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Houseplants: Their Selection, Care And Impact On Our Lives, Ron Smith, Barb Laschkewitsch Jan 2004

Houseplants: Their Selection, Care And Impact On Our Lives, Ron Smith, Barb Laschkewitsch

H Series – Horticulture

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Measuring Polynomial Invariants Of Multiparty Quantum States, Matthew S. Leifer, N. Linden, A. Winter Jan 2004

Measuring Polynomial Invariants Of Multiparty Quantum States, Matthew S. Leifer, N. Linden, A. Winter

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We present networks for directly estimating the polynomial invariants of multiparty quantum states under local transformations. The structure of these networks is closely related to the structure of the invariants themselves and this lends a physical interpretation to these otherwise abstract mathematical quantities. Specifically, our networks estimate the invariants under local unitary (LU) transformations and under stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC). Our networks can estimate the LU invariants for multiparty states, where each party can have a Hilbert space of arbitrary dimension and the SLOCC invariants for multiqubit states. We analyze the statistical efficiency of our networks compared …

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Manure Sampling For Nutrient Management Planning, Bridget Johnson Jan 2004

Manure Sampling For Nutrient Management Planning, Bridget Johnson

AE Series – Agricultural Engineering/ABEN

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Agricultural Remote Sensing Basics, John Nowatzki, Robert Andres, Karry Kyllo Jan 2004

Agricultural Remote Sensing Basics, John Nowatzki, Robert Andres, Karry Kyllo

AE Series – Agricultural Engineering/ABEN

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Transnational Labor Mobilizing In Two Mexican Maquiladoras: The Struggle For Democratic Globalization, Victoria Carty Jan 2004

Transnational Labor Mobilizing In Two Mexican Maquiladoras: The Struggle For Democratic Globalization, Victoria Carty

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

The struggle to improve workers' rights in Mexican maquiladoras and export processing zones elsewhere in the world is central to the politics of global economic integration. State-centered development is increasingly compromised by supranational institutions and trade agreements. Meanwhile, multinational corporations are relocating at an unprecedented rate to overseas locations. Export processing zones are notorious for poor working conditions and result in a "race to the bottom." The maquila sector in Mexico is a prime example of this phenomenon. This article uses two case studies to examine ways in which grassroots organizing has successfully resisted low wages and poor working conditions …

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Organizing In The Garment Industry In Mexico: Implications For New Social Movement Theory, Victoria Carty Jan 2004

Organizing In The Garment Industry In Mexico: Implications For New Social Movement Theory, Victoria Carty

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

This paper examines attempts to improve workers' rights in the Maquila Industry in Mexico by using two case studies. It analyzes the struggles that recently occurred at the Kukdong and Duro plants. The underlying question of the research is how to balance the co-existence of market economies with effective means to ensure adequate conditions for workers, and most importantly, ensuring their right to freedom of association. Under recent forms of global economic restructuring, the state is often unwilling or unable to uphold workers' rights. To combat the present form of corporate-driven global capitalism, workers in the South, in solidarity with …

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Resolving Automatic Prepositional Phrase Attachments By Non-Statistical Means, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Michael B. Manookin Jan 2004

Resolving Automatic Prepositional Phrase Attachments By Non-Statistical Means, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Michael B. Manookin

Faculty Publications

Prepositional-phrase attachment is a topic of active research in the field of computational linguistics. Properly attaching prepositional phrases to their pertinent constituent proves straightforward for humans, but inferring these attachments in a cognitive modeling system becomes difficult. For example, in the sentence, ‘Ralph threw the frisbee to John,’ the prepositional phrase ‘to John’ will attach to the verb phrase ‘threw’. In another example, ‘Joe saw the dog with fur,’ the prepositional phrase ‘with fur’ will attach directly to the noun phrase ‘the dog.’ Humans would have little difficulty resolving these examples, but for computers this would be difficult.

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Do Out-Of-State Buyers Pay More For Real Estate? An Examination Of Anchoring-Induced Bias And Search Costs, Val E. Lambson, Grant R. Mcqueen, Barrett A. Slade Jan 2004

Do Out-Of-State Buyers Pay More For Real Estate? An Examination Of Anchoring-Induced Bias And Search Costs, Val E. Lambson, Grant R. Mcqueen, Barrett A. Slade

Faculty Publications

We explore the questions of whether and why out-of-state buyers pay more for real estate than their in-state counterparts. Theoretically, we develop a model capable of explaining a premium if out-of-state buyers have high search costs, upwardly biased beliefs about prices or an unusually short time horizon to purchase. Empirically, we find that out-of-state buyers pay a statistically significant and economically meaningful premium for apartment complexes in the Phoenix area. We also find some evidence consistent with the premium being driven by high search costs, biased beliefs (anchoring) and haste associated with out-of-state buyers.

