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Novi2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From November 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

Novb2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From November 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

The Secret Life Of Mundane Transaction Costs, Richard N. Langlois

Economics Working Papers

Transaction costs, one often hears, are the economic equivalent of friction in physical systems. Like physicists, economists can sometimes neglect friction in formulating theories; but like engineers, they can never neglect friction in studying how the system actually does let alone should work. Interestingly, however, the present-day economics of organization also ignores friction. That is, almost single-mindedly, the literature analyzes transactions from the point of view of misaligned incentives and (especially) transaction-specific assets. The costs involved are certainly costs of running the economic system in some sense, but they are not obviously frictions. Stories about frictions in trade are not …

Forage News [2005-11], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• KFGC Awards: Nominations Due by December 14
• Forages at KCA
• Program Set for Grazing Conference
• Alfalfa Conference to be in Lexington
• How Sensitive is Alfalfa to Low Soil pH?
• Fertilizer Value in Hay
• Prussic Acid and Nitrate Poisoning Are Not the Same
• Hay May be Tight
• Consider Grazing Crop Residue
• Ever Been to a Hay Auction………?
• Upcoming Events

Vol. 56, No. 5, November 1, 2005, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•A Half-Hour With Prof. Horwitz •Editorial: Move Your Lunch or Lose It •Question on the Quad •Fear No Evil in Campus of the Dead •Introducing the Poetry of James Merrill •Halloween Party Photos •BLSA Date Auction Photos •When Did I Become Grandpa? •Lonely Litigants Looking for Love, Liability •An Immodest Proposal: Or, Against Socratism •Letter to the Editor

In Vitro And In Vivo Two-Photon Luminescence Imaging Of Single Gold Nanorods, Haifeng Weng, Terry B. Huff, Daniel A. Zweifel, Wei He, Philip S. Low, Alexander Wei, Ji-Xin Cheng

Other Nanotechnology Publications

Gold nanorods excited at 830 nm on a far-field laser-scanning microscope produced strong two-photon luminescence (TPL) intensities, with a cos(4) dependence on the incident polarization. The TPL excitation spectrum can be superimposed onto the longitudinal plasmon band, indicating a plasmon-enhanced two-photon absorption cross section. The TPL signal from a single nanorod is 58 times that of the two-photon fluorescence signal from a single rhodamine molecule. The application of gold nanorods as TPL imaging agents is demonstrated by in vivo imaging of single nanorods flowing in mouse ear blood vessels.

The Incidence And Management Of Footrot In Dairy Cattle In Monteverde, Costa Rica, November 2005, Allison Brown

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This study investigates the frequency of, and factors leading to or preventing, footrot in diary cattle in the Monteverde area of Costa Rica. Owners of 23 farms were interviewed about their property characteristics, management practices, and incidence of footrot. Then the farms were visually inspected. Ten farms were found to currently have infected cattle and 18 had infected cattle this year. The percent of currently infected cattle had a significant positive correlation with both herd size and hours spent in daily milking rotation. Larger herds showed a greater incidence of infection. The combined presence of rocks and mud in the …

Effects Of Trail Traffic On Egg-Predation By Mammal Populations In The Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, November 2005, Karmen Scott

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The effects of human traffic within trails on egg predation and predatory mammal compositions between heavily trafficked trails and secluded trails were studied at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. This study was able to find differences in egg-predatory mammal compositions between these two trail types by looking at teeth impressions in eggs made of plasticine. The main predator was found to be Nasura narica (common coati) who was involved in the majority of the egg predation events and the vast majority of the nests preyed upon were on the highly trafficked trail. There were only a few predation events from …

A Lesson Plan On Fungi Diversity For The Centro De Educación Creativa, November 2005, Rachel Deliz

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Fungi are integral components of a forest environment, but they are often overlooked in elementary education, despite their crucial role in nutrient cycles. Concepts pertaining to fungi diversity were researched and compiled to be part of the 5th grade curriculum of Centro de Educación Creativa. The result of this project was three PowerPoint presentations, each coupled with 2-3 visual aids, experiments and/or activities. I expect these presentations to aid in the environmental education curriculum at the C.E.C and to promote an appreciation of the Kingdom Fungi.

Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 33, No. 4, November 2005, William Payne

Cave Research Foundation Newsletter

Contents: Notes from the Content Editor -- Annual CRF Meeting, November 10-13 in Cape Girardeau -- Structural Geology Research, July 20th through 27th, 2005 -- Regional Expedition Reports -- Book Review -- 2005 Expedition Calendar -- Cave Books

“Sons Of Adam”: Text, Context, And The Early Modern African Subject, Herman L. Bennett

Publications and Research

Seeking to dislodge the prism that a singular political practice—represented as the story from savage to slave—informed the slave trade, this essay points to a distinct genealogy shaping the earliest encounters between Europeans and Africans.

Frugal And (Sometimes) Wrong, Cass R. Sunstein

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Do moral heuristics operate in the moral domain? If so, do they lead to moral errors? This brief essay offers an affirmative answer to both questions. In so doing, it responds to an essay by Gerd Gigerenzer on the nature of heuristics, moral and otherwise. While focused on morality, the discussion bears on the general debate between those who emphasize cognitive errors, sometimes produced by heuristics, and those who emphasize the frequent success of heuristics in producing sensible judgments in the real world. General claims are that it is contentious to see moral problems as ones of arithmetic, and that …

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Talking With The Other(S): Towards Interfaith Understanding , Fletcher R. Dubois, Christian Eberhart

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 3, November 2005, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.

