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Have You Considered Culling Pairs?, Matt Stockton, Roger K. Wilson Dec 2007

Have You Considered Culling Pairs?, Matt Stockton, Roger K. Wilson

Cornhusker Economics

Cow-calf producers, like many agricultural producers, make many current decisions that ultimately affect subsequent seasons’ production and income. These decisions not only affect production quantity, but involve cash flow and resource allocation constraints. One of the most difficult and complicated choices ranchers face is the rate and timing of replacing and removing brood cows from the herd. This sentiment was reflected in the statement by B. E. Melton in his December, 1980 article in the Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, “Economics of Beef Cow Culling and Replacement Decisions Under Genetic Progress.” He wrote, “Probably no single aspect of modern beef …

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The Guardian, December 05, 2007, Wright State University Student Body Dec 2007

The Guardian, December 05, 2007, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Eight page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Modeling And Analysis Of Resolve And Morale For The `Long War', Michael J. Artelli Dec 2007

Modeling And Analysis Of Resolve And Morale For The `Long War', Michael J. Artelli

Theses and Dissertations

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu begins by stating: "War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied." Sun Tzu follow's this opening by stating five fundamental factors a commander must master to be successful in combat. The first of these factors is moral influence which Sun Tzu defines as "that which causes the people to be in harmony with their leaders, so they will accompany them in life and death without fear of mortal peril." In the …

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Digital Library Initiatives At Higher Education And Research Institutions In India, N. Varatharajan, M. Chandrashekara Dec 2007

Digital Library Initiatives At Higher Education And Research Institutions In India, N. Varatharajan, M. Chandrashekara

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Digital libraries and Digitisation play an important role in preserving and disseminating knowledge in art and culture, education, science and technology, literature and humanities, media and entertainment, cultural heritage, and history. In India, a substantial number of libraries and information centres have initiated digital library activities. Indian society has created and preserved the resources of traditional and cultural heritage in various forms; however, thousands of ancient books and manuscriptsl remain in perishable palm leaves and urgently need digitization. This article describes some of the digital libraries and institutional repositories of India.

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Copyright: The Crash Course, Paul Royster Dec 2007

Copyright: The Crash Course, Paul Royster

Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information

This is a simplified basic statement of the fundamental rules governing copyright. It is not legal advice.

It is posted for the use of instructors, students, and other members of the academic community.

The file is a pdf version of a PowerPoint presentation given to the UNL Information Services staff in December 2007. The ".ppt" file is also archived as a "related" file.

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The Performance Of Dialysis Care: Routinization And Adaptation On The Floor, Laura L. Ellingson Dec 2007

The Performance Of Dialysis Care: Routinization And Adaptation On The Floor, Laura L. Ellingson

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Previous studies of communication in dialysis centers primarily focused on communication between nurses and patients. In this study, ethnographic methods were used to explore the dominant communication performances enacted by dialysis staff members, including registered nurses, patient care technicians, technical aides, a social worker, and a dietitian. Findings suggest a dialectic between extreme routinization of care and continual adaptation. The dominant routine involved repeating the same preparation, treatment, and discharge process 3 shifts per day, thrice weekly for each patient. At the same time, near-constant adjustments to scheduling, coordination of tasks, and problem solving were needed to maintain the performance …

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Swinging Bridge - December 5, 2007, Erin Schubert Dec 2007

Swinging Bridge - December 5, 2007, Erin Schubert

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.

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Pioneers In Twentieth Century Mormon Media: Oral Histories Of Latter-Day Saint Electronic And Public Relations Professionals, Jonice L. Hubbard Dec 2007

Pioneers In Twentieth Century Mormon Media: Oral Histories Of Latter-Day Saint Electronic And Public Relations Professionals, Jonice L. Hubbard

Theses and Dissertations

The project consists of three parts: a summary of the research, a collection of sixteen oral histories of Latter-day Saint Electronic Media and Public Relations professionals who contributed to the development and growth of media in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a one-hour documentary film, Pioneers in Mormon Media, which gives a brief history of the development of modern mass communications and its use by the Church. This qualitative study investigates who has been involved in Church media, what projects have been accomplished and provides some explanation as to why the Church uses media. The oral …

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Dec 2007

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding plus/minus grading, oasis, dormitory renovations and legislation.

