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Wright State University Men's And Women's Swimming And Diving Media Guide 2002-2003, Wright State University Athletics
Wright State University Men's And Women's Swimming And Diving Media Guide 2002-2003, Wright State University Athletics
Athletics Publications
A media guide for Wright State University's 2002-2003 Swimming and Diving team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.
Legal Issues In The Regulation Of On-Premise Signs, Alan C. Weinstein, Mary Morris, Douglas Mace, Mark L. Hinshaw
Legal Issues In The Regulation Of On-Premise Signs, Alan C. Weinstein, Mary Morris, Douglas Mace, Mark L. Hinshaw
Law Faculty Contributions to Books
No abstract provided.
A Review Of Systems: New Paradigms For The Human Sciences, Martin Zwick
A Review Of Systems: New Paradigms For The Human Sciences, Martin Zwick
Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations
This essay is a selective review of Systems: New Paradigms for the Human Sciences, edited by Gabriel Altmann and Walter A. Koch (Berlin: Walter de Gryter, 1998). It is selective because it is impossible to engage such a varied collection of systems-theoretic essays in a review of reasonable length. To invoke a relevant dialectical idea: the characteristic strength of any system is often also its characteristic weakness. One strength and weakness of the systems field is its great diversity, and this diversity is reflected in this volume by the range of subjects addressed in its 27 articles. I will not …
Borrowings Into Kisi As Evidence Of Mande Expansionism And Influence, George Tucker Childs
Borrowings Into Kisi As Evidence Of Mande Expansionism And Influence, George Tucker Childs
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
Strong claims have been made as to the influence of Mande languages on the languages of the Atlantic Group. This paper analyzes Mande borrowings in one Atlantic language in order to understand the nature of that influence. The Atlantic language of focus is Kisi, a member of the Southern Branch, spoken primarily in Guinea. The Kisi people have separated from their closest relatives on the Atlantic Coast in historic times, probably due to the second Mande expansionist wave of the sixteenth century at the collapse of the Mali Empire. Today the Kisi are completely surrounded and interpenetrated by speakers of …
Book Review, In Pursuit Of A Progressive Urban/Metropolitan Policy, W Dennis Keating
Book Review, In Pursuit Of A Progressive Urban/Metropolitan Policy, W Dennis Keating
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Reviewing P. Dreier, J. Mollenkopf & T. Swanstrom, Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century, University Press of Kansas (2001)
Successful Conflict Resolution Between Peacekeepers And Ngos: The Role Of Training And Preparation In International Peacekeeping In Bosnia, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Katerina Bezrukova, Karen A. Jehn, Martin Euwema, Nicolien Kop
Successful Conflict Resolution Between Peacekeepers And Ngos: The Role Of Training And Preparation In International Peacekeeping In Bosnia, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Katerina Bezrukova, Karen A. Jehn, Martin Euwema, Nicolien Kop
Psychology
We look at the relations between two third-party actors involved in violent conflict situations: international peacekeepers and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in an ethnopolitical conflict site (i.e. Bosnia). We link the peacekeepers contact with NGOs (frequency and importance) to successful conflict resolution styles. We further link the peacekeepers choice of conflict resolution style to occurrence of problems between NGOs and peacekeepers. We also examine the moderating effects of training and perception of preparedness for the peacekeeping mission on the relationship between frequency of contacts with NGOs (cooperation with NGOs) and conflict resolution with NGOs. We develop hypotheses based on the literature …
An Optimal Fair Job Assignment Problem, Zaifu Yang
An Optimal Fair Job Assignment Problem, Zaifu Yang
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We study the problem of how to allocate a set of indivisible objects like jobs or houses and an amount of money among a group of people as fairly and as efficiently as possible. A particular constraint for such an allocation is that every person should be assigned with the same number of objects in his or her bundle. The preferences of people depend on the bundle of objects and the quantity of money they take. We propose a solution to this problem, called a perfectly fair allocation. It is shown that every perfectly fair allocation is efficient and envy-free, …
Valid Asymptotic Expansions For The Maximum Likelihood Estimator Of The Parameter Of A Stationary, Gaussian, Strongly Dependent Process, Offer Lieberman, Judith Rousseau, David M. Zucker
Valid Asymptotic Expansions For The Maximum Likelihood Estimator Of The Parameter Of A Stationary, Gaussian, Strongly Dependent Process, Offer Lieberman, Judith Rousseau, David M. Zucker
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We establish the validity of an Edgeworth expansion to the distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator of the parameter of a stationary, Gaussian, strongly dependent process. The result covers ARFIMA type models, including fractional Gaussian noise. The method of proof consists of three main ingredients: (i) verification of a suitably modified version of Durbin’s (1980) general conditions for the validity of the Edgeworth expansion to the joint density of the log-likelihood derivatives; (ii) appeal to a simple result of Skovgaard (1986) to obtain from this an Edgeworth expansion for the joint distribution of the log-likelihood derivatives; (iii) appeal to and …
Tshl Strategic Plan 2002-2014, Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation
Tshl Strategic Plan 2002-2014, Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation
Texas Silver-Haired Legislature
Information on the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature's strategic plan from 2002-2014.
