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Ethnic Segmentation Of Real Estate Agent Practice In The Urban Housing Market, Risa Palm

Geosciences Faculty Publications

This study investigated the extent to which the real estate industry is segmented along racial or ethnic lines. A 1982 survey of Anglo, black, and Hispanic real estate agents in the Denver metropolitan area showed ethnic segmentation in the structure of real estate business practice. Sellers select real estate agents at least partially on the basis of a common ethnicity, ethnicity affects the size and location of territories in which an agent obtains listings, and an agent's network of business contacts is limited by and is shaped by the ethnicity of the agent. Ethnicity therefore adds a further distortion to …

Home Mortgage Lenders And Earthquake Hazards, Risa Palm

Geosciences Faculty Publications

A survey of major home mortgage lenders and real -property appraisers in California and the Puget Sound region shows a general inattention to earthquake hazards in appraisal and lending policy. This inattention is demonstrated not only in responses to survey questions, but also in a lack of differentiation in lending decisions between properties within and outside surface-fault rupture zones. As posited by organizational theory however, important variants exist in this overall policy, almost always resulting from the efforts of individuals within large lending organizations

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - H Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed are for 108 topics beginning with H ranging from Hail Storm to Hundred Club.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - E Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 104 topics beginning with E ranging from Eagle Prep to Extension.

Graduate Bulletin, 1985-1987 (1985), Moorhead State University

Graduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

No abstract provided.

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 14, Winter 1985, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 14, WINTER 1985

Dick Goddard: Weather Forecasting and Folklore, 2

Ancient weather maxims rival modern science

A. H. Benade: The Evolution of Woodwinds, 10

Changes of design have radically altered performance qualities

Dennis Dooley: Time's Shadow: The Thin Man and Dashiell Hammett, 34

Famous detective writer was his own most popular character

Laura Martin: Gringa in the Field, 45

Woman anthropologist's experience among Mayan Indians

Glending Olson: What's So "Fine" About the Arts?, 64

In earlier times, the fine arts were so much a part of daily life that nobody noticed …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 27 Number 3, Winter 1985, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

2 - WHEN ARE LEADERS AT THEIR BEST? By James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner. There is a revolution in leadership style taking place in corporate America. This deals with how ordinary people get extraordinary things done in organizations.

7 - A MEDITATION IN ST. IVES By William J. Rewak, S.J. Some reflections on the essence of work taken from Father Rewak's travel diary during a trip to England last summer.

10 - TAKING LAUGHTER SERIOUSLY By John Morreall. A philosophy professor shows how important humor is to human life and how understanding our laughter can help us understand …

Rainfall And Beach Erosion Relationships, Stanwell Park, Australia, 1895-1980: Worldwide Implications For Coastal Erosion, Edward A. Bryant

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Beach erosion is often associated with sea-level rise, sediment depletion or variation in wave conditions; however above-normal rainfall can cause beach retreat by increasing water-table elevation on the foreshore. On Stanwell Park beach, New South Wales, Australia annual rainfall accounts for 12.4% of the variance in the long-term, high-ride position measured accurately to ±2.5 m for the whole beach using 135 oblique photographs dated between 1895-1980. Sea-level changes account for an additional 4.6%. A 100 mm increase in annual rainfall or a 1 cm rise in sea-level results in 0.79 or 0.44 m retreat respectively of the average high-tide position …

The Green Movement: Implications For Animals, Ronnie Z. Hawkins

Environment Collection

The Green movement, a newly emerging political movement that is both global in scope and firmly anchored to each local region at the grassroots level, is destined to be of great import to those concerned with the status of nonhuman animals in our society. Closely allied with deep ecology and bioregionalism, Green thinking embodies an alteration in our perception of the human organism: no longer seen as separate from and superior to all the other components of the ecosystem, our species is placed in context as one among many interdependent forms of life, with the attainment of a sustainable balance …

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 4, Jan. 1985, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Whicker, Garth. Agriculture and the Development of Malaysia
• McGaha. Rape, Passion, Lechery, Usury, Incest, Murder and other Matters in The Ravenger's Tragedy
• Harrison, Robert. It was a Day of Very General Awakening . . : Reformation and Revival in Russellville, Kentucky
• King, Betty. An Affirmative Decision for James's Isabel Archer
• Sutton, Joyce. Sex Bias in Performance of Women
• Logsdon, Doug. Poe's Women
• Yoder, Nate. Emily Dickinson and Her Puritan Heritage
• Davis, Aleen. Jay …

Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Archives Records

Annual report created by and about WKU Geography & Geology for the school year 1984-1985.

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - S Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 321 topics beginning with S ranging from Sabbaticals to Symposium: Student.

Ethnicity And Social Class Formation In The Bolivian Lowlands, Michael Painter, Institute For Development Anthropology (Binghamton, N.Y.)

Institute for Development Anthropology Papers

No abstract provided.

