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Evaluation Of Methods For Establishing Vegetation In Created Wetland Mitigation Sites In Eastern Nebraska, Andrew A. Miller Dec 2008

Evaluation Of Methods For Establishing Vegetation In Created Wetland Mitigation Sites In Eastern Nebraska, Andrew A. Miller

Student Work

Seventeen wetland mitigation sites in eastern Nebraska were evaluated, by vegetative zone, to assess the relative success of active and passive wetland vegetation establishment techniques. For sites with available records of species introduced, 46% of the seeded species and 31% of the transplanted species were successfully established suggesting that the intentional introduction of species (i.e. active methods) provides some degree of success in wetland creation. No significant differences were observed within or among active or passive methods for Species Richness (S), Shannon-Wiener diversity (H′), or the Floristic Quality Index (FQI) (Kruskall-Wallis test P < 0.05). However, while not statistically significant, general trends showed that, in the temporarily flooded zones, seeding resulted in both the highest overall plant diversity and highest FQI (S = 20.2, H′ = 1.74, FQI = 8.99) and, among species with cover values > 0.5%, the lowest percent non-native species (6.2%). …

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Separation Anxiety: Uniting The Families Of Lawful Permanent Residents., Arshil Kabani Dec 2008

Separation Anxiety: Uniting The Families Of Lawful Permanent Residents., Arshil Kabani

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

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Capital Punishment Or Lack-Of-Capital Punishment - Indigent Death Penalty Dependants Are Penalized By A Procedurally Flawed Counsel Appointment Process., Talia Nye-Keif Dec 2008

Capital Punishment Or Lack-Of-Capital Punishment - Indigent Death Penalty Dependants Are Penalized By A Procedurally Flawed Counsel Appointment Process., Talia Nye-Keif

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

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The Plight Of Immigrant Day Laborers: Why They Deserve Protection Under The Law., Analiz Deleon-Vargas Dec 2008

The Plight Of Immigrant Day Laborers: Why They Deserve Protection Under The Law., Analiz Deleon-Vargas

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

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The Effect Of A Yearlong One -To -One Laptop Computer Classroom Program On The 4th-Grade Achievement And Technology Outcomes Of Digital Divide Learners, Daniel H. Bird Dec 2008

The Effect Of A Yearlong One -To -One Laptop Computer Classroom Program On The 4th-Grade Achievement And Technology Outcomes Of Digital Divide Learners, Daniel H. Bird

Student Work

A yearlong one-to-one computer laptop classroom instruction intervention program used to prepare 4th-grade students for participation in computer learning activities was evaluated. Students used computers to complete daily reading, writing, and Internet search assignments. Students were divided into two groups according to past computer access; Digital Divide Learners (n = 10) who did not have computers and Internet access at home, and Digital Native Learners (n = 15) who did have computers and Internet access at home. Reading, writing, total technology skills domain scores, and keyboarding speed and accuracy outcomes were evaluated. Results indicate reading vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing …

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Food Resources Of Carnaby’S Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus Latirostris) In The Gnangara Sustainability Strategy Study Area, Leonie E. Valentine, William Stock Dec 2008

Food Resources Of Carnaby’S Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus Latirostris) In The Gnangara Sustainability Strategy Study Area, Leonie E. Valentine, William Stock

Research outputs pre 2011

Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo is an endangered species, with less than 50% of the original population remaining (Garnett and Crowley 2000). A major threatening process includes habitat fragmentation and the removal of critical feeding resources (Cale 2003). The GSS study area in an important foraging area during the non-breeding season for Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo. Both native banksia woodlands and pine plantations have been recognised as an important food resource (Perry 1948; Saunders 1974b; Saunders 1980). Expanding urban populations and agricultural development has resulted in the removal of approximately 50% of native vegetation in the GSS study area. Within the remnant vegetation, the energetics, …

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Iceland: Financial System Stability Assessment—Update, International Monetary Fund (Imf) Dec 2008

Iceland: Financial System Stability Assessment—Update, International Monetary Fund (Imf)

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Bayernlb Set For €10bn Bail-Out, Daniel Schäfer Dec 2008

