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Full Issue, Byu Studies Dec 2005

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Top Ten Foods That Pack A Punch, Winston J. Craig Dec 2005

Top Ten Foods That Pack A Punch, Winston J. Craig

Lake Union Herald

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Socio-Economic Analysis Of Fatal Crash Trends (Final Report), Adam Kirk, Jerry G. Pigman, Kenneth R. Agent Dec 2005

Socio-Economic Analysis Of Fatal Crash Trends (Final Report), Adam Kirk, Jerry G. Pigman, Kenneth R. Agent

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

This report describes the analysis of fatal crash patterns and explores the impact of socioeconomic factors and safety regulations on statewide crash rates. This analysis separated statewide crash rates between 2002 and 2004 into two samples, 1) those with crash rates 25 percent greater than the average national rate and 2) those with crash rates lower than this threshold. Safety regulations and socioeconomic factors were identified as having a significant effect on crash rates, with socioeconomic factors showing a higher potential to explain differences in crash rates between the two samples.

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Today’S Dot And The Quest For More Accountable Organizational Structures, Lenahan O'Connell, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Merl Hackbart, Donald L. Hartman, Candice Wallace, Doug Kreis Dec 2005

Today’S Dot And The Quest For More Accountable Organizational Structures, Lenahan O'Connell, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Merl Hackbart, Donald L. Hartman, Candice Wallace, Doug Kreis

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

This study investigates the impact of DOT organizational structures on effective transportation planning and performance. A review of the 50 state DOT authorizing statutes and DOT organizational charts found minimal differences in organizational structures among the states. However, 37 states have quasi-independent commissions (sometimes called boards, or councils.) A statistical analysis showed that the commission states have higher Government Performance Project (GPP) scores than the non-commission states. The analysis suggested that effective commissions avoid having members represent geographical regions and political parties and avoid giving the commission the power to select the director of the DOT. In addition the states …

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Loss Of Nitrate-Nitrogen By Runoff And Leaching For Agricultural Watersheds, M. A. Elrashidi, M. D. Mays, A. Fares, C. A. Seybold, J. L. Harder, S. D. Peaslee, Pam Vanneste Dec 2005

Loss Of Nitrate-Nitrogen By Runoff And Leaching For Agricultural Watersheds, M. A. Elrashidi, M. D. Mays, A. Fares, C. A. Seybold, J. L. Harder, S. D. Peaslee, Pam Vanneste

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The loss of nutrients in runoff and leaching water from agricultural land is a major cause of poor water quality in the United States. Scientists (NRCS) developed a technique to estimate the impact of agricultural watersheds on natural water resources. The objectives were to apply the technique on Wagon Train (WT) watershed in Nebraska to predict: (i) loss of water by surface runoff and subsurface leaching, (ii) loss of nitrate-N from soils by runoff and leaching, and (iii) nitrate-N loading for WT reservoir. The annual loss of water was estimated at 4.32 million m3 for runoff and 0.98 million …

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Comparison Of Glomalin And Humic Acid In Eight Native U.S. Soils, K. A. Nichols, S. F. Wright Dec 2005

Comparison Of Glomalin And Humic Acid In Eight Native U.S. Soils, K. A. Nichols, S. F. Wright

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Two important extractable fractions of soil organic matter (SOM) are humic acid (HA) and glomalin-related soil protein (glomalin). Optimizing the purity of each fraction is necessary to correlate fraction quantity and molecular characteristics with soil quality. Manipulation of extraction sequence and controlled precipitation of HA were used to evaluate co-extraction of HA and glomalin. Eight bulk soil samples (0 to 10 cm depth) were collected from four U.S. states (Colorado, Nebraska, Maryland, and Georgia). In Experiment 1, glomalin extraction (50 mM citrate, pH 8.0, at 121 'C) was followed by HA extraction (0.1 N NaOH at room temperature), and Experiment …

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Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association Dec 2005

Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

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Smooth And Analytic Normal And Canonical Forms For Strict Feedforward Systems, Issa Amadou Tall, Witold Respondek Dec 2005

Smooth And Analytic Normal And Canonical Forms For Strict Feedforward Systems, Issa Amadou Tall, Witold Respondek

Miscellaneous (presentations, translations, interviews, etc)

Recently we proved that any smooth (resp. analytic) strict feedforward system can be brought into its normal form via a smooth (resp. analytic) feedback transformation. This will allow us to identify a subclass of strict feedforward systems, called systems in special strict feedforward form, shortly (SSFF), possessing a canonical form which is an analytic counterpart of the formal canonical form. For (SSFF)-systems, the step-by-step normalization procedure of Kang and Krener leads to smooth (resp. convergent analytic) normalizing feedback transformations. We illustrate the class of (SSFF)-systems by a model of an inverted pendulum on a cart.

