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Development Of An Integrated Decision Support System For Water Quality Control: Compared to the limited water supply in the Middle East, Lebanon is perceived to be a water rich country. Yet, it faces a growing water supply problem due to many factors including increases in demand, inadequate investment in infrastructure, and deterioration of water quality. Being the foremost water resource in...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Databases, Lebanon, decision support system, quality control; White papers 2006-05-19
Project Management: Challenges and Opportunities: Project Management PM evolved from the days of Gantt charts developed in 1912 to the development and use of CPM and PERT in 1959. These two methods are useful in managing the time dimension assuming the existence of unlimited resources. Shortly thereafter the reality of the limited renewable and nonrenewable...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, project management, Gantt Chart; White papers 2005-12-14
Do Intellectual Property Rights Stimulate R&D And Productivity Growth?: Through domestic and international legislative reforms, various countries are adopting new and stronger intellectual property protections. A severe shortage of evidence exists as to the effects of Intellectual Property Rights IPRs on R&D and productivity growth, among other things. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to help enhance the...; Tags: Research & Development, American University, intellectual property right, intellectual property, R&D, intellectual property protection, IP, benefit; White papers 2005-09-29
Small Firms And Offshore Software Outsourcing: High Transaction Costs And Their Mitigation: It seems surprising that small firms engage in offshore outsourcing given that they lack the resources that large firms possess to overcome the difficulties involved. This paper examines these factors using transaction cost theory's three stages: contact costs, contract costs, and control costs. Then, using field data from small client...; Tags: American University, intermediary, offshore outsourcing, theory, outsourcing, supplier, knowledge, software; White papers 2005-07-01
WebCT Day: Unfolding The Evolving Usage & Value-Added Services Of WebCT & AUC: The Adoption of WebCT at The American University in Cairo marked a milestone in the usage of technology in teaching & learning, transforming the technology landscape from scattered experiments and joint projects with departments in different disciplines, to a more unified environment that is simple to use, yet powerful enough...; Tags: American University, WebCT, technique, environment; White papers 2005-01-15

Other Ways Of Knowing: Discovering Peace And Conflict Resolution: Logical and analytical thinking is common, useful, and well valued, but it's not the only way of knowing. It's only the most outward way of knowing. There are realities we can't know through analysis. Yet inner and outer knowing doesn't contradict each other. Knowledge doesn't contradict knowledge. This paper describes...; Tags: Communication skills, American University, conflict resolution, knowledge, analysis; White papers 2004-05-18
The Term Structure of Country Risk and Valuation in Emerging Markets: The prevailing valuation technique in Emerging Markets adds the country risk to the discount rate. This practice ignores the term structure of default risk. The mismatch between the duration of the project being valued and the duration of the measure of country risk used leads to an overvaluation undervaluation of...; Tags: Marketing research, Investment, Financial services, emerging market, valuation, bond; White papers 2002-12-04

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The diet secrets of slim women: prevent pound rebound with these five tried-and-tested tips: AFTER LOSING WEIGHT, it's tempting to take a vacation from healthy eating. "Many dieters start slipping back into their old behaviors soon after dropping pounds," says Naomi Fukagawa, M.D., spokeswoman for the American Society for Nutrition. But there are ways to stay on track without depriving yourself. As severaf new...; Articles 2008-07-01
Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas: Striffler, Steve and Mark Moberg (eds.). Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Since the end of the nineteenth century, bananas, along with coffee and sugar, were the principal commodities responsible for integrating most Latin American and Caribbean nations into the...; Articles 2008-06-30
Bound in Twine: THE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF THE HENEQUEN-WHEAT COMPLEX FOR MEXICO AND THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN PLAINS, 1880-1950: Bound in Twine THE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF THE HENEQUEN-WHEAT COMPLEX FOR MEXICO AND THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN PLAINS, 1880-1950 Sterling Evans Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2007. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index, xxiii + 314 pp. $42.00 cloth. Agricultural history has come a long way since...; Articles 2008-06-30
Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A CONFLUENCE OF ENGINEERING AND POLITICS: Big Dams of the New Deal Era A CONFLUENCE OF ENGINEERING AND POLITICS David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index, xiv + 369 pp. $36.95 cloth. Without question, large dams are among the most prominent and controversial...; Articles 2008-06-30
Enigma Woman: THE DEATH SENTENCE OF NELLIE MAY MADISON, The: The Enigma Woman THE DEATH SENTENCE OF NELLIE MAY MADISON Kathleen A. Cairns University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xi + 295 pp. $25.95 cloth. Throughout the 1930s, the exploits of John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and others splashed...; Articles 2008-06-30
Drawing Lines in the Forest: CREATING WILDERNESS AREAS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Drawing Lines in the Forest CREATING WILDERNESS AREAS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Kevin R. Marsh University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2007. Illustrations, notes, maps, bibliography, index, xv + 229 pp. $35.00 cloth. Kevin Marsh's book is a valuable addition to the Weyerhauser Environmental Books list, published by the University...; Articles 2008-06-30
Schooling the capital: the uphill struggle for school choice in D.C: TIFFANY DUNSTON may come from a poverty-line background, but she appears to have a bright future. On May 22, this African-American scholarship student graduated as valedictorian from Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. Her class-topping grade-point average of 4.1 earned her a spot at Syracuse University, which she plans...; Articles 2008-06-30
The Daily Record News Summaries: June 26, 2008: BAE employee killed in Iraq BAE Systems, of Rockville, the North American arm of a British defense company, announced that one of its employees, Nicole Suveges, a political scientist, was killed Tuesday in a bombing in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq. She was working with the U.S. Army's...; Articles 2008-06-26
Mary Anne McCaffree, of Oklahoma City, elected to American Medical: Mary Anne McCaffree, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, has been elected to the American Medical Association board of trustees. McCaffree is the chair of the Council on Science and Public Health, an advisory committee to the AMA,...; Articles 2008-06-25
Interest in alternative energy is growing: The United States burns through 20.6 million barrels of oil a day -- about 25 percent of the world demand of 85.6 million barrels a day, according to a Boston University professor who studies oil economics. During a teleconference Tuesday for the Foundation for American Communications based...; Articles 2008-06-25
Cavaday's comet burns then fades in shadow of Venus: Naomi Cavaday is the Halley's Comet of British sport. For months on end the 19-year-old from Chislehurst hurtles around the tennis universe, noticed by nobody in particular, before making a spectacular but fleeting appearance in the Wimbledon sky. The latest sighting was here on Centre Court, where she briefly threatened...; Articles 2008-06-25
From a doctorate in computer science to a career in cage-fighting: Many people who have just completed a PhD in theoretical computer science might be content with settling down to a life working at a top IT firm or high academia. But not Dr Rosi Sexton MMA. She prefers to work in a cage. The letters MMA after...; Articles 2008-06-25
Cavaday's comet burns then fades in shadow of Venus: Naomi Cavaday is the Halley's Comet of British sport. For months on end the 19-year-old from Kent hurtles around the tennis universe, noticed by nobody in particular, before making a spectacular but fleeting appearance in the Wimbledon sky. The latest sighting was here on Centre Court, where she briefly threatened...; Articles 2008-06-25

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