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The Legal And Practical Implications Of The Draft Convention On Wreck Removal (Dwrc), Zhongzhou Fan

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

2005 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Track-And-Field Top Performances, Great Northwest Athletic Conference

Track and Field

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Shaken From Her Pedestal: A Decade Of New York City's Sex Industry Under Siege, Jennifer Cook

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reimagining The Right To Commercial Sex: The Impact Of Lawrence V. Texas On Prostitution Statutes, Belkys Garcia

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Chinese Dilemma: Practical Solutions To Irresponsible Immigration Reform And The Ensuing Circuit Court Traffic Jam, Zachary Slapsys

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Time To Look To The East, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

One of the most dynamic regions of the world today and likely to remain so in the next several decades is East Asia (including Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand). The East Asia summit that was held at Kuala Lumpur recently was a path-breaking event in which 10 Asian countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam), along with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and India participated. This summit could become a precursor for a long drawn process for an emerging East Asian Community.

Vertebroplasty On Patients With Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures, Tsung-Ying Li, Shuu-Hai Jiang, Ho-Jui Tung, Ming-Chi Lin, Kao-Chung Tsai

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Introduction: There are more than three hundred thousand cases of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in Taiwan. To hasten the healing process and minimize the related complications of fracture, various treatments have been evolved. In 1987, the technique of percutaneous vertebroplasty was first developed in Europe by a group of radiologists. Before that, conservative treatment, rehabilitation intervention and a surgical approach had been used, with diverse outcomes, as reported in various studies. Although these methods had been developed over several years, they had rarely been compared in terms of outcome and prognosis, in our hospital. Methods: A retrospective study of treatment …

Use Of Hot Air Engine To Generate Electricity From Biogas: A Critique For Rural Development In Tanzania, L. L. N. Mkiramweni, P. Msaki, I. B. Mshoro

Tanzania Journal of Science

Rural electrification has high national priority because of several reasons. First, more than 90 per cent of the populations in Tanzania have no access to grid electricity and about 80% of this population lives in rural areas. Second, the poverty alleviation projects demand the incorporation of use of electricity in different economic projects. Third, a combination of high prices of fuel and environmental degradation and deforestation demand use of alternative renewable energy sources. The aim of this paper is to give a critical review and selected a suitable renewable energy by considering its ability to provide affordable, reliable and adequate …

Distribution Of Hourly Variability Index Of Sky Clearness, A. Madhlopa

Tanzania Journal of Science

Clouds affect the values of insolation for solar technology and other applications. To detect the presence of variability in the sky clearness, an hourly variability index (p3) is calculated. The present study examined the frequency distribution of this variable as a tool for assessing the utilizability of solar radiation at a site. Solar radiation data from Chileka weather station in Malawi was used to calculate p3 and mean monthly variability index (p3m) and determine the probability model for each month. It was found that p3m was highest in April (0.20) and lowest in September (0.10), with the beta probability model …

Manajemen Laba Dan Status Keterlambatan Perusahaan Dalam Menyampaikan Laporan Keuangan Tahunan, Ika Permatasari

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether companies who are behind schedule in submitting theirfinancial statement to Bapepam tend to do more earnings management than those who are on time. This study also evaluates other factors of earnings management, such as leverage, firm size, availability of audit committee and independent board, and audit quality. Using the proxy of discretionary accruals as the indicator of earnings management, this study finds that behind-schedule companies show higher average of discretionary accruals than on-time companies. Statistics also show thatfinancial indicators for these companies are significantly different. Further, this study finds that leverage …

Pengaruh Mekanisme Corporate Governance Terhadap Peringkat Surat Utang Perusahaan Di Indonesia, Dyah Setyaningrum

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This research investigated whether corporate governance mechanism affects the firm 's bond rating in Indonesia. Specifically, investigation on whether corporate governance components, which are represented by ownership structure and influence, financial transparency and disclosure and board structure, affect the firm s bond rating. This research used several corporate governance mechanisms developed by Bursa Efek Jakarta and bond rating classification developed by Pefindo and Kasnic. Ordered logit model is selected to test the research problem. Using firm s characteristic as controlling variable, this research found that the firm s bond rating is: (1) negatively associated with the number o f block …

Pengaruh Manajemen Laba Pada Nilai Dan Kinerja Perusahaan, Prihat Assih, Ambar Woro Hastuti, Parawiyati Parawiyati

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

Managers manage their earnings because they want to influence the investors perception about firm s performance, subsequently the firms could extract low cost exsternal fund. Managers have incentive to practice income-increasing earnings mangemsnt before they make initial public offerings (IPO) in order to get high offering price. However, these practice could decrease the opportunity o f managers to manage their earnings in the future periods. I f earnings management before public offering cause investors to be over optimistic about future earnings, investors will be disappointed with firm ’s performance after IPO and the firm value tend to decrease in the …

Analisis Pengaruh Kepemilikan Manajerial, Kebijakan Utang, Roa Dan Ukuran Perusahaan Terhadap Kebijakan Dividen: Studi 1995-1996, Kartika Nuringsih

