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Twenty-Eight Years Of The Us-Lter Program: Experience, Results, And Research Questions, James R. Gosz, Robert B. Waide, John J. Magnuson Dec 2010

Twenty-Eight Years Of The Us-Lter Program: Experience, Results, And Research Questions, James R. Gosz, Robert B. Waide, John J. Magnuson

Long Term Ecological Research Network

The U.S. Long Term Ecological Research program (hereafter US-LTER) concentrates on ecological processes that play out at the time scales spanning decades to centuries. This focuses US-LTER research between the most common time scales for ecological studies (1-3 years; Tilman 1989; Figure 1) and the much longer temporal fact of disciplines such as paleoecology. The importance of the decade-to-century time scale is particularly evident in light of the rapid changes in ecological forcing functions that are occurring at a broad range of spatial scales (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007). Long-term data sets from programs such …


Learning Design For Online Role Play Versus Simulation, Sandra Wills Dec 2010

Learning Design For Online Role Play Versus Simulation, Sandra Wills

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

One outcome of Project EnROLE, an ALTC project to encourage uptake of online role play, is a refined learning design for simulation: Simulation Triad. The triad represents design decisions according to emphasis placed on Roles versus Problems versus Rules.


Optimal Designs Approach To Portfolio Selection, Etukudo A. I. Dec 2010

Optimal Designs Approach To Portfolio Selection, Etukudo A. I.

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

In order to obtain the best tradeoff between risk and return, optimization algorithms are particularly useful in asset allocation in a portfolio mix. Such algorithms and proper solution techniques are very essential to investors in order to circumvent distress in business outfits. In this paper, we show that by minimizing the total variance of the portfolio involving stocks in two Nigerian banks which is a measure of risk, optimal allocation of investible funds to the portfolio mix is obtained. A completely new solution technique – modified super convergent line series algorithm which makes use of the principles of optimal designs …


Factors, Preventions And Correction Methods For Non-Response In Sample Surveys, Godwin Nwanzu Amahi Dec 2010

Factors, Preventions And Correction Methods For Non-Response In Sample Surveys, Godwin Nwanzu Amahi

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

Missing survey data occur because of unit and item non-response. This is practically independent of the method of data collection. As a result of the bias that non-response sometimes introduces in survey estimates, identifying factors that promote it, and taking measures of prevention and correction methods are clearly necessary. The standard method to compensate for unit non-response is by weighting adjustment, while item non-responses are handled by some form of imputation. This paper reviews factors that give rise to nonresponse and the corresponding methods used for its prevention and control. It also discusses their properties.


Is The Stock Market A Leading Indicator Of Economic Activity In Nigeria?, Alvan E. Ikoku Dec 2010

Is The Stock Market A Leading Indicator Of Economic Activity In Nigeria?, Alvan E. Ikoku

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

In an effort to address the lacuna in leading indicator studies of African economies and Nigeria in particular, this paper examines the causal relationships among stock market prices, real GDP and the index of industrial production in Nigeria, using quarterly data from 1984Q1 to 2008Q4. Granger causality tests indicate bidirectional causality between stock prices and GDP but no causality between stock prices and industrial production or between GDP and industrial production. Stock prices and GDP are found to be cointegrated, leading to the estimation of vector error correction models. Out-of-sample forecasts constructed with AR(1), ARIMA, structural ARIMA, and VEC models …


Information Outlook, December 2010, Special Libraries Association Dec 2010

Information Outlook, December 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 8


The Secret Identity Of Race: Exploring Ethnic And Racial Portrayals In Superhero Comic Books, Lowery Anderson Woodall Iii Dec 2010

The Secret Identity Of Race: Exploring Ethnic And Racial Portrayals In Superhero Comic Books, Lowery Anderson Woodall Iii

Dissertations

Does race exist in comics? And if so, what do those characters tell us about how one of the largest fiction producing industries in the country has explained minority relationships to its millions of readers? This study took a close look at three of the most successful comic book characters of all time (Batman, Superman, and The Black Panther) and examines how each exemplifies a position that the comic book industry has taken on race over the years. Using a counter-narrative analysis informed by the strategies of Critical Race Theory and post-modernist thought, the racial messages lying beneath the surface …


Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Dec 2010

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Swinging Bridge - December 1, 2010, Jaime White Dec 2010

Swinging Bridge - December 1, 2010, Jaime White

Student Newspapers & Magazines

No abstract provided.


"Teaching Competitiveness In Advertising", Timothy Hendrick Dec 2010

"Teaching Competitiveness In Advertising", Timothy Hendrick

Timothy Hendrick

No abstract provided.