Turning Points In Business Cycles, Anwar Shaikh Phd
Turning Points In Business Cycles, Anwar Shaikh Phd
Archives of Anwar Shaikh
Ayres, L. P. (1939). Turning points in business cycles [Excerpt; photocopy with handwritten notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD]. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Local Arbitration And Conflict Deferment In Punjab, Pakistan, Stephen Lyon
Local Arbitration And Conflict Deferment In Punjab, Pakistan, Stephen Lyon
Faculty & Staff Publications
In Pakistan different conflicts require different legal venues and different stages of the same conflict may require plural legal venues. Attempts by the Pakistan government to undermine traditional conflict arbitration have not eradicated these processes. This paper argues that none of the current legal venues available to Pakistanis is sufficient without recourse to the others. The three venues are Islamic law (shari‚Äôat), the Pakistani civil code and traditional arbitration systems in the form of jirga or panchayat (or their equivalents). While the first two may arguably be classified as modernist legal systems with compatible objectives, the third is distinctly different. …
Power And Patronage In Pakistan, Stephen Lyon
Power And Patronage In Pakistan, Stephen Lyon
Faculty & Staff Publications
Asymmetrical power relationships are found throughout Pakistan's Punjabi and Pukhtun communities. This thesis argues that these relationships must be examined as manifestations of cultural continuity rather than as separate structures. The various cultures of Pakistan display certain common cultural features which suggest a reexamination of past analytical divisions of tribe and peasant societies. This thesis looks at the ways power is expressed, accumulated and maintained in three social contexts: kinship, caste and political relationships. These three social contexts are embedded within a collection of 'hybridising' cultures (i.e. cultures which exhibit strong mechanisms for cultural accommodation without loss of 'identity'). Socialisation …
Executive Committee Minutes 2002-2003, Indiana State University
Executive Committee Minutes 2002-2003, Indiana State University
Faculty Senate
No abstract provided.
Price Convergence On World Commodity Markets: Fact Or Fiction, James O. Bukenya, Walter C. Labys
Price Convergence On World Commodity Markets: Fact Or Fiction, James O. Bukenya, Walter C. Labys
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
Recent attention to the use of commodity market derivatives as a vehicle for reducing the price risks of commodity exporting developing countries has renewed interest in the behavior of primary commodity prices separated by space. For some time a common belief has existed that commodity prices have converged over the last several decades on world markets. Increases in communications, central bank activities and globalization are cited as reasons as to why prices in spatially dispersed markets should become closer. However, the interrelations between business cycles and price instability are likely to reduce this possibility. To analyze this hypothesis, we utilize …
Competition And Complementarity In Local Economic Development: A Nonlinear Dynamic Approach, Richard Healy, Randall Jackson
Competition And Complementarity In Local Economic Development: A Nonlinear Dynamic Approach, Richard Healy, Randall Jackson
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
Competition for local economic development has increased dramatically in the past 20 years. This competition is in many cases extremely costly to states and communities, while the benefits are uncertain. If regions whose economic fortunes are complementary could work with instead of against one another, costs of competition could be eliminated, while returns to economic development investments could be enhanced. This paper presents a method by which the underlying spatial economic relationships among areas within a region can be identified. Economic development policy can then be guided by the identification of the competitive or complementary links that exist among areas. …
Race, Migration, And The Social Welfare System During The 1950s And 1960s: How Research Can Mislead The Public Debate, Brian Cushing
Race, Migration, And The Social Welfare System During The 1950s And 1960s: How Research Can Mislead The Public Debate, Brian Cushing
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
A large body of empirical research has concluded that, at least during the 1950s and 1960s, the effect of welfare benefits on migration differed significantly by racial group, with blacks being attracted by and whites repulsed by areas that provided high welfare benefits. This study revisits the issue of racial differences in attractiveness to interregional differences in welfare benefits, using data from the U.S. Census of Population and a simultaneous equation model of state-to-state migration that accounts for a variety of economic, amenity, and spatial factors. In contrast to most previous empirical work, there is no statistically significant evidence that …
