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Aggrey V. Atty Gen Usa

2005 Decisions

Agency

Jiang V. Atty Gen Usa

2005 Decisions

Agency

Usa V. Rodriguez

2005 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Usa V. Rodriguez

2005 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Romanoff V. State Comm'n On Judicial Performance

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 27, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Minimum Wage. Increases And Future Adjustments. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Increases California’s minimum hourly wage to $7.25, effective January 1, 2007, and then to $7.75, effective January 1, 2008. Establishes annual automatic adjustment of minimum wage beginning January 1, 2009, to be calculated each year by multiplying the minimum wage then in effect by the percentage of inflation that occurred during the previous year, using the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, or its successor index. Directs Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt minimum wage orders consistent with this initiative. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local governments: Potential …

Minimum Wage. Increases And Future Adjustments. Initiative Statute.

Initiatives

Increases California’s minimum hourly wage to $7.50, effective January 1, 2007, then to $8.25, effective January 1, 2008, and then to $8.75, effective January 1, 2009. Establishes annual automatic adjustment of minimum wage beginning January 1, 2010, to be calculated each year by multiplying the minimum wage then in effect by the percentage of inflation that occurred during the previous year, using the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, or its successor index. Directs Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt minimum wage orders consistent with this initiative. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal …

Usa V. Latz

2005 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Nonparametric Control Chart For The Range, Arnold J. Stromberg

Statistics Faculty Patents

A method is provided for detecting or predicting an undesired deviation in variability of at least one parameter being monitored, wherein the variation in the parameter is incrementally recorded. The method comprises establishing the number of subsets of a dataset that have a range of the difference between any two datapoints within the dataset, and computing a control chart for the range based thereon. The method accurately detects changes in variability in real time. The true distribution of the data is reflected, and the desired result is achieved without requiring an inordinate number of computations.

Effect Of Quercetin On Altered Vascular Reactivity In Aortas Isolated From Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats, Machha Ajay, Francis I. Achike, Ali Mohd Mustafa, Mohd Rais Mustafa

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The present work examined ex vivo the acute effect of quercetin on diabetic rat aortic ring reactivity in response to endotheliumdependent (acetylcholine, ACh) and endothelium-independent (sodium nitroprusside, SNP) relaxants, and to the a1-adrenergic agonist phenylephrine (PE). Responses were compared to those of aortic rings from age- and sex-matched euglycemic rats. Compared to euglycemic rat aortic rings, diabetic rings showed less relaxation in response to ACh and SNP, and greater contraction in response to PE. Pretreatment with quercetin (10 mM, 20 min) increased ACh-induced relaxation and decreased PE-induced contraction in diabetic, but did not affect euglycemic rat aortic ring responses. Following …

Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Yuan Wang, Frank Yates, Olaia Naveiras, Patricia Ernst, George Q. Daley

Dartmouth Scholarship

Despite two decades of studies documenting the in vitro blood-forming potential of murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs), achieving stable long-term blood engraftment of ESC-derived hematopoietic stem cells in irradiated mice has proven difficult. We have exploited the Cdx-Hox pathway, a genetic program important for blood development, to enhance the differentiation of ESCs along the hematopoietic lineage. Using an embryonic stem cell line engineered with tetracycline-inducible Cdx4 , we demonstrate that ectopic Cdx4 expression promotes hematopoietic mesoderm specification, increases hematopoietic progenitor formation, and, together with HoxB4, enhances multilineage hematopoietic engraftment of lethally irradiated adult mice. Clonal analysis of retroviral integration sites …

Nhep Support For Des Shellfish Program 2005, Mark R. Wiley, Ann S. Reid

PREP Reports & Publications

For the past three years, Great Bay Coast Watch (GBCW) volunteers have provided the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) Shellfish Program with significant assistance in performing tasks necessary in managing shellfish resources for human safety. This report describes a continuation of this mutually beneficial partnership.

Preliminary Analysis: Impacts Of The $8.50 Minimum Wage On Santa Fe Businesses, Workers And The Santa Fe Economy (Revised), Lee A. Reynis, Molly J. Bleecker, Myra Segal

BBER Publications

This is the preliminary analysis of data relating to the impacts of the $8.50 minimum wage mandated by the Living Wage Ordinance on Santa Fe workers, businesses and the Santa Fe economy. The final report will include a more complete analysis of data collected under this first phase of the research project and a statistical analysis of microdata available after the beginning of 2006.

System And Method For Generating Psuedo-Noise Sequences, Sina Balkir, Walter D. Leon Salas, Michael W. Hoffman, Lance C. Pérez

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Disclosed is a method for generating psuedo-noise (PN) sequences utilizing a system comprised of a quantizer, and N directly quantized output/input map containing chaotic map cells, each in functional combination with combiner means and an m-bit shift register.

