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December 1, 2004 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Livestock Development And Water Quality, Jim Gerwing, Ron Gelderman, Nels Troelstrup

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

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Middle And High School Principals' Knowledge Of Discipline Provisions Of The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act In The Upper East Tennessee Region., Ginger R. Woods

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine school principals’ knowledge of discipline provisions of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 and to determine what additional training opportunities may be needed to ensure that school systems in the upper East Tennessee region are in compliance under IDEA. As instructional leaders, it is imperative that principals understand their responsibilities and the importance of adhering to the legal obligations under IDEA. Principals who do not comply with the act not only deny students the education to which they are entitled but also expose the school system to costly litigation. …

Sexuality And Power In Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story., Michelle Martini

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Simple Story is controversial because of Inchbald's seemingly conflicting statements about women's "proper" education and because the most powerful character in the novel openly defies social norms. Miss Milner, the heroine of the first half of A Simple Story, overtly displays her sexuality and uses it to gain control of men. Her guardian Dorriforth, a Catholic priest, attempts to repress her sexual power. Miss Milner dies in exile, but Inchbald rewards her by saving her from a marriage in which her husband subdues her sexuality. Contrarily, Miss Milner's daughter Matilda represses her sexuality and conforms to eighteenth-century standards …

The Meaning Of The Moment: A Collection Of Short Stories., Jonathan David Benton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis consists of three short stories in very different genres but tied together by a intensely personal look at the lives of its protagonists culminating in epiphanies. One of these epiphanies is intended solely for the reader, but in two cases, the reader and character gains the insight. “The Tears of Angels” looks at the effect one person in a moment, even a stranger, can have on the protagonist’s life. “Climbing Heaven and Gazing on Earth” focuses on the haunting power of history and the need we as humans can feel to share a story, to make sense of …

The Continuing Search For The Truth About The Jfk Assassination, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

Popular Media

Forty-one years ago, in broad daylight, in front of scores of spectators gathered to watch the presidential motorcade, President John F. Kennedy was shot to death at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 22, 1963 while seated in an open limousine being driven through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. When the limousine came under hidden sniper fire, Kennedy was en route to a luncheon where he was scheduled to give a speech. Shortly after JFK was pronounced dead, the vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson (who had been in another open limousine a few cars back in the motorcade), was sworn in …

2003 Coastal Illicit Connection Identification And Elimination Grant Project, Jeffrey Marcoux

PREP Reports & Publications

This final report describes a grant program funded by NHEP and administered by DES. A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between NHEP and DES created a grant program to provide assistance to coastal communities to identify and eliminate illicit discharges into the storm drain system. A total of $80,000 was made available for assisting municipalities with illicit discharge correction and storm sewer mapping projects. DES issued a request for proposals (RFP), chose grant recipients, and managed the grant agreements. This report provides details on the illicit discharge detection and elimination projects completed by Dover, Somersworth, and Hampton. The deadline for completion …

Telecommunication Trouble Ticket System, Keerisa Yanpirat

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The Telecom Trouble Ticket System is used to track and report all problems with the services the telecommunication companies provide. The Trouble Ticket system will provide an integrated, automatic trouble reporting mechanism that assigns trouble tickets to technicians through printed trouble tickets and e-mail transmission. The system will be able to generate reports to aid in diagnosing equipment or network problems. Historical information will allow for maintenance agreement analysis and trend analysis studies. The users will be able to run standard reports and make queries from the trouble analysis system to track the progress and resolution of trouble tickets. (i.e., …

E-Commerce Implementation For Dutch Precision Inc., Daniel C. Mortenson

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The MSIS project at Dakota State University, "E-commerce implementation for Dutch Precision, Inc." began in May 2004 and was completed in December of the same year. The target company, Dutch Precision, Inc. (DPI), remanufactures brake calipers for automotive applications, regionally based near Tampa, Florida, and sells predominately to independent auto parts stores. The DPI company website was established on a new static IP address using the DutchPrecision.com domain name. Three interrelated open-source code software applications were used; Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP, a server-side scripting language. Virus and networking difficulties initially impaired and refocused the project goals, but …

Fda And The Adaptation Of Regulatory Models, Margaret Gilhooley

Saint Louis University Law Journal

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Exchange Rate Depreciation And Exports: The Case Of Singapore Revisited, Wenshwo Fang, Stephen M. Miller

Economics Working Papers

This paper revisits the weak relationship between exchange rate depreciation and exports for Singapore, using a bivariate GARCH-M model that simultaneously estimates time-varying risk. The evidence shows that depreciation does not significantly improve exports, but that exchange rate risk significantly impedes exports. In sum, Singaporean policy makers can better promote export growth by stabilizing the exchange rate rather than generating its depreciation.

Achieving Universal Primary Education: Can Kenya Afford It?, Rob Vos, Arjun Bedi, Paul K. Kimalu, Damiano K. Manda, Nancy N. Nafula, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Economics Working Papers

Kenya has experienced a rapid expansion of the education system partly due to high government expenditure on education. Despite the high level of expenditure on education, primary school enrolment has been declining since early 1990s and until 2003 when gross primary school enrolment increased to 104 percent after the introduction of free primary education. However, with an estimated net primary school enrolment rate of 77 percent, the country is far from achieving universal primary education. The worrying scenario is that the allocations of resources within the education sector seems to be ineffective as the increasing expenditure on education goes to …

A Country Of Our Own: A Novel Of The Civil War At Sea, Thomas Dyja

Civil War Book Review

War on the Waves

Novel details battles at sea

Look Before You Leap And Keep On Looking: Lessons From The Institutionalization Of Court-Connected Mediation, Bobbie Mcadoo, Nancy A. Welsh

