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Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Student Recital, Si Tran, Ben Makino

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Letters To The Editor, Catholic Medical Association

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Theology Of Marriage And Same Sex Unions, Robert J. Mcmanus

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Peter Singer: The Absolute Uniqueness Of The Human, John C. Riccardo

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Varieties Of Financial Arrangements Possible In Mergers And Acquisitions, Jane Marie Klein

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2003, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

New Expression: November 2003 (Volume 26, Issue 8), Columbia College Chicago

New Expression

November 2003, Volume 26, Issue 8, edition of New Expression, a news publication researched, contributed, written, and edited by Chicago high school journalists

Option Value And Dynamic Programming Model Estimates Of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing, Rickard V. Burkhauser, J. S. Butler, Gulcin Gumus

Economics - All Scholarship

This paper develops dynamic structural models - an option value model and a dynamic programming model - of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins to affect the kind or amount of work that a currently employed person can do. We use Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and restricted access Social Security earnings data for estimation. Based on tests of both in-sample and out-of-sample predictive accuracy, our option value model performs better than both our dynamic programming model and our reduced form …

November 2003, Syracuse Department Of Economics

Economics - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Re-Examining Latino/A Studies And Latin American Studies In The 1990s, Anna Sampaio

Ethnic Studies

Over the 30 years of their existence, studies of Latinos/as in the U.S. and the field of Latin American Studies have emerged largely as divided disciplines. That is, despite what would appear to be similar sensibilities including comparable criticisms of Western hegemony and the neocolonial practices of the U.S., as well as the political, economic, and cultural displacement of similar populations, the two areas of study have more often regarded each other as competitive colleagues rather than complimentary practices. In the following study, I examine the nature of the two disciplines paying particular attention to the political context surrounding their …

Submerged: How A California Library Was Invaded By Rising Groundwater — And Survived., Taeock Kim, Leanna Goodwater

Staff publications, research, and presentations

The Michel Orradre Library at Santa Clara University in California suffered from a recurring influx of dirty groundwater into its basement, from 1997–2001. A report on this library's flooding problem, its approach to the problem, and lessons learned from the experience is provided.

Medical Necessity In Private Health Plans: Implications For Behavioral Health Care, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Brian Kamoie, D. Richard Mauery, Brian Walitt

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This report addresses how the term "medical necessity" is defined in private health insurance coverage decisions. It summarizes a review of the literature, an extensive review of legal cases that challenge insurer decisions, materials prepared by the insurance industry, consultation with experts in the field, a review of investigations conducted by State departments of insurance and attorneys general, and interviews with health care executives regarding the decision-making process itself. The report does not explore factors that can affect access to care that might be considered clinically necessary by treating professionals or the effects of medical necessity decisions on therapeutic outcomes.

A Whole Earth Telescope Campaign On The Pulsating Subdwarf B Binary System Pg 1336-018 (Ny Vir), D. Kilkenny, Michael D. Reed, D. O'Donoghue, S. D. Kawaler, A. Mukadam, S. J. Kleinman, A. Nitta, T. S. Metcalfe, J. L. Provencal, For Complete List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

We present results from a multisite ('Whole Earth Telescope') photometric campaign on PG 1336-018, the close eclipsing binary system containing a pulsating subdwarf B (sdB) star. The main part of the campaign (1999 April) resulted in ∼172 h of observations, representing a coverage of about 47 per cent, and additional data were obtained outside the core campaign. Periodogram analysis shows that the light variations are dominated by three frequencies near 5757, 5585 and 5369 μHz (∼174, 179 and 186 s, respectively), although many frequencies are present, particularly in the range 5000-6000 μHz (∼200-170 s). We identify, with some confidence, 28 …

The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, November 5-8, 2003, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens directed by Ray Schultz.

Synopsis: The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel of the same name. In small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone …

Wright State University Men's Basketball Media Guide 2003-2004, Wright State University Athletics

Athletics Publications

A media guide for Wright State University's 2003-2004 Men's Basketball team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.

Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1998 In 2002, Kylie Hillman, Sheldon Rothman

LSAY Cohort Reports

This report provides details of the experiences of the 1998 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (abbreviated to LSAY Y98) at a single point in time. Information on this cohort was first collected in 1998, when these young people were Year 9 students in Australian schools. The reference period for this report is October 2002. Most members of the cohort were in their first post-school year, having completed their secondary schooling at the end of 2001. Information about the cohort's activities in previous years is available in earlier reports in this series.

