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Www/ Wiki, Wacky Web?: Wikis, Authority And The Public Sphere, Amit Ray

Presentations and other scholarship

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The Cowl - V. 70 - N/A - Feb 9, 2006

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 70 - Number n/a - Valentine's Day Issue - February 9, 2006. 8 pages.

Legislation And Legitimation: Congress And Insider Trading In The 1980s, Thomas W. Joo

ExpressO

Legislation and Legitimation:

Congress and Insider Trading in the 1980s

Abstract

Orthodox corporate law-and-economics holds that American corporate and securities regulation has evolved inexorably toward economic efficiency. That position is difficult to square with the fact that regulation is the product of government actors and institutions. Indeed, the rational behavior assumptions of law-and-economics suggest that those actors and institutions would tend to place their own self-interest ahead of economic efficiency. This article provides anecdotal evidence of such self-interest at work. Based on an analysis of legislative history—primarily Congressional hearings—this article argues that Congress had little interest in the economic policy …

The Register, 2006-02-08, North Carolina Agricutural And Technical State University

NCAT Student Newspapers

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Mustang Daily, February 8, 2006

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Are Your Beliefs Meaningful Or Arbitrary?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University

The Philosopher's Stone

No abstract provided.

With Lincoln In The White House, Michael Burlingame

Lincoln

No abstract provided.

The Hilltop 2-6-2006, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

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Using Augmented Virtuality To Improve Human-Robot Interactions, Curtis W. Nielsen

Theses and Dissertations

Mobile robots can be used in situations and environments that are distant from an operator. In order for an operator to control a robot effectively he or she requires an understanding of the environment and situation around the robot. Since the robot is at a remote distant from the operator and cannot be directly observed, the information necessary for an operator to develop an understanding or awareness of the robot's situation comes from the user interface. The usefulness of the interface depends on the manner in which the information from the remote environment is presented. Conventional interfaces for interacting with …

Law As Rationalization: Getting Beyond Reason To Business Ethics, Jeffrey Marc Lipshaw

ExpressO

Embedded in the way we use the law is the tendency of human reason to justification, in the words of one philosopher, “the thirst for rationality that creates lies.” I contend that this tendency is exacerbated by the conflation of what is knowable as a matter of science, and that which we might believe is normative. I rely on Kant’s critique of theoretical and practical reason to assess claims to objectivity in social science approaches to law, and to suggest it is not surprising that the operation of theoretical and practical reason would tend to the conflation of the descriptive …

Students In Search Of Meaning, Laurel Thompson

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, February 2, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 126, Issue 5

The Cord Weekly (February 1, 2006)

The Cord

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Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: February 2006, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - February 2006.

The Role Of Identity In Acculturation Among Immigrant People: Theoretical Propositions, Empirical Questions, And Applied Recommendations, Seth J. Schwartz, Marilyn J. Montgomery, Ervin Briones

Faculty Publications - Graduate School of Counseling

The present paper advances theoretical propositions regarding the relationship between acculturation and identity. The most central thesis argued is that acculturation represents changes in cultural identity and that personal identity has the potential to ‘anchor’ immigrant people during their transition to a new society. The article emphasizes the experiences of nonwhite, non-Western immigrant people moving to Western nations. The article also calls for research on heretofore unexplored aspects of the relationship of acculturation to personal and social identity. Ideas are proposed for interventions to promote cultural identity change and personal identity coherence.

A Propensity For Genius: That Something Special About Fritz Zwicky (1898 - 1974), John Charles Mannone

Swiss American Historical Society Review

It is difficult to write just a few words about a man who was so great. It is even more difficult to try to capture the nuances of his character, including his propensity for genius as well as his eccentric behavior edging the abrasive as much as the funny, the scope of his contributions, the size of his heart, and the impact on society that the distinguished physicist, Fritz Zwicky (1898- 1974), has made. So I am not going to try to serve that injustice, rather I will construct a collage, which are cameos of his life and accomplishments. In …

The Bellamy Charades, Doris Nash Wortman

Word Ways

Fifty years ago in Boston, there was a best-selling author who had been enjoying a most successful limelight for six or seven years when, to the surprise of everybody, a shy retiring brother of his - an excellent public accountant not supposed to be a writer at all - leaped with a book into a successful limelight of his own.

