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Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill Jul 2006

Bridging The Design-Use Gap For Dss In Environmental Policy And Practice., K. B. Matthews, M. G. Hutchins, G. Hill

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Drawing on the literature of agricultural decision support systems (DSS) and experience in developing tools for policy support and evaluation, this paper argues that while in the main such tools have failed to live up to expectations it may be that the expectations were unrealistic. The design-use gap of DSS for environmental management is partially the inevitable cycle of expectations (unbelief-euphoria-disappointment and maturity or abandonment) experienced by any innovation. The environmental problems facing land managers and society are dauntingly complex. Yet more or better quality information does not inevitably lead to better management. Many of the issues that face land-use …

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Changing Maine, 1960-2010: Teaching Guide, Richard Barringer, New England Environmental Finance Center Jul 2006

Changing Maine, 1960-2010: Teaching Guide, Richard Barringer, New England Environmental Finance Center

Maine History & Policy Development

Unlike forty years ago, none of us is now certain what the future holds for Maine – except that it will be different. Maine has been transformed by the events of the recent decades. We have come into a new world, a new time – a new historical era, if you will. This new era, like previous eras in Maine history, will require of us new ways of thinking, new ways of understanding, new ways of organizing ourselves as a community of people, if the values and culture we share and cherish are to endure and flourish.

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Towards Agent-Based Modelling Of Stakeholder Behaviour – A Pilot Study On Drought Vulnerability Of Decentral Water Supply In Ne Brazil, Anne Gunkel, Ch Külls Jul 2006

Towards Agent-Based Modelling Of Stakeholder Behaviour – A Pilot Study On Drought Vulnerability Of Decentral Water Supply In Ne Brazil, Anne Gunkel, Ch Külls

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

While Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM) creates a need for an integration of natural and socio-economic information, suitable approaches and tools are needed to facilitate this integration. If these tools are meant to support the decision-making process of the stakeholders, it is important that they are adapted to the needs and requirements of these end-users. One way to achieve this is the flexible and seamless direct participation of stakeholders through adequate model structures and interfaces. Participatory methods should facilitate the communication process with different stakeholders and allow for interactions between them. Models for this purpose ideally contribute to the stakeholder’s …

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Beyond Growth – Urban Development In Shrinking Cities As A Challenge For Modeling Approaches, S. Kabisch, A. Haase, Dagmar Haase Jul 2006

Beyond Growth – Urban Development In Shrinking Cities As A Challenge For Modeling Approaches, S. Kabisch, A. Haase, Dagmar Haase

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Urban growth has been replaced by stagnation and shrinkage processes at many places in Europe during the last decades. Demographic changes and out-migration because of lack of jobs belong to the main impact factors. Urban planners are challenged by this new and dramatic development that impacts on housing markets, the utilization of infrastructure, local labor markets and the whole viability of urban structures. Urban Research is requested to elaborate new concepts and strategies for cities loosing population, facing a big amount of vacant building stock and a large-area re-use of brown-fields. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the …

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Towards Agent-Based Modelling Of Stakeholder Behaviour – A Pilot Study On Drought Vulnerability Of Decentral Water Supply In Ne Brazil, Anne Gunkel, Ch Külls Jul 2006

Towards Agent-Based Modelling Of Stakeholder Behaviour – A Pilot Study On Drought Vulnerability Of Decentral Water Supply In Ne Brazil, Anne Gunkel, Ch Külls

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

While Integrated Natural Resources Management (INRM) creates a need for an integration of natural and socio-economic information, suitable approaches and tools are needed to facilitate this integration. If these tools are meant to support the decision-making process of the stakeholders, it is important that they are adapted to the needs and requirements of these end-users. One way to achieve this is the flexible and seamless direct participation of stakeholders through adequate model structures and interfaces. Participatory methods should facilitate the communication process with different stakeholders and allow for interactions between them. Models for this purpose ideally contribute to the stakeholder’s …

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Reexamining Relational Youth Ministry: Implications From The Theology Of Bonhoeffer, Andrew Root Jul 2006

Reexamining Relational Youth Ministry: Implications From The Theology Of Bonhoeffer, Andrew Root

Faculty Publications

Youth ministry often focuses on building relationships between youth ministers and adolescents. But to what end? A relationship designed to influence the other is no relationship and is unworthy of Christ. In a true relationship Christians must be willing fully to share the place of another.

