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Kidney Transplant Recipients And The Incidence Of Adverse Reactions To Cyclosporin, Zahra Tolou-Ghamari, Abbas-Ali Palizban

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Frequency Of Anemia In Pregnancy In Northern Jordan, Abla M. Albsoul-Younes, Rawa J. Al-Ramahi, Saafan A. Al-Safi

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Dynamics Of Market Entry: The Effects Of Mergers And Acquisitions On Entry In The Banking Industry, Allen N. Berger, Seth D. Bonime, Lawrence G. Goldberg, Lawrence J. White

Faculty Publications

We study the dynamics of market entry following mergers and acquisitions (M&As) using banking industry data. The findings suggest that M&As are associated with statistically and economically significant increases in the probability of entry. The data suggest that M&As affect the proportion of the markets with entry by about 10-20%. These findings also suggest that entry may be part of an "external" effect of M&As that helps supply credit to some relationship-dependent small business borrowers. Our results are robust to the use of alternative econometric methods, changes in specifications of the exogenous variables, and alteration of the data samples.

Benthic Biological Monitoring Program Of The Elizabeth River Watershed (2003), Daniel M. Dauer

Elizabeth River Reports

Executive Summary

Macrobenthic communities of the Elizabeth River watershed have been quantitatively sampled since summer 1999. This report presents the data from the fifth year of sampling in 2003. The three objectives of the Benthic Biological Monitoring Program of the Elizabeth River watershed are: (1) To characterize the health of the tidal waters of the Elizabeth River watershed as indicated by the structure of the benthic communities. ( 2) To conduct trend analyses on long-term data at 14 fixed-point stations to relate temporal trends in the benthic communities to changes in water and/or sediment quality. Trend analyses will be updated …

Structuring Sentencing: Apprendi, The Offense Of Conviction, And The Limited Role Of Constitutional Law, Benjamin J. Priester

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Securities Analysts: Why These Gatekeepers Abandoned Their Post, David J. Labhart

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Perspectives Fall 2004, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Fall 2004 employee newsletter published quarterly for employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. Includes Brand Matters, Fall 2004.

Fiction Fix 03, Thelma Young, Tim Gilmore, Sarah Stuart-Clarke, Jeff Geloneck, Blake Mccorkle, David Jordan, M. J. Howe, Stephanie Ouellette, Laura Havice, Christopher Sylvester, April Fisher, Gavin Lambert

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

Analyzing Washington State's Welfare Program Design, Workfirst, Dan Axelsen, Hal W. Snarr

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

Much debate in the early nineties centered on whether the federal entitlement program Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) reduced welfare dependency. Many contend that AFDC discouraged work, increased welfare dependency, and undermined the institution of family. Partly in response to these criticisms, welfare was reformed through the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996. PRWORA modified the primary objectives of welfare by placing more emphasis on work experience accumulation and less on human capital accumulation. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) was designed to meet this primary objective. Washington State’s TANF program, WorkFirst, utilizes a progressive …

Crisis Planning In The Lodging Industry: A Response To The “It Can’T Happen To Us” Mentality, John E. Spillan, William Crandall

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

Although the crisis management literature addressing the needs of larger organizations is plentiful, little has been written on this subject concerning the lodging industry. This study examines the perceptions and experiences with crisis events among hotel and motel owners/managers located throughout U.S.In particular, we investigate if concern is generated more from the occurrence of a crisis event or from the presence of a crisis management team. The findings reveal that of the lodging facilities surveyed, 59.8%of the 174 respondents indicated they have a crisis management team, and 74% experienced a crisis of some type within the last three years.This study …

Inclusive Double-Pomeron Exchange At The Fermilab Tevatron P̅P Collider, Darin Acosta, Kenneth A. Bloom, Collider Detector At Fermilab Collaboration

Kenneth Bloom Publications

We report results from a study of events with a double-Pomeron exchange topology produced in p̅p collisions at √s =1800 GeV. The events are characterized by a leading antiproton and a large rapidity gap on the outgoing proton side. We find that the differential production cross section agrees in shape with predictions based on Regge theory and factorization, and that the ratio of double-Pomeron exchange to single diffractive production rates is relatively unsuppressed as compared to the θ(10) suppression factor previously measured in single diffractive production.

The Florida Bonneted Bat, Eumops Floridanus (Chiroptera: Molossidae): Distribution, Morphometrics, Systematics, And Ecology, Robert M. Timm, Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

A review and reappraisal of bats of the genus Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) reveals that considerable geographic variation is present in the bonneted bat, E. glaucinus; it is a complex consisting of >1 species. Bonneted bats in Florida are significantly larger than those in all other populations, and have proportionally shorter and deeper basisphenoid pits, the glenoid fossa is broadly triangular with rounded apices, and bacular shape differs from that in other populations. Additionally, bonneted bats in Florida have a broader palate than bats from populations in South America. Given these differences, the correct name for both Pleistocene and Recent …

Using Wind To Power A Groundwater Circulation Well—Preliminary Results, Andrew Curtis Elmore, Ron Gallagher, K. David Drake

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

In areas of the country where the U.S. Department of Energy has classified the available wind resources as Class 3 or greater, the use of wind turbines to provide power to relatively small remediation systems such as groundwater circulation wells may be technically and economically feasible. Groundwater circulation wells are a good candidate technology to couple with renewable energy, because the remediation system removes contamination from the subject aquifer with no net loss of the groundwater resource, while the wind turbine does not create potentially harmful air emissions. Wind data collected in the vicinity of the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant …

The Alley Behind First Street, Northeast: Criminal Abortion In The Nation's Capital, 1872-1973, Douglas R. Miller

