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Optimally Combining Censored And Uncensored Datasets, Paul J. Devereux, Gautam Tripathi Dec 2005

Optimally Combining Censored And Uncensored Datasets, Paul J. Devereux, Gautam Tripathi

Economics Working Papers

Economists and other social scientists often face situations where they have access to two datasets that they can use but one set of data suffers from censoring or truncation. If the censored sample is much bigger than the uncensored sample, it is common for researchers to use the censored sample alone and attempt to deal with the problem of partial observation in some manner. Alternatively, they simply use only the uncensored sample and ignore the censored one so as to avoid biases. It is rarely the case that researchers use both datasets together, mainly because they lack guidance about how …

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Small Hope Floats: How The Lower Courts Have Sunk The Right Of Privacy, Stephanie D. Taylor Dec 2005

Small Hope Floats: How The Lower Courts Have Sunk The Right Of Privacy, Stephanie D. Taylor

West Virginia Law Review

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Protecting West Virginia's Public Fora: Criteria To Safeguard Our Rights Of Expression, Melissa M. Rounds Dec 2005

Protecting West Virginia's Public Fora: Criteria To Safeguard Our Rights Of Expression, Melissa M. Rounds

West Virginia Law Review

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A Contractarian Approach To Unconscionability, Horacio Spector Dec 2005

A Contractarian Approach To Unconscionability, Horacio Spector

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In this paper I discuss two nonpaternalistic defenses of the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law. The first approach, proposed by Seana Shiffrin, relies on the moral ban to collaborate with other agents' immoral plans. Because this prohibition falls also on the judge, she must refrain from enforcing unfair or exploitative contracts. The second approach regards the unconscionability doctrine as one limitation on freedom of contract that rational contractors would choose in the course of adopting the fundamental terms of social cooperation. I assess the implications and merits of the two approaches. 'The contractarian approach is capable of justifying procedural …

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Infection Of An Invasive Frog Eleutherodactylus Coqui By The Chytrid Fungus Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis In Hawaii, Karen H. Beard, Eric M. O'Neill Dec 2005

Infection Of An Invasive Frog Eleutherodactylus Coqui By The Chytrid Fungus Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis In Hawaii, Karen H. Beard, Eric M. O'Neill

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has contributed to declines and extinctions of amphibians worldwide. B. dendrobatidis is known to infect the frog Eleutherodactylus coqui in its native Puerto Rico. E. coqui was accidentally introduced into Hawaii in the late 1980s, where there are now hundreds of populations. B. dendrobatidis was being considered as a biological control agent for E. coqui because there are no native amphibians in Hawaii. Using a DNA-based assay, we tested 382 E. coqui from Hawaii for B. dendrobatidis and found that 2.4% are already infected. We found infected frogs in four of 10 study sites and …

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Speleo Spiel, No. 351, November-December 2005, Alan Jackson Dec 2005

Speleo Spiel, No. 351, November-December 2005, Alan Jackson

Speleo Spiel

Contents: Regular Bits -- Trip Reports -- Other Exciting Stuff

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Under Review: Globalizing Education For Work: Comparative Perspectives On Gender And The New Economy, Jessie M. Hayden Dec 2005

Under Review: Globalizing Education For Work: Comparative Perspectives On Gender And The New Economy, Jessie M. Hayden

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

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Book Review: Legal Writing Advice: Questions And Answers, Lisa Mazzie Hatlen Dec 2005

Book Review: Legal Writing Advice: Questions And Answers, Lisa Mazzie Hatlen

Faculty Publications

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Review Of: Forests In Time: The Environmental Consequences Of 1,000 Years Of Change In New England, Review Of: Sightseeking: Clues To The Landscape History Of New England, Kent C. Ryden Dec 2005

Review Of: Forests In Time: The Environmental Consequences Of 1,000 Years Of Change In New England, Review Of: Sightseeking: Clues To The Landscape History Of New England, Kent C. Ryden

American and New England Studies [Discontinued]

The article reviews the books "Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England," edited by David R. Foster and John D. Aber and "Sightseeing: Clues to the Landscape History of New England," Christopher J. Lenney.

