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2005-2006 Women's Basketball Junior Varsity Roster, Cedarville University

Women's Basketball Rosters

No abstract provided.

2006 Espn Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team, Cedarville University

Women's Basketball Rosters

No abstract provided.

Nota Bene; Volume Xx, Number I, Yale University Library

Nota Bene

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others with the resources of the Yale Library.

The Politic 2006 Spring, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

News From The South Carolina Library Association V.4 N.2 04/2006

South Carolina Libraries

News from the South Carolina Library Association v.4 n.2 04/2006

Reflections - Spring 2006, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

Groundbreaking Ceremonies Planned for New Thomas Cooper Library Wings..... p.1
Honorary Library Funds Established..... p.1
New Digital Collections..... p.2
Oral History Program Established at the South Caroliniana Library..... p.3
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Exhibit and Presentation Draw Appreciative Crowd..... p.4
Edwin E. Gordon Archive Dedicated..... p.4
University Libraries Join LOCKSS Program..... p.4
Bowers Exhibit and Panel Presented at TCL..... p.5
Fund Established to Document the Rise of the Republican Party in South Carolina..... p.5
In Memoriam: Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. 1940–2005..... p.5
William Jennings Bryan Dorn Young Scholar Prize Established at SCPC..... p.6
Dorn Collection Exhibited in Greenwood..... p.6
Outreach …

What Do Third Party Logistics Buyers Really Want? An Empirical Analysis Utilizing Benefit Based Market Segmentation, Harry L. Sink

Journal of Transportation Management

No abstract provided.

Pure Pallets: Effectiveness And Efficiency Impacts On The Defense Transportation System, Michael B. Mongold, Alan W. Johnson

Journal of Transportation Management

The military supply chain must explore initiatives to improve its ability to meet warfighter needs. One initiative, developed during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is the pure pallet process—by consolidating material early in the supply chain into user-specific pallets, these pallets are able to transit the defense transportation system without being broken down en route, theoretically arriving to the warfighter in less time than prior break-bulk methods required. The pure pallet initiative’s effectiveness and efficiency was assessed by measuring customer requisition wait time, cargo throughput, and revenue performance. It was found that effectiveness increased, without corresponding losses in efficiency.

Working Toward A Seamless Supply Chain: An Exploratory Analysis Of The Impact Of Supply Chain On Company Performance, Carol J. Johnson, Lidiya Sokhnich, Charles Ng

Journal of Transportation Management

This paper explores the role that several supply chain dimensions play in achieving overall firm performance. Measures suggested in prior studies were factor analyzed for convergent and discriminant validity and then used in a regression model. This study uses data from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) member firms, with top level supply chain managers as informants. The results suggest that of the three dimensions tested, two are significant contributors to firm profitability, including customer service and business process usage. Relationship confidence was not found to significantly impact overall firm performance.

Public Price Reporting, Marketing Channel Selection And Price Discovery: The Perspective Of Cow/Calf Producers In The Dakotas, Scott Fausti, Bashir Qasmi, Doug Landblom, Martin Beutler, Pat Johnson, Roger Gates, Hubert Patterson, R. Salverson

Economics Staff Paper Series

Cow/calf producers operating in the Dakotas were surveyed on their price discovery strategies, marketing channel preferences, and their perceptions of how regime change in the public price reporting system for fed cattle affected the beef industry in general and the cow/calf industry in particular. Survey results indicate cow/calf producers consider local institutions (auction barns etc.) to be more reliable for price discovery and marketing their feeder and stocker cattle than regional or national institutions (futures market etc.). Consistent with this view, producers perceive that the current public price reporting system is less reliable than local market sources when making individual …

Student Affairs And Service Learning: Promoting Student Engagement, Robert Caruso, Glenn Bowen, Jane Adams-Dunford

Glenn A Bowen PhD

No abstract provided.

Fedora: An Architecture For Complex Objects And Their Relationships, Carl Lagoze, Sandy Payette, Edwin Shin, Chris Wilper

Edwin Shin

The Fedora architecture is an extensible framework for the storage, management, and dissemination of complex objects and the relationships among them. Fedora accommodates the aggregation of local and distributed content into digital objects and the association of services with objects. This allows an object to have several accessible representations, some of them dynamically produced. The architecture includes a generic Resource Description Framework (RDF)-based relationship model that represents relationships among objects and their components. Queries against these relationships are supported by an RDF triple store. The architecture is implemented as a web service, with all aspects of the complex object architecture …

"One Person, One Vote, And The Constitutionality Of The Winner-Take-All Allocation Of Electoral Votes", David A. Schultz

