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Where There's Smoke, There's Fire (And Brimstone): Is It Time To Abandon The Clergy-Penitent Privilege, Rena Durrant Dec 2006

Where There's Smoke, There's Fire (And Brimstone): Is It Time To Abandon The Clergy-Penitent Privilege, Rena Durrant

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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The Economic Review Of The Travel Industry In Montana: 2006 Biennial Edition, Kara Grau, Melissa Bruns-Dubois, Norma Nickerson Dec 2006

The Economic Review Of The Travel Industry In Montana: 2006 Biennial Edition, Kara Grau, Melissa Bruns-Dubois, Norma Nickerson

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This review provides current and historical data of nonresident travel and tourism in Montana, and offers the industry's economic contributions to the state.

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The Hilltop 12-1-2006, Hilltop Staff Dec 2006

The Hilltop 12-1-2006, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

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Vision-Based Target Geo-Location Using A Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicle, D. Blake Barber, Joshua D. Redding, Timothy W. Mclain, Randal W. Beard, Clark N. Taylor Dec 2006

Vision-Based Target Geo-Location Using A Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicle, D. Blake Barber, Joshua D. Redding, Timothy W. Mclain, Randal W. Beard, Clark N. Taylor

Faculty Publications

This paper presents a method for determining the GPS location of a ground-based object when imaged from a fixed-wing miniature air vehicle (MAV). Using the pixel location of the target in an image, with measurements of MAV position and attitude, and camera pose angles, the target is localized in world coordinates. The main contribution of this paper is to present four techniques for reducing the localization error. In particular, we discuss RLS filtering, bias estimation, flight path selection, and wind estimation. The localization method has been implemented and flight tested on BYU’s MAV testbed and experimental results are presented demonstrating …

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Two-Loop Bethe Logarithms For Non- S Levels, Ulrich D. Jentschura Dec 2006

Two-Loop Bethe Logarithms For Non- S Levels, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Two-loop Bethe logarithms are calculated for excited P and D states in hydrogenlike systems, and estimates are presented for all states with higher angular momenta. These results complete our knowledge of the P and D energy levels in hydrogen at the order of α8 mec2, where me is the electron mass and c is the speed of light, and scale as Z6, where Z is the nuclear charge number. Our analytic and numerical calculations are consistent with the complete absence of logarithmic terms of order (απ)2 (Zα)6 ln [(Zα)-2] …

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 42, December 1, 2006 Dec 2006

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 42, December 1, 2006

Central Florida Future

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Campus Connection, December 2006, Vol. 8 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay Dec 2006

Campus Connection, December 2006, Vol. 8 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

New Provost Will Join Campus In January -- The Library's Beginnings: All Steel And Concrete -- Applying Information Technology To Better The World -- Creativity And Speed Win At Gingerbread House Contest -- Don't Forget The Giving Tree -- Remembering The Good Old Days (The Clown Princes) -- Fort Ord's Past Revisited Through Photos -- How 80 CSUMB Employees 'Walked' Across The U.S. -- New Employees -- Transfers And Promotions -- Probation Passed -- 25 Million Spam Emails Blocked -- See You At The Holiday Party-- Recognizing Employee Service -- Meet Susie Hernandez

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Strengthening The Criminal Defendant's Right To Counsel, Anne Bowen Poulin Dec 2006

Strengthening The Criminal Defendant's Right To Counsel, Anne Bowen Poulin

Cardozo Law Review

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Judith Merril: A Primary And Secondary Bibliography, Elizabeth Cummins Dec 2006

Judith Merril: A Primary And Secondary Bibliography, Elizabeth Cummins

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

This Judith Merril bibliography includes both primary and secondary works, arranged in categories that are suitable for her career and that are, generally, common to the other bibliographies in the Center for Bibliographic Studies in Science Fiction. Works by Merril include a variety of types and modes—pieces she wrote at Morris High School in the Bronx, newsletters and fanzines she edited; sports, westerns, and detective fiction and non-fiction published in pulp magazines up to 1950; science fiction stories, novellas, and novels; book reviews; critical essays; edited anthologies; and both audio and video recordings of her fiction and non-fiction.

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A Comparative Study Of Hybrid And Internet-Based Educational Technology Course Modules, Nilly Adnan Al-Banna Dec 2006

A Comparative Study Of Hybrid And Internet-Based Educational Technology Course Modules, Nilly Adnan Al-Banna

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine students’ attitudes and performance toward the teaching methods in an educational technology course. Undergraduate students enrolled in the Educational Technology course ETEC 2002L at the University of Arkansas had been exposed to both on-line modules and in-class instruction. The sample size for this study was 155. The results included 110 valid surveys completed by the students on paper. The data collected from the survey were analyzed using percentages, means, and t test of paired samples to find if there was a significant difference in students’ attitudes toward on-line versus hybrid instruction. Four …

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Board Of Trustees Minutes, December 1, 2006, Eastern Washington University Dec 2006

Board Of Trustees Minutes, December 1, 2006, Eastern Washington University

Board of Trustees Minutes

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The Impact Of The Internet On Airline Fares: How The Customer Viewed The Transition To Internet Distribution, William J. Brunger Dec 2006

