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Issue No. 60: October 2003, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Legendary Eklund Hotel Gets New Lease on Life
1 2003 Historical Society of New Mexico Awards
2 Many-Sided Man: John Donald Robb and Music in New Mexico, 1892-1989
5 Endangered Places in New Mexico, 2003
6 Las Cruces Train Depot La Crónica de Nuevo México Photograph Correction
6 New Mexico's Nickname Restored
7 John Henry Tunstall's Tombstone Discovered in London
7 Corporal Frank Bratling Posthumously Honored
7 John Wayne, Move Over
8 Route 66 Neon Signs Being Restored
8 Prominent Southwestern Anthropologist Charles L. Lange Dies
8 Well-Known Architect George Pearl Left a Legacy

Developing Impervious Surface Estimates For Coastal New Hampshire, David G. Justice, Fay A. Rubin

PREP Reports & Publications

Future population growth and the corresponding increase in development in the coastal zone of NH are widely recognized as major threats to the integrity of coastal systems and their watersheds. The potential impacts associated with the expansion of developed land, and specifically with increasing amounts of impervious surfaces – rooftops, sidewalks, roads, and parking lots - may include significant changes in water quantity, degradation in water quality, and habitat loss. Because asphalt, concrete, stone, and other impenetrable materials effectively seal the ground surface, water is repelled and is prevented from infiltrating soils. Instead, stormwater runoff flows directly into our surface …

Small Firm Use Of Debt: An Examination Of The Smallest Small Firms, Susan Coleman

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Access to capital is an on-going challenge for small firms. Capital is required to address a broad range of needs: to cover start-up costs, to provide working capital, to secure facilities or equipment, and to hire employees. Most small firms are at a relative disadvantage, because they are too small to access the public debt and equity markets. Similarly, they are typically too small to show up on the radar screens of venture capitalists on patrol for the next potential hot IPO. Alternatively, very small firms are heavily reliant on bank loans, trade credit, and informal sources of capital including …

The Internet, Bank Structure And Small Business Lending, Steven G. Craig, Polly T. Hardee

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

The advent of the Internet has opened many opportunities for bankers to access new customers, increase convenience and expand product ranges in many markets, including that of small businesses. Yet anecdotal evidence reveals that smaller banks are reluctant to employ Internet technology in the small business market for fear of damaging the customer relationship developed through personal contact. These smaller, more simply structured banks tend to specialize in small business lending, possessing a comparative advantage in that market (Craig and Hardee, 2001). This is particularly so in relationship driven credits where personal knowledge of the borrower is paramount over financial …

Optimal Liquidation Of Venture Capital Stakes, Robert Dubil

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

We model the optimal liquidation behavior of a venture capital or non-diversified asset management firm faced with a sale of concentrated security holdings. As the firm?s stake is large, its sales can lead to permanent and temporary price depressions. At the optimum, the institution chooses the liquidation interval to balance the exposure to the market return variance against the impact of its own sales on the realized return. We obtain closed-form solutions for power impact functions uncorrelated with returns. We also consider market impact correlated with the return process, i.e. a case where liquidity evaporates during severe price dislocations.

A Survey Of Contexts For Successful Literacy Tutoring, Dorothy Leal, Cathy Mowrer, Jodi Cunningham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Effective tutoring is key to successful literacy learning for at-risk children. This report provides an overview of answers to the question: "What are the contexts for effective literacy tutoring?" The research shows that successful reading tutoring is commonly found in four contexts: home, school, professional/community, and university settings.

Cole Train | V.1, No.1 (Fall 2002), Houston Cole Library

Library Annual Reports & Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The First Establishment Clause: Article Vii And The Post-Constitutional Confederation, Gary Lawson, Guy Seidman

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

On Computing Condensed Frequent Pattern Bases, Jian Pei, Guozhu Dong, Wei Zou, Jiawei Han

Kno.e.sis Publications

Frequent pattern mining has been studied extensively. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of this mining is often limited, since the number of frequent patterns generated is often too large. In many applications it is sufficient to generate and examine only frequent patterns with support frequency in close-enough approximation instead of in full precision. Such a compact but close-enough frequent pattern base is called a condensed frequent patterns-base.

In this paper, we propose and examine several alternatives at the design, representation, and implementation of such condensed frequent pattern-bases. A few algorithms for computing such pattern-bases are proposed. Their effectiveness at pattern …

Who Are The Entrepreneurs? Evidence From Taxpayer Data, Donald Bruce, Douglas Holtz-Eakin

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

The United States has experienced a revival of interest in entrepreneurs. While much of the public fascination has focused on "dot com" millionaires and similar high-profile phenomena, a coincident surge in research has focused on the economic foundations of this boom. In executing their research strategy, analysts are confronted with the interrelated issues of deciding "who is an entrepreneur" and identifying data sources suitable to analyze retrepreneurial behavior. In many instances, the focus has been on those individuals who identify themselves as self-employed in large cross-sectional data sets like the Census or Current Population Survey (CPS), or panel data sets …

Venture Capital Finance In China, Xiaoqing Eleanor Xu

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

The globalization of capital flow has resulted in an increasing number of firms choosing to cross-list their stocks in foreign stock exchanges to raise public equity capital abroad, and more recently, the booming of venture capital (VC) inflow to developing nations to finance the start-ups and growth companies in those emerging economies. The dramatic rise in venture-funded activity in developing nations has been largely fueled by institutional investors in the United States and other developed nations. Among the developing nations, China, in the transition from a central planning regulated economy to a free market economy, has progressed quickly in grasping …

Entrepreneurship, Firm Size And The Structure Of The Italian Economy, Pellegrino Manfra