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This research examined the influence of managerial ownership, debt policy, ROA andfirm size on dividend policy. Actually under dividend policy still have many puzzles. The research model is developed from Chen & Steiner (1999), Moh ’d, Rimbey & Perry (1995), Jensen, Solberg and Zorn (1992), Chrutchley & Hansen (1989), with focusing at 60 samples from manufacturing company. Data are taken from Indonesia Capital Market Directory in 1995-1996. It uses 3 equations, the first is multiple regressions for examining four hypothesis. The results show: managerial ownership is positive and significant to dividend policy, debt policy is negative and significant to dividend …

Dampak Tingkat Pengungkapan Informasi Perusahaan Terhadap Volume Perdagangan Dan Return Saham: Penelitian Empiris Terhadap Perusahaan-Perusahaan Yang Tercatat Di Bursa Efek Jakarta, Dedi Junaedi

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of disclosure level to market indicators, such as trading volume activity (TVA) and stock returns. This study also tries to evaluate the difference in market indicators for companies with differences in disclosure level: comprehensive and non-comprehensive. This study adopts content analysis approach in generating disclosure index, using data from annual reports of firms listed in the JSX in the periods of 2000 - 2002. This study uses mean comparison analysis and regression analysis, both linear and hgistic, in testing the effect of disclosure level to market indicators of companies with …

The Effect Of Institutional Ownership To Volume Reaction Around Earnings Announcements At The Jakarta Stock Exchange, Rafika Yuniasih

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This study examines trading volume reaction to earnings announcements; specifically the effect of information asymmetry across investors before earnings announcement, in the form of differences in ownership structures measured by the level of institutional ownership, to trading volume around earnings announcements. Further, this study also examines other factors related to volume reaction around earnings announcements such as price changes resulted in certain unexpected earning levels, cost of transactions, and firm size. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method is initially used in finding the relation between unexpected trading volume in two-day and seven-day announcement period windows to the independent variables used …

Assessment Of Anti-Poaching Effort In Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, C. L. Nahonyo

Tanzania Journal of Science

Anti-poaching effort in Ruaha National Park for the period between January 1996 to June 1999 was evaluated in terms of strength, frequency and duration of patrols, area covered and success of patrols. It was found that the park spent 72.4 US$ km-2 year-1 on law enforcement. There were 72 rangers each required to patrol on the average 143 km2. A total of 1,255 patrols were conducted; patrols ranged from 14 to 43 trips per month and each lasted between 1 to 25 days and most were foot and vehicle patrols. Patrol units had 2 to 11 rangers while the average …

Moral Hazard And The Initial Public Offering, A. Christine Hurt

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Rehabilitation Therapy For Women With Urinary Incontinence, Ted Fang, Yi-Hui Lu, Jan-Wei Chiu, Tsui-Fen Yang, Ling-Chun Chang, Rai-Chi Chan, Kem-Jem Yu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Urinary incontinence is a very common but also very debilitating problem for older women. It has been estimated that the incidence of urinary incontinence among women older than 65 of age is about 30-60%. The management includes surgical therapy and conservative treatment such as drug therapy and rehabilitation. Rehabilitation therapy offers an alternative intervention for patients who are afraid of invasive surgery or experience intolerable side effects from drugs.This study evaluated the clinical efficacy of rehabilitation therapy for urinary incontinence. We collected a total of 30 patients. Fifteen had stress urinary incontinence, 2 had urge urinary incontinence, 5 had mixed …

Using Fitts' Law To Evaluate Functional Performance Of Operating Computer Input Devices In Patients With Cervical Cord Injury, Chien-Hsiu Liu, Shu-Chun Liu, Hsu-Tung Chu, Chi-Ming Shin, Yung-Wen Tang, Liu-Ing Bih

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Due to the recent development of the assistive technology, patients with cervical cord injury may use an adapted computer input system to participate in various computer related activities, and as a result patients improve their quality of daily living and leisure activities. Fitts' Law is a reliable reference to compare the performance of normal persons using an input device like a mouse. The purpose of this study is to apply Fitts' Law to understanding the functional performance of patients with cervical cord injury when operating a mouse, trackball, and sip-and-puff controller.Twenty-five subjects were included in this study. The controls consisted …

Central Pontine And Extrapontine Myelinolysis After Surgical Removal Of Pituitary Adenoma: A Casereport, Hui-Tai Yang, Yen-Hung Chang, Hung-Chih Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Central pontine myelinolysis(CPM) and extrapontine myelinolysis(EPM), sharing the same pathology, are the same disease, although different symptoms and signs developed according to different lesion sites. The etiology and pathogenesis of CPM/EPM remain unclear, meanwhile rapid correction of the serum sodium level for hyponatremic patient has proven to be one of the major causes of CPM/EPM. Therefore an appropriate correction of the sodium level could prevent the development of CPM/EPM. The incidence of hyponatremia after surgical removal of pituitary adenoma reported varies from 8.4% to 38.8%. Most patients with symptomatic hyponatremia after the surgery recovered without neurological deficits. Only three cases …

Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships -- Interagency Volunteer Program & Cooperative Conservation Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Get Outdoors Nevada

• Database now contains 1,807 records, a 15% increase over the last quarter.
• Website activity increased, recording an average of 38,399 hits per month, with an average of 3,537 pages viewed per month.
• Inaugural interagency volunteer recognition event held October 28, 2005.
• Interagency training program (phase 1) scheduled for February 2006 (four sessions).
• Alternative Workforce Survey completed and delivered to National Park Service.