The Impact Of The Internet On Airline Fares: How The Customer Viewed The Transition To Internet Distribution, William J. Brunger

Student Scholarship

Customers who use Internet websites find and buy lower fares than do those who use travel agents for similar trips, even though for most large U.S. airlines the fares and availability offered through both channels are the same (because of contractual obligations). Economic and marketing theory offers "transparency" and "lowered search costs" as primary explanations. In an effort to understand, describe and corroborate those explanations, we studied the behavioral changes implied by the Internet, asking customers how they have understood the transition to Internet travel purchase and how they believe they have changed their behavior, specifically about the impact of …

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An Analytical Performance Management Framework Enabiling Enterprise Strategy Management, Amr Abu-Suleiman Dec 2006

An Analytical Performance Management Framework Enabiling Enterprise Strategy Management, Amr Abu-Suleiman

Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Performance management has gained noticeable interest from both researchers and executive in the past two decades. Financial measures are no longer a primary emphasis for researchers and executives. One of the most popular performance management methodologies is the Balanced Scorecard. The Balanced Scorecard framework facilitates translating strategy into objectives and initiatives across four perspectives. These perspectives are financial, customer, internal processes, and learning and growth. The second component of the balanced scorecard is strategy maps. Strategy maps outline the cause and effect between the four perspectives, and illustrate the value creation process through transforming leading indicators (operational measures) into lagging …

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Integration Without Unification: An Argument For Pluralism In The Biological Sciences, Sandra D. Mitchell, Michael R. Dietrich Dec 2006

Integration Without Unification: An Argument For Pluralism In The Biological Sciences, Sandra D. Mitchell, Michael R. Dietrich

Dartmouth Scholarship

In this article, we consider the tension between unification and pluralism in biological theory. We begin with a consideration of historical efforts to establish a unified understanding of evolution in the neo‐Darwinian synthesis. The fragmentation of the evolutionary synthesis by molecular evolution suggests the limitations of the general unificationist ideal for biology but not necessarily for integrating explanations. In the second half of this article, we defend a specific variety of pluralism that allows for the integration required for explanations of complex phenomena without unification on a large scale.

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Typhoon In Japan, Anita Raichand Dec 2006

Typhoon In Japan, Anita Raichand

The Prairie Light Review

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Criminal Law, Laura D. Hogue, Franklin J. Hogue Dec 2006

Criminal Law, Laura D. Hogue, Franklin J. Hogue

Mercer Law Review

The tension between prosecuting those charged with violating the laws of this state and defending the rights of those accused of having committed crimes sets the stage for the multitude of opinions from the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court in the field of criminal law. As always, we strive to present cases that will assist attorneys in their practice, either by surveying cases that present careful reiteration of age-old principles or by surveying cases that alter old rules or establish new ones. We limit our Article to cases that affect the practice of criminal law but …

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Evidence, Marc T. Treadwell Dec 2006

Evidence, Marc T. Treadwell

Mercer Law Review

The most significant news during the current survey year continued to be the major legislative developments discussed in last year's survey. Most significantly, the Georgia General Assembly, during its 2005 session, enacted Official Code of Georgia Annotated ("O.C.G.A.") section 24-9-67.1, which purports to adopt, more or less, the United States Supreme Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its progeny, and creates special rules for expert testimony in medical negligence actions. In other words, Daubert has now come to Georgia and, as discussed below, there were both legislative and judicial developments regarding Georgia's new expert witness …

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Come Saturday Morning ... At Bridgewater State College, Joseph H. Huber, Jamie L. Mackool Dec 2006

Come Saturday Morning ... At Bridgewater State College, Joseph H. Huber, Jamie L. Mackool

Bridgewater Review

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Punishing Pundits: People V. Dyleski And The Gag Order As Prior Restraint In High-Profile Cases, Michael D. Seplow, Paul L. Hoffman Dec 2006

Punishing Pundits: People V. Dyleski And The Gag Order As Prior Restraint In High-Profile Cases, Michael D. Seplow, Paul L. Hoffman

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Courting The Stars: Why The Legal System Needs New(S) Thinking For Overpowering Celebrity Trials, Craig Matsuda Dec 2006

Courting The Stars: Why The Legal System Needs New(S) Thinking For Overpowering Celebrity Trials, Craig Matsuda

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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High-Profile Prosecutors &(And) High-Profile Conflicts, Laurie L. Levenson Dec 2006

High-Profile Prosecutors &(And) High-Profile Conflicts, Laurie L. Levenson

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Towards An Honest Belief Plus Standard In California Employment Discrimination Cases, Noam Glick Dec 2006

Towards An Honest Belief Plus Standard In California Employment Discrimination Cases, Noam Glick

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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A More Regular Process For Irregular Rendition, A. John Radsan Dec 2006

A More Regular Process For Irregular Rendition, A. John Radsan

Seton Hall Law Review

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When Secrecy Threatens Security: Edmonds V. Department Of Justice And A Proposal To Reform The State Secrets Privilege, Anthony Rapa Dec 2006