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Since World War II, Italy's economic growth has been one of the highest in the world. The objective of this study is to examine the structure of the Italian economy and causes of this growth. It was found that small and medium-sized firms, most of them family-owned, have been the dynamic force behind the country?s extraordinary economic performance. The vital role of the family and that of the entrepreneur – as the supreme spirit of enterprise and initiative - has been paramount in this process. Production by small and medium-sized firms have concentrated in a specific geographical area called “industrial …

New Bank Start-Ups: Entrepreneurs Funding Other Entrepreneurs, Robert Deyoung

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

There has traditionally been a symbiotic link between new business ventures and new banking ventures. This article finds that the traditional link between small businesses and small banks – the small business loan – has weakened in recent years. While new banks have intensified their reliance on small business customers, small business borrowers have become less reliant on small banks for their credit needs. These findings are consistent with rapid changes in the structure of the banking industry, financial instruments and markets, and communications and information technology over the past two decades.

Ruffner Roots And Ramblings, Vol. 5, Issue 4, Ruffner Family Association

Ruffner Roots & Ramblings

No abstract provided.

Ard News December 2002

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

Comments from the ARD Office Staff
How to State the Value of Your Research
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants
Grants and Contracts Received October and November, 2002
ARD Budget Reductions - Round 3
Undergraduate Honors Research Program
Recognition of Junior Faculty for Excellence in Research
ARD-Administered Grant and Awards Programs

"Real Ways Of Talking" And School Talking: One Appalachian Student's Perception Of Teacher Discourse During Writing Conferences, Sherry W. Powers

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A barrier to school literacy is created when teachers fail to build upon the familiar language of students. These research findings indicate that when students perceive that nonstandard ways of talking are not as highly valued by the school as Standard English is valued, they deliberately fail to produce written products that match their teacher's expectations.

Reading Horizons Vol. 43, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 43, issue 2.

Joint Force Quarterly 32 (4th Quarter, December 2002), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.

0507 Health Care Task Force, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

Mathematics & Statistics Newsletter December 2002, Rit Department Of Mathematics And Statistics

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Its News December 2002, Information & Technology Services

RIT Digital Archives

Computer Network Security Awareness: A Global Issue That Touches RIT||Balancing Intellectual Freedom, Privacy and Security||Virtual Private Network Installed For Online System Safety||Information Security- Top Down, Bottom Up, And Inside-Out||The Cost of Safeguarding A Network: An Individual And Organizational Effort||You've Been Hacked!||Spam: It's Not Just For Breakfast Anymore||What Is Spam To You, Might Not Be Spam To Me||Veni, Vidi, Viri (I Came, I Saw, I Infected)||Priveleges and Responsibilities Defined In The Computer Code Of Conduct||Law Officials Involved in Some Computer Crime Cases||What Is The Least That I Can Do To Secure My Computer?||Passwords and Patches: Updating and Protecting Your Computer||MacCareful

A Method For Modeling Low-Probability, High- Consequence Risk Events: Vessel Traffic On The Lower Mississippi River, George Wooddell, Robert Gramling, Craig J. Forsyth

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "A variety of commodities, from chlorine to corn and petroleum to passengers, are transported on the lower Mississippi River regularly. Corn, wheat and coal are the most commonly carried commodities. From a human health and safety perspective, these are relatively benign products in that a vessel accident and spill of these are not directly hazardous to people, whatever other ecological disturbances may ensue. However, over eighty million tons of petroleum products are transported on the river annually. Over a million tons of liquid natural gas traverse the river through the center of New Orleans. Additionally, over 400,000 tons of …

Reply To Dr. Tengs’ Response, Lisa Heinzerling

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "The primary aim of my article “Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Misuse in the Debate Over Regulatory Reform” was to dispel the myth that had grown up around the studies Dr. Tammy Tengs published with Dr. John Graham: that is, the idea that government regulation is responsible for, in Dr. Graham’s words, the “statistical murder” of 60,000 people in the United States every year. As I demonstrated in my article, nothing in the work of Drs. Tengs and Graham supports Dr. Graham’s recurring charge of statistical murder through regulation. And nothing in Dr. Tengs’ response to my article casts …

Review Of "The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, And Public Policy (Basic Bioethics)," Edited By Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, And Laurie Zoloth, James Steele

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "Perhaps like others, I started "The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate" not knowing many of the finer points of embryonic stem cell research, but I certainly had an opinion. This issue is far more complex than I had initially imagined. The editors do a commendable effort of compiling a sample of the innumerable arguments surrounding the debate."

Editors' Notebook, North American Birds

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Three Geese Resembling Gray-Bellied Brant/Lawrence's Brant From Long Island, New York, P. A. Buckley, S. S. Mitra

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 45, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

White-Collar Crime In Brazil: Legislation, Court Decisions, And The Opinion Of Legal Writers, Peter Walter Ashton

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

A Battle Over Birth "Control": Legal And Legislative Employer Prescription Contraception Benefit Mandates, C. Keanin Loomis

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), employers are prohibited from discriminating against women by treating pregnancy and childbirth different from other medical conditions. Employers who offer medical benefits to their employees have thus been required to cover pregnancy-related medical costs on the same terms as other medical coverage. The cost of prescription contraception, however, has generally not been covered by employer-sponsored medical plans, even while other prescription drugs were. This Note examines the recent case of Erickson v. Bartell Drug Co., which challenged this practice of excluding prescription contraception coverage as discriminatory under the PDA, and argues that further federal …

The Investigation And Prosecution Of White-Collar Crime: International Challenges And The Legal Tools Available To Address Them, Thomas G. Snow

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.