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2005 Precision Planted Performance Trials: Corn, R. G. Hall, K. K. Kirby, G. Piechowski Dec 2005

2005 Precision Planted Performance Trials: Corn, R. G. Hall, K. K. Kirby, G. Piechowski

Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars (1920-1915)

T his publication reports the performance of entries in the 2005 South Dakota corn hybrid performance trials for both nonRoundup- Ready™ and Roundup-Ready™ hybrids. Information includes both the most recent 2-year and 1-year grain yields in bushels per acre (bu/a); and 1-year bushel weight, grain moisture at harvest, percent stand at harvest, and stalk lodge percentages. These performance trials are conducted by the South Dakota Crop Performance Testing ( CPT ) program at South Dakota State University.

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Farm And Home Research: 56-4, Lance Nixon, Marianne Stein Dec 2005

Farm And Home Research: 56-4, Lance Nixon, Marianne Stein

Farm and Home Research: 1999 - 2007

Contents: [Page] 3- Dean’s comments [Page] 4- The Color Purple [Page] 8- Homegrown chemicals [Page] 10- Mom’s just over the fence [Page] 12- Did 1996 Farm Bill live up to its name [Page] 16- We can change our minds about bacterial behavior [Page] 18- Scaup, scuds and wetlands [Page] 22- A biofilter that stands on end

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Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 2005, Agricultural Experiment Station Dec 2005

Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 2005, Agricultural Experiment Station

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This document highlights 32 crop and livestock research and demonstration reports from projects conducted at Southeast Research Farm in 2005. It is published by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service at South Dakota State University in cooperation with the Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Corporation. Reports in this document include information on: temperatures and precipitation data, corn production and performance, soybean research and planting, soil testing, alfalfa yield test, fertilizer testing, herbicide research, crop rotation, sorghum, small grains, livestock research, and pest and weed control.

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Familiar Battles For Bioethics: Facing Off Over Transplantation, Paul A. Lombardo Dec 2005

Familiar Battles For Bioethics: Facing Off Over Transplantation, Paul A. Lombardo

Faculty Publications By Year

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Faculty Senate Chronicle For December 1, 2005, Rose Marie Konet Dec 2005

Faculty Senate Chronicle For December 1, 2005, Rose Marie Konet

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes of the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on December 1, 2005.

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The Critical Entrepreneurial Competencies Required By Instructors From Institution-Based Enterprises: A Jamaican Study, Raymond Dixon, Ronald L. Meier, Danny C. Brown, Rodney L. Custer Dec 2005

The Critical Entrepreneurial Competencies Required By Instructors From Institution-Based Enterprises: A Jamaican Study, Raymond Dixon, Ronald L. Meier, Danny C. Brown, Rodney L. Custer

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

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Passages, Volume 6, No. 2, Fall 2005, Joe Mitchell Dec 2005

Passages, Volume 6, No. 2, Fall 2005, Joe Mitchell

Texas Cave Management Association

Contents: One Year at Deep and Punkin Preserve -- View from the Palit -- Volunteer for Texas Caves! -- D&P Birthday -- Robber Baron Needs a Fence! -- Interview with Cave Biologist, Dr. Andy Gluesenkamp -- Survey and Exploration of Deep and Punkin Caves Continues -- Notes of the Board of Directors of the Texas Cave Management Association

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Bridgewater Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2005 Dec 2005

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2005

Bridgewater Review

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The Role Of The Mortgage Industry In Economic Development, Kayode Omotosho Dec 2005

The Role Of The Mortgage Industry In Economic Development, Kayode Omotosho

Economic and Financial Review

This article examines the role of the mortgage industry in economic development with a view to identifying its problems, challenges and opportunities. Possible areas of assistance from other stakeholders are also highlighted. The article discussed the evolution of mortgage banking and financing in Nigeria and the demand/market for mortgage sector finance services in Nigeria. It estimates that Nigeria needed N50 billion annually to provide an estimate of 8 million housing units in 2000. The article then examines the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) in the last decade (1990 - 2000) and National Housing Fund (NHF) as well as the …

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Understanding The Technical Operation Of Mortgage Market: Financing Options And Valuation Techniques, Femi Ekundayo Dec 2005

Understanding The Technical Operation Of Mortgage Market: Financing Options And Valuation Techniques, Femi Ekundayo

Economic and Financial Review

This paper aims to discuss the. evolution of mortgage banking in Nigeria, development and practice of mortgage financing and valuation techniques using Primary Mortgage Institutions (PMI) as a thrust. It is also to elicit contributions from others and subject the final product to further research for development of the scheme in Nigeria.

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The National Housing Fund Scheme: The Journey So Far, O. A. Adeniji Dec 2005

The National Housing Fund Scheme: The Journey So Far, O. A. Adeniji

Economic and Financial Review

This article reviews the National Housing Fund and highlight the successes and constraints. The rest of the article is divided into five sections. Section 2 reviews the National Housing Fund Scheme. The lessons of experience from other countries are contained in section 3, while section 4 highlights the achievements of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) since the inception of the reforms. The problems militating against the effective implementation of the NHF is the focus of section 5. Section 6 concludes the article.

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Wbwg News, Volume 1, No. 1, December 2005, Cori Lausen, Kristi Dubois Dec 2005

Wbwg News, Volume 1, No. 1, December 2005, Cori Lausen, Kristi Dubois

WBWG News

Contents: About This Newsletter -- President's Corner -- Who's Who in the WBWG -- Headliners -- State/Province Updates -- News from BCI -- Other WBWG News -- Bat Bulletin Board -- Upcoming Events

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Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong : Popular Cinema And The Art Of Entertainment = 大衛．鮑德威爾 :《香港電影王國 : 娛樂的藝術》, Lori Morimoto Dec 2005

Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong : Popular Cinema And The Art Of Entertainment = 大衛．鮑德威爾 :《香港電影王國 : 娛樂的藝術》, Lori Morimoto

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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The Rise And Fall Of Taipei Cinema League : Film Revolution In 1930'S Modern City = 臺北電影聯盟的盛衰 : 三○年代現代城市的電影革命, Shozo Fujii, Faye Kleeman Yuan Dec 2005

The Rise And Fall Of Taipei Cinema League : Film Revolution In 1930'S Modern City = 臺北電影聯盟的盛衰 : 三○年代現代城市的電影革命, Shozo Fujii, Faye Kleeman Yuan

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Memory And Fragmentation In Dissociative Identity Disorder, Margaret Rose Barlow '96 Dec 2005

Memory And Fragmentation In Dissociative Identity Disorder, Margaret Rose Barlow '96

Doctoral Dissertations

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly called multiple personalities, is a condition in which aspects of experience and memory are separated from each other and from awareness. The current study adds to the literature in this area by utilizing a broad conceptualization of memory functioning in DID, combining ecologically valid memory tests with experimental paradigms, and examining shareability, switching, and integration. Eleven women with DID participated in a two-session experiment that included a variety of memory measures. Participants were given no instructions regarding switching among alters, but were later asked how often they had switched. They reported significantly higher levels of …

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Noti-Fealc, No. 22, Diciembre 2005, Carlos Benedetto Dec 2005

Noti-Fealc, No. 22, Diciembre 2005, Carlos Benedetto

Noti-FEALC

Contents: Editorial -- VII Asamblea de la F.E.A.L.C. -- 14º Congreso Internacional de Espeleología -- Letter of Protest -- Primera Reunion del Nuevo Bureau de la UIS -- Modificaciones en el Sistema de Informaciones de la U.I.S. -- Novedades de las Comisiones FEALC -- Novedades Nacionales

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High Potency And Other Alcoholic Beverage Consumption Among Adolescents, Edessa C. Jobli, Heather S. Dore, Chudley Werch, Michele Johnson Moore Dec 2005

High Potency And Other Alcoholic Beverage Consumption Among Adolescents, Edessa C. Jobli, Heather S. Dore, Chudley Werch, Michele Johnson Moore

Public Health Faculty Research and Scholarship

This study examined the prevalence of high potency (liquor, malt liquor, fortified wine) and other alcoholic beverage consumption (beer, wine/wine coolers) among adolescents, the impact of gender and ethnicity, and the risk and protective factors that predicted consumption. A confidential survey revealed that, among eighth grade students, wine/wine coolers were the most popular alcoholic beverages, with the highest levels of lifetime use, and the greatest current frequency and quantity of use, followed closely by beer and liquor. Minor gender differences were found, as well as notable ethnic differences, in consumption. Intentions and attitudes were important predictors of use across beverages. …

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An Empirical Study Of Fiscal Decentralization Of Local Governments In China, Jianfeng Wang Dec 2005

An Empirical Study Of Fiscal Decentralization Of Local Governments In China, Jianfeng Wang

Dissertations

The world is experiencing dramatic fiscal reconstruction in the socialist and (former) socialist countries and of continuing and fascinating evolution of government structure elsewhere. Being one of the fastest growing economies over the past nearly three decades, China seems deeply embracing this global mantra of power devolution in her effort to energize local economy that was suffocated in the highly constricted state-planning system. The literature of the Chinese central-local studies suggests that fiscal decentralization from the central government to provincial governments is a key institutional factor to explain Chinese economic success. However, the literature misses various lower levels of government …

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Constitutional Irony: Gonzales V. Raich, Federalism And Congressional Regulation Of Intrastate Activities Under The Commerce Clause, Steven K. Balman Dec 2005

Constitutional Irony: Gonzales V. Raich, Federalism And Congressional Regulation Of Intrastate Activities Under The Commerce Clause, Steven K. Balman

Tulsa Law Review

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Destabilized Doctrine At The End Of The Rehnquist Era And The Business Related Cases In Its Final Term, Barbara K. Bucholtz Dec 2005

Destabilized Doctrine At The End Of The Rehnquist Era And The Business Related Cases In Its Final Term, Barbara K. Bucholtz

Tulsa Law Review

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Writing The Book[Er] On Blakely: The Challenge To The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Carol A. Pettit Dec 2005

Writing The Book[Er] On Blakely: The Challenge To The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Carol A. Pettit

Tulsa Law Review

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New Breeding Bird Records For The Cumberland Mountains In Tennessee, Lesley Bulluck, Matthew Timpf Dec 2005

New Breeding Bird Records For The Cumberland Mountains In Tennessee, Lesley Bulluck, Matthew Timpf

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

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