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Law Students Resume Publication Of Space Law Journal, Carry On Gorove Legacy, Elaine Pugh Dec 2003

Law Students Resume Publication Of Space Law Journal, Carry On Gorove Legacy, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Journal of Space Law - the world's only publication devoted to the legal problems arising out of human activities in outer space - has resumed publication at the University of Mississippi Law School.


Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of Nebraska And Parts Of Adjacent States, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., Anne P. Diffendal Dec 2003

Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of Nebraska And Parts Of Adjacent States, Robert F. Diffendal Jr., Anne P. Diffendal

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark undertook their journey with the Corps of Discovery in 1804–1806 in order to explore the area that the United States had purchased from France in 1803. Then known as Louisiana, this region included almost everything west of the Mississippi to the continental divide (illustrated below). In order to find the best route across the continent, President Thomas Jefferson charged Lewis to follow the Missouri River to its headwaters and then locate rivers flowing down the west side of the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River and into the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson's written instructions further specified …


The Weekly Challenger, December 25, 2003, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Dec 2003

The Weekly Challenger, December 25, 2003, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 25, 2003, issue of The Weekly Challenger.


Studi Karakterisasi Optis Lapisan Tipis A-Sic:H Hasil Deposisi Metode Glowdischarge, Rosari Saleh, Lusitra Munisa, Dewi Marianty Dec 2003

Studi Karakterisasi Optis Lapisan Tipis A-Sic:H Hasil Deposisi Metode Glowdischarge, Rosari Saleh, Lusitra Munisa, Dewi Marianty

Makara Journal of Science

Optical Properties of a-SiC:H Films Deposited by Glowdischarge Methods. The optical properties of amorphous silicon carbon films deposited by glowdischarge method have been studied using ultra violet-visible (uv-vis) spectroscopy. The refractive index was calculated by Swanepoel’s formula using transmission data then followed by numerical simulation. The films density tends to decrease with increasing carbon content. The widening of the optical gap by increasing carbon content indicates the enhancement of film’s transparence. Both real and imaginary parts of the dielectric constant show variation in magnitude as the carbon content increase


Legislative-Executive Relations And The Budgetary Process In Nigeria: An Evaluation Of The 1999 Constitution., S.C. Rapu Dec 2003

Legislative-Executive Relations And The Budgetary Process In Nigeria: An Evaluation Of The 1999 Constitution., S.C. Rapu

CBN Occasional Papers

Since the transition to civilian rule in May 29, 1999, the country has witnessed conflicts between the legislature and the executive over budget matters. These conflicts are not only restricted to the federal level but also a common phenomenon at the state government level. This paper discussed the poor relationship over the budget matters and made suggestions on how to improve the process. The paper surveyed the literature on the legal framework of the budgetary process in several countries. Thereafter, the paper examined the legal framework for the budgetary process in Nigeria as well as the issues involved. The paper …


Robust Likelihood-Based Analysis Of Multivariate Data With Missing Values, Rod Little, An Hyonggin Dec 2003

Robust Likelihood-Based Analysis Of Multivariate Data With Missing Values, Rod Little, An Hyonggin

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

The model-based approach to inference from multivariate data with missing values is reviewed. Regression prediction is most useful when the covariates are predictive of the missing values and the probability of being missing, and in these circumstances predictions are particularly sensitive to model misspecification. The use of penalized splines of the propensity score is proposed to yield robust model-based inference under the missing at random (MAR) assumption, assuming monotone missing data. Simulation comparisons with other methods suggest that the method works well in a wide range of populations, with little loss of efficiency relative to parametric models when the latter …


La Segregación Étnica En Contexto: El Caso De La Educación En Vallecas—Puente De Vallecas, David Poveda Dec 2003

La Segregación Étnica En Contexto: El Caso De La Educación En Vallecas—Puente De Vallecas, David Poveda

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the social conditions and ideological processes that help understand how students are distributed unequally between private and public schools on the basis of their ethnicity. To do so, it examines the form these mechanisms adopt in a particular area of Madrid (Spain): Vallecas-Puente de Vallecas. This part of the city has undergone dramatic social changes during the last fifty years and has a very intense social history in Madrid. Currently, it shows a high degree of ethnic segregation between schools depending on their status (public vs. ‘private-concerted’). ...


Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/49 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2003

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/49 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Segregación etnica en contexto : el caso de la educación en Vallecas : puente de Vallecas / David Poveda.


Honors College Students Take To Road To Answer 'Big' Questions, Jennifer Southall Dec 2003

Honors College Students Take To Road To Answer 'Big' Questions, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Travel plans for many college kids often involve little more than getting to the nearest beach for spring break. But a program at the University of Mississippi's McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College sends students to such locales as San Francisco and New York City to talk with the likes of Zen Buddhist monks and Fox News officials.