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Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials (2007), Mtas Dec 2007

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials (2007), Mtas

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

A directory of Tennessee cities that includes personnel and municipal data, such as number of employees, population, charter form, size in square miles, and election date.

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Subadditivity And The Unpacking Effect In Political Opinions, Renan Levine Dec 2007

Subadditivity And The Unpacking Effect In Political Opinions, Renan Levine

Renan Levine

To explain subadditivity in judgments of probabilities, support theory (Tversky and Koehler 1994) emphasizes the increased availability of information about component events. This paper demonstrates that similar processes occur in responses to public opinion questions. When a broad description of a policy is “unpacked” into more specific component policies, support for the component policies exceeds support for the original, broad policy. This effect is especially strong when one or more of the unpacked policies make information available to the decision-maker that was not accessible when the broad description was provided. This behavior violates Luce’s (1959) axiom of independence of irrelevant …

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Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Dec 2007

Meeting Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for December 4, 2007 meeting.

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Cities Of Innovation: Exploring The Role Of Local Community Organisations In ‘Constructing Advantage’, Samuel E. Garrett-Jones, Michael Gross, Gregory Kerr, S. Kotevski, S. Zaeemdar Dec 2007

Cities Of Innovation: Exploring The Role Of Local Community Organisations In ‘Constructing Advantage’, Samuel E. Garrett-Jones, Michael Gross, Gregory Kerr, S. Kotevski, S. Zaeemdar

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Cities and regions around the world are attempting to ‘construct advantage’ by intervening to create knowledge- and innovation-based economic and social development. This paper considers the rationale for such intervention and in particular reviews the concept of ‘community innovation organisations’ by exploring their definition, origins, and purpose. It develops a classification of local innovation actors and their functions. We argue that the contribution of community based organisations to local innovation-based economic and social development has been largely overlooked in Australia by comparison with studies and initiatives in Europe and North America. We propose a programme of empirical research to assess …

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs Dec 2007

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

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Spartan Daily, December 4, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2007

Spartan Daily, December 4, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 129, Issue 51

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Student-Centred Teaching Of Accounting To Engineering Students: Comparing Blended Learning And Traditional Approaches, A. Abraham Dec 2007

Student-Centred Teaching Of Accounting To Engineering Students: Comparing Blended Learning And Traditional Approaches, A. Abraham

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Blended learning is growing in popularity, but there is conflicting empirical evidence in relation to how it affects students’ exam marks and final grades. This paper compares a blended learning approach to the traditional delivery of an accounting subject to engineering students. Data was collected from two cohorts of students over two semesters and analysed to determine whether the students who were exposed to the blended environment displayed increased participation in a non-compulsory learning task and higher marks in both in-session and final examinations. Results indicated significant improvements in every area, supplying valuable evidence that the adoption of a blended …

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Most Popular Downloads -- November 2007 Dec 2007

Most Popular Downloads -- November 2007

Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information

The 100 most-often downloaded documents for November 2007, with other monthly statistics. Highlights: 55,760 total for month; 70% of available open-access files were downloaded at least once.

Also, a new feature, a report on international usage. Highlights: users from 118 countries/territories (other than USA) downloaded articles, including Lesotho, Azerbaijan, Zambia, Nepal, Namibia, and (my favorite) Ascension Island. International usage was 23% of the month's total.

WELCOME, INTERNATIONAL USERS !!!

Note:The Digital Commons doesn't know who you are, just that the referring IP addresses contained a particular country code.

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Determinants Of New Technology-Based Firms’ Performance In Catch-Up Regions: Evidence From The U.S. Biopharmaceutical And It Service Industries, Wenbin Xiao Dec 2007

Determinants Of New Technology-Based Firms’ Performance In Catch-Up Regions: Evidence From The U.S. Biopharmaceutical And It Service Industries, Wenbin Xiao

Public Management and Policy Dissertations

This study investigates the impacts of regional characteristics on the early-stage performance of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) in catch-up regions where a mature industrial cluster has yet to be formed. It hypothesized that the average NTBF performance in a region is a function of its scientist job market conditions, cultural diversity, venture capital, academic research, industrial structure, and local entrepreneurial climate. Using the events of Initial Public Offerings (IPO) and Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) as an indicator of early-stage success of NTBFs, this study constructs a set of Zero-Inflated-Negative-Binomial (ZINB) models to predict the spatial distribution of such events in …

