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

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

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

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The Workforce In Alternative Employment Arrangements, Elizabeth Dalton Dec 2002

The Workforce In Alternative Employment Arrangements, Elizabeth Dalton

IPED Technical Reports

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Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 64, No. 3, December 2002, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society Dec 2002

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 64, No. 3, December 2002, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

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Ut Arlington Library Notes, V.8, No.2, Fall 2002, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Dec 2002

Ut Arlington Library Notes, V.8, No.2, Fall 2002, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

UT Arlington Library Notes

Former publication of the UT Library intended to foster community support and appreciation for Library Programs and services and to spotlight grants and contributions. It was published during the 1990s and 2000s.

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Public Perceptions Of Food Safety: Assessing The Risks Posed By Genetic Modification, Irradiation, Pesticides, Microbiological Contamination And High Fat/High Calorie Foods, Michael D. Mehta Dec 2002

Public Perceptions Of Food Safety: Assessing The Risks Posed By Genetic Modification, Irradiation, Pesticides, Microbiological Contamination And High Fat/High Calorie Foods, Michael D. Mehta

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] "In general, people in the developed world have access to a safe and varied supply of food. Instead of systemic hunger, many developed countries have problems with obesity and other kinds of eating disorders among their citizenry. It is within this context that some find public concerns about the safety of food both paradoxical and misplaced. Nevertheless, understanding how people perceive the risk associated with food is an important exercise in demonstrating accountability and in setting priorities for regulation. With the advent of technologies for producing genetically modified foods, and the development of fat blockers like Olestra, the public …

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Organizing And Disseminating Information About Creativity: In Summary, Sharon A. Meyers Dec 2002

Organizing And Disseminating Information About Creativity: In Summary, Sharon A. Meyers

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

No abstract provided.

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The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 45, University Of Dayton. Marian Library Dec 2002

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

Marian Library Newsletter

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White-Collar Crime In Brazil: Legislation, Court Decisions, And The Opinion Of Legal Writers, Peter Walter Ashton Dec 2002

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

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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Is Ricardo's Essay On Profits A Precursor Of The New Trade Theory?, Hian Teck Hoon Dec 2002

Is Ricardo's Essay On Profits A Precursor Of The New Trade Theory?, Hian Teck Hoon

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper carefully analyzes a passage of Ricardo’s Essay on Profits ([1815] 1923), which suggests that he clearly understood the effects of both interindustry as well as intraindustry trade. In the context of the Essay model, Ricardo argues that free interindustry trade involving an exchange of manufactures for agricultural good (from England’s point of view) raises the rate of profit through lowering the relative price of the agricultural good. On the other hand, where trade involves simply an exchange of manufactures for manufactures, these being produced under conditions of economies of scale (division of labour in manufactures (pg. 25 of …

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University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2002.12, University Of San Diego Office Of Communications And Marketing Dec 2002

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2002.12, University Of San Diego Office Of Communications And Marketing

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

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Studying Organisational Culture : Hicom India, Abinash Panda, R K Gupta Dec 2002

Studying Organisational Culture : Hicom India, Abinash Panda, R K Gupta

IIMB Management Review

A strong culture facilitates coordination and communication and distinguishes successful organisations from others. In a market characterised by continuous innovation and swift imitation, a strong and productive culture can be an important source of sustainable competitive advantage because it is difficult to imitate. Managers need to learn that where culture may matter most is in its impact on the ‘hard’ stuff, such as strategy and structure. Practitioners and academics in India and abroad have been systematically attempting to understand organisational culture. Although the study of organisational culture gathered momentum in the early 80s, researchers by and large conceptualised culture from …

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Does Nationality Affect Job Satisfaction?, Furqan Qamar, Talal Al Junaibi Dec 2002

Does Nationality Affect Job Satisfaction?, Furqan Qamar, Talal Al Junaibi

IIMB Management Review

Job satisfaction and the factors that contribute to it are well-researched phenomena. Despite this, however, theories of job satisfaction are still not well perfected. Research in the field falls into five categories based on the causes of satisfaction they seek to establish: need fulfilment models, discrepancy models, value attainment models, equity models and trait component models. The last category includes studies that investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and the cultural and ethnic background of employees. Studies in this area report contradictory findings. Furqan Qamar and Talal Al Junaibi survey the literature and find that though several studies have been …

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Whither Business Ethics Teaching In India?, R C Sekhar Dec 2002

