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The Role Of Uk Local Authorities In Promoting The Bus, Michelle Morris, Stephen Ison, Marcus Enoch

Journal of Public Transportation

To deal with rising city center congestion and its associated pollution, the UK government has proposed a number of policy measures. In particular, the 1998 White Paper indicated that “the bus industry will make an important and cost-effective contribution to tackling congestion and pollution at the local level.” Since the privatization of the bus industry during the 1980s, local government—the primary agents of delivering transport policy objectives in the UK—have had relatively little control over the provision of bus services in their localities, particularly outside London. One area in which local authorities can exert influence, however, is through the promotion …

Social Marketing Applications And Transportation Demand Management: An Information Instrument For The 21st Century, Enda Mcgovern

Journal of Public Transportation

Concern has been expressed by planners and policy-makers that the “add capacity” strategy used in building more roads to resolve traffic-induced problems is no longer a feasible option. This article explores private transport behavior in understanding how users can be persuaded to adopt a more blended approach (i.e., integrating car, public transportation, and alternative modes on a daily basis). The research methodology adopted focus groups and travel diaries in presenting a number of social marketing message appeals aimed at inducing a change in participants’ travel behaviors. While weaknesses are identified in the social marketing materials, this research concludes that social …

Full Issue 8(5)

Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.

Public Transport Reforms In Seoul: Innovations Motivated By Funding Crisis, John Pucher, Hyungyong Park, Mook Han Kim, Jumin Song

Journal of Public Transportation

On July 1, 2004, the Seoul Metropolitan Government introduced a wide range of reforms to its public transport system: it completely reorganized bus services, installed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors, improved coordination of bus and metro services, and fully integrated the fare structure and ticketing system between routes as well as modes. This article describes the public transport reforms in Seoul and assesses their impacts on safety, speed, costs, passenger levels, and overall customer satisfaction.

Homeland Insecurity: The Emotional Response That Expanded The Federal Bureaucracy And Its Efforts To Prevent Acts Of Terrorism Against The United States, Thomas Herrera

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

This study will examine the emotional response that led to the expansion of the federal bureaucracy of the U.S. Government in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The federal bureaucracy was expanded in order to prevent future acts of terrorism on the U.S. homeland and execute policies related to the War on Terror. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 had an immediate and overwhelming emotional effect upon the American public and prompted countless memorials and services across the United States and around the world. Gratitude towards uniformed public-safety workers (notably firefighters and police officers) was widely …

Wavelet Domain Diversity Method For Transmission Of Images Over Wireless Sytems Using Hybrid (Ofdm-Cdma-Sfh) Concept And Its Real Time Implementation In Tms320c6713 Dsp Development Board, Madhu Rangappagowda

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

In this thesis a new OFDM based wavelet domain diversity combining method is proposed to combat errors during image transmission on wireless channels. A novel concept of utilizing OFDM sub-carriers to attain diversity is designed and analyzed. For images represented in the wavelet domain, diversity is used to obtain multiple data streams using OFDM symbols corresponding to the transmitted image at the receiver. These individual image data streams are combined to form a composite image with higher perceptual quality. Both uncompressed and compressed images are considered. The SPIHT algorithm is used for image compression. Diversity combining methods for both uncompressed …

Cmos Optical Transimpedance Amplifier Design For Pam Signaling Application, Hemalatha Shanmugasundaram

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

The advent of Internet telephony and the surge in data communication field necessitate the use of broadband communication systems. The Optical communication systems has been suggested as an attractive solution to cope with the high speed data rate and large throughput bottleneck of the long haul communication systems due to their cheaper deployment cost. In the world of miniaturization, CMOS circuits have been widely used to develop the opto-electronic components. However, the intricacy involved in the design of high speed optical front-end is higher due to the poor noise performance of CMOS circuits compared to their bipolar counter parts. Despite …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 30, December 1, 2005

Central Florida Future

College Park boosts safety: ICE campaign will help students avoid danger or accidents; Bike bound: UCF students on wheels take advantage of cooler weather; Student Health Services has Plan B; Late Knights keeping it real in Fall semester finale: Alcohol-alternative event hosting mock versions of popular TV shows.

