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Archival Work In A Surreal World: The Imagination Of George Saunders, Erica Olsen

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

When George Saunders’s first collection of short stories, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, came out in 1996 reviewers emphasized the surrealism of his fictional world of run-down theme parks and virtual-reality franchise businesses: "… a nightmarish post-apocalyptic world that might have been envisioned by Walt Disney on acid," wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer, while Newsweek called it "a cybernetic, postapocalyptic dystopia."

Programs And Courses 2008-2010, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Programs and Courses Catalogs

This catalog is published for students and other persons who want to know more about the University of Northern Iowa. Its purpose is to communicate as objectively and completely as possible what the university is and what it does. The catalog is presented in sections to give a general view of the university as well as the detailed information required for informed decision making.

Forty Ways To Look At Brigham Young: A New Approach To A Remarkable Man, By Chad M. Orton And William W. Slaughter, Kimberly Webb Reid

BYU Studies

Forty Ways to Look at Brigham Young: A New Approach to a Remarkable Man, by Chad M. Orton and William W. Slaughter (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2008)

Genealib Archive 2008-01, Genealib

GENEALIB Archive

No abstract provided.

Empowering Students In Information Literacy Practices Using A Collaborative Digital Library For School Projects, Awang Ngah Zainab, Abdullah Abrizah

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

This paper examines the affordances that a collaborative digital library (CDL) can bring to bear on supporting information literacy practices in the digital information environment. It suggests that the digital library can contribute to student empowerment in information literacy practices while searching, using and collaboratively building the digital library resources. To illustrate this, the authors have been experimenting with the implementation of an integrated information literacy model based on Eisenberg and Berkowitzâ�� Big 6 Model and describes the CDL features in association with the information literacy dimensions in this model. The CDL focuses on the project-based learning approach to conduct …

Changing Trend On Grocery Goods Shopping: Why Hypermarket And Why Grocery Shop?, A. R. Roslan

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

No abstract provided.

Integration Between Location Based Service (Lbs) And Online Analytical Processing (Olap): Semantic Approach, A.H.A. Halim, M.A. Ismail, S.D. Ravana

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Location Based Service (LBS) LBS are mobile service that has the capability to provide real time information basedon the user's location. Geographical Information System (GIS) has been the heart of LBS in order to provide all the functionalities in LBS. Although mostly transparent, GIS provides the basis for most functionality, from services like geocoding, routing, location search to map presentation in LBS. In the Knowledge Discovery realm, Spatial Online Analytical Processing (SOLAP) integrates conventional OLAP with GIS data sets .Integration of these two heterogeneous data sources deals with issues such as different data model structures, different schemas and query languages. …

Internationalization Of Malaysian Mathematical And Computer Science Journals, A.N. Zainab

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

The internationalization characteristics of two Malaysian journals, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society ( indexed by ISI) and the Malaysian Journal of Computer Science ( indexed by Inspec and Scopus) is observed. All issues for the years 2000 to 2007 were looked at to obtain the following information, (i) total articles published between 2000 and 2007; (ii) the distribution of foreign and Malaysian authors publishing in the journals; (iii) the distribution of articles by country and (iv) the geographical distribution of authors citing articles published in the journals. Citation to articles is derived from information given by Google scholar. …

Preference For Vehicle Ownership And Use In Malaysia, J. Mohamad

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Using a household survey dataset in Klang Vally area this paper examines the characteristics of households on vehicle ownership, vehicle type choice, and vehicle usage rates in the Kuala Lumpur region and it’s surrounding. The results have clearly show that households in Malaysia tend to have more vehicles where their wealth is better, while the trend of motorcycle ownership shows an opposite behavior. The analysis has shows that motorcycle is much preferred by the households who have a lower salary. It is also interesting to notice that the Malaysian households have a positive preference to their national vehicle’s brand, which …

Travel Behaviour Of The Park And Ride Users And The Factors Influencing The Demand For The Use Of The Park And Ride Facility, J. Mohamad

