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Applying History's Lessons On The Clean Air Act To Rebuild Ground Zero, Penelope Campoli

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Infertility Caused By Exposure To Environmental Endocrine Disruptors, Leah Weldon

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Infertility Caused By Exposure To Environmental Endocrine Disruptors, Leah Weldon

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Sustaining Agriculture: An Examination Of Current Legislation Promoting Sustainable Agriculture As An Alternative To Conventional Farming Practices, Christopher B. Connard

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage Of The Civil War, William D. Bushnell

Civil War Book Review

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Interaction Of Ising-Bloch Fronts With Dirichlet Boundaries, A. Yadav, D. A. Browne

Faculty Publications

The Ising-Bloch bifurcation in two systems, the complex Ginzburg Landau equation (CGLE) and a FitzHugh Nagumo (FN) model was studied in the presence of spatial inhomogeneity. The Ginzburg Landau equation was a parametrically forced complexes and described nematic liquid crystals subjected to a rotating magnetic field and a high frequency electric field. FitzHugh Nagumo model quanlitatively modeled various chemical reactions and the front solutions were investigated in this solution. Reduced dynamical equations for the FN model were derived that explained the front dynamics close to the boundary. It was observed that the dynamics in the highly nonadiabatic limit was controllesd …

The Faculty Notebook, September 2004, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.

Recommender Systems Research: A Connection-Centric Survey, Saverio Perugini, Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems grew out of information retrieval and filtering, the topic has steadily advanced into a legitimate and challenging research area of its own. Recommender systems have traditionally been studied from a content-based filtering vs. collaborative design perspective. Recommendations, however, are not delivered within a vacuum, but rather cast within an informal community of users and social context. Therefore, ultimately all recommender systems make connections among people and thus should be surveyed from …

Contemporary Approaches For Assessing Outcomes On Training, Education, And Hrd Programs, Paul E. Brauchle, Klaus Schmidt

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

No abstract provided.

Update - September 2004, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- A Statement on Racism
-- Editorial
-- Review and Critique of "A Statement on Racism"
-- Homelessness and Poverty
-- Review and Critique of the Seventh-day Adventist Policy Statement Titled "Homelessness and Poverty"
-- News from the Center for Christian Biothics
-- Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutions

A Comparison Of Implementation Issues And Strategies For Radio Frequency Identification Technologies Between The U.S. Military And Private Sector Organizations, Kristine M. O'Brien, Stephen M. Swartz

Journal of Transportation Management

The purpose of this research was to study the implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies used to track equipment and supplies. Current implementation issues and strategies for future use were collected from leading edge organizations from the military and private sector. A formal comparison found both similarities and differences between how industry and the Army are implementing and using RFID technologies in their supply chains and logistics networks. This article focuses on these similarities and differences, to include a gap between the Army and industry regarding RFID tag use and implementation, and a difference in the overall focus of …

The Profit Impact Of A Strategic Approach To Web Enhanced Services (Wes)—A Study Of The Motor Carrier Industry, Gregory M. Kellar, John Xiaoqun Zhang

Journal of Transportation Management

An increasing number of motor carriers offer web-enhanced services (WES) such as real-timetracking-and-tracing, on-line ordering, and conflict resolution. However, the burst of the Internet bubble raised questions as to whether investments in such Internet-related services increase corporate profitability (e.g., Nagarajan et al., 2000). This article studies financial and operational values that web-enhanced services add to publicly traded interstate trucking companies. Large companies offering WES were found to be more profitable than smaller companies in general, and they were more profitable than other large carriers not offering WES. Investments in WES appear to provide a strategic advantage specifically for large companies.

Pyro: A Python-Based Versatile Programming Environment For Teaching Robotics, Doug Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden, Holly Yanco

Computer Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this paper we describe a programming framework called Pyro which provides a set of abstractions that allows students to write platform­independent robot programs. This project is unique because of its focus on the pedagogical implications of teaching mobile robotics via a top­down approach. We describe the background of the project, novel abstractions created, its library of objects, and the many learning modules that have been created from which curricula for different types of courses can be drawn. Finally, we explore Pyro from the students' perspective in a case study.

