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Rascals, The State, And Civil Society In Papua New Guinea, Nand E. Hart Nibbrig

Pacific Studies

This article contends that as conditions worsen in Papua New Guinea's urban areas, it is apparent that the escalating crime and violence associated with rascal gangs are creating new rules of authority. The cumulative effects of criminal activities associated with gangs are negating the existing social order, spreading fear deep within civil society. In so doing, these activities deliver yet another blow to the legitimacy of the state. Continuous migration and the concomitant expansion of the newly urbanized population are defining a new urban landscape. Likewise, the persistent drain of national wealth by pervasive corruption, civil war, or domestic unrest …

On The Location Of The Proto-Oceanic Homeland, John Edward Terrell, Terry L. Hunt, Joel Bradshaw

Pacific Studies

The linguist Malcolm Ross has advanced a series of inferences pointing to somewhere in the Bismarck Archipelago as the probable "homeland" in the Pacific of the Oceanic or Eastern Austronesian languages. This conclusion is not the only one that can be reached based on current linguistic evidence and inference. Reviewing why he has singled out the Bismarck Archipelago as the homeland is advisable, for Ross's deductions have been seen as substantial support for associating proto-Oceanic with what some archaeologists have characterized as the "Lapita cultural complex." We find, however, that social-network models based on alternative assumptions about linguistic variation and …

Review: Andrew Strathern And Pamela J. Stewart, Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, And Contradiction In New Guinea Highlands History, Michael Wesch

Pacific Studies

Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart, Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2000. Pp. 216, illus., bib., index. US$19 paperback.

Reviewed by Michael Wesch, University of Virginia

Developing The Buyer-Friendly Transportation Salesperson: An Empirical Analysis Of The Most Important Seller Traits And Behaviors From The Transportation Buyer’S Perspective, Charles E. Pettijohn, R Stephen Parker, John L. Kent

Journal of Transportation Management

The research reported in this manuscript provides several insights regarding the specific behaviors and traits of transportation salespersons as sought by a sample of shippers. Shippers in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries were asked to evaluate the importance of 30 potential salesperson characteristics. Overall, dependability, ethical conduct, honesty, provision of regular service, and solution selling were ranked as the most important (“must have”) characteristics. In addition to the overall rankings, t-tests were used to compare the manufacturing and non-manufacturing groups and ANOVA tests were used to compare the responses of shippers which were grouped by number of contacts from salespersons.

Heafey Headnotes, Vol. 13, No. 1, Santa Clara University - Heafey Law Library

Heafey Headnotes

No abstract provided.

Money And Challenger Emmergence In Gubernatorial Primaries, Kedron Bardwell

Peer Reviewed Articles

Compared to congressional elections, gubernatorial races are underrepresented in the campaign finance literature. At the same time, the great diversity of state campaign finance laws enables a comparative analysis of their impact in gubernatorial races. I use data from 1980 to 2000 to test hypotheses about challenger emergence, campaign finance laws, and candidate spending in gubernatorial party primaries. I find that incumbents with high job approval ratings and those in party endorsement states are more likely to be unopposed in the primary. In contested primaries, experienced challengers and those who accept public funding are better able to match levels of …

Congruent Weak Conformance, Ronald W. Brower

Theses and Dissertations

This research addresses the problem of verifying implementations against specifications through an innovative logic approach. Congruent weak conformance, a formal relationship between agents and specifications, has been developed and proven to be a congruent partial order. This property arises from a set of relations called weak conformations. The largest, called weak conformance, is analogous to Milner's observational equivalence. Weak conformance is not an equivalence, however, but rather an ordering relation among processes. Weak conformance allows behaviors in the implementation that are unreachable in the specification. Furthermore, it exploits output concurrencies and allows interleaving of extraneous output actions in the implementation. …

High Energy Laser Pointing Through Extended Turbulence, Jason A. Tellez

Theses and Dissertations

The airborne laser (ABL) uses adaptive optics to compensate the atmospheric turbulence between the ABL and the target. The primary purpose of this compensation is to increase the energy density of the energy laser at the target. However, the specifics of the engagement scenario require the tracking point of reference and the adaptive optics point of reference to be located at different points on the target. This research considers the effects of tracking a target in one direction while compensating for atmospheric turbulence in a different directions. The target references used are a point source and a rectangle, while a …