Soil Organic Carbon Content And Composition Of 130-Year Crop, Pasture And Forest Land-Use Managements, Dean A. Martens, Thomas E. Reedy, David T. Lewis (Retired) Dec 2003

Soil Organic Carbon Content And Composition Of 130-Year Crop, Pasture And Forest Land-Use Managements, Dean A. Martens, Thomas E. Reedy, David T. Lewis (Retired)

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Conversion of former agricultural land to grassland and forest ecosystems is a suggested option for mitigation of increased atmospheric CO2. A Sharpsburg prairie loess soil (fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudoll) provided treatments to study the impact of long-term land use on soil organic carbon (SOC) content and composition for a 130-year-old cropped, pasture and forest comparison. The forest and pasture land use significantly retained more SOC, 46% and 25%, respectively, compared with cropped land use, and forest land use increased soil C content by 29% compared with the pasture. Organic C retained in the soils was a function …


Murray Ledger And Times, December 23, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2003

Murray Ledger And Times, December 23, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


Uncertainty And The Value Of Diagnostic Information With Application To Axillary Lymph Node Dissection In Breast Cancer, Giovanni Parmigiani Dec 2003

Uncertainty And The Value Of Diagnostic Information With Application To Axillary Lymph Node Dissection In Breast Cancer, Giovanni Parmigiani

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

In clinical decision making, it is common to ask whether, and how much, a diagnostic procedure is contributing to subsequent treatment decisions. Statistically, quantification of the value of the information provided by a diagnostic procedure can be carried out using decision trees with multiple decision points, representing both the diagnostic test and the subsequent treatments that may depend on the test's results. This article investigates probabilistic sensitivity analysis approaches for exploring and communicating parameter uncertainty in such decision trees. Complexities arise because uncertainty about a model's inputs determines uncertainty about optimal decisions at all decision nodes of a tree. We …


Grand Valley Forum, Volume 028, Number 20, December 22, 2003, Grand Valley State University Dec 2003

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 028, Number 20, December 22, 2003, Grand Valley State University

2003-2004, Volume 28

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.


Marginalized Transition Models For Longitudinal Binary Data With Ignorable And Nonignorable Dropout, Brenda F. Kurland, Patrick J. Heagerty Dec 2003

Marginalized Transition Models For Longitudinal Binary Data With Ignorable And Nonignorable Dropout, Brenda F. Kurland, Patrick J. Heagerty

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

We extend the marginalized transition model of Heagerty (2002) to accommodate nonignorable monotone dropout. Using a selection model, weakly identified dropout parameters are held constant and their effects evaluated through sensitivity analysis. For data missing at random (MAR), efficiency of inverse probability of censoring weighted generalized estimating equations (IPCW-GEE) is as low as 40% compared to a likelihood-based marginalized transition model (MTM) with comparable modeling burden. MTM and IPCW-GEE regression parameters both display misspecification bias for MAR and nonignorable missing data, and both reduce bias noticeably by improving model fit


Taking Stock: Women Of All Colors In Legal Education, Rachel F. Moran Dec 2003

Taking Stock: Women Of All Colors In Legal Education, Rachel F. Moran

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Women Of Color In Law Teaching: Shared Identities, Different Experiences, Katherine L. Vaughns Dec 2003

Women Of Color In Law Teaching: Shared Identities, Different Experiences, Katherine L. Vaughns

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Teaching Susan Glaspell's A Jury Of Her Peers And Trifles, Marina Angel Dec 2003

Teaching Susan Glaspell's A Jury Of Her Peers And Trifles, Marina Angel

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


On The Generalized Borel Transform And Its Application To The Statistical Mechanics Of Macromolecules, Marcelo Marucho, Gustavo A. Carri Dec 2003

On The Generalized Borel Transform And Its Application To The Statistical Mechanics Of Macromolecules, Marcelo Marucho, Gustavo A. Carri

College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering

We present a new integral transform called the generalized Borel transform (GBT) and show how to use it to compute distribution functions used to describe the statistical mechanics of macromolecules. For this purpose, we choose the random flight model (RFM) of macromolecules and show that the application of the GBT to this model leads to the exact expression of the polymer propagator (two-point correlation function) from which all the statistical properties of the model can be obtained. We also discuss the mathematical simplicity of the GBT and its applicability to macromolecules with other topologies. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.


Midcourse Corrections: Women In Legal Education, Deborah L. Rhode Dec 2003

Midcourse Corrections: Women In Legal Education, Deborah L. Rhode

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


"Where Did You Go To Law School?" Gatekeeping For The Professoriate And Its Implications For Legal Education, Richard E. Redding Dec 2003

"Where Did You Go To Law School?" Gatekeeping For The Professoriate And Its Implications For Legal Education, Richard E. Redding

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Learning From Conflict: Reflections On Teaching About Race And Gender, Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier Dec 2003

Learning From Conflict: Reflections On Teaching About Race And Gender, Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


A Continuous Body: Ongoing Conversations About Women And Legal Education, Judith Resnik Dec 2003

A Continuous Body: Ongoing Conversations About Women And Legal Education, Judith Resnik

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


New Directions For Women In The Legal Academy, Deborah Jones Merritt, Barbara F. Reskin Dec 2003

New Directions For Women In The Legal Academy, Deborah Jones Merritt, Barbara F. Reskin

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Methodology Matters, Sari Bashi, Maryana Iskander Dec 2003

Methodology Matters, Sari Bashi, Maryana Iskander

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Using The Web To Facilitate Active Learning: A Trans-Pacific Seminar On Globalization And The Law, Ruth Buchanan, Sundhya Pahuja Dec 2003

Using The Web To Facilitate Active Learning: A Trans-Pacific Seminar On Globalization And The Law, Ruth Buchanan, Sundhya Pahuja

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Murray Ledger And Times, December 22, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2003

Murray Ledger And Times, December 22, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 21, 2003, Barry Strassler Dec 2003

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 21, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2003

No abstract provided.


Resource Sharing And Collaboration, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu Dec 2003

Resource Sharing And Collaboration, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Mwp Newsletter: Extended News Items, 2003, University Of Mississippi. Department Of English Dec 2003

Mwp Newsletter: Extended News Items, 2003, University Of Mississippi. Department Of English

MWP News and Newsletters

No abstract provided.


December 20, 2003 (Pages 6197-6396), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau Dec 2003

December 20, 2003 (Pages 6197-6396), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 33 (2003)

No abstract provided.