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Getting Mad: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins And Practice, Henry D. Sokolski Mr. Nov 2004

Getting Mad: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins And Practice, Henry D. Sokolski Mr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice is the first critical history of the intellectual roots and actual application of the strategic doctrine of nuclear mutual assured destruction or MAD. Written by the world's leading French, British, and American military policy planners and analysts, this volume examines how MAD and its emphasis on the military targeting of population centers influenced the operational plans of the major nuclear powers and states, such as Pakistan, India, and Israel. Given America's efforts to move away from MAD and the continued reliance on MAD thinking by smaller nations to help justify …

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Towards Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines In Saudi Arabia, Lubna A. Al-Ansary, Abdulla Alkhenizan Nov 2004

Towards Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines In Saudi Arabia, Lubna A. Al-Ansary, Abdulla Alkhenizan

Saudi Medical Journal

The objective of this review is to provide a brief background on clinical practice guidelines CPGs and tools to assess and locally adapt CPGs. Over the last 2 decades, CPGs have become an increasingly popular tool for synthesis of clinical information, so as to change clinical practice and improve quality of health care. Such a quantitative growth in the number of guidelines available in different specialties is a source of concern since there is evidence that recommendations produced by different groups can be conflicting, invalid, unreliable, and even harmful. Various critical appraisal instruments were designed and tested to assess whether …

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Dermatological Publications In The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries. An Analysis Of 1966-2004 Medline Papers, Fahad M. Al-Aboud, Khalid M. Al-Aboud, Khalid A. Al-Hawsawi, Venketshari Ramesh Nov 2004

Dermatological Publications In The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries. An Analysis Of 1966-2004 Medline Papers, Fahad M. Al-Aboud, Khalid M. Al-Aboud, Khalid A. Al-Hawsawi, Venketshari Ramesh

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the publications in dermatology cited in the Medline from 6 countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from 1966 to 2004. METHODS: Medline was searched with the aid of Internet provider Pubmed using the same strategy at a given time for all countries. RESULTS: At the time of search, the Medline listed biomedical research papers from the GCC countries totaled 12837. Of these, 140 were in Dermatology. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia followed by Kuwait was by far the most prolific contributor, whereas almost none were noted from Bahrain. The publications were highest during the year 2002 …

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Two-Echelon Repairable Item Inventory System With Limited Repair Capacity Under Nonstationary Demands, Hoong Chuin Lau, Huawei Song Nov 2004

Two-Echelon Repairable Item Inventory System With Limited Repair Capacity Under Nonstationary Demands, Hoong Chuin Lau, Huawei Song

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We study a repairable item inventory system under limited repair capacity and nonstationary Poisson demands, motivated by corrective maintenance of military equipment. Our goal is to minimize the cost of both spare and repair resource allocation. We propose an efficient analytical model that combines optimization modeling and queuing theory.

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Corrective Maintenance Optimization In An Air Force, Hoong Chuin Lau, K. Y. Neo, W. C. Wan Nov 2004

Corrective Maintenance Optimization In An Air Force, Hoong Chuin Lau, K. Y. Neo, W. C. Wan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Successful military mission planning and execution depend critically on equipment serviceability and resupply. Due to the stochastic nature of demands, the forecast of optimal spares and resources needed to guarantee the level of serviceability is a complex problem, especially in a multi-echelon setting. In this paper, we propose a decision-support concept and software tool known as Corrective Maintenance Optimizer (CMO) that helps to optimize system availability, through proper allocation of spare parts, both strategically and operationally.

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Job Scheduling With Unfixed Availability Constraints, Hoong Chuin Lau, C. Zhang Nov 2004

Job Scheduling With Unfixed Availability Constraints, Hoong Chuin Lau, C. Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Standard scheduling theory assumes that all machines are continuously available throughout the planning horizon. In many manufacturing and service management situations however, machines need to be maintained periodically to prevent malfunctions. During the maintenance period, a machine is not available for processing jobs. Hence, a more realistic scheduling model should take into account machine maintenance activities. In this paper, we study the problem of job scheduling with unfixed availability constraints on a single machine. We first propose a preliminary classification for the scheduling problem with unfixed availability constraints based on maintenance constraints, job characteristics and objective function. We divide our …

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Finding Constrained Frequent Episodes Using Minimal Occurrences, Xi Ma, Hwee Hwa Pang, Kian-Lee Tan Nov 2004

Finding Constrained Frequent Episodes Using Minimal Occurrences, Xi Ma, Hwee Hwa Pang, Kian-Lee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recurrent combinations of events within an event sequence, known as episodes, often reveal useful information. Most of the proposed episode mining algorithms adopt an apriori-like approach that generates candidates and then calculates their support levels. Obviously, such an approach is computationally expensive. Moreover, those algorithms are capable of handling only a limited range of constraints. In this paper, we introduce two mining algorithms - episode prefix tree (EPT) and position pairs set (PPS) - based on a prefix-growth approach to overcome the above limitations. Both algorithms push constraints systematically into the mining process. Performance study shows that the proposed algorithms …

