Speaking for performance / writing with the voice

The chapter describes a methodology which I use for writing for performance using recording technology, and discusses related work by other writers

Language makes itself come true: Introduction to John Jesurun - Deep sleep, White water, Black maria - A media trilogy

This article is published with the permission of the founder of NoPassport Theatre Alliance and Press, Caridid SvichIntroduction to the Book: John Jesurun - Deep Sleep, White Water, Black Maria - A Media Trilog

Acting Brackets (from notes on directing Leslie Scalapino's Flow (Winged Crocodile) / The Trains)

Pre-print version of article accepted for publication.A discussion of how non-lexical aspects of the text of Leslie Scalapino's poetic play "Flow" create meaning, and how this formed the basis of directing decisions for my production of the play. This includes layout on the page, columns, the use of empty space on the page, line length and so on, as well aspunctuation such as brackets of different kinds, italicisation, and the use of quotation marks

A Two-Step Approach for Transforming Continuous Variables to Normal: Implications and Recommendations for IS Research

This article describes and demonstrates a two-step approach for transforming non-normally distributed continuous variables to become normally distributed. Step 1 involves transforming the variable into a percentile rank, which will result in uniformly distributed probabilities. The second step applies the inverse-normal transformation to the results of Step 1 to form a variable consisting of normally distributed z-scores. The approach is little-known outside the statistics literature, has been scarcely used in the social sciences, and has not been used in any IS study. The article illustrates how to implement the approach in Excel, SPSS, and SAS and explains implications and recommendations for IS research

Are we overusing IVF?

Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Estimation and Analysis of Expenses of In-Lieu-Fee Projects that Mitigate Damage to Streams from Land Disturbance in North Carolina

As North Carolina’s economy has grown, the need to mitigate adverse impacts of land disturbance on aquatic ecosystems has also grown. When land disturbance adversely affects streams, a developer or the state’s Department of Transportation can satisfy mitigation requirements through payment of fees to the state’s Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP). EEP then manages a stream mitigation project on behalf of the responsible party. EEP has had regulatory authority to require stream mitigation for 10 years. The needs of EEP to reassess its mitigation fee and identify ways to reduce costs of the program have grown over the decade. The first objective of this study was to account for all EEP expenses of design-bid and design-bid-build projects. The second objective was to analyze the determinants of contractual expenses with a cost function. EEP has spent or committed to spend $46.34 million for 45 design-build or designbid-build projects to restore or enhance 191,374 ft. of streams. Expenses per foot have been$242.12. Given its mandate to cover expenses for stream mitigation, EEP must raise mitigation fees, especially those for urban projects, make changes to reduce project expenses, or do both. As the length of a restored or enhanced stream increases, the expenses per foot decrease. The decrease is more pronounced in undeveloped, rural areas. Thus, EEP could produce mitigation for less expense by financing fewer projects with longer reaches or by financing more projects in undeveloped, rural areas. Other states with in-lieu-fee programs for compensatory mitigation might also use these results to reduce contractual expenses.Environmental Economics and Policy,

A Critical Time for Ultra-Wide Band

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a promising class of high-speed wireless communications applications that is projected to significantly change local and wide area network architectures. This article describes the technology, its probable application areas, the environmental forces that are constraining and enabling commercialization, and the prospects for short-term growth for UWB services. Commercial sale and distribution of UWB products has been approved, and widespread sale is expected by 2007

Tutorial of an Ontological Support System

This tutorial describes a technology-mediated solution, the ontological support system (OSS), for specifying, organizing, representing and using elements of meaning in a body of knowledge. Theoretically influenced by ontological specification, the OSS was validated through iterative prototyping in a companion CAIS research paper. This article reports on how the OSS guides users through several content analysis phases (selection, delineation, transfer and use of content) in the context of academic research. Users typically find the system to be useful, easy to use and compatible with collaborative work when using it for content analysis in academic research

EVALUATING THE DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS OF THE TWOSTEP TRANSFORMATION TOWARD NORMALITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR MIS RESEARCH

This paper empirically evaluates the usefulness of the Two-Step approach for transforming continuous variables toward normality. The study uses 27 corporate financial performance (CFP) variables on 39,216 US corporations to compare three variable sets: 1) random-normal, 2) original, and 3) transformed toward normality using the Two-Step. The results of several statistical procedures relevant to formative index (construct) construction are used to compare the three variable forms. The results provide strong evidence that the Two-Step approach is useful for 1) achieving normality improvements in continuous variables, 2) improve sampling adequacy for factor analysis, 3) dramatically increase intercorrelations, and 4) dramatically increase main effects tests involving the CFP variables. The findings have tremendous implications for MIS research and practice, as the Two-Step technique is shown here to change effects tests significantly and consequently has profound implications for the advancement of the MIS discipline and practical applications (e.g., data mining)