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The Extension Newsletter, Issue 43, Summer Quarter 2004, Wright State University Retirees Association Jul 2004

The Extension Newsletter, Issue 43, Summer Quarter 2004, Wright State University Retirees Association

The Extension Newsletter

An eight page newsletter from the Wright State University's Retirees Association.

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2004 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Jul 2004

2004 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for July of 2004.

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Undergraduates In Computer Science And Information Technology Using The Internet As A Resource, M.S. Mohd Sharif, A.N. Zainab Jul 2004

Undergraduates In Computer Science And Information Technology Using The Internet As A Resource, M.S. Mohd Sharif, A.N. Zainab

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The study explores the use of the Internet by final year undergraduates at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology during the initial stages of their Final Year Project. A total of 360 survey returns indicate that undergraduates heavily use the Internet (98%). Other sources, which the students use is also listed. The students seem to exhibit high level of information literacy. They utilize various search strategies while searching the Internet, able to locate and retrieve information, able to analyse and evaluate information gathered. They use various methods to validate the authenticity of the information obtained and able to …

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Newscope - Summer 2004 Jul 2004

Newscope - Summer 2004

Newscope

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Family And Medical Leave For The 21st Century?: A First Glance At California's Paid Family Leave Legislation, Jennifer Thompson Jul 2004

Family And Medical Leave For The 21st Century?: A First Glance At California's Paid Family Leave Legislation, Jennifer Thompson

University of Miami Business Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Otterbein Towers Spring/Summer 2004, Otterbein Towers Jul 2004

Otterbein Towers Spring/Summer 2004, Otterbein Towers

Towers Magazine

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Volume 2003-2004 - Issue 3 - Summer, 2004, Echoes Staff Jul 2004

Volume 2003-2004 - Issue 3 - Summer, 2004, Echoes Staff

Rose Echoes

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Gaining Compliance And Losing Weight: The Role Of The Service Provider In Health Care Services, Stephanie Dellande, Mary C. Gilly, John L. Graham Jul 2004

Gaining Compliance And Losing Weight: The Role Of The Service Provider In Health Care Services, Stephanie Dellande, Mary C. Gilly, John L. Graham

Business Faculty Articles and Research

This research provides and empirically tests a conceptualization of health care services in which customer compliance outside of the service organization is necessary for successful health outcomes. Using data from service providers and customers in a weight-loss clinic, the authors examine the provider's role in gaining customer compliance. They find that provider expertise and attitudinal homophily play a role in bringing about customer role clarity, ability, and motivation. This study demonstrates that compliance leads to goal attainment, which results in satisfaction. More important, compliance also leads to satisfaction directly; consumers who comply with program requirements have greater satisfaction with the …

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The Loewen Group V. United States: Punitive Damages And The Foreign Investment Provisions Of The North American Free Trade Agreement, Lucien J. Dhooge Jul 2004

The Loewen Group V. United States: Punitive Damages And The Foreign Investment Provisions Of The North American Free Trade Agreement, Lucien J. Dhooge

Connecticut Journal of International Law

On November 2, 1995, a civil jury constituted in the First Circuit Court of Hinds County, Mississippi returned an award of punitive damages in the amount of $400 million in favor of Jeremiah O'Keefe, Sr., his son and their related business entities (O'Keefe) and against The Loewen Group, Inc. and its related entities (Loewen) in the case of O'Keefe v. The Loewen Group, Inc. (O'Keefe Litigation).3 This punitive damages award followed an award of $100 million in compensatory damages entered by the jury on November 1, 1995.' The compensatory damages award covered losses allegedly sustained by O'Keefe as a result …

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The Southeastern Librarian V. 52, No. 2 (Summer 2004) Complete Issue Jul 2004

The Southeastern Librarian V. 52, No. 2 (Summer 2004) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 52, no. 2 (Summer 2004).

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Remembering Charles Beard Jul 2004

Remembering Charles Beard

The Southeastern Librarian

Charles Beard, beloved member of SELA and a pillar of leadership in the association for decades, passed away on June 2, 2004. Several days before his passing, a retirement party was held for Charles at the State University of West Georgia. The tributes on the following pages were written by close colleagues both for this occasion and upon the news of his death. The Southeastern Library Association dedicates this issue to the memory of Charles E. Beard. A full obituary can be found later in this issue.

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People News Jul 2004

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.

