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From Ivory To Babel To A New Foundation, Richard Boris

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

During my 12 years at the NationalCenter for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, I observed with increasing frustration the inability of administration and faculty leaders—union and governance—to fully grasp, analyze, and find pathways out of public higher education’s current existential crisis.

My many years of observing leaders of public higher education lead me to the inescapable conclusion that together the leaders share a culture that shorts strategic planning, thinking, and boldness and instead favors ad-hoc, incremental acceptance of the ever-changing, slimmed-down state of affairs. The rarified bubbles of presidential cabinets and union boards symbiotically promote policies that, …

Ada News - 02/16/2015, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Investing In Sin....., Steven D. Dolvin

All Chapters

Socially conscious investing has attracted numerous followers, and this has precipitated the development of many socially conscious mutual funds. In contrast, other investors have taken an alternative approach, opting for so-called "sin funds." As this WSJ article points out, these sin funds have actually performed quite well over the last 10 years.

Dave Moravec, Dave Moravec '84, Francine Krieger 2015

All oral histories

In this interview, Mr. Moravec reflects on a dorm tradition that led him to his future wife Susan, changes to campus over the years, and his time as Tommy Titan.

Other topics include the campus jobs he had (Admission, Saga, and Dolan Hall), and the benefit he later found to the rigors of his English Composition class.

He briefly discusses his wife Susan’s activities on campus and the annual student-faculty basketball competition.

Mr. Moravec is a businessman in the Bloomington-Normal community and active in mentoring students through the Hart Career Center. In 2009, he and Susan took part in the …

2015-February-15-Derrick Epps, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Boosting The Private Space Industry: Extending Nasa’S Duty-Free Import Exemption To Commercial Space Companies, Katherine Gustafson

William & Mary Business Law Review

The United States has a strong reputation for being at the forefront of space exploration. The commercial space industry in the United States is flourishing, yet the United States government is not effectively using its resources to help the industry. Currently, the United States government has some policies in place that promote the private space sector. Nonetheless, the government favors its own failing agency, NASA, by giving it extra benefits in the form of exemptions from import duties. Extending an exemption from import duties to the commercial space industry, however, would have several beneficial effects on the United States that …

A Concept-Sensitive Managerial Analysis With Law: Applying A Business Concept To A Legal Rule To Identify The Domain Of Business Situations, James E. Holloway

William & Mary Business Law Review

The traditional fact-sensitive managerial analysis with law analyzes business situations to identify legal issues and applies legal rules to facts to make judicial decisions. The fact-sensitive managerial analysis takes decades to identify a family of business situations and lacks the analytical capacity to use business knowledge (concepts) and analytical methods to identify business situations. Alternatively, a concept-sensitive managerial analysis with law increases factual sensitivity by applying a business concept to a legal rule to shorten the duration of identifying an extensive family of business situations. All situations are not useful or effective when making business decisions or managing a business. …

The Federal Common Law Of Successor Liability And The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Taylor J. Phillips

William & Mary Business Law Review

In recent years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have vigorously enforced the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The FCPA prohibits bribery of foreign government officials, and the statute provides for significant civil and criminal sanctions. Settling and remediating violations can cost corporate defendants millions, with several corporate enforcement actions exceeding $100 million in sanctions. Moreover, enforcement actions related to the FCPA often are not brought until many years after the alleged violations.

Because the massive potential liabilities associated with an FCPA violation may not manifest themselves until years after the violation occurred, prospective …

2015-February-15-Robby Vance, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Does Social Information Matter? The Moderating Effect On Port Reform Trust, Cheng-Hsing Yang, Rong-Her Chiu, Kung-Don Ye, Heng-Chih Chou

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Trust is important for assuring the success of organizational change. This paper investigates the influence of social information sources and communication on trust in organizational change, and also tests the moderating effect of the credibility of social information. Taking port reform as an example, this research discovers the following results: (1) communication is significantly related to employee's trust in organizational change; (2) social information from supervisors is positively associated with employee trust in organizational change; but information from unions does not exert a significant influence; and (3) social information credibility from supervisors and unions partially moderates the relationship between social …

New Intelligent Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm For Solving Economic Dispatch With Valve-Point Effects, Jie Lin, Chun-Lung Chen, Shun-Feng Tsai, Chengqing Yuan

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

With increasing fuel prices and restructuring in the power industry, nonconvex economic dispatch (NED) is expected to become crucial because of nonsmooth cost functions. This paper presents an intelligent particle swarm optimization for economic dispatch with valve-point effect. A new index, another particle best (Pbestap), is incorporated into the particle swarm optimization to further improve social behavior. Moreover, a novel diversity-based judgment mechanism for evaluating Pbestap behavior is proposed for maintaining population diversity, which facilitates identification of the near-global region. The direct search algorithm is used to fine-tune and determine the eventual global optimal solution at low computational expense. Numerical …

Advertising Coral Reefs With Underwater Panoramas: An Application Study On Presenting Information To Prospective Divers, Tsen-Chien Chen, Ta-Chung Ying, Kuo-Cheng Ku

