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Annual Report 2009, Banco Central De Reserva Del Perº / Central Reserve Bank Of Peru Dec 2009

Annual Report 2009, Banco Central De Reserva Del Perº / Central Reserve Bank Of Peru

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The Influence Of Branches In The Performance Of Power-Line Communication Systems That Use Mc-Coma With Reed Solomon Coding, Emmanuel Felix Dec 2009

The Influence Of Branches In The Performance Of Power-Line Communication Systems That Use Mc-Coma With Reed Solomon Coding, Emmanuel Felix

Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)

Power-line network is proposed as an infrastructure for Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)
services provision. However, there are a number of factors that contribute greatly to power-line communication performance degradation. These include number of branches that can be added or removed from the power- line network, lengths of the branch lines, loading etc. It has been pointed out that the number of branches is one of the factors that affects power-line performance to a certain extent. In this paper the influence of number of branches on the performance of Broadband Power-line communication (BPLC) that uses MC- CDMA modulation scheme with …


A Systemic Framework For Implementation Of Tqm Programmes, Emanuel Mjema Dec 2009

A Systemic Framework For Implementation Of Tqm Programmes, Emanuel Mjema

Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)

The purpose of this paper is to present a systemic framework for implementation of TQM program in a manufacturing organisation that produces motor vehicle components in Port Elizabeth - South Africa. The approach used included conceptualisation of the systemic framework and then involvement of the stakeholders in adding scenarios to be considered in the design and implementing the framework in the real field. The findings obtained during the implementation of the systemic framework established that reduction of scrap rate, reduction of production costs, reduction of cycle time and employee motivation could be achieved through the implementation of a Systemic Framework …


Mentoring Towards Resilient Thought, Jeneen M. Mucci Dec 2009

Mentoring Towards Resilient Thought, Jeneen M. Mucci

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

The focus of my Synthesis Project is the development of a Curriculum Guide that outlines the importance of building relationships with young people that are meaningful, supported, structured and collaborative. In developing this guide, I felt it was essential to create a framework that will support my work within youth development, for young people ages 9-19, in order to scaffold learning and foster opportunities for resilient thought. In addition to supporting these learning opportunities, I also felt it was important to develop a foundation from which the staff that I supervise and work with, understand the importance of their role …


Worker Unity And The Law: A Comparative Analysis Of The National Labor Relations Act And The Fair Labor Standards Act, And The Hope For The Nlra's Future, Jonathan Fox Harris Dec 2009

Worker Unity And The Law: A Comparative Analysis Of The National Labor Relations Act And The Fair Labor Standards Act, And The Hope For The Nlra's Future, Jonathan Fox Harris

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Longitudinal Comparison Of The Growth Factors Of Slovenian Fast Growing Enterprises, Viljem Pšeničny Dec 2009

A Longitudinal Comparison Of The Growth Factors Of Slovenian Fast Growing Enterprises, Viljem Pšeničny

Economic and Business Review

The article presents the main features of Slovenia’s fastest growing companies and compares them with “gazelles” in the EU. The longitudinal survey presented connects with three other studies applying the same research method, namely studies employing the same questionnaire on growth factors that affect growing companies through to the criteria by which they were selected as growing businesses for the survey. The author notes that the growth factors which have an impact on Slovenian businesses and gazelles in the EU mostly do not show any significant differences, and that these differences also did not change significantly over a 15-year period. …


Great Northwest Athletic Conference Track And Field Academic Award Winners, Great Northwest Athletic Conference Dec 2009

Great Northwest Athletic Conference Track And Field Academic Award Winners, Great Northwest Athletic Conference

Track and Field

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State Of Utah V. John Vernon Cecil : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals Dec 2009

State Of Utah V. John Vernon Cecil : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from convictions for aggravated assault, criminal mischief, and reckless driving, in the Fifth Judicial District Court of Utah, Washington County, the Honorable G. Rand Beacham presiding.


Here Comes The Neighborhood: Attorneys, Organizers, And Immigrants Advancing A Collaborative Vision Of Justice, Sebastian Amar, Guy Johnson Dec 2009

Here Comes The Neighborhood: Attorneys, Organizers, And Immigrants Advancing A Collaborative Vision Of Justice, Sebastian Amar, Guy Johnson

City University of New York Law Review

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Old Jokes And New Multiculturalisms: Continuity And Change In Vernacular Discourse On The Yucatec Maya Language, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero Dec 2009

Old Jokes And New Multiculturalisms: Continuity And Change In Vernacular Discourse On The Yucatec Maya Language, Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Much recent literature on indigenous identity politics in Latin America has emphasized the emergence of new discourses on ethnic citizenship. However, the ways in which state-sponsored efforts to validate and revitalize the Yucatec Maya language become relevant to rural Yucatecans reflect far more continuity with older local narratives about the relationship between language use and modernity. Situating contemporary engagements with multicultural language policies within a broader history of locally meaningful language practices complicates the general model of indigenous language communities that has informed many recent studies of Latin American identity politics and reframes scholarly debates that have emphasized contrasts between …