0546 Interim Committee To Study The State Procurement Process, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

Moments Of Shared Prayer: Ncyc 2005, Marilee S. Mahler

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The National Catholic Youth Conference 2005 was held in Atlanta from October 27th to October 30th. A Programming Team, of which I was the director designed prayer for five major prayer sessions, which involved many youth leaders and 18,000 youth participants. Over the course of 5 months, I met with the Programming Team, a Technical Crew and the Sponsoring Organization, as well as several committees who had to approve the scripts. Prior to the conference, the Programming Team trained young animators into various leadership roles: singers, cantors, readers and movers. At the conference, it was my responsibility to see that …

An Analysis Of An Experimental Study Measuring The Effectiveness Of Using Creative Problem Solving In The Living Environment Curriculum, Steven C. Kolbert

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The main focus of this experimental study was to identify how I used the aspects of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) in the Living Environment classroom and to compare its effectiveness to how I previously taught the course using traditional teaching methodologies. The research conducted included: 1) A qualitative analysis comparing the performance of students taking the Living Environment course during the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 academic school years when I used traditional teaching methods to the 2004-2005 academic school year when I used CPS to teach the same curriculum; 2) A quantitative analysis of teacher feedback identifying the effectiveness of implementing …

Amending The Natural Born Citizen Requirement: Globalization As The Impetus And The Obstacle, Sarah P. Herlihy

Chicago-Kent Law Review

With the rise of non-native-born American politicians, the natural born citizen requirement in the United States Constitution has received much publicity. This note examines the history and background of the requirement that our President be born in this country. This note then focuses on how the increase of globalization should compel Americans to pass a constitutional amendment to repeal the natural born citizen requirement and discusses the reasons why many Americans oppose such a constitutional amendment. The note then explores some of the current misconceptions about globalization and concludes that Americans' fears and misconceptions of globalization may very well prevent …

Discovering Informative Connection Subgraphs In Multi-Relational Graphs, Cartic Ramakrishnan, William Milnor, Matthew Perry, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Discovering patterns in graphs has long been an area of interest. In most approaches to such pattern discovery either quantitative anomalies, frequency of substructure or maximum flow is used to measure the interestingness of a pattern. In this paper we introduce heuristics that guide a subgraph discovery algorithm away from banal paths towards more "informative" ones. Given an RDF graph a user might pose a question of the form: "What are the most relevant ways in which entity X is related to entity Y?" the response to which is a subgraph connecting X to Y. We use our heuristics to …

The Carmack Amendment And The American Rule: Is Arbitration A Necessary Prerequisite To An Award Of Attorney's Fees, Kelly A. Fischer

Transportation Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Judicial Review Under The Railway Labor Act: Are Due Process Claims Permissible, Buck S. Beltzer, Stephen A. Wichern

Transportation Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Safety Among Dragons: East Asia And Maritime Security, Phil Decaro

Transportation Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Internet Usage And Information Seeking Behaviour Of Students Conducting History Projects: Determining The Need Of A Digital Library For Historical Resources, Abdullah Abrizah, Awang Ngah Zainab

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

This paper reports the results of a user study done at the formative stage of development of a collaborative resource development (CoreDev) digital library for Malaysian historical resources by collaborating partners. CoreDev aims to provide an electronic system to help students obtain information on local history; collect, store and organize information in digital format; publish and share electronic resources. While most digital library projects were driven, by technology development and research, there has been little investigation into how to develop a creative, working community around a digital library. This paper presents preliminary findings on students' readiness and receptivity to participate …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, December 1, 2005, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

College of Business

• Prerequisite Change
• Delete Course

School of Accountancy

• New Course
• Course Number Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change, Reactivate Course
• Delete Course

Department of Business Administration

• New Course

Department of Economics

• New Course
• Course Number Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Credit Hour Change

Department of Management and Human Resources

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Engineering and Technology Education

• New Course
• Title Change

Department of Art

• New Course
• Course Number Change, Prefix Change

Department of English

• University Studies Request
• Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Add Repeatable for Credit

Department of Music

• Delete Course

Department of Sociology, Social Work …

The Advocate, December 1, 2005, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Mechanical Properties Of Recycled Aggregate Concrete, Sajjad Ali Khan

Masters Theses

The maintenance and repair work in the civil engineering infrastructures develops the production of huge wastes which causes the growth of waste piles, additional costs in construction projects and some environmental problems. If this waste is recycled and used again in construction projects, it will help to overcome the problems discussed earlier. Moreover, if natural aggregates are supplemented by recycled aggregate, it will preserve the natural resources and also put a pause in the deterioration of natural landscape.