Borderplex Economic Outlook: 2010-2012, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Teodulo Soto Dec 2010

Borderplex Economic Outlook: 2010-2012, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Teodulo Soto

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Ambiguity In Culture And Literature, Paolo Bartoloni, Anthony Stephens Dec 2010

Introduction To Ambiguity In Culture And Literature, Paolo Bartoloni, Anthony Stephens

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Ambiguity Now, Martin Harrison Dec 2010

Ambiguity Now, Martin Harrison

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ambiguity Now" Martin Harrison focuses on the pivotal place which modernist critical theory ascribed to ambiguity in the definition of meaning and structure in poetry. In particular, Harrison considers the way in which the category of experience is deployed in the discourse of ambiguity but is limited to only certain narratives of so-called experience. Harrison argues for a contemporary practice less focused on ambiguity and more on notation and provisional structure, demonstrating key elements of such practice in the work of modern poets Leslie Scalapino and Frank Bidart and the poet-artist Alex Selenitsch.


Ambiguity, The Artist, The Masses, And The "Double Nature" Of Language, Elizabeth Rechniewski Dec 2010

Ambiguity, The Artist, The Masses, And The "Double Nature" Of Language, Elizabeth Rechniewski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity, the Artist, the Masses, and the 'Double Nature' of Language" Elizabeth Rechniewski discusses the function of the European intellectual elite through a close reading of two very different yet related books, John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses, and Pierre Bourdieu's Les Règles de l'art. Through a contrapuntal reading of the arguments of these two critics, she argues that Symbolist experiments may actually be read as reactionist; in celebrating art's supposed conquest of independence and refinement, they are replete with nostalgia for a time when the artist and the intellectual were able to ignore the pressure …


Papa Abel Remembers-The Tale Of A Band Of Booksellers, Fasicle 12: What's Your Role? Executive Or Staff?, Richard Abel Dec 2010

Papa Abel Remembers-The Tale Of A Band Of Booksellers, Fasicle 12: What's Your Role? Executive Or Staff?, Richard Abel

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings-Salalm 2010 And The Final Installment Of Reports From The 2009 Charleston Conference, Sever Bordeianu Dec 2010

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings-Salalm 2010 And The Final Installment Of Reports From The 2009 Charleston Conference, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Dec 2010

Table Of Contents

Against the Grain

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Standards Column-Taming The World Of Data: Pressures To Improve Data Management In Scholarly Communications, Todd Carpenter Dec 2010

Standards Column-Taming The World Of Data: Pressures To Improve Data Management In Scholarly Communications, Todd Carpenter

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Atg Special Report-The Future Of The Textbook, Sara Killingsworth, Martin Marlow Dec 2010

Atg Special Report-The Future Of The Textbook, Sara Killingsworth, Martin Marlow

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Something To Think About-Anything Goes, Mary E. Massey Dec 2010

Something To Think About-Anything Goes, Mary E. Massey

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Lost In Austin-Wandering The Stacks, Tom Leonhardt Dec 2010

Lost In Austin-Wandering The Stacks, Tom Leonhardt

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch Dec 2010

Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch Dec 2010

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Getting There From Here: Changing The Ecological And Social Footprint Of Our Professional Conferences, Michael Smith Dec 2010

Getting There From Here: Changing The Ecological And Social Footprint Of Our Professional Conferences, Michael Smith

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Collection Development And Sustainability At The University Of Florida, Merliyn Burke Dec 2010

Collection Development And Sustainability At The University Of Florida, Merliyn Burke

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Sustainability In Collection Development: Seeing The Forrest And The Trees, Karen Christensen Dec 2010

Sustainability In Collection Development: Seeing The Forrest And The Trees, Karen Christensen

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Practicing Sustainable Environmental Solutions: A Call For Green Policy In Academic Libraries, Maria A. Jankowska Dec 2010

Practicing Sustainable Environmental Solutions: A Call For Green Policy In Academic Libraries, Maria A. Jankowska

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Profile-Moshe Pritsker Dec 2010

Profile-Moshe Pritsker

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Collection Management And Sistainability In The Digital Age: Chasing The Holy Grail, Tony Horava Dec 2010

Collection Management And Sistainability In The Digital Age: Chasing The Holy Grail, Tony Horava

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


K-12 Environmental Education Resources, Roxanne Myers Spencer Dec 2010

K-12 Environmental Education Resources, Roxanne Myers Spencer

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.