Bayernlb Set For €10bn Bail-Out, Daniel Schäfer

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Opinion Of The European Central Bank Of 1 December 2008 At The Request Of The Hungarian Ministry Of Finance On A Draft Law On Strengthening The Financial Intermediary Systemof 1 December 2008 At The Request Of The Hungarian Ministry Of Finance On A Draft Law On Strengthening The Financial Intermediary System (Con/2008/81), European Central Bank Dec 2008

Opinion Of The European Central Bank Of 1 December 2008 At The Request Of The Hungarian Ministry Of Finance On A Draft Law On Strengthening The Financial Intermediary Systemof 1 December 2008 At The Request Of The Hungarian Ministry Of Finance On A Draft Law On Strengthening The Financial Intermediary System (Con/2008/81), European Central Bank

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General Validity Of Reciprocity In Quantum Mechanics, P.T. Leung, H. Y. Xie, D. P. Tsai Dec 2008

General Validity Of Reciprocity In Quantum Mechanics, P.T. Leung, H. Y. Xie, D. P. Tsai

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

The concept of reciprocity symmetry for matter-wave propagation is established for nonrelativistic quantum mechanics with previous results in the literature extended to include nonlocal interactions. Examples are given for cases with both local and nonlocal potentials, where we show in particular that reciprocity can be violated for the motion of a charged particle in an external electromagnetic field. In addition, this symmetry is applied to interpret a recent analysis [Phys. Rev. A 64, 042716 (2001)] on the symmetry of transmission through one-dimensional complex potentials, with the emphasis that the validity of reciprocity can go beyond that of time-reversal symmetry, such …

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Link Rate Allocation Under Bandwidth And Energy Constraints In Sensor Networks, Maggie Cheng, Xuan Gong, Lin Cai Dec 2008

Link Rate Allocation Under Bandwidth And Energy Constraints In Sensor Networks, Maggie Cheng, Xuan Gong, Lin Cai

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

In sensor networks, both energy and band width are scarce resources. in the past, the energy efficient routing problem has been vastly studied in order to maximize network lifetime, but link bandwidth has been optimistically assumed to be abundant. as energy con straint affects how data should be routed, link bandwidth also affects not just the routing topology but also the allowed data rate on each link, which in turn affects lifetime. Previous works that focus on energy efficient operations in sensor networks with the sole objective of maximizing network lifetime only consider the energy constraint and ignore the bandwidth …

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Pas: Predicate-Based Authentication Services Against Powerful Passive Adversaries, Sriram Chellappan, Xiaole Bai, Wenjun Gu, Xun Wang, Dong Xuan, Bin Ma Dec 2008

Pas: Predicate-Based Authentication Services Against Powerful Passive Adversaries, Sriram Chellappan, Xiaole Bai, Wenjun Gu, Xun Wang, Dong Xuan, Bin Ma

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Securely authenticating a human user without assistance from any auxiliary device in the presence of powerful passive adversaries is an important and challenging problem. Passive adversaries are those that can passively monitor, intercept, and analyze every part of the authentication procedure, except for an initial secret shared between the user and the server. In this paper, we propose a new secure authentication scheme called predicate-based authentication service (PAS). In this scheme, for the first time, the concept of a predicate is introduced for authentication. We conduct analysis on the proposed scheme and implement its prototype system. Our analytical data and …

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Innovation In The Programmable Web: Characterizing The Mashup Ecosystem, C. Jason Woodard, Shuli Yu Dec 2008

Innovation In The Programmable Web: Characterizing The Mashup Ecosystem, C. Jason Woodard, Shuli Yu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper investigates the structure and dynamics of the Web 2.0 software ecosystem by analyzing empirical data on web service APIs and mashups. Using network analysis tools to visualize the growth of the ecosystem from December 2005 to 2007, we find that the APIs are organized into three tiers, and that mashups are often formed by combining APIs across tiers. Plotting the cumulative distribution of mashups to APIs reveals a power-law relationship, although the tail is short compared to previously reported distributions of book and movie sales. While this finding highlights the dominant role played by the most popular APIs …