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A Spatial Dss For South Australia's Prawn Fisheries. Using Historic Knowledge Towards Environmental And Economical Sustainability, B. Ostendorf, N. Carrick Jul 2004

A Spatial Dss For South Australia's Prawn Fisheries. Using Historic Knowledge Towards Environmental And Economical Sustainability, B. Ostendorf, N. Carrick

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The Spencer Gulf Penaeid prawn fishery is an example of a sustainable fishery due to close collaboration between fishers, research and government. The fishery has undergone substantial increase in fishing efficiency due to improvement in gear, increase in crew skill, effective use of communication networks for monitoring catch, stock assessment, and for rapid response for change in harvest strategies. Spatial decision-making has reduced the fishing effort to around 60 days per year and less than 10% of the area of the Gulf is trawled, with increasing economic gain due to development of real time adaptive harvest strategies undertaken in collaboration …

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Assessing The Ecological Impacts Of Salinity Management Using A Bayesian Decision Network, A. Sadoddin, R. A. Letcher, Lachlan T. H. Newham Jul 2004

Assessing The Ecological Impacts Of Salinity Management Using A Bayesian Decision Network, A. Sadoddin, R. A. Letcher, Lachlan T. H. Newham

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper outlines a component of a study currently being undertaken to provide a new tool for the holistic management of dryland salinity. The Little River catchment in the upper Macquarie River basin of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, is used as a case study. The model uses a Bayesian Decision Network (BDN) approach to integrating the various system components – biophysical, social, ecological, and economic. The method of integration of the system components is demonstrated through an example application showing the impacts of various scenarios on terrestrial and riparian ecology. The paper outlines these scenarios and demonstrates the way …

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Artificial Neural Networks Prediction Of Pm10 In The Milan Area, M. Cecchetti, G. Corani, G. Guarisoa Jul 2004

Artificial Neural Networks Prediction Of Pm10 In The Milan Area, M. Cecchetti, G. Corani, G. Guarisoa

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

PM10 constitutes a major concern for Milan air quality. We presents a series of results obtainedapplying different neural networks approaches to the PM10 prediction problem. The 1-day ahead predictionshows a satisfactory level of accuracy, which may be further improved if a proper deseasonalization approach isadopted, thus transferring some a priori knowledge in the data pre-processing step. Then, we tackle the problemof the 2-days ahead prediction; in order to optimize the neural network architecture identification procedure,we try a pruning approach besides the usual trial and error one. Prediction performances are very close betweenthe two models, and denote a significant decrease of …

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Principles Of Human-Environment Systems (Hes) Research, Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder Jul 2004

Principles Of Human-Environment Systems (Hes) Research, Roland W. Scholz, Claudia R. Binder

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper presents the basic principles, applications, and a methodological discussion of the approach of Human-Environment Systems (HES). In general, HES includes all environmental and technological systems that are relevant for or affected by humans. The basic principles of the HES approach are: (1) human and environmental systems are constructed as complementary systems, (2) a hierarchy of human systems with related environmental systems are considered, (3) environmental systems are modeled in their immediate and delayed dynamic reactions to human action, (4) the behavior of the human system is modeled from a decision theoretic perspective differentiating between goal formation, strategy formation, …

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Obstacles In Launching A Participatory Group Discussion And Modelling Process, S. Panebianco, Claudia Pahl-Wostl Jul 2004

Obstacles In Launching A Participatory Group Discussion And Modelling Process, S. Panebianco, Claudia Pahl-Wostl

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The combination of model-building and group discussions seems to be a promising approach to support learning processes among stakeholders involved in management problems since it allows combining factual analysis and qualitative and quantitative model simulations with an analysis of subjective perceptions and mental models. However, the step of launching such a participatory process might fail due a lack of willingness of the stakeholders to participate in the process. This paper reports about an attempt to involve a specific group of stakeholders and the problems encountered during this process. Although the stakeholders mentioned different reasons, the most important but primarily hidden …

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Forecasting Uv Index By Neoplanta Model: Methodology And Validation, S. Malinoviç, Dragutin T. Mihailović, Z. Mijatoviç, D. Kapor, I. D. Arseniç Jul 2004

Forecasting Uv Index By Neoplanta Model: Methodology And Validation, S. Malinoviç, Dragutin T. Mihailović, Z. Mijatoviç, D. Kapor, I. D. Arseniç

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

A major consequence of decreasing stratospheric ozone is the increase of solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) passing through the atmosphere. Ultraviolet radiation is very harmful to the entire ecosystem, including health of the human population and for that reason, in the last few decades, scientists have placed a large emphasis on monitoring UV radiation and development and use of estimation procedures. Model NEOPLANTA estimates UV irradiance under cloudless conditions on a horizontal surface and computes the UV index. Model includes effects of the absorption of UV radiation by ozone, SO2 and NO2 and absorption and scattering by aerosol and air molecules …

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Using Interactive Archives In Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Case Studies For Long- Term Groundwater Monitoring Design, Patrick M. Reed, V. K. Devireddy Jul 2004

Using Interactive Archives In Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Case Studies For Long- Term Groundwater Monitoring Design, Patrick M. Reed, V. K. Devireddy

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Monitoring design is a problem of paramount importance to the environmental engineering field because environmental observation data provide the sole means of assessing if engineered systems are successfully protecting human and ecologic health. The monitoring design problem is extremely challenging because it requires environmental engineers to capture an impacted system’s governing processes, elucidate human and ecologic risks, limit monitoring costs, and satisfy the interests of multiple stakeholders (e.g., site owners, regulators, and public advocates). Evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) has tremendous potential to help resolve these issues by providing environmental stakeholders with a direct understanding of their monitoring tradeoffs.