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2005 Vol. 54 No. 3, Cleveland-Marshall College Of Law Dec 2005

2005 Vol. 54 No. 3, Cleveland-Marshall College Of Law

2000s

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Effect Of Gender On Lower Extremity Kinematics During Rapid Direction Changes: An Integrated Analysis Of Three Sports Movements, S. G. Mclean, K. B. Walker, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert Dec 2005

Effect Of Gender On Lower Extremity Kinematics During Rapid Direction Changes: An Integrated Analysis Of Three Sports Movements, S. G. Mclean, K. B. Walker, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a common sports injury, particularly in females. Gender differences in knee kinematics have been observed for specific movements, but there is limited information on how these findings relate to other joints and other movements. Here we present an integrated analysis of hip, knee and ankle kinematics across three movements linked to non-contact ACL injury. It was hypothesised that there are gender differences in lower extremity kinematics, which are consistent across sports movements. Ten female and ten male NCAA basketball players had three-dimensional hip, knee and ankle kinematics quantified during the stance phase of sidestep, …

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Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 2, Issue 11, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Dec 2005

Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 2, Issue 11, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

Connections: Library News for Library Staff

The purpose of Connections was to build community within UTA Library staff by reminding people of upcoming events and dates, introducing new staff members, celebrating a department's achievements, and writing about other items of interest.

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Message From The Provost, The Mcnair Team Dec 2005

Message From The Provost, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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An Analysis Of Tricksters In Mythology And Folklore Among The Native North Americans And Peoples Of Africa, Angel Mayorga Dec 2005

An Analysis Of Tricksters In Mythology And Folklore Among The Native North Americans And Peoples Of Africa, Angel Mayorga

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Inhibition Of Mycothiol-S-Conjugote Amidose (Mca) And Anti-Tubercular Drug Treatment, Rosanne Whitten Dec 2005

Inhibition Of Mycothiol-S-Conjugote Amidose (Mca) And Anti-Tubercular Drug Treatment, Rosanne Whitten

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Photo Gallery, The Mcnair Team Dec 2005

Photo Gallery, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Medicaid Third-Party Liability And Claims For Restitution: Defining The Proper Role For The Tort System In Regulating The Food Industry, Coby Warren Logan Dec 2005

Medicaid Third-Party Liability And Claims For Restitution: Defining The Proper Role For The Tort System In Regulating The Food Industry, Coby Warren Logan

Journal of Food Law & Policy

This comment contends that tort liability can complement legislative and administrative government regulation of the food industry, providing sellers and manufacturers of food with an incentive to prevent consumers from over-consumption and becoming obese. Specifically, this comment supports the proposition that after government regulations are promulgated by Congress, claims should be allowed by state attorneys general to recoup Medicaid costs incurred in treating health conditions and illnesses caused by obesity.

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Teaching Children About Social Justice Through Picture Books, Brooke C. Sorenson Dec 2005

Teaching Children About Social Justice Through Picture Books, Brooke C. Sorenson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

"Boys can't play with dolls!" "A girl can't be a doctor!" "Those people look weird!" "He's to dumb to play with us!" "My mommy says I can't play with you!" Unfortunately, phrases like this can be heard on a typical elementary school playground. As teachers, we have the difficult task of teaching about social justice and working to uproot prejudice and discrimination.

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Factors Impacting Development Time For Online Postsecondary Instruction., Karen Hughes Miller 1945- Dec 2005

Factors Impacting Development Time For Online Postsecondary Instruction., Karen Hughes Miller 1945-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study focused on the development and validation of a web-based survey instrument designed to measure faculty perceptions on the importance of 24 variables that contribute to the facilitation of online postsecondary course development. It builds on the work of Lee (2001, 2002) and Easton (2003) who also investigated the faculty perceptions of the importance of specific variables in the development and delivery on online postsecondary education. Knowing which variables contribute most to online course development is important because it helps faculty members estimate the time needed to develop particular courses by considering which variables apply to their situation; and …

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A Local Model Of Writing Program Assessment : Fourteen Community College Faculty Define And Evaluate Writing Proficiency., Richard Anthony Butsch 1956- Dec 2005

