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Singing Down The Barriers: Encouraging Singers Of All Racial Backgrounds To Perform Music By African American Composers, Caroline Helton, Emery Stephens

Music Faculty Research Publications

This chapter investigates the barriers faced by singers of all racial backgrounds when performing spirituals and African American art songs and suggests ways to eliminate those barriers.

Maryland And The Constitution Of The United States: An Introductory Essay, William L. Reynolds

Faculty Scholarship

The State of Maryland and the attorneys who practice in it have played a profound role in the history of the Constitution of the United States. That relationship should not surprise anyone: after all, Maryland was one of the original thirteen states, and its proximity to the nation’s capitol ensured that its lawyers would play an active role in the bar of the Supreme Court. Although the case names alone would make that history apparent – McCulloch v. Maryland, Brown v. Maryland, Federal Baseball – I am not aware of a serious scholarly effort to bring that history to the …

Idcr: Infectious Diseases In Corrections Report, Vol. 9 No. 20, Infectious Diseases In Corrections

Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report (IDCR)

No abstract provided.

Temperature-Dependent Characterization Of Thin-Film Filters For Optical Communications, Corneliu Rablau, Christopher Schenk

Physics Presentations And Conference Materials

The explosive increase in the demand for transmission capacity for optical communications networks has resulted in a widespread deployment of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM). Thin film filters are a critical component of DWDM devices. They consist of Fabry-Perot resonant cavities obtained by vacuum deposition on a glass substrate of alternating layers of two dielectric materials of different indices of refraction. The performance requirements for these filters are determined by the density of channels to be multiplexed. For the 100 GHz ITU grid, these channels are spaced 100 GHz (0.8 nm) apart. Typical figures of merit include the insertion loss …

Profile, Fall 2007, Columbia College Chicago

Profile

Interactive Arts and Media Department Newsletter. 16 pages. Includes student, faculty, and alumni profiles, book and game reviews, calendar of events.

Community Feminism And Politics; A Case Study Of Santa Clara County As The Feminist Capital, 1975-2006, Danelle L. Moon

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Pinning Down The Value Of Statistical Life, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, James P. Ziliak

Economics - All Scholarship

Our research addresses fundamental long - standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21 million. We address most of the prominent econometric issues by applying panel data, a new and more accurate fatality risk measure, and systematic selection of panel estimator in our research. Controlling for measurement error, endogeneity, individual heterogeneity, and state dependence yields both a reasonable average level and narrow range for the estimated value of a …

Department Of History Newsletter-Fall 2007, Department Of History

Department of History Newsletters

No abstract provided.

2007 (Fall), University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics

Colloquia

Abstracts of the talks given at the 2007 Fall Colloquium.

2006-2007 Annual Report, Georgia State University College Of Law, Steven J. Kaminshine

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Profile: Annual Honor Roll Of Donors, University Relations

Profile (1996-)

This issue of Profile features a variety of partnerships that have been crafted by imaginative and dedicated individuals to ensure that the University of Minnesota, Morris is able to accomplish its mission and is well positioned for the future. The partnerships you will read about here are truly inspiring and speak to the strong belief that many UMM friends, faculty, and staff members have in the future of this institution.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message

Southwest Missouri Water Quality Improvement Project (Wqip) James River Basin Water Quality Gap Analysis, Mec Water Resources, Inc., Ozarks Envrionmental Water Resources Institute

OEWRI Technical Reports

Rapid growth and expansion in southwest Missouri are threatening the water resources this region’s population, agriculture, and tourism industry so heavily depend upon. In response to this threat, several watershed groups in southwest Missouri collaborated to secure federal funding for water protection efforts in this region. As a result of this effort, the Environmental Resources Coalition (ERC) received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant to develop and manage the Southwest Missouri Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP), a multi-year, multi-stakeholder effort to address water quality issues in this region. WQIP has initially been tasked with assembling, evaluating, and interpreting existing …

Irish Law 2007, Notre Dame Law School

About the Law School

Dear Notre Dame Law School Class of 2010, Welcome as a potential student to Notre Dame Law School! We are thrilled to be among the first to receive you into our family. We know that this is an exciting time for you and that, if you are anything like we were just a couple of years ago, you probably have plenty of questions about law school and Notre Dame. That's why we've prepared the Guide. We hope it will answer many of your questions and that it will provide a window into Notrt;: Dame Law School. We also hope that …

University Of New England Library Services Annual Report 2006-2007, Une Library Services

Annual Reports

Highlights and accomplishments of 2006/2007 from the University of New England's Library Services department.