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Corporate Venture Capital, Disembodied Experimentation And Capability Development, Thomas Keil, Ekko Autio, Gerard George Dec 2008

Corporate Venture Capital, Disembodied Experimentation And Capability Development, Thomas Keil, Ekko Autio, Gerard George

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Studies invoking a capabilities lens often ascribe deliberateness in organizational decisions to develop new capabilities. Drawing on five longitudinal case studies of large, global firms in the information and communication technology sector, we examine how firms engender cognizance of their future capability needs in situations characterized by high decision-making uncertainty. We develop a theoretical account of how firms use investments in start-ups to actively engage in experimentation outside organizational boundaries, a learning process which we term as disembodied experimentation. Disembodied experimentation creates awareness of voids in the capability base of an incumbent and helps to overcome inertial restraints thereby influencing …

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Defensive Relationship Marketing: Avoiding Decreasing Sales From Customers In Consumer Goods Mass Markets, Sabine Moeller, Martin Fassnacht, Sonja Klose Dec 2008

Defensive Relationship Marketing: Avoiding Decreasing Sales From Customers In Consumer Goods Mass Markets, Sabine Moeller, Martin Fassnacht, Sonja Klose

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Enhancing customers' positive attitude towards a company does not exploit the whole potential of what can be done to increase sales. A more defensive approach focuses on the avoidance of customers' negative attitudes and behavior of withdrawal. Since research on this approach is scarce we aim to contribute by developing a model of how retailers can avoid decreasing sales in consumer goods mass markets. According to our aim we focus on customers who have already begun to decrease their sales. Our results show that core performance and trust in the future performance are the silver bullets to avoid decreasing sales.

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Planning With Ifalcon: Towards A Neural-Network-Based Bdi Agent Architecture, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan Dec 2008

Planning With Ifalcon: Towards A Neural-Network-Based Bdi Agent Architecture, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents iFALCON, a model of BDI (beliefdesire-intention) agents that is fully realized as a selforganizing neural network architecture. Based on multichannel network model called fusion ART, iFALCON is developed to bridge the gap between a self-organizing neural network that autonomously adapts its knowledge and the BDI agent model that follows explicit descriptions. Novel techniques called gradient encoding are introduced for representing sequences and hierarchical structures to realize plans and the intention structure. This paper shows that a simplified plan representation can be encoded as weighted connections in the neural network through a process of supervised learning. A case …

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Tarp Transactions Report - Capital Purchase Program, United States: Department Of The Treasury Dec 2008

Tarp Transactions Report - Capital Purchase Program, United States: Department Of The Treasury

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Permissions For Site Servers In A Windows Domain, Allan Wasserman Dec 2008

Permissions For Site Servers In A Windows Domain, Allan Wasserman

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This project is a database design on downloaded permissions for the folders of the file servers of Avera McKennan's domain (which is a medium to large windows domain). It consists of a series of downloads from the System Software tools (dump ACL in particular) which are downloaded as a series of text files. These downloads can be automated or done by hand. The downloads are loaded into SQL Server database. All users, all groups and their members and all file permissions for the site server folders are downloaded and imported into SQL Server. They are cleaned up, transformed and correlated …

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December 1, 2008 Dec 2008

December 1, 2008

The Gavel Gazette

No abstract provided.

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Castor Canadensis Winter 2008 (2), Jedediah Smith Society Dec 2008

Castor Canadensis Winter 2008 (2), Jedediah Smith Society

Castor Canadensis - Jedediah Smith Society

Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society

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High School Boys' Basketball And The Social Structure Of Suburban, Rural, And Urban High School Communities : A Comparative Case Study., Jason K. Miller Dec 2008

High School Boys' Basketball And The Social Structure Of Suburban, Rural, And Urban High School Communities : A Comparative Case Study., Jason K. Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between high school boys' basketball and the social structure of a suburban, rural, and urban high school in the lower Midwest. These schools surround a metropolitan area of approximately one million people. The researcher used interviews, observations, and mining of documents to collect data. The study answered four research questions. The first question addressed the social structure of the three schools. Each school contained a group associated with sport participation called "jock" or "athlete." The second research question examined how boys' basketball participation affected social group membership and the associated positive and negative aspects. At …