From 3lsp (Third Party Logistics Service Provider) To 4lsp (Fourth Party Logistics Service Provider). A Case Study From Ireland, John Mee, Edward Sweeney

Conference papers

Increased competition, geographically expanded marketplaces, technology replication and an
ever discerning consumer base, are reasons why companies need to regularly reappraise
their competencies in terms of activities and functions they perform themselves. Where viable
alternatives exist, companies should consider outsourcing of non-core activities and functions.
Within SCM (Supply Chain Management) it could be preferable if a “one stop shop” existed
for companies seeking to outsource functions identified as non-core. “Traditionally” structured
LSP’s who have concentrated their service offer around providing warehousing and transport
activities are potentially at a crossroads – clients and potential clients requiring “new” services
which could increase …

Listening Spaces: Audiophiles, Technology And Domestic Music Listening, Brian O'Neill

Conference Papers

This paper examines the interrelationship of technology, space and identity as exhibited in the domestic music listening practices of the audiophile. Music listening in domestic contexts provides both a physical and imaginary space of cultural consumption. The paper describes work in progress into phenomenological aspects of listening, practices of audio technology use in domestic contexts, and features of identity formation based on a qualitative study of hi-fi listeners. Technological and cultural change in the production of aural soundscapes and processes of reception provide the backdrop to the current study. Three main issues are addressed. Firstly, the promise of digital technology …

Storm Water Management For Society And Nature Via Service Learning, Ecological Engineering And Ecohydrology, Theodore A. Endreny

Higher Education

A framework for urban storm-water management that moves beyond flood control to improve societal and ecological services will maximize the functions and benefits of water resources management. Theoretical constructs for such work originate from the integration of ecological engineering, ecohydrology and service learning paradigms. Implementation consists of simulating, monitoring and reporting how storm-water design decisions to infiltrate or directly discharge runoff result in a complex set of linked adjustments to the dynamics of the water table, soil chemistry concentrations, plant stress/viability, terrestrial habitat, river loads/flows, and aquatic habitat patterns. Coordination of a socio-ecological-based urban storm-water management programme is discussed using …

Value Of Information In Portfolio Decision Analysis, Jeffrey Keisler

Management Science and Information Systems Faculty Publication Series

It can be time consuming to use decision analysis to allocate resources over a portfolio of projects. It may be possible to attain most of the value added by decision analysis in significantly less time. This paper defines and compares different analytic strategies in terms of the resulting value added for a range of simulated portfolios. A portfolio consists of a set of candidate projects or investments of uncertain value. The value of each project may be estimated with or without the additional information provided by decision-analytic methods. Projects are then completely prioritized and funded in order of the ratio …

Farm And Home Research: 55-3, Lance Nixon, Marianne Stein

Farm and Home Research: 1999 - 2007

Contents: [Page] 3- Director’s comments [Page] 4- Where were the wrigglers? [Page] 6- Griffith winner is leader in boosting dairy production [Page] 10- Rotate away from SCN [Page] 12- Won’t drink milk? Eat cheese [Page] 14- ‘Wake-up call’ from Topeka shiner [Page] 17- Dried Distiller’s Grain [Page] 20- Taking the calf away from Mom early: Can it pay?

The Paradox Of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche New Nobility And The Eternal Recurrence In Beyond Good And Evil (Book Review), Steven Michels

Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications

Book review by Steven Michels.

Lomax, J. Harvey. The Paradox of Philosophical Education: Nietzsche New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. ISBN 9780739104767; 9780739104774 (pbk.)

