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Bridgewater State College Factbook, Academic Year 2004-2005, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College

Factbook

No abstract provided.

University Of Arkansas School Of Law Catalog Of Studies, 2004-2005, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

School of Law Catalog of Studies

No abstract provided.

Bearing The Costs Of Human-Wildlife Conflict: The Challenges Of Compensation Schemes, Philip J. Nyhus, Steve A. Osofsky, Paul Ferraro, H Fischer, Francine Madden

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Decree Of The Sacred Congregation Of Rites, 1918

Frontier Missionary: Felix DeAndreis, C.M.

No abstract provided.

Historical Writings

Frontier Missionary: Felix DeAndreis, C.M.

No abstract provided.

University Of Arkansas Catalog Of Studies, 2004-2005, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Undergraduate Catalog of Studies

No abstract provided.

From Theory To Practice: Improving The Impact Of Health Services Research., Kevin Brazil, Elizabeth Ozer, Michelle M Cloutier, Robert Levine, Daniel Stryer

SoM Articles

BACKGROUND: While significant strides have been made in health research, the incorporation of research evidence into healthcare decision-making has been marginal. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how the utility of health services research can be improved through the use of theory. Integrating theory into health services research can improve research methodology and encourage stronger collaboration with decision-makers.

DISCUSSION: Recognizing the importance of theory calls for new expectations in the practice of health services research. These include: the formation of interdisciplinary research teams; broadening the training for those who will practice health services research; and …

Undergraduate Catalog, 2005-2006

UPub - Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

2005 Celebration Of Inquiry Program, Coastal Carolina University

Celebration of Inquiry

4th Celebration of Inquiry, February 16-18, 2005. Theme: Memory, Place, Identity: Behind us, Before us, Within us

Book Reviews, Thomas W. Mills, Jean Callihan, Jane Williams, Amy Burchfield, Jean M. Wenger, Debra Denslaw, Dana Neacsu, Barbara M. Jones, Funmi Abioye

International Journal of Legal Information

No abstract provided.

Locating The Cyprus Problem: Ethnic Conflict And The Politics Of Space, Yiannis Papadakis

Macalester International

No abstract provided.

Conference Abstracts

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Climate And Landcover Change On Stream Discharge In The Ozark Highlands, Usa, Q. Steven Hu, Gary D. Willson, Xi Chen, Adnan Adnan

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Stream discharge of a watershed is affected and altered by climate and landcover changes. These effects vary depending on the magnitude and interaction of the changes, and need to be understood so that local water resource availability can be evaluated and socioeconomic development within a watershed be pursued and managed in a way sustainable with the local water resources. In this study, the landcover and climate change effects on stream discharge from the Jacks Fork River basin in the Ozark Highlands of the south-central United States were examined in three phases: site observation and data collection, model calibration and simulation, …

An Artificial-Neural-Network-Based, Constrained Ca Model For Simulating Urban Growth, Qingfeng Guan, Liming Wang, Keith C. Clarke

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Insufficient research has been done on integrating artificial-neural-network-based cellular automata (CA) models and constrained CA models, even though both types have been studied for several years. In this paper, a constrained CA model based on an artificial neural network (ANN) was developed to simulate and forecast urban growth. Neural networks can learn from available urban land-use geospatial data and thus deal with redundancy, inaccuracy, and noise during the CA parameter calibration. In the ANN -Urban-CA model we used, a two-layer Back-Propagation (BP) neural network has been integrated into a CA model to seek suitable parameter values that match the historical …

Some Concerns When Using Data From The Cooperative Weather Station Networks: A Nebraska Case Study, Hong Wu, Kenneth G. Hubbard, Jinsheng You

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

In this study, daily temperature and precipitation amounts that are observed by the Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) were compared among geographically close stations. Hourly observations from nearby Automatic Weather Data Network (AWDN) stations were utilized to resolve the discrepancies between the observations during the same period. The statistics of maximum differences in temperature and precipitation between COOP stations were summarized. In addition, the quantitative measures of the deviations between COOP and AWDN stations were expressed by root-mean-square error, mean absolute error, and an index of agreement. The results indicated that significant discrepancies exist among the daily observations between some paired …

2005 International Pinot Noir Celebration Program, International Pinot Noir Celebration

Willamette Valley Archival Documents - IPNC

This document is the 2005 program for the International Pinot Noir Celebration (IPNC), held annually on the campus of Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. The program contains a detailed schedule of the celebration’s major events, presentations, and meals, as well as information regarding guest speakers, chefs, and artists visiting the campus. The program also includes a short description of all participating wineries for 2005, both foreign and domestic, along with a listing of the IPNC board of directors and all major supporters and contributors to the event.

L’Intertextualité Géopolitique Dans Le Petit Chat Est Mort De Fejria Deliba, Sarah Buchanan

French Publications

In this article, Buchanan examines how Fejria Deliba’s short film, Le petit chat est mort, questions the ideas that conservative members of North African and French communities mobilize to separate themselves from each other. Using theories of intertextuality and geopolitical conscience, Buchanan illustrates how “imagined communities” are always influenced by other national narrations, and how “home” is never isolated, pure or preserved. On the contrary, Buchanan highlights how Deliba presents the French and North African cultures as spaces of intersection and interface, that is, of intertext.

Morgantown Msa Economic Monitor July 2005, George Hammond, Justin Ross

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

Virginia Commonwealth University Commencement Program [2005], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Virtuous Globalization: A Dialogue For The University Of New Hampshire Discovery Program, Tom Kelly

The Sustainability Institute Publications

No abstract provided.