David A Schultz

The winner-take-all method of allocating electoral votes in presidential races is the norm among states, yet nowhere in the Constitution is this practice mandated. This article contends that the winner-take-all allocation of electors unconstitutionally magnifies the battleground states' influence on the final Electoral College tally and that these inequities cannot be reconciled with the principle of one-person, one-vote that the US Supreme Court articulated in the landmark Reynolds v. Sims. In 1966 the Supreme Court declined to hear a case contesting the constitutionality of the winner-take-all system based on the one person, one vote, principle. It is time for the …

Optimal Consumption Taxation In A Model Of Endogenous Growth With External Habit Formation, Manuel A. Gómez

Manuel A. Gómez

This paper devises a consumption tax policy that allows to decentralizing the efficient equilibrium in an AK endogenous growth model with external habit formation. The equilibrium dynamics, including that of the optimal taxes, is characterized by means of phase-diagram analysis.

The Brave New World Of Ambient Intelligence: An Analysis Of Scenarios Regarding Privacy, Identity And Security Issues, Michael Friedewald, Elena Vildjiounaite, Yves Punie, David Wright

Michael Friedewald

The success of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) will depend on how secure it can be made, how privacy and other rights of individuals can be protected and how individuals can come to trust the intelligent world that surrounds them and through which they move. This contribution presents an analysis of ambient intelligence scenarios, particularly in regard to AmI's impacts on and implications for individual privacy. The analysis draws on our review of more than 70 AmI projects, principally in Europe. It notes the visions as well as the specifics of typical AmI scenarios. Several conclusions can be drawn from the analysis, …

Izquierda Vs. Derecha. Polarización Ideológica Y Competencia Política En El Sistema De Partidos Ecuatoriano, Flavia Freidenberg

Flavia Freidenberg

No abstract provided.

The Convergence Of Market Designs For Adequate Generating Capacity, Peter Cramton, Steven Stoft

Peter Cramton

This paper compares market designs intended to solve the resource adequacy (RA) problem, and finds that, in spite of rivalrous claims, the most advanced designs have nearly converged. The original dichotomy between approaches based on long-term energy contracts and those based on short-term capacity markets spawned two design tracks. Long-term contracts led to call-option obligations which provide market-power control and the ability to strengthen performance incentives, but this approach fails to replace the missing money at the root of the adequacy problem. Hogan’s energy-only market fills this gap. On the other track, the short-term capacity markets (ICAP) spawned long-term capacity …

Reforma Policial, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

A fines de la década de los años ochenta, empieza a debatirse en América Latina sobre el papel de la Policía en la reducción de la violencia. En el país, este debate es más reciente y poco perceptible. El retorno a la democracia, el cambio de la seguridad pública a la seguridad ciudadana, la reforma del Estado y el incremento de la violencia exigen otro modelo policial y no exclusivamente el incremento de recursos económicos o policiales.

El retorno a la democracia -en el contexto histórico de la caída del muro de Berlín- clarifica la función de las policías en …

The Neoclassical Growth Model With Heterogeneous Quasi-Geometric Consumers, Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar

Serguei Maliar

This paper investigates how the assumption of quasi-geometric (hyperbolic) discounting affects the distributional implications of the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model with infinitely-lived heterogeneous agents. The agents are subject to idiosyncratic shocks and face borrowing constraints. We confine attention to an interior Markov recursive equilibrium. The consequence of quasi-geometric discounting is that the effective discount factor of an agent is not a constant, but an endogenous variable which depends on the agent's current state. We show, both analytically and by simulation, that this new feature can significantly affect the distributional implications of the neoclassical growth model.

Valley Free Radio Program Takes Things ‘Farm To Fork’, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

Written by Amanda Cather, this article describes the radio show "Farm to Fork: The Pioneer Valley's Local Food and Agriculture" which airs every other Tuesday from 6:30-7:30pm EST on WXOJ-LP, 103.3fm, Valley Free Radio. Hosted by: Madeleine Charney, Kelly Coleman, Leslie Cox and Don Persons. Listen via live audiostream: www.valleyfreeradio.org

Conference Keynoter Defends Practices Buried In New England’S Agricultural History, Plans For Future, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

Brian Donahue, environmental historian, debunks the myths of early New England farming practices.

Klipsun Magazine, 2006, Volume 36, Issue 05 - April, Shannon Barney

Klipsun Magazine

I read somewhere how the greatest gift in life is having the serenity to accept the things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can, and, most importantly, the wisdom to know the difference.

Granted, it's easier said than done, but in life we do make choices, and each one is part of a bigger picture. Therefore, make each choice with courage and conviction — without looking back.

You never know where your choices will lead you. They could direct you to a career in glass blowing, into the depths of the sea in a submarine, or …

Pluma Fronteriza: Newsletter Of Chicano(A)/Latino(A) Writers Of The El Paso And Cd. Juárez Border Region, Utep Chicano Studies

Chicano Studies

Electronic newsletter of the Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Writers of the El Paso and Cd. Juárez Border Region.

Clarifying The Role Of Self-Efficacy And Metacognition As Indicators Of Learning: Construct Development And Test, Trevor T. Moores, Jerry Cha-Jan Chang, Deborah K. Smith

Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology Faculty Publications

We propose extending our understanding of self-efficacy by comparing self-efficacy with a related construct called metacognition. Metacognition involves the monitoring and control of one's thought processes and is often related, as is self-efficacy, to performance on a task. We develop an instrument that attempts to measure both self-efficacy and metacognition with respect to one's performance on a test covering declarative and procedural knowledge (knowing that, and knowing how) of DFDs and ERDs. With data collected from a sample of 124 students, we use partial least squares (PLS) to show that self-efficacy and metacognition are distinct yet related constructs. While self-efficacy …

Mai '68: Une Revolution Culturelle, Laura Sharpe

Senior Honors Projects

Dans ce mémoire, j’expliquerai Mai 1968 en France et ses conséquences dans la société en parlant des événements qui ont eu lieu avant, pendant et après. D’abord je parlerai de la guerre d’Algérie et comment elle a ouvert la voie aux démonstrations et aux syndicats en mai 68. Deuxièmement, je montrerai comment la guerre du Vietnam était très importante dans le développement du mouvement et des syndicats d’étudiants. Ensuite, je me lancerai dans les grands développements sur la chronologie des événements du mouvement. Il est très important de noter tout ce qui se passait à propos du mouvement en France …

Multiple Interrogatives In Child Language, Lydia Grebenyova

Linguistics

The goal of this paper is to explore how children acquire the syntactic and semantic properties of multiple interrogatives. Consider the examples of multiple interrogatives from English in (1) and from Russian in (2). (1) Who bought what? (2) Kto čto kupil? [Russian] who what bought ‘Who bought what?’ Already we can see the syntactic differences between these two languages: in English, only one wh-phrase is fronted, while in Russian, as in all Slavic languages, all wh-phrases are fronted. Moreover, there are some semantic differences in multiple interrogatives across languages, which will be demonstrated in section 2. These language-specific properties …

Age Concern: The Future Of The Oecd, Richard Woodward

Articles

‘Life’, so the adage has it, ‘begins at 40’. But, as American journalist Helen Rowland wryly observed, ‘so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times’. Such a sentiment should resonate within the Parisian corridors of the Organisation for Cooperation and Development (OECD) which celebrates its 45th anniversary on 30 September. Rival institutional developments, evolving geo-political realities, hostility from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the absence of a precisely defined mission statement have marred the OECD’s fifth decade and left the organisation struggling to justify its place in …

Evaluation Of The Task Assessment And Planning (Tap) Project In Five Provinces Of Cambodia, Canadian International Development Agency

Global CWD Repository

The evaluation explains the context of the TAP project in Cambodia, the task assessment and planning projects, methods and measures, as well as results. The study also provides as summary assessment, discusses lessons learned and lists recommendations. The Task Assessment and Planning (TAP) Project has come at a critical juncture for mine action in Cambodia. It is a time when a few donors, Canada among them, argue strongly that mine action is best served by building capacity among provincial government groups for setting mine action priorities. Few donors would take exception to this in principle, but in practice the more …

Strategy For Mine Action - Sri Lanka 2006, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

The strategy of the Government of Sri Lanka is to address the mines problem in the Districts of Jaffna, Mannar, Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Trincomalee and Batticaloa and the Northern Border of Ampara District with a view to survey and clear all the mines in the High Priority areas and a major portion of the Medium Priority areas by mid-2007, except in the Jaffna and Trincomalee Districts. This strategy does not include any of the High Security Zones in the Jaffna, Vavuniya, Mannar and Trincomalee Districts. These areas are under the jurisdiction of the Sri Lanka Army, which is in occupation …

Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2006, Wellesley Centers For Women, Allison Tracey

Research & Action Report

In this issue:

How Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage Has Influenced Massachusetts Couples

The Methods Behind Passionate Science

Open Circle: Making a Difference
Open Circle

WCW Sponsors Violence against Women Conference