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Park and ride scheme acts as an important component of the parking management strategies of a city. Exploring the significant attributes that influence the utilization of such scheme can provide a better understanding of its application among the urban users. The three main areas of concern towards understanding the characteristics of the park and ride users are the socioeconomic, trip and the parking-related characteristics. Through linear regression, this study identified that the significant attributes that were found to significantly influence the utilization of the facility in the Kuala Lumpur conurbation are total travel time by rail (via the park-and-ride), income, …

Immigrant Remittances, Ezra Rosser

Connecticut Law Review

Remittances, the sending of money from immigrants back to their home countries, are the newest anti-poverty, development activity of the poor to be applauded by international institutions and economists. Exceeding foreign aid and private investment to many developing countries, remittances are being hailed as a new, untapped resource with powerful poverty alleviation and potential development attributes. After presenting the poverty, developmental, and economic characteristics of this new transnational connection between immigrants and their loved ones, as well as the dangerous effects of excessive remittance regulation, this Article argues that remittances should be understood as an anti-poverty tool, but not as …

Пещеры Межвузовский Сборник Научных Трудов Peshchery (Caves) Interuniversity Collection Of Scientific Transactions

KIP Articles

П 78 Пещеры: сб. науч. тр. / Перм. гос. ун-т. - Пермь, 2008. - Вып. 31. - 337 с. ISBN 978-5-7944-1087-7 В сборнике приведены результаты новых спелеологических исследований; представлены публикации по спеологии, а также библиография по карсту и пещерам. Издание предназначено для преподавателей и студентов вузов, инженеров-геологов и гидрогеологов, ведущих изыскания в карстовых районах, и спелеологов. СОДЕРЖАНИЕ От главного редактора ...5 ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ ... 7 ГЕОЛОГИЯ И ГЕНЕЗИС ПЕЩЕР ...8 Филиппова Н.В., Тржцинский Ю.Б. Новые данные о Нижнеудинской пещере (Восточная Сибирь) ....8 Мавлюдов Б.Р. Климатические системы пещер и спелеологическая практика ...17 Мавлюдов Б.Р. Ледниковые пещеры, зачем их изучать? ....30 Браун Г.Ф. …

Climate Variability Recorded In Tropical And Sub-Tropical Speleothems, Jay L. Banner, K. M. Cobb, Judson W. Partin

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

The Origin Of Lamination In Stalagmites From Katerloch Cave, Austria: Towards A Seasonality Proxy, Ronny Boch, Christoph Spötl

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

How Do Securities Laws Influence Affect, Happiness, & Trust?, Peter H. Huang

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

The Siren Sounds For Nitrogen, Jeremy S. Scholtes

Student Articles and Papers

The international community is intensifying its efforts to combat nitrogen pollution, a threat to human health and the environment. In this Article, Jeremy S. Scholtes examines the nature of this type of pollution and the legal instruments currently in place that deal with it. He begins by explaining the theoretical concerns that negotiators must consider when designing legal instruments, recommending that regional hard law instruments in concert with partnership coordination platforms are the most effective tools for addressing nitrogen pollution. He concludes that the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) should be used as the model for developing …

Usury Law, Payday Loans, And Statutory Sleight Of Hand: Salience Distortion In American Credit Pricing Limits, Christopher L. Peterson

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Bonghits4jesus.Com? Scrutinizing Public School Authority Over Student Cyberspeech Through The Lens Of Personal Jurisdiction, Kyle W. Brenton

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

China's New Anti-Monopoly Law: Addressing Foreign Competitors And Commentators, Richard Student

Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vols 1-28:1 (1992-2019)

No abstract provided.

