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Hepp Report: Infectious Diseases In Corrections, Vol. 5 No. 11, Hiv & Hepatitis Education Prison Project

Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report (IDCR)

No abstract provided.

November 2002, Syracuse Department Of Economics

Economics - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Museletter: November 2002, James Wirrell

Museletter

This Issue:

Let's Get Technical: Meet the Technical Services Staff by James Wirrell

Exam Hours

Website of the Month: Virginia General Assembly's Legislative Information System (http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm)

ID Please: Restricted Access to the Law Library During Exam Period Evenings for Certain Users Will Begin Again

"New Books" Function on Library Catalog

Lexis and Westlaw Updates

The Black Perspective November-December 2002, University Of Dayton. Black Action Through Unity

The Black Perspective

The Black Perspective is an African American student publication that ran from the late 1970s through the early 2000s. The paper aimed to be the eyes, ears, and voice of the UD Afro-American community. Articles and editorials cover campus news, current events, and contemporary issues from an African American perspective.

November 2002 Docket, Georgia State University College Of Law

The Docket

No abstract provided.

November 2002, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the November 2002 meeting of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate.

Mwp Newsletter, 2002 (November 1), University Of Mississippi. Department Of English

MWP News and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Enhancement Of Wind-Driven Upwelling And Downwelling By Alongshore Bathymetric Variability, James M. Pringle

Earth Sciences

Steady wind-driven flow along a shelf of changing width is described with a frictional barotropic model valid in the limit of small Rossby and Burger number. In these limits, an alongshore wind drives enhanced onshelf transport in a coastal ocean if the shelf widens downwind, and the change in shelf width only affects the flow in the direction of Kelvin wave propagation ("downwave'') from the change in shelf width. There is enhanced onshore transport of cold, nutrient-laden bottom water if the winds favor upwelling and the shelf narrows in the direction of Kelvin wave propagation. This enhanced transport extends a …

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2002, Issue 4, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

Erwin Chemerinksy, Unfortunate History is Repeating Itself, at 1.

Paula C. Johnson & Michael Rooke-Ley, Co-Presidents' Column, at 1.

Devon Carbado, Teaching tot he Whole Class, at 2.

Board Approves Nomination of Maguigan and Juarez as Co-Presidents-Elect, at 3.

Jane Dolkart, SALT's Statement of the LSAT, at 3.

Frank Valdez, Help Spread the Word Among Students About the "Critical Global Classroom" and the "Student Scholar Program," at 4.

SALT Submits Statement on the Bush Administration's Proposed War on Iraq, at 5.

Bill Quigley, Reflection on Trip to Iraq, at …

The Echo: November 1, 2002, Taylor University

2002-2003 (Volume 90)

This week at Taylor – Taylor goes ‘unplugged’ for three days – Program offers advanced leadership training – Satellite launch date delayed till spring of 2003 – Kesler Student Activities Center scheduled for completion in fall 2005 – Conflict kept the spirit of Taylor pure – Raising the roof with Rice Pilaf – Class of 1952 donates $600,000 to Taylor – Letter to the Editor: Taylor girls share same frustrations – Letter to the Editor: “Men” need to see the opposite sex’s view – Letters to the Editor – Letter to the Editor: Attack Iraq before it’s too late – …

Separation Of Church And State: A Theologically Liberal, Anti-Catholic, And American Principle, Philip Hamburger

Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.

University Wind Symphony 8th Season, Chapman University Wind Symphony

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Designing Interdisciplinary Approaches To Problem Solving Into Computer Languages, Daniel E. Cooke, Vladik Kreinovich, Joseph E. Urban

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Many interdisciplinary design efforts require the involvement of computer scientists because of the complexity of the problem solving tools available for the projects. This paper demonstrates how appropriate language design can place high level languages in the hands of scientists and engineers, thus providing a more automated approach to problem solving that may reduce the amount of computer scientist involvement. The language SequenceL serves as an example of this approach.

