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Concierto Encantado, Alan Schmitz

New Mexico Composers' Archive

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Knowledge Management Mechanisms In E-Commerce: A Study Of Online Retailing And Auction Sites, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau, Yuhong Tian, Min Ling

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Knowledge management is vital to a company's success in this e-commerce era. Not only has the topic of knowledge management attracted much research attention lately, but the management of customer knowledge is also becoming increasingly important. Despite its significance, few research studies have systematically investigated knowledge management in the e-commerce context. None of the studies we reviewed looked at how knowledge management mechanisms were employed in e-commerce. This research presents a comprehensive analysis of the knowledge management mechanisms employed by 14 e-commerce sites that were rated as being the best by Gomez.com, an independent Internet quality measurement firm. Specifically, we …

Acceptable Internet Use Policy, Keng Siau, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Limei Teng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Surveying use policies of three organizations--- educational institutions, ISPs, and non-ISPs.

Community Banking In The E-Business Era, Peter Southard, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper reviews how existing and potential uses of Internet technology can generate a competitive advantage for rural community banks. To do so, it offers a framework for analyzing Internet technology investment decisions. Organizations in this segment of the banking industry are often more removed from centers of technology and have traditionally been more conservative in their approaches to information technology (among other things). Banking Associations have developed in the U.S., such as the Independent Bankers Association, to try and help community banks coordinate marketing, legislative, and other issues that they have in common. The use of Internet technology can …

Enabling Technologies For E-Commerce And Erp Integration, Keng Siau, Jake Messersmith

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Focuses on a study which analyzed the enabling technologies for integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and e-business. Difficulties in integrating ERP and e-business; Architecture supporting ERP and e-commerce; Model for integrating ERP and e-business.

Enhancing Profiles For Anomaly Detection Using Time Granularities, Yingjiu Li, Ningning Wu, X. Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recently, association rules have been used to generate profiles of normal behavior for anomaly detection. However, the time factor (especially in terms of multiple time granularities) has not been utilized extensively in generation of these profiles. In reality, user behavior during different time intervals may be very different. For example, the normal number and duration of FTP connections may vary from working hours to midnight, from business day to weekend or holiday. Furthermore, these variations may depend on the day of the month or the week. This paper proposes to build profiles using temporal association rules in terms of multiple …

Comparisons Between Enron And Other Types Of Corporate Misconduct: Compliance With Law And Ethical Decision Making As The Best Form Of Public Relations, Cheryl L. Wade

Faculty Publications

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One of the most important lessons that Enron offers is that sometimes managers lie and boards fail to do their jobs. Enron’s most valuable lessons relate to corporate governance, financial disclosure, accounting practices, and the management of pension funds. One of the most illuminating lessons that Enron offers, however, may be found in the reaction of jurists, legal scholars, the media, corporate professionals, elected officials, and the investing public to the Enron collapse. The general sense of public outrage is as large as the huge financial loss suffered by investors and employees.

There is a lesson to be derived …

Glass Transition Behavior Of Thin Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Films On Silica, Moses T. Kabomo

Masters Theses

"Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry (MDSC) was used to study the glass transition behavior of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) adsorbed onto silica substrates from toluene. Untreated fumed amorphous silica and silica treated with hexamethyldisilazane were used for the adsorption to probe the effect of polymer- substrate interactions. To test the effect of molecular weight on the T_g of adsorbed polymers, low polydispersity PMMA samples of varying molecular weights were used. The results revealed a broadening of the glass transition towards high temperatures. The observed increase in the glass transition breadth varied with adsorbed amount and the type of silica used for …

Modeling The Biogeochemical Cycle Of Selenium In The San Francisco Bay, Shannon L. Meseck

OES Theses and Dissertations

Due to recent concerns about selenium toxicity in the San Francisco Bay and the roles of refinery and San Joaquin River inputs on the selenium cycle, the model ECoS 3 (distributed from Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom) was modified to simulate the biogeochemical cycle of selenium in the Northern Reach. The model is designed to simulate salinity, total suspended material, phytoplankton concentrations, dissolved selenium and its speciation (selenite, selenate, and organic selenide), and particulate selenium and its speciation (selenite + selenate, elemental selenium, and organic selenide). Actual data from 1999 were used to calibrate the model, while data from other …

Video Indexing And Retrieval Techniques Using Novel Approaches To Video Segmentation, Characterization, And Similarity Matching, Waleed Ezzat Farag

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Multimedia applications are rapidly spread at an ever-increasing rate introducing a number of challenging problems at the hands of the research community, The most significant and influential problem, among them, is the effective access to stored data. In spite of the popularity of keyword-based search technique in alphanumeric databases, it is inadequate for use with multimedia data due to their unstructured nature. On the other hand, a number of content-based access techniques have been developed in the context of image indexing and retrieval; meanwhile video retrieval systems start to gain wide attention, This work proposes a number of techniques constituting …

Concilio Superior Structure Assessment And Preservation Plan, José Rivera

13. Arnold Valdez Collection – Concilio Superior Restoration Project

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Cherokee Nation Tribal Profile, Ahnawake Carroll

Tribal Law Journal

Cherokee Nation Tribal Profile by Ahnawake Carroll provides readers with an overview of the Cherokee Nation Tribal Government. This profile includes information regarding both the historical and contemporary uses of the tribe's traditional law, law of governance, enacted law, and case law.

