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Introduction To First Person Research: On Teaching And Becoming, Sally Riad, Michael Elmes

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

Breaking The Ice With A Gutted Rooster: Reflections On A Messy Day One, Dave O'Connell

Organization Management Journal

Based on an experience in an MBA Human Resource Management classroom, this paper traces the process of my reflection on an icebreaker discussion of ‘‘best’’ and ‘‘worst’’ student jobs. I indicate how I developed second thoughts about the way in which I handled the discussion, concerned that making light of messy jobs might encourage the class of future managers to do the same. The journey includes the input of a fellow colleague who helped spur me to articulate more clearly – for myself and for my students – that which I am willing to profess as a management professor. In …

Recent Research Of Note, Jennifer Cyr

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

An Assurance Of Learning Success Model: Toward Closing The Feedback Loop, Bonita L. Betters-Reed, Mindell Reiss Nitkins, Susan D. Sampson

Organization Management Journal

This paper provides a systemic approach to building and sustaining a solid assurance of learning program using the framework of Kotter’s (1995) Strategic Model for Transforming Organizations. A comprehensive model for launching and sustaining a systemic approach to program review that ‘‘closes the loop’’ is shared step by step. Particular attention is paid to the organizational behaviors and processes that accompany each step, and to sharing important lessons that were learned. A review of the assessment literature in higher education and recent Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) contributions to this body of knowledge identifies a critical gap …

December 2008, Pope Benedict Xvi

Marian Thoughts of Pope Benedict XVI

No abstract provided.

Saint John Fisher College: What's The Connection? (First Friday Lecture, October 3, 2008), William Graf

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"In the year of our Lord 1535, at 5:00 on Tuesday morning, June 22^nd, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London awoke the sleeping John Fisher to deliver a message from King Henry VIII: the Bishop of Rochester was to be put to death that day before noon. Because the recently created Cardinal did not recognize Henry’s claim to be supreme head of the Church in England nor the validity of his marriage to Anne Boleyn, John Fisher was judged a traitor. In late May 1535, when …

Ready Or Not? Protecting The Public's Health From Diseases, Disasters, And Bioterrorism, Jeffrey Levi, Serena Vinter, Rebecca St. Laurent, Laura M. Segal

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

While significant progress has been made to better protect the country from health emergencies, funding for essential programs has been cut, putting these improvements in jeopardy. Additionally, a number of critical areas of preparedness still have significant gaps, including surge capacity and biosurveillance systems, and these problems are less likely to be addressed as funding decreases.

Winter 2008, Marisela Cadena-Smith

Connection

The Official Community Newsletter for Collin College Connection is the college's award-winning community newsletter published three times a year to inform members of the Collin County community about college news, awards, events, and more.

Torch (December 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Wsu Research News, Winter 2008, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A sixteen page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Planetary Systems Around Close Binary Stars: The Case Of The Very Dusty, Sun-Like, Spectroscopic Binary Bd+20 307, Benjamin Zuckerman, Francis C. Fekel, Michael H. Williamson, Gregory W. Henry, Michael P. Muno

Information Systems and Engineering Management Research Publications

Field star BD+20 307 is the dustiest known main-sequence star, based on the fraction of its bolometric luminosity, ~4%, that is emitted at infrared wavelengths. The particles that carry this large infrared luminosity are unusually warm, comparable to the temperature of the zodiacal dust in the solar system, and their existence is likely to be a consequence of a fairly recent collision of large objects such as planets or planetary embryos. Thus, the age of BD+20 307 is potentially of interest in constraining the era of terrestrial planet formation. The present project was initiated with an attempt to derive this …

Abstraction As A Basis For The Computational Interpretation Of Creative Cross-Modal Metaphor, Sylvia Weber Russell

Computer Science

Various approaches to computational metaphor interpretation are based on pre-existing similarities between source and target domains and/or are based on metaphors already observed to be prevalent in the language. This paper addresses similarity-creating cross-modal metaphoric expressions. It is shown how the “abstract concept as object” (or reification) metaphor plays a central role in a large class of metaphoric extensions. The described approach depends on the imposition of abstract ontological components, which represent source concepts, onto target concepts. The challenge of such a system is to represent both denotative and connotative components which are extensible, together with a framework of general …

A 60 Ghz Wireless Network For Enabling Uncompressed Video Communication, Harkirat Singh, Jisung Oh, Changyeul Kweon, Xiangping Qin, Huai-Rong Shao, Chiu Ngo

Articles

Uncompressed high-definition video streaming over wireless personal area networks is a challenging problem because of the high data rate requirement and channel variations. With the advances in RF technology and the huge bandwidth available worldwide in the 57–66 GHz millimeter-wave unlicensed spectrum, mmWave WPANs that can support multigigabit transmission are being developed. However, compared to low-frequency signals (2.4 or 5 GHz), mmWave signals are more fragile; indeed, the propagation losses are significantly higher. In this article we present an mmWave system for supporting uncompressed HD video up to 3 Gb/s. The system includes various efficient error protection and concealment schemes …

Eastern Kentucky University Magazine, Fall/Winter 2008, Eastern Kentucky University, Alumni Relations

The Eastern Magazine

No abstract provided.

Soliton Perturbation Theory For The Modified Kawahara Equation, Anjan Biswas

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

The modified Kawahara equation is studied along with its perturbation terms. The adiabatic dynamics of the soliton amplitude and the velocity of the soliton are obtained by the aid of soliton perturbation theory.

