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Security Devices (Pvt) Limited, Trevor Thomsen

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Security Devices (PVT) Limited has expanded its manufacture of metal detectors to include an entire range of personal protective equipment (PPE) and manual demining hand-tools.

The K9 Demining Corps In Lebanon, Amy Eichenberg

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Thanks to the Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI), dogs are playing a large role in the demining of Lebanon.

New Partnership Brings Man’S Best Friend To Armenia, Nicole Kreger

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

As a result of the 1988–1994 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenia suffers from landmine infestation in those areas where fighting took place.Generous donations from the Armenian Assembly of America and the U.S. government will allow the Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) to send several mine detection dogs (MDDs) to help eliminate Armenia’s landmine problem.

The Role Of Athletics In Higher Education, Ryan Miller

Major Themes in Economics

Major reform is needed in intercollegiate athletics. Athletics have a part in higher education but athletic scholarships do not. The current system of athletic scholarships is hurting higher education both financially and academically. There are several possible reform options but the best option is to completely overhaul the current system and make college athletics a truly amateur operation.

Falling Into History: The Imagined Wests Of Kim Stanley Robinson In The "Three Californias" And Mars Trilogies, Carl Abbott

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Analyzes Kim Stanley Robinson's two science fiction trilogies, the "Three Californias" trilogy '(Wild Shore, Gold Coast,' and 'Pacific Edge),' published during 1984 - 1990, and the Mars trilogy '(Red Mars, Green Mars,' and 'Blue Mars),' published during 1993 - 1996, to show how they incorporate themes of the complexity and contingency involved in settlement of the frontier associated with the "new Western history" of the 1980's - 1990's. The Mars trilogy co-opts the American West's status as a place of resource development when Robinson narrates the conquest of nature through technology. The Orange County trilogy explores, inter alia, intentional communities, …

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 5, No. 2, Richard A. Macdonald, Mark Partridge

St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report

No abstract provided.

Lbj, The Rhetoric Of Transcendence, And The Civil Rights Act Of 1968, Steven R. Goldzwig

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was the result of a complex convergence of presidential public persuasion in a context of increasing domestic violence associated with a series of summer disturbances and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Analysis of Lyndon Johnson's public discourse supporting the 1968 Civil Rights Act reveals that rhetorical transcendence was employed as a recurrent strategy in attempts to pass legislation.

Studying Heuristic-Systematic Processing Of Risk Communication, Lee Ann Kahlor, Sharon Dunwoody, Robert J. Griffin, Kurt Neuwirth, James K. Giese

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Using a model of risk information seeking and processing developed by Griffin, Dunwoody, and Neuwirth (1999), this study looks at predictors of the processing strategies that people apply to health risk information. Specifically, this article focuses on one relationship within the model—the relationship between perceived amount of information needed to deal with a risk and heuristic-systematic processing. Perceived amount of information needed refers to the gap between one's understanding of a risk and the level of understanding that one needs in order to make a decision about that risk. Building on the work of Chaiken (cf. 1980), the Griffin et …

Dynamic Price Competition, Dirk Bergemann, Juuso Välimäki

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We consider the model of price competition for a single buyer among many sellers in a dynamic environment. The surplus from each trade is allowed to depend on the path of previous purchases, and as a result, the model captures phenomena such as learning by doing and habit formation in consumption characterize Markovian equilibria for finite and infinite horizon versions of the model and show that the stationary infinite horizon version of the model possesses an equilibrium where all the sellers receive an equilibrium payoff equal to their marginal contribution to the social welfare.

Market Bubbles And Wasteful Avoidance: Tax And Regulatory Constraints On Short Sales, Michael R. Powers, David M. Schizer, Martin Shubik

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Although short sales make an important contribution to financial markets, this transaction faces legal constraints that do not govern long positions. In evaluating these constraints, other commentators, who are virtually all economists, have not focused rigorously enough on the precise contours of current law. Some short sale constraints are mischaracterized, while others are omitted entirely. Likewise, the existing literature neglects many strategies in which well advised investors circumvent these constraints; this avoidance may reduce the impact of short sale constraints on market prices, but may contribute to social waste in other ways. To fill these gaps in the literature, this …

On Local And Network Games, Thomas Quint, Martin Shubik

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The knowledge constraints and transactions costs imposed by geographical distance, network connections and time conspire to justify local behavior as a good approximation for global rationality. We consider a class of games to illustrate this relationship and raise some questions as to what constitutes a satisfactory solution concept.

Message From The President, Ann Hamilton

Library Faculty Publications

Column by SELA President, Ann Hamilton.