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Fathering In A Beijing, Chinese Sample: Associations With Boys' And Girls' Negative Emotionality And Aggression, Chongming Yang, Craig H. Hart, David A. Nelson, Christin L. Porter, Susanne F. Olsen, Clyde C. Robinson, Shenhua Jin Jan 2004

Fathering In A Beijing, Chinese Sample: Associations With Boys' And Girls' Negative Emotionality And Aggression, Chongming Yang, Craig H. Hart, David A. Nelson, Christin L. Porter, Susanne F. Olsen, Clyde C. Robinson, Shenhua Jin

Faculty Publications

Whether specific patterns of parenting are similarly associated with child outcomes in diverse cultural contexts has been a topic of inquiry for the past several decades. Most recently, attention has focused on Asian parenting and the indigenous meanings of parental control among specific Asian groups as contrasted with Western cultures (Chao & Tseng, 2002). Recent debates in this literature center on whether coercive parenting has similar meanings for mainland Chinese and North American children and their parents (e.g., Grusec, 2002; Lau & Yeung, 1996). To further address the question of whether there is a universal nature to parenting and its …

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Atmospheric Variability Of Methyl Chloride During The Last 300 Years From An Antarctic Ice Core And Firn Air, M. Aydin, Eric S. Saltzman, Warren J. De Bruyn, S. A. Montzka, J. H. Butler, M. Battle Jan 2004

Atmospheric Variability Of Methyl Chloride During The Last 300 Years From An Antarctic Ice Core And Firn Air, M. Aydin, Eric S. Saltzman, Warren J. De Bruyn, S. A. Montzka, J. H. Butler, M. Battle

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Measurements of methyl chloride (CH3Cl) in Antarctic polar ice and firn air are used to describe the variability of atmospheric CH3Cl during the past 300 years. Firn air results from South Pole and Siple Dome suggest that the atmospheric abundance of CH3Cl increased by about 10% in the 50 years prior to 1990. Ice core measurements from Siple Dome provide evidence for a cyclic natural variability on the order of 10%, with a period of about 110 years in phase with the 20th century rise inferred from firn air. Thus, the CH3Cl increase measured in firn air may largely be …

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Under The Empirical Radar: An Initial Expressive Law Analysis Of The Ada, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2004

Under The Empirical Radar: An Initial Expressive Law Analysis Of The Ada, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

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Generalizing Disability, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2004

Generalizing Disability, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

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Correlation Between Atmospheric Co2 Concentration And Vegetation Greenness In North America: Co2 Fertilization Effect, C. Lim, Menas Kafatos, P. Megonigal Jan 2004

Correlation Between Atmospheric Co2 Concentration And Vegetation Greenness In North America: Co2 Fertilization Effect, C. Lim, Menas Kafatos, P. Megonigal

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

The possibility that rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are influencing plant growth in contemporary ecosystems has received little attention, and the studies that exist have been done on a small spatial scale. We correlated the monthly rate of relative change in normalized differenced vegetation index (NDVI) from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) data to the rate of change in atmospheric CO2 concentration during the natural vegetation growing season for evidence of a possible CO2 fertilization effect on vegetation development. The study addressed seasonal and annual patterns in spatially averaged NDVI for 3 different ecological regions in North America from 1982 …

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Anomaly-Free Component Adaptation With Class Overriding, Atanas Radenski Jan 2004

Anomaly-Free Component Adaptation With Class Overriding, Atanas Radenski

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Software components can be implemented and distributed as collections of classes, then adapted to the needs of specific applications by means of subclassing. Unfortunately, subclassing in collections of related classes may require re-implementation of otherwise valid classes just because they utilize outdated parent classes, a phenomenon that is referred to as the subclassing anomaly. The subclassing anomaly is a serious problem since it can void the benefits of component-based programming altogether. We propose a code adaptation language mechanism called class overriding that is intended to overcome the subclassing anomaly. Class overriding does not create new and isolated derived classes as …

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The Dependence Of The Overall Drying Time And Product Quality Of A Lyophilization Process On The Relative Position Of Vials On A Tray With Tray Sides And Without Tray Sides For Different Heat Input Control Policies, Kian Hui Gan Jan 2004

The Dependence Of The Overall Drying Time And Product Quality Of A Lyophilization Process On The Relative Position Of Vials On A Tray With Tray Sides And Without Tray Sides For Different Heat Input Control Policies, Kian Hui Gan

Masters Theses

"The dynamic behavior of the primary and secondary drying stages of the lyophilization process were studied when (a) single vials located at different positions on the tray were individually being dried, and (b) the vials on the tray are arranged in clusters of square and hexagonal arrays and all the vials on the tray are simultaneously being dried. For both cases (a) and (b), fast drying times and relatively more uniform distributions of temperature and concentration of bound water at the end of the secondary drying stage are obtained by heat input control that runs the lyophilization process close to …

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The Effect Of Eliminating Distinctions Among Title Vii Disparate Treatment Cases, Henry L. Chambers Jr. Jan 2004

The Effect Of Eliminating Distinctions Among Title Vii Disparate Treatment Cases, Henry L. Chambers Jr.