Initiatives To Address Teacher Shortage, Michele Lonsdale, Lawrence Ingvarson

Teacher workforce and careers

This paper is in response to an invitation from the Victorian Department of Education and Training to undertake a targeted review of effective teaching recruitment strategies. The paper provides a ‘snapshot’ of what is happening in other States and Territories and in selected countries overseas. The review is based mainly on information supplied by a small group of stakeholders (See Appendix 1) and derived from relevant printed and online resources. The main focus of the review is on the kinds of strategies that different educational jurisdictions have used to overcome teacher supply problems. The original intention of the review was …

November 2003, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the November 2003 meeting of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate.

Living Across And Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, And Feminism. [Review], Sarah M. Stitzlein

Education

Review of:

Shannon Sullivan, Living across and through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. 204 pp.

The Expectations Of Consumers, Douglas A. Kysar

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In the few years following promulgation of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability, several courts have reaffirmed their allegiance to the consumer expectations test for product design defect liability, while rejecting the Restatement's contrary recommendation to adopt a design defect test that focuses primarily on technical features regarding the risk and utility of alternative product designs. In this Article, Professor Kysar reviews the post-Third Restatement decisions, identifying within them a common failure to articulate a coherent, independent doctrinal role for the consumer expectations test, despite the courts' clearly expressed desire to do so. In Kysar's view, courts adhering to …

The Balancing Act Of Copyright: The Copyright Laws Of Australia And The United States In The Digital Era, Dilan J. Thampapillai

Cornell Law School J.D. Student Research Papers

The digital era has posed a unique challenge to copyright law. The emergence of the information technology revolution and the internet has increased the ability and the willingness of copyright users to copy and distribute protected material. In response to this phenomenon copyright owners have pushed for stronger laws to protect their content from infringement. Their success has prompted a strong counter reaction from copyright users and consumer groups.

This paper seeks to examine how changes to Australian and US copyright law have resulted in an imbalance between owners and users and whether the traditional safeguards of fair dealing and …

Beware Of Lawyers Bearing Ggifts: A Critical Evaluation Of The Report Of Wg Ii To The European Convention On Incorporation Of The Eu Charter Of Fundamental Rights And Accession To The European Convention Of Human Rights., Stephen Carruthers

Articles

This article undertakes a critical analysis of the fundamental rights provisions of the draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe as presented to the President of the European Council in Rome on 18 July 2003, and in particular the Articles in Parts I and II of the draft Constitution incorporating proposals made in the final Report of Working Group II on “Incorporation of the Charter/Accession to the ECHR”.

American Square Dance Vol. 58, No. 11 (Nov. 2003), Boyd, William (Bill), Boyd, Randy

American Squares

Monthly square dance magazine that began publication in 1945.

Auditions For The Friars' Cell Production Of The Mousetrap, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Siena 212

The Mousetrap auditions

November 1, 2003, 2pm

Providence College Dance Company Press Release, Wendy Oliver

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Providence College Dance Company press release

November 2003

Review Essay: Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, Editor And Translator, Swiss Sisters Separated. Pioneer Life In Kansas, Oklahoma, And Washington 1889-1914. From The Letters Of Louise Guillermin Dupertuis To Her Sister Elise Guillermin, The Painter, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

This work of nearly 500 pages presents a rich harvest of documents, data, and insights, derived from Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs' painstaking and expert effort as editor, translator, and interpreter. He first offers a concise introduction concerning the letters which had been exchanged mainly between Louise Guillermin Dupertuis (1848-1914), an 1889 immigrant to Kansas, and also some of her children, with Elise ( 1851-1931) and Isa line (b. 1841) Guillermin, the sisters of the book's title. Despite Louise's frequent entreaties, Elise stayed in Crettaz-Tavex sur Ollon in the Swiss canton of Vaud in whose studio the editor discovered their copious correspondence …

2003-2004 Brass Festival, Marc Reese, John David Smith, Mark Hetzler, Jay Bertolet, Jay Lichtmann, Jeffrey Kaye, Jodie Desalvo

Other Seasonal Concerts

No abstract provided.

The Black Perspective November 2003, 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.

Model Comparisons Using Information Measures, C. Mitchell Dayton

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Methodologists have criticized the use of significance tests in the behavioral sciences but have failed to provide alternative data analysis strategies that appeal to applied researchers. For purposes of comparing alternate models for data, information-theoretic measures such as Akaike AIC have advantages in comparison with significance tests. Model-selection procedures based on a min(AIC) strategy, for example, are holistic rather than dependent upon a series of sometimes contradictory binary (accept/reject) decisions.