An Application Of Human Factors Analysis And Classificationi System To Identify Organizational Factors In Maritime Accidents, Wenzheng Wu Dec 2009

An Application Of Human Factors Analysis And Classificationi System To Identify Organizational Factors In Maritime Accidents, Wenzheng Wu

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


A December To Remember, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 2009

A December To Remember, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It has been a December to remember. As the month comes to a close with a remarkable flurry of headline sports stories, its clear that this one month was not only one for the memory bank, but that it may have been the most fitting way to end a year that has certified the decade as the Naughty Naughties. What seemed like an awkward tag at the beginning of the new century has become a most appropriate signature phrase as this decade comes to its ignominious close.


The Role Of Women In Family Businesses, Jaka Vadnjal, Blaž Zupan Dec 2009

The Role Of Women In Family Businesses, Jaka Vadnjal, Blaž Zupan

Economic and Business Review

The role of women in family businesses is explored in the paper. Although recognised as generally very important players, the role of women is oft en defined as invisible in business decision-making, supportive in men’s traditional business domains and only rarely adequately recognised and rewarded. The paper explores possible differences in the views of men and women who manage small family firms. Their attitudes opposing the traditional business roles of women, different views on managerial, ownership and transition issues and possible gender discrimination are examined. The findings support the paradigm of a different, more feminine style of management, while signs …


Trust And The Successful Coordination Of Sme Co-Operation – An Empirical Study In Slovenia, Matthias Fink, Alexander Kessler, Mojca Duh, Jernej Belak, Richard Lang Dec 2009

Trust And The Successful Coordination Of Sme Co-Operation – An Empirical Study In Slovenia, Matthias Fink, Alexander Kessler, Mojca Duh, Jernej Belak, Richard Lang

Economic and Business Review

This paper aims to investigate the role of trust and test the impact of trust on performance in the context of co-operation between small- and medium-sized enterprises (‘SMEs’) in a transition country. Based on a sample of 122 Slovenian SMEs, an analysis based on OLS regression reveals that trust does have a strong impact on performance. We thereby identify trust as a powerful co-ordinating mechanism for SME relationships involving co-operation in transition economies.


Sustaining The Challenge From The Outskirts: City Centre Retail Viability In Ljubljana, Slovenia, Andreja Cirman, Marko Pahor Dec 2009

Sustaining The Challenge From The Outskirts: City Centre Retail Viability In Ljubljana, Slovenia, Andreja Cirman, Marko Pahor

Economic and Business Review

Like many other cities, Ljubljana is no exception to changes in its retail landscape. With retail suburbanisation, the city centre's monopoly as a shopping district has been lost. Our paper studies customer-perceived shopping area attributes and their impacts on patronage. The conceptual framework is set up to investigate factors that draw consumers to different shopping areas. The model was tested on a sample of consumers to evaluate the importance of various shopping area attributes and their performance in two decentralised shopping areas and the downtown shopping area in Ljubljana, Slovenia.


“So Hard Was It To Release Princes Whom Fortuna Had Put In Her Chains:” Queens And Female Rulers As Hostage- And Captive-Takers And Holders, Colleen Slater Dec 2009

“So Hard Was It To Release Princes Whom Fortuna Had Put In Her Chains:” Queens And Female Rulers As Hostage- And Captive-Takers And Holders, Colleen Slater

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Gendering Action In Iberian Chivalric Romance, Montserrat Piera, Jodi Shearn Dec 2009

Gendering Action In Iberian Chivalric Romance, Montserrat Piera, Jodi Shearn

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Bleeding Pages, Bleeding Bodies: A Gendered Reading Of British Library Ms Egerton 1821, Nancy Thebaut Dec 2009

Bleeding Pages, Bleeding Bodies: A Gendered Reading Of British Library Ms Egerton 1821, Nancy Thebaut

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Traditional Knowledge In Fisheries Management : A Study Case Of Panglima Laot (Sea Commander) In The Aceh Province Of Indonesia., Prayudi Budi Utomo Dec 2009

The Role Of Traditional Knowledge In Fisheries Management : A Study Case Of Panglima Laot (Sea Commander) In The Aceh Province Of Indonesia., Prayudi Budi Utomo

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Aphasia In A Congenital Deaf Man: A Casereport, Shu-Yi Wang, Jin-Cherng Chen, Huei-Ting Chen Dec 2009

Aphasia In A Congenital Deaf Man: A Casereport, Shu-Yi Wang, Jin-Cherng Chen, Huei-Ting Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Congenitally deaf persons don't have the ability to communicate verbally due to profound hearing impairment. Thus, they rely on words and sign language to communicate with others. Physicians tend to pay less attention to people who can't communicate verbally. We report the case of a 45-year-old congenitally deaf man who developed a left frontotemporal brain tumor. He was right-handed. As a result of the tumor, he lost both the ability to form words and the sign language he had relied upon to communicate with others. He recovered some ability to communicate 6 months after surgery. He was able to use …