Whither Business Ethics Teaching In India?, R C Sekhar

IIMB Management Review

In his effort to analyse the state of business ethics teaching in India, R C Sekhar, Professor Emeritus, T A Pai Management Institute and author of Ethical Choices in Businesses, begins by identifying the six different segments of stakeholders involved and their differing expectations. While conceding that it is a ‘desirable but daunting task’ to establish congruence of interest between teachers, students, Indian employers, global employers, Indian society and global society, he takes the pragmatic first step of devising a strategy of teaching ethics, which would consider the interests of teachers and students.From the salient trends in Indian teaching and …

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How Indian Students See Ethics And Society : A Survey, Rishikesha T Krishnan, C Manohar Reddy Dec 2002

How Indian Students See Ethics And Society : A Survey, Rishikesha T Krishnan, C Manohar Reddy

IIMB Management Review

In an effort to have a more empirically grounded picture of the values and beliefs of their students, Profs Rishikesha T Krishnan and C Manohar Reddy of IIM Bangalore collaborated on a survey of 321 IIMB Post Graduate Programme students, divided across the first year and second years; and 51 students of a private management institution, for comparative purposes. The survey was based on an instrument developed by the authors consisting of 37 items on ‘Perceptions and Attitudes about Business, Society and Ethics’ and 17 items on ‘Religious and Spiritual Beliefs’. The findings revealed that overall, IIMB students were idealistic …

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Exploring Ethical Dimensions Through Fiction, Abha Chatterjee Dec 2002

Exploring Ethical Dimensions Through Fiction, Abha Chatterjee

IIMB Management Review

Based on her experience with students of science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Prof Abha Chatterjee provides a case study for exploring the dimensions of ethics through fiction. While literature can be an instrument in raising a variety of ethical values and themes, its advantage lies in that it deals with the concrete and the particular and readers can learn from it without the intense emotional upheavals that accompany such dilemmas in everyday life. Muktadhara, a play by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore was selected as a case study as it evokes problems which engineers would identify …

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U.S. East Coast Trough Indices At 500 Hpa And New England Winter Climate Variability, James A. Bradbury, Barry D. Keim, Cameron P. Wake Dec 2002

U.S. East Coast Trough Indices At 500 Hpa And New England Winter Climate Variability, James A. Bradbury, Barry D. Keim, Cameron P. Wake

Earth Sciences

Using monthly gridded 500-hPa data, two synoptic indices are defined to better understand the principle mechanisms controlling intraseasonal to multiannual winter climate variability in NewEngland (NE). The “trough axis index” (TAI) is created to quantify the mean longitudinal position of the common East Coast pressure trough, and the “trough intensity index” (TII) is calculated to estimate the relative amplitude of this trough at 42.5°N. The TAI and TII are then compared with records for NE regional winter precipitation, temperature, and snowfall with the goal of understanding physical mechanisms linking NE winter climate with regional sea surface temperatures (SST), the North …

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Pages News, Volume 10, No. 3, December 2002, Christian Pfister, Heinz Wanner Dec 2002

Pages News, Volume 10, No. 3, December 2002, Christian Pfister, Heinz Wanner

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Documentary Data -- Conferences: Upcoming PAGES Sessions -- Tales from the Field -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- LAMSCAN: Lake Sediments, Scandinavia -- National Page -- USA -- Science Highlights -- Documentary Data: An Overview -- LOTRED: Paleoreanalysis for Europe -- The Potential in Latin America -- ENSO Reconstructions in South America -- Temperature Reconstructions in Japan -- China: A 2000 Year Temperature History -- USA: Past Climate and Cyclones -- Floods in Europe -- Art and Climate -- Workshop Reports -- Holocene Catastrophes and Recoveries -- Swiss NCCR-Climate Summer School -- Last Page -- Calendar -- …

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Torque Limit Of A Mechanical Fastener In A Graphite/Epoxy Joint, Kristian M. Kostreva Dec 2002

Torque Limit Of A Mechanical Fastener In A Graphite/Epoxy Joint, Kristian M. Kostreva

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

Presently there is a lack of confidence amongst engineers when specifying the preload of a mechanical fastener in a composite joint due to a lack of a fundamental knowledge base regarding the behavior of composites under fastener compressive load. As such, a novel experimental procedure was developed herein to determine the through-the-thickness compressive (TTTC) material properties. A total of 206 property tests were performed on four different graphite/epoxy material systems. The results confirmed that TTTC material properties vary with fiber orientation, laminate thickness, fiber volume fraction, and even laminate surface finish. Hence, the 'rule of mixtures' provides a poor estimate …

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Criminology And Animal Studies: A Sociological View, Piers Beirne Dec 2002

Criminology And Animal Studies: A Sociological View, Piers Beirne

Department of Criminology

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Rotational Lift: Something Different Or More Of The Same?, Jeffrey A. Walker Phd Dec 2002