Comparing Clustering Algorithms For Use With Genomic And Proteomic Data, Rebecca A. Olson

Theses and Dissertations

The Human Genome Project and related projects have resulted in the development of a number of new experimental and analytic tools for use in genomic and proteomic research. In the area of toxicogenomics, researchers are concerned with how genes react to exposure to certain chemicals. The United States Air Force is interested in the effect of exposure to mission-essential chemicals. Although military personnel may come into contact with chemicals such as hydrazine, risk assessment is usually very limited. On the genomic level, risk assessment is a multi-stop and multi-disciplinary process. The process begins with an experiment that exposes cells to …

An Evaluation Of Facility Maintenance And Repair Strategies Of Select Companies, Christopher L. Sharp

Theses and Dissertations

Although initial construction costs are high, the cost of operation and maintenance over a facilities life-cycle is significantly higher. A common challenge for facility maintenance professionals is balancing the cost of facility Maintenance and Repair (M&R) with the benefits derived from those facilities. This thesis documents how a selection of companies implemented that balance by determining their facilities requirements based on their chosen facility condition level and how they then allocated funds. The research effort consisted of interviews with facility maintenance professionals at each company selected. The data was then used to perform a multiple case study analysis and comparison …

Vision, Fall 2002

Vision

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

VisionFinding Aid

Validation Of A Finite-Element Stored Grain Ecosystem Model, Michael D. Montross, Dirk E. Maier, Kamyar Haghighi

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

An axisymmetric finite–element model was validated with respect to predicting the heat, mass, and momentum transfer that occurred in upright corrugated–steel storage bins due to conduction, diffusion, and natural convection using realistic boundary conditions. Hourly weather data that included hourly total solar radiation, wind speed, ambient temperature, and relative humidity were used to model the corn temperature and moisture content during storage with no aeration, and with ambient and chilled aeration. Periods of aeration were simulated assuming a uniform airflow rate through the grain mass. Sixteen bins with a capacity of 11.7 t each and instrumented with temperature cables were …

Evst 420.01: The U.S. Environmental Movement(S), Neva Hassanein

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Sw 310.01: Social Welfare Policies And Services, Kerrie A. Ghenie

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Cs 172.02: Introduction To Computer Modeling, John Demme

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ls 151l.02: Introduction To The Humanities, Daniel T. Spencer

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Acct 311.01: Intermediate Accounting I, Joseph A. Weber

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Psc 471.01: American Constitutional Law - Federalism And Separation Of Powers, James J. Lopach

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Psc 100s.01: Introduction To American Government, Jonathan Tompkins

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

A Eurasian Wryneck Speciment From Southern Indian, John B. Dunning Jr., Amanda Beheler, Michael Crowder, Steve Andrews, Ron Weiss

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Front Matter (Pdf), North American Birds

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Passages, Volume 3, No. 2, Fall 2002, Joe Mitchell

Texas Cave Management Association

Contents: Western Oaks Karst Preserve Opens -- View from the Palit -- Western Oaks -- The TCMA Karst Groundwater Model - See it at the TCMA booth at TCR -- Robber Baron Entrance Project Update -- Minutes Board of Directors Texas Cave Management Association -- The Board and Officers of the Texas Cave Management Association express their appreciation to the following recent contributors to the TCMA -- TCMA Board of Directors/Officers 2002

The Changing Seasons: Musings Of A Migrant Birder, Stephen J. Dinsmore

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Alaska, Thede Tobish

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Sw 200.02: An Introduction To Social Work Practice, David K. Clark

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Annual Survey Of Nevada Law 2001, Nevada Law Journal Staff

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Acct 509.01: Financial Reporting And Control, Barbara Reider

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Badm 201.03: Financial Accounting, Anne Blair

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Badm 201.02: Financial Accounting, Anne Blair

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Badm 201.01: Financial Accounting, Anne Blair

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.