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Cultural And Ethnic Barriers In Conducting Research. Factors Influencing Menarche In The United Arab Emirates, Padmanabhan Badrinath, Saad Ghazal-Aswad, Daniel Parfitt, Nawal Osman Nov 2004

Cultural And Ethnic Barriers In Conducting Research. Factors Influencing Menarche In The United Arab Emirates, Padmanabhan Badrinath, Saad Ghazal-Aswad, Daniel Parfitt, Nawal Osman

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this cross sectional survey was to study the feasibility of conducting research on issues related to physical and sexual maturation in a predominantly Islamic society and to identify the factors influencing menarche in this multi ethnic community. METHODS: This study was conducted in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE) between January 1999 through to February 1999. Fifteen female secondary schools located in different geographical regions in Al-Ain were chosen in consultation with the District Education Department. All girls aged 12-16-years were selected. Information regarding whether they had attained menarche including month and the year, age at menarche …

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Its News November 2004, Information & Technology Services Nov 2004

Its News November 2004, Information & Technology Services

RIT Digital Archives

ITS Customer Satisfaction Survey Results||Dave Thelen celebrates 20 Years at RIT||MacTech||Blended Learning off to a Good Start in Pilot Project||ITS Technology Seminars Begin||RIT Alumnus Julianne Klie Opens ITS Technology Series on November 17||About Technology in Balance: Design, Creativity, and Learning||Profiles in Co-op

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Valuing Life: A Plea For Disaggregation, Cass R. Sunstein Nov 2004

Valuing Life: A Plea For Disaggregation, Cass R. Sunstein

Duke Law Journal

Each government agency uses a uniform figure to measure the value of a statistical life (VSL). This is a serious mistake. The very theory that underlies current practice calls for far more individuation of the relevant values. According to that theory, VSL should vary across risks. More controversially, VSL should vary across individuals -- even or especially if the result would be to produce a lower number for some people than for others. One practical implication is that a higher value should be given to programs that reduce cancer risks. Another is that government should use a higher VSL for …

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Shareholder Oppression And “Fair Value”: Of Discounts, Dates, And Dastardly Deeds In The Close Corporation, Douglas K. Moll Nov 2004

Shareholder Oppression And “Fair Value”: Of Discounts, Dates, And Dastardly Deeds In The Close Corporation, Douglas K. Moll

Duke Law Journal

The doctrine of shareholder oppression protects a close corporation minority investor from the improper exercise of majority control. When a minority shareholder establishes "oppressive" majority conduct, a court typically orders the majority to purchase the minority's stock at its "fair value." But what does fair value mean? Further, when is fair value to be measured? The questions are critical ones that affect the lives of countless close corporation investors and that generate an enormous amount of present-day litigation. This Article builds a case for defining fair value as enterprise value in the shareholder oppression context. The Article argues, in other …

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Rehabilitating Bioethics: Recontextualizing In Vitro Fertilization Outside Contractual Autonomy, Olivia Lin Nov 2004

Rehabilitating Bioethics: Recontextualizing In Vitro Fertilization Outside Contractual Autonomy, Olivia Lin

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Frivolous Litigation And Civil Justice Reform: Miscasting The Problem, Recasting The Solution, Deborah L. Rhode Nov 2004

Frivolous Litigation And Civil Justice Reform: Miscasting The Problem, Recasting The Solution, Deborah L. Rhode

Duke Law Journal

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Journal Staff Nov 2004

Journal Staff

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The D-Tree: An Index Structure For Planar Point Queries Location-Based Wireless Services, Jianliang Xu, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lun Lee Nov 2004

The D-Tree: An Index Structure For Planar Point Queries Location-Based Wireless Services, Jianliang Xu, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lun Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Location-based services (LBSs), considered as a killer application in the wireless data market, provide information based on locations specified in the queries. In this paper, we examine the indexing issue for querying location-dependent data in wireless LBSs; in particular, we focus on an important class of queries, planar point queries. To address the issues of responsiveness, energy consumption, and bandwidth contention in wireless communications, an index has to minimize the search time and maintain a small storage overhead. It is shown that the traditional point-location algorithms and spatial index structures fail to achieve either objective or both. This paper proposes …

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Free Will's A Gamble, Seow Hon Tan Nov 2004

Free Will's A Gamble, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The debate over whether Singapore should have a casino has turned from the contest between moral values and social repercussions, on the one hand, and economic values on the other, to whether Singaporeans can be trusted to act responsibly. Put another way, the issue now seems to be whether the approach should be paternalistic, with all its connotations of the nanny state protecting the individual from himself.

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The Promise Of Equality: Reflections On The Post-Brown Era In Virginia, Robert R. Mehrige Jr. Nov 2004

The Promise Of Equality: Reflections On The Post-Brown Era In Virginia, Robert R. Mehrige Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Virginia's Next Challenge: Economic And Educational Opportunity, Mark R. Warner Nov 2004

Virginia's Next Challenge: Economic And Educational Opportunity, Mark R. Warner

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Civil Practice And Procedure, John R. Walk Nov 2004

Civil Practice And Procedure, John R. Walk

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Livelihoods, Security And Needs: Gender Relations And Land Reform In South Africa, Susie Jacobs Nov 2004

Livelihoods, Security And Needs: Gender Relations And Land Reform In South Africa, Susie Jacobs

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article focuses on the land reform programme in South Africa as well as on broader questions of rural women’s needs. It draws on interviews with 47 key informants, drawn particularly from the NGO sector, carried out in 2002 and 2003. It examines the importance of ‘land’ compared with wider issues such as personal and bodily security. Despite some encouraging state initiatives, most informants felt that poorer rural women remained marginalized within the land reform programme and more generally. Needs for independent income, health, and personal security were emphasised, with secure access to land seen as potentially beneficial although not …

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Upgrading California’S Home Care Workforce: The Impact Of Political Action And Unionization, Candace Howes Nov 2004

Upgrading California’S Home Care Workforce: The Impact Of Political Action And Unionization, Candace Howes

Economics Faculty Publications

Candace Howes examines the recent history of one of California's rapidly growing occupations: home care. As the author's analysis demonstrates, home care has been extensively transformed in recent years through large-scale unionization and coalition-based political action, which have led to major improvements in wages and benefits. Apart from providing many home care workers with better pay, the upgrading of this occupation has also improved the quality of care that clients receive, since higher wages make for lower turnover. The improved working and living conditions that result benefit caregivers and those they serve alike. The author's empirical analysis has obvious ramifications …

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Nov. 1, 2004, Ltr From D. Hunter, Pec, To M. Taylor, Cao, Re Changes In Ifc Safeguard Policies, David Hunter Nov 2004

Nov. 1, 2004, Ltr From D. Hunter, Pec, To M. Taylor, Cao, Re Changes In Ifc Safeguard Policies, David Hunter

CAO General 1999-Present

No abstract provided.

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Adobe Medicus 2004 6 November-December, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center Nov 2004

Adobe Medicus 2004 6 November-December, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

No abstract provided.

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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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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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Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 08, Issue 01, November 2004, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program Nov 2004

Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 08, Issue 01, November 2004, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program

OTras Perspectivas: UNM Occupational Therapy Program Newsletter

Acknowledging that the success of the Occupational Therapy Program hinges on the mutual investment of community and friends beyond the local community, the UNM Occupational Therapy Program faculty and staff have initiated this newsletter. The goal is to provide an additional forum for communication, and provide updates about the program's development, faculty, students, alumni, and friends.

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Agreement Between Indian Health Service And The University Of New Mexico Hospitals, Regents University Of New Mexico, Board Of County Commissioners County Of Bernalillo Nov 2004

Agreement Between Indian Health Service And The University Of New Mexico Hospitals, Regents University Of New Mexico, Board Of County Commissioners County Of Bernalillo

Indian Health Services

Agreement Between Indian Health Service and the University of New Mexico Hospitals. Included are: Cover Letter, Lease Agreement, and First Amendment to Lease Agreement.

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Timeline Of Fr. Clive Lynn, Hall & Monagle, Llc Nov 2004

Timeline Of Fr. Clive Lynn, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Timelines

No abstract provided.

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Efficient Energy Strategy For The Dominican Republic, National Energy Commision, Dominican Republic, United States Agency For International Development Nov 2004

Efficient Energy Strategy For The Dominican Republic, National Energy Commision, Dominican Republic, United States Agency For International Development

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This study outlines a plan to increase the use and development of renewable energy in the Dominican Republic, addressing the challenges and possible solutions in creating a more efficient and sustainable system of energy production and delivery to consumers.

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The Emerging Section 1983 Private Party Defense, Sheldon Nahmod Nov 2004

The Emerging Section 1983 Private Party Defense, Sheldon Nahmod

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Filing Of A Bankruptcy Petition In Violation Of 11 U.S.C. § 109(G): Does It Invoke The Automatic Stay?, Robert Lefkowitz Nov 2004

The Filing Of A Bankruptcy Petition In Violation Of 11 U.S.C. § 109(G): Does It Invoke The Automatic Stay?, Robert Lefkowitz

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Foreword Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Fear And Risk Perception In Times Of Democratic Crisis:, Christina E. Wells, Jennifer K. Robbennolt Nov 2004

Foreword Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Fear And Risk Perception In Times Of Democratic Crisis:, Christina E. Wells, Jennifer K. Robbennolt

Missouri Law Review

The terrorists attacks on September 11, 2001, the implentation of the USA PATRIOT ACT, and the government's indefinite detention of "enemy combatants" have all sparked renewed interest in the balance between security and liberty in times of crisis. Recently, legal scholars have debated topics ranging from the constitutionality and wisdom of the government's responses to terror to the appropriate roles for institutional actors and the public in national security decisions. While these debates have contributed enormously to the public discussion that is the foundation of a democratic society, they have not completely captured the complexities of governmental responses to crisis. …

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Questioning Deference, Christina E. Wells Nov 2004

Questioning Deference, Christina E. Wells

Missouri Law Review

Part I of this Article discusses executive branch actions in the crises discussed earlier and identifies a pattern of response to certain perceived threated. Part II assesses this historical pattern in light of a psychological understanding of risk assessment, concluding that the pattern is consistent with predictably skewed risk assessment. Part III discusses the psychology of accountability and the possibility that judicial review can serve as a mechanism of accountability and improve executive decision making.

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Other Disciplines, Methodologies, And Countries: Studying Courts And Crisis, Tracey E. George Nov 2004

Other Disciplines, Methodologies, And Countries: Studying Courts And Crisis, Tracey E. George

Missouri Law Review

The United States is at war: in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and against terrorism. This symposium asks the timely question: How do governments and their citizens respond to fear and risk in times of crisis? In the essay, I begin by framing the issue very briefly. I then argue that understanding this issue requires scholars to follow Epstein and Wells by looking to other disciplines, methodologies, and countries.

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What's Fear Got To Do With It - It's Affect We Need To Worry About, Paul Slovic Nov 2004

What's Fear Got To Do With It - It's Affect We Need To Worry About, Paul Slovic

Missouri Law Review

My objective in this paper is to provide psychological perspective on the challenges to rational decision making in the face of terrorism and other risk crisis. I shall begin with an introduction to the psychology of risk, highlighting the role of affect and its contribution to what may be called “risk as feeling.” I shall then address the need to educate and inform citizens about risks from terrorism and some of the particular challenges this entails.

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Perceptions Of Terrorism And Disease Risks: A Cross-National Comparison, Neal Feigenson, Daniel Bailis, William Klein Nov 2004

Perceptions Of Terrorism And Disease Risks: A Cross-National Comparison, Neal Feigenson, Daniel Bailis, William Klein

Missouri Law Review

This article seeks to demonstrate why is important for policy makers to understand how people evaluate health and safety risks. This type of understanding is essential to communicate policy and to anticipate public reactions. Current events have caused many people across the globe to feel more at risk than previous generations, making this inquiry especially relevant.

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Fear: A Story In Three Parts, Rachel F. Moran Nov 2004

Fear: A Story In Three Parts, Rachel F. Moran

Missouri Law Review

This article reflects on the story of Army PFC Jesse A. Givens. It is a story of fear in three parts. I hope to gain understanding of emotion as part of a private experience, and interpersonal communication, and a public event. As the story will show, fear can be defined in purely cognitive terms. Fear can also be defined as “cognition plus.” Argued here is that a purely cognitive approach is inadequate for a complete analysis of emotion’s role in collective decision-making. What seems critical is that proponents of both pure cognition and cognition plus move beyond definitions of emotion …

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