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2003 October, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Oct 2003

2003 October, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for October of 2003.

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Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity And Its Disappearance From Speech, John N. Williams Oct 2003

Wittgenstein, Moorean Absurdity And Its Disappearance From Speech, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

G. E. Moore famously observed that to say, "I went to the pictures last Tuesday but I don't believe that I did" would be "absurd." Why should it be absurd of me to say something about myself that might be true of me? Moore suggested an answer to this, but as I will show, one that fails. Wittgenstein was greatly impressed by Moore's discovery of a class of absurd but possibly true assertions because he saw that it illuminates "the logic of assertion". Wittgenstein suggests a promising relation of assertion to belief in terms of the idea that one "expresses …

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Moorean Absurdities And Iterated Beliefs, John N. Williams Oct 2003

Moorean Absurdities And Iterated Beliefs, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Honors Program Newsletter, Fall 2003, Illinois State University, Honors Program Oct 2003

Honors Program Newsletter, Fall 2003, Illinois State University, Honors Program

Honors Program Newsletter

Honors Program Newsletter

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A Note On The Numerical Solution Of High-Order Differential Equations, Y. Wang, Yibao Zhao, G. W. Wei Oct 2003

A Note On The Numerical Solution Of High-Order Differential Equations, Y. Wang, Yibao Zhao, G. W. Wei

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Numerical solution of high-order differential equations with multi-boundary conditions is discussed in this paper. Motivated by the discrete singular convolution algorithm, the use of fictitious points as additional unknowns is proposed in the implementation of locally supported Lagrange polynomials. The proposed method can be regarded as a local adaptive differential quadrature method. Two examples, an eigenvalue problem and a boundary-value problem, which are governed by a sixth-order differential equation and an eighth-order differential equation, respectively, are employed to illustrate the proposed method.

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A Renewable-Resource Approach To Database Valuation, Xavier Dreze, Andre Bonfrer Oct 2003

A Renewable-Resource Approach To Database Valuation, Xavier Dreze, Andre Bonfrer

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

We demonstrate in this paper that firms should view customers in a database as a renewable resource when valuating them. Indeed, customer names flow in and out of the firm’s databases, and the goal of the firm is to optimize the overall customer acquisition/cultivation/attrition process. The renewable resource approach to the problem of maximizing the profits generated by a flow of customer names is more appropriate than the traditional Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) approach. We show that CLV underestimates the true value of names (by more than 400% in some cases) and leads to sub-optimal customer relationship management and acquisition …

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Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation Effects On Mba Job Choice: Controlling For Region Of Origin, David B. Montgomery, Catherine A. Ramus Oct 2003

Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation Effects On Mba Job Choice: Controlling For Region Of Origin, David B. Montgomery, Catherine A. Ramus

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In a preliminary study with 279 MBA’s from two European and three North American business schools we find that reputation-related attributes of caring about employees, environmental sustainability, community/stakeholder relations, and ethical products and services are important in job choice decisions. We use an adaptive conjoint analysis survey tool to discover the relative weighting of a new set of social responsibility job search criteria, including these attributes with traditional job search criteria like financial package, geographical location, etc. In addition, our results show that more than ninety percent of the MBAs in the sample were willing to forgo financial benefits in …

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Incorporating Diversification Into Risk Management, Mitchell Craig Warachka, A. Purnanandam, Y. Zhao, W.T. Ziemba Oct 2003

Incorporating Diversification Into Risk Management, Mitchell Craig Warachka, A. Purnanandam, Y. Zhao, W.T. Ziemba

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

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Illinois State Alumni Magazine, Fall 2003, Illinois State University, University Marketing And Communications Oct 2003

Illinois State Alumni Magazine, Fall 2003, Illinois State University, University Marketing And Communications

State: The Magazine of Illinois State University (1999-present)

Illinois State University alumni magazine

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War And The Death Of Innocence, Eamon Maher Oct 2003

War And The Death Of Innocence, Eamon Maher

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Material reproduced by kind permission of Doctrine and Life

