuration and setting of the GA parameters. A novel method, weighted Pareto method is introduced and applied to a real-world optimisation problem. Decision support methods within conceptual engineering design framework …

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Traffic Profiles And Performance Modelling Of Heterogeneous Networks, Georg Müller Jan 2000

Traffic Profiles And Performance Modelling Of Heterogeneous Networks, Georg Müller

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis considers the analysis and study of short and long-term traffic patterns of heterogeneous networks. A large number of traffic profiles from different locations and network environments have been determined. The result of the analysis of these patterns has led to a new parameter, namely the 'application signature'. It was found that these signatures manifest themselves in various granularities over time, and are usually unique to an application, permanent virtual circuit (PVC), user or service. The differentiation of the application signatures into different categories creates a foundation for short and long-term management of networks. The thesis therefore looks from …

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Modelling Machine Induced Noise And Vibration In A Ship Structure, Weihui Wang Jan 2000

Modelling Machine Induced Noise And Vibration In A Ship Structure, Weihui Wang

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Most high speed vessels are fitted with powerful high speed engines which are installed in confined spacesa nd, as a consequencec, ausea n extremely high level of noise and vibration. Often structure-borne sound power is transmitted to a sound carrying structure from a source via a number of contact points. In turn, the noise and vibration are propagated in the structure and could possibly cause an undesired noise radiation. In this study, a model for predicting power flow based on the mobility theory has been addressed. The unique parts of the study include the establishment of the relationship of mobility …

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Optimisation And Decision Support During The Conceptual Stage Of Building Design, Jim David Mathews Jan 2000

Optimisation And Decision Support During The Conceptual Stage Of Building Design, Jim David Mathews

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Modern building design is complex and involves many different disciplines operating in a fragmented manner. Appropriate computer-based decision support (DS) tools are sought that can raise the level of integration of different activities at the conceptual stage, in order to help create better designs solutions. This project investigates opportunities that exist for using techniques based upon the Genetic Algorithm (GA) to support critical activities of conceptual building design (CBD). Collective independent studies have shown that the GA is a powerful optimisation and exploratory search technique with widespread application. The GA is essentially very simple yet it offers robustness and domain …

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Fact Sheet, Yale University Office Of Institutional Research Jan 2000

Fact Sheet, Yale University Office Of Institutional Research

Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

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Part 3: The State Of The Regional Economy, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University Jan 2000

Part 3: The State Of The Regional Economy, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

(First Paragraph) Many factors come into play when predicting the future of the Hampton Roads economy. Defense spending, non-defense-sector growth and a commitment to collaboration among private and public high-tech industries are three very large variables that contribute to the region's pulse and prospects for long-term health. All of these factors, as we will see here, are interconnected. Per capita income, often used to measure a region's economic well-being, should continue to exhibit "baseline improvement" in Hampton Roads, but if the standard of living is to rise above average, some changes would need to be made to the region's economic …

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Part 8: The State Of Transportation, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University Jan 2000

Part 8: The State Of Transportation, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

(First Paragraph) What road do we take- literally and figuratively- to help solve our traffic congestion woes?

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Part 9: The State Of The Workforce, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University Jan 2000

Part 9: The State Of The Workforce, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

(First paragraph) Is the workforce as good (or as bad) as they say?

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Scientific Investigation Of The Plant Pathogen Agrobacterium Tumefaciens, Casey M. Flanagan, Christopher B. Crowell Ii, Bryan P. Markelz Jan 2000

Scientific Investigation Of The Plant Pathogen Agrobacterium Tumefaciens, Casey M. Flanagan, Christopher B. Crowell Ii, Bryan P. Markelz

Honors Theses

A. tumefaciensis a plant pathogen and causative agent of Crown Gall Disease, an ailment that results in the development of tumors in plants. It is a unique organism in that it is the only known non-viral pathogen that transfers its DNA into the host cell. Consequently, the majority of the research conducted on A. tumefaciensinvestigates its mechanism of infection. However, A. tumefaciensis also rare to the bacterial world in that its genome is comprised of two chromosomes: one circular and one linear. Most other bacteria only have one circular chromosome. This area of research has been grossly overlooked and therefore …

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Soapbox: The Academic Research Fleet: An Exciting Time For Renewal, Larry Atkinson Jan 2000

Soapbox: The Academic Research Fleet: An Exciting Time For Renewal, Larry Atkinson

CCPO Publications

(First Paragraph) Academic research ships in the United States are the envy of many scientists around the world. A great strength of our system is the diversity of ships and operators: users have a choice, the system can change. A weakness of the system is that very diversity: sometimes it is hard for us to act together. Nevertheless, we now must act together. The vitality of the academic fleet in the coming decades is at stake. The reason is simply because many of our ships, especially in the intermediate size range, will soon reach the end of their useful life.

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Measurements Of Salinity In The Coastal Ocean: A Review Of Requirements And Technologies, Catherine Woody, Eddie Shih, Jerry Miller, Thomas Royer, Larry P. Atkinson, Richard S. Moody Jan 2000

Measurements Of Salinity In The Coastal Ocean: A Review Of Requirements And Technologies, Catherine Woody, Eddie Shih, Jerry Miller, Thomas Royer, Larry P. Atkinson, Richard S. Moody

CCPO Publications

Salinity, a measure of the dissolved salts in seawater, is a fundamental property of seawater and basic to understanding biological and physical processes in coastal waters. In the open ocean long term salinity measurements are identified as necessary to understand global climate studies, hydrological cycle, and circulation. In the coastal oceans, information on salinity is critical to understanding biological effects on ecosystem function such as disease, nursery grounds, or harmful algal blooms and on physical processes such as freshwater runoff estuarine mixing, and coastal currents. While the importance of salinity is recognized, little attention has been given to making routine …

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