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A Corpus Of Second Language Attrition Data, Derrell R. Smith Dec 2007

A Corpus Of Second Language Attrition Data, Derrell R. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

This report addresses the lack of progress in the field of Second Language Attrition (L2A). Review of L2A history and literature show this to be cause by lack of appropriate data. Five criteria for appropriate data are suggested and a corpus of L2A data (57,000 words, spoken Spanish) which meets the criteria is presented. The history of the corpus is explained in detail, including subject selection, instruments and methods of collection, and markup -- XML was used to annotate the corpus with nineteen categories of speech errors, adapted from Nation's (2001) "Learning Vocabulary in Another Language." An example analysis of …

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Seconds, Wku Student Government Association Dec 2007

Seconds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Seconds newsletter.

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A Model Of The Relationship Of Perceived Mental And Emotional Problems In The Family-Of-Origin On Marital Satisfaction Of Adult Offspring, Benjamin Oviatt Weinheimer Dec 2007

A Model Of The Relationship Of Perceived Mental And Emotional Problems In The Family-Of-Origin On Marital Satisfaction Of Adult Offspring, Benjamin Oviatt Weinheimer

Theses and Dissertations

The effects of perceived mental/emotional problems (psychopathology) in the family-of-origin on adult offspring marital satisfaction was tested in a model considering the mediating variables of parental marital satisfaction, mother-child relationship quality, father-child relationship quality, and resolution of issues from the family-of-origin. The nationally representative sample (n = 802) drawn from the RELATionship Evaluation (RELATE) database included mostly college educated, lower-middle-class individuals in their first marriage. This sample was used to test a structural equation model that results showed fit the data well. Results showed that historical (distal) factors (such as psychopathology in the family-of-origin) explain only a small portion of …

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 145, December 3, 2007 Dec 2007

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 145, December 3, 2007

Central Florida Future

Champs; Hitt's pay high among colleges; Master's programs approved to improve; Judge argues for softer drug laws.

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Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 29, December 3, 2007, Grand Valley State University Dec 2007

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 29, December 3, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Student & Faculty Perspective: Are We Engaged Yet?, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu Dec 2007

Student & Faculty Perspective: Are We Engaged Yet?, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Diana H. Wu

No abstract provided.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 19, December 3, 2007, Grand Valley State University Dec 2007

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 19, December 3, 2007, Grand Valley State University

2007-2008, Volume 32

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Student & Faculty Perspective: Are We Engaged Yet?, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu Dec 2007

Student & Faculty Perspective: Are We Engaged Yet?, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

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Columbia Chronicle (12/03/2007), Columbia College Chicago Dec 2007

Columbia Chronicle (12/03/2007), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from December 3, 2007 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 43, Number 14. Cover story: "Amtrak pileup injures 71" Editor-in-Chief: Amanda Maurer

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Caught On Tape: The White House Reaction To The Shooting Of Alabama Governor And Democratic Presidential Candidate George Wallace, Luke A. Nichter Dec 2007

Caught On Tape: The White House Reaction To The Shooting Of Alabama Governor And Democratic Presidential Candidate George Wallace, Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

"On May 15, 1972, Arthur H. Bremer shot Alabama Governor and Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace five times at close range with a .38 caliber revolver during a campaign stop in Laurel, Maryland. The shooting in the Washington, D.C. suburb ended Wallace’s political career and he was paralyzed from the waist down for the remainder of his life. In November, thirty-five years later and in the middle of another political season, Bremer was released from the Maryland State Penitentiary in Hagerstown on November 6, 2007. The first political assassin to be paroled in American history, his sentence for the shooting …

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Spartan Daily, December 3, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2007

Spartan Daily, December 3, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 129, Issue 50

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Discussion On Dateline Havana: Us Reporting From Cuba, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University Dec 2007

Discussion On Dateline Havana: Us Reporting From Cuba, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University

Cuban Research Institute Events

This flyer promotes a discussion on Dateline Havana: US Reporting from Cuba, featuring Gary Marx, Chicago Tribune, Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, Vanessa Bauza, Chicago Tribune, and Tom Gjelten, National Public Radio. This event was held on December 3rd.

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