A Local Model Of Writing Program Assessment : Fourteen Community College Faculty Define And Evaluate Writing Proficiency., Richard Anthony Butsch 1956-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The introduction to this doctoral dissertation is an argument for locating Writing Across the Curriculum programs on the community-college campus for several reasons, among them the proximity of the disciplines on the community college campus, the increasingly underprepared community college student, and movements toward accountability and assessment at the local and state levels. As an example of what a WAC program may accomplish in the area of program assessment, which developed from WAC proper in the last decade of the last century, Chapters One, Two and Three present data I collected from fourteen faculty volunteers who gave up a beautiful …

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Observer, Central Washington University Dec 2005

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for December 1, 2005

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Hate Crimes Against The Homeless: Warning-Out New England Style, Sandra Wachholz Dec 2005

Hate Crimes Against The Homeless: Warning-Out New England Style, Sandra Wachholz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article reports on the hate crime victimization experienced by thirty individuals over the course of their homelessness in a New England city. Indepth interviews were conducted with the participants in order to provide a detailed, contextual account of the nature and forms of their hate crime victimization in public and semi-public spaces. Central to the article is the argument that hate crimes against homeless people function as informal social control mechanisms that impose spatial constraints, not unlike the character and objectives of the warning-out laws that were used to exclude homeless people from the public and private space of …

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Child Welfare Revisited: An Africentric Perspective. Joyce E. Everett, Sandra P. Chipungu And Bogart R. Leashore (Eds.)., Amy C. Conley Dec 2005

Child Welfare Revisited: An Africentric Perspective. Joyce E. Everett, Sandra P. Chipungu And Bogart R. Leashore (Eds.)., Amy C. Conley

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Joyce E. Everett, Sandra P. Chipungu and Bogart R. Leashore (Eds.), Child Welfare Revisited: An Africentric Perspective. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. $62.00 hardcover, $23.95 papercover.

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Distributed Computing And Computer Security Education, Stefan Robila Dec 2005

Distributed Computing And Computer Security Education, Stefan Robila

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This paper presents our experience in using cluster computing when teaching Computer and Data Security. The background knowledge together with the topics that fit the best applications of distributed computing and the hardware and software needs are discussed. Several project activities are presented with some analyzed in detail. The first requires the students to develop a computer cluster out of a regular public lab and use it for building security attacks such as password and encryption key cracking. The second deals with prime number generation using a client /server architecture (implemented in Java) and an Oracle database complemented by the …

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Lineage Path Integration For Phylogenetic Resources, Katherine G. Herbert, Shashikanth Puspati, Jason T.L. Wang, William H. Piel Dec 2005

Lineage Path Integration For Phylogenetic Resources, Katherine G. Herbert, Shashikanth Puspati, Jason T.L. Wang, William H. Piel

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

With the increase of genome and proteome data, phylogenetic information and phylogenetic analysis tools are increasing greatly in current biological repositories. First, many repositories allow users to browse information about species through taxonomic tools. These tools present the species with its lineage path and links to the various types of information the repository provides about the species. Second, some multiple sequence alignment tools offer users basic phylogenetic data through applying basic reconstruction algorithms to the alignment. With the availability of this information in multiple locations, integrated tools are needed to allow the user to compare this data. This paper presents …

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/48 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2005

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/48 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Corrective action in low performing schools : lessons for NCLB implementation from first-generation accountability systems / Heinrich Mintrop [and] Tina Trujillo.

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Medellin V. Dretke: Another Chapter In The Vienna Convention Narrative, Janet K. Levit Dec 2005

Medellin V. Dretke: Another Chapter In The Vienna Convention Narrative, Janet K. Levit

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Table Of Contents, Laurel Holland, J. Scott Carter Dec 2005

Table Of Contents, Laurel Holland, J. Scott Carter

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

Table of Contents for the Inaugural Issue (December 2005)

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Pantheism: A Viable Possibility?, Kyle Vernon Dec 2005

Pantheism: A Viable Possibility?, Kyle Vernon

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Supramolecular Materials From Co₁ And Lysine-Based Peptides, Anjenique Anderson Dec 2005

Supramolecular Materials From Co₁ And Lysine-Based Peptides, Anjenique Anderson

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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