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Advocate, December 2004, Vol. [16], No. [3], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Whither Health Services? Administration Reconsiders Health Services Funding in Face of Dwindling Resources. James Hoff (p. 1)

Dispute Brews Over Dining Commons Firing. Administration and Restaurant Associates Defend Dismissal as Some Students Urge Boycott. Antonia Levy and Dan Skinner (p. 1)

Don’t Compromise with Imperial Christianity (p. 2)

Letter: What’s the Matter with Kaminski? Nate Metzger, Dept of Philosophy (p. 2)

Masthead (p. 2)

Community News

Hierarchies in Bike Culture? (Pt. 1). Will Weikart (p. 3)

A Brief History of Restaurant Associates. Dan Skinner and Antonia Levy (p. 4)

Opinions / Analysis

At Pier 57 and Central …

Joint Evaluation Of Mine Action In Cambodia For The Donor Working Group On Mine Action, Robert Griffin, Robert Keeley

Global CWD Repository

This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Joint Evaluation of the Mine Action Sector in Cambodia to the Royal Cambodian Government and the donor Technical Working Group on Mine Action. The objectives of this evaluation are to provide an independent assessment of the achievements and challenges of the mine action sector in Cambodia; to present strategic recommendations for the orientation of future donor support to the sector, taking into account the need to strengthen the linkages between the mine action sector and national development plans and programmes; and to provide a common basis for a renewed donor-government partnership …

Compost As A Growth Substrate For Woody Ornamental Nursery Production, Jaime Crocker

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Peat is an expensive, environmentally nonrenewable component of media used to grow woody ornamental trees. Leaf compost from the city of Bowling Green is an inexpensive renewable resource that was substituted for peat in soil-less container media. Seeds of three commercially important tree species, Koelreuteria paniculata (goldenraintree), Quercus alba (white oak), and Magnolia grandiflora (southern magnolia) were grown in 473 mL bottomless milk containers for 150 days, then repotted to 3785 mL pots for 90 days. Media ratios were 1:0, 3:1, 1:1, 1:3, and 0:1 parts commercial media to leaf compost from the Western Kentucky University Agricultural Research Center in …

Hsc E-News., Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University.

HSC E-News

No abstract provided.

Community Guide: Lawrence Livermove National Laboratory - Site 300, Peter Strauss, Tri-Valley Communities Against A Radioactive Environment

Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs)

The purpose of this report is to provide a background analysis of environmental remediation planning and cleanup activities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 for reference and use by interested members of the community.

This research was completed money allocated during Round 5 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at [email protected]

Bradford Lee Eden's Innovative Redesign And Reorganization Of Library Technical Services: Paths For The Future And Case Studies, Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

Community Development Assessment For The State Of Utah: A Guide To Utah's Community Development Environment, Community Development Department, Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The Community Affairs Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has developed a new series of reports for the nine states in the Twelfth District that both detail the demographic, economic, governmental, and institutional underpinnings of each state and provide an analysis of the various community development needs within each state. These reports, which we are calling “Environmental Assessments,” are meant to provide a framework for the array of community development activities that the department undertakes across the District. The hope is that the reports will not only provide a helpful compilation of existing community development needs and …

Island Times, Dec 2004 - Jan 2005, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler

Island Times Newspaper, 2004

No abstract provided.

Peaks Island Star : December 2004, Vol. 24, Issue 12, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2004

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.

Annualized And Cumulative Returns On Venture-Backed Public Companies Categorized By Industry, Amir Shachmurove, Yochanan Shachmurove

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

This paper investigates the actual performance of 2,895 Initial Public Offerings of companies that were backed by venture capital from 1968 through 1998. It seeks to refute the myth that investors demand very high annualized and cumulative rates of return to compensate for the risks they are taking by financing ventures. In fact, it argues that, based on historical statistics, the total returns of the venture capital market are reasonable given the level of risk. This is done by concentrating on sections of various types of industries that have been supported by venture capital.

Currencies, Identities, Free Banking, And Growth In Early Twentieth Century Manchuria, Thomas Gottschang

Economics Department Working Papers

From 1906 until 1931, Manchuria – Northeast China - was a complex patchwork of Chinese, Japanese, and Russian spheres of control. Since political authority was fragmented, none of the governments was capable of establishing a central bank with a monopoly over the money supply. Multiple currencies were in use, ranging from strings – tiao- of traditional Chinese copper cash, to silver dollars (yuan) from Mexico, China, and Japan, to Russian rubles (which crashed in value after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution), and miscellaneous paper currencies of varying stability. The modern banks established under national and private auspices to serve the commercial …

Developments In Climate Change In 2004: Three Cheers For Russia, Cory C. Miller

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A 21st Century Look At An Ancient Concept: Understanding Frbr, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

This is a presentation of the library's most enduring artifact: the bibliographic record. The focus is on understanding the theory behind IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Illustrations, practical implementations, and research initiatives are also summarized. A deeper understanding of the importance of "works" and the legacy that it brings along are the goal of this entertaining and informative look into our past, present and future.

