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Digital Must-Carry & (And) The Case For Public Television, Justin Brown

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Reciprocity, Justice, And Disability, Lawrence C. Becker

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Red Tape Or Accountability: Privatization, Public-Ization, And Public Values, Ellen Dannin

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Economic Importance Of Irrigated Agriculture 2003, Charles Lamphear

Department of Economics: Faculty Publications

Just how important is irrigated agriculture to the Nebraska economy? This question was first addressed nearly forty years ago in a study conducted by Drs. Theodore W. Roesler and F. Charles Lamphear, University of Nebraska Department of Economics. This initial study was updated in 1972 and, again, in 1991. The latest update study for 2003 was recently completed by Dr. Charles Lamphear, emeritus professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UN-L). He was assisted by emeritus professors Dr. Roy Frederick, UN-L Department of Agriculture Economics and Dr. Dale Flowerday, UN-L Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, along with several UN-L extension specialists. The results …

Clinical Case Management; A Strategy To Coordinate Detection, Reporting, And Prosecution Of Elder Abuse, Arlene D. Luu, Bryan A. Liang

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

Despite civil and criminal sanctions, elder abuse is a prevalent, underreported, and underprosecuted event in the United States. Traditional reporting legislation and common law remedies have had minimal effect on the incidence and prevalence of elder abuse. The epidemic nature of elder abuse is projected to increase exponentially as the elderly population grows disproportionately over the next several decades. The fragmented system of detecting, reporting, and prosecuting this abuse across a wide range of medical and legal settings creates a poor structure to effectively allow a potentially abused patient to have his/her abuse circumstance communicated to the relevant parties to …

The Chair, The Needle, And The Damage Done: What The Electric Chair And The Rebirth Of The Method-Of-Execution Challenge Could Mean For The Future Of The Eighth Amendment, Timothy S. Kearns

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

A Fe-Fd Hybrid Scheme For Solving Parabolic Two-Step Micro Heat Transport Equations In Irregularly Shaped Three Dimensional Double -Layered Thin Films Exposed To Ultrashort -Pulse Lasers, Brian R. Barron

Doctoral Dissertations

Multi-layer thin films are important components in many micro-electronic devices. These films are often used when a single film layer is insufficient to meet devices specifications. The continued reduction in component size has the side effect of increasing the thermal stress on these films and consequently the devices they comprise. Understanding the transfer of heat-energy at the micro-scale is important for thermal processing using a pulse-laser. Often, micro-voids may be found in processed devices. This is due to thermal expansion. Such defects may cause an amplification of neighboring defects resulting in severe damage and consequently the failure of the device. …

Design And Development Of Poly -(3 -Hexylthiophene) Field Effect Transistors, Fengliang Xue

Doctoral Dissertations

Organic field effect transistors (OFETs) with poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as the active layer are developed and studied. The device characteristics are significantly affected by source/drain contact resistance, and P3HT-SiO 2 interface and the traps. These results are verified by the numerical device simulations. The temperature dependence of device mobility is studied, which indicates that the carrier transport is either heat-assisted or heat-limited at different temperature ranges. The on/off ratio and threshold voltage are found to be dependent on the temperature. Hysteresis effect due to gate electric stress is investigated. The silanol groups present at the SiO2 surface are thought to be …

Creemos 2-En Esto Creemos, Ceh

Confesiones Luteranas

Creemos 2-En esto creemos

Catalog, 2005-2006, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 2005-2006 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

A Note On Government Budgets, Ben L. Kyer, Gary E. Maggs

Economics Faculty/Staff Publications

The standard pedagogical examination of government budgets includes the distinction between cyclical and structural deficits and surpluses and changes thereof. This paper extends the regular classroom analysis and graphically demonstrates that cyclical changes in the government budget can be decomposed and stated as the summation of the expenditure effect and the revenue effect.

