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Search Engines Giving You Garbage? Put A "Corc" In It, Implementing The Cooperative Online Resource Catalog, Robert O. Ellett Jr.

The Christian Librarian

This paper presents an implementation strategy for adding Internet resources to a library online catalog using OCLC's Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC). Areas of consideration include deciding which electronic resources to include in the online catalog and how to select them. The value and importance of pathfinders in creating electronic bibliographies and the role of library staff in updating them is introduced. Using an electronic suggestion form as a means of Internet resource collection development is another innovative method of enriching library collections. Education and training for cataloging staff on Dublin Core elements is also needed. Attention should be paid …

Websight, Dennis Read

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Brookings, Oregon: A Case Study Of A Professionally Planned Company Town, Kathy L. Marx

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Industrialization was pressing westward from the eastern United States by the mid-nineteenth century. To provide housing for workers in remote areas, many western industrialists built company-owned towns. This paper reviews company towns in eleven western states in order to proceed with further research. Brookings, Oregon, a lumber manufacturing company town, located on the Southern Oregon coast, was chosen for an in-depth analysis.

In comparing land use and design changes, as built and as they are today, it was found that the initial town design could still be discerned but that many changes had been made without regard to the original …

The Role Of Law In The Functioning Of Federal Systems, George A. Bermann

Faculty Scholarship

Federal systems are about the distribution of legal and political power, but law is not only one of the currencies of federalism, it is also one of federalism's most important supports; this chapter considers the role that law plays in establishing and enforcing the system by which both legal and political power are distributed within the USA and the EU. Bermann explores the various ways in which the courts can, and choose to, enforce the principles of federalism beyond the classical ‘political’ and ‘procedural’ safeguards provided by the institutional structures themselves and the constraints on the deliberative process. He describes …

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii

University of Richmond Law Review

This article discusses six areas of labor and employment law in which there was significant activity in Virginia's courts over the past year: (1) covenants not to compete and employee's fiduciary duties to employers; (2) the doctrine of respondeat superior; (3) negligent hiring, retention, and supervision; (4) wrongful discharge in violation of public policy; (5) workers' compensation exclusivity; and (6) employment agreements. Beyond the scope of this article are decisions rendered in other areas of law that affect the employment relationship, including defamation, claims under Virginia's Occupational Safety and Health Act, public employment claims, and unemployment compensation claims.

Privatizing Social Security, Jerry W. Markham

San Diego Law Review

This Article will address the debate and discuss regulatory concerns that would arise with the creation of private social security accounts. As will be shown, the present system fails to provide real social security, and deprives those most in need of a retirement program of an opportunity to increase their wealth or to have a comfortable retirement. Shifting to a private system would be expensive, but could be accomplished through recognition of the benefits of private investments and through a program of tax credits and deductions. Existing regulatory requirements protect private social security account holders from fraud, as well as …

Hate In Cyberspace: Regulating Hate Speech On The Internet, Alexander Tsesis

San Diego Law Review

The speed at which information can be spread throughout the United States and other countries has been greatly enhanced by the Internet. This computer-driven, technological medium consists of various modes of transmission, including discussion groups, interactive pages, and mail services. A wide variety of pictorial, auditory, and written information is available on the Internet. Persons with disparate goals can access and affect large audiences through it. Both those seeking social improvement and those promoting racist violence can now increase the magnitude, diversity, and location of their audiences. Persons advancing

democratic ideals and those inclined to exclusionary elitism can use e- …

United States V. Locke, 529 U.S. 89 (2000)

San Diego Law Review

The Ports and Waterways Safety Act (PWSA) authorizes, but does not require, the United States Coast Guard to enact prophylactic measures for regulating ocean vessel traffic, protecting waterway navigation, and protecting the marine environment. I The United States Supreme Court recently decided that individual states do not have the authority to enact oil tanker laws and regulations that are more restrictive than the federal

PWSA. Citing the Supremacy Clause, z the Supreme Court, in United States v. Locke, 3 held that a federal determination that a vessel is sufficiently safe to navigate United States waters trumps contrary or inconsistent state …

Tobacco Tort Litigation In California: A Better Understanding Of Civil Code Section 1714.45, Stephen D. Sugarman

San Diego Law Review

Before 1963, lawsuits in California by victims of product injuries were either handled under principles of negligence or they were cast as contract claims that drew on “implied warranty” principles.8 For example, if someone bought a loaf of bread from a local bakery, took a bite out of the loaf, and it turned out that a sharp pin hidden in the bread injured the person, the victim could sue the bakery (1) in tort, claiming that the bakery negligently allowed the pin to get into the bread, or (2) in contract, claiming that in providing this sort of bread the …

Which Public, Whose Interest? The Fcc, The Public Interest, And Low-Power Radio

San Diego Law Review

Faced with legal challenges8 and, in 1998 alone, over 13,000 inquiries from people and groups interested in starting low-power stations, the government relented, and in January 2000, completed a process creating a new low-power FM (LPFM) service.9 In the space of two years, the FCC had gone from raiding and shutting down microradio stations to inviting applications for low-power broadcast licenses. Such a dramatic shift in policy could only come about through a reinterpretation of the public interest standard. Part III of this Comment continues by analyzing

the concept of the public interest that underlies the new LPFM service and …

The National Invasive Species Act Of 1996: An Assessment Of Current Statutes And Potential Changes And Improvements For Future Legislation Regarding Ballast Water Discharge And Prevention Of Invasion By Non-Indigenous Species, Alison P. Armstrong

Open Access Master's Theses

Ninety-five percent of consumer goods used in the United States reach the markets by way of vessel transport. Each of these vessels carries ballast water, and with it, exotic organisms from ports around the world that can threaten native ecosystems.