When Secrecy Threatens Security: Edmonds V. Department Of Justice And A Proposal To Reform The State Secrets Privilege, Anthony Rapa

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Arribot- An Enabler For Studying Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Jaymala Suresh Ghadigaonkar Dec 2006

Arribot- An Enabler For Studying Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Jaymala Suresh Ghadigaonkar

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

The objective of this thesis is to structure a mobile wireless sensor network using low cost, custom made robotic platforms. Over the years, several projects have proved that the performance of a static wireless sensor network (WSN) is greatly enhanced by using mobile WSN for applications like adaptive exploration or in search and rescue missions where the network topology changes with changes in the environment. A low cost, mobile wireless sensor node known as the ARRI BOT has been designed to contribute along with other robotic platforms in structuring an ingenious mobile wireless sensor network (MSWN). The ARRI BOT has …

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Incorporating Electron-Transfer Functionality Into Synthetic Metalloproteins From The Bottom-Up, Jing Hong, Olesya A. Kharenko, Michael Y. Ogawa Dec 2006

Incorporating Electron-Transfer Functionality Into Synthetic Metalloproteins From The Bottom-Up, Jing Hong, Olesya A. Kharenko, Michael Y. Ogawa

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The alpha-helical coiled-coil motif serves as a robust scaffold for incorporating electron-transfer (ET) functionality into synthetic metalloproteins. These structures consist of a supercoiling of two or more R helices that are formed by the self-assembly of individual polypeptide chains whose sequences contain a repeating pattern of hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues. Early work from our group attached abiotic Ru-based redox sites to the most surface-exposed positions of two stranded coiled-coils and used electron-pulse radiolysis to study both intra- and intermolecular ET reactions in these systems. Later work used smaller metallopeptides to investigate the effects of conformational gating within electrostatic peptide-protein complexes. …

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Massacre On The Western Front: A Study Of British Strategy And Tactics During World War I, Justin Jones Dec 2006

Massacre On The Western Front: A Study Of British Strategy And Tactics During World War I, Justin Jones

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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Framing Of Heterosexual And Non-Heterosexual Men In Newspaper Stories About Homicides, Richard Manuel Dec 2006

Framing Of Heterosexual And Non-Heterosexual Men In Newspaper Stories About Homicides, Richard Manuel

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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"Who Will Cry For The Little Boy?:" An Autoethnographical Analysis Of The Lived Experiences Of An Adopted Person, Timothy R. Terrentine Dec 2006

"Who Will Cry For The Little Boy?:" An Autoethnographical Analysis Of The Lived Experiences Of An Adopted Person, Timothy R. Terrentine

Masters Theses

What becomes of the little boy who knows well abandonment and pain, yet simultaneously discovers predestinated purpose and unconditional love? This autoethnographical analysis examines the life of an adopted person who has spent his developmental years dealing with specific tensions associated with adoption and all that lie within. Using relational dialectics (Baxter, 1993,2004; Baxter & Montgomery, 1998) and existing adoption research (Carp, 2003; Herman, 2003), the author weaves his story of a history of tensions, a presence of negotiated relationships, and a future of hope with emerging tensions. Through a specific process of discovery and analysis; existing as well as …

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Osce之測驗結果分析：成功大學醫學院經驗, 淳娟 蔡, 其和 林, 琮琳 陳, 可式 趙, 宗烈 葉, 景仁 蔡, 伊凡 張 Dec 2006

Osce之測驗結果分析：成功大學醫學院經驗, 淳娟 蔡, 其和 林, 琮琳 陳, 可式 趙, 宗烈 葉, 景仁 蔡, 伊凡 張

Journal of Medical Education

醫師的臨床技能需要被確實教導與評量，OSCE(Objective Structured Clinical Examination)是評量臨床技能的重要工具之一，近年來更成為美加與日本醫師執照考試的一部份。本研究目的為報告成大醫學院施行OSCE的早期成效，並示範如何使用心理評量分析，作為給學生回饋、改善課程與未來OSCE測驗品質之依據。本文收集2003至2005年間，在成大醫學院對醫六學生進行OSCE的相關資料，加以整理分析。結果：近三年間醫六OSCE各進行了8,15,8站，其中使用標準化病人站數有5,7,5站，其中四個共通站並沒有造成試題的安全性問題，但學生在各站的表現及考官的給分則差異頗大，以心理測量分析2005年73位考生OSCE分數顯示，此測驗之內部信度為0.62，其中三站乃測量不同面向，最後歸類為三個測量面向後，各面向內部信度分別為0.92, 0.81, 0.77，factor 1稱為一般性臨床技術，factor 2稱為深入性臨床技術，而factor 3則代表一種「操作型技術」(psychomotor skill)特質，學生的操作型技術表現不佳，以邊緣群族法判定及格標準時，有6.8%考生不及格。factor 1,2被發現各有一瑕疵子題需刪除或修改，兩站考官有子題與整體總評差異的問題。結論：研究結果顯示需加強考官訓練，改善評分表設計，提供充裕評分時間，及增加考官人數，以提高測驗品質，測驗後之成績分析對考官與考生之回饋以及改善課程極具貢獻。

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