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Modified Beacon-Enabled Ieee 802.15.4 Mac For Lower Latency, G. Bhatti, A. Mehta, Z. Sahinoglu, J. Zhang, R. Viswanathan

Conference Proceedings

Industrial sensing, monitoring and automation offer a lucrative application domain for networking and communications. Wired sensor networks have traditionally been used for these applications because such networks adequately meet two vital requirements, i.e., low latency and high reliability, needed for an industrial deployment. Wired sensor networks, however, are not very cost effective due to higher components’ cost. These networks also lack the flexibility needed for subsequent topological changes. Wireless sensor networks (WSN), on the other hand, are less expensive and offer high degree of flexibility. Wireless networks, therefore, can offer an attractive and viable solution for industrial sensing and automation. …

The Beat: December 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "May your days be merry and bright"
• Coborn family makes contribution to CentraCare
• Employee to participate in leadership program
• Home Care and Hospice named to elite list
• Diabetes Center offers weight management program
• Heart Center ranks in nation’s top 100 — again
• Diabetes Health Professional Update
• CentraCare Clinic receives two awards
• St. Cloud Hospital joins Spirit of Women
• Long Prairie Winter Gala
• Thank a Doctor launched
• Give Lifeline as a gift

Patient Care News: December 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Holiday Greetings

Christmas/New Year’s Cut/Call

Chest Tubes/Catheters in the Pleural Space

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: December 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to our new providers
• Welcome to these New Employees
• Recognition for Years of Service
• CentraCare Clinic receives two awards
• CentraCare Clinic offers Sports Medicine program
• Culture of Quality Survey Update
• New CentraCare Health System Reward Program
• Employee Benefit Reminder
• Kudos to . . .
• Health professional seminar on diabetes
• Tree of Hope recognizes children with cancer
• Condolences to . . .
• Heart Center ranks in nation’s top 100 — again
• Coborn family makes $2 million contribution
• Home Care and Hospice named to elite list
• Women’s Health 101 planned
• Stroke & blood vessel screenings

President's Report & Honor Roll Of Donors 2008, Merrimack College

Merrimack Magazine

No abstract provided.

Daily Announcements December 2008, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Gsu View, 2008-12, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Revisiting “Mass Communication” And The “Work” Of The Audience In The New Media Environment, Philip M. Napoli

McGannon Center Working Paper Series

This paper revisits the concept of mass communication, which has faced persistent challenges to its continued relevance in light of changes that have taken place in the media environment. This paper offers a counterpoint to claims of the term’s diminished relevance, as well as to some recent efforts to reposition the term, by putting forth an interpretive approach that is not exclusive to the “institutional communicator” and that allows the term “mass” to extend to both the senders and receivers of messages. This paper argues that this interpretive approach is in keeping with some early interpretations of the concept’s meaning, …

The Rationalization Of Audience Understanding, Philip M. Napoli

McGannon Center Working Paper Series

This paper reviews the literature that has examined how media organizations make sense of their audiences, the analytical techniques and technologies employed, and how this information is embraced or resisted in the operation of media organizations. As this review illustrates, the historical trend in audience understanding has been one of a steady process of rationalization in how media organizations have approached their audiences. In documenting this process of the rationalization of audience understanding, this review identifies key historical moments in this process. This review identifies the external forces that have influenced this process; the underlying reasons for it; and critiques …

Pareto Versus Welfare, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Many normatively oriented economists, legal academics and other policy analysts appear to be "welfarist" and Paretian to at least moderate degree: They deem positive responsiveness to individual preferences, and satisfaction of one or more of the familiar Pareto criteria, to be reasonably undemanding and desirable attributes of any social welfare function (SWF) employed to formulate social evaluations. Some theorists and analysts go further than moderate welfarism or Paretianism, however: They argue that "the Pareto principle" requires the SWF be responsive to individual preferences alone - a position I label "strict" welfarism - and conclude that all social evaluation should in …

Primetimes Newsletter, Winter 2008, Office Of Lifespan Studies

PrimeTimes Newsletter

PrimeTimes is the newsletter of the Office of Lifespan Studies in the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.

