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Liening On Dhr Construction, Llc, Herbert Sherman, Daniel James Rowley Dec 2005

Liening On Dhr Construction, Llc, Herbert Sherman, Daniel James Rowley

Organization Management Journal

This case describes the attempts of a small residential construction company to close on a home that they have built. The problem for the characters in question is how to proceed in this situation given the fact that a third party lien has been put against their properties because the developer they bought the properties from had not paid his landscaper. The case has a difficulty level appropriate for a freshmen and/or sophomore level course. The case is designed to be taught in one to two class periods based upon the authors’ prior experiences in teaching this case. Instructional time …


Appealing Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Constance Stansell Dec 2005

Appealing Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Constance Stansell

Law Library Student-Authored Works

No abstract provided.


Income Tax Liabilities And Possible Bankruptcy Solutions, Brent Howard Dec 2005

Income Tax Liabilities And Possible Bankruptcy Solutions, Brent Howard

Law Library Student-Authored Works

No abstract provided.


The Role Of The Irrevocable Trust In Estate Planning, Peter Bricks Dec 2005

The Role Of The Irrevocable Trust In Estate Planning, Peter Bricks

Law Library Student-Authored Works

No abstract provided.


Actions Memo December 2005, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee Dec 2005

Actions Memo December 2005, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.


Rural Land-Use Trends In The Conterminous United States, 1950-2000., Kenneth M. Johnson, Daniel G. Brown, Thomas R. Loveland, David M. Theobald Dec 2005

Rural Land-Use Trends In The Conterminous United States, 1950-2000., Kenneth M. Johnson, Daniel G. Brown, Thomas R. Loveland, David M. Theobald

Sociology

In order to understand the magnitude, direction, and geographic distribution of land-use changes, we evaluated land-use trends in U.S. counties during the latter half of the 20th century. Our paper synthesizes the dominant spatial and temporal trends in population, agriculture, and urbanized land uses, using a variety of data sources and an ecoregion classification as a frame of reference. A combination of increasing attractiveness of nonmetropolitan areas in the period 1970–2000, decreasing household size, and decreasing density of settlement has resulted in important trends in the patterns of developed land. By 2000, the area of low-density, exurban development beyond the …


The Voting Rights Cases Of 1937? The Adoption Of Voting Machine Technology In Baltimore City, Andrew H. Robinson Dec 2005

The Voting Rights Cases Of 1937? The Adoption Of Voting Machine Technology In Baltimore City, Andrew H. Robinson

Legal History Publications

Article I, § 1 of the Maryland Constitution states that all elections “shall be by ballot.” What exactly constitutes “by ballot” has evolved over several generations to include everything from the viva voce casting of ballots in crowded rooms and seamy city streets to the electronic touch screens and computerized smart cards of the Direct Record Electronic voting machine first implemented in Baltimore City in 1996. What has remained constant through the ages, however, has been the ever present commitment on behalf of State and city officials to utilize the technology and resources available to them to deliver to the …


Genealib Archive 2005-12, Genealib Dec 2005

Genealib Archive 2005-12, Genealib

GENEALIB Archive

No abstract provided.


The Faculty Notebook, December 2005, Provost's Office Dec 2005

The Faculty Notebook, December 2005, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.


Microfinance And Rural Development: A Long-Term Perspective, Henk A. J. Moll Dec 2005

Microfinance And Rural Development: A Long-Term Perspective, Henk A. J. Moll

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

The long-term perspective on microfinance starts with a discussion of three central issues: first, views and policies, with two opposing views: "credit for target group" and "pushing the financial frontier", second, the performance of microfinance institutions measured via two objectives: outreach and financial sustainability, third, microfinance and rural development. This latter issue is approached through analyses of the effects of financial services on rural households and analyses of long term national financial development. Both micro and macro studies show positive effects of an expansion of savings and lending services, financial deepening. The negative side of financial deepening, the apparently unavoidable …


Demonstrating Dynamic Configuration And Execution Of Web Processes, Karthik Gomadam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller Dec 2005

Demonstrating Dynamic Configuration And Execution Of Web Processes, Karthik Gomadam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web processes are next generation workflows on the web, created using Web services. In this paper we demonstrate the METEOR-S Configuration and Execution Environment (MCEE) system. It will illustrate the capabilities of the system to a) Discover partners b) Optimize partner selection using constraint analysis, c) Perform interaction protocol and data mediation. A graphical execution monitor to monitor the various phases of execution will be used to demonstrate various aspects of the system.