This thesis addresses the importance of using recycled aggregate in concrete structures. Its practical feasibility in construction projects is studied in light …

Right Must And Will Succeed: Excerpts From The Letters Of Sergeant Edmund Burke Wylie, Company K, 31st Iowa Infantry Regiment, Dieter C. Ullrich

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

Sergeant Burke Wylie of the 31st Iowa Infantry Regiment was an eyewitness to the events and series of historic battles that occurred between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia. His vivid descriptions of the ferocity of combat, the geographic features of battlefields and the local inhabitants he encountered are well depicted in his correspondence. Sergeant Wylie's letters begin in December 1863 near Chattanooga and conclude in September 1864 outside of Atlanta.

Education For Peace And Justice, John L. Elias

Journal of Catholic Education

This article explores theoretical and practical issues related to education for peace and justice. It briefly presents educational theories of Plato, Aristotle, John Dewey, and Paulo Freire, recent papal and conciliar teachings, and the work of prominent religious educators. The power of education for aiding in justice and peace education is shown through guiding principles, curricular and methodological arrangements, ways of handling controversial issues, and the effective use of the arts.

Teaching Reading: Literature Review: A Review Of The Evidence-Based Research Literature On Approaches To The Teaching Of Literacy, Particularly Those That Are Effective In Assisting Students With Reading Difficulties, Ken Rowe, National Inquiry Into The Teaching Of Literacy (Australia)

School and system improvement

Underlying a key purpose of the present review is the conviction that claims about what constitute effective literacy teaching, and of reading in particular, should be grounded in findings from rigorous evidence-based research. To this end, the present review of the research literature on teaching practices for students, with and without reading difficulties, relies largely, though not exclusively, on well-designed meta analytic syntheses that: (a) partial out methodological artefacts from the effect sizes; and (b) base their analyses on the actual procedures and components of instruction used in the studies reviewed. Following a brief outline of the background and purposes …

Le Français D’Origine Maghrébine Face Au Prisme Médiatique, Hassiba Lassoued

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Whether we admit it or not, the mass media manipulates the masses. This fact proves to be especially dangerous in the context of French people of Maghrebian origin. The media presents them as either incapable of being “assimilated” or as models of integration. At any rate, there seems to be no middle ground between these two extremes.

How Common Are Wintering Long-Eared Owls In Ohio?, Bill Whan

Ohio Cardinal

No abstract provided.

Panel I: Defamation In Sports, Gerald Eskenazi, Stephen Henniger, Gary Huckaby, Gary Belsky

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Why The Initially Confused Should Get A Clue: The Battle Between Trademark Infringement And Consumer Choice Online, John Handy

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Phillips V. Awh Corp., Inc.: A Baffling Claim Construction Methodology, Ehab M. Samuel

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Classification K, Elizabeth Geesey Holmes

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

By now most of us have been using Classification Web for some time, but if you are like me you could use some reminders about its features and capabilities. First, if you have not already done so you should sign up for at least the Class Web Announcement electronic list which is a low traffic list used to keep you informed about the site, and probably also for the Users Group discussion list which allows you to communicate with fellow users. Information on these lists and how to sign up for them can be found by clicking on the link …

A Study Of Attrition In A Respiratory Care Associate Degree Program In A Northeast Tennessee Community College., Donna D. Lilly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Walters State Community College's Respiratory Care (WSCC RC) Program had a 33% attrition rate during a five-year period from 1999 through 2003. This study analyzed demographic, pre-admission, and academic variables to identify reasons for attrition within the WSCC RC program. The population size was 90 students; this was the entire population of five consecutive classes graduating during a five-year period from 1999 through 2003. The criterion variables included high school attended, gender, age, college-level GPA, college-level credit hours, and developmental requirements.

Statistical tests revealed that college-level GPA, college-level credit hours, and developmental requirements influenced persistence within the population. The …