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Conserving And Preserving Your Books, Peter D. Verheyen Jan 2002

Conserving And Preserving Your Books, Peter D. Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

An introduction to book preservation ad conservation topics and problems for library school students an collectors. Includes paper, leather, repair, and a resource list.


“Towns They Have None”: Diverse Subsistence And Settlement Strategies In Native New England, Elizabeth Chilton Jan 2002

“Towns They Have None”: Diverse Subsistence And Settlement Strategies In Native New England, Elizabeth Chilton

Elizabeth S. Chilton

No abstract provided.


Build Your Boat Before The Flood: Contingency Planning In Higher Education, Gary Krueger, Craig Aasse Jan 2002

Build Your Boat Before The Flood: Contingency Planning In Higher Education, Gary Krueger, Craig Aasse

Gary Krueger

No abstract provided.


Review Of It's My Life, A Film By Brian Tilley, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of It's My Life, A Film By Brian Tilley, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Medicine And The German Jews: A History, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of Medicine And The German Jews: A History, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Communication Disorders In Multicultural Populations, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of Communication Disorders In Multicultural Populations, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of 6000 A Day: Account Of A Catastrophe Foretold, A Film By Philip Brooks, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of 6000 A Day: Account Of A Catastrophe Foretold, A Film By Philip Brooks, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Review Of Encyclopedia Of Motion Picture Sound, John Stephen Brantley Jan 2002

Review Of Encyclopedia Of Motion Picture Sound, John Stephen Brantley

Steve Brantley

No abstract provided.


Tangible Pictures: Viewpoint Effects And Linear Perspective In Visually Impaired People, Morton A. Heller, Deneen D. Brackett, Eric Scroggs, Heather Steffen, Kim Heatherly, Shana Salik Jan 2002

Tangible Pictures: Viewpoint Effects And Linear Perspective In Visually Impaired People, Morton A. Heller, Deneen D. Brackett, Eric Scroggs, Heather Steffen, Kim Heatherly, Shana Salik

Morton A. Heller

Perception of raised-line pictures in blindfolded-sighted, congenitally blind, late-blind, and low-vision subjects was studied in a series of experiments. The major aim of the study was to examine the value of perspective drawings for haptic pictures and visually impaired individuals. In experiment 1, subjects felt two wooden boards joined at 458, 908, or 1358, and were instructed to pick the correct perspective drawing from among four choices. The first experiment on perspective found a significant effect of visual status, with much higher performance by the low-vision subjects. Mean performance for the congenitally blind subjects was not significantly different from that …


Procrastination, Conscientiousness, Anxiety, And Goals: Exploring The Measurement And Correlates Of Procrastination Among School-Aged Children, Steven J. Scher, Nicole M. Osterman Jan 2002

Procrastination, Conscientiousness, Anxiety, And Goals: Exploring The Measurement And Correlates Of Procrastination Among School-Aged Children, Steven J. Scher, Nicole M. Osterman

Steven J. Scher

We explore the reliability and validity of a self-report measure of procrastination and conscientiousness designed for use with third- to fifth-grade students. The responses of 120 students are compared with teacher and parent ratings of the student. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were also used to examine the structure of the scale. Procrastination and conscientiousness are highly correlated (inversely); evidence suggests that procrastination and conscientiousness are aspects of the same construct. Procrastination and conscientiousness are correlated with the Physiological Anxiety subscale of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale, and with the Task (Mastery) and Avoidance (Task Aversiveness) subscales of Skaalvik’s …


The Haptic Muller-Lyer Illusion In Sighted And Blind People, Morton A. Heller, Deneen D. Brackett, Kathy Wilson, Keiko Yoneyama, Amanda Boyer, Heather Steffen Jan 2002

The Haptic Muller-Lyer Illusion In Sighted And Blind People, Morton A. Heller, Deneen D. Brackett, Kathy Wilson, Keiko Yoneyama, Amanda Boyer, Heather Steffen

Morton A. Heller

We examined the effect of visual experience on the haptic Mu« ller-Lyer illusion. Subjects made size estimates of raised lines by using a sliding haptic ruler. Independent groups of blind- folded-sighted, late-blind, congenitally blind, and low-vision subjects judged the sizes of wings-in and wings-out stimuli, plain lines, and lines with short vertical ends. An illusion was found, since the wings-in stimuli were judged as shorter than the wings-out patterns and all of the other stimuli. Subjects generally underestimated the lengths of lines. In a second experiment we found a nonsignificant difference between length judgments of raised lines as opposed to …


University Of Tennessee's Digital Media Service & The Studio: Partnership Approaches To Digital Media Creation, Barbara I. Dewey Dec 2001

University Of Tennessee's Digital Media Service & The Studio: Partnership Approaches To Digital Media Creation, Barbara I. Dewey

Barbara I. Dewey

No abstract provided.


