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Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: Weapon In The War On Drugs Or War On Blacks, Crystal S. Byrd

McCabe Thesis Collection

This study will attempt to determine the direct and indirect consequences of Federal mandatory minimum drug sentences and drug policy to African Americans. It will examine statistics on drug use, arrest, convictions, and incarceration of African Americans. These statistics will be gathered from several government agencies and will be used to determine if American drug policy discriminates against African Americans. The purpose of this study is to inform and educate African Americans about Federal mandatory minimum drug sentences and the impact they are having on Black communities and to provide links to resources that can be used to promote drug …

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Finance And Service Committee Meeting, Tuesday, November 1, 2005, Arts & Sciences Finance And Service Committee

Finance and Service Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

University Women's Club 2005-2006, 2005-11, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

University Women's Club

No abstract provided.

On The Action Of Weight-Preserving Sets, Matthew Badger

Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)

We introduce weight-preserving sets of binary words. Any transformation that respects the row and column weights of a 0-1 matrix can be decomposed as a composition of two types of action on the matrix. We conjecture that weight-preserving sets perform only one type of action, permutations of rows and columns; i.e., weight-preserving sets are cwatsets.

Bombs Under Bangor: The Ninth Circuit Holds Submarine Base Siting Beyond The Scope Of Nepa And The Esa. Ground Zero Center For Non-Violent Action V. U.S. Department Of The Navy, Crystal L. Hermann

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

On The Basis For Creation Of A New Method Of Defining International Jurisdiction In The Arctic Ocean, Barry Hart Dubner

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Hunting On National Wildlife Refuges: Unchecked Expansion Or Fully Compatible Use?, Kurt R. Moser

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Environmental Updates

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Public Health And Safety Exception: Finding A "Position Of Trust" Where None Exists. United States V. Snook, John R. Griffith

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 7 No. 6 (November/December 2005), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.

Archeological Impact Evaluations And Surveys In The Texas Department Of Transportation's Abilene, Austin, Brownwood, Bryan, Fort Worth, Waco, And Yoakum Districts, 2001-2003, Ross C. Fields, Karl W. Kibler, E. Frances Gadus, Douglas K. Boyd, Timothy B. Griffith

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This document constitutes the final report of work done by Prewitt and Associates, Inc. (PAI), under a contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to provide archeological services in seven TxDOT districts—Abilene, Austin, Brownwood, Bryan, Fort Worth, Waco, and Yoakum. Under this contract, PAI completed Impact Evaluations and Surveys to assist TxDOT in meeting the requirements of their Memorandum of Understanding with the Texas Historical Commission and a Programmatic Agreement among the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Federal Highway Administration, the Texas Historical Commission, and TxDOT. The contract began on 21 September 2001, and the last work authorization …

From The Editor And Table Of Contents

Spiritan Magazine

No abstract provided.

Acuta Enews November 2005, Vol. 34, No. 11

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Despite Court Ruling, IRS Will Continue to Assess Tax............... Jeri A. Semer, CAE, ACUTA Executive Dir.

From ACUTA Headquarters: Upcoming ACUTA Surveys............... Jeri A. Semer, CAE, ACUTA Executiver Dir.

ACUTA Directory to Go Online

Tech Talk: WMM Adds Touch of Class to Wireless Networking................ Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR

FYI: Useful Information from the Campus.................... Student Monitor

Web Tip: Pop-Up Blockers................ Aaron Fuehrer, ACUTA Information Technology Mgr.

Info Links.......................... Randy Hayes, University of Northern Iowa

ACUTA Online Press Room

Board Report............. Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Secretary/Treasurer

DC Update............ Whitney Johnson, Retired, No. Michigan Univ.