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The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 16.02: Summer 2006, Michael Douma, Geoffrey D. Reynolds Jul 2006

The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 16.02: Summer 2006, Michael Douma, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

The Joint Archives Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Cc: Connecticut College Magazine, Summer 2006, Connecticut College Jul 2006

Cc: Connecticut College Magazine, Summer 2006, Connecticut College

Alumni News/Connecticut College Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Engineering Students' Perceptions Of And Attitudes Towards Cheating, Donald D. Carpenter, Trevor S. Harding, Cynthia J. Finelli, Susan M. Montgomery, Honor J. Passow Jul 2006

Engineering Students' Perceptions Of And Attitudes Towards Cheating, Donald D. Carpenter, Trevor S. Harding, Cynthia J. Finelli, Susan M. Montgomery, Honor J. Passow

Materials Engineering

Academic dishonesty has become a serious problem at institutions of higher learning. This is particularly true in engineering where, according to previous research, engineering undergraduates are among the most likely to cheat in college. To investigate this concern, the authors embarked on a research project whose goal was to develop a better understanding of what students and faculty perceive as cheating and to use this knowledge to help instructors and institutions increase the level of academic integrity among students. The primary instrument for this project was a seven-page survey that was administered to 643 engineering and pre-engineering undergraduates at eleven …

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Of Pragmatism And Principle: A Second Look At The Expulsion Of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn From The Aclu's Board Of Directors, Burt Neuborne Jul 2006

Of Pragmatism And Principle: A Second Look At The Expulsion Of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn From The Aclu's Board Of Directors, Burt Neuborne

Tulsa Law Review

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Measuring The Influence Of Built Neighborhood Environments On Walking In Older Adults, Yvonne L. Michael, Tracey Beard, Dongseok Choi, Stephanie Farquhar, Nichole Carlson Jul 2006

Measuring The Influence Of Built Neighborhood Environments On Walking In Older Adults, Yvonne L. Michael, Tracey Beard, Dongseok Choi, Stephanie Farquhar, Nichole Carlson

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

Examined the degree of association between perceived and objective characteristics of the neighborhood environment and the relation of each type of measurement to neighborhood walking in older adults. Participants included 105 adults aged 65-92 (mean age 75.1) from 10 neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, participating in Senior Health and Physical Exercise (SHAPE), a randomized walking intervention. Neighborhoods were stratified by a "walking friendliness" ranking variable. This variable was derived for each neighborhood based on available social and environmental data that were hypothesized to correlate with walking and physical activity: high income, high older adult population density, high proportion of white residents, …

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Torch (July/August 2006), Amy Homans, Civil Rights Team Project Jul 2006

Torch (July/August 2006), Amy Homans, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

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Profession, Anis Shivani Jul 2006

Profession, Anis Shivani

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

pages 92-114

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The Extraordinary Subaltern: Testimonio Latinoamericano And Representation, Nathanial E. Gardner Jul 2006

The Extraordinary Subaltern: Testimonio Latinoamericano And Representation, Nathanial E. Gardner

Hipertexto

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Preventing The Hybrid From Backfiring: Delivery Of Benefits To The Working Poor Through The Tax System, Leslie Book Jul 2006

Preventing The Hybrid From Backfiring: Delivery Of Benefits To The Working Poor Through The Tax System, Leslie Book

Working Paper Series

This article analyzes the government’s increased use of the tax system to deliver benefits to the working poor. The hybrid in this article is the earned income tax credit (EITC), one of the country’s largest anti-poverty programs. The EITC is hybrid in that it is administered in the tax system but is increasingly redistributive, like traditional welfare programs. It reveals that the hybrid tax and welfare nature of the delivery of benefits to the working poor through the tax system results in some significant benefits, such as higher participation and lower administrative costs, but also a weakness in the form …