Evst 573.01: Environmental Writing, Phil Condon

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Cul 161t.01: Meats And Vegetables, Ross W, Lodahl

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Mat 002.00: Introductory Algebra, Sheila Bradley

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Fiscal Sustainability In The West African Monetary Zone: Emerging Issues, Emmanuel Ating Onwioduokit

Economic and Financial Review

The paper discusses the theoretical issues in assessing fiscal sustainability and adopted an eclectic approach to measure sustainability in the monetary zone and also identifies the need for further tax reforms in the WAMZ to focus on the broadly based taxes such as Value Added Tax (VAT).

In Search Of Equality In Legal Education: The Grutter V. Bollinger Case, Rudy Sandoval, Laura Lisa Sandoval

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

Small Business And The False Dichotomies Of Contract Law, Larry Garvin

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Working Paper Series

The article explores the classic consumer- merchant dichotomy from the vantage of small businesses. Using empirical data and the psychology, economics, and management literature, it shows that small businesses, treated like large businesses throughout most of contract and commercial law, in fact behave more like consumers. Small businesses lack the financial strength of large businesses. They generally lack the information gathering ability of large businesses. Finally, they generally are more prey to cognitive errors than are large businesses. As a result, small businesses lose in two ways. When they deal with consumers, they are presumed to have the power, information, …

Panther- September 2004 - Vol. Lxxxiii, No.1, Prairie View A&M University

PV Panther Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Detection Of Configuration Memory Upsets Causing Persistent Errors In Sram-Based Fpgas, D. Eric Johnson, Keith S. Morgan, Michael J. Wirthlin, Michael P. Caffrey, Paul S. Graham

Faculty Publications

Sponsorship: Los Alamos National Laboratory. FPGA designers are becoming increasingly aware of fault tolerance issues in modern FPGA designs, especially designs destined for a radiation environment. We classify errors due to upsets within the configuration bitstream into two categories; namely, persistent and non-persistent. Persistent errors generally cannot be tolerated. However, non-persistent errors can be tolerated in certain types of designs as long as they are properly accounted for. We discuss situations in which non-persistent errors are acceptable, and describe a technique for the detection of upsets causing persistent errors within the configuration memor of an SRAM-based FPGA.

Jumpstarting Phylogenetic Analysis, Mark J. Clement, Keith A. Crandall, Kevin Seppi, Quinn O. Snell

Faculty Publications

When a new epidemic strikes, it is often important to determine the relationship between the current organism and others that have been successfully treated previously. The phylogenetic analysis problem generates the most likely family tree for a group of organisms based on DNA sequence data. This process can take a prohibitively long period of time with current algorithms. If trees resulting from prior searches are used to seed the search, correct trees can be found much more quickly. This jumpstarting algorithm can generate superior phylogenetic solutions much more quickly than existing algorithms.

Information Contents Of Trade And Quote Imbalances, And The Hypothesis Of Reverse Liquidity, Hian Ann, Christopher Ting

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In this paper, we study the information contents of imbalances in trades and quotes emanated from an exchange resembling the one envisioned by Black (1971). We find dollar volume is more informative than number in measuring daily trading and quoting activities. Our measure of quote imbalance permits an investigation on the information asymmetry between market and limit orders. In case illegal insider trading does not occur regularly, we present a hypothesis of reverse liquidity as an alternative interpretation for our empirical findings. It could be that market-order traders charge an implicit liquidity premium for fulfilling the contrarian trading demand of …

Weaving Words And Pictures: Allen Say And The Art Of Illustration, Christina M. Desai

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Text and illustration in childrens literature can interact in many ways, sometimes complementing, sometimes contradicting each other. Picture books for children now receive considerable critical attention, yet the illustrations are seldom analyzed as seriously as the text. This article explores the dynamics between words and pictures in three fiction works: The Boy of the Three-Year Nap, by Dianne Synder, El Chino, and Emma's Rug, both by Allen Say. Say brings varied artistic techniques, such as visual metaphor, cartoon elements, and irony, as well as a multicultural perspective, to the development of character and meaning.'