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Globalization And Tax Competition: Implications For Developing Countries, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

The current age of globalization can be distinguished from the previous one (from 1870 to 1914) by the much higher mobility of capital than labor (in the previous age, before immigration restrictions, labor was at least as mobile as capital). This increased mobility has been the result of technological changes (the ability to move funds electronically), and the relaxation of exchange controls. The mobility of capital has led to tax competition, in which sovereign countries lower their tax rates on income earned by foreigners within their borders in order to attract both portfolio and direct investment. Tax competition, in turn, …

Rescue And The War Story, William I. Miller

Articles

It is precisely in the domain of rescue that twentieth-century battle has made its peculiar addition to the styles of the heroic.

Making Sense Of U.S. International Taxation: Six Steps Toward Simplification, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

The Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress issued a three-volume study in April 2001 entitled Study of the Overall State of the Federal Tax System and Recommendations for Simplification. Among the more than 100 recommendations of the Joint Committee Study, ten relate to international taxation. Of these, only one can be regarded as achieving significant simplification – the proposal to reduce the number of antideferral regimes from six to two. The other recommendations were limited to relatively minor changes of detail in various international provisions. Even these small steps toward simplifying the notoriously complex U.S. international tax …

Hay Quality Sensory Evaluation Form - Alfalfa, T. C. Griggs, S. C. Franson, M. G. Bohle

All Current Publications

Hay Quality Sensory Evaluation Form – Alfalfa

Intermountain Planting Guide, Kevin Jensen, Howard Horton, Ron Reed, Ralph Whitesides

All Current Publications

The first consideration prior to seeding is to determine the present level of management being applied to the proposed site. Many sites will recover or improve without seeding if proper management is implemented. Soil is the primary natural resource and its conservation is the most important consideration in seedings.

Learning What To Eat And What To Avoid, Usu Extension

All Current Publications

Young herbivores learn which foods are harmful and which are safe through interactions with their mothers. Throughout life, they learn about the consequences of eating through postingestive feedback they experience after eating foods. But how can they do this in a world where toxin and nutrient levels of forages change daily and seasonally? How can they possibly learn and remember all the plants that grow in pastures and on rangelands? How can they survive when we move them to new pastures with unfamiliar foods?

Mass Transport By Non-Linear Internal Waves On The Malin Shelf, Me Inall, Gi Shapiro, Tj Sherwin

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Quality Of Work Life: An Empirical Study, Tarek Hassan Ibrahim Abdeen

Plymouth Business School Theses

This research examines the quality of work life in a selection of pharmaceutical companies in Egypt. It aims to test the relationships between the employees' perceptions of their quality of work life and; their perceptions of the degree of participation in decisionmaking available to them, their perceptions of their level of job satisfaction, their perceptions of their level of affective, continuance, and normative commitment, and the ownership form of the company. It uses a sample of 1270 employees in three different ownership forms; public, private, and multinational pharmaceutical companies in Egypt. The total sample size is proportionately distributed (i. e. …

Windows Are Key To Keeping Warm In Winter, Donna Falkenborg

All Current Publications

“With the price of fuel skyrocketing, now is the time to think about energy-saving projects around the house, and the best place to start is with your windows,” advises Leona K. Hawks, Utah State University Extension housing specialist.

Renters, Too, Can Save On Utility Costs, Donna Falkenborg

All Current Publications

“Most energy conservation information is designed for homeowners, even though an increasing number of people are renting,” says Leona K. Hawks, Utah State University Extension housing specialist. “Many renters develop a short-timer mentality and don’t worry much about energy savings. However, utility bills do add up quickly so renters may wish to conserve on their energy use,” she advises.

Repetitive Strain Injury, Jill Webster

All Current Publications

Repetitive Strain Injury is a serious condition that is painful and often debilitating. Also known as Cumulative Trauma Disorder, RSI occurs from physical movements that are repeated with a high rate of frequency.

Increasing The Safety Of Livestock Facilities, Jill Webster

All Current Publications

Working with animals in production agriculture carries with it a certain amount of inherent risk. Handling facilities are vital to the success of any cattle operation and provide for the quick, safe, and easy handling of cattle.

Atv Safety, Rhonda Miller, Mark Gonzalez

All Current Publications

The ATV is a popular form of recreation and a valuable piece of work equipment. Since the mid 1980's, the ATV has found increasing use in agriculture. ATVs provide agriculturalists with convenience and efficiency in transportation as well as for a wide variety of other purposes.

Mental Health And Stress Management, Jill Webster

All Current Publications

Farmers and ranchers experience many stress factors that are unique to their jobs and way of life. These stress factors are very di cult to cope with. These stress factors include: weather conditions, markets, time constraints, milk and commodity prices, crop and livestock disease, governmental regulations, high interest rates, high property taxes, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and competition.