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Technology As A Cultural Force: For Alena And Griffin, Albert Borgmann Jul 2006

Technology As A Cultural Force: For Alena And Griffin, Albert Borgmann

Philosophy Faculty Publications

To various degrees, the citizens of the advanced industrial countries are suffering from a crisis that is as profound as it is vague and therefore hard to deal with. The problem is particularly acute in the United States, however, and in what follows, some of the illustrations pertain particularly to that country, the one I live in and know best. In any case, though vagueness obscures the crisis, there have to be symptoms of some sort; otherwise we would not feel troubled. What are the signs of trouble in the culture of technology and democracy? First there are economic problems …

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West Virginia Libraries 2006 Vol.59 No.4, Pamela Coyle Jul 2006

West Virginia Libraries 2006 Vol.59 No.4, Pamela Coyle

West Virginia Libraries Newsletter

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Striving For Freedom: An Incarcerated Existence, Rosini R. Russell Jul 2006

Striving For Freedom: An Incarcerated Existence, Rosini R. Russell

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Presented in this project is a detailed study of the effects of long term incarceration on inmates and society. This researcher examined the life of a fictitious inmate, through the form of a novella, as he endured long term incarceration. His innermost thoughts and feelings shed light into the criminal lifestyle through the careful examination of his experiences related to: (a) childhood, (b) family dysfunction, (c) socioeconomic status, (c) peer relations, and (d) education. The purpose of long term incarceration prevention should be focused on: (a) prevention, in order to stop at risk individuals from becoming institutionalized; (b) intervention, to …

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Review Of Indigenous Use And Management Of Marine Resources By Nobuhiro Kishigami And James M. Savelle, Editors. Osaka: National Museum Of Ethnology, 2005, 455 Pp., Alan J. Osborn Jul 2006

Review Of Indigenous Use And Management Of Marine Resources By Nobuhiro Kishigami And James M. Savelle, Editors. Osaka: National Museum Of Ethnology, 2005, 455 Pp., Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Book review of Indigenous Use and Management of Marine Resources, by Nobuhiro Kishigami and James M. Savelle, editors. Published in Osaka, Japan by the National Museum of Ethnology in 2005, 455 pages.

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University Of Northern Iowa Today, V90n2, Summer 2006, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association Jul 2006

University Of Northern Iowa Today, V90n2, Summer 2006, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
-- Meet Benjamin J. Allen president of the University of Northern Iowa
-- Contents
-- Impact on Iowa Life - Being forever thankful
-- Customer-focused
-- A lifetime of teaching
-- To touch a life forever
-- "Pinks" is Red-Hot
-- Power From Scratch
-- UNI/PAC Initiative Delivers
-- Built with the Future in Mind
-- UNI Athletics
-- Panther Call Center - Making Connections
-- Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust Funds Projects
-- Community-University Partnership Basis of Koob Endowment Fund
-- UNI Athletic Club Renamed Panther Scholarship Club
-- The UNI Campanile: I'm 80 Years Old, …

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The Rattler (Volume 94, Summer 2006), St. Mary's University Jul 2006

The Rattler (Volume 94, Summer 2006), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

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Beyond Growth – Urban Development In Shrinking Cities As A Challenge For Modeling Approaches, S. Kabisch, A. Haase, Dagmar Haase Jul 2006

Beyond Growth – Urban Development In Shrinking Cities As A Challenge For Modeling Approaches, S. Kabisch, A. Haase, Dagmar Haase

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Urban growth has been replaced by stagnation and shrinkage processes at many places in Europe during the last decades. Demographic changes and out-migration because of lack of jobs belong to the main impact factors. Urban planners are challenged by this new and dramatic development that impacts on housing markets, the utilization of infrastructure, local labor markets and the whole viability of urban structures. Urban Research is requested to elaborate new concepts and strategies for cities loosing population, facing a big amount of vacant building stock and a large-area re-use of brown-fields. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the …

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A Sociological Approach To The Negotiation Of Military Base Agreements, Ryan M. Scoville Jul 2006