Promoting Economic Incentives For Environmental Protection In The Surface Mining Control And Reclamation Act Of 1977: An Analysis Of The Design And Implementation Of Reclamation Performance Bonds, Barbara Webber, David Webber

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Environmental Perception And Its Impacts On The Tourist Industry: A Case Study Of The Niagara Region, Donna Marie Senese

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The natural resources of the Niagara Region of Ontario have played an important role in the success of the tourist industry in the region. The Niagara Region has been developed on an industrial and agricultural base since the nineteenth century. Due to conflicting demands of the manufacturing, agricultural and tourism industries for aesthetic, recreational and waste disposal purposes, the physical environment has deteriorated. The research problem of this thesis is to determine the extent of the effect of this deteriorated environment upon the tourist industry in the Niagara Region.

Physical inventories of resources are not adequate in terms of evaluating …

The Role Of The Computer In Society Some Aspects Of Person-Machine Interaction, Robert Clarence Hallman

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

In Community Psychology, we assume that people at the grassroots can learn to help themselves if they are offered the means of understanding a problem and helped to discover the strategies needed to resolve it. Micro-computer technology is currently at a cultural crossroads: a technology in search of new applications. To date, research and concerns around the role of the computer in society have taken the macro view, being predominantly sociologically, politically, and economically oriented. The purpose of the present study was to bring these issues to the individual level and to examine some variables at the person-computer interface. In …

Uncertainty And Policy Agressiveness, Douglas Steigerwald, Roger Craine

Douglas G. Steigerwald

How should a decision maker proceed with uncertain knowledge of the decision outcome? We use the unknown coefficient control problem to shed light on the issue.

Cognitive Coordinate Systems: Accounts Of Mental Rotation And Individual Differences In Spatial Ability, Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter

Marcel Adam Just

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Effect Of Network Load And Topology On The Performance Of Concurrency Control Algorithm In Distributed Database Systems, Anoop Singhal, Amit P. Sheth, Ming T. Liu

Kno.e.sis Publications

Earlier studies in the performance analysis of concurrency control algorithms in distributed database systems (DDBS) have assumed that the message transmission time between any two nodes of a network is constant. Hence they disregard the effect of communication subnet related parameters such as network traffic, network topology, the capacity of transmission channels and the size of messages transmitted. In this paper an analytical model is used to estimate the delays in transmission channels for a DDBS in a long haul network. The analysis shows that the constant transmission time assumption cannot be justified in many cases and that response time …

Monthly Planet, 1984, December, David Kuester, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Monthly Planet, 1984, November, David Kuester, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Civilian Space Stations And The U.S. Future In Space, U.S. Office Of Technology Assessment

Space Law Documents

After the expenditure of some $200 billion (1984$) since the launch of its first spacecraft in early 1958, the United States has obtained the scientific knowledge and developed the technological capability and professional expertise to succeed in virtually any theoretically possible civilian space venture that it may choose to undertake, But America’s second quarter-century of space activities promises to differ markedly from the first, almost wholly exploratory, era. If space is to be successfully developed in roughly the same fashion as have other, more familiar natural resources and environments, the next stage will be characterized by establishing and securing the …

Theology In A Digital World, David Morgan Lochhead

Dr. David Morgan Lochhead

Speech at David Lochhead's promotion to Full Professor of Thelogy.

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 13, Fall 1984, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 13, FALL 1984

Editorial: Our Fifth Year, 3

Dick Feagler: The Two Conventions, 4

Noted cynic observes the follies of national politics

The Gamut Photography Contest Winners, 9

Brenda L. Lewison, Jim Boland, Janine Bentivegna,

Eileen M. Delehanty, Genevieve Gauthier, Rhoda Grannum,

Buena Johnson, Charles J. Mintz, Tom Ritter, Wayne Sot

Louis Giannetti: Italian Neorealist Cinema, 20

Political philosophies and political realities shaped the work of the great post-war Italian filmmakers

Gary Engle: Krazy Kat and the Spirit of Surrealism, 28

George Herriman's famous cartoon strip reflects early twentieth century artistic ideas. …

Statistical Section (September 1984), Central Bank Of Nigeria Cbn

Economic and Financial Review

This is the statistical presentations of the developments in the Nigerian economy during the period under review.

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 3, Sept. 1984, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Urbanization On The Hydrologic Regime Of Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon, William Vandewater Clement

Dissertations and Theses

The Johnson Creek watershed, Portland, Oregon, has undergone urbanization at an increasing rate. Excessive flooding has occurred in the lower portions of the watershed, resulting in an estimated 1.5 million dollars worth of flood losses annually. In attempts to mitigate the flooding damages millions of dollars have been spent to channelize the creek, and over 200 thousand dollars has been spent during the last 20 years on preliminary feasibility studies alone.

The author saw a need to verify that there has been a change in the rainfall-runoff relationships in the upper Johnson Creek basin since 1941 and to quantify this …

Withdrawals Of Public Lands Under The Federal Land Policy And Management Act, David H. Getches

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Summer Conference, June 6-8)

17 pages.

Private Use Of The Public Lands – What Is The Appropriate “Fair Market Value”?, Richard L. Stroup

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Summer Conference, June 6-8)

44 pages.

Contains a 4-page outline; one page of references (page 6); and 37 pages of appendices arranged in 11 topical areas.