'Super Paradox' Or 'Leninist Integration' : The Politics Of Legislating Article 23 Of The Basic Law In Post-Handover Hong Kong, Yiu Chung Wong

CAPS Working Paper Series

Liao Zhengzhi, the late director of the Office of Hong Kong and Macau Affairs, once said that, on the resumption of Hong Kong’s sovereignty, Hong Kong needed only to change the flag and British governor after the Handover. While the press was full of doomsday prophecies about Hong Kong s future, there was another camp of 'super-paradox' theorists who genuinely believed that Hong Kong s status quo would not changed after the Handover, for an authoritarian one PQ1吵-dominated PRC could absorb a free- flowing Hong Kong without changing the nature of an open society. Contrary to doomsday prophets and 'super-paradox' …

A Fitness Function For Modular Evolutionary Testing Of Object-Oriented Programs, Yoonsik Cheon, Kim Myoung

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

We show that encapsulation of states in object-oriented programs hinders the search for test data using evolutionary testing. In a well-designed object-oriented program the encapsulated or hidden state is accessible only through exported or public methods. As client code is oblivious to the internal state of a server object, no guidance is available to test the client code using evolutionary testing. In particular, it is difficult to determine the fitness or goodness of test data, as it may depend on the hidden internal state. However, evolutionary testing is a promising new approach whose effectiveness has been shown by several researchers. …

Quantum Versions Of K-Csp Algorithms: A First Step Towards Quantum Algorithms For Interval-Related Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Evgeny Dantsin, Alexander Wolpert, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many industrial engineering problems, we must select a design, select parameters of a process, or, in general, make a decision. Informally, this decision must be optimal, the best for the users. In traditional operations research, we assume that we know the objective function f(x) whose values describe the consequence of a decision x for the user. Optimization of well-defined functions is what started calculus in the first place: once we know the objective function f(x), we can use differentiation to find its maximum, e.g., as the point x at which the derivative of f with respect to x is …

Decision Making Beyond Arrow's "Impossibility Theorem", With The Analysis Of Effects Of Collusion And Mutual Attraction, Hung T. Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In 1951, K. J. Arrow proved that, under certain assumptions, it is impossible to have group decision making rules which satisfy reasonable conditions like symmetry. This Impossibility Theorem is often cited as a proof that reasonable group decision making is impossible.

We start our paper by remarking that Arrow's result only covers the situations when the only information we have about individual preferences is their binary preferences between the alternatives. If we follow the main ideas of modern decision making and game theory and also collect information about the preferences between lotteries (i.e., collect the utility values of different alternatives), …

Effect Of Sound Cue Frequency Filters On Front/Back Localization Performance For Three-Dimensional Verbal And Non-Verbal Warnings, Angelica A. Hernandez

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

In aviation, as technology becomes more advanced and more demands are placed on the human operator, warnings have become an important part of display design. Although warnings have made a significant contribution to safety, problems still plague their design. Recent technological advances have been able to give sounds and warnings a three-dimensional quality (3D). This technology enables a person to perceive sound from any direction around the listener without having the sound physically come from that direction. Three-dimensional sounds have been shown to improve target acquisition and collision avoidance in flight (Oving & Bronkhorst, 1999), and may have other future …

Acuta Journal Of Telecommunications In Higher Education

ACUTA Journal

In This Issue

The Coming Voice-over-lP Revolution

Report from the FCC CAC

The USA Patriot Act in 2005: What Technology Leaders Need to Know

Universal Service Funding in a Changing Telecommunications World

Taking a Flier on Tower Lighting

The Higher-Ed Spyware Threat

VolP and Wireless Communications Challenge 911 System

Leveling the Playing Field

lnstitutional Excellence Award: The University of Texas at Austin

Bill D. Monis Award: Jeanne Jansenius

ACUTA Legislative & Regulatory Affairs Committee Works for You

President's Message

From the Executive Director

Here's My Advice

Wildlife Health Centre Newsletter, Volume 11, Fall 2005

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Canada Takes a Big Step Forward
Update from the Centre for Coastal Health
West Nile Virus in non-corvid Bird Species
National Cervid Population Estimates
Disease Updates
Atlantic Region:
Fatal Encounter of a Great Horned Owl with a Porcupine
Total Amputation of Extremities in a Raccoon
Foot Gangrene in Northern Gannets
Quebec Region:
Avian Cholera in the St. Lawrence Estuary in the Common Eider
Verminous pneumonia in beluga whales from the St. Lawrence Estuary
Ontario Region:
Type E Botulism in Lake Ontario 2004/2005
Pesticide Toxicities in Birds
Virus Infections in Gulls & Cormorants on Lakes Erie and Ontario
A Mortality Event …

Canada’S National Chronic Wasting Disease Control Strategy

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

The objective of Canada’s National Chronic Wasting Disease Control Strategy is to establish a coordinated national policy and a disease response and management framework to minimize the negative impacts of Chronic Wasting Disease on biodiversity, human and livestock health, the environment and the economy. The ultimate objective of this Strategy is to eradicate Chronic Wasting Disease from Canada or, failing this, to achieve the tightest possible control of the disease so that it does not spread to new geographic areas or to new species, and so that its environmental, economic and health impacts are minimized. As mandated by the federalprovincial/ …

