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The Untold Story Of The Rest Of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Michael Waterstone Nov 2005

The Untold Story Of The Rest Of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Michael Waterstone

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA")' can be described as the All-Star team of civil rights legislation. The framers of the ADA sought to create sweeping change in nearly every facet of the lives of people with disabilities. To achieve these ambitious goals, the framers assembled the best and brightest parts of other civil rights legislation: pieces of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 04 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Fair Housing Act. The end result was a comprehensive statute with three major parts: …

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Winona Laduke To Speak At Umm, University Relations Nov 2005

Winona Laduke To Speak At Umm, University Relations

Campus News Archive

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New Frontiers In Feminist Research, University Relations Nov 2005

New Frontiers In Feminist Research, University Relations

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

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Connecting Students And Communities Program, University Relations Nov 2005

Connecting Students And Communities Program, University Relations

Campus News Archive

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Bruss Gives Inaugural Latterell Lecture, University Relations Nov 2005

Bruss Gives Inaugural Latterell Lecture, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The Joseph J. Latterell Memorial Visiting Alumnus Program was officially launched on October 24, 2005. UMM was honored to have alum Kenneth Bruss as the guest speaker. Bruss spoke on "Flexible Chemistry: From Foods to Pharmaceuticals."

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27th Annual Umm Concert Band Festival, University Relations Nov 2005

27th Annual Umm Concert Band Festival, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Approximately 100 student musicians from high schools statewide will participate in the 27th Annual Concert Band Festival November 12 at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

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Jazz Musicians' Benefit For Alumna, University Relations Nov 2005

Jazz Musicians' Benefit For Alumna, University Relations

Campus News Archive

New Orleans is known for its jazz. That's probably what attracted University of Minnesota, Morris alumna Nancy (Rippe) Burtchaell ‘88, originally from Glenwood, to the city.

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A Day In The Life Of A Casino Host, Chu-Huan Liu Nov 2005

A Day In The Life Of A Casino Host, Chu-Huan Liu

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Casinos usually hire junket representatives and casino hosts to act as a liaison between casino marketing departments and proven high-end guests. Junket representatives are usually independent agents who bring players into a particular casino; in return, they are compensated with commission by that casino. If these players do not spend enough time and money in playing, the casino simply loses interest in that representative. Casino hosts are in-house marketing employees who are fully responsible for retaining the existing good patrons and to bring in potential new guests (Makens & Bowen, 1994).

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Digital Sketchpad: A Portable Scetching Device, Jung-Hwa Kim Nov 2005

Digital Sketchpad: A Portable Scetching Device, Jung-Hwa Kim

Theses

The thesis discusses the problems of sketching on paper and in using existing products that are currently on the market for hand drawing. A new display technology, electronic paper display, is introduced

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Property Management System, Luke Hutcheson Nov 2005

Property Management System, Luke Hutcheson

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

A local Sioux Falls property manager has nine duplex housing units and an apartment building that houses about thirty families. This much data is difficult to manage as well as keep up to date. This application will assist the manager in identifying late payments and tenants that are on probation as well as providing a communication method between management and then tenants. Being web based, the user will be able to manager their business while being anywhere they have web access. Having access to an application such as this will allow a user to identify tenants that are continuous late …

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Implementation Of An Electronic Payment Card For Sd Division Of Child Support, Tara Falor Nov 2005

Implementation Of An Electronic Payment Card For Sd Division Of Child Support, Tara Falor

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This paper will be discussing the implementation of an electronic payment card for the Division of Child Support Enforcement (DCS). The DCS was looking for an additional means to distribute monies to custodial parents through an electronic interface. They were already taking advantage of the benefits of direct deposit but still had many custodial parents that did not have banking relationships to make direct deposit as option for them . A Request for Proposal (RFP) was sent out in search of a vendor who could provide assistance with such a task. USBank was able to deliver and implement exactly what …

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Tragedies Call For Time To Put Life In Balance, Carla Kimbrough Nov 2005

Tragedies Call For Time To Put Life In Balance, Carla Kimbrough

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

Today your life could change dramatically.
• Your spouse or significant other decides life without you is better than life with you.
• Your child, your parent or perhaps even you discover a terminal illness has invaded your body.
• You lose your job where you've worked a minimum of 50 hours per week for the last five, 10. 15 or 20 years.
• You lose everything that is precious to you: your home, your possessions, your mementos. All you have left are your life and the clothes on your back.
Chances are any of the above scenarios would rock …

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Picture This, Gary Bentrup, Gary Wells Nov 2005

Picture This, Gary Bentrup, Gary Wells

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Despite the use of planting plans and engineering drawings. Many landowners find it difficult to conceptualize what a future conservation practice or system will actually look like on their landscape. This lack of understanding can create challenging barriers in the planning process and is exacerbated by the long-term commitment that many conservation systems require from landowners. Landowners often lament if they could only see a picture of the proposed action on their property, then they could make a decision. Fortunately, natural resource professionals have a tool called visual simulations to help address this dilemma.

