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Online Whiteboard (Audio Conferencing Module), Chan Weng Wong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Computer technology is a very dynamic and changing field. There are always new technologies being developed and adopted on all fronts, which makes it an exciting field to be in. So, in order to catch up with the technology, I choose myself to investigate some of the telecommunication technology specifically voice networking on the computer. Through this project, I hope I can learn everything regarding to voice networking and thus can build a complete voice communication package for the whiteboard system project as an enhancement to the system. In order to accomplish this project, me together with two of my …

Multimedia Package Of Chinese Mid Autumn Festival, Judy Yeap

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Chinese mid autumn festival also called the moon festival, is not known very much outside the community. Thus,the objective of Multimedia Package Of Chinese Mid Autumn Festival is to introduce the festival more widely through a multimedia package. This package will contain the poems, songs, the food and other information of the festival. To improve the user's understanding of the after using the package, there is a quiz section to test the user. The multimedia feature combining text, graphics, video and audio together were included to increase the user's interest. A review of few existing web sites on Internet …

The Effectiveness Of Positive Behavior Support With Children Diagnosed Adhd, Lisa K. Smell

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Much controversy is centered on treatment options for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Problems finding an appropriate treatment involve the lack of understanding of ADHD, the failure to teach alternative skills, and the lack of parental compliance and consistency with the behavior procedures. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Positive Behavior Support (PBS), with children diagnosed with ADHD, when parents are consistent and compliant with PBS procedures. Two children participated in this study. Three assessment instruments were used as predictor variables, the PBS and ADHD Pre-test/Post-test Questionnaire, the Observation Rating Checklist of Compliance, and the …

Development Of Object-Oriented Components For Atm Network Simulation With Emphasis On Congestion Control, Wai Kit Sin

Student Works (2000-2009)

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a very high-speed transmission technology. The barrage of technological advancements has continuously enhanced the network performance. There is an increasing dependence on the network. Thus, there is a need to accurately predict the impact of network and applications changes in the dynamic network environment. The network simulator is a tool to analyze the behavior of ATM networks without the expense of building a real network. The simulation of this simulator will give the results that imitate the real network environment. The aim of this project is to develop object-oriented components for an ATM Network Simulator …

Lady Griz Volleyball Media Guide, 2001, University Of Montana—Missoula. Athletics Department

Lady Griz Volleyball Media Guides, 1979-2008

Media guide created about the Lady Griz volleyball team.

Transforming Education: The Lesson From Argentina, Anne P. Dupre

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article traces education reforms in Argentina from the colonial period to the present. Specifically, the Article focuses on La Ley Federal de Educacion, passed in 1993, which sought to reform primary and secondary education throughout Argentina by promoting educational equity through a just distribution of educational services and opportunity.

The Article begins with a description of the current Argentine federal republic and the relationship of the federal government and the provinces. Next, the Article describes the development of the Argentine education system.

It continues by explaining the backdrop of the adoption of Ley Federal. The Author describes the act's …

Lawyer Ethics In The Twenty-First Century, Dr. Julian Lonbay

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article surveys multijurisdictional legal practice in the European Community. It details some of the types of lawyers and law practices that can be found across Europe and describes the variety of activities in which these lawyers engage. The Article then examines the regulatory regime that controls the legal industry. Specifically, it considers Article 49, Article 43, Directive 89/48/EEC, and Directive 98/5/EC. The Article concludes with a discussion of how conflicts in the regulation of lawyers may be resolved.

Ethics Beyond The Horizon: Why Regulate The Global Practice Of Law?, Christopher J. Whelan

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article explores whether global self-regulation of the legal profession is desirable. The Author explains that as global law practice has grown over the past decade, so has the desire to formulate global rules of professional responsibility. The Article focuses on large law firms offering transnational legal services in many countries. The Author addresses whether and for whom the aspiration to deliver core values at the global level is desirable. He does so by comparing the rhetoric of global self-regulation with the reality of global law practice. In reality, the global law practice has undermined the power of nation states …

Online Counselling Assistant (Oca Ver 1.0), Mohd Zaini Hana Salwani

Student Works (2000-2009)

OCA ver 1.0 adalah sistem pengurusdan pangkalan data berasaskan web yang dibangunkan untuk membantu komunikasi di FSKTM, Universiti Malaya. Ia direka untuk menjanakan interaksi antara pelajar, pensyarah dan tutor melalui web. OCA mempunyai 4 bahagian iaitu Bahagian Pensyarah, Bahagian Pelajar, Bahagian Tutor dan Bahagian Am. OCA yang berdaftar menghanar tugasan jika tutor atau lecture telah ,emdaftarkan matapelajaran atau tugasan tersebut memuat turun (download) nota jika nota telah dimuat naik (upload) oleh pensyarah dan melihat markah tugasan jika dibenarkan oleh tutor atau pensyarah. OCA membenarkan pensyarah mengadakan pengurusan mata pelajaran dan tugasan supaya dengan ini nota dapat dimuat naik oleh pensyarah …