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Legal Pragmatism, An Ideal Speech Situation, And The Fully Embodied Democratic Process, Dmitri N. Shalin

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Lawyers, Democracy And Dispute Resolution: The Declining Influence Of Lawyer-Statesmen Politicians And Lawyerly Values, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Back To The Future With Privileges Abandon Codification, Not The Common Law, Paul R. Rice

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Legisprudential Analysis Of Evidence Codification: Why Most Rules Of Evidence Should Not Be Codified - But Privilege Law Should Be, Paul F. Kirgis

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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A Conversation With Judith Hopkins: Part I, Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

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Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Checkup

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What Would Newman Do? John Cardinal Newman And Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Stephen J. Denig

Journal of Catholic Education

John Paul II’s 1990 Apostolic exhortation Ex Corde Ecclesiae and subsequent legislation require those teaching theological disciplines in Catholic Universities to have a mandatum. This article explores the thought of John Cardinal Newman with a view to defending a position, consistent with Newman’s thought, relative to the seeking and acceptance of a mandatum.

The Spinnaker Vol. 28 No. 15, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

Vortices In Spatially Inhomogeneous Superfluids, Daniel E. Sheehy, Leo Radzihovsky

Faculty Publications

Vortices in a radially inhomogeneous superfluid, as realized by a trapped degenerate Bose gas in a uniaxially symmetric potential was analyzed. It was found that in contrast to a homogeneous superfluid, an off-axis vortex corresponds to an anisotropic superflow whose profile strongly depends on the distance to the trap axis. The minimum-energy vortex density was computed in the complementary regime of a finite prescribed rotation, showing that in the rapid-rotation limit it is extremely uniform, despite a strongly inhomogeneous Thomas-Fermi condensate density. It was shown that one striking consequence of the inhomogeneous vortex distribution is an azimuthally directed, radially shearing …

The Massive Neutron Star Or Low-Mass Black Hole In 2s 0921-630, T. Shahbaz, J. Casares, C. A. Watson, P. A. Charles, R. I. Hynes, S. C. Shih, D. Steeghs

Faculty Publications

We report on the optical spectroscopy of the eclipsing halo low-mass X-ray binary 2S 0921 - 630, which reveals the absorption-line radial velocity curve of the K0 III secondary star with a semiamplitude K2 = 92.89 ± 3.84 km s-1, a systemic velocity γ = 34.9 ± 3. 3 km s-1, and an orbital period Porb of 9.0035 ± 0.0029 days (1 σ). Given the quality of the data, we find no evidence for the effects of X-ray irradiation. Using the previously determined rotational broadening of the mass donor and applying conservative limits on the orbital inclination, we constrain the …

Coordinate Time Dependence In Quantum Gravity, Martin Bojowald, Parampreet Singh, Aureliano Skirzewski

Faculty Publications

The intuitive classical space-time picture breaks down in quantum gravity, which makes a comparison and the development of semiclassical techniques quite complicated. Using ingredients of the group averaging method to solve constraints one can nevertheless introduce a classical coordinate time into the quantum theory, and use it to investigate the way a semiclassical continuous description emerges from discrete quantum evolution. Applying this technique to test effective classical equations of loop cosmology and their implications for inflation and bounces, we show that the effective semiclassical theory is in good agreement with the quantum description even at short scales.

Ultraviolet Extinction Properties In The Milky Way, Lynne A. Valencic, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Karl D. Gordon

Faculty Publications

We have assembled a homogeneous database of 417 ultraviolet (UV) extinction curves for reddened sight lines having International Ultraviolet Explorer spectra. We have combined these with optical and Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry, allowing estimates of the ratio of total-to-selective extinction, RV, for the entire sample. Fitzpatrick-Massa (FM) parameters have also been found for the entire sample. This is the largest study of parameterized UV extinction curves yet published, and it covers a wide range of environments, from dense molecular clouds to the diffuse interstellar medium, with extinctions AV ranging from 0.50 to 4.80. It is the first to …

Meet John Trow: A Novel, Margeret C. Harrison

Civil War Book Review

Rapt in Reenactment

Portrayal of historical figure transforms modern "everyman"

Erratum: Holomorphic H-Spherical Distribution Vectors In Principal Series Representations (Inventiones Mathematicae) Doi: 10.1007/S00222-004-0376-1, Simon Gindikin, Bernhard Krötz, Gestur Ólafsson

Faculty Publications

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The Culture Of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, And Recovery, David W. Blight

Civil War Book Review

Fascination with Failure

Lost wars inform collective memory

Seismic Isolation And Suspension Systems For Advanced Ligo, N. A. Robertson, B. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, G. Allen, H. Armandula, S. Aston, A. Baglino, M. Barton, B. Bland, R. Bork, J. Bogenstahl, G. Cagnoli, C. Campbell, C. A. Cantley, K. Carter, D. Cook, D. Coyne, D. Crooks, E. Daw, D. Debra, E. Elliffe, J. Faludi, P. Fritschel, A. Ganguli, J. Giaime, S. Gossler, A. Grant, J. Greenhalgh, M. Hammond, J. Hanson, C. Hardham, G. Harry

Faculty Publications

To meet the overall isolation and alignment requirements for the optics in Advanced LIGO, the planned upgrade to LIGO, the US laser interferometric gravitational wave observatory, we are developing three sub-systems: a hydraulic external pre-isolator for low frequency alignment and control, a two-stage active isolation platform designed to give a factor of ∼1000 attenuation at 10 Hz, and a multiple pendulum suspension system that provides passive isolation above a few hertz. The hydraulic stage uses laminar-flow quiet hydraulic actuators with millimeter range, and provides isolation and alignment for the optics payload below 10 Hz, including correction for measured Earth tides …