On The Mixed Sum Of Doubly Infinite And Finite Independent Random Variables, Mridula Garg

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

The aim of the present paper is to study the distribution of the mixed sum of two random variables. Here we establish a theorem which gives the probability density function (pdf) of sum of doubly infinite and finite independent random variables. The distribution of the infinite and finite independent random variables is given in the form of corollary. As an application of these results we have obtained a distribution of sum of bilateral exponential variate with triangular, Rayleigh with uniform and Weibull with triangular variate. Some graphs of these distributions have also been given.

The Evolution Of Reciprocity In Sizable Human Groups, Casey G. Rothschild

Economics Faculty Scholarship

The scale and complexity of human cooperation is an important and unresolved evo- lutionary puzzle. This article uses the finitely repeated n person Prisoners’ Dilemma game to illustrate how sapience can greatly enhance group-selection effects and lead to the evolutionary stability of cooperation in large groups. This affords a simple and direct explanation of the human “exception.”

Original Research Oral Quercetin Supplementation And Blood Oxidative Capacity In Response To Ultramarathon Competition, John C. Quindry, Steven R. Mcanulty, Matthew B. Hudson, Peter Hosick, Charles Dumke, Lisa S. Mcanulty, Dru Henson, Jason D. Morrow, David Nieman

Integrative Physiology and Athletic Training Faculty Publications

Previous research indicates that ultramarathon exercise can result in blood oxidative stress. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the efficacy of oral supplementation with quercetin, a naturally occurring compound with known antioxidant properties, as a potential countermeasure against blood oxidative stress during an ultramarathon competition. In double-blind fashion, 63 participants received either oral quercetin (250 mg, 4×/day; 1,000 mg/day total) or quercetin-free supplements 3 weeks before and during the 160-km Western States Endurance Run. Blood drawn before and immediately after (quercetin finishers n = 18, quercetin-free finishers n = 21) the event was analyzed for changes in blood …

Evaluation Of The Stability And Validity Of Participant Samples Recruited Over The Internet., Daniel Z Lieberman

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Faculty Publications

Research conducted via the Internet has the potential to reach important clinical populations of participants who would not participate in traditional studies. Concerns exist, however, about the validity of samples recruited in this manner, especially when participants are anonymous and never have contact with study staff. This study evaluated two anonymous samples that were recruited over the Internet to test an online program designed to help problem drinkers. The two studies were conducted 3 years apart, and different recruitment strategies were utilized. Despite these differences, the two samples were highly similar in demographic and clinical features. Correlations that have been …

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter December-January 2008-2009, Tarble Arts Center

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter

No abstract provided.

American Square Dance Vol. 63, No. 12 (Dec. 2008), Boyd, William (Bill), Boyd, Randy

American Squares

Monthly square dance magazine that began publication in 1945.

Customer Satisfaction Index Of Singapore: The Singapore Management University Subscription Report 2008, Institute Of Service Excellence, Smu

Research Collection Institute of Service Excellence (2007-2024)

The Institute of Service Excellence at Singapore Management University (ISES) was appointed by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) to implement and maintain an annual benchmark for the services sector in Singapore.

The Customer Satisfaction Index of Singapore (CSISG) was first launched in April 2008 based on data collected from a nationwide survey conducted in 2007. The CSISG is modeled after the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) developed by the University of Michigan in 1994.

In this second year, CSISG 2008 produced satisfaction indices for 88 companies from 35 sub-sectors, cutting across 8 services sectors, namely Education, Finance & Insurance …

Class Notes: Updates From Lu Alumni, Liberty University

December 2008

No abstract provided.

On The Go With Go Tell Internships, Liberty University

December 2008

No abstract provided.

Playing At A Whole New Level, Liberty University

December 2008

No abstract provided.

The Chat Room, Vol. 12, College Of Education And Professional Studies

The Chat Room (CEPS Newsletter)

The Chat Room is the College of Education and Professional Studies newsletter. This is Volume 12, December 2008.

Ttl Based Packet Marking For Ip Traceback, Vamsi Paruchuri, Arjan Durresi, Sriram Chellappan

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks continue to pose major threats to the Internet. in order to traceback attack sources (i.e., IP addresses), a well-studied approach is Probabilistic Packet Marking (PPM), where each intermediate router of a packet marks it with a certain probability, enabling a victim host to traceback the attack source. in a recent study, we showed how attackers can take advantage of probabilistic nature of packet markings in existing PPM schemes to create spoofed marks, hence compromising traceback. in this paper, we propose a new PPM scheme called TTL-Based PPM (TPM) scheme, where each packet is marked with …

Communiqué, December 1, 2008, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

The Formal Structure Of Metaphysics And The Importance Of Being Earnest, Jeremy Barris

Humanities Faculty Research

This article considers how the formal structure of metaphysical thought is displayed in Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. One frequent aim of metaphysics is to understand the world as a whole. We cannot gain such a global vantage point without separating ourselves from all the particular meanings things have for us within the world. But we start within the world, and so can only proceed on the basis of those particular meanings. Consequently we can only separate ourselves from them if they work to cancel themselves in favor of the global understanding. When the separate range of meanings is …

Immigrants, Cultural Distance And Us State-Level Exports Of Cultural Products, Roger White, Bedassa Tadesse

Economics

We examine the relationships between immigrants, cultural distance and state-level exports, employing state-specific immigrant stocks and total US immigrant stocks, separately, and a measure of cultural distance recently introduced by [Tadesse, B., & White, R. (2008b). Cultural distance as a determinant of bilateral trade flows: Do immigrants counter the effect of cultural distance? Applied Economic Letters]. A positive link between immigrants and aggregate exports is reported and, while cultural distance is found to reduce exports, immigrants partially offset the effects of cultural distance by increasing both the intensity of existing exports and the likelihood that exporting occurs. However, heterogeneity in …