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Implementing The Climate Regime: International Compliance, Edited By Olav Schram Stokke, Jon Hovi, And Geir Ulfstein, Anita M. Halvorssen Dec 2005

Implementing The Climate Regime: International Compliance, Edited By Olav Schram Stokke, Jon Hovi, And Geir Ulfstein, Anita M. Halvorssen

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Natural Flow And Salt Computation Methods, Calendar Years 1971-1995, James Prairie, Russell Callejo Dec 2005

Natural Flow And Salt Computation Methods, Calendar Years 1971-1995, James Prairie, Russell Callejo

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

This paper documents the steps taken to compute natural flow and salt in the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basins from 1971-1995. Natural flow and salt data are hydrologic input data required in the CRSS planning model. The methods used to compute natural flow and salt described in this paper have changed from previous methods as a result of recent research. This research found data and methodological inconsistency in past methods to compute natural flow and salt was compared to data and methods used in the CRSS planning model (Prairie and Fulp, 1999). To assure the computation of natural flow …


Plant Information Compiled By The Utah Natural Heritage Program: A Progress Report, M. A. Franklin, State Of Utah Department Of Natural Resources Dec 2005

Plant Information Compiled By The Utah Natural Heritage Program: A Progress Report, M. A. Franklin, State Of Utah Department Of Natural Resources

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The Utah Natural Heritage Program (UTHP) was initiated in late summer 1988 and has functioned as an ongoing biological survey of the state with an emphasis on rare or declining species. It serves as a centralized data repository, acquiring range wide information regarding rare plant and animal species for use by land managers as well as for the evaluation of conservation needs. As well as being used by government agencies, data are used in responding to requests for information from non-government organizations and private interests. Data can be used in the assessment of species’ conservation status state-wide and, in coordination …


Soil Carbon Distribution And Quality In A Montane Rangeland Forest Mosaic In Northern Utah, Helga Van Miegrot, Janis L. Boettinger, Michelle A. Baker, Julia Nielson, Dave Evans, Alex Stum Dec 2005

Soil Carbon Distribution And Quality In A Montane Rangeland Forest Mosaic In Northern Utah, Helga Van Miegrot, Janis L. Boettinger, Michelle A. Baker, Julia Nielson, Dave Evans, Alex Stum

T.W. "Doc" Daniel Experimental Forest

Relatively little is known about soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics in montane ecosystems of the semi-arid western U.S. or the stability of current SOC pools under future climate change scenarios. We measured the distribution and quality of SOC in a mosaic of rangeland-forest vegetation types that occurs under similar climatic conditions on non-calcareous soils at Utah State University’s T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest in northern Utah: the forest types were aspen [Populus tremuloides] and conifer (mixture of fir [Abies lasiocarpa] and spruce [Picea engelmannii]); the rangeland types were sagebrush steppe [Artemisia tridentata], grass-forb meadow, and a meadow-conifer ecotone. Total SOC was …


Corrective Action In Low Performing Schools: Lessons For Nclb Implementation From First-Generation Accountability Systems, Heinrich Mintrop, Tina Trujillo Dec 2005

Corrective Action In Low Performing Schools: Lessons For Nclb Implementation From First-Generation Accountability Systems, Heinrich Mintrop, Tina Trujillo

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This paper explores what lessons we can learn from the experiences of states that instituted NCLB-like accountability systems prior to 2001 (here called first-generation accountability systems). We looked at the experiences of three smaller states (Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina), four larger ones (California, Florida, New York, Texas), and two large districts (Chicago and Philadelphia). We analyzed evaluative reports and policy documents as well as interviews with state officials and researchers. We condensed the material into eight lessons ...


[Accepted Article Manuscript Version (Postprint)] Identification And Functional Characterization Of Arabidopsis Peroxin4 And The Interacting Protein Peroxin22, Bethany Zolman, Melanie Monroe-Augustus, Illeana Silva, Bonnie Bartel Dec 2005

[Accepted Article Manuscript Version (Postprint)] Identification And Functional Characterization Of Arabidopsis Peroxin4 And The Interacting Protein Peroxin22, Bethany Zolman, Melanie Monroe-Augustus, Illeana Silva, Bonnie Bartel

Biology Department Faculty Works

Peroxins are genetically defined as proteins necessary for peroxisome biogenesis. By screening for reduced response to indole-3-butyric acid, which is metabolized to active auxin in peroxisomes, we isolated an Arabidopsis thaliana peroxin4 (pex4) mutant. This mutant displays sucrose-dependent seedling development and reduced lateral root production, characteristics of plant peroxisome malfunction. We used yeast two-hybrid analysis to determine that PEX4, an apparent ubiquitinconjugating enzyme, interacts with a previously unidentified Arabidopsis protein, PEX22. A pex4 pex22 double mutant enhanced pex4 defects, confirming that PEX22 is a peroxin. Expression of both Arabidopsis genes together complemented yeast pex4 or pex22 mutant defects, whereas expression …


Island Times, Dec 2005 - Jan 2006, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler Dec 2005

Island Times, Dec 2005 - Jan 2006, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler

Island Times Newspaper, 2005

No abstract provided.