Law Faculty Publications

St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks eliminated the effect of the pretext test and the distinction between standard and pretext cases. Desert Palace interpreted the motivating-factor test in a way that eliminates the distinction between mixed-motives and non-mixed-motives cases. The point is not that the Court has decided the cases incorrectly or with an inappropriate bias. Rather, it is that eliminating the distinctions between the different types of cases suggests that all disparate treatment cases should be treated the same. The result of these decisions will likely be a reversion to an older litigation model in which trial judges are …

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Raiding Islam: Searches That Target Religious Institutions, John G. Douglass Jan 2004

Raiding Islam: Searches That Target Religious Institutions, John G. Douglass

Law Faculty Publications

On the morning of March 20, 2002, while television cameras recorded the events for the evening news, dozens of federal agents entered and searched the offices of several Islamic educational and religious organizations in Northern Virginia. The agents were searching, it appears, for evidence that those organizations contributed money to international groups known to have sponsored terrorist acts. By most public accounts, the targeted institutions were regarded as moderate and progressive voices in American Islam. For that reason, the searches sent shock waves through the American Muslim community. Muslims who had supported the Administration's domestic war on terrorism began to …

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Insurance Binders Revisited, Peter N. Swisher Jan 2004

Insurance Binders Revisited, Peter N. Swisher

Law Faculty Publications

Temporary contracts of insurance-binders-protect the insured during the time between completion of the application and issuance of the policy. They are an accepted and necessary part of the insurance business, used in connection with a wide variety of insurance P7:oducts. But when alleged coverage under a binder is the subject of litigation, the results are often inconsistent and, sometimes, indefensible. This article provides a comprehensive discussion of binders, including the differences between standard form and manuscript binders, binding receipts in property and casualty insurance and conditional receipts in life insurance policies, the various kinds of conditional receipts, and otherwise. The …

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Preemption Of State Tort Law By Federal Safety Statutes: Supreme Court Preemption Jurisprudence Since Cipollone, Richard C. Ausness Jan 2004

Preemption Of State Tort Law By Federal Safety Statutes: Supreme Court Preemption Jurisprudence Since Cipollone, Richard C. Ausness

Kentucky Law Journal

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Proof Of Product Defect, David G. Owen Jan 2004

Proof Of Product Defect, David G. Owen

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Law's Hard Choice: Self-Inflicted Injustice Or Lawyer-Inflicted Indignity, Christopher Johnson Jan 2004

The Law's Hard Choice: Self-Inflicted Injustice Or Lawyer-Inflicted Indignity, Christopher Johnson

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Virulence Of BlackthinkTm And How Its Threat Of Ostracism Shackles Those Deemed Not Black Enough, Kimberly Jade Norwood Jan 2004

The Virulence Of BlackthinkTm And How Its Threat Of Ostracism Shackles Those Deemed Not Black Enough, Kimberly Jade Norwood

Kentucky Law Journal

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No Pain No Gain?! Who Will Make The Greatest Sacrifices In Curbing Opioid Analgesic Diversion And Abuse?, Kent Durning Jan 2004

No Pain No Gain?! Who Will Make The Greatest Sacrifices In Curbing Opioid Analgesic Diversion And Abuse?, Kent Durning

Kentucky Law Journal

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A Climate Ripe For Abuse: The Role Of Kentucky's Workers' Compensation Law In Perpetuating Drug Abuse In The Appalachian Region, Stacy E. Miller Jan 2004

A Climate Ripe For Abuse: The Role Of Kentucky's Workers' Compensation Law In Perpetuating Drug Abuse In The Appalachian Region, Stacy E. Miller

Kentucky Law Journal

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Pharmaceutical Overpromotion Liability: The Legal Battle Over Rural Prescription Drug Abuse, Phillip J. Wininger Jan 2004

Pharmaceutical Overpromotion Liability: The Legal Battle Over Rural Prescription Drug Abuse, Phillip J. Wininger

Kentucky Law Journal

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Difficult Times In Kentucky Corrections--Aftershocks Of A "Tough On Crime" Philosophy, Robert G. Lawson Jan 2004

Difficult Times In Kentucky Corrections--Aftershocks Of A "Tough On Crime" Philosophy, Robert G. Lawson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Inherent Product Hazards, David G. Owen Jan 2004

Inherent Product Hazards, David G. Owen

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Ramifications Of Rejecting Wrongful Birth: A Closer Look At Grubbs V. Barbourville Family Health Center, Johanna L. Frantz Jan 2004

The Ramifications Of Rejecting Wrongful Birth: A Closer Look At Grubbs V. Barbourville Family Health Center, Johanna L. Frantz

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Voting Rights Act In Indian Country: South Dakota, A Case Study, Laughlin Mcdonald Jan 2004

The Voting Rights Act In Indian Country: South Dakota, A Case Study, Laughlin Mcdonald

American Indian Law Review

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Brown And Tee-Hit-Ton, Earl M. Maltz Jan 2004

Brown And Tee-Hit-Ton, Earl M. Maltz

American Indian Law Review

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