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Tempo Magazine, Fall 2002, Office Of Student Life

Tempo Magazine

Tempo Magazine is Coastal Carolina University's student-produced feature magazine. TEMPO #8. Editor: Aaron Beck. Faculty advisor: Nelljean Rice.

Analysis Of Cultural Factors In Leadership And Succession Practices In Taiwan Businesses, Wen-Chiang Chen

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine Taiwanese leadership styles and succession practices, by reviewing current theory and practice and by conducting interviews with ten leaders of Taiwanese enterprises. The discussion with these leaders focused on their personal characteristics and behaviors related to their leadership styles, their leadership approaches, their relationship with their subordinates, the effects of their leadership styles and their succession practices. The interview data were also analyzed within the context of the literature review’s discussion on the characteristics of Chinese leadership and the traditional Chinese family enterprise. The analysis of the data indicated that the leadership …

Swede Hollow Residents, 1873-1885. Part 2, James E. Erickson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Magnet Attractions, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Magnet Attractions

No abstract provided.

Urinary Incontinence In Young Female Athletes Of Taiwan, Alice M. K. Wong, Yu-Cheng Pei, Pin-Pin Huang, Hung-Wei Cheng, Shi-Wei Chou, Chia-Yin Li

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

To determine whether women participated in sport, even these young nulliparous female athletes, are more prone to have urinary incontinence in Taiwan. Four hundred and forty- six young female students were included in this study. All of them were nulliparous. Our subjects consisted of 260 varsity athletes, 106 athletes of high school, and 80 varsity non-athletes. They were requested to complete questionnaires on the type of major sport, intensity of training, menstrual history, sport injury, and urinary incontinence. The results showed that the athletes group had a greater body height and weight and a higher prevalence of urinary incontinence (10.0% …

Relationships Between Pain, Pain Behavior, Anxiety, And Muscle Tension During Electrodiagnosis, Yu-Cheng Pei, Simon F. T. Tang, Wei-Chi Hsieh, Ming-Che Chao, Alice M. K. Wong, Kai-Hua Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The purpose of the study was to investigate the interaction between pain, pain behavior, anxiety, and muscle tension during electrodiagnosis, and to examine the anxiolytic and pain-relieving effects of traditional Chinese music. Two measuring tools, including electrodiagnosis pain behavior checklist (EPBC) and electromyography muscle tension scale (EMTS) were developed to objectively assess the subject's pain and muscle tension, respectively. Sixty-one patients were included in this study and were randomly divided into background music group and control group. EPBC and EMTS were concurrently measured during electrodiagnosis, which consisted of nerve conduction velocity and electromyography (EMG) studies. Linear analog anxiety scale (LAAS) …

Spinal Cord Infarction: Report Of Two Cases, Nien-Chin Hsiao, Chung-Lan Kao, Rai-Chi Chan

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Spinal cord infarction is a rare disease. It is even more uncommon that spinal cord infarction occurs in a patient without any cardiovascular disease. Anterior spinal artery syndrome is much more common than the posterior spinal artery syndrome due to the difference in collateral supply. We present two patients with spinal cord infarction. In both patients, the clinical picture was stereotyped: sudden onset of weakness of limbs, sensory loss below the level of infarction and sphincter dysfunction. Treatment for the two patients was supportive and they had a good recovery over a period of weeks.

Progressive Ischemic Myelopathy Due To Painless Aortic Dissection: A Casereport, Hung-Chang Chueh, Shu-Huan Lin, Li-Sheng Huang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The clinical appearance of aortic dissection is characterized by the sudden, acute chest or abdominal pain, accompanied by coldness in the limbs and sweating-like symptoms of shock. Absent pulse or asymmetric pulse was observed in some patients. If the feeding arteries of the specific organs are located in the false lumen, this may lead to sudden loss of blood supply to the tissue e.g. spinal cord, resulting in cord damage. In the previous reports, approximately 20% of the individuals with aortic dissection might have neurological deficit resulting from insufficiency of blood supply. Most of the patients had suffered from severe …

Palestinian Martyrdom Revisited: Critical Reflections On Topical Cultures Of Explanation , Iris Jean-Klein

Pragmatism, Law and Governmentality

This paper ponders the tide of public discourse which arose in response to the Palestinian martyrdom bombings in the recent Al Aqusa Intifada, in which social scientists and anthropologists have been "active" participants, and where the reasons and causes of this phenomenon have been the centre of debate. The paper questions the value of this analytical posture by placing it next to a habit of everyday discursive practice the author of the paper became aware of during fieldwork with politically active in the First Intifada. People (esp. women) would entertain an instrumentalist explanation of actions or qualities of which they …

Westview: Vol. 22, Iss. 1 (Fall/Winter 2002)

Westview

No abstract provided.

Connections, Volume 1 No. 3 (December 2002), College Of Educational And Professional Studies

The Chat Room (CEPS Newsletter)

Connections is the College of Education and Professional Studies newsletter. This is Volume 1 No. 3, December 2002.