Rotational Lift: Something Different Or More Of The Same?, Jeffrey A. Walker Phd

Faculty Publications

This paper addresses the question, do the rotational forces in the hovering fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster reflect something different (the Magnus effect) or more of the same (circulatory-and-attached-vortex force)? The results of an unsteady blade-element model using empirically derived force coefficients from translating (root-oscillating) wings are compared with recent results derived from both the measured forces on a dynamically scaled Drosophila wing and the computational fluid dynamic (CFD)-modeled forces on a virtual Drosophila wing. The behavior of the forces in all three models during wing rotation supports the hypothesis that rotational lift is not a novel aerodynamic mechanism but is …

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Volume 22, Number 4, December 2002, Jain Fletcher, Mary Konkel, Jay Weitz, Barbara Vaughan, Vicki Toy-Smith, Nancy B. Olson Dec 2002

Volume 22, Number 4, December 2002, Jain Fletcher, Mary Konkel, Jay Weitz, Barbara Vaughan, Vicki Toy-Smith, Nancy B. Olson

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2002 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

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Teaching Information Literacy, Ratna Chandrasekhar Dec 2002

Teaching Information Literacy, Ratna Chandrasekhar

Bridgewater Review

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American Female Foreign Correspondents: The First One Hundred And Twenty Years, Karen Honea Dec 2002

American Female Foreign Correspondents: The First One Hundred And Twenty Years, Karen Honea

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Sexual Harassment And Communication Responsibility, Rodrick Dangerfield Dec 2002

Sexual Harassment And Communication Responsibility, Rodrick Dangerfield

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Convergent Demographic Effects Of Insect Attack On Related Thistles In Coastal Vs. Continental Dunes, John L. Maron, Julie K. Combs, Svata M. Louda Dec 2002

Convergent Demographic Effects Of Insect Attack On Related Thistles In Coastal Vs. Continental Dunes, John L. Maron, Julie K. Combs, Svata M. Louda

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Insect herbivory is common, but the conditions under which it reduces the fitness and population size of plants remain poorly understood. We quantified populationlevel impacts of floral herbivory by specialized insects on cobweb thistle (Cirsium occidentale var. occidentale) in a California coastal dune ecosystem, and then compared these demographic effects to those published for Platte thistle (Cirsium canescens) in similarly designed exclusion experiments in the continental sand dune ecosystem in the Great Plains. As a separate test of the strength of the seed-to-seedling linkage, we quantified seedling establishment rates in seed addition plots and compared these …

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Contrasting Patterns Of Divergence In Quantitative Traits And Neutral Dna Markers: Analysis Of Clinal Variation, Jay F. Storz Dec 2002

Contrasting Patterns Of Divergence In Quantitative Traits And Neutral Dna Markers: Analysis Of Clinal Variation, Jay F. Storz

Jay F. Storz Publications

Clinal variation in quantitative traits is often attributed to the effects of spatially varying selection. However, identical patterns can be produced by the interplay between purely stochastic processes (i.e. drift in combination with spatially restricted gene flow). One means of distinguishing between adaptive and nonadaptive causes of geographical variation is to compare relative levels of between population divergence in quantitative traits and neutral DNA markers. Such comparisons can be used to test whether levels of trait divergence attributable to additive genetic effects (as measured by QST) exceed null expectations based on the level of divergence at neutral marker …

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Integrating Visualization Into The Modeling Of Business Simulations, Victor Perotti, Tom F. Pray Dec 2002

Integrating Visualization Into The Modeling Of Business Simulations, Victor Perotti, Tom F. Pray

Articles

This article demonstrates the advantages of using visualization as part of the modeling process. Several examples are given to show how visualization can help developers to more completely understand the range of behaviors for their algorithms. Specifically, the Cobb Douglas function and Gold Pray demand system are examined using a tool that combines mathematical modeling with visualization capabilities.

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Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Fall 2002), Calliope Dec 2002

Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Fall 2002), Calliope

Calliope

Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, Visual Arts

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Six Sigma : Changing A Culture., Lee E. Leathers 1966- Dec 2002

Six Sigma : Changing A Culture., Lee E. Leathers 1966-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this thesis was to apply what was learned from Six Sigma while working for General Electric, towards real applications to improve processes. Two manufacturing problems were targeted. One of the issues dealt with variation, in an assembly process, which caused a large amount of missed opportunities. The other issue was based on defects caused by a reflector coating process that was creating haze and affecting lumens generated by the lamp. While analyzing the missed opportunity issue, a DMAIC approach was followed, measuring the collected data and analyzing the variation and mean of the processes by the use …

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The Investor Confidence Game, Lynn A. Stout Dec 2002

The Investor Confidence Game, Lynn A. Stout

Brooklyn Law Review

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