A Sociological Approach To The Negotiation Of Military Base Agreements, Ryan M. Scoville

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

The United States is involved in a substantial reconfiguration of its overseas military bases that requires negotiating new base agreements with prospective host nations and amending old agreements with others. U.S. officials must grapple with the effects of anti-base social movements during this process. However, if history is any indication, these officials are unlikely to succeed fully. Both the United States's historical approach and much of the relevant scholarship on military bases underemphasize an important issue in the negotiation of base agreements: the domestic political contexts of host nations. Borrowing from social movements theory, this Article argues that the United …

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Hispanic Population Within Kent County, Mi In 2000 (%), Community Research Institute-Johnson Center Jul 2006

Hispanic Population Within Kent County, Mi In 2000 (%), Community Research Institute-Johnson Center

Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets

No abstract provided.

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Cities, Townships, And Villages Within Kent County, Mi In 2005, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center Jul 2006

Cities, Townships, And Villages Within Kent County, Mi In 2005, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center

Community-Level Maps and Fact-Sheets

No abstract provided.

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Alcalá View 2006 22.08, University Of San Diego Publications Office Jul 2006

Alcalá View 2006 22.08, University Of San Diego Publications Office

Alcalá View (1985-2006)

Jammin' Jamaica Employee Picnic; Wanted: Feedback; Industry Honors Administrator's Dedication to Financial Aid; 2006 Caribbean Cool Picnic Donors; Praising the People Behind the Picnic; Construction Corner; Classifieds; Milestones

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Front Matter Of Volume 1 Number 1, Danishmand . Jul 2006

Front Matter Of Volume 1 Number 1, Danishmand .

Business Review

Front matter, Contents, Director's Note and Editorial Perspective

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Akbar Abdul Ali Jul 2006

Corporate Social Responsibility, Akbar Abdul Ali

Business Review

This paper addresses fundamental questions of corporate governance that, why corporations need to accept responsibility for the social problems that plague our nation? Discussion of corporate actions (i.e., mass layoffs, high CEO payoffs, discrimination in the work force) and how they are ultimately responsible for many of our social disorder (i.e., crime, suicide, alcoholism, domestic violence etc.). Article examines the corporate ethics and international business and how corporate law inhibits corporate social responsibility. I also discuss the philanthropic role of corporations to examine different perceptions of corporate ethics and its social responsibility which is generally lacking in Pakistan.

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Language And The Structuring Of The Intellect: Towards The Realization Of The Total Man, D.U. Opata Jul 2006

Language And The Structuring Of The Intellect: Towards The Realization Of The Total Man, D.U. Opata

Business Review

The critical definition of the concept, “the total man”, is encumbered by lot of difficulties – epistemic and pragmatic. First, a man qua man because he is a total entity, a complete homo sapein. However, the phrase “the total man” is used here in a stipulative sense to distinguish the liberally educated person from the pure specialist. Second, even in this contextual sense, the concept of the liberal-minded person is still a problematic. Is liberal-mindedness predicated on a person’s breadth of knowledge, even if in the process the person becomes the proverbial “rolling stone that gathers no mass”? Or is …

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Assessing The Relative Effects Of State Direct File Waiver Laws On Violent Juvenile Crime: Deterrence Or Irrelevance, Benjamin Steiner, Emily M. Wright Jul 2006

Assessing The Relative Effects Of State Direct File Waiver Laws On Violent Juvenile Crime: Deterrence Or Irrelevance, Benjamin Steiner, Emily M. Wright

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Juvenile waiver, or transfer, laws allow certain young offenders to be removed from juvenile court jurisdiction and prosecuted in criminal court, where the range of sanctions is presumably greater. In the past several decades, many states have modified their existing transfer statutes in order to streamline the waiver process and make it easier to prosecute juveniles in criminal court. In doing so, states have excluded certain offenses from juvenile court jurisdiction or added concurrent jurisdiction provisions to their existing waiver statutes. Concurrent jurisdiction, or direct file, statutes afford prosecutors the unreviewable discretion to charge certain juveniles in either juvenile or …

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