Livestock Safety, Jill Webster

All Current Publications

One of the most important issues for consideration when handling livestock is safety. Although considered domesticated animals, working with livestock carries with it an inherent risk of danger.

Amateur Volleyball Attackers Competing Despite Shoulder Pain: Analysis Of Play Habits, Anthropometric Data, And Specific Pathologies, Ryan Jacobson, Cindy Benson

Faculty Publications - College of Physical Therapy

No abstract provided.

Giving Way Event During A Combined Stepping And Crossover Cutting Task In An Individual With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficiency, Jeff Houck, H. John Yack

Faculty Publications - College of Physical Therapy

Study Design: Case study.

Objective: To compare knee kinematics and moments of nongiving way trials to a giving way trial during a combined stepping and crossover cutting activity.

Background: The knee kinematics and moments associated with giving way episodes sugge motor control strategies that lead to instability and recovery of stability during movement.

Methods and Measures: A 27-year-old woman with anterior cruciate ligament deficiency reported giving way while performing a combined stepping and crossover cutting activity. P motion analysis system recorded motion of the pelvis, femur, tibia, and foot using 3 infrarec emitting diodes placed on each segment at 60 …

Abiotic Vs. Biotic Influences On Habitat Selection Of Coexisting Species: Climate Change Impacts?, Thomas E. Martin

Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications

Species are commonly segregated along gradients of microclimate and vegetation. I explore the question of whether segregation is the result of microhabitat partitioning (biotic effects) or choice of differing microclimates (abiotic effects). I explored this question for four ground-nesting bird species that an segregated along a microclimate and vegetation gradient in Arizona. Birds shifted position of their nests on the microhabitat and microclimate gradient in response to changing precipitation over nine years. Similarly, annual bird abundance varied with precipitation across 12 yr. Those shifts in abundance and nesting microhabitat with changing precipitation demonstrate the importance of abiotic influences on bird …

Overcoming America's Wood Deficit: An Overlooked Option, Carl E. Fiedler, Stephen F. Arno, Charles E. Keegan, Keith A. Blatner

Forest Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Inflation & Monopoly Expectations, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Inflation and oligopoly and monopoly explanations [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Stadnichenko, A. (1975). Monetary crisis of capitalism: Origin and development. New York, NY: Dunellen Publishing Company.

• Sawyer, M. (2001). Kalecki on imperfect competition, inflation and money. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 25(2), 245–261.

Use Of Red Mangrove For Nesting By Snail Kites In Florida, Victoria J. Dreitz, Jamie A. Duberstein

Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications

During 1999 we monitored Snail Kite nesting activity throughout central and south Florida as part of an ongoing study from 1995 to 1999 evaluating the influences of environmental variation on the demography of the Florida population of Snail Kites. We discovered three nests in red mangrove built approximately 2 m above water. These nests were located in the stairstep unit of Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park, south ofHwy 441 in Lostman's Slough.

Behavioral Interactions Between Coexisting Species: Song Playback Experiments With Wood Warblers, P. R. Martin, Thomas E. Martin

Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications

Behavioral interactions between coexisting species may reflect underlying ecological interactions or may arise from factors unrelated to ecological interactions between species. We examined behavioral interactions between two coexisting, migratory wood warblers that competitively interact on breeding territories in central Arizona, USA. The larger Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata) is aggressive toward the later-arriving Virginia's Warbler (V. virginiae) and responds to playback of Virginia's Warbler songs by approaching the playback speaker or by singing over Virginia's Warbler songs. Virginia's Warblers retreat from interactions with Orange-crowned Warblers and avoid the playback speaker when presented with Orange-crowned Warbler songs. Responses of both species to …

In The Site Of The Unseen: The Place Of African-American Culture Within Film, Austin Allen

Western Reserve Studies Symposium

Austin Allen discusses “the creation, distortion, re-mapping, dislocation, mythologies, and loss of space in the construction of African American culture in cinema and the televisual experience” through an examination of how African American neighborhoods and cultures are represented and misrepresented in film. Abstract; originally published in Western Reserve Studies Symposium (15th: 2001: Cleveland, Ohio)

Fewer And Better Babies: The Maternal Health Association Of Cleveland, Ohio, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer

Western Reserve Studies Symposium

Jimmy Meyer details the history of Cleveland’s Maternal Health Association, the volunteers who made it possible, and the many motives that prompted volunteers to provide birth control information in the early years. Abstract; originally published in Western Reserve Studies Symposium (16th:2001 : Cleveland, Ohio)

Microwave Ionization Of An Atomic Electron Wave Packet, Michael W. Noel, Lung Ko, T. F. Gallagher

Physics Faculty Research and Scholarship

A short microwave pulse is used to ionize a lithium Rydberg wave packet launched from the core at a well-defined phase of the field. We observe a strong dependence on the relative phase between the motion of the wave packet and the oscillations of the field. This phase dependent ionization is also studied as a function of the relative frequency. Our experimental observations are in good qualitative agreement with a one-dimensional classical model of wave packet ionization.