Transformation Based Learning For Specialization Of Generic Event Extractions, Mary D. Taffet, Nancy Mccracken, Eileen Allen, Elizabeth D. Liddy

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

As part of our Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery (EELD) project, we proposed to use Transformation Based Learning (TBL) to learn domain-specific specializations for generic event extractions. The primary goal of our learning task was to reduce the amount of human effort required for specializing generic event extractions to domains that are new and specific. Three initial annotation cycles and one annotation review and correction cycle involving a total of 70 documents were completed, with slightly over 32 hours required for the entire annotation effort; where possible, the annotation cycles started with bootstrapped files resulting from the application of TBL …

Concept Tree Based Clustering Visualization With Shaded Similarity Matrices, Bei Yu, Jun Wang, Les Gasser

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

One of the problems with existing clustering methods is that the interpretation of clusters may be difficult. Two different approaches have been used to solve this problem: conceptual clustering in machine learning and clustering visualization in statistics and graphics. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the benefits of combining clustering visualization and conceptual clustering to obtain better cluster interpretations. In our research we have combined concept trees for conceptual clustering with shaded similarity matrices for visualization. Experimentation shows that the two interpretation approaches can complement each other to help us understand data better.

Solar Dhw Collector Thermal Performance Ratings, Florida Solar Energy Center, John Harrison

FSEC Energy Research Center®

Thermal performance ratings, derived from the FSEC testing and certification program, are a useful tool in comparing the efficiency and economics of various flat-plate solar collectors. Since collectors used in domestic hot water (DHW) systems typically operate in the intermediate temperature range (1200F-1600F), this is the rating provided for comparisons. It must be stressed that these comparisons are only a guide and should not be considered as a rank ordering of collectors. Such considerations as component sizing and proper installation procedures are equally important in determining a system's overall efficiency. In addition, because of the variability of weather conditions, instrumentation …

(Review) Kaspar Von Greyerz, Religion Und Kultur, 1500–1800, Marc R. Forster

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Volume 31, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Opinion – Volume 5, January 2002, William Mitchell College Of Law

The Opinion

Selected Table of Contents

• Hi-Tech Elections? / Lorente, Alfredo
• Back in Iraq / Gilchrist, Dan
• Why does the water look like root beer? / Krohn, Matthew
• Visual Learning in the Legal Journey / Bower, Lori
• Chicken Little is Here! / Dady, Sara
• Sound Reasoning Battles Chicken Little / Collins, Chad
• Horses and the Joy of Playing in Traffic / Bakken, Shawn

Editorial Board

Kilgus, Mary; Dady, Sara

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 1, 2002, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2002

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 1, 2002, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2002

No abstract provided.

Why Benchmarking Is An (Asymptotically) Optimal Approach To Numerical Methods: A Geombinatoric Proof, Vladik Kreinovich, Scott A. Starks

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In numerical mathematics, one of the most frequently used ways of gauging the quality of different numerical methods is benchmarking. Specifically, once we have methods that work well on some (but not all) problems from a given problem class, we find the problem that is the toughest for the existing methods. This problem becomes a benchmark for gauging how well different methods solve problems that previous methods could not. Once we have a method that works well in solving this benchmark problem, we repeat the process again -- by selecting, as a new benchmark, a problem that is the toughest …

The Role Of Mine Action In Victim Assistance, Eric Filippino

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Of the five pillars of mine action, victim assistance seems to receive the least attention. At the request of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) has recently completed a research project with a view to offering guidance on the future role of mine action in mine and UXO victim assistance.

The Survey Action Center, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Survey Action Center (SAC) is an international organization with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is registered in the United States as a non-profit organization. SAC serves as the executing agency for Landmine Impact Surveys (LIS). These surveys will allow greater prioritization of demining efforts and further integration of the various mine action sectors. On the SAC board of directors are four of the world’s top landmine-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs): Handicap International (France), Mine Clearance Planning Agency (Afghanistan), the Danish Demining Group (Denmark) and Norwegian People’s Aid (Norway). Jean Baptiste Richardier is SAC’s President; Bob Eaton is the Executive Director …

How Ngos Can Build Peace: Landmine Clearance And Victim Assistance, Maureen Morton

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are multi-disciplinary from a governance, organizational behavior, executive development and field perspective. Rarely, though, are the tools of competitive advantage, project planning and conflict resolution software used to seek linkages with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to coordinate resources, particularly to integrate the disparate sectors of landmine and UXO clearance, victim assistance and resourcing across industries. One method is to employ “best practices” from developed countries proven to develop abilities for disabled farmers and youth in post-conflict countries as one of a number of agrarian and health care initiatives built around demining as agricultural preparation. The goal is …

On Choosing And Bounding Probability Metrics, Alison L. Gibbs, Francis E. Su

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

When studying convergence of measures, an important issue is the choice of probability metric. We provide a summary and some new results concerning bounds among some important probability metrics/distances that are used by statisticians and probabilists. Knowledge of other metrics can provide a means of deriving bounds for another one in an applied problem. Considering other metrics can also provide alternate insights. We also give examples that show that rates of convergence can strongly depend on the metric chosen. Careful consideration is necessary when choosing a metric.

High Energy Transfer Missile Wounds In The Siege Of Sarajevo And Their Relation To Mine Injuries, J.P. Beavis, J.M. Ryan

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Using the example of war-torn Sarajevo, the authors discuss high energy transfer wounds and their complications. Their findings can be extrapolated and applied to the injuries of mine victims.

From Sterne And Borges To Lost Storytellers: Cyberspace, Narrative, And Law, Shulamit Almog

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Employment Rights And Wrongs: Ada Issues In The 2001-2002 Supreme Court Term, Barbara K. Bucholtz

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

The War On The Poor - News From The Front: Department Of Housing And Urban Development V. Rucker, Tamara R. Piety

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Revolutionary Approach To Mine Awareness: The Demining Support System, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

This versatile tool is designed to provide support to a mine action program on a range of topics. Its high-tech components are designed to provide an easily accessible, customizable, professional and portable element to any mine awareness campaign.