Teaching A Professional Responsibility Course: Lessons Learned From The Clinic, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez

Faculty Scholarship

In teaching Ethics or Professional Responsibility, I want to do more than teach students the law of the course. While it is important that students become familiar with and able to navigate the rules of professional responsibility, my clinical teaching has helped me develop additional educational objectives that I believe will affect their lives as future lawyers. I categorize my objectives in a three-credit classroom professional responsibility course as three-fold: 1) teaching the law of lawyering; 2) exploring professionalism issues;20 and 3) critically examining the profession. I will discuss a few of my experiences teaching in the clinic and how …

Rice V. Cayetano: The Supreme Court Declines To Extend Federal Indian Law Principles To Native Hawaiians Sovereign Rights, Jeanette Wolfley

Faculty Scholarship

As I read and reread the Rice decision, I realized how similar it is to the trend in the recent Indian law cases decided by the Supreme Court. For example, Rice, in many respects, represents the discomfort the Justices feel for upholding "special treatment" of Native Americans under the law. The Court in Rice reversed the Ninth Circuit's decision allowing the State of Hawaii to conduct a Natives-only election of trustees to administer a trust to benefit Native Hawaiians. It found that the Fifteenth Amendment, adopted after the Civil War to prevent states from denying the elective franchise to former …

Farmworkers As An Environmental Justice Issue: Similarities And Differences, Eileen Gauna

Faculty Scholarship

This paper endeavors to situate farmworker issues within a broader context of issues in environmental regulation. Environmental regulation is itself a subset of a broader universe of environmental justice concerns. In approaching the issue this way, the author highlights some of the similarities farmworker issues share with other regulatory environmental justice issues. The author highlights the dramatic differences as well. Leaving to others the task of describing the dire conditions of the farmworker, the author takes two important examples of regulatory mechanisms designed to protect farmworkers and describe some of the commonalities. The two sites of regulatory activity used are …

Why They Won't Take The Money: Black Grandparents And The Success Of Informal Kinship Care, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin

Faculty Scholarship

In this note, Ms. Gipson Rankin discusses kinship care as an alternative to placing children into foster care. For generations, particularly in the Black community, grandparents and other older relatives have played a crucial role in raising the children of younger relatives when they have become unable or unwilling to raise the children themselves. This system, known as kinship care, has ensured that thousands of American children are cared for and raised by members of their own families. The note explores the history and nature of the kinship care system, and analyzes federal and state policies that impact the system. …

Water And Population In The American West, Denise D. Fort

Faculty Scholarship

The American West is justly famed for its sunshine and wide skies.1 However, there is a potent combination of low rainfall and growing population in the West that ensures that water, or the lack of it, will remain another well-known feature of the region. As the number of people sharing already stressed water supplies increases, the economic, ecological, and social costs of providing water become more evident. Agriculture consumes about 90% of the water that is extracted in the West, and the transfer from agricultural to municipal and industrial uses is invariably complex. Increased water extraction has resulted in the …

Front Matter, Natural Resources Journal

Natural Resources Journal

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Saved By Scarcity?, V.B. Price

Natural Resources Journal

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Broadening U.S. Water Resources Project Planning And Evalution, Jeffrey W. Jacobs

Natural Resources Journal

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Choreographing Ngo Strategies To Protect Instream Flows, Lynne Marie Paretchan

Natural Resources Journal

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The Economics Of Environmental Regulation By Licensing: An Assessment Of Recent Changes To The Wetland Permitting Process, David Sunding, David Zilberman

Natural Resources Journal

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Reforming Epa's Organizational Structure: Establishing An Adaptable Agency Through Eco-Regions, Paul S. Weiland, Robert O. Vos

Natural Resources Journal

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The California Watershed Movement: Science And The Politics Of Place, John T. Woolley, Michael Vincent Mcginnis, Julie Kellner

Natural Resources Journal

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Valuation Of Minerals In Takings Cases, Rebekah King

Natural Resources Journal

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On The State Of Environmental History, Hal K. Rothman

Natural Resources Journal

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Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution: Theory, Practice, And Annotated References, By Heather L. Beach, Jesse Hamner, J. Joseph Hewitt, Edy Kaufman, Anja Kurki, Joe A. Oppenheimer, & Aaron T. Wolf, Joseph F.C. Dimento

Natural Resources Journal

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Desert Puma: Evolutionary Ecology And Conservation Of An Enduring Carnivore, By Kenneth A. Logan & Linda L. Sweanor, Bret Dimento

Natural Resources Journal

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The Basin Of Mexico: Critical Environmental Issues And Sustainability, By Exequiel Ezcurra, Marisa Mazari-Hiriart, Irene Pisanty, And Adrian Guillermo Aguilar, Robert G. Varady

Natural Resources Journal

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Comment: Untangling The Publisher Versus Information Content Provider Paradox Of 47 U.S.C. 230: Toward A Rational Application Of The Communications Decency Act In Defamation Suits Against Internet Service Providers, Bryan J. Davis

New Mexico Law Review

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