Soils Of Mississippi County, Arkansas, J. M. Mckimmey, B. Dixon, H. D. Scott, C. M. Scarlat

AAES Research Reports and Research Bulletins

Along with air and water, soil contributes essential processes to the natural order of global cycles. With the exception of edibles from the sea, virtually everything we, and most other land-based animals, eat is derived from soil. Soil is a storage medium of essential minerals and nutrients for fulfilling our agricultural and nutritional needs. Humans work the soil to provide the basics of food, clothing, and shelter. We also use the soil as a medium to store and discard our waste. Virtually everything we do is in some way connected to soil

Influence Of Terrain On Scaling Laws For River Networks, D. A. Vasquez, D. H. Smith, Boyd F. Edwards

All Physics Faculty Publications

The upper Cheat River network departs from scaling laws describing a large number of river networks in North America. This departure is traced to its corrugated terrain. The more typical random terrain of the lower Cheat River network obeys the standard scaling laws. We modify the random network model of Scheidegger to include the effects of topography, reproducing the behavior observed in the Cheat River basin.

Effect Of Processing Conditions On Microstructure Of Milk Fat Fraction/Sunflower Oil Blends., Silvana Martini, M. L. Herrera, R. W. Hartel

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

The effect of processing conditions on the crystallization of blends of a high-melting milk fat fraction and sunflower oil was investigated. Two cooling rates were selected for all studies: 0.1°C/min (slow rate) and 5.5°C/min (fast rate). Blends were crystallized in two conditions: (i) with agitation in an 80-mL crystallizer (dynamic), and (ii) on a microscope slide without agitation (static). The selected crystallization temperatures were 25, 30, and 35°C for both cooling rates. Photographs of the development of crystals with time were taken in both static and dynamic conditions, and the crystal size distribution was determined at the moment that the …

Dentalgram - Vol. 16, No. 11, Loma Linda University School Of Dentistry

Dentalgram

In this issue:

• Fall Family Retreat at Pine Springs Ranch
• 2002 ADA/Dentsply Student Clinician Program
• IDP accepts class of May, 2004
• Lane Thomsen named chair, ODRP
• Classrooms 1176 & 1177 dedicated in the memory of Dr. Robert James
• Department news

Friars' Cell One Act Plays Press Release, Susan Werner

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Friars' Cell One Act Plays press release

November 2002

Providence College Dance Company Press Release, Wendy Oliver

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Providence College Dance Company (Fall Dance Concert) press release

November 2002

The Lingnan Commentary - November 2002 (No. 6), Hong Kong Institute Of Business Studies, Lingnan University

The Lingnan Commentary 嶺南評論 : A Quarterly Review of Economic, Business and Social Issues by Lingnan University

No abstract provided.

Environmental Management: An Approach To Alcohol And Other Drug (Aod) Prevention, Charles G. Eberly, Becky Markwell

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

This PowerPoint presentation was done with the Director of the Illinois Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Other Drug and Violence Prevention to showcase the concept of environmental management as a means of AOD prevention to professional counselors

Employer Tax Liability For Employees' Tips: Fior D'Italia, Steve R. Johnson

Scholarly Publications

Given Nevada's heavy concentration of businesses in which employees are tipped, lawyers here may be more than usually interested in a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court. On June 17, 2002, the Court decided United States v. Fior D'ltalia, Inc. By 6 to 3, the Court held that the IRS may use an “aggregate estimation” method to determine employers’ liability for Social Security (FICA) taxes imposed on their employees’ tip income. The decision is an important development in a controversy of long duration, but it is not the end of that controversy. This article …

On The Misuse Of Confidence Intervals For Two Means In Testing For The Significance Of The Difference Between The Means, George W. Ryan, Steven D. Leadbetter

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Comparing individual confidence intervals of two population means is an incorrect procedure for determining the statistical significance of the difference between the means. We show conditions where confidence intervals for the means from two independent samples overlap and the difference between the means is in fact significant.

