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Increasing The Impact Of Mine-Action Surveys, Charles Downs Nov 2006

Increasing The Impact Of Mine-Action Surveys, Charles Downs

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

While mine-action surveys are an important tool in mine clearance, there are several challenges that must be overcome for survey results to be fully effective. Some of these changes include alterations in priority setting, information management and impact scoring. This article presents some potential obstacles to completing and evaluating mine-action surveys and proposes possible solutions to these challenges to increase their effectiveness and impact.

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Empirically Testing The Principles Of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Cpted) Theory: An Exploratory Investigation Of Perceived Safety In Virtual Parks And Green Spaces, Joel G. Mccormick Nov 2006

Empirically Testing The Principles Of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Cpted) Theory: An Exploratory Investigation Of Perceived Safety In Virtual Parks And Green Spaces, Joel G. Mccormick

Theses & Honors Papers

Jeffery's Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design has become one of the leading crime prevention strategies used in many countries world wide including the United States. However, to date "Jeffery's complete CPTED model has not been subjected to empirical testing" (Paulsen & Robinson, 2005). The focus of this research is to empirically test people's perception of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles. This research will record the subject's perception of safety of virtual environments using three levels of CPTED design. A virtual landscape will be utilized because it allows for manipulation of the independent variable while holding the other variables …

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The Relationship Between Standing And Intervention: The Tenth Circuit Answers By "Standing" Down. San Juan County V. United States, Eric S. Oelrich Nov 2006

The Relationship Between Standing And Intervention: The Tenth Circuit Answers By "Standing" Down. San Juan County V. United States, Eric S. Oelrich

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Logic Without Experience: The Problem Of Federal Appellate Courts, Suzanna Sherry Nov 2006

Logic Without Experience: The Problem Of Federal Appellate Courts, Suzanna Sherry

Notre Dame Law Review

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Punishing Children In The Criminal Law, Cynthia V. Ward Nov 2006

Punishing Children In The Criminal Law, Cynthia V. Ward

Notre Dame Law Review

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Identity And Spirituality: A Psychosocial Exploration Of The Sense Of Spiritual Self, Chris Kiesling, Gwendolyn T. Sorell, Marilyn J. Montgomery, Ronald K. Colwell Nov 2006

Identity And Spirituality: A Psychosocial Exploration Of The Sense Of Spiritual Self, Chris Kiesling, Gwendolyn T. Sorell, Marilyn J. Montgomery, Ronald K. Colwell

Faculty Publications - Graduate School of Counseling

The authors examined the structure and content of adults’ sense of spiritual identity by analyzing semistructured interviews with 13 spiritually devout men and 15 devout women, ages 22 to 72. Individuals’ responses to the Role-Related Identity Interview (G. T. Sorell, M. J. Montgomery, & N. A. Busch-Rossnagel, 1997b) were content analyzed and rated on the role-related spiritual identity dimensions of role salience and flexibility. Individuals were categorized as spiritually foreclosed, achieved, or in moratorium, on the basis of their motivational, affective, self-evaluative, and behavioral investments in spiritually defined roles and their reflectiveness about and behavioral changes in role-related spiritual identity. …

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Against Sovereignty: A Cautionary Note On The Normative Power Of The Actual, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Nov 2006

Against Sovereignty: A Cautionary Note On The Normative Power Of The Actual, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Notre Dame Law Review

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Framing Effects And Regulatory Choice, Jonathan Remy Nash Nov 2006

Framing Effects And Regulatory Choice, Jonathan Remy Nash

Notre Dame Law Review

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Infotech Update, Volume 15, Number 6, November/December 2006, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Information Technology Section Nov 2006

Infotech Update, Volume 15, Number 6, November/December 2006, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Information Technology Section

Newsletters

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Chronic Activation Of The Prostaglandin Receptor Ep4 Promotes Hyaluronan-Mediated Neointimal Formation In The Ductus Arteriosus, Utako Yokoyama, Susumu Minamisawa, Hong Quan, Shibnath Ghatak, Toru Akaike, Eri Segi-Nishida, Shiho Iwasaki, Mari Iwamoto, Suniti Misra, Kouichi Tamura, Hideaki Hori, Shumpei Yokota, Bryan P. Toole, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Ishikawa Nov 2006

Chronic Activation Of The Prostaglandin Receptor Ep4 Promotes Hyaluronan-Mediated Neointimal Formation In The Ductus Arteriosus, Utako Yokoyama, Susumu Minamisawa, Hong Quan, Shibnath Ghatak, Toru Akaike, Eri Segi-Nishida, Shiho Iwasaki, Mari Iwamoto, Suniti Misra, Kouichi Tamura, Hideaki Hori, Shumpei Yokota, Bryan P. Toole, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Ishikawa