Peaks Island Star : December 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 12, Service Agencies Of The Island Dec 2005

Peaks Island Star : December 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 12, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2005

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.


Department Of Music, Pittsburg State University Dec 2005

Department Of Music, Pittsburg State University

Recital Booklets

Pittsburg Public Library Chamber Music Concert featuring music by Bach, Torelli, Bloch, Mozart, and Schumann at Pittsburg Public Library at 4:30 PM


Fisheries Research Report No. 152 - Development Of A Dna Database For Compliance And Management Of Western Australian Sharks., Rory Mcauley, K. Ho, R. Thomas Dec 2005

Fisheries Research Report No. 152 - Development Of A Dna Database For Compliance And Management Of Western Australian Sharks., Rory Mcauley, K. Ho, R. Thomas

Fisheries Research Reports

Final FRDC Report - Project 2003/067

The capability to identify individual shark species from processed body parts is necessary for the WA Department of Fisheries to ensure the compliance of all WA fisheries with both existing protected species regulations and proposed new management measures for commercially important shark species. This project established a reference database of genetic profiles or ‘fingerprints’ for nine of Western Australia’s protected and commercially important shark species. Fingerprints from a 10th species, the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) could not be obtained due to probable primer sequence mismatching. The database, in conjunction with an associated inspection and …


The Perceptions Of Roles And Practices Of Preceptors And Their Expectations For Students In The Coordinated Program In Dietetics At Indiana State University, Carin R. Aloisio Dec 2005

The Perceptions Of Roles And Practices Of Preceptors And Their Expectations For Students In The Coordinated Program In Dietetics At Indiana State University, Carin R. Aloisio

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Dietetics education requires a minimum of a baccalaureate degree and 900 hours of supervised practice for eligibility of candidates to sit for the Registration Exam. The primary goals of this study are to determine perceptions of preceptors of supervised practice about their roles and practices and their expectations for students, and to compare and/or contrast these between the three main areas of dietetics: clinical, community and food service management.


An Analysis Of Industrial Characteristics And Incentives On Foreign Investment: The Case Of Rapid Economic Growth In Taiwan, Jo-Hui Chen Dec 2005

An Analysis Of Industrial Characteristics And Incentives On Foreign Investment: The Case Of Rapid Economic Growth In Taiwan, Jo-Hui Chen

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

This study measured the impacts of the industrial characteristics and the fiscal incentives that influenced foreign direct investment. We used the fixed effect model with a 2SLS simultaneous equation for the period of rapid economic growth from 1980 to 1996 across nine industries is Taiwan. We found that the wage and market size are positively correlated with foreign national investors, while exports are negatively correlated with overseas Chinese investors. The results also indicated that the tax holiday and the statute for the promotion of upgrading industries affect foreign national investors positively, but that R&D tax credits are ineffective. The relatively …


Notes On A Marketplace For Ideas?, Wendy J. Gordon, Oren Bar-Gill, Gideon Parchomovsky Dec 2005

Notes On A Marketplace For Ideas?, Wendy J. Gordon, Oren Bar-Gill, Gideon Parchomovsky

Scholarship Chronologically

The metaphor "a marketplace for ideas" is a prominent theme in First Amendment scholarship.2 In the First Amendment context, ideas provide the impetus for robust public debate, a foundational element of a democratic society. Ideas not only spark debate, but are an indispensable input in technological progress and innovation. While legal and economic scholarship has focused on patents, which protect inventions, little attention has been given to the sine qua non of invention, and therefore of patents: the underlying idea.


La Poétique Transgénérique De L’Oeil Et La Nuit D’Abdellatif Laâbi : Du Théâtral Au Filmique Dans Un Roman-Poème, Lucia Trifu Dec 2005

La Poétique Transgénérique De L’Oeil Et La Nuit D’Abdellatif Laâbi : Du Théâtral Au Filmique Dans Un Roman-Poème, Lucia Trifu

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The study proposes a re-reading, a new interpretation of the novel-poetry work L’oeil et la nuit by Moroccan writer Abdellatif Laâbi. In this literary text, the borders of writing are dismantled and new affinities are revealed between writing, performance, theatre and film; all of which aim to redefine the postcolonial


Vision, Winter 2005-Spring 2006 Dec 2005

Vision, Winter 2005-Spring 2006

Vision

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

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Présence Francophone Numéro 65 (2005) Dec 2005

Présence Francophone Numéro 65 (2005)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


L’Intertextualité Géopolitique Dans Le Petit Chat Est Mort De Fejria Deliba, Sarah B. Buchanan Dec 2005

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

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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.


Désir Et Impuissance Dans Halfaouine Et Bye-Bye, Scott Homler Dec 2005

Désir Et Impuissance Dans Halfaouine Et Bye-Bye, Scott Homler

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The experience of adolescence and the trials of Arab and Beur masculinity are explored in the films of Férid Boughédir and Karim Dridi in order to reveal the psychology and the politics of masculinity in evolution. Studying two films, Halfaouine and Bye-Bye, as well as the autobiography of Abdelkébir Khatibi entitled La mémoire tatouée, we see that they reflect a number of discursive stages of an emergent identity of protest that is based on flight and self-destruction.


