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Microfinance In India And The Role Of It, Rahul Bhattacharya Dec 2002

Microfinance In India And The Role Of It, Rahul Bhattacharya

IIMB Management Review

Microfinance has proved to be extremely effective as a means of improving the economic condition and empowering the rural poor through participatory credit lending schemes. In an award winning student essay, Rahul Bhattacharya explains that microfinance helps the poor in various ways, not only by improving their economic condition, but also by means of the attendant benefits that a higher income level has on factors like health, education, economic and social status of women, and the general standard of living.

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Blending Business And It Strategy : A Conceptual Model, R Ramaswamy Dec 2002

Blending Business And It Strategy : A Conceptual Model, R Ramaswamy

IIMB Management Review

In this new age of the knowledge-based economy, the search for a more dynamic and sustainable competitive advantage has led to many organisations investing substantially in IT–based tools and solutions. But in most cases these investments have not been justified by the returns. The main reason for this is the disjointed manner of framing business and IT strategies leading to the segregation of the people, process, and technology aspects of management. Moreover, the benefits are marginal if carried out over existing strategies, structures, and processes. To derive the real benefits of investments in IT and paradigms of transformation in the …

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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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Ethics For Business : Drawing On Indian Values, S K Chakraborty Dec 2002

Ethics For Business : Drawing On Indian Values, S K Chakraborty

IIMB Management Review

Prof S K Chakraborty of the Management Centre for Human Values, IIM Calcutta, and author of the Management Ethics Omnibus, shares the essence of his enquiry into the field for over two decades. To the basic question from students and managers as to what there is in ethics for them, teachers must communicate that ethics has fundamental existential payoffs. Especially in today’s fast-paced world, where patience is no longer a virtue and ‘false gospels’ such as rank ordering and corporate gladiatorism are being embraced in toto by the Indian intellectual elite, without pausing to reflect on their own tradition and …

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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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Approaches To The Teaching Of Ethics : In Conversation With S K Chakraborty And R C Sekhar, C Manohar Reddy Dec 2002

Approaches To The Teaching Of Ethics : In Conversation With S K Chakraborty And R C Sekhar, C Manohar Reddy

IIMB Management Review

Prof S K Chakraborty of IIM Calcutta and Prof R C Sekhar of the T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal took time off from the National Workshop on Teaching Business Ethics at IIMB, to discuss their perspectives on the philosophy and methodology of teaching ethics, and on human values with Prof C Manohar Reddy and Prof Mira Bakhru of IIMB. The discussion raised several issues regarding ethics education. Can ethics be taught at all to adults? What is the proof of the efficacy of ethics education? Do the participants behave more ethically after attending ethics courses? How does the ‘individual …

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

Criminology And Animal Studies: A Sociological View, Piers Beirne

Department of Criminology

No abstract provided.

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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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Lake Tahoe Bottom Characteristics Extracted From Shoals Lidar Waveform Data And Compared To Backscatter Data From A Multibeam Echo Sounder, G. Elston, James V. Gardner Dec 2002

Lake Tahoe Bottom Characteristics Extracted From Shoals Lidar Waveform Data And Compared To Backscatter Data From A Multibeam Echo Sounder, G. Elston, James V. Gardner

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The waveforms recorded by airborne lidar bathymetry (ALB) systems are currently processed only for depth information. In addition to bathymetry, multibeam echo sounder (MBES) systems provide backscatter data in which regions of different acoustic properties are distinguishable. These regions can often be correlated to different bottom types. Initial attempts to extract equivalent data from the ALB waveforms have confirmed the expectation that such information is encoded in those waveforms. Water clarity, bathymetry, and bottom type control the detailed shapes of ALB waveforms in different ways. Specific features of a bottom-reflected signal can be identified, for example its rise-time and amplitude, …

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Notes From The Director, The Mcnair Team Dec 2002

Notes From The Director, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Bodybuilding: An Exploratory Look Inside An Obscure Culture, Kenneth Roundtree Dec 2002

Bodybuilding: An Exploratory Look Inside An Obscure Culture, Kenneth Roundtree

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Sexual Harassment And Communication Responsibility, Rodrick Dangerfield Dec 2002

Sexual Harassment And Communication Responsibility, Rodrick Dangerfield

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Septal Defect: What Are The Risk Factors For Its Failure? Running Title: Left Atrioventricular Valve Function., Mohamed-Adel Elgamal, Daniel Turner Dec 2002

Septal Defect: What Are The Risk Factors For Its Failure? Running Title: Left Atrioventricular Valve Function., Mohamed-Adel Elgamal, Daniel Turner

Mansoura Medical Journal

Objective : To assess the function of the left atrioventricular valve (LAW) following surgical repair of complete atrioventricular septal defect (CAVSD) and find out the possible risk factors for development of left atrioventricular valve regurgitation (LAVVR). Methods : Over a ten-year period, 105 patients with the diagnosis of CAVSD underwent surgical repair us­ing the two-patch technique at our in­stitution. According to our inclusion criteria, only 97 patients were includ­ed in this study. Patients were evalu­ated preoperatively by full history tak­ing, physical examination and 2-D echo-Doppler evaluation. Intraopera-tive transesophageal ecnocardiogra-phy was performed in all patients. Results : The included 51 boys …