Online Whiteboard, Bing Suang Chong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Network Integrated Whiteboard System is a audio integrated, graphics and network related application. This application creates a new pace on real-time presentation integrated with voice conferencing through networks, which are suitable for lecture presentation and Computer Based Education (CBE). This huge system will divide into three subsystems, or modules, and our team, which are constructed with three members, assign each subsystem to every member. The three subsystem mentioned are the whiteboard module, voice communication module and the server module. Mr. Wong Chan Weng will in charge in the voice communication module while Mr. Lee Chee Ching will cover the …

2000 Annual Report Of The Commissioners, Treasurer, Other County Officers And The Strafford County Delegation Strafford County, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2000., Stafford County Representatives

Strafford County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

A Critique Of The Marital Privileges: An Examination Of The Marital Privileges In The United States Military Through The State And Federal Approaches To The Marital Privileges, Kimberly A. Connor

Valparaiso University Law Review

No abstract provided.

In Search Of Prince Charming, Margaret F. Brinig

Journal Articles

This response begins by addressing the different perspectives as presented by the panel “Sex, Lies and Exploitation.” One of the panelists, professor Plasencia, presented a powerful and graphic documentation of digital communication’s influence on the sex industry. Some of the images involved explicitly portrayed the sex trade while in others, it was portrayed more subtly as an arranged or mail-order marriage. The author's response to professor Plasencia is mixed. On the one hand, it is rather easy these days for one to mistakenly encounter a sexually explicit website. On the other hand, however, since little information exists on how widespread …

Landpower And Crises: Army Roles And Missions In Smaller-Scale Contingencies During The 1990s, Conrad C. Crane Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author analyzes the role of landpower in the 170 smaller-scale contingencies conducted by the United States during the last decade. He divides such contingencies into engagement, enhanced deterrence, hostility, and stabilization phases, and discusses the military's role in each one. The author especially emphasizes the recurring problems in the planning, execution, and force structure for stabilization tasks, including nation-building. He concludes that, despite the desire of American leaders to limit military involvement in such missions, it is unavoidable because of the capability mismatch between military and civilian organizations, combined with the requirements of peace operations and the character of …

Excellence In Nursing Education [Complete Issue: Second Quarter 2001, Vol. 2, 2], Ann Marriner-Tomey, Joyce K. Shoemaker, Mary Devos, Gail Judith Donner, Mary M. Wheeler, Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History: Nursing Excellence published yearly in 1998 and 1999. The publication became Excellence in the first quarter 2000. It transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education, Excellence in Nursing Administration, and Excellence in Clinical Practice in the second quarter 2000 with volume 1, number 2. Excellence in Nursing Education transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education & Research in the first quarter 2002.

Publishing Frequency: Yearly 1998, 1999; Quarterly 2000 - 2004.

Format: Print 1999 - third quarter 2002; Online fourth quarter 2002 - first quarter 2004. Ceased publishing in 2004.

Select features in this issue:

Students learn through service to …

Intellectual Property Protection And Offshore Software Development: An Analysis Of The U.S. Software Industry, Horacio Teran

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Enabling Genus Patent Claims To Dna, Hugh Mctavish

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Surfing The Web For Copyright Law: Why Infringement Claims Are All Wet, Jessica Richardson

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Dna Typing: Emerging Or Neglected Issues, David H. Kaye, Edward J. Imwinkelried

Faculty Scholarship

DNA typing has had a major impact on the criminal justice system. There are hundreds of opinions and thousands of cases dealing with DNA evidence. Yet, at virtually every stage of the process, there are important issues that are just emerging or that have been neglected.

At the investigative stage, courts have barely begun to focus on the legal limitations on the power of the police to obtain samples directly from suspects and to use the data from DNA samples in various ways. Issues such as the propriety of "DNA dragnets" (in which large numbers of individuals in a geographic …

A Quiet Faith? Taxes, Politics, And The Privatization Of Religion, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

The government exempts religious associations from taxation and, in return, restricts their putatively political expression and activities. This exemption-and-restriction scheme invites government to interpret and categorize the means by which religious communities live out their vocations and engage the world. But government is neither well-suited nor to be trusted with this kind of line-drawing. What's more, this invitation is dangerous to authentically religious consciousness and associations. When government communicates and enforces its own view of the nature of religion - i.e., that it is a private matter - and of its proper place - i.e., in the private sphere, not …

The Story Of Henry Adams' Soul: Education And The Expression Of Associations, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

In several decisions handed down during its 1999 Term, the United States Supreme Court focused on the freedom of expressive association. Generally speaking, expressive association is regarded by courts and commentators as just another form of individual self-expression, and voluntary associations as facilitators for such self-expression.
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/="/">In this Essay, Professor Garnett suggests that a shift in focus, from individual self-expression-through-association to the expression of voluntary associations themselves. It is suggested that, in several recent decisions ­including Dale, Mitchell, and California Democratic Party - the Court has indicated an appreciation of the role played by mediating institutions in shaping …