Ccu Newsletter, December 1, 2008, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

Measuring And Modeling Co2 And H2O Fluxes In Complex Terrain, Diego Andrés Riveros-Iregui, Brian L. Mcglynn

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The feedbacks between the water and the carbon cycles are of critical importance to global carbon balances. Forests and forest soils in northern latitudes are important carbon pools because of their potential as sinks for atmospheric carbon. However there are significant unknowns related to the effects of hydrologic variability, mountainous terrain, and landscape heterogeneity in controlling soil carbon dioxide (CO₂) efflux. Mountainous terrain imposes large spatial heterogeneity in the biophysical controls of soil CO₂ production and efflux, including soil temperature, soil water content, vegetation, substrate, and soil physical properties. Further complications are introduced by the superimposed temporal …

Isotopic Evidence Of Methane Oxidation Across The Surface Water–Ground Water Interface, Diego Andrés Riveros-Iregui, Jennifer Y. King

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Biogenic methane (CH₄) from wetlands plays a crucial role in the carbon cycle, but the dynamics of dissolved methane flux across the surface water-ground water interface remain poorly understood. This study focused on the effects of spatial transformation of dissolved methane and the role of ground-water recharge in the distribution of dissolved methane across the surface water-ground water interface. Here we present carbon isotopic measurements of biogenic methane and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from the Sarita Wetland, on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota, and also in six monitoring wells located down gradient from the …

Development Of Unicef Latin America/Caribbean (Lac) Well-Being Indicators, Mark Edberg

Prevention and Community Health Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Getting The Board On Board: Helping Board Members Understand Early Childhood Programs, Michael Wischnowski

Education Faculty/Staff Publications

The article discusses the goal of early childhood administrators to make their programs visible to their board members, by providing data-based information about services. It outlines the key roles and responsibilities of not-for-profit or public boards. A well-presented information helps the board make the best policy decisions for those it serves. Moreover, it offers tips about making board presentations that may facilitate better understanding and policy making by board members.

State And Regional Variation In The Effects Of Trade On Job Displacement In The Us Manufacturing Sector, 1982-1999, Roger White

Economics

Worker-level data from the 1984–2000 Displaced Worker Surveys are employed to examine the effects of trade on manufacturing workers’ probabilities of job displacement. Observed changes in import and export penetration rates yield increases in displacement probabilities for the North Central, Middle Atlantic and South Central regions yet lower displacement probabilities for the Plains/West and Pacific regions. Changes in import and export price indexes lead to increases in displacement probabilities for the Pacific, Southeast and Northeast regions and decreases for the South Central and Middle Atlantic regions. However, while the influences of imports and exports on job displacement vary considerably across …

A Uniformly Dissipative Scheme For Stationary Statistical Properties Of The Infinite Prandtl Number Model, Wenfang (Wendy) Cheng, Xiaoming Wang

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The purpose of this short communication is to announce that a class of numerical schemes, uniformly dissipative approximations, which uniformly preserve the dissipativity of the continuous infinite dimensional dissipative complex (chaotic) systems possess desirable properties in terms of approximating stationary statistics properties. in particular, the stationary statistical properties of these uniformly dissipative schemes converge to those of the continuous system at vanishing mesh size. the idea is illustrated on the infinite Prandtl number model for convection and semi-discretization in time, although the general strategy works for a broad class of dissipative complex systems and fully discretized approximations. as far as …

Ii. Taking The Vow Of Poverty To Be Like Christ

Anima Una

II. Taking the Vow of Poverty to be Like Christ -- (p. 9) -- 2.1 How do People Look Upon Us? -- (p. 9) -- 2.2 Evangelical Self-emptying -- (p. 11) -- 2.3 Choosing to Live in Simplicity -- (p. 12) -- 2.4 Where Are We? -- (p. 13) -- 2.4.1 On a Personal Level -- (p. 13) -- 2.4.2 On a Community Level -- (p. 14) -- 2.4.3 On a Circumscription Level -- (p. 14)