Framing Race: The Election Of The First African-American Mayor Of Jackson, Mississippi, Byron D. Orey

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

“Lord have mercy! We're going to have a black mayor in Jackson, in Jackson, Mississippi.” — An anonymous black woman quoted in Chappell (1997)

The above epigraph expresses the shock within the black community of Jackson, Mississippi, when Harvey Johnson was elected as the city's first African-American mayor in June, 1997. Surprisingly, four years earlier Johnson failed to win the Democratic nomination for the mayor's office. How did Johnson rebound from his earlier defeat in the 1993 Democratic mayoral primary election? In other words, how does one explain Johnson's historic victory—the first African-American mayor of Jackson, Mississippi—in light of his …

The Passing Of Abc's Monday Night Football, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

At the end of its thirty-sixth season, ABC's Monday Night Football will pass into history, sort of. It certainly has been an institution of historical significance for broadcasting and for American popular culture as well as sport. It will not exactly disappear but will migrate to Sunday night, while ESPN's Sunday night football will move over to fill the void on Monday night.

High-Temperature Calcium Vapor Cell For Spectroscopy On The 4s2 1s0-4s4p 3p1 Intercombination Line, Christopher J. Erickson, Brian Neyenhuis, Dallin S. Durfee

Faculty Publications

We have demonstrated a high-temperature vapor cell for absorption spectroscopy on the Ca intercombination line. The cell uses a dual-chamber design to achieve the high temperatures necessary for an optically dense vapor while avoiding the necessity of high-temperature vacuum valves and glass-to-metal seals. We have observed over 50% absorption in a single pass through the cell. Although pressure broadening in the cell prevented us from performing saturated-absorption spectroscopy, the broadening resulted in higher signal-to-noise ratios by allowing us to probe the atoms with intensities much greater than the 0.2µW/cm2 saturation intensity of the unbroadened transition. The techniques presented in this …

Betty Lane Whitaker

African American Funeral Programs

Betty Lane Whitaker also had a graveside service on the 28th.

Accounting Fraud: Pleading Scienter Of Auditors Under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Gideon Mark

ExpressO

This paper examines the current judicial approach to assessing the scienter of auditors under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. The paper concludes that the current approach is inadequate and should be modified.

The Problems With Blaming, Theodore Y. Blumoff

ExpressO

This work examines the social practice of blaming, beginning with a prominent view of the moral philosophy of blaming, the semantics of character that support this (and related) views, and the social and cultural biases we bring to the process of attributing blame. Our penchant for blaming is too often manifest in a hyper-willingness to attribute wrongdoing solely to the character of the wrongdoer, often overlooking the salience of the varied situations in which the wrongdoer finds himself. I synthesize the wealth of data, mostly from social psychology, showing that blaming actualizes our own dispositions for over-emphasizing the actor’s wicked …

12/26/2005 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/26/2005. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Workshop On Missouri. History, Westward Movement, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Predicted Redidual Strength Of Damaged Isotrussâ® Structures, Travis S. Carroll

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis utilized a linear analytical approach to explore the damage tolerance or residual strength as a function of increasing damage in traditional single and hybrid-grid IsoTruss® structures. Residual strength was studied for structures subjected to axial compression, torsion and flexural bending, independently. Carbon/epoxy material properties were applied in all load cases, and fiberglass/epoxy material properties were also applied in the flexural bending case. Prior to imposing damage conditions, the IsoTruss® structures were parametrically optimized to achieve the highest strength-to-weight ratios. Typical compression strut, driveshaft, and utility pole specifications governed the design strength dimensions and boundary conditions. Damage growth was …

Mr. Lenton Sharpe

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Ddasaccident488, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

This memo serves to convene a formal Board of Inquiry (B01), effective 16th January 2006, to investigate the circumstances into the death of [the Victim] (Ins No. 2233), Deminer and injury of three other team members in Kabul CDS.

Passport To Toledo: Cuno, The World Trade Organization, And The European Court Of Justice, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

The purpose of this article is to try to place the debate about Cuno v. DaimlerChrysler in a broader perspective by connecting it with the overall discussion of harmful tax competition. It discusses two hypothetical scenarios under which the city of Toledo, Ohio, is (a) a separate country and (b) a member state of the European Union. If the first hypothetical were true, the tax incentives offered by Toledo would violate the rules of the World Trade Organization; if the second hypothetical were true, the tax incentives would also violate the Treaty of Rome, as interpreted by the European Court …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 25, 2005, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2005

No abstract provided.

12/25/2005 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/25/2005. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, Christmas 2005

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid