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In May of 2007 the United States Postal Service did away with all the cheaper rates for foreign mail. All mail now must go at air mail rates, sometimes as much as nearly $10 per issue. In addition certain United States special rates have been abolished. Word Ways must now be delivered by first class mail to domestic subscribers and by air mail on a sliding scale to foreign readers. Please check our new rates on the inside front cover. These rates are designed so that Word Ways can break even in its production - we do not aspire to …

Flack Jackets And Increased Salvation, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

For a book in progress, I continue to compile entertaining published anomalies and errors, appending to each a waggish response - a format popularized by The New Yorker. Contributions are invited; please send candidates to the above email address.

Chemical Elements Inside Of Other Elements, Antonio Joaquin Franco Mariscal

Word Ways

The names of the chemical elements have received a certain amount of attention in Word Ways over the years. Borgmann (1968) presented a quiz on 20 transposed element names in the first issue of Word Ways. Other articles have documented more extensive transpositions of element names (Borgmann, 1974, 1978; Francis 1977) and where an element did not have a transposition, Francis (1977) offered the shortest possible transadditions of the element names.

A Pilot Study Of Lifeguard Perceptions, Robert C. Wendling, Hans Vogelsong, Karl Wuensch, Anthony Ammirati

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

This pilot study compared and evaluated lifeguard perceptions of accidents and rescues with actual accident and rescue reports. Although lifeguards were relatively accurate in identifying locations, they were not so in identifying causes. Obviously, knowing what causes accidents is the first step in their reduction or prevention. Additional analysis was conducted on lifeguard perceptions of obstacles and challenges to vigilance and the value of in-service training and periodic staff meetings. All are important components of providing a safe swimming environment. It should be noted that this study was limited in size and scope and should be followed by more geographically …

Loop Analysis Of Causal Feedback In Epidemiology: An Illustration Relating To Urban Neighborhoods And Resident Depressive Experiences, Alexis Dinno

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

The causal feedback implied by urban neighborhood conditions that shape human health experiences, that in turn shape neighborhood conditions through a complex causal web, raises a challenge for traditional epidemiological causal analyses. This article introduces the loop analysis method, and builds off of a core loop model linking neighborhood property vacancy rate, resident depressive symptoms, rate of neighborhood death, and rate of neighborhood exit in a feedback network. I justify and apply loop analysis to the specific example of depressive symptoms and abandoned urban residential property to show how inquiries into the behavior of causal systems can answer different kinds …

Senior Housing Research Project: Findings And Conclusion (2007), John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center

Faculty White Papers

No abstract provided.

Practicing Cpa, Vol. 31 No. 9, November 2007, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Rankine V. Folino

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Mcginley V. Mcginley

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Holmes

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Campus Connection, November 2007, Vol. 9 No. 3, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

$4 Million Gift To Fund Scholarships -- There's A New View Across The Quad -- Tony Bales To Oversee Campus Development, Operations -- $1 Million Gift Received From Packard Foundation -- The Electrons Fly In This Building --President's Speaker Series: Daniel Ellsberg -- CSUMB's Strategic Planning Process Is Underway -- Watch Out For The Bike Patrols -- Txt Msgs Alert U -- Meet Gigi Kiama -- New Employees, Promotions, Probation Passed -- Information Session For Public Policy Program -- Sky Radio -- Campus Closures--Next Up At The World Theater: San Jose Taiko

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 83, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Blackworld, V. 27, I. 03, Stony Brook University

Blackworld

v. : ill. ; 38-43 cm (original analog pub.),Black world, v.27;i.3

Semantic Convergence Of Wikipedia Articles, Christopher J. Thomas, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Social networking, distributed problem solving and human computation have gained high visibility. Wikipedia is a well established service that incorporates aspects of these three fields of research. For this reason it is a good object of study for determining quality of solutions in a social setting that is open, completely distributed, bottom up and not peer reviewed by certified experts. In particular, this paper aims at identifying semantic convergence of Wikipedia articles; the notion that the content of an article stays stable regardless of continuing edits. This could lead to an automatic recommendation of good article tags but also add …

Dit News, 1st.-30th. Of November, 2007, Dit:Students Union

DIT Student Union

No abstract provided.

November 1, 2007, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Do Tobacco-Control Programs Lower Tobacco Consumption? Evidence From California, Michael L. Marlow

Economics

California is often considered the model for tobacco-control programs due to its early adoption of comprehensive programs aimed at lowering tobacco consumption. Tobacco control began when voters approved the California Tobacco Tax and Health Promotion Act of 1988. More than $2 billion has been spent on tobacco-control in California since 1988. The findings of this article indicate that tobacco-control spending is a significant factor for the widening gap between consumption in the United States and in California only in equations that exclude cigarette prices and smoking bans as control variables. When significant, however, estimates suggest that, for every $1 increase …

Uncertainty As The Source Of Knowledge Transfer Opportunity, Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Huffman Hayes, Judy Goldsmith

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Uncertainty creeps into the software development process in many ways, shapes and forms. In the early stages of software development, key sources of uncertainty are the human stakeholders who help formulate the requirements of the software product. An added layer of uncertainty is inherent as requirements analysts have to deal with subjective, and often conflicting, estimates that humans make, estimates that may significantly affect both the software development process and the eventual software product. Our position is two-fold. We stipulate that in situations where analysts (and later developers) have to deal with human evaluations of uncertainty, special methods and procedures …

Deformable Image Registration With Inclusion Of Auto-Detected Homologous Tissue Features, Y. Xie, Lei Xing, Dana C. Paquin, Doron Levy, T. Yang

Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Planner, Volume 22, Number 6, November-December 2007, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Highly Degenerate Quadratic Forms Over F2, Robert W. Fitzgerald

Articles and Preprints

No abstract provided.

The Baysider : Vol. 7, Issue 7 - November 2007, Bayside Neighborhood Association

The Baysider

The Baysider (1999 - 2018) a community newspaper, published by the Bayside Neighborhood Association. Bayside is an inner-city Portland neighborhood flanked by Parkside, Back Cove, Downtown (a.k.a. Intown), and the East End. Feature articles focused on Bayside, though also included many city themes.

Technical Memorandum Ii: Documenting Improved Mobility Techniques On Sis And Trip Facilities, Cutr

Transportation Planning, Policy, and Processes (TP3) Final Reports

No abstract provided.

The Silent Witness, November-December 2007

Silent Witness, The

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Washington, D.C.

The Silent Witness Finding Aid

Western News, Nov. 1, 2007, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Dunn gives State of the University address; Forum focuses on Western Edge; Obituaries for Roger Urich and Roger Wallace; On Campus with Margaret Watson.

Designing An Effective Web-Based Coding Environment For Novice Learners , Heejung An

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News November 1, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2007

No abstract provided.

Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis To Understand Executive Control In Preschool Children: I. Latent Structure, S. A. Wiebe, K. A. Espy, D. Charak

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory: Faculty Publications

Although many tasks have been developed recently to study executive control in the preschool years, the constructs that underlie performance on these tasks are poorly understood. In particular, it is unclear whether executive control is comprised of multiple, separable cognitive abilities (e.g., inhibition and working memory) or whether it is unitary in nature. A sample of 243 normally developing children between 2.25 and 6 years of age completed a battery of age appropriate executive control tasks. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to compare multiple models of executive control empirically. A single-factor, general model was sufficient to account for the …

Limerickshaws: The Grand Finale, David Morice

Word Ways

In the last issue of Word Ways, Kickshaws became Limerickshaws, a special edition celebrating the 100^th anniversary of the 1907 British Limerick Craze. The column began with 28 words found using Google. Each of the words referred to limericks, and each began with an L. Similarly the words above refer to limericks, but they begin with letters other than L. Most of them are terms that writers have made up to refer to invented forms.

Legal Writing Triage: Self-Edit To Solve The Most Common Style Problems, Robert S. Anderson

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This article addresses one of the most common style problems in legal writing: subject-verb issues that produce confusing or overlong sentences. It then prescribes a simple approach to curing the problem in quick, step-by-step fashion.