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Numerical Modelling For Studying The Impact Of Urban Air Pollution In Natural Reserves Around Setúbal City, C. Gouveia, R. Cerdeira, J. M. Garcia, M. Nogueira, L. M. R. Coelho Jul 2004

Numerical Modelling For Studying The Impact Of Urban Air Pollution In Natural Reserves Around Setúbal City, C. Gouveia, R. Cerdeira, J. M. Garcia, M. Nogueira, L. M. R. Coelho

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Numerical modelling was used to study the impact of urban air pollution from Setúbal City intwo important natural reserves. Setúbal is a city in the middle south Portugal with a large residentpopulation, important industry and intense traffic activities. There is an important harbour, which isresponsible for intense heavy vehicle traffic. Setúbal is surrounded by two natural reserves, a mountain(Arrábida) and a river delta (Sado River). There is also an important tourist zone near Setúbal withimportant beaches and tourist activities. The main pollutants considered in this study were SO2, Particles,NOx, CO, and VOC. A range of numerical models there was used …

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Strategic Environmental Assessment (Sea) As A Participatory Approach To Environmental Planning Experiences From A Case Study With Sea In Waste Management, Stefan Salhofer, Gudrun Wassermann, Erwin Binner Jul 2004

Strategic Environmental Assessment (Sea) As A Participatory Approach To Environmental Planning Experiences From A Case Study With Sea In Waste Management, Stefan Salhofer, Gudrun Wassermann, Erwin Binner

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is conducted to ensure that the environmentalconsequences of plans or programs (land use programs, traffic planning, waste management planning etc.) areidentified and assessed. Participation is a mandatory element of the SEA process. All affected parties arerequired to be represented in the process. Until today, the SEA process has been applied to wastemanagement in only a few cases. This paper describes the assessment of a waste management plan in theprovince of Salzburg, Austria. The process took place in 2003. As in other cases of SEA, several alternativeswere considered and assessed. Participation involved the establishment of a …

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Implementation Of The Streames Environmental Decision-Support System, David Cabanillas, Esther Llorens, Joaquim Comas, Manel Poch, Luigi Ceccaroni, Steven Willmott Jul 2004

Implementation Of The Streames Environmental Decision-Support System, David Cabanillas, Esther Llorens, Joaquim Comas, Manel Poch, Luigi Ceccaroni, Steven Willmott

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

As part of the European-Commission--funded STREAMES project, a system is being developed with the objective of capturing knowledge from water managers and environmental-science experts, regarding nutrients-excess effects in streams and of combining this knowledge into a user-friendly tool to assist water managers in evaluating streams’ nutrient-retention capabilities. In this paper, we summarize the decision-support knowledge components which have been identified in previous work and, based on these, present an implementation of a prototype of an environmental decision-support system. The decision support provided by the system to water managers consists of: (1) diagnosis: inferring possible stream problems, assessing the alteration degree …

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Using Floss Towards Βuilding Environmental Information Systems, Kostas Karatzas, Asteris Masouras Jul 2004

Using Floss Towards Βuilding Environmental Information Systems, Kostas Karatzas, Asteris Masouras

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Public access to environmental information is the basis for a higher degree of involvement of citizens and stakeholders in environmental decision-making [Haklay 2003][EU ISPO 1999]. Environmental Information Systems play a key role in contemporary urban environmental management strategies, and are a prerequisite for the proper, timely information of the public [Kampinnen 2001]; yet the fuzzy nature of environmental information [Denzer 2002] requires for systems that can make optimum use of informatics and telecommunications infrastructures to address environmental management needs, while remaining openended, easy to use and inexpensive to implement and operate. In this paper, we will attempt to present the …

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Measuring Environmental Risk, Suhejla Hoti, Laurent L. Pauwels, Michael Mcaleer Jul 2004

Measuring Environmental Risk, Suhejla Hoti, Laurent L. Pauwels, Michael Mcaleer

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Environmental issues and risk have become central in socioeconomic research and policy planning inorder to ensure sustainable development. As environmental risk is difficult to assess and measure, differentindexes have been developed to evaluate specific aspects of such risk. Environmental risk typically involvesproblems generated by the consumption of energy (fuels), water shortages, disasters, global warming, poverty, andpopulation growth. Environmental indexes are typically disaggregated and deal with separate aspects ofenvironmental risk. Some useful overall indexes exist, such as the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI). Thispaper reviews the existing data and indexes for environmental risk.