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Accommodating Instance Heterogeneities In Database Integration, Ee Peng Lim, Roger Hsiang-Li Chiang Nov 2004

Accommodating Instance Heterogeneities In Database Integration, Ee Peng Lim, Roger Hsiang-Li Chiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A complete data integration solution can be viewed as an iterative process that consists of three phases, namely analysis, derivation and evolution. The entire process is similar to a software development process with the target application being the derivation rules for the integrated databases. In many cases, data integration requires several iterations of refining the local-to-global database mapping rules before a stable set of rules can be obtained. In particular, the mapping rules, as well as the data model and query model for the integrated databases have to cope with poor data quality in local databases, ongoing local database updates …

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A Periodic-Review Inventory Model With Application To The Continuous-Review Obsolescence Problem, Yuyue Song, Hoong Chuin Lau Nov 2004

A Periodic-Review Inventory Model With Application To The Continuous-Review Obsolescence Problem, Yuyue Song, Hoong Chuin Lau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper we consider a stochastic-demand periodic-review inventory model with sudden obsolescence. We characterize the structure of the optimal policy and propose a dynamic programming algorithm for computing its parameters. We then utilize this algorithm to approximate the solution to the continuous-review sudden obsolescence problem with general obsolescence distribution. We prove convergence of our approximation scheme, and demonstrate it numerically against known closed-form solutions of special cases.

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The Changing Political Economy Of Party Membership, Riccardo Pelizzo Nov 2004

The Changing Political Economy Of Party Membership, Riccardo Pelizzo

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

A recent survey conducted in a sample of 83 countries by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in collaboration with the World Bank Institute on the “Relations between the Legislature and the Executive in the Context of Parliamentary Oversight” allows cross-national comparison for the role of legislatures in the budgetary process. One of the survey’s most significant indications is that legislatures in presidential systems are generally more involved in the preparation of the budget than legislatures in either parliamentary or semi-presidential systems. The picture, however, is very different when we look at legislatures’ oversight of the budget. Parliaments are generally more involved in …

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Preface Nov 2004

Preface

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Religious Institutions, The No-Harm Doctrine, And The Public Good, Marci A. Hamilton Nov 2004

Religious Institutions, The No-Harm Doctrine, And The Public Good, Marci A. Hamilton

BYU Law Review

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The Autonomy Of Church And State, Brett G. Scharffs Nov 2004

The Autonomy Of Church And State, Brett G. Scharffs

BYU Law Review

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Defending A Rule Of Institutional Autonomy On "No-Harm" Grounds, Mark Tushnet Nov 2004

Defending A Rule Of Institutional Autonomy On "No-Harm" Grounds, Mark Tushnet

BYU Law Review

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Dissent And Disestablishment: The Church-State Settlement In The Early American Republic, Carl H. Esbeck Nov 2004

Dissent And Disestablishment: The Church-State Settlement In The Early American Republic, Carl H. Esbeck

BYU Law Review

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Faith And Ultimatum, Barbara Earl Thomas Nov 2004

Faith And Ultimatum, Barbara Earl Thomas

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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A Good Piece Of Paper Spoiled: An Eighteen-Hole Round-Up Of American Hole-In-One Jurisprudence, Parker B. Potter Jr. Nov 2004

A Good Piece Of Paper Spoiled: An Eighteen-Hole Round-Up Of American Hole-In-One Jurisprudence, Parker B. Potter Jr.

DePaul Journal of Sports Law

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Turning Girls Into Women: Re-Evaluating Modern Statutory Rape Law, Michelle Oberman Nov 2004

Turning Girls Into Women: Re-Evaluating Modern Statutory Rape Law, Michelle Oberman

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Mothers Who Kill: Coming To Terms With Modern American Infanticide, Michelle Oberman Nov 2004

Mothers Who Kill: Coming To Terms With Modern American Infanticide, Michelle Oberman

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Case Briefs, Depaul College Of Law Nov 2004

Case Briefs, Depaul College Of Law

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

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Mixed Media: Conflicting Community Standards For Indecency For Broadcast, Cable And The Internet, Dana Duffield Nov 2004

Mixed Media: Conflicting Community Standards For Indecency For Broadcast, Cable And The Internet, Dana Duffield

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

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Punitive Damages - A View From England, Andrew Tettenborn Nov 2004

Punitive Damages - A View From England, Andrew Tettenborn

San Diego Law Review

This Article explores the English approach to punitive damages. It begins with a brief history of punitive damages in England and a look at where punitive damages are going in the country. Then, the author discusses the criteria for an award and the possibility of punitive damages for break of contract. Other aspects of punitive damages in England explored in the Article include public defendants, liability, judge and jury and the size of punitive awards.