The Uncertain Psychological Case For Paternalism, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

War At Home Spouse Abuse In Military Families, Carrie L. Gray

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the patterns, tendencies, and physical severity of spouse abuse in military families. The demographic makeup of military families in many ways parallels that of violent families in the civilian community. Therefore, this study will determine if certain variables will be similarly correlated in cases of wife abuse within military families as they are in civilian families. Although a significant amount of research has been conducted on spouse abuse in the last thirty years, family violence within military families has been virtually ignored. This study utilizes secondary data provided by the Navy Family Advocacy Central Registry located in …

Bob Kerrey, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes a New York Press article titled "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" (3/26/03), an open letter from Andrew Arato to Bob Kerrey regarding his views on Iraq, a newspaper article titled "Finish the War. Liberate Iraq" (11/12/02), newspaper articles regarding Senator Kerrey (4/30/01, 4/26/01), a flyer soliciting applications for provost, an article in The Internationalist titled "Drive Out War Criminal Bob Kerrey!" (5/1/01), an NYT articled titled "Bob Kerrey Reveals His Role in Deaths of Vietnam Civilians" (4/25/01), from the New York Daily News titled "Blood on His Hands Kerrey's defense of Vietnam" (4/29/01), a Nation article titled …

It Does Take A Village To Raise A Child, Rebecca J. Boyd

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Utilizing Cullen's (1994) Social Support Theory and Hunter's (1985) three dimensions of social life, this study is a quantitative, cross-sectional secondary data analysis designed to examine the relationship between institutional social support and rates of juvenile crime for counties and cities in Virginia for the year 2000. Resting on the contention that an inverse, significant relationship exists between measures of institutional support and rates of juvenile property and violent crime, this study examines types of support provided by the institutions of family, school, and the government. These measures of institutional support include 1) familial support: median income, marriage support; 2) …

Modeling The Decision Process Of A Joint Task Force Commander, John Anthony Sokolowski

Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Theses & Dissertations

The U.S. military uses modeling and simulation as a tool to help meet its warfighting needs. A key element within military simulations is the ability to accurately represent human behavior. This is especially true in a simulation's ability to emulate realistic military decisions. However, current decision models fail to provide the variability and flexibility that human decision makers exhibit. Further, most decision models are focused on tactical decisions and ignore the decision process of senior military commanders at the operational level of warfare. In an effort to develop a better decision model that would mimic the decision process of a …

Population Mobility High-Risk Environments And The Diffusion Of Hiv/Stds: A Community Based Study In Southwest China, Hongyun Fu

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Globally, population migration has been associated with the spread ofHIV/STDs in many countries. A similar trend has been observed in China from the very beginning of the HIV epidemic, but empirical research is very limited. Furthermore, the previous studies mainly focused on the micro impact of migration on individual migrant's risky behaviors. The impact of population mobility on the general population, especially on non-migrant residents, has been ignored. Using data collected from a specially designed community level survey, which was conducted in a province in the Southwest of China, this study examines the macro-level association between temporary migration and the …

Newsletter For The College Of Education And Behavioral Sciences, Spring 2003, Wku College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Publications

No abstract provided.

Collections & Connections, Roxanne Spencer, Katherine Pennavaria

Collections & Connections

Collections & Connections is a newsletter of Western Kentucky University Libraries periodically featuring its major events. This Spring '03 issue highlights Southern Kentucky Festival of Books (now Southern Kentucky Book Fest), faculty and staff Jonathan Jeffrey, Ellen Micheletti, Jack Montgomery, Jennifer Small, and development officer Heather Slack-Ratiu.

The Effects Of Transformational And Transactional Leadership On Job Satisfaction Affective Commitment And Turnover Intentions Among Teleworkers, Janet L. Bryant

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This study is among the first to examine the influence of leadership among teleworkers. Effects of transformational and transactional leadership on job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intentions were examined in a secondary data analysis of 128 teleworkers. Hierarchical linear regression results support the influence of both forms of leadership on these outcomes, although an augmentation effect for transformational leadership was observed only for affective commitment and turnover intentions. Findings from moderated regression analyses indicate that the effect of transformational leadership degrades with increasing telework frequency. This study shows that leadership is important in telework arrangements, although the manner in …

Understanding And Rethinking U.S. Policy Toward Canada: The Case Of Trade And Environmental Issues. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh

Andrew I.E. Ewoh

No abstract provided.

Ritual Influences And Perceptions Of Risk As Predictors Of Alcohol Use Among College Undergraduates, Katherine Novak

Katherine B. Novak

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, April 2003.

Social Skills And Anger Management Interventions For Students With Emotional Disorders, Susan Davies

Susan C. Davies

No abstract provided.

Political And Civic Engagement, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Veishea: Iowa State's Rite Of Spring, Michele Christian

Michele Christian

Each year, thousands of Iowa State University students work diligently preparing for the largest student run celebration in the United States. Led by the VEISHEA Central Committee, the students spend months planning and managing every detail to ensure the event is a success. For these students, VEISHEA is not just another activity, rather it is their chance to put Iowa State University on display. This rite of spring allows them to show the citizens of Iowa and the world the rich heritage and extraordinary future of ISU.

The Impact Of Computer Skills On The Levels Of Technostress Among Faculty And Academic Librarians From Selected Institutions From Within The University System Of Georgia, Sonya Shepherd

Sonya S. Gaither

No abstract provided.

Leading By Example: Practical Professional & Personal Development, Patricia Mileham

Patricia Mileham

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Computer Skills On The Levels Of Technostress Among Faculty And Academic Librarians From Selected Institutions Fro Within The University System Of Georgia, Sonya Shepherd

Sonya S. Gaither

No abstract provided.

Agendas, Rhetoric, And Social Change: State Of The Union Addresses From Eisenhower To Clinton, Donna R. Hoffman, Alison D. Howard

Alison Dana Howard