Welcome …

Statistical Pronouncements Iv, Shlomo S. Sawilowsky

Theoretical and Behavioral Foundations of Education Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Load And Resistance Factor Calibration For Wood Bridges, Andrzej S. Nowak, Christopher D. Eamon

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research Publications

The paper presents the calibration procedure and background data for the development of design code provisions for wood bridges. The structural types considered include sawn lumber stringers, glued-laminated girders, and various wood deck types. Load and resistance parameters are treated as random variables, and therefore, the structural performance is measured in terms of the reliability index. The statistical parameters of dead load and live (traffic) load, are based on the results of previous studies. Material resistance is taken from the available test data, which includes consideration of the post-elastic response. The resistance of components and structural systems is based on …

Place Of Work And Place Of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks And Labor Market Outcomes, Patrick Bayer, Stephen L. Ross, Giorgio Topa

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

The Profits Of Power: Land Rights And Agricultural Investment In Ghana, Markus Goldstein, Christopher Udry

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Institutions And Development: A View From Below, Rohini Pande, Christopher Udry

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

The Quartzite Problem Revisited, Jeffrey L. Howard

Environmental Science and Geology Faculty Research Publications

A review of past terminology and previous petrological studies suggests that quartzite should be classified descriptively as both a sedimentary and a metamorphic rock. Quartzite is identified in the field as a quartz‐rich rock (exclusive of chert and vein quartz) that is exceptionally hard and, when broken by a rock hammer, fractures irregularly through both grains and cement (where present) to form an irregular or conchoidal fracture surface. Quartzite is differentiated from quartzose sandstone (arenite), which is softer and fractures around individual grains, and from chert and vein quartz by a bright vitreous luster. Quartzite is classified further on the …

Plumage Convergence In Picoides Woodpeckers Based On A Molecular Phylogeny, With Emphasis On Convergence In Downy And Hairy Woodpeckers, Amy C. Weibel, William S. Moore

Biological Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Adult and juvenile plumage characters were traced onto a well-resolved molecular based phylogeny for Picoides woodpeckers, and a simple phylogenetic test of homology, parallelism, and convergence of plumage characters was performed. Reconstruction of ancestral character states revealed multiple events of independent evolution of derived character states in most characters studied, and a concentrated changes test revealed that some plumage characters evolved in association with habitat type. For example, there was a statistically significant association between loss of dorsal barring and use of densely vegetated habitats among Picoides species. Two analyses indicated that convergence, as opposed to parallel evolution or shared …

Fort Hays State University Faculty Senate Minutes For Regular Meeting On Tuesday, November 1, 2005, Fhsu Faculty Senate

Minutes

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Island Times, Nov 2005, Mary Lou Wendell, David Tyler

Island Times Newspaper, 2005

No abstract provided.

Broadband Nulling Of A Vortex Phase Mask, Grover Jr Swartzlander

Articles

A pulse transmitted through a helical vortex phase mask undergoes a temporal Hilbert transform. The fluence transmitted into the unfavorable plane wave mode is found to increase as the square of the bandwidth and, to first order, is independent of the topological charge.

Fort Hays State University Faculty Senate Minutes For Regular Meeting On Tuesday, November 1, 2005, Fhsu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Efficacy Studies Of Malaria Treatments In Africa: Efficient Estimation With Missing Indicators Of Failure, Rhoderick N. Machekano, Grant Dorsey, Alan E. Hubbard

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Efficacy studies of malaria treatments can be plagued by indeterminate outcomes for some patients. The study motivating this paper defines the outcome of interest (treatment failure) as recrudescence and for some subjects, it is unclear whether a recurrence of malaria is due to that or new infection. This results in a specific kind of missing data. The effect of missing data in causal inference problems is widely recognized. Methods that adjust for possible bias from missing data include a variety of imputation procedures (extreme case analysis, hot-deck, single and multiple imputation), inverse weighting methods, and likelihood based methods (data augmentation, …

A Chapter 11 Debtor's Life After Oct. 17: Not So Bad If You Effectively Plan, Michelle M. Harner, Carl E. Black

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Combining Interval, Probabilistic, And Fuzzy Uncertainty: Foundations, Algorithms, Challenges -- An Overview, Vladik Kreinovich, David J. Berleant, Scott Ferson, Weldon A. Lodwick

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Since the 1960s, many algorithms have been designed to deal with interval uncertainty. In the last decade, there has been a lot of progress in extending these algorithms to the case when we have a combination of interval and probabilistic uncertainty. We provide an overview of related algorithms, results, and remaining open problems.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Magnet Attractions, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Magnet Attractions

No abstract provided.

11-01-2005 Hatton Receives Top Honor, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2005

Dr. Vicki Hatton, chair of the Department of Kinesiology at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, recently received the highest award that the Oklahoma Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance bestows on individuals.