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The Economic Importance Of The Arts And Cultural Industries In Santa Fe County, Lee A. Reynis, Jeffrey Mitchell Nov 2004

The Economic Importance Of The Arts And Cultural Industries In Santa Fe County, Lee A. Reynis, Jeffrey Mitchell

BBER Publications

The McCune Charitable Foundation commissioned the UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) to conduct a three-part study of the arts and cultural industries (ACI) of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Part 1 of the study is a quantitative analysis of the ACI's impact on the economy of Santa Fe County; BBER researchers input county employment and wage data into a model using Implan Pro 2.0. The second part is a qualitative analysis of the relationships between the ACI and the various other sectors of the community. To investigate these dynamics, BBER interviewed nearly 100 ACI and community members. The …

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Grants Mainstreet Project Leakage Study, Jeffrey Mitchell Nov 2004

Grants Mainstreet Project Leakage Study, Jeffrey Mitchell

BBER Publications

This study has two main objectives: 1) to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the retail and services sectors in Grants, and 2) to consider ways to improve conditions faced by businesses in the communitys downtown. The economy of Grants (or any other community) can be understood in terms of its exchange of goods and services with other areas. To the extent that businesses based in Grants sell goods and services to consumers from other areas, money flows into the economy and creates growth. Conversely, to the extent that consumers in Grants buy goods and services from elsewhere, money is …

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The Interrelationship Between Gender-Based Violence And Hiv/Aids In South Africa, Chineze J. Onyejekwe Nov 2004

The Interrelationship Between Gender-Based Violence And Hiv/Aids In South Africa, Chineze J. Onyejekwe

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper focuses on how gender-based violence intersects with HIV/AIDS in ways too devastating to be ignored. Women’s subordinate position is linked to poverty, sexual abuse/rape, and the risk to women in long-term union. The country’s pioneering steps to establish legal and judicial frameworks for dealing with these problems are discussed.

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Portraits Of Believers: Ahmadi Women Performing Faith In The Diaspora, Huma Ahmed-Ghosh Nov 2004

Portraits Of Believers: Ahmadi Women Performing Faith In The Diaspora, Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper is a look at how South Asian Ahmadi women in Southern California express their agency through their religious performance in the diaspora. This paper also tries to dispel the notion of a homogenized Muslim people and an Islamic faith in the USA. Western feminist work reflects diverse women’s lives and experiences. A study of immigrant women who organize their lives along ethnic (South Asian) and religious (Islam/Ahmadiyyat) prescriptions will contribute to western feminism by expanding its scope, while at the same time challenging its perceived static hegemonic status. Ahmadi women, while cognizant of the gender hierarchy and the …

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Female Workers In Japan: Opportunities & Challenges, Rajindar K. Koshal, Yuko Yamada, Sasuke Miyazima, Manjulika Kosha, Ashok K. Gupta Nov 2004

Female Workers In Japan: Opportunities & Challenges, Rajindar K. Koshal, Yuko Yamada, Sasuke Miyazima, Manjulika Kosha, Ashok K. Gupta

Journal of International Women's Studies

This study is based on a survey of male and female workers in organizations in and around Nagoya, Japan. It provides insights into gender issues within Japanese business organizations. The study finds that the female managers in Japan assess the managerial skills of women more positively than do their male counterparts. Business organizations in Japan are male-dominated and little is done to help women fit into the business culture. This is especially true when one considers the number of females in management ranks. Female workers in Japanese businesses perceive that they make many positive contributions to the workplace, such as …

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Law Library Briefs, Roger Williams University School Of Law Library Nov 2004

Law Library Briefs, Roger Williams University School Of Law Library

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

No abstract provided.

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Style Effects In The Cross-Section Of Stock Returns, Melvyn Teo, Sung-Jun Woo Nov 2004

Style Effects In The Cross-Section Of Stock Returns, Melvyn Teo, Sung-Jun Woo

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Using CRSP stock and mutual fund data, we find strong evidence for reversals at the style level (e.g., large value, small growth, etc.). There are significant excess and risk-adjusted returns for stocks in styles characterized by the worst past returns and net inflows. We also find evidence for momentum and positive feedback trading at the style level. These value and momentum effects are driven neither by fundamental risk nor by stock-level reversals and momentum. Taken together, the results are consistent with the style-level positive feedback trading model of Barberis and Shleifer (2003).

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The Relationship Between Governance Structure And Risk Management Approaches In Japanese Venture Capital Firms, Toru Yoshikawa, Phillip H. Phan, Jonathan Linton Nov 2004

The Relationship Between Governance Structure And Risk Management Approaches In Japanese Venture Capital Firms, Toru Yoshikawa, Phillip H. Phan, Jonathan Linton

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper attempts to understand what drives Japanese venture capital (JVC) fund managers to select either active managerial monitoring or portfolio diversification to manage their firms' investment risks [J. Bus. Venturing 4 (1989) 231]. Unlike U.S. venture capitalists that use active managerial monitoring to gain private information in order to maximize returns [J. Finance 50 (1995) 301], JVCs have traditionally used portfolio diversification to attenuate investment risks [Hamada, Y., 2001. Nihon no Bencha Kyapitaru no Genkyo (Current State of Japanese Venture Capital), Nihon Bencha Gakkai VC Seminar, May 7]. We found that performance pay is positively related to active monitoring …

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