Summary Of Coastal And Estuarine Monitoring Programs In New Hampshire (2005), Phil Trowbridge Dec 2005

Summary Of Coastal And Estuarine Monitoring Programs In New Hampshire (2005), Phil Trowbridge

PREP Reports & Publications

The New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) compiles data from many coastal and estuarine monitoring programs to assess the status and trends of environmental indicators in the Great Bay and Hampton/Seabrook Harbor. The full list of NHEP environmental indicators has been published in the NHEP Monitoring Plan. The following catalog is a summary of the coastal and estuarine monitoring programs that provide data for NHEP indicators or for State water quality assessments. This list is limited to long-term monitoring programs that do not have an end date.


0541 Economic Development Committee, Colorado Legislative Council Dec 2005

0541 Economic Development Committee, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.


Spartan Daily, December 1, 2005, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2005

Spartan Daily, December 1, 2005, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 125, Issue 53


Characterization Of Gdp-Mannose Pyrophosphorylase From Escherichia Coli O157:H7 Edl933 And Its Broad Substrate Specificity, Yung-Hun Yang, Young Bok (Abraham) Kang, Kwang-Won Lee, Tek-Hyung Lee, Sung-Soo Park, Bum-Yeol Hwang, Byung-Gee Kim Dec 2005

Characterization Of Gdp-Mannose Pyrophosphorylase From Escherichia Coli O157:H7 Edl933 And Its Broad Substrate Specificity, Yung-Hun Yang, Young Bok (Abraham) Kang, Kwang-Won Lee, Tek-Hyung Lee, Sung-Soo Park, Bum-Yeol Hwang, Byung-Gee Kim

Faculty Publications - Biomedical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering

GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase gene (ManC) of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157 was cloned and expressed as a highly soluble protein in E. coli BL21 (DE3). The enzyme was subsequently purified using hydrophobic and ion exchange chromatographies. ManC showed very broad substrate specificities for four nucleotides and various hexose-1-phosphates, yielding ADP-mannose, CDP-mannose, UDP-mannose, GDP-mannose, GDP-glucose and GDP-2-deoxy-glucose.


December 2005 - Volume V, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department Dec 2005

December 2005 - Volume V, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume V Number 1 includes articles about the Doudna Fine Arts Center project and a "Where Are They Now?" section.


The Relationship Between The Number Of Shots And The Quality Of Gamma Knife Radiosurgeries, D Cheek, Allen G. Holder, M Fuss, B Salter Dec 2005

The Relationship Between The Number Of Shots And The Quality Of Gamma Knife Radiosurgeries, D Cheek, Allen G. Holder, M Fuss, B Salter

Mathematics Faculty Research

Radiosurgery is a non-invasive alternative to brain surgery that uses a single focused application of high radiation to destroy intracerebral target tissues. A Gamma Knife delivers such treatments by using 201 cylindrically collimated cobalt-60 sources that are arranged in a hemispherical pattern and aimed to a common focal point. The accumulation of radiation at the focal point, called a \shot" due to the spherical nature of the dose distribution, is used to ablate (or destroy) target tissue in the brain. If the target is small and spherical, it is easily treated by choosing one of four available collimators (4, 8, …


Monte-Carlo-Type Techniques For Processing Interval Uncertainty, And Their Potential Engineering Applications, Vladik Kreinovich, J. Beck, Carlos M. Ferregut, A. Sanchez, George R. Keller, Matthew G. Averill, Scott A. Starks Dec 2005

Monte-Carlo-Type Techniques For Processing Interval Uncertainty, And Their Potential Engineering Applications, Vladik Kreinovich, J. Beck, Carlos M. Ferregut, A. Sanchez, George R. Keller, Matthew G. Averill, Scott A. Starks

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In engineering applications, we need to make decisions under uncertainty. Traditionally, in engineering, statistical methods are used, methods assuming that we know the probability distribution of different uncertain parameters. Usually, we can safely linearize the dependence of the desired quantities y (e.g., stress at different structural points) on the uncertain parameters xi - thus enabling sensitivity analysis. Often, the number n of uncertain parameters is huge, so sensitivity analysis leads to a lot of computation time. To speed up the processing, we propose to use special Monte-Carlo-type simulations.


Dayton Engineer, Winter 2005-06, University Of Dayton Dec 2005

Dayton Engineer, Winter 2005-06, University Of Dayton

Dayton Engineer

The Dayton Engineer, published out of the Office of Public Relations, later University Communications, then University Marketing and Communications, provided news from the University of Dayton School of Engineering to alumni and friends. It was published from the late 1990s to about 2010.


Decg2005, Robert Kelly Dec 2005

Decg2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From December 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.


Western News, Dec. 1, 2005, Western Michigan University Dec 2005

Western News, Dec. 1, 2005, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Center puts focus on electronic portfolios; Engineering management program lauded; Obituaries for Henry Beukema, Thomas Slaughter, Carol Voytas; On Campus with Kathleen Keckler.


Vol. 07 No. 2 Journal Of Microfinance, Journal Of Microfinance Dec 2005

Vol. 07 No. 2 Journal Of Microfinance, Journal Of Microfinance

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.


Insights, Fall, 2005, Utah State University Dec 2005

Insights, Fall, 2005, Utah State University

Discovery Magazine

Bi-annual alumni newsletter for the College of Science of Utah State University in Logan.


Information Outlook, December 2005, Special Libraries Association Dec 2005

Information Outlook, December 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 12


Loss Aware Rate Allocations In H.263 Coded Video Transmissions, Xiao Su, Benjamin Wah Dec 2005

Loss Aware Rate Allocations In H.263 Coded Video Transmissions, Xiao Su, Benjamin Wah

Faculty Publications

For packet video, information loss and bandwidth limitation are two factors that affect video playback quality. Traditional rate allocation approaches have focused on optimizing video quality under bandwidth constraint alone. However, in the best-effort Internet, packets carrying video data are susceptible to losses, which need to be reconstructed at the receiver side. In this paper, we propose loss aware rate allocations in both group-of-block (GOB) level and macroblock level, given that certain packets are lost during transmissions and reconstructed using simple interpolation methods at the receiver side. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithms can produce videos of higher quality …


Open Access Federation For Library And Information Science, Anita Coleman, Joseph Roback Dec 2005

Open Access Federation For Library And Information Science, Anita Coleman, Joseph Roback

Faculty Publications

Self-archiving, the practice of depositing one's works in an OAI-compliant archive, is a key strategy for innovating scholarly communication and achieving open access. DL-Harvest, a subject service for Library and Information (LIS), based on the aggregation of OAI-PMH compliant metadata from both institutional and disciplinary digital repositories, including dLIST, is described. Additionally, results from two studies that explored LIS journal publishers' stances towards self-archiving as expressed in copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) and the scholarly communication behaviors of LIS scholars, with regard to self-archiving and searching, are presented and some implications for the development of federated subject services are highlighted.


Boots On The Ground: Use And Implications Of War Metaphors In A Top Team, Jo L. Longnecker Dec 2005

Boots On The Ground: Use And Implications Of War Metaphors In A Top Team, Jo L. Longnecker

Organization Management Journal

This paper describes the use and implications of war and military metaphors shared by a top management team working in the defense industry. The team used war metaphors pervasively to make meaning of the ambiguity and uncertainty in its environment. Five categories of war metaphors and action verbs were found. Findings from this study suggest the team used metaphors to structure and communicate abstract ideas and experiences, highlight or hide aspects of the work environment, unite team members, lead their organization, and maintain their warlike culture. Further findings demonstrate how the team constructed and maintained metaphors individually, intersubjectively, unreflectively, and …


Dayton Business Leader, Winter 2005-06, University Of Dayton Dec 2005

Dayton Business Leader, Winter 2005-06, University Of Dayton

Dayton Business Leader

The Dayton Business Leader, published out of the Office of Public Relations, later University Communications, then University Marketing and Communications, provided news from the University of Dayton School of Business Administration to alumni and friends. It was published from the late 1990s to about 2010.


Final Environmental Assessment And Finding Of No Significant Impact For The Proposed Safety Of Dams Modifications And Bridge Reconstruction, Provo Area Office, Upper Colorado Region, Bureau Of Reclamation, U.S. Department Of Transportation, Utah Division, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department Of The Interior Dec 2005

Final Environmental Assessment And Finding Of No Significant Impact For The Proposed Safety Of Dams Modifications And Bridge Reconstruction, Provo Area Office, Upper Colorado Region, Bureau Of Reclamation, U.S. Department Of Transportation, Utah Division, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department Of The Interior

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

The Bureau of Reclamation, Provo Area Office (Reclamation) proposes to replace the concrete spillway structure at Scofield Dam, the principal feature of the Scofield Project. This construction project would be completed under the Safety of Dams (SOD) Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-578, as amended). The proposed SOD modifications would correct safety deficiencies of the dam without affecting the purpose, or benefits of the dam. Reclamation also proposes to replace the existing gate house at its current position on the crest of the dam. This building is in poor condition and would be replaced with either a new concrete structure …


Campus Connection, December 2005, Vol. 7 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay Dec 2005

Campus Connection, December 2005, Vol. 7 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

Empowering "Ordinary People" To Achieve Their Dreams -- CSUMB Grant To Aid Homeless In Salinas -- Child Development Center Grant Helps Parents Complete College -- Joseph Wilson, Husband Of Outed CIA Agent, To Speak Here Dec. 6 -- Architectural Honor For Chapman Science Center -- Telecommunications Project -- Gulizar Baggson Practices An Ancient Art -- The Giving Tree Is Ready To Help Needy Kids -- Auction Time Is Coming -- Join The Alumni Book Drive -- New Employees -- Promotions -- Transfers -- Probation Passed -- Departures -- See You At The Holiday Party -- Meet Jacqui Cain