Clinical Experience Of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Dysfunction In A Patient With Hydrocephalus After Brain Injury: A Casereport, Shean-Jing Lin, Yun-Yee Chen, Mu-Jung Kao, Ching-Yang Lin, Sheng-Huang Hsiao Dec 2009

Clinical Experience Of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Dysfunction In A Patient With Hydrocephalus After Brain Injury: A Casereport, Shean-Jing Lin, Yun-Yee Chen, Mu-Jung Kao, Ching-Yang Lin, Sheng-Huang Hsiao

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

We report a case of an adult patient with post-traumatic hydrocephalus who was treated using a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt with a fixed pressure setting valve. Slit ventricle syndrome was found two months later and an antisiphon device (ASD) was added. A fixed pressure valve with ASD was found not to be optimal in terms of improving his neurological symptoms and a programmable valve system was therefore implanted with a pressure setting of 140 mmH2O in the beginning. The valve then was gradually programmed to reduce down to 70 mmH2O over two months. This case demonstrates that selection of a shunting …


The Pornographic Secondary Effects Doctrine, John Fee Dec 2009

The Pornographic Secondary Effects Doctrine, John Fee

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Cyber Warfare And Precautions Against The Effects Of Attacks, Eric Talbot Jensen Dec 2009

Cyber Warfare And Precautions Against The Effects Of Attacks, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Scholarship

Ninety-eight percent of all U.S. government communications travel over civilian-owned-and-operated networks. Additionally, the government relies almost completely on civilian providers for computer software and hardware products, services, and maintenance. This near-complete intermixing of civilian and military computer infrastructure makes many of those civilian objects and providers legitimate targets under the law of armed conflict. Other civilian networks, services, and communications may suffer collateral damage from legitimate attacks on government targets. To protect those civilian objects and providers from the effects of attacks, the law of armed conflict requires a state to segregate its military assets from the civilian population and …


An Analysis Of Multimodal Route Via Iraq To The Mediterranean And Europe Compared To The Suez Canal, Safaa Abdul Hussein Jaiyz Al Fayyadh Dec 2009

An Analysis Of Multimodal Route Via Iraq To The Mediterranean And Europe Compared To The Suez Canal, Safaa Abdul Hussein Jaiyz Al Fayyadh

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Climate Protection And Ocean Acidification : The Case For Immediate Action In International Law & Policy Negotiations, Carolyne Okeijn Dec 2009

Climate Protection And Ocean Acidification : The Case For Immediate Action In International Law & Policy Negotiations, Carolyne Okeijn

World Maritime University Dissertations

This dissertation discusses ocean acidification as an emerging priority in international climate protection processes within the UNFCCC and the IMO. It provides discussion in an area where there is currently a gap between ocean acidification science and corresponding action in law and policy processes. It builds the case for substantial, immediate action on CO2 within the context of negotiations at UNFCCC for the post-Kyoto climate regime. This dissertation contains an examination of the available science publications on ocean acidification and submissions made by leading ocean acidification experts at COP-15; references to “ocean acidification” in the IMO MEPC meeting protocols and …


Beyond Trademark Use, Stacey Dogan Dec 2009

Beyond Trademark Use, Stacey Dogan

Faculty Scholarship

For several years now, the question of “trademark use” has taken center stage in the debate over trademark liability of online intermediaries. Doctrinally, the debate addresses whether the Lanham Act places any limit on the types of “use” of trademarks that can subject one to a claim of infringement. The real conflict, however, has occurred at the normative level: whatever the Lanham Act says or does not say about trademark use, should trademark law limit the definition of infringement to situations in which the defendant has used the mark to brand its own products?

The Second Circuit appears to have …


An Empirical Study On The Need For Anchor Operation Education And Training, Masashi Sugomori Dec 2009

An Empirical Study On The Need For Anchor Operation Education And Training, Masashi Sugomori

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Institutional Framework For Ocean Governance : A Way Forward, Mohd Khairul Tazril. Tarmizi Dec 2009

Institutional Framework For Ocean Governance : A Way Forward, Mohd Khairul Tazril. Tarmizi

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Asymmetric Threats And Their Challenges To Freedom Of Navigation, K. R. Deepak Kumar Dec 2009

Asymmetric Threats And Their Challenges To Freedom Of Navigation, K. R. Deepak Kumar

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Multinational And Multicultural Seafarers And Met Students : A Socio-Cultural Study For Improving Maritime Safety And The Education Of Seafarers, Didin Susetyo. Alfiani Dec 2009

Multinational And Multicultural Seafarers And Met Students : A Socio-Cultural Study For Improving Maritime Safety And The Education Of Seafarers, Didin Susetyo. Alfiani

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.