Parametric And Non Parametric Testing For Income Convergence, James O. Bukenya, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer
Parametric And Non Parametric Testing For Income Convergence, James O. Bukenya, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
This paper examines the degree to which per capita incomes have converged across counties in West Virginia over the last thirty years. The increase in government transfers and, possibly, other government assistance programs would suggest that incomes in spatially dispersed regions/counties within nation-state should become similar over this period. However, the interrelation between business cycles, migration, employment structure and changes in per capita earnings over time reduces this possibility. Comparable county data are obtained for two dissmilar regions: southern and eastern panhandle. The empirical results differ across the different measurement techniques used, but in general, the findings concur with the …
Modeling Migration Effects On Agricultural Lands: A Growth Equilibrium Model, Yohannes G. Hailu, Randall S. Rosenberger
Modeling Migration Effects On Agricultural Lands: A Growth Equilibrium Model, Yohannes G. Hailu, Randall S. Rosenberger
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
Growth in population and employment can result in increased demands on agricultural land for non-agricultural uses. This study develops a growth equilibrium model at the county-level for the state of West Virginia. Each growth model is a structural equation model that addresses the endogeneity of population densities and employment densities. Three single-decade models are specified – 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s using a two-stage least squares regression technique. Each model is unique, reflecting changing population and economic structures over time. For West Virginia, our results suggest that jobs follow people. Population density in 1990 was positively related to areas with higher …
Structural Change Of The Chicago Economy: A Temporal Inverse Analysis, Yasuhide Okuyama, Michael Sonis, Geoffrey Hewings
Structural Change Of The Chicago Economy: A Temporal Inverse Analysis, Yasuhide Okuyama, Michael Sonis, Geoffrey Hewings
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
Earlier study (Sonis and Hewings, 1998) proposed an alternative tool that can assist in exploiting trends and uncovering tendencies in individual sectors or groups of sectors within the context of an economy-wide system of accounts. In this paper, the methodology, Temporal Leontief Inverse Analysis, is applied to a set of annual input-output tables for the Chicago metropolitan economy during the period of 1980-97. The results are compared to the earlier analysis (Hewings et al., 1998, Okuyama et al., 2002a, and Okuyama et al. 2002b) to examine the method and to investigate further the structural changes of the Chicago economy.
Linking Economic Model And Engineering Model: Application Of Sequential Interindustry Model (Sim), Yasuhide Okuyama, Hyunwoo Lim
Linking Economic Model And Engineering Model: Application Of Sequential Interindustry Model (Sim), Yasuhide Okuyama, Hyunwoo Lim
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
A conventional approach to model the regional economic impacts of a catastrophic disaster has been to employ the results from an engineering model, such as lifeline network model, in an economic model, for example input-output framework or computable general equilibrium model. However, due to the differences in modeling scheme between economic and engineering models, this type of data feed creates problems regarding sensitivity and dynamics of the impacts. In this paper, Sequential Interindustry Model (SIM) is used to disaggregate the process of production chronology to become more sensitive to the changes/damages of economic activities under a disaster situation. SIM is …
A Spatial Logit Association Model For Cluster Detection, Ge Lin
A Spatial Logit Association Model For Cluster Detection, Ge Lin
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
In this paper, I propose a logit spatial association model for binary spatial events and develop a scan algorithm to search for spatial associations. I extend the traditional logit model with spatial autocorrelated component so that the model includes not only known risk factors, but also spatially autocorrelated regions as a control or explanatory factor. The case study of West Virginia Lung Cancer shows that the model effectively captures cool and hot spots in lung cancer mortality.
