43 research outputs found
Programming Fundamentals : A Modular Structured Approach using C++, 1st edition
No full text1. Preface2. Author Acknowledgements3. Orientation and Syllabus4. Sharing/Rating Connexions Materials5. Introduction to Programming6. Program Planning & Design7. Data & Operators8. Often Used Data Types9. Integrated Development Environment10. Program Control Functions11. Specific Task Functions12. Standard Libraries13. Character Data, Sizeof, Typedef, Sequence14. Introduction to Structured Programming15. Two Way Selection16. Multiway Selection17. Test After Loops18. Test Before Loops19. Counting Loops20. String Class, Unary Positive and Negative21. Conditional Operator and Recursion22. Introduction to Arrays23. File I/O and Array Functions24. More Array Functions25. More on Typedef26. Pointers27. More Arrays & Compiler Directives28. OOP & HPCProgramming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college courses: Modular/Structured, Object Oriented and Data Structures. This textbook/collection covers the first of those three courses
Programming Fundamentals : A Modular Structured Approach, 2nd edition
No full textI. Introduction to ProgrammingII. Data and OperatorsIII. FunctionsIV. ConditionsV. LoopsVI. ArraysVII. Strings and FilesVIII. Object-Oriented ProgrammingWelcome to Programming Fundamentals – A Modular Structured Approach, 2nd Edition! The original content for this book was created by Kenneth Leroy Busbee and written specifically for his course based on C++. The goal for this second edition is to make it programming-language neutral, so that it may serve as an introductory programming textbook for students using any of a variety of programming languages, including C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Swift. Other languages will be considered upon request.Programming concepts are introduced generically, with logic demonstrated in pseudocode and flowchart form, followed by examples for different programming languages. Emphasis is placed on a modular, structured approach that supports reuse, maintenance, and self-documenting code.As you begin to review this edition, please keep the audience in mind. If something is missing, think about whether that concept applies to programming in general or only to certain programming languages, and whether it is a fundamental, first-semester programming concept or something better addressed in a more advanced textbook
Bubbles, Fads, and Stock Price Volatility Tests: A Partial Evaluation
No full textThis is a summary and interpretation of some of the literature on stock price volatility that was stimulated by Leroy and Porter (1981) and Shiller (1981a). It appears that neither small sample bias, rational bubbles nor some standard models for expected returns adequately explain stock price volatility. This suggests a role for some nonstandard models for expected returns. One possibility is "fads" models in which noise trading by naive investors is important. At present, however, there is little direct evidence that such fads play a significant role in stock price determination.
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++
No full textProgramming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee/ a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston/ Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college courses: Modular/Structured/ Object Oriented and Data Structures. This textbook/collection covers the first of those three courses. The learning modules of this textbook/collection were written as standalone modules. Students using a collection of modules as a textbook will usually view it contents by reading the modules sequentially as presented by the author of the collection. The learning modules of this textbook/collection were/ for the most part/ written without consideration of a speci??c programming language. In many cases the C++ language is discussed as part of the explanation of the concept. Often the examples used for C++ are exactly the same for the Java programming language. However/ some modules were written speci??cally for the C++ programming language. This could not beavoided as the C++ language is used in conjunction with this textbook/collection by the author in teaching college courses.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1117/thumbnail.jp
The welfare effects of private sector participation in Guinea's urban water supply
No full textIn 1989 the government of Guinea enacted far-reaching reform of its water sector, which had been dominated by a poorly run public agency. The government signed a lease contract for operations and maintenance with a private operator, making a separate public enterprise responsible for ownershipof assets and investment. Although based on a successful model that had operated in Cote d'Ivoire for nearly 30 years, the reform had many highly innovative features. It is being transplanted to several other developing countries, so the authors evaluate its successes and failures in the early years of reform. They present standard performance measures and results from a cost-benefit analysis to assess reform's net effect on various stakeholders in the sector. They conclude that, compared with what might have been expected under continued public ownership, reform benefited consumers, the government, and, to a lesser extent, the foreign owners or the private operator. Most sector performance indicators improved, but some problems remain. The three most troublesome areas are water that is unaccounted for (there are many illegal connections and the quality of infrastructure is poor), poor collection rates, and high prices. The weak institutional environment makes it difficult to improve collection rates, but the government could take some steps to correct the problem. To begin with, it could pay its own bills on time. Also, the legislature could authorize the collection of unpaid bills from private individuals.Water Conservation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions,Water Conservation,Town Water Supply and Sanitation
Central bank independence : a critical view
No full textWhile expansive literature on central bank independence contains some criticisms to the independent central bank quasi-paradigm, few critical analyses have been undertaken in the years between Friedman (1962) and Posen (1994). The author extends Posen's analysis to developing countries, discussing more broadly and systematically the reasons why merely instituting an independent central bank may not bring about its professed benefits, especially in developing countries. The author argues that widely reported empirical tests that are purported to support the central bank independence proposition are plagued by potential problems of simultaneity, reverse causality, missing variables, and measurement errors. Yet one can not make positive recommendations about institutional arrangements for central banks if causality relations are not well established. Institutions are shaped by a country's record of and preferences for inflation and may have little influence on them. The author also argues that the purported benefits of an independent central bank may be eroded by conflicts between fiscal and monetary policy and by inherent problems of central bank institutional design (especially mechanisms for board appointments, public accountability, and budgetary control). If these institutional problems are not solved, problems of dynamic inconsistency traditionally associated with monetary policy are not eliminated,but merely transformed. The author suggests that the benefits of central bank independence are less likely obtained in less developed countries with shallow financial markets. Accordingly, central bank independence should be granted at a later stage in a country's financial sector development. If a less developed country seeks to establish a low-inflation path, it should concentrate on instituting financial policy reforms (such as liberalization and privatization) that bolster opposition to inflation rather than easily reversible and practically meaningless changes in legal and institutional structures. This will better ensure the sustainability -- and hence the credibility -- of the government's anti-inflation stance. Fiscal policy is often at the root of macroeconomic disturbances in developing countries. Fiscal policy is more deserving of special protection from politics because of fiscal dominance over monetary policy and its greater vulnerability to private interests. The author suggests that the solution might be to make fiscal policy less susceptible to political pressures by creating an independent fiscal board. Tying the fiscal hands of government may seem a far-fetched idea. But would it not make more sense to force discipline on fiscal policy directly rather than indirectly through monetary policy?Economic Theory&Research,National Governance,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Stabilization,Macroeconomic Management
Hospitality to the stranger : the experience of Christian Churches in the resettlement of African refugees to the United States
No full textThis thesis explores the role of constituent congregations of Church World
Service (CWS) in the process of resettling refugees in the U.S. It is based upon case
studies built around a series of interviews conducted with members of three
congregations who sponsored African families for resettlement in Minnesota.