Leadership In Complex Organizations, Russ Marion, Mary Uhl-Bien

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

This paper asks how complexity theory informs the role of leadership in organizations. Complexity theory is a science of complexly interacting systems; it explores the nature of interaction and adaptation in such systems and how they influence such things as emergence, innovation, and fitness. We argue that complexity theory focuses leadership efforts on behaviors that enable organizational effectiveness, as opposed to determining or guiding effectiveness. Complexity science broadens conceptualizations of leadership from perspectives that are heavily invested in psychology and social psychology (e.g., human relations models) to include processes for managing dynamic systems and interconnectivity. We develop a definition of …

Induction Of Resistance In Field Grown Soybean By The Bean Leaf Beetle, Cerotoma Trifurcata (Forster) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Parimi Srinivas, Stephen D. Danielson

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

A study was conducted during the summer of 1998 with soybean cultivar Colfax, germplasm line HC95-24MB and susceptible cultivar Williams 82 to investigate induced resistance in soybean. Bean leaf beetle adults were used to induce resistance in field and also in the dual-choice feeding preference tests that were done in the laboratory to assess induction. Pair-wise comparisons of leaflets from induced and control plants demonstrated that induced resistance was present. Preference index (PI) values were similar in the three soybean entries and were not significantly different. Further investigation is necessary to fully understand induced resistance under field conditions in soybean-insect …

Hierarchy-Based Access Control In Distributed Environments, Jean-Camille Birget, Xukai Zou, Guevara Noubir, Byrav Ramamurthy

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Access control is a fundamental concern in any system that manages resources, e.g., operating systems, file systems, databases and communications systems. The problem we address is how to specify, enforce, and implement access control in distributed environments. This problem occurs in many applications such as management of distributed project resources, e-newspaper and payTV subscription services.

Starting from an access relation between users and resources, we derive a user hierarchy, a resource hierarchy, and a unified hierarchy. The unified hierarchy is then used to specify the access relation in a way that is compact and that allows efficient queries. It is …

Optimization Of Amplifier Placements In Switch-Based Optical Networks, Ling Zong, Byrav Ramamurthy

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) offers a solution to the problem of exploiting the large bandwidth on optical links; it is the current favorite multiplexing technology for optical communication networks. Due to the high cost of an optical amplifier, it is desirable to strategically place the amplifiers throughout the network in a way that guarantees that all the signals are adequately amplified while minimizing the total number amplifiers being used. Previous studies all consider a star-based network. This paper demonstrates an original approach for solving the problem in switch-based WDM optical network assuming the traffic matrix is always the permutation of …

Guidelines For Using Process Mapping To Aid Improvement Efforts, Paul Savory, John R. Olson

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Process mapping is an easy-to-visualize method for people to analyze and agree on the most efficient routes for reengineering or improving a process. It aids in determining redundant tasks, uncovering hidden interactions between processes and people, and focusing on the processes that serve customers, improve quality, and generate income. This paper presents guidelines for using process mapping as an improvement tool. It is based on the authors’ experiences in aiding a variety of healthcare, service, and manufacturing companies.

Technology As The Representative Anecdote In Popular Discourses Of Health And Medicine, Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis Japp

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Using a Burkean framework (1969), this article approaches medical dramas as cultural texts to be read for dominant meanings of health and health care. Burke’s representative anecdote illuminates the melding of science, technology, and healing in popular discourses of health, establishing technological intervention as the norm and marginalizing nontechnological (i.e., alternative) forms of health care. Popular entertainment reinforces this anecdote in narratives of healing as technological competence triumphing over nature.

Finding The Meanings Of College Drinking: An Analysis Of Fraternity Drinking Stories, Thomas Workman

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

College drinking has traditionally been studied from a public health perspective that attempts to quantify behavior as a means toward description, explanation, and intervention. This article offers a critical and cultural approach to understanding the meanings and functions of high-risk drinking and the ways in which those meanings are reproduced within the culture. Data were collected via an ethnographic study of fraternity members at a large midwestern university to explore the communication of excessive drinking norms. Viewed from various narrative and structural theories, the study examines collected drinking stories as a source for analyzing the construction of meanings surrounding drunkenness …

Optimization Of Orthogonal Polyphase Spreading Sequences For Wireless Data Applications, B. J. Wysocki, Tadeusz Wysocki

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)

In this paper, we propose a simple but efficient method for optimizing correlation properties of polyphase spreading sequences for asynchronous DS CDMA applications. The proposed method can be used to minimize the mean square value of aperiodic crosscorrelation or the mean square value of aperiodic autocorrelation, the maximum value of aperiodic crosscorrelation functions, merit factor or other properties of the sequence set. The important feature of the method is that when applied to orthogonal sequences, it modifies correlation properties of the sequence set, while preserves their orthogonality for perfect synchronization.

Wyclif And Lollardy, Stephen E. Lahey

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

John Wyclif’s place in the history of Christian ideas varies according to the historian’s interest. As scholastic theology, Wyclif’s thought appears an heretical epilogue to the glories of the systematic innovations of the thirteenth century. Historians of the Protestantism, on the other hand, characterize him as a pioneer, the “Morning Star of the Reformation,” acknowledging his theology and the Lollard and Hussite movements associated with it as forerunners of sixteenth-century change. It has been difficult to understand Wyclif as a man of his age because the late fourteenth century itself is easily viewed as a period of transition from “Late …