Characterization Of Steel Fiber And/Or Polymer Concrete Mixes And Applications To Slender Rectangular And I -Beams, Ashraf Ibrahim Ahmed

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation presents results from experimental studies related to polymer modified concrete, steel fiber reinforced concrete, and steel fiber/polymer modified concrete. As a first stage of this research, the properties of different concrete mixes were characterized. These mixes were: plain concrete, steel fiber concrete with fiber volume fraction of 1%, polymer modified concrete with 1% to 7.5% solids of polymer, and steel fiber/polymer modified concrete with 1% to 7.5% polymer solids and I% steel fiber fraction. Concrete cylinders and 4 x 4 inches beams were tested under compressive, tensile, flexural, and bar pull-out loadings; In the second phase of this …

Spectroscopy Of Negative Molecular Ions: Studies In The Infrared Of Methide (Ch(3)-) And In The Vacuum Ultraviolet Of No(-) And Atomic And Molecular Oxygen (O(-) And O(2)-), Stephen Earl Mitchell

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The methide ion, CH3-, is isoelectronic with ammonia, NH3. Two different autodetachment life times have been observed. Metastable autodetaching states of methide have been observed, with an autodetachment lifetime range of 17 to 667 mus using a fast coaxial ion-laser beam apparatus. The excited states responsible for autodetachment are presumably rotationally excited states. A rovibrational transition in methide has been observed at 3206.74 cm-1 using a fast coaxial ion-laser beam apparatus and sub-Doppler tuning techniques. The full-width-at-half-maximum was measured to be 22.65 MHz, which corresponds to a 7.03 ns lifetime of the vibrationally excited state. This is the first rovibrational …

Non–Water–Stressed Baseline As A Tool For Dynamic Control Of A Misting System For Propagation Of Poinsettias, Sérgio Zolnier, Richard S. Gates, Robert G. Anderson, Sue E. Nokes, George A. Duncan

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

A technique is presented for dynamically adjusting misting intervals during propagation of vegetative cuttings. A crop setpoint temperature for activation of misting was defined by a "non-water-stressed baseline" concept, using infrared thermometry to acquire canopy temperature for plant feedback. The critical crop setpoint temperature was calculated from instantaneous values of air temperature, incident radiation, and air vapor pressure deficit (VPD_air). Misting was activated when the actual crop temperature exceeded the critical crop setpoint temperature. The dynamic control was shown to have the potential to reduce the amount of applied water from 9 to 12 times during low levels …

古龍《陸小鳳傳奇》的理想型與變態型人物, Suk Tuen Cheung

Dissertations from all years

《陸小鳳傳奇》轟動了文壇，令作者古龍名聲大斐。《陸小鳳傳奇》成功的原因是寫出諸多獨具個性的人物，不論主角配角亦同樣精彩。每個人物都是有血有肉，其行為也是可圈可點。而且這部推理武俠小說的情節懸疑迭起，令讀者如入迷障，引人入勝。再加上文字洗煉優美，當中妙語如珠，像散文詩亦如禪機，可謂精妙絕倫。

全文分作兩大部份，第一部份分析小說中的三個理想型人物，分別為陸小鳳、花滿樓和西門吹雪。本文會以李贄的〈童心說〉作基礎分析陸小鳳的性格，以中國傳統的仁愛道德觀去顯示出花滿樓的完美性格，及以「性痴」來分析西門吹雪這位劍神的內在情感。

第二部份是探索《陸小鳳傳奇》中的變態人物性格特徵，集中分析宮九和牛肉湯這對心理變態的兄妹。古龍善寫變態人物，此二人的變態心理異常矛盾複雜，宮九自卑又自戀，牛肉湯既自大又墮落，這部份會以西方心理學為基礎進行研究，主要用佛洛伊德的心理學理論如性異常和多重性格等，從當九和牛肉湯的行為分析二人形成變態心理的原因和找出他們行為的動機。

古龍正是透過這兩種截然不同的人物的強烈對比，令他們互相突出對方，使兩種人物在小說中性格也非常鮮明。他們的對立衍生出人物之間的愛恨，不但使故事高潮迭起，同時亦因此而深深吸引了讀者，令讀者與小說中的人物一起走進古龍的奇幻武俠世界。

Development Of A Scale To Assess Hwa-Byung On The Korean Mmpi-2 / By Michael E. Roberts, Michael E. Roberts

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.