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

This paper describes the development and empirical practice of the underwater panorama system at two landmark dive spots at Green Island, Taiwan. Recreational scuba diving has become popular on coral reefs. Information highlighting dive spots can assist prospective customers with selecting their dive destinations. Underwater panoramas are a new approach for presenting such tourist attractions. The system's hardware includes a tailored cylindrical housing containing a spherical digital video camera. Its panoramic images enable people to come closer to the real underwater world. Footage can be viewed using PCs, laptops, tablets, and other common digital viewing appliances. The imagery streams give …

Common Auditors In M&A Transactions, Ye Cai, Yongtae Kim, Jong Chool Park, Hal D. White

Accounting

We examine merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in which the acquirer and the target share a common auditor. We predict that a common auditor can help merging firms reduce uncertainty throughout the acquisition process, which allows managers to more efficiently allocate their capital, resulting in higher quality M&As. Consistent with our prediction, we find that deals with common auditors have higher acquisition announcement returns than do non-common-auditor deals. Further, we find that the common-auditor effect is more pronounced for deals with greater pre-acquisition uncertainty and deals involving acquirers and targets that are audited by the same local office of the …

Alison Gordon, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Over the past ten days there has been an avalanche of deaths of major sports figures. The obituary writers have been kept busy and tributes have been coming from all directions in sportsworld. The death of Dean Smith attracted the attention of sports writers and social commentators across the country. A few days later tributes came for Jerry Tarkanian another legendary college basketball coach. The passing of Charlie Sifford, golf’s Jackie Robinson led to reflections on the central place race has played in the world of sport. So too with the death of Ernie Banks came a reminder of the …

Esposito Speaker Event Rescheduled, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Panama Sending Teachers To Study At Lindenwood, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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2015-February-13-Three Projects Garner Funding Through Scholarship Endowment, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-13-Dr. Robert Sawyer Offers Background On "Dr. Faustus", University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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A Regime Switching Model For The Term Structure Of Credit Risk Spreads, Seungmook Choi, Michael D. Marcozzi

Mathematical Sciences Faculty Research

We consider a rating-based model for the term structure of credit risk spreads wherein the credit worthiness of the issuer is represented as a finite-state continuous time Markov process. This approach entails a progressive drift in creditquality towards default. A model of the economy is presented featuring stochastic transition probabilities; credit instruments are valued via an ultraparabolic Hamilton-Jacobi system of equations discretized utilizing the method-of-lines finite difference method. Computations for a callable bond are presented demonstrating the efficiency of the method.

Agenda: Seeds Of Change: Responding To Global Change In A Bottom-Up World, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment, University Of Colorado Boulder. School Of Law, Posner Center For International Development, Resolve (Firm), Newmont Mining Corporation

Seeds of Change: Responding to Global Change in a Bottom-Up World (Martz Winter Symposium, February 12-13)

Sponsors: Posner Center for International Development, RESOLVE, Inc., Newmont Mining Corporation, and Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.

Conference moderators, panelists and speakers included University of Colorado Law School professors Phil Weiser, Sarah Krakoff, Britt Banks, and Lakshman Guruswamy.

This conference is made possible through the generous support of donors who sponsored this year’s Martz Sustainability Symposium (including Newmont Mining Corporation) and those who have invested in our Clyde O. Martz Endowed Fund for Natural Resources Management (including Brian Dolan and Davis Graham and Stubbs LLP). The Martz Natural Resources Management Fund was established in the memory …

A Proposed Model For The Approach To Augmented Reality Deployment In Marketing Communications, Stephen O'Mahony

Dept. of Marketing & International Business Conference Material

In the contemporary landscape, human interaction is characterized by the pervasive mediation of intelligent agents. Owing to advances in computer science and engineering, phenomena once limited to fixed locations are metamorphosing from extraneous entities to implicit components of the everyday. Computing power has simultaneously enhanced and miniaturized to the extent that contemporary consumer devices demonstrate power equivalent to or greater than that of personal computers of recent memory. At the same time, network connectivity has proliferated to ubiquitous levels, reflected in the fact that the amount of inanimate objects connected to the Internet has recently surpassed the human population of …

Getting The Most Out Of Your 401(K), Emily G. Brown Jd, Jeanne Medeiros Jd

Pension Action Center Publications

Planning for your retirement is an active and ongoing endeavor. It requires a certain amount of diligence and knowledge to ensure you have an adequate amount of financial stability at retirement. In order to safeguard your economic security, it is important to know if you are getting the most out of your 401(k) retirement savings account. This factsheet provides basic information about enrolling in a 401(k) retirement savings account and important items to keep in mind once you are enrolled.

2015-February-12-Quillen College Of Medicine To Host Summer Camp, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-12-Carter Railroad Museum's Tweetsie Layout In National Publication, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-12-Etsu To Host First Growing Agriculture Conference, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-12-Etsu, Tusculum Announce National History Day Collaboration, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-11-Dr. Connie Lester, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-11-‘Doctor Faustus’ To Be Staged At Etsu, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-10-Poet And Nature Writer John Lane To Read From His Work, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2015-February-10-‘Music And Friends’ Concert Series Continues With ‘Piano Extravaganza!’, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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