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Perturbation Approach To The Self-Energy Of Non-S Hydrogenic States, Eric Olivier Le Bigot, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Paul Indelicato, Gerhard Soff Oct 2003

Perturbation Approach To The Self-Energy Of Non-S Hydrogenic States, Eric Olivier Le Bigot, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Paul Indelicato, Gerhard Soff

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present results on the self-energy correction to the energy levels of hydrogen and hydrogenlike ions. The self energy represents the largest QED correction to the relativistic (Dirac-Coulomb) energy of a bound electron. We focus on the perturbation expansion of the self energy of non-S states, and provide estimates of the so-called A60 perturbative coefficient, which can be considered as a relativistic Bethe logarithm. Precise values of A60 are given for many P, D, F and G states, while estimates are given for other electronic states. These results can be used in high-precision spectroscopy experiments in hydrogen and …

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Self-Consistent Modification To The Electron Density Of States Due To Electron-Phonon Coupling In Metals, Fatih Dogan, Frank Marsiglio Oct 2003

Self-Consistent Modification To The Electron Density Of States Due To Electron-Phonon Coupling In Metals, Fatih Dogan, Frank Marsiglio

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The "standard" theory of a normal metal consists of an effective electron band which interacts with phonons and impurities. The effects due to the electron-phonon interaction are often delineated within the Migdal approximation; the properties of many simple metals are reasonably well described with such a description. On the other hand, if the electron-phonon interaction is sufficiently strong, a polaron approach is more appropriate. The purpose of this paper is to examine to what degree the Migdal approximation is self-consistent, as the coupling strength increases. We find that changes in the electron density of states become significant for very large …

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Resonant Photoemission In F-Electron Systems: Pu And Gd, James G. Tobin, Brandon W. Chung, Roland K. Schulze, Jeff Russell Terry, John Douglas Farr, David K. Shuh, K. Heinzelman, Eli Rotenberg, George Daniel Waddill, Gerrit V. Van Der Laan Oct 2003

Resonant Photoemission In F-Electron Systems: Pu And Gd, James G. Tobin, Brandon W. Chung, Roland K. Schulze, Jeff Russell Terry, John Douglas Farr, David K. Shuh, K. Heinzelman, Eli Rotenberg, George Daniel Waddill, Gerrit V. Van Der Laan

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Resonant photoemission in the Pu 5f and Pu 6p states is compared to that in the Gd 4f and Gd 5p states. Spectral simulations, based upon an atomic model with angular momentum coupling, are compared to the Gd and Pu results. Additional spectroscopic measurements of Pu, including core level photoemission and x-ray absorption, are also presented.

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Micro-Level Estimation Of The Prevalence Of Stunting And Underweight Among Children In Cambodia, Tomoki Fujii, Livia Montana Oct 2003

Micro-Level Estimation Of The Prevalence Of Stunting And Underweight Among Children In Cambodia, Tomoki Fujii, Livia Montana

Research Collection School Of Economics

We are pleased to share this copy of the preliminary report on "Micro-Level Estimation of the Prevalence of Stunting and Underweight Among Children in Cambodia." This study is the result of a collaboration between the Ministry of Planning, the United Nations World Food Programme and the MEASURE DHS+ project, with in-kind assistance from The World Bank. We also would like to express our acknowledgement to Italian Cooperation and International Fund for Agricultural Development for supporting in publication and distribution.

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The Influence Of Item Wording On Questionnaire Scale Scores, Nicole Anne Benn Oct 2003

The Influence Of Item Wording On Questionnaire Scale Scores, Nicole Anne Benn

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Psychological researchers need methods for obtaining accurate responses from participants when using questionnaire data. The current study looked at the influence of negatively worded scale items on the overall scale. The NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and four versions of that scale were used to test the impact of negatively worded items. The NEO-PI and each of its versions contained differing amounts of negatively worded items. More than 1,100 participants were used in this study, with approximately 230 people responding to each version of the NEO-PI. Confirmatory factor analysis and associated chi-square tests and goodness-of-fit measures were used to evaluate …