Re-Evaluation Of The Main Ridge Site And Adjacent Areas: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Archaeology

Hired graduate student to conduct the archival research

Purchased computer and camera for archival work

Met with Steve Daron about desired archival research methods

Presented a Fall 2005 brown bag lecture to the UNLV Anthropology Department about the upcoming project

Presented paper on upcoming work at the Three Corners Conference, held on October 15, 2005 at UNLV

Archaeological Research & Data Management, Lake Mead National Recreation Area And Parashant National Monument: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Archaeology

• 2005-2006 survey priorities established
• Completed 650 acres of survey at Lake Mead NRA and 700 acres of survey at Parashant National Monument
• Search for the project manager underway
• Hiring of crew member(s) 90% completed
• Preparations underway for the summer field school
• Presented a Fall 2005 brown bag lecture to the UNLV Anthropology Department about the upcoming project
• Presented paper on upcoming work at the Three Corners Conference, held October 15, 2005 at UNLV

Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Anti-littering Programs

• Messaging campaign proposal approved by the federal Land Managers.
• Invitations sent to potential Community Steering Committee members.
• Project Manager Doug Joslin appointed to new county-wide Southern Nevada Recycling Advisory Committee.
• Four public service announcements produced by UNLV students.
• Contract with the Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) in progress for prison crew site clean-ups.
• Plan for agency requests for additional dumpsters and/or roll-offs approved by team.

Afci Quarterly Input – Unlv October 1 Through December 31, 2005, Harry Reid Center For Environmental Studies. Nuclear Science And Technology Division

Transmutation Research Program Reports (TRP)

Quarterly report highlighting research projects, activities and objectives of the Transmutation Research Program at the Nuclear Science & Technology Division, Harry Reid Research Center.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas supports the AFCI through research and development of technologies for economic and environmentally sound refinement of spent nuclear fuel. The UNLV program has four components: infrastructure, international collaboration, student-based research, and management and program support.

Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships: Cultural Site Stewardship Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• Active stewards in the program now total 169, an increase of 497% since December 2004.
• 11 additional major cultural site impacts resulting in measurable damages reported this quarter. Four additional impacts with somewhat lesser significance also reported in the quarter. Total impacts since December 2004 total 36 major and 12 less significant.
• 2006 monitoring plan for Gold Butte implemented.
• Training class on Southern Nevada Pre-history presented to 41 site stewards.

Intraarticular Injection Of Sodium Hyaluronate In Adhesive Capsulitis Of The Shoulder, Shu-Fen Sun, Chiao-Wen Hwang, Pei-Te Hsu, Ya-Wen Hsu, Shin-Lung Tsai, Jue-Long Wang, Chien-Wei Hsu, Yi-Jiun Chou

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The etiology and natural history of adhesive capsulitis remain obscure, which limited subsequent management. Traditional treatments include conservative medical therapy and physical therapy, but severe shoulder pain may constitute an obstacle to joint mobilization. Local steroid injection into or around the shoulder joint has been shown to alleviate pain in early stages of the disease. Late disease appears less responsive and there are many known risks of complications. Many different protocols to treat the disease have been reported, but the results are generally unsatisfatcory and difficult to compare.Our goal was to determine the efficacy of a combined treatment-intraarticular injection of …

Bimalleolar Fracture After Spinal Cord Injury: A Casereport, Shie-Fu Shieh, Huey-Wen Liang, Wen-Hsung Hou, Yen-Ho Wang, Shih-Fong Huang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The incidence of fracture is higher in patients with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI), particularly female and elderly patients, than in healthy people. Functional impairment due to SCI may lead to accidental falls and fractures, most of which are due to trivial injury or without known trauma. In addition, the inevitable osteoporosis in the paralyzed limbs of individuals with chronic SCI increases their risk of fracture. The lower limbs are more often involved than the upper limbs. Because of the sensory impairment associated with SCI, fractures may be difficult to diagnose, and treatment may be delayed. The treatment of fractures …

Analisis Perilaku Instabilitas Perekonomian Indonesia: Pendekatan Keterkaitan Ekonomi Makro, Perdagangan Internasional, Dan Sektor Pertanian, Andi Irawan, Perry Warjiyo

Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking

In general the aim of this study is to investigate short-run relationships among macroeconomy, international trade and agriculture in Indonesia. Under such circumstances, the specific goals of this research is to analyze whicheconomic blocks that have most affected by instability, as well as producing instability in the economy.We apply the Vector Error Correction Model on monthly series data from 1993:01 to 2002:12. The main resultof this study shows asfollow: 1) that the asset financial and the commodity demand blocks the most producing instability in the economy. On the other hand, the export block producing the least instability to the economy. …