Constructive Criticism, Ronald C. Serlin

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Attempts to attain knowledge as certified true belief have failed to circumvent Hume’s injunction against induction. Theories must be viewed as unprovable, improbable, and undisprovable. The empirical basis is fallible, and yet the method of conjectures and refutations is untouched by Hume’s insights. The implications for statistical methodology is that the requisite severity of testing is achieved through the use of robust procedures, whose assumptions have not been shown to be substantially violated, to test predesignated range null hypotheses. Nonparametric range null hypothesis tests need to be developed to examine whether or not effect sizes or measures of association, as …

Extensions Of The Concept Of Exchangeability And Their Applications, Phillip I. Good

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Permutation tests provide exact p-values in a wide variety of practical testing situations. But permutation tests rely on the assumption of exchangeability, that is, under the hypothesis, the joint distribution of the observations is invariant under permutations of the subscripts. Observations are exchangeable if they are independent, identically distributed (i.i.d.), or if they are jointly normal with identical covariances. The range of applications of these exact, powerful, distribution-free tests can be enlarged through exchangeability- preserving transforms, asymptotic exchangeability, partial exchangeability, and weak exchangeability. Original exact tests for comparing the slopes of two regression lines and for the analysis of …

A Test Of Symmetry, Abdul R. Othman, H. J. Keselman, Rand R. Wilcox, Katherine Fradette, A. R. Padmanabhan

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

When data are nonnormal in form classical procedures for assessing treatment group equality are prone to distortions in rates of Type I error and power to detect effects. Replacing the usual means with trimmed means reduces rates of Type I error and increases sensitivity to detect effects. If data are skewed, say to the right, then it has been postulated that asymmetric trimming, to the right, should be better at controlling rates of Type I error and power to detect effects than symmetric trimming from both tails of the data distribution. Keselman, Wilcox, Othman and Fradette (2002) found that Babu, …

Best Regression Model Using Information Criteria, Phill Gagné, C. Mitchell Dayton

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

The accuracy of AIC and BIC is evaluated under simulated multiple regression conditions, varying number of total and valid predictors, R², and n. AIC and BIC were increasingly accurate as n increased and as total predictors decreased. Interactions of the ratio of valid/total predictors affected accuracy.

The Statistical Modeling Of The Fertility Of Chinese Women, Dudley L. Poston Jr.

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

This article is concerned with the statistical modeling of children ever born (CEB) fertility data. It is shown that in a low fertility population, such as China, the use of linear regression approaches to model CEB is statistically inappropriate because the distribution of the CEB variable is often heavily skewed with a long right tail. For five sub-groups of Chinese women, their fertility is modeled using Poisson, negative binomial, and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models. It is shown that in almost all instances there would have been major errors of statistical inference had the interpretations of the results been …

Fermat, Schubert, Einstein, And Behrens-Fisher: The Probable Difference Between Two Means When Σ_1^2≠Σ_2^2, Shlomo S. Sawilowsky

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

The history of the Behrens-Fisher problem and some approximate solutions are reviewed. In outlining relevant statistical hypotheses on the probable difference between two means, the importance of the Behrens- Fisher problem from a theoretical perspective is acknowledged, but it is concluded that this problem is irrelevant for applied research in psychology, education, and related disciplines. The focus is better placed on “shift in location” and, more importantly, “shift in location and change in scale” treatment alternatives.

Double Median Ranked Set Sample: Comparing To Other Double Ranked Samples For Mean And Ratio Estimators, Hani M. Samawi, Eman M. Tawalbeh

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Double median ranked set sample (DMRSS) and its properties for estimating the population mean, when the underlying distribution is assumed to be symmetric about its mean, are introduced. Also, the performance of DMRSS with respect to other ranked set samples and double ranked set samples, for estimating the population mean and ratio, is considered. Real data that consist of heights and diameters of 399 trees are used to illustrate the procedure. The analysis and simulation indicate that using DMRSS for estimating the population mean is more efficient than using the other ranked samples and double ranked samples schemes except in …