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A Formal Test Of Density Forecast Evaluation, Anil K. Bera, Aurobindo Ghosh Oct 2003

A Formal Test Of Density Forecast Evaluation, Anil K. Bera, Aurobindo Ghosh

Research Collection School Of Economics

Recent econometricians have shifted their attention from point and interval forecasts of the probability density functions (PDF) of various market variables. One of the main problems in this area has been evaluation of the density forecasts. In this papers, we propose a formal test for density forecast evaluation using Neyman (1937) smooth test procedure. Apart from giving indications of acceptance or rejection of the tested model, this approach provides specific sources (such as the mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis or the location, scale and shape of the distribution) or rejections, thereby helping in deciding possible modifications of the assumed model. …

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Faculty Tenure Report, Fall 2003, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of Information Management And Analysis. Oct 2003

Faculty Tenure Report, Fall 2003, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of Information Management And Analysis.

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Statistical report showing the number of faculty that are tenured, on the tenure track, or not on the tenure track, broken down by college, department, gender, minority status, and if full or part time.

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How Reading Recovery Teaches The Five Essential Elements Of Reading Instruction And More, Mary Anne Doyle, Salli Forbes Oct 2003

How Reading Recovery Teaches The Five Essential Elements Of Reading Instruction And More, Mary Anne Doyle, Salli Forbes

Curriculum & Instruction Faculty Publications

In 1997 Congress called for the director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to convene a national panel to assess the status of research-based knowledge, including the effectiveness of various approaches to teaching children to read (NICHD, 2000a, p. 1). The resulting 14- member National Reading Panel (NRP or Panel) included reading researchers, representatives of colleges of education, educational administrators, a classroom teacher, a parent, and a medical doctor (Yatvin, 2002). The work completed by the NRP involved identification and meta-analyses of the experimental and quasi-experimental research literature …

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Common Data Set 2003-2004, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research Oct 2003

Common Data Set 2003-2004, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research

Institutional Effectiveness and Research Reports

No abstract provided.

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The Advocate (Fall 2003), Lewis & Clark Law School Oct 2003

The Advocate (Fall 2003), Lewis & Clark Law School

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

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Statutory Liens In The Atlantic Canada Offshore Area, Robert Carmichael Oct 2003

Statutory Liens In The Atlantic Canada Offshore Area, Robert Carmichael

Dalhousie Law Journal

This article will examine statutory and common law liens in relation to assets used in oil and gas exploration and production in areas offshore Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador It considers the applicable constitutional regime, the maritime law and the interrelationship between maritime law, federal law, and provincial law.

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Walking The Centre Line: Balancing An Employee's Right To Privacy In Drug And Alcohol Policies In The Atlantic Offshore Oil Industry, Harold Smith, Joseph Anthony Oct 2003

Walking The Centre Line: Balancing An Employee's Right To Privacy In Drug And Alcohol Policies In The Atlantic Offshore Oil Industry, Harold Smith, Joseph Anthony

Dalhousie Law Journal

Should the principles applied to drug and alcohol testing on land be imported into the Atlantic offshore oil and gas industry? The authors take the position that there is room for the notion that the application of principles derived from safety sensitive land based industry ought not to be applied in a perfunctory or rote manner to the Atlantic offshore environment. The case law, since Entrop, shows a judicial tendency to apply the requirements established by the obiter dictum of Entrop. (Etrop dealt with safety sensitive but land-based industry.) The danger is that the principles, as developed by and since …

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The Current State Of Composition Scholar/Teachers: Is Rhetoric Gone Or Just Hiding Out?, Krista Ratcliffe Oct 2003

The Current State Of Composition Scholar/Teachers: Is Rhetoric Gone Or Just Hiding Out?, Krista Ratcliffe

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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A Man's Home Is His Castle: A Look At The Relationship Between Fathers And Children In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Miranda M. Johnson-Parries Oct 2003

A Man's Home Is His Castle: A Look At The Relationship Between Fathers And Children In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Miranda M. Johnson-Parries