A survey (n=10) conducted to gather perceptions on existing ballast water legislation shows that those state and federal agencies who are involved agree on certain aspects of the issue, but there are broad areas of dissent regarding other aspects. Policy actors do feel that this issue must be regulated, however, an agreement on how to reach the goals of ballast …

The Relationship Between Teachers' Theoretical Orientations To Reading And Their Verbal Feedback To Students During Oral Reading, Kathleen A. Swann

Open Access Dissertations

This study examined the link between theory and practice as evidenced in the relationship between teachers' beliefs and the decisions they make during instruction. It is embedded within research on teacher change during times of educational reform (Cuban, 1993; Darling-Hammond, 1997; Sarason, 1996) and in reading theory (Shannon, 1992). The specific role of belief in the change process is unclear (Guskey, 1986; Richardson, 1990). Beliefs were explored through the construct of theoretical orientation (blend of teachers' beliefs and knowledge) to reading. Decisions were observed through the verbal feedback teachers gave during oral reading instruction. The study was designed to triangulate …

Study Of Particle Deposition In Human Airway Models, Guosen Yue

Open Access Dissertations

In this dissertation, the deposition of particles in human airway models is studied. The dissertation consists of three parts: In the first part, an analytical model of particle nasal airway deposition by diffusion considering effects of both laminar and turbulent flows is proposed. It appears in the literature that neither laminar nor turbulent analytical models alone works well for the entire range of diffusion parameters. A simplified turbulent particle diffusion equation is first developed and then a new combined turbulent/laminar diffusion model is proposed. The results predicted from the new model show improved accuracy when compared with available experimental data …

Indium Tin Oxide Thin Film Strain Gages For Use At Elevated Temperatures, Qing Luo

Open Access Dissertations

A robust ceramic thin film strain gage based on indium-tin-oxide (ITO) has been developed for static and dynamic strain measurements in advanced propulsion systems at temperatures up to 1400°C. These thin film sensors are ideally suited for in-situ strain measurement in harsh environments such as those encountered in the hot sections of gas turbine engines. A novel self-compensation scheme was developed using thin film platinum resistors placed in series with the active strain element (ITO) to minimize the thermal effect of strain or apparent strain. A mathematical model as well as design rules were developed for the self-compensated circuitry using …

Synthesis Of Conducting Polymer Complexes, Patrick Allen Mccarthy

Open Access Dissertations

Conducting polymers are notorious for being difficult to process. Here, we describe syntheses, purification, and characterization of water-soluble double-stranded complexes containing conducting polymers. We describe the synthesis of a water-soluble double-stranded complex containing chiral polyaniline and poly (acrylic acid). We also describe the synthesis of a water-soluble double-stranded complex containing polypyrrole and poly (acrylic acid). Finally, we describe the synthesis of a water-soluble double-stranded complex containing polypyrrole and poly (acrylic acid) with an unusually high polypyrrole loading.

Enhancing Micro-Organism Images By Estimating Image Background, Delong Liu

Open Access Dissertations

One- and two-dimensional techniques are proposed for enhancing micro-organism images using linear least-squares fitting, median filtering combined with bicubic approximation and wavelet filtering, respectively. The quality of enhanced images with pixel dimensions of 1200 x 1600 is examined from their corresponding binary images. It shows that one-dimensional modeling requires much less computation but provides relatively low quality output. On the other hand, the two-dimensional approximations for non-uniform lighting background, using both bicubic spline and wavelet filtering, are more effective and yield very high quality binary images tested with three different grayscale images.

Using Jpeg2000 Compressed Images For Foveated Texture Mapping In Limited Memory Environments, Timothy Michael Henry

Open Access Dissertations

Despite advances in hardware technology and software rendering algorithms, there remain several limitations that force design trade-offs in virtual environments and visualization systems, such as the decision between increased level of detail, scene rendering time and the storage size of an object or virtual world. If an application involves the Internet or another restricted bandwidth transmission environment, the amount of data necessary to communicate a high level of detail becomes an even more critical parameter. Texture mapping and light mapping are used to increase the realism of a scene without increasing the geometric complexity. The cost for these methods is …

Numerical Modeling Of Estuarine Transport, Water Quality, And The Impact Of Shrimp Mariculture In The Rio Chone Estuary, Ecuador, Diana Lynn Stram