Poem No. 94, November 2005, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Successful Island Reintroductions Of New Zealand Robins And Saddlebacks With Small Numbers Of Founders, Sabrina S. Taylor, Ian G. Jamieson, Doug P. Armstrong

Faculty Publications

Populations established with a small number of founders are thought to have a high risk of extinction due to Allee effects, demographic stochasticity, inbreeding and reduced genetic variation. We tested whether the initial number of birds released was related to persistence in reintroductions of saddlebacks (Philesturnus carunculatus) and robins (Petroica australis) to New Zealand offshore islands. Data were analysed for 31 populations that had been observed for at least 3 years since reintroductions. The numbers released ranged from 5-188. Most of the populations (26) survived and grew, including five from less than 15 founders, and four out of the five …

Lsu In The Eye Of The Storm: A University Model For Disaster Response, Renée Bacher, Teresa Devlin, Kristine Calongne, Joshua Duplechain, Stephanie Pertuit

LSU Press Published Books

No abstract provided.

Reinventing The Corporation, William Greider

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Selection Of Independent Binary Features Using Probabilities: An Example From Veterinary Medicine, Ludmila I. Kuncheva, Zoë S.J. Hoare, Peter D. Cockcroft

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Supervised classification into c mutually exclusive classes based on n binary features is considered. The only information available is an n×c table with probabilities. Knowing that the best d features are not the d best, simulations were run for 4 feature selection methods and an application to diagnosing BSE in cattle and Scrapie in sheep is presented.

A Method For Analyzing Unreplicated Experiments Using Information On The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, Jamis J. Perrett

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Many studies are performed on units that cannot be replicated; however, there is often an abundance of subsampling. By placing a reasonable upper bound on the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), it is possible to carry out classical tests of significance that have conservative levels of significance.

Internationalism Of Justice Harry Blackmun, The, Margaret E. Mcguinness

Missouri Law Review

This comment is intended to provide a roadmap for closer examination of the Blackmun Papers and to evaluate the sources of internationalism in Justice Blackmun's opinions. An understanding of those sources can in turn inform typologies of internationalism among other Justices, past, present, and future. It seems particularly salient to be discussing the internationalist aspects of Justice Blackmun's legacy today, at a time when the Court is deeply divided on questions of executive power over foreign affairs, the relevance of foreign and international political practices and judicial opinions to constitutional interpretation, and the extent to which decisions of international tribunals …

Differential Immersion Survival By Populations Of Cicindela Hirticollis (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae, Mathew Louis Brust, William Wyatt Hoback, Kerri Farnsworth Skinner, Charles Barry Kinsley

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

In the past 20 yr, populations of Cicindela hirticollis Say (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) that inhabit river shorelines have declined dramatically. These habitats have routinely flooded in winter and spring historically, but they have been altered by damming and controlled water releases for irrigation and power generation. We tested the ability of C. hirticollis larvae from two river and one bayshore population to survive immersion in severely hypoxic water. This is the first report of population-level differences among insects in immersion survival and likely relates to exposure to different flooding regimes. The larvae from the Chesapeake Bay population survived ≈3 d of …

Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 29 - Western Rock Lobster Fishery Effects Of Fishing On The Ecosystem - Scientific Reference Group (Chairman's Report No. 3, February 2005), Department Of Fisheries, Western Australia

Fisheries Occasional Publications

The Western Rock Lobster Effects of Fishing on the Ecosystem Scientific Reference Group (the SRG) was convened jointly by the Department of Fisheries and the WA Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC). The SRG met on Tuesday 1 February 2005 at the Fremantle Sailing Club, and this document is the official report from that meeting.

Start Well To Finish Well: A Holistic Formation Model For Emerging Christian Leaders, Guy Michael Chmieleski

Doctor of Ministry

The ISSUE: How do we model, and help students to "start well' in life, and ministry, such that they can form healthy patterns and habits that will promote growth and fruit throughout their lives, as well as "finish weir without having to deal with issues of burn-out or moral failure? In order to strategically equip our leaders of tomorrow I will create a holistic formation model for the emerging Christian leaders. In section two of this project, I will make the claim that there are significant elements of a holistic spiritual formation model that can be found lives of Joseph …

Reflections On The Law And Economics Of Copyright Scope And Its Implications For Fair Use, Matthew J. Sag

Public Law and Legal Theory Papers

Uncertainty as to the optimum extent of protection has generally limited the capacity of law and economics to translate economic theory into coherent doctrinal recommendations in the realm of copyright. The article explores the relationship between copyright scope and welfare from a theoretical perspective to develop a framework for evaluating specific doctrinal recommendations in copyright law. This analysis of copyright scope establishes that (1) the efficiency of private ordering is the key determinant of the ideal level of copyright scope; (2) the complexity of the welfare-scope relationship is such that we are unlikely to be able to ascertain a generalizable …

Three Poems, Mary Kennan Herbert

Journal of International Women's Studies

Poems by Mary Kennan Herbert:

• Trying To Make Sense of Motherhood
• Weekend In The Woods
• Hot Dog

My Man Fridae: Re-Producing Asian Masculinity, Gary Atkins

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Europe, Or The Inheritance Of Responsibility, Rodolphe Gasché

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Justice Breyer's Democratic Pragmatism, Cass R. Sunstein

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

There have been many efforts to reconcile judicial review with democratic self-government. Some such efforts attempt to justify judicial review if and to the extent that it promotes self-rule. Active Liberty, by Justice Stephen Breyer, is in this tradition; but it is also marked by a heavy pragmatic orientation, emphasizing as it does the need for close attention to purposes and to the importance of consequences to legal interpretation. Its distinctiveness lies in its effort to forge close connections among three seemingly disparate ideas: a democratic account of judicial review; a purposive understanding of legal texts; and a neo-pragmatic emphasis …