Nobody's News, Dave Morice

Word Ways

A few blocks form here, there lived a man named Nobody. He used to have a normal first, middle, and last name, but he officially changed all three to just one word, Nobody. When anyone asked him why, he said "I'm a nobody, like billions of other people in the world, but they're afraid to admit it."

Classic Latin Palindromes, Ove Michaelsen

Word Ways

In his book Literary Frivolities; Fancies, Follies, and Frolics (London, 1880), William T. Dobson related the following medieval story (taken from Hone's Everyday-Book) showing that his Satanic Majesty was a master of palindromic wordplay.

Selfish, Selfless, And Equable Words, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

Selfish words (from 1,200 examples)

I have often been taught that I would be rude to readers if I continually used the pronoun I in sentences I wrote: I would be accused of solipsism as well as a publishing solecism. Indeed, people who are enthusiastic about political correctness might say, without even thinking (too difficult for them anyway), that one ought to avoid words with too many of the letter i.

Enlarging English Tautonyms, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In a companion article, Hugo Brandt Corstius exhibits a set of Dutch words consisting of a tautonyms to which have been added an additional letter of the alphabet in the beginning, in the middle, or at the end. This article exhibits corresponding English words drawn from Webster's Second or Third (except when noted). When the extra letter is the middle, these words were christened by John Ferguson as Heads 'n' Tails Words, and a type collection was presented by Murray Pearce in the August 1971 Word Ways (with some better examples in February 1972).

Sub-60-Letter Pangrammatic Windows, Mike Keith

Word Ways

The November 2005 Kickshaws reported the discovery of Dave Moore of a 61-letter pangrammatic window (contiguous string of letters in a published text that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once) in Bret Harte's Flip: A California Romance. Although reported as a new record, that discovery just ties the 61-letter example found in 2004 by Dan Tilque in The Detroit News and mentioned in Word Ways at the time - though it is nearly undeniable that the Bret Harte example is of higher quality, as the Detroit News window contains proper names as well as two numerals, whereas …

How To Increase Your Vocabulary

Word Ways

The easiest way to increase your vocabulary is to MAKE UP WORDS! Like the amusing "interocitor" from an old s-f movie. Here is a new way to make up words: combine prefixes and suffixes with no substantive element in between, forcing them to take on substantive roles themselves. Here are some new words of that style. The big bonus for logologists is that these may now be treated as legit words since they have appeared in print as bold entries in a linguistics journal!

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Answers To Bellamy's 500 Charades, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

For those fortunate enough to own one or more of the Bellamy books, here are the solutions to his puzzles. The answers to A Century of Charades are contained in Harland Ballard's Open Sesame, and the answers to A Second Century of Charades are contained in Re-Open Sesame. I am indebted to Will Shortz for supplying the answers to More Charades.

Elementary Transadditions, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

The names of chemical elements are an interesting group of names to conjure with. First of all, there's over one hundred of them, depending on how you can count them. Secondly, there's a good mix of short names, and in-between names.

Shifts Progress, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A shift is the process which occurs when the letters of one word are all shifted the same number of steps along the alphabet (looping from Z to A) to make another word. For example OHM + 1 = PIN, whilst CHEER + 7 = jolly. Here, I refer to these as basic shifts. This article examines other types of shift in which the shift values are not all the same but which abide by various rules. Each series of shift values makes a shift pattern.

An Alphabet Reversal Verse, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Most Word Ways readers are aware of alphabet poems. Nyr Indictor gave a brief history of them in the August 1995 Word Ways, citing both simple-minded one for children (popular a couple of centuries ago).

Top-Eye, The Peyote Man, Jim Puder

Word Ways

I was much impressed by Susan Thorpe's article "Constrained Pyramids" in the February issue of Word Ways. Her constrained word pyramids seems almost magically ingenious. Her creations, along with Anil's recent discussion of the impregnate-permeating anagram, inspired the keyboard doodle below. In my little transposing sailor man (to avoid copyright infringement, let's call him Top-Eye which neatly transposes to what he's got in his pipe), the makeup of a letter group changes only to add or drop letters when the word length changes.

Meaningful Offspring, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Rearranged, the letters of a parent word may give rise to two perfectly legitimate offspring. Some parent words produce pairs of offspring which are related to meaning to each other and also, in some cases, to the parent word. MUSLINETTE hides the synonyms SILENT and MUTE; BAPTISE hides the antonyms TIP and BASE; WORTHILY hides the phrase HOLY WRIT, and so on.