Open Access Dissertations

The Rio Chone estuary in Ecuador has been heavily impacted by a range of anthropogenic impacts, particularly the conversion of mangrove forests to shrimp mariculture ponds. The combination of seasonal river flow, climate forcing and the influx of highly saline pond effluents have created a slow circulation regime in the estuary, especially during the dry season when the estuary can undergo a salinity inversion from mouth to head. Both shrimp production and water quality in the estuary have declined, specifically in the upper regions of the estuary where low dissolved oxygen is often a problem. A combined physical and biological …

The Effects Of The Intensity Of Conflict And Commitment On Marketing Channel Partnership Survival, Elizabeth F. Purinton

Open Access Dissertations

The survival of marketing channel partnerships is important to both the buyer and the seller. Dissolution would entail loss of sales and partnership-specific assets, and would require outlay of time, money and effort to find and invest in a new partnership. Unfortunately for both practitioners and academicians, little is known about the maintenance and dissolution of partnerships despite the call for research put forth by Frazier (1983, 1999), Dwyer, Schurr and Oh (1987), and Ping (1993). The intent of this paper is to examine several relationships within partnership dynamics. First, are the roles of commitment and conflict and their potential …

Effect Of Grid Non-Orthogonality On The Solution Of Shallow Water Equations Using Boundary-Fitted Grids, Sankaranarayanan Subbayya

Open Access Dissertations

Effect of grid orthogonality on the solution of two-dimensional depth averaged shallow water equations is studied by comparing model predictions using different grid configurations with analytical solutions, for the cases of tidal forcing in a rectangular channel and seiche oscillation in a closed rectangular basin. The grid angle and grid resolution were found to affect accuracy of the model predicted velocities. Fourier analysis of the discretized equations also confirmed that grid angle and the grid resolution affects the accuracy of the solution and that the numerical dispersion increases with a decrease in grid angle or decrease in grid resolution. The …

A Synthetic Approach To Forecasting Fleet Costs And Earnings In The Northeast Regions Of The United States, Philippe D. Lallemand

Open Access Dissertations

This study describes the New England Otter Trawl Fishery between 1982 and 1998 and the potential economic impacts of regulations on the Northeastern Multispecies Groundfish Fishery (MGF). The study uses primary data collected by the author and secondary data obtained from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). This research required extensive econometric analysis of both value landed and cost data. The landed value is influenced by the vessel's physical characteristics, port of landing, seasonal choices of fishing gear-species combinations, days at sea and distance from shore, and the captain's skill (also referred to as the "skipper effect"). The vessel-cost model …

Hazardous Waste Management: A View From The States, Melissa Armbrister

All Volumes (2001-2008)

Clearly, hazardous waste management represents a formidable task for policy makers at all levels of government. Of course, eliminating waste requires facilities for disposal; this is perhaps the most controversial aspect of the hazardous waste management debate. At the local level, counties and municipalities are routinely engaged in battles in which they are trying to impose these unwanted facilities on their neighbors. The state is often forced to step in and play a central role in resolving the conflict. Over the last several decades, several authors have sought to determine to what degree of importance the public places on improving …

Design, Synthesis And Antimicrobial Activity Of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides, Khaled Elsaid

Open Access Master's Theses

In the past decade, a large number of naturally occuring thiazole and oxazole-containing peptides have been isolated from microbial and marine origins. These peptides exhibit important antimicrobial, antiviral, and anticancer activities. Solid phase synthesis of peptides provides the methods to prepare and investigate novel compounds for possible use as antibiotics. Three combinatorial peptide libraries, library 1, an enantiomeric peptide library, library 2, with guanidinium, thiazole and benzothiophene side chains and library 3, designed from a template natural product, microcin Bl 7, were tested against Vibrio anguillarum (wild type), Escherichia coli (ZK 4) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae in zone …

Deceptive Trade Practices - Consumer Protection Act, A. Michael Ferrill, Leslie Sara Hyman

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Oral History Interview With Dick Hedger, Philip Frana

Selected Works

Richard Hedger begins the interview describing his education in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota. Following graduation he accepted a position at IBM Rochester in the optical character recognition group. He then discusses his shift to software development. Eventually he joined the Service and Support group developing application software supporting facilities infrastructures for the IBM System/3, and System/360. In various places in the interview, he describes some of the programming techniques in ...

Tolerance: Between Forbearance And Acceptance, Hans Oberdiek

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Is Competition Policy Possible In High Tech Markets: An Inquiry Into Antitrust, Intellectual Property, And Broadband Regulation As Applied To The New Economy ?, Lawrence A. Sullivan

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation Annual Report 2001, Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (Kdic)

Documents

No abstract provided.

Department Of Surgery 2001-2001 Annual Report Yale University School Of Medicine / Yale-New Haven Medical Center, Yale School Of Medicine Department Of Surgery

Yale Department of Surgery Bulletins

Annual report for 2001-2002.

Gibbons And Reed Company V. City Of Ogden, Utah, Utah State Road Commission, Oscar A. Robin, Hardy Scales Co. : Brief Of Respondent, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

Respondent, City of Ogden, Utah's Brief