Application Of Polyelectrolyte Layer-By-Layer Nano-Assembly For Surface Modification, Encapsulation And Controlled Release, Nikhil Anil Pargaonkar

Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, we applied the traditional Electrostatic layer-by-layer (ELBL) assembly procedure to fabricate nanothin films over flat surfaces, and modify particle surfaces to influence the drug particle size, and drug release. The ELBL assembly has previously been applied to fabricate multilayer nano-scale thin films, but its ability to instantaneously influencing particle size is unique. Other unique observations such as influence on drug release as a result of polymer complexation, and thermal changes occurring during layer fabrication are recorded.

The ELBL self-assembly process was applied to produce dexamethasone particles layered with various polyelectrolyte layer combinations. These combinations were further applied …

Vol. 81, No. 1 | Fall 2005, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater Magazine

No abstract provided.

Harding Magazine Fall 2005 (Vol. 13, No. 3), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

Field, Issue 73, Fall 2005, Multiple Contributors

FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

No abstract provided.

Textile Society Of America Newsletter — Fall 2005, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Collections Management and Preservation Project for the Kala Raksha Trust, Kutch, India
Symposium 2006
From the President
TSA News
TSA Study Tours
Collections News
Conservation News
TSA Member News
Corrections Research
Conference Reviews
Exhibition Reviews
Book Reviews
Resources
Calendar-Exhibitions, Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Tours, Residencies
Conferences and Symposia
Grants and Awards
Opportunities

Nebraska Vine Lines, Volume Viii, Issue 5, October/November 2005

Nebraska Vine Lines (2003–2006)

• Highlights of The North American Grape Breeders Roundtable

• Paul Read to participate in Facultry Development Leave at the University of Tasmania

• Grape Breeding 101

• Small Scale Commercial Wine Making Workshop

• University Research Plots by Steve Gamet

• Fermenter’s Supply and Equipment

• Be Sure to put the 9th Annual Forum on your calendar

• The Japanese Beetle by Chelsey Wasem

• Reams Sprinkler Supply

Expectations, Challenges, And Frustrations: Faculty And Administrator Perceptions Of Quality And Assessment, Fred A. Koslowski Iii

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The purpose of this study was not to evaluate the means or methods by which outcomes assessment and quality are being enacted in higher education, or take sides in the raging state and federal policy debate on institutional accountability and efficiency, but rather to describe the reactions, feelings, and perceptions of one particular institutions internal stakeholders to the increasingly shrill rhetoric on such topics. The present research sought to provide a voice for current faculty and administrators who will be responsible for implementing these renewed calls for assessing educational quality: specifically, their perceptions of the value, challenges, opportunities, and frustrations …

Students’ Reflective Journals: National Standards For School Leaders And University Preparation Programs, Amany Saleh, Jackie Mcbride

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

This study was conducted to determine the extent to which student’s reflective writings during the educational leadership internship indicated if students were able to understand and relate the ELCC standards to their schools practices. A second purpose was to use these reflective journals to evaluate how well the program prepared the students for their role as future school leaders by examining how well their experiences aligned with the ELCC standards.

Web-Enhanced Instruction: A Mixed Bag, Carol Mullen

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Professionals are being expected to function in a progressively complex environment in all fields (Twale & Kochan, 2000). Technology plays a significant role in this challenge (Diem, 2002; Karlen, 2001), particularly for educational leaders (Mendis, 2002). Teaching and leading have become increasingly multifaceted art forms with the advent of learning technologies. University and school faculty are being expected to design, deliver, and assess successful online courses (Fuks, Gerosa, & de Lucena, 2002; Mendis, 2002), often without the necessary training and support (Walker, 2002). As face-to-face contact becomes reduced through online environments, effective communication becomes essential and barriers more pronounced (e.g., …

Administrators’ Perspectives Of Diversity: An Examination Of The University Of Florida, Brigitta Johnson

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The issue of successful diversity management is of particular concern now because of changing demographics. This research documents how administrators at the University of Florida have struggled with the challenge of diversity in recent years and makes suggestions for how administrators at other institutions can learn from this example.

Collaborative Action Learning And Leadership: A Feminist/Indigenous Model For Higher Education, Judy Witt, Four Arrows

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

An article discussion the intersectionality of feminism, traditional Indigenous models of leadership, and modern leadership studies.