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 12, October 1, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Air Toxics Under The Big Sky – A High School Science Teaching Tool, David Jones, Tony Ward, Diana Vanek, Nancy Marra, Curtis W. Noonan, Garon Smith, Earle Adams

Public and Community Health Sciences Faculty Publications

A project has been developed between Big Sky High School and The University of Montana (UM) which has brought together high school students and teachers, university scientists, and county environmental health officials in a multilayered research experience focusing on the collection and analysis of specific air toxics, and investigating their relationship to respiratory diseases. The Air Toxics Under the Big Sky project allows students to benefit from an independent experience linking science, research, and local environmental issues. We see this as a long term project which will be built upon and expanded by future students during each new school year …

The Fractional Weak Discrepancy Of A Partially Ordered Set, Alan Shuchat, Randy Shull, Ann N. Trenk

Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this paper we introduce the notion of the fractional weak discrepancy of a poset, building on previous work on weak discrepancy in [J.G. Gimbel and A.N. Trenk, On the weakness of an ordered set, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 11 (1998) 655–663; P.J. Tanenbaum, A.N. Trenk, P.C. Fishburn, Linear discrepancy and weak discrepancy of partially ordered sets, ORDER 18 (2001) 201–225; A.N. Trenk, On k-weak orders: recognition and a tolerance result, Discrete Math. 181 (1998) 223–237]. The fractional weak discrepancy wd_F(P) of a poset P=(V,≺) is the minimum nonnegative k for which there exists a function f:V→ …

Fall 2007 Library Newsletter, Jon Hansen

Library Newsletters

2007 Fall Semester Newsletter for the Horace W. Sturgis Library.

Outpost Reference : Meeting Patrons On Their Own Ground, Samantha Hines

Mansfield Library Faculty Publications

This article discusses the creation of an outpost reference service as well as a roving reference project.

Democracy, Capitalism, And Income Inequality: Seeking Causal Directions, Ross E. Burkhart

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Recent research shows that lower levels of income inequality cause higher levels of democracy, and vice versa in a simultaneous relationship. A critical factor missing from these studies is a direct exogenous measure of capitalism in models explaining variation in income inequality and democracy. This study examines 50 countries over the years 1978-1993 and finds in a pooled two stage least squares modeling exercise that the Fraser Institute measure of capitalism appears to have a positive linear impact on POLITYIV measures of democracy and a negative linear impact on income inequality (more capitalism, more inequality). There appears to be no …

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Fall 2007, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

The Spirit And Teaching, William Thompson-Uberuaga

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

American Square Dance Vol. 62, No. 10 (Oct. 2007), Boyd, William (Bill), Boyd, Randy

American Squares

Monthly square dance magazine that began publication in 1945.

Review: Interpreting The Historical Books: An Exegetical Handbook, Gary E. Yates

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

No abstract provided.

Fall 2007, Seattle University

Seattle University Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Bes F0(1810): A New Glueball Candidate, Pedro Bicudo, S.R. Cotanch, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, David G. Robertson

Physics Faculty Scholarship

We analyze the f0(1810) state recently observed by the BES collaboration via radiative J/ψ decay to a resonant φω spectrum and confront it with DM2 data and glueball theory. The DM2 group only measured ωω decays and reported a pseudoscalar but no scalar resonance in this mass region. A rescattering mechanism from the open flavored KK̄ decay channel is considered to explain why the resonance is only seen in the flavor asymmetric ωφ branch along with a discussion of positive C-parity charmonia decays to strengthen the case for preferred open flavor glueball decays. We also calculate the total decay width …

Mortgage Law In China: Comparing Theory And Practice, Gregory M. Stein

Scholarly Works

The first Chinese law focusing specifically on property rights became effective on October 1, 2007, which means that China's breakneck real estate development before that date occurred in a nation with no published law of real estate. Thus those who have been buying, selling, and lending against Chinese real estate have been operating in a world of significant legal uncertainty. Even with the new code, property law as it is practiced is likely to diverge significantly from the published rules.

This Article examines Chinese mortgage law as it actually operates in the field, focusing on both legal and business issues. …

Field, Issue 77, Fall 2007, Multiple Contributors

FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Arts At Assisi Gear Up Summer Academy, Syracuse University. Maxwell School. Community Benchmarks Program.

Community Benchmarks Program

This study is an analysis of data obtained from surveys completed by the youth who attended the Arts at Assisi Gear Up Summer Academy, the parents of the attendees, and staff of the program. “Arts at Assisi” is an eight week summer program providing low-income, middle school students with opportunities to discover their creativity in a variety of ways. Students on a daily basis engage in photography, creative writing, drama, dance, music, painting, drawing, cooking, sports and teambuilding activities. The data obtained in this report evaluated the success of this program and will be used to improve the program based …

What Do Adolescents Know About Health?, Christy Zenner, Mary Pritchard

Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose of this study was to investigate what adolescents know about topies commonly covered in Health classes (eating disorders, exercise, nutrition, caffeine, and sleep) and whether students know aS much as they think thtey do about these topics. We found that 9% of the students correctly answered all of the exercise questions, 2% nutrition, 2% sleep, 3% caffeine, and 5% eating disorders. Participants did believe they knew more about their health than they actually did. Results suggest that knowledge can clearly be improved.