Landmark Report (Vol. 24, No. 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.

Spaceborne Microwave Remote Sensing Of Seasonal Freeze-Thaw Processes In The Terrestrial High Latitudes: Relationships With Land-Atmosphere Co2 Exchange, Kyle C. Mcdonald, John S. Kimball, Maosheng Zhao, Eni G. Njoku, Reiner Zimmermann, Steven W. Running

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

Landscape transitions between seasonally frozen and thawed conditions occur each year over roughly 50 million square kilometers of Earth's Northern Hemisphere. These realtively abrupt transitions represent the closest analog to a biospheric and hydrologic on/off switch existing in nature, affecting surface meteorological conditions, ecological trace gas dynamics, energy exchange and hydrologic activity profoundly. We utilize time series satellite-borne microwave remote sensing measurements from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) to examine spatial and temporal variability in seasonal freeze/thaw cycles for the pan-Arctic basin and Alaska. Regional measurements of spring thaw timing are derived using daily brightness temperature measurements from the …

Fundraising, Vol.18 (2) October - December 2004, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Library Lines (1998-2009)

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet December 2004, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The December 2004 Monthly packet includes the December agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held November 2004.

Water Loss Estimates For Five Recently Transplanted Landscape Tree Species In A Semi-Arid Climate, Thayne Montague, Roger Kjelgren, Rick Allen, David Wester

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

Over three growing seasons (1994-1996), water loss of five recently transplanted, balled and burlaped (B&B) tree species was investigated using below-ground, electronic weighing lysimeters. For each species, actual tree water loss was correlated with reference evapotranspiration (ETo) to create a water loss multiplier. At the beginning of each growing season a single tree was planted into each lysimeter. Selected species were London planetree (Platanus x acerifolia 'Bloodgood'), corkscrew willow (Salix matsudana 'Tortuosa'), littleleaf linden (Tilia cordataI 'Greenspire'), Norway maple (Acer platanoides 'Emerald Queen'), and green ash (Fraximus pennsylvanica 'Patmore'). Throughout each growing season, tress were well-watered and lysimeter mass and …

Seasonal Variations Of The Gravity Wave Momentum Flux In The Antarctic Mesosphere And Lower Thermosphere, P. J. Espy, G. O.L. Jones, G. R. Swenson, J. Tang, Michael J. Taylor

All Physics Faculty Publications

Airglow imager and dynasonde/imaging Doppler interferometer (IDI) radar wind measurements at Halley Station, Antarctica (75.6S, 26.6W) have been used to estimate the seasonal variation of the vertical fluxes of horizontal momentum carried by highfrequency atmospheric gravity waves. The cross-correlation coefficients between the vertical and horizontal wind perturbations were calculated from sodium (Na) airglow imager data collected during the austral winter seasons of 2000 and 2001. These were combined with wind velocity variances from coincident radar measurements to estimate the daily averaged upper limit of the vertical flux of horizontal momentum due to gravity waves. The resulting momentum flux at the …

Campus Connection, December 2004, Vol. 6 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

The Spirit Of Giving -- CSU: Working For California -- New Leadership At A & R -- Becoming A Notary Public -- Campus Holiday Shutdown -- New Minor Approved -- Reliving Fort Ord's Past -- Check Your FirstClass IQ -- CSUMB Signs Exchange Agreement With Mexican University -- Sodexho Helps The Disabled -- Winter Concert Coming -- CSUMB's Holiday Party Promises Great Music, Food And Tons Of Fun -- Civil Rights And Political Wrongs -- Hospitality Classes Begin -- World Theater Presents ...Imani Winds, Axis Dance Company, Silent Surrealism Featuring Hot Club Of San Francisco, Leni-Basso, Indians Indians, Pete Escovedo …

Endangered Species Bulletin, December 2004 - Vol. Xxix No. 2

Endangered Species Bulletin

In this issue:
4 The Prairie Wetlands Learning Center
6 Reaching Out to “Save our Snakes”
8 Eider Journey
10 Slowing the Flow
12 Creative Partners, Creative Solutions
14 Teaching the Children: A Hawaiian Tradition
16 All it Takes is a Little Mussel
18 Bird Watchers Flock to Michigan
20 The Year of the Fish
23 The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan for Kids
24 The Sewee Earth Stewards
26 This Bird is No Chicken
28 In Our Dreams….
30 Raising Awareness of Sea Turtle Habitat
32 Sea Turtle Trails
33 “Habitat Trunks” Delight Teachers
34 Welcome to Wildlife University
35 …

Richmond Music Journal (2004-12/2005-01)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.