Problèmes Et Enjeux De L’Adaptation En Algérie, Mehana Amrani Dec 2005

Problèmes Et Enjeux De L’Adaptation En Algérie, Mehana Amrani

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

As in all postcolonial societies confronted with the question of illiteracy, in Algeria, film adaptations pose a political and cultural stake. Due to the phenomena of political and moral censure and self-censorship, only ten novels were carried over to the screen during one 36-year period. However, with the rebirth of Algerian cinema in the Nineties, screenwriters are once again interested in setting Algerian novels in images. These new adaptations, which are often done in co-production with France and Belgium, introduce the new problems of language. The audience for these films, which are expressed mainly in French, is thus likely limited …


Ahmadou Kourouma Et La Genèse Tragique L’Événement Postcolonial Dans En Attendant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages Et Allah N’Est Pas Obligé, Étienne-Marie Lassi Dec 2005

Ahmadou Kourouma Et La Genèse Tragique L’Événement Postcolonial Dans En Attendant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages Et Allah N’Est Pas Obligé, Étienne-Marie Lassi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article studies the birth and manifestations of the tragic in Ahmadou Kourouma’s fiction. It demonstrates how the tragic in Kourouma’s novels, far from being a metaphysical feeling, stems from social realities and is closely related to the postcolonial system. In these novels, tragedy goes beyond the realistic depiction of catastrophic events and is further articulated in the characters’ political attitudes, their social life and cultural behaviour.


Discours De La Sexualité Et Postmodernisme Littéraire Africain, Adama Coulibaly Dec 2005

Discours De La Sexualité Et Postmodernisme Littéraire Africain, Adama Coulibaly

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Representations of sex in the black Africa postcolonial novel often strike us because of their centrality and coarseness. Using examples from three texts (Cannibale; L'État honteux; Les naufragés de l'intelligence), this article examines the manifestation and mainly the motivation of what seems like inappropriate outbursts. In this transcultural approach (beyond the intertextual), the aggressiveness of the sexuality discourse allows the novel to be linked to the large movement of postmodernism. This strategy of “textual extravagance” represents a society that “lacks substance”, a society of pretence, in the � � Baudrillardian�


Denise Brahimi (1997). Cinémas D’Afrique Francophone Et Du Maghreb, Ashleigh Rose Dec 2005

Denise Brahimi (1997). Cinémas D’Afrique Francophone Et Du Maghreb, Ashleigh Rose

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Philippe Bissek (Éd.) (2005). Mongo Beti À Yaoundé 1991-2001, Ambroise Kom Dec 2005

Philippe Bissek (Éd.) (2005). Mongo Beti À Yaoundé 1991-2001, Ambroise Kom

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Parties Annexes Dec 2005

Parties Annexes

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Technology Transfers Under The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change, Lorelyn Hall Dec 2005

Technology Transfers Under The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change, Lorelyn Hall

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Widening The Lens: Looking At Quality From A Program Administration Perspective, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership Dec 2005

Widening The Lens: Looking At Quality From A Program Administration Perspective, Mccormick Center For Early Childhood Leadership

McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership Publications

This Research Notes summarizes findings from a study involving 67 center-based early childhood programs in Illinois.


Connections, Fall, 2005; Issue Seven, Betsy Learned Dec 2005

Connections, Fall, 2005; Issue Seven, Betsy Learned

Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 4, December 2005, Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte Dec 2005

The Queen City Brew, Library Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 4, December 2005, Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte

JWU Library Newsletter - Charlotte Campus

No abstract provided.


Non-Apprenticeship Vet Courses : Participation, Persistence And Subsequent Pathways., Julie Mcmillan, Sheldon Rothman, Nicole Wernert Dec 2005

Non-Apprenticeship Vet Courses : Participation, Persistence And Subsequent Pathways., Julie Mcmillan, Sheldon Rothman, Nicole Wernert

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines recent school leavers who commenced non-apprenticeship VET courses in Australia during the late 1990s. The focus is on the early post-school years, up to age 20. The report has two broad aims: to describe the educational, training and labour market pathways of non-apprenticeship VET course entrants; and to identify factors associated with persistence in non-apprenticeship VET courses. The report uses data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) to address each of these aims. The findings are based upon a sample of young people who had been in Year 9 in 1995 and who commenced a …


Disc Separation Of The Schur Complement Of Diagonally Dominant Matrices And Determinantal Bounds, Jianzhou Liu, Fuzhen Zhang Dec 2005

Disc Separation Of The Schur Complement Of Diagonally Dominant Matrices And Determinantal Bounds, Jianzhou Liu, Fuzhen Zhang

Mathematics Faculty Articles

We consider the Gersgorin disc separation from the origin for (doubly) diagonally dominant matrices and their Schur complements, showing that the separation of the Schur complement of a (doubly) diagonally dominant matrix is greater than that of the original grand matrix. As application we discuss the localization of eigenvalues and present some upper and lower bounds for the determinant of diagonally dominant matrices.