Iii. Taking The Vow Of Poverty So As To Live Together As A Congregation

Anima Una

III. Taking the Vow of Poverty So As To Live together As a Congregation -- (p. 15) -- 3.1 Between Individualism and Sharing -- (p. 15) -- 3.2 Sharing Was Necessary From the Beginnings of the Church -- (p. 16) -- 3.3 Efforts at Realising Interdependence -- (p. 19) -- 3.4 Where Are We? -- (p. 22) -- 3.4.1 On a Personal Level -- (p. 23) -- 3.4.2 On a Community Level -- (p. 23) -- 3.4.3 On a Circumscription Level -- (p. 23)

2008 Vol. 61: Living The Vow Of Poverty Today

Anima Una

No abstract provided.

Acuta Enews December 2008, Vol. 37, No. 12

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

From the President.............. Corinne Hoch, Columbia, Univ., ACUTA President

Board Report............. Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Secretary/Treasurer

DC Update............. Dave Ostrom, Washington State Univ. (retired)

Info Links........... Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern Iowa

ACUTA Guide to Products and Services: Keep It Handy, Use It Often

ACUTA Web Seminar: Wireless Andrew 2.0

"Earthbottle" Brought to you by Clemson

Check It Out: Press Releases... Job Postings.... RFIs/RFPs

Holiday Greetings from the ACUTA Staff

Welcome New Members

Finding Missing Markets (And A Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence From An Export Crop Adoption And Marketing Intervention In Kenya, Nava Ashraf, Xavier Giné, Dean Karlan

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

The Consequences Of Technostress For End Users In Organizations: Conceptual Development And Empirical Validation, T. Ragu-Nathan, Monideepa Tarafdar, Bhanu Ragu-Nathan

Articles

The research reported in this paper studies the phenomenon of technostress, that is, stress experienced by end users of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and examines its influence on their job satisfaction, commitment to the organization, and intention to stay. Drawing from the Transaction-Based Model of stress and prior research on the effects of ICTs on end users, we first conceptually build a nomological net for technostress to understand the influence of technostress on three variables relating to end users of ICTs: job satisfaction, and organizational and continuance commitment. Because there are no prior instruments to measure constructs related to …

Enhancing Homework’S Effectiveness Through Student Motivation And Parental Involvement, Jonathan T. Beutlich

Master of Education Program Theses

Homework has varying degrees of effectiveness; therefore, it is important for teachers to know what elements aid in making homework assignments more effective to learners. There are outside factors that contribute to homework’s effectiveness as well as types of homework assignments that will increase students’ success. Two of the factors contributing to homework’s level of benefits are student motivation and parental involvement. There are three types of homework assignments that increase the positive aspects of student motivation and parental involvement include interspersal assignments, interactive homework assignments, and project-based assignments. Improved homework benefits education, specifically Christian education, by enabling a tightly …

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Marketing And Librarians, Pin Pin Yeo

Research Collection Library

Barbie Keiser, Information Resource Management Consultant, conducted a one day workshop titled “Substance beyond style: Marketing library and information services in the 21st century” in Singapore on 15 October. The workshop was organized by the Library Association of Singapore and the Singapore Management University. It was held at the Reading Room, Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University. Ms. Keiser noted that she did her first marketing workshop in Singapore in 1989 and was pleased to be back twenty years later.

December 2008, Monte Ahuja College Of Business

Dialogue: News from the Monte Ahuja College of Business

UpFront: the growth of potential -- Nance students take first place in competition -- Colette Taddy Hart is named 2008 Rainmaker; Student Kirsty McKechnie named 2008 Rainmaker of Tomorrow -- Featured student: Laural Wagner -- Featured alumna: Linda Kane, BBA '79 -- Students work to save Longwood Manor -- E-­commerce program wins award from Mid-­Continent East Business Administration Association -- McClain appointed chair of acccounting department -- Class notes.

Communicator, Dec. 2008, San Jose State University, Department Of Kinesiology

Communicator (Kinesiology)

Volume 21, Issue 2

Omj Is A Truly International Journal, William P. Ferris

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.