English Theses & Dissertations

In western society, the father is one of, if not the most, significant roles possible for a man. In the 18th C bourgeois family, he was especially crucial. In the novels of Jane Austen, the father, even when absent, is a central figure: Dead fathers influence their children by their lack of planning and absence, while a physically present, but mentally distant father has much the same effect. I will analyze how seemingly peripheral male characters within Jane Austen's novels react to their stations in life and try to manipulate them in a similar way to Austen's much analyzed …

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Editor's Report, Florida Field Naturalist, October 2003, Jerome A. Jackson Oct 2003

Editor's Report, Florida Field Naturalist, October 2003, Jerome A. Jackson

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

A report from the editor of the Florida Field Naturalist concerning publishing history, artwork, changes, and plans.

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Review Of Laura Ingalls Wilder And The American Frontier: Five Perspectives Edited By Dwight M. Miller, Philip Heldrich Oct 2003

Review Of Laura Ingalls Wilder And The American Frontier: Five Perspectives Edited By Dwight M. Miller, Philip Heldrich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One of the most interesting literary figures of the twentieth century, Laura Ingalls Wilder, through her books about the American heartland, examines in many ways the heart of America. She questions the Euroamerican pioneer experience, the racial tensions of the contested West, and assumptions about gender roles. Even her relationship with her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, asks readers to reconsider the privileging of authorial autonomy; and, with respect to genre aesthetics, Wilder's mimesis of autobiography blurs the line between fact and fiction. Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier: Five Perspectives, a collection of essays that originated at the …

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Review Of The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, And Indian Hymns By Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, And Ralph Kotay, Benjamin R. Kracht Oct 2003

Review Of The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, And Indian Hymns By Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, And Ralph Kotay, Benjamin R. Kracht

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Christianity, metaphorically referred to as the "Jesus road," came to the Kiowas of southwestern Oklahoma towards the end of the nineteenth century. Today, most Kiowas are at least nominally Christian, and, like other Oklahoma Indians, render prayers and hymns in their Native tongue in services that are otherwise Baptist, Methodist, or Pentecostal. In explaining why the Kiowas accepted Christianity and how Kiowa hymns still play a vital part in Kiowa community life, The Jesus Road contributes to a growing body of literature about Native American Christians who have not abandoned their personal and cultural identity. Anthropologist Luke Eric Lassiter, historian …

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Tribal College Libraries, Charles D. Bernholz Oct 2003

Tribal College Libraries, Charles D. Bernholz

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Compares American Indian college libraries with depositories in U.S. territories in the Pacific, and argues for their inclusion in the Federal Depository Library Program.

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Statistical Approach To The Emi Modeling Of Large Asics By A Single Noise-Current Source, Giulio Antonini, James L. Drewniak, Marco Leone, Antonio Orlandi, Vittorio Ricchiuti Oct 2003

Statistical Approach To The Emi Modeling Of Large Asics By A Single Noise-Current Source, Giulio Antonini, James L. Drewniak, Marco Leone, Antonio Orlandi, Vittorio Ricchiuti

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Large and complex ASICs are source of propagating noise inside the powerbus planes. A lumped noise source model is proposed and validated by means of a statistics based method.

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Suitability Of Pulse Train™, A Novel Digitally Implemented Real-Time Control Technique, For Bifred Converter, Mehdi Ferdowsi, Ali Emadi, Mark Telefus, Anatoly Shteynberg Oct 2003

Suitability Of Pulse Train™, A Novel Digitally Implemented Real-Time Control Technique, For Bifred Converter, Mehdi Ferdowsi, Ali Emadi, Mark Telefus, Anatoly Shteynberg

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Pulse TrainTM, a new control scheme, is presented and applied to a BIFRED converter operating in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), which avoids the light-load high-voltage stress problem. In contrast to the conventional control techniques, the principal idea of Pulse Train is to regulate the output voltage using a series of high and low energy pulses generated by the current of the inductor. In this paper, applicability of the proposed technique to both the input and magnetizing inductances of BIFRED converter is investigated. Analysis of BIFRED converter operating in DCM as well as the output voltage ripple estimation are …

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