South Park Campaign Of The Community Coalition For Environmental Justice, Jonathan Betz-Zall Dec 2001

South Park Campaign Of The Community Coalition For Environmental Justice, Jonathan Betz-Zall

Jonathan Betz-Zall

This case study evaluated the effectiveness of the community organizing techniques used by the Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) in promoting the principles of grassroots organizing in its work in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. This campaign, part of the SouthSeattleToxics Project, focused attention on the pollution caused by the Long Painting Company's activities. The CCEJ used traditional community organizing techniques to help South Park residents oppose this pollution; the residents formed their own organization to monitor progress even after the offending company has left town. The case study evaluated this work of the CCEJ in terms …


Conflicts And Common Interests In Committees , Hao Li, Sherwin Rosen, Wing Suen Dec 2001

Conflicts And Common Interests In Committees , Hao Li, Sherwin Rosen, Wing Suen

hao li

Committees improve decisions by pooling independent information of members, but promote manipulation, obfuscation, and exaggeration of private evidence when members have conflicting preferences. We study how self-interest mediates these conflicting forces. When members' preferences differ, no person ever submits a report that allows perfect inference of his private information. Instead, equilibrium strategies are many-to-one mappings that transform continuous data into ordered ranks: voting procedures are the equilibrium methods of achieving a consensus in committees. Voting necessarily coarsens the transmission of information among members, but is necessary to control conflicts of interest. The degree of coarseness of the equilibrium voting procedure …


Electronic Journals: How User Behaviour Is Changing, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King Dec 2001

Electronic Journals: How User Behaviour Is Changing, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.


Creating Inspiration Spaces, Virtual Places: The 21st Century Academic Library, Barbara I. Dewey Nov 2001

Creating Inspiration Spaces, Virtual Places: The 21st Century Academic Library, Barbara I. Dewey

Barbara I. Dewey

No abstract provided.


Hombres, Diablos Y Animales: Exposición De Máscaras De Las Tradiciones Festivas Centroamericanas, Sylvie Duran Nov 2001

Hombres, Diablos Y Animales: Exposición De Máscaras De Las Tradiciones Festivas Centroamericanas, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Exhibit project from the Cultural Association InCorpore on masks and performative traditions, cultural diversity. A version relating the topis to natural diversity was also developed. The tool "Red narrativa de la productividad cultural" was part of the conceptualization of the exhibit.


Muchos Caribes: El Caribe Mesoamericano En El Festival Internacional De Las Artes Fia 2002, Sylvie Duran Nov 2001

Muchos Caribes: El Caribe Mesoamericano En El Festival Internacional De Las Artes Fia 2002, Sylvie Duran

Sylvie E. Duran Mrs.

Music artistic proposal to the Costa Rica International Festival of the Arts 2002. It summarizes Cultural Association InCorpore´s research-production projects on Central American music during 1998-2001.


A Organização Comum Do Mercado De Açúcar Na União Europeia: Estrutura, Instrumentos Regulatórios E Interesses, Heitor Moura Filho Nov 2001

A Organização Comum Do Mercado De Açúcar Na União Europeia: Estrutura, Instrumentos Regulatórios E Interesses, Heitor Moura Filho

Heitor Moura Filho

The subsidies and protection structure of the sugar sectors in the European Union originated from the individual national protection systems, unified with the creation of the Common Agricultural Policy. The main form of protection for agricultural products in the EU are the Common Organisations of the Market, which fix rules for planting, sale, prices, subsidies, storage and foreign trade. The COM for Sugars is based on an intervention price, at present quite higher than international prices. To determine who benefits from this intervention price, production quotas are established and distributed to each Member-State, producer and raw-material supplier. In parallel, levies …


Peace Corps And People-Centered Development, William G. Moseley Oct 2001

Peace Corps And People-Centered Development, William G. Moseley

William G Moseley

No abstract provided.


Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb Oct 2001

Military Strategy In The Indonesian Revolution: Nasution's 'Total People's War' In Theory And Practice, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Analyses the guerrilla strategy of General A.H. Nasution, architect of Indonesia's guerrilla resistance to the Dutch in the late 1940s and finds that his strategy, unlike that of Mao or Giap, involved keeping the mass of the poeple at arm's length from the guerrilla army.


Can High Prices Ensure Product Quality When Buyers Do Not Know The Sellers' Cost?, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Timothy Perri Oct 2001

Can High Prices Ensure Product Quality When Buyers Do Not Know The Sellers' Cost?, Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Timothy Perri

Eric Bennett Rasmusen

The Klein-Leffler (1981) model of product quality does not explain why high-quality firms would dissipate the rents they earn from quality- assuring price premia, and it relies on consumers knowing the cost functions of firms. In the present paper, consumers do not know any firm's cost of producing quality goods, so high- quality firms must engage in conspicuous spending to demonstrate they earn a profitable mark-up over cost. Complete rent dissipation occurs only when high and low cost firms have the same cost of producing low quality.


Ex Parte Declaration Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton Oct 2001

Ex Parte Declaration Of Peter Cramton, Peter Cramton

Peter Cramton

Further comments on the CMRS spectrum cap. For Leap Wireless.


Edible Oil Consumption: Need For Change In Rural India, Aneeja Guttikonda Sep 2001

Edible Oil Consumption: Need For Change In Rural India, Aneeja Guttikonda

aneeja guttikonda

In India, edible oils are a significant source of essential fats. however, fat intake is almost absent among the rural poor, for whom edible oils are largely unaffordable. Edible oil consumption should be encouraged among the rural poor by supply via PDS at low cost. Steps to boost cultivation and lower the cost of production and import will also help to meet requirements.


Wall Street Journal On The Web: Journalism Profs Against America, James Taranto Sep 2001

Wall Street Journal On The Web: Journalism Profs Against America, James Taranto

Bill Israel

No abstract provided.


"Thor," Lucianne.Com Posts, Regarding "A Policy Of Neglect And Cowardice, A Pay-Off Of Death", Bill Israel Sep 2001

"Thor," Lucianne.Com Posts, Regarding "A Policy Of Neglect And Cowardice, A Pay-Off Of Death", Bill Israel

Bill Israel

No abstract provided.


A Policy Of Neglect And Cowardice, A Pay-Off Of Death, Bill Israel Sep 2001

A Policy Of Neglect And Cowardice, A Pay-Off Of Death, Bill Israel

Bill Israel

No abstract provided.


Trade Liberalization And Intra-Industry Trade: The Case Of The U.S. And Mexico, Robert C. Shelburne Sep 2001

Trade Liberalization And Intra-Industry Trade: The Case Of The U.S. And Mexico, Robert C. Shelburne

Robert C. Shelburne

This paper investigates how U.S.-Mexican intra-industry trade (IIT) has evolved since the creation of the NAFTA beginning in 1994. These empirical findings are of value not only for the study of the U.S.-Mexican trading relationship, but they also contain several important conclusions applicable more generally to the study of the theoretical basis for intra-industry trade and its empirical estimation. The basic conclusions of this study are: 1) Unlike the European experience after the creation of the European Common Market, and most other regional trade arrangements, trade between the U.S. and Mexico has remained mostly inter- industry trade, and the growth …


Is Free Trade Good For The Environment, M. Scott Taylor, Werner Antweiler, Brian R. Copeland Sep 2001

Is Free Trade Good For The Environment, M. Scott Taylor, Werner Antweiler, Brian R. Copeland

M. Scott Taylor

This paper investigates how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We develop a theoretical model to divide trade’s impact on pollution into scale, technique, and composition effects and then examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations. We find international trade creates relatively small changes in pollution concentrations when it alters the composition of national output. Estimates of the trade-induced technique and scale effects imply a net reduction in pollution from these sources. Combining our estimates of all three effects yields a somewhat surprising conclusion: freer trade appears to be good for the environment.


Mediation In Black And White: Unequal Distribution Of Empowerment By Police, Christopher C. Cooper Sep 2001

Mediation In Black And White: Unequal Distribution Of Empowerment By Police, Christopher C. Cooper

Christopher C. Cooper Dr.

Mediation in Black & White: Unequal Distribution of Empowerment by Police. On calls-for-service involving an interpersonal disputes, patrol Police officers either arbitrate the matter (e.g., authoritarian directives or arrest) or empower disputing parties to reach a collective resolutiuon; however whether the latter is availabe to disputing parties depends on their race.