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Colby Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Jewett's "Foreigner" In The Estranged Land Of Almira Todd, Donald Anderson

Colby Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Thoreau's Journey To Cape Cod: A Psychohistorical Perspective, Sharon Talley

Colby Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Justice And Reasonable Care In Negligence Law, Richard W. Wright

All Faculty Scholarship

The academic literature generally assumes that an aggregate-risk-utility test is employed to determine whether conduct was reasonable or negligent. This aggregate-risk-utility test is a transparent implementation of the basic impartiality and aggregation principles of utilitarianism and the most popular (Kaldor-Hicks) interpretation of economic efficiency. Thus, the test's assumed prevalence as the criterion of reasonableness in negligence law has been highlighted by legal economists as confirmation of the utilitarian efficiency foundations of tort law, while those, including Ronald Dworkin, who think that the law, including tort law, is or should be grounded on principles of justice have sought to demonstrate that, …

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.

Full Issue Vol. 22 No. 4

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

A Solider By The Name Of Zacharoff, Ted Rosvall

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Predicting The Readability Of Transparent Text, Lauren F. V. Scharff, Albert J. Ahumada Jr.

Faculty Publications

Will a simple global masking model based on image detection be successful at predicting the readability of transparent text? Text readability was measured for two types of transparent text: additive (as occurs in head-up displays) and multiplicative (which occurs in see-through liquid crystal display virtual reality displays). Text contrast and background texture were manipulated. Data from two previous experiments were also included (one using very low contrasts on plain backgrounds, and the other using higher-contrast opaque text on both plain and textured backgrounds). All variables influenced readability in at least an interactive manner. When there were background textures, the global …

Acuta Enews December 2002, Vol 31, No. 12

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

lmpact of Mobitity on Higher Education................ Jeanne Jansenius, Univ. of the South

Awareness: the First Step to Safety....................... Diane Santerelli, www.wireville.com

Tech Talk: Honeypot: Sweet Revenge Against Hackers?................... Kevin Tanzillo, Dux Public Relations

DC Update...................... Whitney Johnson, Retired, Northern Michigan Univ.

Donate-A-Phone Program

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TEACH Act Signed lnto Law...................... Jeri Semer, CAE, Executive Director

Welcome New Members

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

Biology

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 …

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Dateline: The West, Andrus Center For Public Policy

Research and Reports

A day-long conference, Dateline: The West, was held December 6, 2002 at Boise State University and was presented by the Andrus Center for Public Policy, the Idaho Statesman, and the Gannett Co. Pacific Group. The purpose of the gathering was to explore how news organizations make decisions about what to report and why, and how those decisions, in turn, affect public opinion and public policy decisions, which are often made far from the west.

Hepp Report: Infectious Diseases In Corrections, Vol. 5 No. 12, Hiv & Hepatitis Education Prison Project

Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report (IDCR)

No abstract provided.

Archival Chronicle: Vol 21 No 3, Bowling Green State University. Center For Archival Collections

Archival Chronicle

History of natural disasters in the area and resources surrounding them

Museletter: December 2002, James Wirrell

Museletter

This Issue:

B.N.A Services Online: Easier Access to Useful B.N.A. Titles by James Wirrell

Winter Break Hours: Happy Holidays!

Website of the Month -- Finding Basic British Law on the Internet

Winter Closings

Holiday Humor

Center For Grassland Studies Center, Winter 2002, Volume 8, No. 1

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Study Shows Importance of Biodiversity to Grasslands

Managing Prairies for Biodiversity by Chris Helzer, The Nature Conservancy

2002-2003 Nebraska Ranch Practicum

2002 Nebraska Range Shortcourse by Lowell Moser, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, UNL

How Care Is Managed: A Descriptive Study Of Current And Future Trends In Care And Cost Management Practices Under Private Sector Employee Benefit Plans, Phyllis Borzi, Marsha Regenstein, Lee Repasch, Soeurette Cyprien, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

In the fall of 2001, the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) asked the Center for Health Services Research and Policy in the School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University Medical Center, to undertake a descriptive study of the current and future trends in cost and care management techniques used in the employment-based health insurance marketplace. The purpose of this study was to identify and report on (1) the cost and care management techniques currently in use in the private sector by health plans …

Editor's Note, Deborah J. Salons

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Compressible Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability At The Terrestrial Magnetopause, Alejandro G. Gonzalez, Julio Gratton, Fausto T. Gratton, Charlie J. Farrugia

Coronal Mass Ejection Research Group

The compressible magnetohydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occurs in two varieties, one that can be called incompressible as it exists in the limit of vanishing compressibility (primary instability), while the other exists only when compressibility is included in the model (secondary instability). In previous work we developed techniques to investigate the stability of a surface of discontinuity between two different uniform ows. Our treatment includes arbitrary jumps of the velocity and magnetic fields as well as of density and temperature, with no restriction on the wave vector of the modes. Then it allows stability analyses of complex configurations not previously studied in …

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 …

American Square Dance Vol. 57, No. 12 (Dec. 2002), Juiare, Ed, Juiare, Pat

American Squares

Monthly square dance magazine that began publication in 1945.

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2002/2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA Volume 18, Number l Wri\ - 102/0.3 (6 Go TO theMountatns! " Helen Hunt Jackson bv Bonnie Johanna Gisel • I—4 elen Hunt Jackson, poet, author oiA Century of JL -L. Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (1881) and Ramona: A Story (1884), and Special Commissioner to the "Mission Indians" of southern California (1883), wrote to her friend Jeanne C. Carr and to John Muir in 1885. She was seeking a place in the mountains of California where she could rest and recover from an …

Res Ipsa Loquitur, Seton Hall University School Of Law

Newspapers

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.

A Firsthand Experience With Mine Action: On The Ground With The Organization Of American States In Nicaragua, Mark Hyman

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Founder and chairperson of Global Care Unlimited, Inc., Mark Hyman has been actively working with the global landmine issue for the past three years. This past June, he visited Nicaragua to witness the effects of landmines firsthand and to find out how his middle-schoolers could help. This piece describes what he found there.

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.

Information Systems For Mine Action From The Data Entry Point Of View, Zoran Grujic

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

This article aims to provide readers with a closer insight into the endeavors of creating an information system and problems related with keeping data consistent and up to date, especially from the point of data entry. The author strives to provide honest and direct insight into the problems and solutions found while supporting mine action activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Family Business Research: The Evolution Of An Academic Field, Barbara Bird, Harold Welsch, Joseph H. Astrachan, David Pistrui

Faculty Articles

The establishment of a field of study or a discipline with academic or professional standing requires, among other things, a body of knowledge that expands understanding of that domain. This paper looks at the literature on establishing a unique field of study, reviews the foundational research in family business (1980s) and four recent years (1997-2001) of published family business research found in several outlets. We find that family business research is becoming increasingly sophisticated and rigorous. This bodes well for the development of an independent field for family business. Recommendations are offered to further the professionalization of family business as …

Volume 31, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

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