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Combining Quantum Mechanical Calculations And A Χ^2 Fit In A Potential Energy Function For The Co_2 + O^+ Reaction, Ellen F. Sawilowsky

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

In order to compute a highly accurate statistical rate constant for the CO2 + O⁺ reaction, it is necessary to first calculate the potential energy of the system at many different geometric configurations. Quantum mechanical calculations are very time-consuming, making it difficult to obtain a sufficient number to allow for accurate interpolation. The number of quantum mechanical calculations required can be significantly reduced by using known relations in classical physics to calculate energy for configurations where the oxygen is relatively far from the CO2. A chi-squared fit to quantum mechanical points is obtained for these configurations, and the resulting …

Type I Error Rates For Rank-Based Tests Of Homogeneity Of Slopes, Alan J. Klockars, Tim P. Moses

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

The purpose of this study was to explicate two issues concerning the standard and rank based test of homogeneity of slopes. Two alternative ranking methods intended to address nonnormality and additive treatment effect patterns were developed and compared in terms of their ability to control Type I error. The results replicated previous findings of inflated Type I error rates with leptokurtic curves and with rank based tests with some patterns of additive treatment effects. The new nonparametric procedures generally control Type I error although they were slightly inflated with skewed distributions.

Chronic Disease Data And Analysis: Current State Of The Field, Ralph D'Agostino Sr., Lisa M. Sullivan

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Chronic disease usually spans years of a person’s lifetime and includes a disease free period, a preclinical, or latent period, where there are few overt signs of disease, a clinical period where the disease manifests and is eventually diagnosed, and a follow-up period where the disease might progress steadily or remain stable. It is often of interest to investigate the relationship between risk factors measured at a point in time (usually during the disease free or preclinical period), and the development of disease at some future point (e.g., 10 years later). We outline some popular designs for the identification of …

Teachers' Perceptions On Special Education Students' Social Skills And The Effect Of Peer Perceptions In The General Educational Classroom., Erin E. Harman

Theses & Honors Papers

This study identified inconsistencies between teachers' perceptions of students with disabilities and parallels between the lack of positive peer perceptions and the inconsistent perceptions of general and special education teachers. To establish data this study used a selective group of seventh grade general and special education teachers from a middle school in central Virginia. This study also used one general education classroom containing students with and without disabilities. General and Special Education teachers were surveyed using the Profile/ Form Walker-McConnell Scale of Social Competence and School Adjustment. Students used a modified version of the peer interpersonal assessment developed by Farmer, …

Environmental News

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

What Actions Cause One To Be A Generator In Order To Be Exempted From The Resource Conservation And Recovery Act? United States V. Sims Bros. Constr., Inc. , Leecia D. Carnes

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Members In Education, November 2002, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Rydberg-Atom Population Transfer By Population Trapping In A Chirped Microwave Pulse, J. Lambert, Michael Noel, T. F. Gallagher

Physics Faculty Research and Scholarship

We demonstrate that Rydberg atoms can be transferred to states of lower principal quantum number by exposing them to a frequency chirped microwave pulse. Specifically, we have transferred n=75 atoms to n=66 with a 400-ns pulse chirped from 7.8 to 11.8 GHz. In spite of the large number of coupled levels, using a simplified model we can describe the process reasonably well as a sequence of adiabatic rapid passages.

The Opinion – Volume 4, November 2002, William Mitchell College Of Law

The Opinion

Selected Table of Contents

• Sentencing and the Federal Judiciary / Berglund, Gena; Vue-Benson, Robin
• Standing Room Only / Bower, Lori
• Heavy Breathing / Bakken, Shawn
• Rebellious Lawyering Conference: An Experience in Disparity / Berglund, Gena
• Strange Judicial Opinions / McClurg, Andrew
• Now, Not Playing in a Courtroom Near You... / Dady, Sara
• The Law Student's Cookbook / Lorente, Alfredo

Editorial Board

Kilgus, Mary.; Dady, Sara

Novf2002, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From November 2002 Robert Kelly Archive.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

One + Twelve = Two + Eleven

Word Ways

1. Eleven + two = twelve + one is an amazing and rightly famous anagram. I wish to add to its mystique by revealing some more deep coincidences, based on rearranging the terms to

2. two + eleven = one + twelve, or, as I prefer.

3. one + twelve = two + eleven (a word reversal of equation #1).

These two are also anagrams and palindromes in numerical form (shown for #3): 1+12=2+11. (The palindrome requires altered punctuation, as is conventional in verbal palindromes.) More surprisingly, they're both anagrams and palindromes in Roman numerals as well: I+XII=II+XI.

Kickshaws

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Cpa Client Bulletin, November 2002, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Campus Connection, November 2002, Vol. 4 No. 5, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

What's Up With Our Roads? -- Proposition 47 Hits Home -- Steve Schmeiser Named Manager Of Major Gifts -- Where's That Building? -- CSUMB Gets $1.14 Million Grant To Grow Teachers -- There's Plenty Of Support With Faculty Mentoring -- Scholarship Endowment Campaign Gets First Donation -- Changes In Conference And Event Services Staffing -- Chris Hasegawa On Special Fundraising Assignment -- What's In A Name? -- Dr. Massouda Jalal Speaks At CSUMB -- In Memoriam - Margaret Parker -- Join The Campaign Kick-Off -- Fort Ord Alumni Association Honors CSUMB Students -- Deanship For Marshal Moroh -- New Staff …

News & Blues, V. 03, N. 04, Gso News, Stony Brook University.