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Bridges And Barriers To Housing For Chronically Homeless Street Dwellers: The Effects Of Medical And Substance Abuse Services On Housing Attainment, Tatjana Meschede

Center for Social Policy Publications

In the winter of 1998/99, after the deaths of 16 homeless people in the streets of Boston attracted wide attention by the media, the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH), Dr. Howard Koh, convened a group of I stakeholders serving the homeless street population. The goal of this MDPH Homeless Taskforce was to reduce the number of homeless people dying on the streets as well as to improve service delivery to those homeless individuals most at risk of dying. A wide range of individuals serving or encountering the homeless street population, including homeless outreach teams, law enforcement …

Structuring Home Video By Snippet Detection And Pattern Parsing, Zailiang Pan, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Hand-held camcorders have been popularly used in capturing and documenting daily lives. Nonetheless, searching for personal memories in home videos is still a laborious task. This paper describes novel approaches in detecting snippets and patterns in home videos for content indexing. To deal with the fact that most shots are long and with handshake artifacts, a motion analysis algorithm based on Kalman filter and finite state machine is proposed to decompose videos into tables of snippets. Each snippet is represented by a set of moving and static patterns. The moving patterns are automatically detected and tracked, while the static patterns …

21 | Excavations At Tiberias, 1973–1974 The Early Islamic Periods, David Stacey

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

This volume documents two seasons of excavation of the Early Islamic levels in ancient Tiberias, including detailed analysis of the stratigraphy and a thorough treatment of the Islamic-period pottery, as well as the glass and the numismatic finds.

Improving Transliteration With Precise Alignment Of Phoneme Chunks And Using Contextual Features, Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Wai Lam

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Automatic transliteration of foreign names is basically regarded as a diminutive clone of the machine translation (MT) problem. It thus follows IBM’s conventional MT models under the sourcechannel framework. Nonetheless, some parameters of this model dealing with zero-fertility words in the target sequences, can negatively impact transliteration effectiveness because of the inevitable inverted conditional probability estimation. Instead of source-channel, this paper presents a direct probabilistic transliteration model using contextual features of phonemes with a tailored alignment scheme for phoneme chunks. Experiments demonstrate superior performance over the source-channel for the task of English-Chinese transliteration.

An Evaluation Of The Moody Bible Institute Ministry Based Partnership As A Ministry Training Tool, Danny Ray Cochran

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this project is to determine the feasibility of churches partnering with theological institutions to offer college-level ministry training in the local church. The Ministry Based Partnership of Moody Bible Institute that was a ministry at Holly Creek Baptist Church for four years is used as the model for evaluation. Student questionnaires are used to evaluate the effectiveness of this program. The Biblical basis for an equipping ministry in the local church is examined. The effectiveness of distance learning programs is examined using literature from the field of education. Conclusions are developed using information from the previous processes.

How Like A Winter - The Plight Of Absent Class Members Denied Adequate Representation, Susan P. Koniak

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Punitive Damages, Descriptive Statistics, And The Economy Of Civil Litigation, Stephen C. Yeazell

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Caught In The Toils Of Regulation: Tahoe-Sierra, Ripeness, Permit Requirements, And A Measure Of Relief, Adam Greenwood

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Jurisdiction And Discretion Revisited, Daniel J. Meltzer

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Legislation Overlap: Should The Clean Water Act Of The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide And Rodenticide Act Prevail When Pesticides End Up In U.S. Waters, Meghan Rhatigan

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Informal Animation Sketching: Requirements And Design, Richard C. Davis, James A. Landay

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We present an interface design for creating informal animations from sketches. Current tools for creating animation are extremely complex. This makes it difficult for designers to prototype animations and nearly impossible for novices to create them at all. Simple animation systems exist but severely restrict the types of motion that can be represented. To guide our design of an animation sketching interface, we conducted field studies into the needs of professional and novice animators. These studies show the wide variety of motions that users desire in informal animations and indicate how to prioritize these types of otion. The interface described …

Comments On "A Practical (T, N) Threshold Proxy Signature Scheme Based On The Rsa Cryptosystem", Guilin Wang, Feng Bao, Jianying Zhou, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In a (t, n) threshold proxy signature scheme based on RSA, any t or more proxy signers can cooperatively generate a proxy signature while t-1 or fewer of them can't do it. The threshold proxy signature scheme uses the RSA cryptosystem to generate the private and the public key of the signers. In this article, we discuss the implementation and comparison of some threshold proxy signature schemes that are based on the RSA cryptosystem. Comparison is done on the basis of time complexity, space complexity and communication overhead. We compare the performance of four schemes: Hwang et al., Wen et …

Ceg 361/561-01: Introduction To Software Testing, John A. Reisner

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course covers software testing strategies, along with established best practices, so students learn how to test their software in a complete and systematic (vice ad-hoc) manner. Particular attention is paid to planning, writing, and executing software testing documentation, i.e., software test plan, to include documented results. Various projects are assigned, designed to illustrate various challenges associated with software testing, and to reinforce the strategies and techniques used to overcome these challenges.

The Judicial Safeguards Of Federalism, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Democracy And The Dominance Of Delaware In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield

Law and Contemporary Problems

Delaware has a population less than one-third of one percent of the nation, but it is the state of incorporation for more than fifty percent of US public companies and more than sixty percent of the Fortune 500. Delaware's resulting dominance over the terms of corporate governance in the US has been the subject of one of the grandest debates within corporate law scholarship.

It Takes A Team: A Tribute To The Honorable Walter Herbert Rice, Susan Newhart Elliott

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.