Constructing Us Interregional Sams From Implan Data: Issues And Methods, Randall Jackson
Constructing Us Interregional Sams From Implan Data: Issues And Methods, Randall Jackson
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
Many issues arise in the construction of interregional SAMs. In the US, a convenient point of departure is the foundation provided by commodity-by-industry subnational SAMS that can be generated from IMPLAN data. Unfortunately, because the SAMs are generated independently, there is no guarantee of consistency with known national totals. In particular, the sum of IMPLAN generated domestic regional exports across all regions will equal the sum of IMPLAN generated domestic regional imports only by chance. Additionally, while IMPLAN generates total domestic imports and total domestic exports for each region, the analyst must devise an acceptable method for distributing interregional domestic …
Interregion-Occupational Persistence And Dispersion: A Model Of Geographic And Occupational Mobility, Ge Lin, Christiadi
Interregion-Occupational Persistence And Dispersion: A Model Of Geographic And Occupational Mobility, Ge Lin, Christiadi
Regional Research Institute Working Papers
This paper represents the first attempt to develop a set of loglinear models that synthesize gravity models of interregional mobility and loglinear models of occupational mobility. The development of the model is progressed from a simple two-way mobility table analysis to a three-way analysis that controls for one aspect of mobility while investigating another and eventually to a four-way analysis that simultaneously assesses the joint effect of occupational and geographic mobility. An example based on data from the 1970 United States census demonstrates that the models can effectively capture the joint effect of occupational and geographic mobility. The results show …
Narnia In The News, C.S. Lewis & Harpercollins, Roger Phillips
Narnia In The News, C.S. Lewis & Harpercollins, Roger Phillips
The Christian Librarian
C.S. Lewis' beloved Narnia has withstood the attack of the White Witch (aka Queen Jadis) from within and the Calormenes from without, but can it stand against modern publishing giant HarperCollins? This question in various forms has been voiced in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly and Christianity Today. So let's just get the facts out into the light of day and decide for ourselves. But those facts are shrouded in a fog that would rival any to be found in Narnia.
Editorial, Diane Garber
Editorial, Diane Garber
The Christian Librarian
Have you ever felt cramped? Out of space? Short of room? Working on this issue of The Christian Librarian is a continuation of a theme in my life lately. This is issue is jammed packed with articles and features and ACL Conference information that must go out to readers. There wasn't even room for "pull-quotes" -- those attention grabbing statements that highlight each article in hopes of attracting you to read further, and add an attractive graphic element to each page. We've even added extra pages so there would be enough room to fit it all in.
Lifelong Learning & The Library Connection: A Perpectual Model For Tertiary Library Customer Education, Deborah Ann Cronau Ph.D.
Lifelong Learning & The Library Connection: A Perpectual Model For Tertiary Library Customer Education, Deborah Ann Cronau Ph.D.
The Christian Librarian
The Lifelong Learning and Library Connection as a model for tertiary library customer education examined the transitional skill and ability expectations of undergraduate tertiary education students to propose a Perceptual Model of lifelong learning as an alternative to behavioural and relational models which are more experientially or practice based. The hypothesis of a recent study was that the personal perceptions of customers can mirror personal reality. What customers believe can predict what they will pursue. Therefore a Perceptual Model can offer the advantage of facilitating lifelong learning through library customer education approaches geared to the sequential levels of skills needed …
Time-Based Intentions And Individual Variables: An Examination Of Performance Patterns In Prospective Memory, Claire E. Guidry
Time-Based Intentions And Individual Variables: An Examination Of Performance Patterns In Prospective Memory, Claire E. Guidry
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Predicting Distress And State Self-Esteem: Effects Of Attachment Styles And Intensity Of A Romantic Relationship Threat, Leslie E. Olivier
Predicting Distress And State Self-Esteem: Effects Of Attachment Styles And Intensity Of A Romantic Relationship Threat, Leslie E. Olivier
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
The Effect Of Gender On The Perceived Shyness Of Individuals, Summer A. Nacoste
The Effect Of Gender On The Perceived Shyness Of Individuals, Summer A. Nacoste
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Effects Of A Defendant’S Health And Relevance Of Merchandise Stolen On Perceptions Of Guilt, With Sympathy And Empathy As Mediating Factors, Timothy Ryan Robicheaux
Effects Of A Defendant’S Health And Relevance Of Merchandise Stolen On Perceptions Of Guilt, With Sympathy And Empathy As Mediating Factors, Timothy Ryan Robicheaux
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.