The Graduate

v. : ill.; 32 cm (original analog pub.),News and Blues. | News and Views. | The GSO News and Blues. | The Graduate Times.

Judicial Activism Is Not The Solution To The Attorney's Fee Problem, Brant J. Hellwig

Scholarly Articles

The report responds to criticism of the Tax Court's decision in Biehl v. Commissioner, in which the court determined that contingency fees paid to the taxpayer's attorney in employment litigation did not constitute an above-the-line deduction under section 62(a)(2)(A). The report examines the relevant statutes, regulations, and legislative history and concludes that the Tax Court reached the correct decision. Professor Hellwig further contends that had the Tax Court interpreted section 62(a)(2)(A) to grant above-the-line status to the attorney's fees in this case to avoid the disallowance of the miscelleaneous itemized deduction for attorney's fees under the alternative minimum tax, the …

Habitat Structure And Alarm Call Dialects In Gunnison's Prairie Dog (Cynomys Gunnisoni), Bianca S. Perla, C. N. Slobodchikoff

Habitat Assessment and Management Collection

We examined the relationship between habitat structure and alarm call characteristics in six colonies of Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) near Flagstaff, Arizona, before and after a mid-summer vegetation change. We found significant differences in alarm call characteristics between colonies, confirming the existence of alarm call dialects. Differences in frequency components but not temporal components of calls were associated with differences in habitat structure. Playback experiments revealed that differences in alarm call structure affected acoustic transmission of calls through the local habitat. Thus, we identify habitat structure as one factor that may contribute to alarm call differences between colonies of …

Benchmarking Of Flexibility And Needs 2002: Survey Of Non-Federal Irrigation Districts (California Department Of Water Resources), Stuart W. Styles, Daniel Howes

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

ITRC interviewed irrigation district personnel from 17 agricultural districts throughout California. Data were analyzed to determine the degree of water delivery flexibility provided to farmers and the extent of existing and planned district modernization. This report did not include irrigation districts with long-term federal contracts.

Status Of White-Tailed And Gunison's Prairie Dogs, Craig Knowles

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The status of the white-tailed and Gunnison's prairie dogs was investigated by conducting telephone interviews with agency people knowledgeable about these species within their area of jurisdiction. Available literature on prairie dog taxonomy, and life history and ecology was also reviewed. The white-tailed and Gunnison's prairie dogs are considered distinct species with no recognized subspecies. Both species are colonial, hibernate during the winter, and occur in shrub-grassland and grassland habitats in the Intermountain West. Density of white-tailed prairie dogs within colonies (2-5 prairie dogs per acre) is typically less than densities of Gunnison’s prairie dogs within colonies (5-10 prairie dogs …

Members In Education, November 2002, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Island Times, Nov 2002, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler

Island Times Newspaper, 2002

Island Times was founded by publishers Mary Lou Wendell and David Tyler to report on community news, to promote the exchange of ideas, and to "keep an eye on City Hall." (from the debut issue, July 2002)

The Nafta Metalclad Appeal - Subsequent Impact Or Inconsequential Error? . . . Only Time Will Tell, Courtney N. Seymour

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Deaf Catholic, November-December 2002

ICDA The Deaf Catholic

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA The Deaf CatholicFinding Aid

The College Redeemer, V3 I2, University Of Northern Iowa

College Redeemer

The College Redeemer - An alternative publication at the University of Northern Iowa published monthly since September of 2001.

Flight Physician - November, 2002, Civil Aviation Medical Association

Browse all Civil Aviation Medical Association Newsletters

A sixteen page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

Interim Management Arrangements For The Commercial Mackerel Fishery. Ministers Responses To The Final Report Of The Mackerel Independent Advisory Panel. (Fisheries Management Paper 164), Kim Chance

Fisheries Management Papers

The Government recognises that the mackerel fishery is important to both the recreational and commercial fishing sectors. However, the purpose of these arrangements is not to allocate the mackerel resource between the sectors but within the commercial sector. Resources sharing issues are subject to investigation in the Integrated Fisheries Management Review where alternative management frameworks and principles for allocating fish stocks to ensure maximum benefit to the community are examined.

Executive Functions In Preschool Children Born Preterm: Application Of Cognitive Neuroscience Paradigms, K. A. Espy, M. M. Stalets, M. D. Mcdiarmid, T. E. Senn, M. F. Cwik, A. Hamby

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory: Faculty Publications

Although children born preterm are at risk for neuropsychological impairments at school age and adolescence, including difficulties with visual motor integration, spatial/constructional skills, attention, arithmetic, and nonverbal executive functions, specific neuropsychological outcome has not been investigated adequately in preschoolers. Application of cognitive neuroscience tasks offers the opportunity to characterize early executive functions in young children born preterm. In a preliminary sample of 29 preschool children born preterm (M birth gestational age=32.4 weeks), executive function outcome was compared to that of fullterm controls by contrasting performance on two prototypic delayed-response-type paradigms, Delayed Alternation and Spatial Reversal. Preschoolers born preterm correctly retrieved …

Using Appropriateness Measurement To Detect Realistic Faking Of Personality Tests, Brian Holt

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Research has shown that personality tests are susceptible to faking and that test takers do indeed take advantage of this vulnerability. This faking creates a problem when organizations use personality tests as screening tools for candidates for employment. Among the methods available to detect faking, appropriateness measurement (i.e., examining how well a pattern of responses fit item characteristics) has not been thoroughly investigated. The present study examines whether the two most popular appropriateness indices, Z3 and F2, are capable of detecting response distortion among test takers instructed to answer honestly versus fake. The groups demonstrated differences between overall mean scores, …