Payday Loan Solutions: Slaying The Hydra (And Keeping It Dead), Benjamin D. Faller

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program (December 2008), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program (June 2008), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Project Quality Of Offshore Virtual Teams Engaged In Software Requirements Analysis: An Exploratory Comparative Study, Dhruv Nath, Varadharajan Sridhar, Monica Adya, Amit Malik

Management Faculty Research and Publications

The off-shore software development companies in countries such as India use a global delivery model in which initial requirement analysis phase of software projects get executed at client locations to leverage frequent and deep interaction between user and developer teams. Subsequent phases such as design, coding and testing are completed at off-shore locations. Emerging trends indicate an increasing interest in off-shoring even requirements analysis phase using computer mediated communication. We conducted an exploratory research study involving students from Management Development Institute (MDI), India and Marquette University (MU), USA to determine quality of such off-shored requirements analysis projects. Our findings suggest …

Living Cases: Authentic Learning In Action, Dieter Fink

EDU-COM International Conference

The paper outlines the merit of using case studies in teaching, such as providing real life examples to contextualise theoretical concepts and shifting the emphasis from teacher-centred to more studentcentred activities. While there are a variety of case types the material they provide is traditionally static. However, in real life, solutions are affected by changed circumstances reflecting a volatile environment. Hence, the paper reports on the approach of using a ‗living‘ case where students are confronted with teacher-initiated interventions while solving the case. The specific case was that of a university deciding to make, purchase or outsource an Information Technology …

Engaging The Community In University Teaching: A Cultural Approach To Sustainability Of Effective Learning, Nonofo Losike-Sedimo, Bathsheb Mbongwe

EDU-COM International Conference

This paper revisits levels of education and sustainable development implementation in university teaching. It suggests tapping expertise in local communities as a social responsibility for sustainability of student‘s human development success. Where success is measured by the students‘self-actualization progress. Student success, qualitative growth, or acquired capacities is seen as a prerequisite for sustainable development. We take a reformist point of view of sustainability. We look at issues of human behaviour, cognition and negotiation over preferred futures, under a given social policy and education act. Sustainability here is viewed as an inherently normative concept, rooted in real world problems with very …

A Framework For Bioprofile Analysis Over Grid, Pin Hu

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

An important trend in modern medicine is towards individualisation of healthcare to tailor care to the needs of the individual. This makes it possible, for example, to personalise diagnosis and treatment to improve outcome. However, the benefits of this can only be fully realised if healthcare and ICT resources are exploited (e.g. to provide access to relevant data, analysis algorithms, knowledge and expertise). Potentially, grid can play an important role in this by allowing sharing of resources and expertise to improve the quality of care. The integration of grid and the new concept of bioprofile represents a new topic in …

Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century Of Conflict In Maps, 1800-1900, Ben W. Huseman

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

An Exhibition in Conjunction with the 2008 Virginia Garrett Biennial Lectures on the History of Cartography Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library August 25, 2008 thru January 3,2009 Sixth Floor Special Collections The University of Texas at Arlington Library||Dedicated to Richard Francaviglia and Dennis Reinhartz

Rethinking Sharing Licenses For The Entertainment Media, Eric E. Johnson

Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Mississippi River Towns: From Dubuque, Iowa To Hamilton, Illinois, Bonnie Jean Lawhorn

Graduate Research Papers

Knowing and learning about local history is considered to be important by both Iowa and Illinois State Departments of Education. School Districts have directed their teachers to teach the history of the state as well as the local community. The Mississippi River acts as a border between the two states and has played an important part in the development of villages and towns up and down the river. Living in towns that border the Mississippi River most of my life, I recognize the history that has played out in many of the locations from both sides of the river. Having …

Clark University Academic Catalog [2007-2008], Clark University

Clark University Academic Catalogs

Annual academic catalog for the 2007-2008 academic year at Clark University.

Clark University academic catalogs contain academic announcements, course listings and descriptions, degrees and degree requirements, registers of instructor and administrator names, information on buildings and grounds, Clark history, and more. They have had various titles throughout the decades, but for consistency we collectively refer to them as academic catalogs across all titles.