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When The Schoolhouse Gate Extends Online: Student Free Speech In The Internet Age., David J. Fryman Dec 2008

When The Schoolhouse Gate Extends Online: Student Free Speech In The Internet Age., David J. Fryman

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Winning The Cold War, Winston J. Craig Dec 2008

Winning The Cold War, Winston J. Craig

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

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Gender And Ethnicity In Banda’S Malawi, Edwin Segal Dec 2008

Gender And Ethnicity In Banda’S Malawi, Edwin Segal

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

During his thirty year reign in Malawi Kamuzu Banda built a state mythology and ideology of development based on constructions of gender and ethnicity that promised no future and little economic change for the majority of the population. The social structures that were established created patterns and processes that continue, a decade after Banda’s death, to organize social and cultural life.

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Christie Chadwick And Carrie Rhodes, Christie Chadwick, Carrie Rhodes, J. Amanda Mcguire-Moushon Dec 2008

Christie Chadwick And Carrie Rhodes, Christie Chadwick, Carrie Rhodes, J. Amanda Mcguire-Moushon

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

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"Truth Shall Spring Forth Out Of The Earth", Jeffrey P. Hudon Dec 2008

"Truth Shall Spring Forth Out Of The Earth", Jeffrey P. Hudon

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

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Psychological Distress And Change In A Pediatric Obesity Population, Amy Rebecca Beck Dec 2008

Psychological Distress And Change In A Pediatric Obesity Population, Amy Rebecca Beck

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Pediatric overweight and obesity is a growing national epidemic with 15 percent of children ages 6-19 considered obese and at least 22 percent considered overweight. While there is considerable research pointing to contributing factors of obesity, there is a paucity of research which elucidates what contributes to successful intervention. Considering that by the year 2050, nearly 50 million Americans may be obese, understanding the factors delineating success of weight loss and prevention is a necessity. The purpose of this study was to utilize archival data from the LLU Growing Fit Program to evaluate the levels of psychological distress experienced by …

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Short-Term Clinical Evaluation Of Nobelreplace® Tapered Groovy Implant, Manouchehr Pouresmail Dec 2008

Short-Term Clinical Evaluation Of Nobelreplace® Tapered Groovy Implant, Manouchehr Pouresmail

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this clinical investigation was to make comparisons and to achieve estimates of the short-term implant success, marginal bone resorption, and soft tissue responses around the immediately loaded NobelReplace® Tapered groovy implant (with groove on a rough collar portion) as compared to an implant without a groove on the collar (Replace®Select Tapered). This was a randomized controlled and prospective investigation in which subjects were consecutively included according to strict inclusion/exclusion criteria. Single stage procedure was used with immediate function. Seventeen subjects were recruited, and were randomly divided in two groups. Each group was received the predetermined type of …

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Where Equity Meets Expertise: Re-Thinking Appellate Review In Complex Litigation, Michael J. Hays Dec 2008

Where Equity Meets Expertise: Re-Thinking Appellate Review In Complex Litigation, Michael J. Hays

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The field of complex litigation continues to grow as both an academic study and a popular phenomenon. One cannot escape news accounts of major class action litigation, and lawyers continue to find new ways to push the outer bounds of civil litigation practices to accommodate large-scale disputes involving multiple claims or parties. Many question whether traditional procedures can or should apply to these cases. Drawing on this well-recognized procedural tension, this Article explores the relationship between trial and appellate courts in complex litigation and argues for a revised standard of appellate review for trial court decisions affecting the party structure …

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Systemic Compliance Complaints: Making Idea's Enforcement Provisions A Reality, Monica Costello Dec 2008

Systemic Compliance Complaints: Making Idea's Enforcement Provisions A Reality, Monica Costello

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Since the passage of what is now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA") in 1975, this country has recognized the importance of providing appropriate educational services to students with disabilities. When a school district fails to provide these services, an organization can file a compliance complaint with the state's designated education agency to investigate the violation. This Note uses California as a case study and argues that state education agencies should be required to investigate systemic violations, even when the names of affected students are not provided. To effectively protect the rights of students with disabilities and …

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