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The Billable Hours Derby: Empirical Data On The Problems And Pressure Points, Susan Saab Fortney Nov 2005

The Billable Hours Derby: Empirical Data On The Problems And Pressure Points, Susan Saab Fortney

Faculty Scholarship

This article considers the consequences of law firm use of the hourly billing method and the recent increase in billable hour requirements. Part I of this article describes the rationale and methodology of an empirical study conducted in 2005 that explored attorney work-life issues and employer efforts to assist attorneys in dealing with work-life conflicts. Part II summarizes select study findings related to billable hours requirements and pressure. Part III concludes by considering what forces and players will change the current course of conduct in which law firm leaders treat increases in billable hours expectations as a necessary evil.

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Clinical Sources And Prevalence Of Resistance To Antimicrobials Of Klebsiella Pneumoniae Strains In Trinidad, Fitzroy A. Orrett Nov 2005

Clinical Sources And Prevalence Of Resistance To Antimicrobials Of Klebsiella Pneumoniae Strains In Trinidad, Fitzroy A. Orrett

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the frequency of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) recovery from clinical specimens from hospital and community patients, their antibiotic profile, the extent of extended-spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) production among such isolates, and the impact on patient management. METHODS: The study recovered 1,118 K. pneumoniae strains from various clinical specimens from hospital and community patients, from 1995 to 2004, at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex. All 1,118 isolates underwent testing for multi-antibiotic resistance, of which 480 that fulfilled the criteria for possible ESBL production underwent further examination, according to guideline recommendations of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory …

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Bs News Nov 2005

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

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Scholarship @ Rit Fall 2005, Rit Libraries Publishing And Scholarship Support Center Nov 2005

Scholarship @ Rit Fall 2005, Rit Libraries Publishing And Scholarship Support Center

RIT Digital Archives

Who should own copyright in journal articles?; Students on-campus; Intellectual property, scholarship and RIT; Spotlight on excellence: the RIT faculty scholars series; Welcome to the first issue of Scholarship@RIT!; Discovering economics in poetry; Student consulting...with a $1000 line of credit; The global evolution of printing; Cataracts are like cloud formations in the sky; Alligators, jaguars, and birds...in Chiapas; KarmaNets...securing crisis zones; Deaf children's success study; Hospitality beyond borders; Team Eagle's transistor fabrication; Lulu: Self-publishing & print on demand

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Its News November 2005, Information & Technology Services Nov 2005

Its News November 2005, Information & Technology Services

RIT Digital Archives

SIRP Project Update: Identifying the Impact of System Changes Related to Social Security Numbers||Third Annual ITS Security Week Technology Seminars take place December 12 through 16||myRIT Portal News||Apple Maintenance Program (AMP) FAQ

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Bloggers Beware: The Five Commandments For Bloggers, Warren B. Chik Nov 2005

Bloggers Beware: The Five Commandments For Bloggers, Warren B. Chik

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

There is a need for Singapore bloggers to be aware of legal issues arising from their online diaries, particularly in the light of the recent cases involving seditious remarks made online by bloggers that resulted in jail terms and fines; and earlier in the year, a dispute arose over allegedly defamatory speeches made by a blogger about A*STAR’s Chairman, Philip Yeo, which was resolved amicably, but not without an apology. The threats of legal repercussions in the form of civil lawsuits and criminal charges serve as reminders of the potential legal problems that can arise from blogging, and indeed from …

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Multiracialism Engineered: The Limits Of Electoral And Spatial Integration In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan Nov 2005

Multiracialism Engineered: The Limits Of Electoral And Spatial Integration In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This paper examines Singapore's innovations in electoral and spatial integration. In examining the Group Representation Constituency and the Ethnic Integration Policy, a critique is made of the official discourse that multiracialism is internalized and entrenched in Singapore's political psyche and electoral process. While the electoral and spatial integration policies are driven by the objective of enhancing multiracialism, their actual workings do not adequately advance the development of norms and values that would be truly supportive of the need for a multiracial legislature and an abiding commitment to multiracialism. The layering of the electoral system with other political objectives, such as …

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A Threshold-Based Algorithm For Continuous Monitoring Of K Nearest Neighbors, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Dimitris Papadias, Spiridon Bakiras, Yufei Tao Nov 2005