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Issues Of Scale In Nested Integrated Assessment Models, T. Oxley, H. Apsimon, A. Grossinho Jul 2004

Issues Of Scale In Nested Integrated Assessment Models, T. Oxley, H. Apsimon, A. Grossinho

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Integrated assessment models have been used to explore cost effective abatement strategies inconnection with negotiations on the Gothenburg protocol under the UN/ECE Convention on Long RangeTransboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). A variety of spatial and temporal issues must be addressed in orderto model the multi-scalar processes involved and develop nested Integrated Assessment Models (n-IAM)useful both for further protocol negotiations and to address inter-relationships between local air quality,transboundary air pollution and climate change. We summarise the generic framework, highlighting thespatial characteristics of its' application to UK and European contexts, and identify the specific variations ofthe constituent models and data at each resolution. …

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Anticipated Effects Of Re-Allocation Of Intensive Livestock In Sandy Areas In The Netherlands, A. P. Van Wezel, R. O. G. Franken, J. D. Van Dam, P. Cleij Jul 2004

Anticipated Effects Of Re-Allocation Of Intensive Livestock In Sandy Areas In The Netherlands, A. P. Van Wezel, R. O. G. Franken, J. D. Van Dam, P. Cleij

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Currently plans are developed for a large-scale 'reconstruction' of the rural area in the Netherlands. Goals of the reconstruction are to diminish veterinary risks and to improve the quality of environment, nature and landscape. Spatial separation of land-use is an important instrument. The plans are prepared at a regional scale, involving stakeholders. We present an ex-ante analysis of the effects of these plans, including cost-effectiveness and integration with related spatial plans. Scenarios for the autonomous development of intensive livestock, spatial data-rich analysis and research in the field of public administration are integrated in the ex-ante analysis.

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An Implemented Approach For Estimating Uncertainties For Toxicological Impact Characterisation, R. Rosenbaum, D. W. Pennington, O. Jolliet Jul 2004

An Implemented Approach For Estimating Uncertainties For Toxicological Impact Characterisation, R. Rosenbaum, D. W. Pennington, O. Jolliet

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

One approach accounting for parameter and model uncertainty is implemented in the LCIA (lifecycle impact assessment) method IMPACT 2002. The uncertainty is estimated for intermediate results fromthe chemical fate, human intake fraction, and two toxicological effect modules. Overall uncertainty estimatesare then arithmetically calculated. Results are presented for impact contributions in the contexts of aquaticecosystems and human health. The approach of Hofstetter (1998) was adapted for estimating the uncertaintyrelated to chemical fate and human intake fractions. A fundamental problem when estimating uncertainties for1000’s of substances consists of the lack of uncertainty distributions for all of the input data and the need …

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A Bayesian Belief Network For Modelling Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta) Populations In Switzerland, M. E. Borsuk, Peter Reichert, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm Jul 2004

A Bayesian Belief Network For Modelling Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta) Populations In Switzerland, M. E. Borsuk, Peter Reichert, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

A Bayesian belief network is described that integrates the various scientific findings of an interdisciplinary research project on brown trout and their habitat in Switzerland. The network is based on a population model for brown trout, which is extended to include the effect of natural and anthropogenic influence factors. Uncertainty is included in the form of conditional probability distributions describing model relationships. The model is applied to brown trout populations at twelve locations in four river basins. Model testing consisted of comparing predictions of juvenile and adult density under current conditions to the results of recent population surveys. The relative …

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Montana Business Quarterly, Summer 2004, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research Jul 2004

Montana Business Quarterly, Summer 2004, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Montana Business Quarterly, 1949-2021

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 42, number 2.

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Addressing Sustainability, Hiv-Aids, And Water Resource Questions In Botswana, M. Hellmuth, J. Sendzimir, Yates David, Strzepek Kenneth, Sanderson Warren Jul 2004

Addressing Sustainability, Hiv-Aids, And Water Resource Questions In Botswana, M. Hellmuth, J. Sendzimir, Yates David, Strzepek Kenneth, Sanderson Warren

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

An integrated population, economic, and water resource model was developed to address sustainable development questions for Botswana. Traditionally, water resources planning models have considered the implications of different assumptions of population and economic growth on the sustainability of existing water resources supply; however, this model extends that capability to consider feedbacks from one model component to another. The water model uses a physically based hydrologic rainfall-runoff model, with surface and groundwater components, to produce monthly runoff and groundwater recharge at the watershed scale. Surface runoff and recharge are the inflows into surface and groundwater water reservoirs. The demographic sub model …

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