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Will the President be able to resolve the Middle East crisis?
No full textIn this lecture in the "Israel and Palestine" Looking Ahead Twenty-five Years series, Richard L. Rubenstein offers a profound reflection on the political and religious developments of Israel and Palestine and the moral dilemmas that result from it
Your Vanishing Vendors
No full textAs we do not have a pre-print copy of this article to legally post please use the WorldCat link below to help you request it from inter-library loan. You may also purchase the article from Wiley or contact professor Sagner directly for the article.What should corporate clients of banks do during the current period of bank consolidations? The author of this article—a treasury consultant—says that lessons from bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can be used by firms whose other vendors are also undergoing mergers. That includes vendors who provide information processing, financial transactions, accounting, tax preparation, and other services. Clients are facing the very real prospect of their long-term vendor relationships vanishing—to be replaced by unknown firms from another part of the globe.http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50598770
The Scribe
No full textThis is the February 4, 2010 edition of The Scribe, Spring 2010, Issue 1. The front page covers the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. Other articles include a discussion of the pros and cons of the University of Bridgeport’s shuttle service, a planned trip to China in May, the participation of UB’s Fones School of Dental Hygiene in “Give Kids a Smile Day,” and a spotlight on senior Sidney Parsons
The Scribe
No full textThis is the November 2010 edition of The Scribe, Issue 5. The front page features an article on finance professor Jim Sagner’s new book, Essentials of Working Capital Management, as well as a piece detailing updates to credit card services at the Scribe Café. Additional articles include coverage of the formation of a Criminal Justice Honor Society, weapons training within the Martial Arts program, an International Coffee Hour exploring Islam, updates to the campus shuttle service, Professor Kurt Coble’s Fusion Ensemble class, and design professor Gary Munch. The issue also highlights the University of Bridgeport chapter of the Global Peace Youth Corps’ plans to host the Campus Global Peace Festival, the re-launch of the Drama Club, and various sports stories
Optimization and Job Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks
No full textThe final publication is available at www.springerlink.comA heterogeneous network is a connected network of different platforms and operating systems. Job scheduling is a problem of selecting a free resource for unexecuted task from a pool of submitted tasks. Furthermore, it is required to find for every resource the best order of the tasks assigned to it. The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient algorithm for job scheduling in heterogeneous networks. The algorithm should include parameters such as properties of resources and properties of jobs. The algorithm includes a cost function that is required to be optimized which includes parameters such as the total processing time, average waiting time. Our results demonstrate that the proposed algoritghm can be efficiently used to determine the performance of different job scheduling algorithms under different sets of loads.http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-90-481-3662-9_4
From Mao Back to Confucius: China's Approaches to Development and Peace
No full textWhile China is moving full steam ahead towards modernization, it is also looking back at its own Confucian and Daoist traditions. Will the Sinicized Marxism and Confucianism work hand in hand to promote world development and peace? Or will they pose a conundrum for Chinese leaders
Using Laplace Transforms to Build a Linear/Non-linear Speedometer
No full text© ASEE 2010Consider the design of a speedometer (as used in a car, for example) using conventional mechanical linkages and a rotating magnet. We begin by modeling a linear speedometer. Later we introduce real-life nonlinearities. With the system linear, Laplace transforms make the solution of the problem easy and complete compared to solutions using differential equations. In the second case, we analyze several nonlinear effects. Although Laplace transforms are only accurate for linear systems, they can be used as is for several real-world nonlinearities, or they can be adapted for use with any generic nonlinearity by using a lookup table. Analysis and computations are done using MATLAB
Chiropractic Care For Children: Too Much, Too Little Or Not Enough?
No full textThis editorial provides an overview of this Thematic Series of the journal titled Chiropractic Care for Children. In commissioning this series of articles we aimed to bring the busy clinician up to date with the current best evidence in key aspects of evaluation and management of chiropractic care for children. Individual articles address a chiropractic approach to the management of children, chiropractic care of musculoskeletal conditions in children and adolescents, chiropractic care of non-musculoskeletal conditions in children and adolescents, chiropractic care for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and possible adverse effects from chiropractic management of children. The final article by Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde and Lise Hestbæk is an overview of the current state of the evidence and future research opportunities for chiropractic care for children. We conclude this editorial discussing the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary research relevant to chiropractic care of children and the implications for chiropractic practice.https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-1340-18-1