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The Catherwood Library and ILR School at Cornell are pleased to again make available an extremely important index of major labor union publications, long out of print. It is Lloyd G. Reynolds and Charles C. Killingsworth\u27s Trade Union Publications: The Official Journals, Convention Proceedings and Constitutions of International Unions and Federations, 1850-1941. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1944

Overview of the NASA/RECON educational, research, and development activities of the Computer Science Departments of the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Southern University

This document presents a brief overview of the scope of activities undertaken by the Computer Science Departments of the University of Southern Louisiana (USL) and Southern University (SU) pursuant to a contract with NASA. Presented are only basic identification data concerning the contract activities since subsequent entries within the Working Paper Series will be oriented specifically toward a detailed development and presentation of plans, methodologies, and results of each contract activity. Also included is a table of contents of the entire USL/DBMS NASA/RECON Working Paper Series

Boston Hospitality Review: Winter 2019

TABLE OF CONTENTS: "Training: The Necessity of Error Management Training in the Hospitality Industry" by Priyanko Guchait; "Trends: Green Hotels: An Overview" by Minu Agarwal and Prashant Das; "Tourism: Panacea or peril? The implications of Neolocalism as a more intrusive form of tourism" by Makarand Mody and Kyle Koslowsky; "Restaurants: How Can Single-Unit Restaurants Strive for Powerful Online Presence?" by Leora Lanz and Jenna Berry; "Retention: Why Hoteliers Stay and Go: Future Oriented Thinking" by Sean McGinley; "Service Recovery: Failure is Not Fatal: Actionable Insights on Service Failure and Recovery for the Hospitality Industry" by Lisa C. Wan and Elisa Chan; "Research: A Detailed Study of the Expected and Actual Use of Hotel Amenities" by Chekitan S. Dev and Prateek Kumar

Intimate Partner Violence Against Ahtna (Alaska Native) Women in the Copper River Basin

This study examined the frequency, severity, and consequences of intimate partner violence against an availability sample of Athabaskan women (n=91) residing in the interior of Alaska. Data about victimization experiences as well as cultural involvement, residential mobility, living arrangements, social cohesion, alcohol use, and post-traumatic stress were gathered through interviews. Slightly less than two-thirds of respondents (63.7%) reported intimate partner violence victimization at some point in their lifetime. Nearly one out of five women surveyed (17.6%) reported that they had been physically assaulted by an intimate partner in the most recent 12 months. Intimate partner victimization was more prevalant and more frequent when compared to what has been reported by the National Violence Against Women Survey.National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice Grant No. 2000-WT-VX-0013Table of Contents / Table of Tables / Table of Figures / Abstract / Executive Summary / Acknowledgements / INTRODUCTION: The Setting; The Problem // METHODS: Collaboration and Cultural Sensitivity / Subject Recruitment / Subject Safety and the IRB / Survey Instrument // RESULTS: Prevalence and Incidence of Intimate Partner Violence / Comparison with Previous Estimates / Correlates and Risk Factors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence / Injury Among Victims of Intimate Partner Violence / Victims' Involvement with the Justice System // CONCLUSIONS / REFERENCES / APPENDICES: Main Survey Instrument; Detailed Physical Assault Incident Repor

Social Accounting Matrix and the System of National Accounts: An Application.

The purpose of this session is to show how the System of National Accounts (SNA) and the input output (supply and use) tables are used to construct a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM). Based on the country's National Accounts, an aggregate SAM will be constructed for the Portuguese economy and their full consonance will be demonstrated by identifying both the items and balances of the various internal accounts of the System in the constructed SAM. The SAM will be shown as a working instrument for quantifying the flows in the economic circuit, and blocks of sub-matrices with common characteristics will be described in terms of the accounting transactions that are included in each of them. As an example, a more detailed SAM will be constructed and the contents of its cells described in strict detail. The relationship between the SAM and the input-output table will also be briefly analysed.

Non-Perturbative Field Theory - From two dimensional conformal field theory to QCD in four dimensions

This note is based on the summary of our book entitled "Non-perturbative field theoryfrom two dimensional conformal field theory to QCD in four dimensions", published recently by Cambridge University Press. It includes 436 pages. The book provides a detailed description of the tool box of non-perturbative techniques, presents applications of them to simplified systems, mainly of gauge dynamics in two dimensions, and examines the lessons one can learn from those systems about four dimensional QCD and hadron physics. In particular the book deals with conformal invariance, integrability, bosonization, large N, solitons in two dimensions and monopoles and instantons in four dimensions, confinement versus screening and finally the hadronic spectrum and scattering. We also attach the table of contents and the list of references of the book. We would be grateful for any comments or suggestions related to the material in the book. These may be incorporated in a possible future edition. They may be sent via the e-mails below.Comment: 44 Pages; Summary note for Book published by Cambridge University Press 201

Transition Redshift: New Kinematic Constraints from Supernovae

The transition redshift (deceleration/acceleration) is discussed by expanding the deceleration parameter to first order around its present value. A detailed study is carried out by considering two different parameterizations: $q=q_0 + q_1z$ and $q=q_0 + q_1 z(1+z)^{-1}$, and the associated free parameters ($q_o, q_1$) are constrained by 3 different supernova samples. The previous analysis by Riess {\it{et al.}} [ApJ 607, 665, 2004] using the first expansion is slightly improved and confirmed in light of their recent data ({\emph{Gold}}07 sample). However, by fitting the model with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) type Ia sample we find that the best fit to the redshift transition is $z_t = 0.61$ instead of $z_t = 0.46$ as derived by the High-z Supernovae Search (HZSNS) team. This result based in the SNLS sample is also in good agreement with the Davis {\it{et al.}} sample, $z_t=0.60^{+0.28}_{-0.11}$ ($1\sigma$). Such results are in line with some independent analyzes and accommodates more easily the concordance flat model ($\Lambda$CDM). For both parameterizations, the three SNe type Ia samples considered favor recent acceleration and past deceleration with a high degree of statistical confidence level. All the kinematic results presented here depend neither on the validity of general relativity nor the matter-energy contents of the Universe.Comment: 19 pages, 15 figures, 1 table, revised version accepted for publication in MNRA

ToCAI: A Framework for Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Documents

This paper presents the ToCAI (table of content-analytical index) description scheme (DS) for content description of audio-visual documents. The original idea comes from the structure used for technical books. One may easily understand a book's sequential organization by looking at its table of contents while quickly retrieving elements of interest by means of the analytical index. This description scheme provides therefore a hierarchical description of the time sequential structure of a multimedia document (thanks to the ToC), suitable for browsing, together with an “analytical index” (AI) of audio-visual objects of the document, suitable for effective retrieval. Besides, two sub-description schemes for information about description generation and about the metadata associated with the document are also enclosed in the general DS. The detailed structure of the DS is also presented by means of UML (unified modelling language) notation and an application example is shown. Finally, some considerations concerning the adopted visual interface are made