Reflecting upon the experiences of those interviewed, the discourse considers the
efficacy of refugee resettlement as a means for Christian congregations to extend
hospitality to strangers.
The thesis explores the broader theme of Christian hospitality as a particular
activity of the church. Hospitality is approached using the scriptural theme of
welcoming the stranger as it is taken up by contemporary theologians. Christine Pohl,
author of Making Room, is regarded as a leading authority on hospitality. Much of
her research is based on the work of Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arche
communities. This thesis suggests that Pohl’s treatment lacks both a usable
definition of hospitality and a sufficient theological framework in which to locate it.
In redressing these omissions, Pohl’s work is examined in light of Vanier in order to
establish an understanding of what comprises a particularly Christian approach to
hospitality.
Finally, the thesis proposes that as hospitality is understood as an act instituted
by the person of Christ and imbued by the Holy Spirit, it is to be considered an act
constitutive of the Church itself. Therefore it is an act necessary to the life of the
Church as the Body of Christ. While contemporary research engages with hospitality
as such an act, little work has been undertaken how it can be applied at the
congregational level. CWS’s model of refugee sponsorship provides congregations
with the tangible means by which they may offer hospitality to strangers
A transitory regime : water supply in Conakry, Guinea
No full textBoth consumers and the government benefited from reform of the water system in Conakry, Guinea, whose deterioration since independence had become critical by the mid-1980s. Less than 40 percent of Conakry's population had access to piped water - low even by regional standards - and service was intermittent, at best, for the few who had connections. The public agency in charge of the sector was inefficient, overstaffed, and virtually insolvent. In several ways, the reform introduced to the sector in 1989 under a World Bank-led project was remarkable. It showed that even in a weak institutional environment, where contracts are hard to enforce and political interference is common, private sector participation can improve sector performance. The authors discuss the mechanismsthat made progress possible and identify factors that inhibit the positive effects of reform. Water has become very expensive, the number of connections has increased very slowly, and conflicts have developed between SEEG (the private operator) and SONEG (the state agency). Among the underlying problems: a) The lack of strong, stable institutions. b) The lack of an independent agency capable of restraining arbitrary government action, regulating the private operator, and enforcing contractual arrangements. c) The lack of adequate conflict resolution mechanisms for contract disputes. d) Weak administrative capacity.Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Water Conservation,Decentralization,Water Supply and Systems,Town Water Supply and Sanitation,Water and Industry,Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and Institutions,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water Conservation
Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem
Painted pots: the relationship of forms through surface, textural and color interaction
No full text1978 Spring.Supplemental zip file includes 24 slides of artwork.I wish to show in my work, that it is possible to combine the qualities of painting and sculpture into ceramic form. This involves the integration of the surface and form in such a way as to enhance one another. I see ceramic colors, textures, and surface qualities as coming from and flowing with the form; not just as surface decoration, but as a truly integral part of the piece. The forms tell me what direction the surfaces must take on, and what moods the piece should convey. The application of the surfaces reflect abstract painting qualities, utilizing ceramic materials rather than paint. In this way I can get not only color changes, but also textural changes. The surfaces can go from dry and rough to hard shiny glazed areas. The glazes run from opaque mattes to bright transparent glosses. Some edges bleed in to one another, some butt together in hard-edged lines. I want to show contrast plays between light and dark, soft and harsh, smooth and rough. Movement through and around pieces is important to me. Painted surfaces can flow over rims, continue inside the piece, and flow right back over the rim to somewhere else. The lines created by the edges of the painted areas and those painted directly as lines, continue this visual flow through and around the forms. I want to convey contrasting emotional feelings in my work; feelings of visual tension or harmony, stability or instability, and massive or linear qualities. Some of my forms are calm, others are more active, but I feel that they all relate in the way that different emotional moods can flow from one individual. In this way, I arrive at surfaces that are a much more integral part of the ceramics form, than just an inside glaze and an outside glaze. The clay itself, as a plastic material, is important to me. I show how it cracks, tears and stretches. I gouge into it, incise lines, embed other materials into the surface and poke holes into it. Some of my forms show soft loose qualities which tell of the condition of the clay when I built the form. Others appear more rigid when the clay I am using is in a dryer state. Clay is a direct and spontaneous media. I handle it as such in constructing the forms and applying the surfaces. I want my forms to convey the nature of the materials that they are made of. At this point, I am interested in clay forms as vessels. But I feel that a vessel can be more than just a pot. It can be an object of sculptural and painted beauty, which can reflect the spontaneity and directness of clay itself. My forms read as pots, but they function more visually, than as utilitarian vessels