A Threshold-Based Algorithm For Continuous Monitoring Of K Nearest Neighbors, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Dimitris Papadias, Spiridon Bakiras, Yufei Tao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Assume a set of moving objects and a central server that monitors their positions over time, while processing continuous nearest neighbor queries from geographically distributed clients. In order to always report up-to-date results, the server could constantly obtain the most recent position of all objects. However, this naïve solution requires the transmission of a large number of rapid data streams corresponding to location updates. Intuitively, current information is necessary only for objects that may influence some query result (i.e., they may be included in the nearest neighbor set of some client). Motivated by this observation, we present a threshold-based algorithm …

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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught In An Action-Learning Format? We Compare Entrepreneurship Action Learning Outcomes For Undergraduate Students In Germany, Singapore, China, Korea, New Zealand, United States And Australia, Jens Mueller, Robert Wyatt, Heinz Klandt, Wee Liang Tan Nov 2005

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught In An Action-Learning Format? We Compare Entrepreneurship Action Learning Outcomes For Undergraduate Students In Germany, Singapore, China, Korea, New Zealand, United States And Australia, Jens Mueller, Robert Wyatt, Heinz Klandt, Wee Liang Tan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

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A Grasp For Unitary Space-Time Codes, Adam Panagos, Kurt Louis Kosbar Nov 2005

A Grasp For Unitary Space-Time Codes, Adam Panagos, Kurt Louis Kosbar

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Unitary space-time codes perform well at high signal-to-noise ratios on MIMO channels even when the propagation coefficients between transmitter and receiver are unknown. One method of constructing unitary space-time constellations uses a random search to find signal constellations that minimize the maximum pairwise correlation between transmitted signals. The work presented here uses a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) for finding good unitary space-time code constellations. Simulation results show that, on average, this technique finds codes with better correlation properties than the random search method. This new search procedure was also used to find signal constellations with better correlation properties …

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Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz Nov 2005

Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

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Adobe Medicus 2005 6 November-December, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center Nov 2005

Adobe Medicus 2005 6 November-December, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

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Query Processing In Spatial Databases Containing Obstacles, Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Manli Zhu Nov 2005

Query Processing In Spatial Databases Containing Obstacles, Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Manli Zhu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing assumes that points in space are directly reachable and utilizes the Euclidean distance metric. In this paper, we study spatial queries in the presence of obstacles, where the obstructed distance between two points is defined as the length of the shortest path that connects them without crossing any obstacles. We propose efficient algorithms for the most important query types, namely, range search, nearest neighbours, e-distance joins, closest pairs and distance semi-joins, assuming that both data objects and obstacles are indexed by R-trees. The effectiveness of the proposed …

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On Security Notions Of Steganographic Systems, Kisik Chang, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao, Sangjin Lee, Hyungjun Kim Nov 2005

On Security Notions Of Steganographic Systems, Kisik Chang, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao, Sangjin Lee, Hyungjun Kim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We define the notion of pseudoprocessingness to formulate chosen-input-attack, chosen-stego-attack, and key-recovery. We then construct a efficient, provable secure steganographic algorithm against chosen-input-attack and key-recovery. So far as we know, this is the first paper dealing with those security notions.

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Anonymous Dos-Resistant Access Control Protocol Using Passwords For Wireless Networks, Zhiguo Wan, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao, Akkihebbal L. Ananda Nov 2005

Anonymous Dos-Resistant Access Control Protocol Using Passwords For Wireless Networks, Zhiguo Wan, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao, Akkihebbal L. Ananda

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Wireless networks have gained overwhelming popularity over their wired counterpart due to their great flexibility and convenience, but access control of wireless networks has been a serious problem because of the open medium. Passwords remain the most popular way for access control as well as authentication and key exchange. But existing password-based access control protocols are not satisfactory in that they do not provide DoS-resistance or anonymity. In this paper we analyze the weaknesses of an access control protocol using passwords for wireless networks in IEEE LCN 2001, and propose a different access control protocol using passwords for wireless networks. …

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Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 09, Issue 01, November 2005, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program Nov 2005

Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 09, Issue 01, November 2005, 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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The Effect Of Time Delays On The Stability Of Load Balancing Algorithms For Parallel Computations, Chaouki T. Abdallah, John Chiasson, Zhong Tang, Jean Ghanem, J. Douglas Birdwell, Majeed M. Hayat Nov 2005

The Effect Of Time Delays On The Stability Of Load Balancing Algorithms For Parallel Computations, Chaouki T. Abdallah, John Chiasson, Zhong Tang, Jean Ghanem, J. Douglas Birdwell, Majeed M. Hayat

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

A deterministic dynamic nonlinear time-delay system is developed to model load balancing in a cluster of computer nodes used for parallel computations. The model is shown to be self consistent in that the queue lengths cannot go negative and the total number of tasks in all the queues and the network are conserved (i.e., load balancing can neither create nor lose tasks). Further, it is shown that using the proposed load balancing algorithms, the system is stable in the sense of Lyapunov. Experimental results are presented and compared with the predicted results from the analytical model. In particular, simulations of …

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