MUSC Faculty Journal Articles

PGE, a potent vasodilator, plays a primary role in maintaining the patency of the ductus arteriosus (DA). Genetic disruption of the PGE-specific receptor EP4, however, paradoxically results in fatal patent DA (PDA) in mice. Here we demonstrate that EP4-mediated signals promote DA closure by hyaluronic acid-mediated (HA-mediated) intimal cushion formation (ICF). Chronic EP4 stimulation by ONO-AE1-329, a selective EP4 agonist, significantly enhanced migration and HA production in rat DA smooth muscle cells. When HA production was inhibited, EP4-mediated migration was negated. Activation of EP4, adenylyl cyclase, and PKA all increased HA production and the level of HA synthase 2 (HAS2) …

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Comments On “On The Distribution Of The Product Of Independent Rayleigh Random Variables”, Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz Nov 2006

Comments On “On The Distribution Of The Product Of Independent Rayleigh Random Variables”, Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

It is pointed out that the result in Salo et al. “The Distribution of the Product of Independent Rayleigh Random Variables” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 54, pp. 639–643, Feb. 2006, is a particular case of a much more general result known since the 1970s. A general technique (known as the H function technique) is described that can be used derive a wide range of results similar to Salo et al.

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Comments On “On The Distribution Of The Product Of Independent Rayleigh Random Variables”, Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz Nov 2006

Comments On “On The Distribution Of The Product Of Independent Rayleigh Random Variables”, Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

It is pointed out that the result in Salo et al. “The Distribution of the Product of Independent Rayleigh Random Variables” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 54, pp. 639–643, Feb. 2006, is a particular case of a much more general result known since the 1970s. A general technique (known as the function technique) is described that can be used derive a wide range of results similar to Salo et al.

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Explosive Remnants Of War And The Reality Of Azerbaijan, Nazim Ismaylov, Emil M. Hasanov Nov 2006

Explosive Remnants Of War And The Reality Of Azerbaijan, Nazim Ismaylov, Emil M. Hasanov

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

This article explains the danger of explosive remnants of war when located within communities and the precautions that need to be taken in order to get rid of this problem. It also describes how the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action is trying to address the problem of abandoned ammunition storage in one of the most highly contaminated areas among existing abandoned ammunition storages in the world.

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Restorative Rigging And The Safe Indication Account, Steven Luper Nov 2006

Restorative Rigging And The Safe Indication Account, Steven Luper

Philosophy Faculty Research

Typical Gettieresque scenarios involve a subject, S, using a method, M, of believing something, p, where, normally, M is a reliable indicator of the truth of p, yet, in S’s circumstances, M is not reliable: M is deleteriously rigged. A different sort of scenario involves rigging that restores the reliability of a method M that is deleteriously rigged: M is restoratively rigged. Some theorists criticize (among others) the safe indication account of knowledge defended by Luper, Sosa, and Williamson on the grounds that it treats such cases as knowledge. But other theorists also criticize the safe indication account because it …

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How To Take Into Account Dependence Between The Inputs: From Interval Computations To Constraint-Related Set Computations, With Potential Applications To Nuclear Safety, Bio- And Geosciences, Martine Ceberio, Scott Ferson, Vladik Kreinovich, Sanjeev Chopra, Gang Xiang, Adrian Murguia, Jorge Santillan Nov 2006

How To Take Into Account Dependence Between The Inputs: From Interval Computations To Constraint-Related Set Computations, With Potential Applications To Nuclear Safety, Bio- And Geosciences, Martine Ceberio, Scott Ferson, Vladik Kreinovich, Sanjeev Chopra, Gang Xiang, Adrian Murguia, Jorge Santillan

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many real-life situations, in addition to knowing the intervals Xi of possible values of each variable xi, we also know additional restrictions on the possible combinations of xi; in this case, the set X of possible values of x=(x1,..,xn) is a proper subset of the original box X1 x ... x Xn. In this paper, we show how to take into account this dependence between the inputs when computing the range of a function f(x1,...,xn).

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The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 10.2 (2006), Cisr Journal Nov 2006

The Journal Of Erw And Mine Action Issue 10.2 (2006), Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Editorial | Feature: Quality Assurance for Mined and Survey Areas | Focus: ERW: A Dangerous Legacy | Profiles | Making it Personal | Notes from the Field | Book Reviews | Research and Development | News Briefs

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How Effective Is Security Screening Of Airline Passengers?, Susan E. Martonosi, Arnold Barnett Nov 2006

How Effective Is Security Screening Of Airline Passengers?, Susan E. Martonosi, Arnold Barnett

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

With a simple mathematical model, we explored the antiterrorist effectiveness of airport passenger prescreening systems. Supporters of these systems often emphasize the need to identify the most suspicious passengers, but they ignore the point that such identification does little good unless dangerous items can actually be detected. Critics often focus on terrorists' ability to probe the system and thereby thwart it, but ignore the possibility that the very act of probing can deter attempts at sabotage that would have succeeded. Using the model to make some preliminary assessments about security policy, we find that an improved baseline level of screening …

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Protection Of Soft Vehicles Against Erw, Thomas Hvidtfeldt Nov 2006

Protection Of Soft Vehicles Against Erw, Thomas Hvidtfeldt

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The author discusses the challenges of protecting aid workers riding in traditional unarmoured vehicles from the dangers of explosive remnants of war. He offers some practical, after-market solutions that provide a high level of protection for much less than the cost of traditional armoured vehicles.