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Exclusion Limits On The Wimp-Nucleon Cross Section From The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, D. Abrams, D. S. Akerib, M. S. Armel-Funkhouser, L. Baudis, D. A. Bauer, A. Bolozdynya, P. L. Brink, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D. O. Caldwell, J. P. Castle, C. L. Chang, R. M. Clarke, M. B. Crisler, R. Dixon, D. Driscoll, S. Eichblatt, R. J. Gaitskell, S. R. Golwala, E. E. Haller, J. Hellmig, D. Holmgren, M. E. Huber, S. Kamat, A. Lu, V. Mandic, J. M. Martinis, P. Meunier, S. W. Nam, H. Nelson, T. A. Perera, M. C. Perillo Isaac, W. Rau, R. R. Ross, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, R. W. Schnee, T. Shutt, A. Smith, A. H. Sonnenschein, A. L. Spadafora, G. Wang, S. Yellin, Betty A. Young Dec 2002

Exclusion Limits On The Wimp-Nucleon Cross Section From The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, D. Abrams, D. S. Akerib, M. S. Armel-Funkhouser, L. Baudis, D. A. Bauer, A. Bolozdynya, P. L. Brink, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D. O. Caldwell, J. P. Castle, C. L. Chang, R. M. Clarke, M. B. Crisler, R. Dixon, D. Driscoll, S. Eichblatt, R. J. Gaitskell, S. R. Golwala, E. E. Haller, J. Hellmig, D. Holmgren, M. E. Huber, S. Kamat, A. Lu, V. Mandic, J. M. Martinis, P. Meunier, S. W. Nam, H. Nelson, T. A. Perera, M. C. Perillo Isaac, W. Rau, R. R. Ross, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, R. W. Schnee, T. Shutt, A. Smith, A. H. Sonnenschein, A. L. Spadafora, G. Wang, S. Yellin, Betty A. Young

Physics

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their elastic-scattering interactions with nuclei while discriminating against interactions of background particles. For recoil energies above 10 keV, events due to background photons are rejected with >99.9% efficiency, and surface events are rejected with >95% efficiency. The estimate of the background due to neutrons is based primarily on the observation of multiple-scatter events that should all be neutrons. Data selection is determined primarily by examining calibration data and vetoed events. Resulting efficiencies should be accurate to ∼10%. Results of …

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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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The Ada Through The Looking Glass, Lisa A. Sciallo Dec 2002

The Ada Through The Looking Glass, Lisa A. Sciallo

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

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“Private” Crime In Public Housing: Violent Victimization, Fear Of Crime And Social Isolation Among Women Public Housing Residents, Claire M. Renzetti, Shana L. Maier Dec 2002

“Private” Crime In Public Housing: Violent Victimization, Fear Of Crime And Social Isolation Among Women Public Housing Residents, Claire M. Renzetti, Shana L. Maier

CRVAW Faculty Journal Articles

Although public housing is typically associated with high crime rates, little research has been done on fear of crime or violent victimization experiences among public housing residents. Moreover, there are few studies that look specifically at women’s fear of crime or violent victimization experiences in public housing, despite the fact that women constitute the majority of public housing residents. These issues were examined in the present study through interviews with female public housing residents in Camden, New Jersey (NJ). The interviews reveal high rates of violent victimization, especially at the hands of intimates and acquaintances. Fear of crime is also …

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Tahoe-Sierra Returns Penn Central To The Center Track, Marla E. Mansfield Dec 2002

Tahoe-Sierra Returns Penn Central To The Center Track, Marla E. Mansfield

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 52, Number 1, December 2002 Dec 2002

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 52, Number 1, December 2002

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume 52, Number 1, December 2002 Dean's Column by Dean Thomas J. Nasca ’75, page 4 New Chairman of Medicine Art Feldman, page 6 Rao, Buchheit, Siegman, Wender Are Appointed Chairs, page 9 Emergency Medicine Is Made a Department, page 11 Hospital Is Named as the Best in Philadelphia, page 11 Technology Transfer in the 21st Century, page 12 In Kenya, Jeff Students Reach the Underserved, page 14 African Americans' Satisfaction with Medical Careers, page 15 Ana Maria Lopez '88: Reaching Out via Telemedicine, page 22 New Consolidation Rates for Student Borrowers, page 23 Monica Morrow …

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De Novo, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 2002, New York Law School Dec 2002

De Novo, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 2002, New York Law School

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

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Full Issue, The Mcnair Team Dec 2002

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Acknowledgements, The Mcnair Team Dec 2002

Acknowledgements, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Latino Family Caregiver Program For Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease: Development, Challenges, And Implications, Patricia Valencia Dec 2002

The Latino Family Caregiver Program For Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease: Development, Challenges, And Implications, Patricia Valencia

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Montanan, Winter 2002, University Of Montana--Missoula Dec 2002

Montanan, Winter 2002, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 20, number 2. Cover page is missing.

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Recent Editions--December 2002 Dec 2002

Recent Editions--December 2002

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This quarterly bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English language works.

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Ade Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 1-3 November 2002 Report Dec 2002

Ade Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 1-3 November 2002 Report

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Special Open Conference: Looking Forward--Opening Remarks--Reaching New Audiences--Using New Media--Setting the Agenda--Annual Meeting Session Summaries

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The Battle Of The Music Industry: The Distribution Of Audio And Video Works Via The Internet, Music And More, David Balaban Dec 2002

The Battle Of The Music Industry: The Distribution Of Audio And Video Works Via The Internet, Music And More, David Balaban

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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