Making A Cyber Literacy Connection From The Storage Room To The College Room, Paula Boxie

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

What roles can colleges and universities play in serving the many young adults whom our public school systems fail? This article sheds light on how one university was able to make a literacy connection with students attending an Alternative High School (AHS). This connection enabled AHS students and teacher candidates to effectively carry out a writing project in cyberspace. Data indicated that as the AHS students worked closely with their mentors, they became more aware of literacy strategies they needed to construct meaning and were able to recognize and appreciate quality writing. Thus, creating more partner-ships between higher institutions and …

The "Liability Of Newness" And Small Firm Access To Debt Capital: Is There A Link?, Susan Coleman

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Literature pertaining to the “liability of newness” contends that newer firms face particular difficulties and a greater risk of failure. This article seeks to determine if “newness” is also a disadvantage in the acquisition of debt capital. Results indicate that newer firms were significantly less likely to have lines of credit and were also significantly more likely to have been turned down for their most recent loan. Even when we control for length of relationship with the primary financial services provider, personal guarantees, and collateral, younger firms were still more likely to be turned down for loans. Small firms are …

A Comparative Study Of Venture Capital Performance In The Us And Europe, Xiaoqing Eleanor Xu

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

For the past fifty years in the United States, venture capital (VC) has provided initial funding to innovative entrepreneurial enterprises, while the European venture capital industry has only really emerged over the past decade. Using quarterly data from 1993 to 2003, this paper examines and compares the return and risk performance of venture capital funds in US and Europe. Several results are noteworthy. First, pooled venture capital returns in US and Europe are 3.273% and 0.765% (on a quarterly basis) above the CAPM market risk-adjusted returns, respectively. Second, US venture capital fund performance dominates that of Europe in all measures: …

Extending Asterism Decoding To Qam And Its Complexity In Rician Fading Mimo Systems, Phillip Conder, Tadeusz A. Wysocki

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)

The area of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communications systems has received enormous attention recently as they can provide a roughly linear increase in data rate by using Multiple Transmit and Receive antennas. The optimal detection strategy for a MIMO receiver is to perform a Maximum-Likelihood (ML) search over all possible transmitted symbol combinations has an exponential complexity when the constellation size of number of transmit antennas increase. A number of sub-optimal decoders, such as VBLAST, provide linear decoding only where the number of receive antennas is at least equal to the number of transmit antennas.

Certain Asterism decoding described …

Numerical Modeling And Experiments For Solitary Wave Shoaling And Breaking Over A Sloping Beach, Stéphan T. Grilli, Richard W. Gilbert, Pierre Lubin, Stéphane Vincent, Dominique Astruc, Dominique Legendre, Marie Duval, Olivier Kimmoun, Hubert Branger, Déborah Devrard, Philippe Fraunié, Stéphane Abadie

Ocean Engineering Faculty Publications

This research deals with the validation of fluid dynamic models, used for simulating shoaling and breaking solitary waves on slopes, based on experiments performed at the Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Marseille's (ESIM) laboratory. A separate paper, also presented at this conference, reports on experiments. In a first part of this work, a fully nonlinear potential flow model based on a Boundary Element Method (BEM) developed at the University of Rhode Island (URI), is used to generate and propagate solitary waves over a slope, up to overturning, in a set-up closely reproducing the laboratory tank geometry and wavemaker system. The BEM …

Advanced Relation Model For Genome Sequence Visualization (Arm 4 Gsv): Exploratory Visualization Examples, Brian J. D'Auriol, Kavitha Tupelly

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

The Advanced Relation Model for Genome Sequence Visualization (ARM 4 GSV) is proposed in this paper. This model is adapted from an earlier visualization model which has been applied to the visualization of computer programs. A review of the fundamental model components of the earlier visualization model is given. Enhancements so as to make it applicable in genome visualization are discussed. As part of these enhancements, a relational characterization of genome sequences in terms of bases, codons, and patterns such as close inversions is developed and described. An adapted form of the Conceptual Crown Visualization (CCV) model, a part of …

Calling The Internet Bluff: The Interplay Between Advertising And Internet Gambling, Lauren Hannon

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Www.Whatsina.Name, Anthony M. Verna Iii

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.