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Emergence Of The Fuzzy Horizon Through Gravitational Collapse, Anand Murugan '07, Vatche Sahakian Nov 2006

Emergence Of The Fuzzy Horizon Through Gravitational Collapse, Anand Murugan '07, Vatche Sahakian

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

For a large enough Schwarzschild black hole, the horizon is a region of space where gravitational forces are weak; yet it is also a region leading to numerous puzzles connected to stringy physics. In this work, we analyze the process of gravitational collapse and black hole formation in the context of light-cone M-theory. We find that, as a shell of matter contracts and is about to reveal a black hole horizon, it undergoes a thermodynamic phase transition. This involves the binding of D0 branes into D2’s, and the new phase leads to large membranes of the size of the horizon. …

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A Note On Bias Due To Fitting Prospective Multivariate Generalized Linear Models To Categorical Outcomes Ignoring Retrospective Sampling Schemes, Bhramar Mukherjee, Ivy Liu Nov 2006

A Note On Bias Due To Fitting Prospective Multivariate Generalized Linear Models To Categorical Outcomes Ignoring Retrospective Sampling Schemes, Bhramar Mukherjee, Ivy Liu

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Outcome dependent sampling designs are commonly used in economics, market research and epidemiological studies. Case-control sampling design is a classic example of outcome dependent sampling, where exposure information is collected on subjects conditional on their disease status. In many situations, the outcome under consideration may have multiple categories instead of a simple dichotomization. For example, in a case-control study, there may be disease sub-classification among the “cases” based on progression of the disease, or in terms of other histological and morphological characteristics of the disease. In this note, we investigate the issue of fitting prospective multivariate generalized linear models to …

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On The Complexity Of Horn Description Logics, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler Nov 2006

On The Complexity Of Horn Description Logics, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Horn-SHIQ has been identified as a fragment of the description logic SHIQ for which inferencing is in PTIME with respect to the size of the ABox. This enables reasoning with larger ABoxes in situations where the TBox is static, and represents one approach towards tractable description logic reasoning. In this paper, we show that reasoning in Horn-SHIQ, in spite of its low datacomplexity, is ExpTIME-hard with respect to the overall size of the knowledge base. While this result is not unexpected, the proof is not a mere modification of existing reductions since …

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The Great Dog Mystery, A. Ross Eckler Nov 2006

The Great Dog Mystery, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Former Kickshaws editor Dave Silverman alluded to the Great Dog Mystery in several letters to the editor from 1972 to 1975.

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Contrary Cognomina, John Holgate Nov 2006

Contrary Cognomina, John Holgate

Word Ways

Many of our surnames have origins in the nomenclature of trades and professions. Once upon a time Smiths were smiths, Butchers were butchers and Carpenters were carpenters. Holgate, for example, derives from the common noun tollgate. Back in the eleventh century my ancestors were rewarded for collecting tolls and swelling the royal coffers with a Norman castle in Shropshire. Nowadays a profession-based patronym does not oblige its owner to continue in the cognominal business. Just as well - I have no desire to work as a toll collector on the motorway or an assessor in the Tax Office.

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Colloquy Nov 2006

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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Wordplay In 1929, Believe It Or Not!, A. Ross Eckler Nov 2006

Wordplay In 1929, Believe It Or Not!, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Starting in the 1920s, the column "Believe It Or Not" by Robert Ripley appeared in more than one hundred newspapers by 1930. Reading this as a boy, I was fascinated by oddities such as the English lad who died of old age before his seventh birthday, the Hindu who hung head downward for three hours at a stretch, and the girl born with a single eye in the middle of her forehead. I was also beguiled by the 210-letter word coined by monastic writers in the Middle Ages to enumerate the varieties of divination using birds, oracles, the Bible, ghosts, …

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Back Cover Nov 2006

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

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Planner, Volume 21, Number 6, November-December 2006, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Nov 2006

Planner, Volume 21, Number 6, November-December 2006, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Usa V. Stanford Nov 2006

Usa V. Stanford

2006 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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Stanley V. Intl Brhd Electrial Nov 2006

Stanley V. Intl Brhd Electrial

2006 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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Usa V. Wilson Nov 2006

Usa V. Wilson

2006 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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