Current Issues In Extraterritoriality: How Long Is The Long Arm Jurisdiction Of International Human Rights Bodies?, Christina M. Cerna

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

One line of cases involving extraterritoriality revolves around the issue of effective control over persons as a result of military occupation and also involves jurisdictional issues.

Bossier Tribes, Caddo In North Louisiana's Pineywoods, Jon L. Gibson

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Clarence Webb (1948) christened Bossier more than a half century ago. Its namesake was the northwestern Louisiana parish where several Bossier sites were located, but it could just as easily been named after Webster, Claiborne, Harrison, Columbia, or other political subdivisions in northwestern Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas, or eastern Texas where its distinctive pottery was found. This is Caddo country, linguistically and ethnically. Bossier is the issue of Caddoan cultural tradition, a culmination of agents, practices, and histories that transpired in the Red River valley and adjoining Pineywoods hills between ca. A.D. 1300 and 1500.

Bossier is best known for its …

Survey Of Backcountry Campers In Yellowstone National Park. Characteristics And Management Preferences (Abstract), Michael Legg, Pat Stephens Williams, Scott Oosterhous, Ray Darville

Faculty Publications

The identification of the complexities of the sociological dynamics of visitors and visitor use in our national parks has been a challenge to the field of human dimensions for the past thirty years. We continue to gather data through a variety of techniques and attempt to make sense of those complexities to help guide current and future management practices . . .

Predicting Ordinary Kriging Errors Caused By Surface Roughness And Dissectivity, I-Kuai Hung

Faculty Publications

The magnitude of kriging errors varies in accordance with the surface properties. The purpose of this paper is to determine the association of ordinary kriging (OK) estimated errors with the local variability of surface roughness, and to analyze the suitability of probabilistic models for predicting the magnitude of OK errors from surface parameters. This task includes determining the terrain parameters in order to explain the variation in the magnitude of OK errors. The results of this research indicate that the higher order regression models, with complex interaction terms, were able to explain 95 per cent of the variation in the …

Doing International Business: From Cultural Perspectives, Charles Calvert, Shinyi Lin, Lynda Martin

Faculty Publications

The remarkable growth of the global economy over the past 50 years has been shaped by the dynamic interplay of various driving and restraining forces. From business and HRD (Human Resource Development) aspects, an understanding of globalization as it applies to the field of training and educational programs enables organizations to develop competencies and skills to respond to these emerging challenges faced by globalization. In recent reports (Yager, 2001; O’Regan, 2001), employers are increasingly having trouble finding workers who have excellent (1) soft skills, (2) business etiquette, (3) interpersonal communication skills, and (4) intercultural communication skills. An international business organization …

The "Priceless Possession" Of Citizenship: Race, Nation And Naturalization In American Law, 1880-1930, J. Allen Douglas

Duquesne Law Review

Examining the application of racial restrictions to grants of citizenship along with the emergence of the bundle-of-rights conception of property, this article explores a panoply of naturalization claims in which courts discussed a petitioner's eligibility for citizenship as a "free white person." To lend a measure of credibility and resolve to those naturalization determinations, federal and state courts relied upon the protocols of a nineteenth century object-centered, conception of property. Consequently, the emergence of a new, relational property paradigm - the bundle-of-sticks notion - compelled the judiciary to adopt a series of shifting standards for establishing race and citizenship, ranging …

Organizational Buffering: Managing Boundaries And Cores, Monty Lynn

Management Sciences

Organizations generally are more innovative, relevant, and responsive when they are exposed to market influences, yet they must regulate or limit the impact of outside influences to operate efficiently. This dynamic organization–environment tension has inspired the creation of several models of organizational buffering which delineate the systematic exposure and insulation of organizations from environmental uncertainty. We review three buffering paradigms — core, minimalist, and dispersed — and attempt to synthesize a model which weaves these perspectives together. The key to understanding functional and dysfunctional buffering lies with the organization’s requisite variety and continuous or discontinuous environmental change.

2005-06 Jackrabbit Equestrian Media Guide : The Inaugural Season, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Equestrian Media Guides (2005-2014)

This is the South Dakota State University Jackrabbit Equestrian inaugural season media guide.

Basin-Scale Performance Of A Locally Optimized Marine Ecosystem Model, A. Oschlies, M. Schartau

Journal of Marine Research

A marine ecosystem model, that had previously been calibrated in a one-dimensional (1D) mode against observations at three time-series and process-study sites simultaneously, is coupled to a three-dimensional (3D) circulation model of the North and Equatorial Atlantic. Compared to an experiment with a previously employed subjectively tuned ecosystem model, the new 3D-model does not only reduce the model-data misfit at those locations at which observations entered the 1D optimization procedure, but also at an oligotrophic site in the subtropics that had not been considered in the 1D calibration. Basin-scale gridded climatological data sets of nitrate, surface chlorophyll, and satellite-derived primary …

Recent Interannual Upper Ocean Variability In The Deep Southeastern Bering Sea, Amy E. Wirts, Gregory C. Johnson

Journal of Marine Research

Recent seasonal and interannual variability of the upper ocean in the southeast Aleutian Basin of the Bering Sea is related to air sea fluxes, ocean advection, and mixing. Between the winter of 2001/2002 and that of 2002/2003 a warming and freshening of the upper ocean was observed in data from a regional array of profiling Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) floats. The mild winter of 2002/2003 resulted in an unusually warm, fresh, light, and shallow winter mixed layer and a weakly ventilated temperature minimum layer. These unusual winter conditions contributed to a substantial reduction in the subsurface temperature inversion characteristic of the southeast …