Nassau c h a p t e r pres ident I r ving F l a u m e n b a u m said a t h is of f ice in Mineola t h a t he was guardedly optimistic, b u t h a d re ceived no word f r o m Wash ing ton . S u c h a rul ing, lollowing the a n t i i n f l a t i o n agency 's quest ioning whe the r inc rements mus t be considered as p a r t of t h e package l imited by the guidelines, would establish a na t ionwide...

This p a p e r I)roI)oses two new methods to ident i fy the correct meaning of J apanese h o n m n y m s in t ex t based on tile i l o u n : v e r b co occ I l r r enc ( ~, ill a s e n t e n c e which (:an be ob ta ined easi ly from corpora . The first m e t h o d uses the n e a r co -occur rence da ta se ts , which are cons t ruc t ed f rom the above (:o-occurrence re la t ion, to select the m...

The i n teraction between instruction scheduling a n d register allocation has signiicant impact on the quality o f c o d e generated, particularly in compilers targeting g n e grain parallel architectures. The problem results from the fact that instruction scheduling a n d register allocation have connicting goals. Instruction scheduling tries to m aximize parallelism by s c heduling a s m any...

I n 1994, 38% of hospi ta l s su rveyed ind ica t ed plans for future workforce cuts. Twenty-seven percen t of these hospi ta l s i nd ica t ed they are t a rge t ing nurses, compared wi th only 19% in 1993.1 Professional nurs ing staff cuts are not just a resul t of dec reased need or inc reased efficiency: 50% of the nurses whose jobs are e l imina ted are be ing rep laced wi th un l i censed...

Th is paper is about some of the social aspects of knowledge and action relevant to th ink ing in A I , and in par t icu lar the basic experience of mu l t i p l e perspectives and integrat ing different kinds of local knowledge. It discusses ways of re th ink ing a number of fami l ia r concepts inc lud ing facts, in teract ion, knowledge, and organ iza t ion , rais ing questions about how wel...

tumors of t h e male u ret h ra are r a re, co m prising <1% of urolo g ic malignancies. this is a re po rt of a 44-ye a r-old man pre s ented with a 4 -month history of gross initi a l h e maturia and d y s u ri a . af t e r exami n ing the pa t ien t , we found a firm mass ex t ending 1 c m within the p roxim a l bulb a r uret h ra and a pathologic report of moderately differen t iated sq u a...

The sociology of organizations has ignored the evolution of and variation in enterprise rules, budget sys. terns and accounting rules. This paper takes a broad approach to accounting rules, arguing that they are related to large variations in enterprise forms and in industry problen~s. The rule making and enforcement apparatus of modern society is described. Both external and internal aspects o...

Mr. Ward is president and CEO, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans. "W hen one door closes, another opens ." This has certainly been the experience of Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans ( D C S N O ) . When in 1992 Daughters of Charity National Health SystemWest Central Region ( D C N H S W C ) sold its Hotel Dieu Hospital in overbedded New Orleans to the state of Louisiana, ...

Croups of shrimp (Pandalus boreal is) larvae were reared under dif ferent food concentrat ions and types to assess changes in condit ion and survival during development. As expected, rate of growth (wet weight) was highei for la rvae fed on 300 Ar temia naup l i i .L r (San Franc isco s t ra in : 0 .0528 mg 'd ' ; Canada s t ra in : 0 .0355 mg 'd ' ) compared w i th those reared a t 150 naup l ...

c a r e d a t a b a s e s , p o t e n t i a l l y o v e r c o m i n g o b s t a c l e s ar is ing from the n u m b e r of cases , miss ing data , v a r i a b l e s e l e c t i o n , m u l t i c o l l i n e a r i t y , s p e c i f i c a t i o n o f i m p o r t a n t i n t e r a c t i o n s , a n d s e n s i t i v i t y t o erroneous values. On a n actual database derived f rom p a t i e n t s h ...