artists; signatures and monograms, an international directory. Castagno, John. Scarecrow Pr., ©2007 567 p. $225.00 Castagno, a multimedia artist and sculptor and author of other books in the Artists’ Signatures and Monograms series, presents a reference for identifying, authenticating, and verifying signatures and works of wellknown and little-known abstract artists. About 2,300 painters, print...

The following document can be cited as: Boesch, D.F., J.C. Field, and D. Scavia, (Eds.) 2000. The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change on Coastal Areas and Marine Resources: Report of the Coastal Areas and Marine Resources Sector Team, U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, U.S. Global Change Research Program. NOAA Coastal O...

Objective: To assess the sexually transmitted infection (STI) awareness, sexual risk behaviors, and related contextual factors of African-American female college students. Participants: Eighty-nine African-American first year female students attending a majority public four-year college in the southern U.S. participated in the study in Spring, 2006. Methods: Participants completed an anonymous ...

This paper presents a concept of component verification framework dedicated to a particular lightweight component environment. The starting point of the paper constitutes a discussion about the significance of verification of syntax inconsistencies in software development. Next, the need of verification in serviceoriented and component-based systems is presented, and various approaches of verif...

The paper describes main facilities of EJB3 and Spring Framework as well as the results of their comparative analysis. Basic features of EJB3 and Spring Framework used for business component management are outlined. The results of frameworks investigation and evaluation are considered. For this purpose 13 criteria have been selected. Offered criteria allow selecting an appropriate framework for...

The work deals with a problem of estimation of spring stiffness under conditions of uncertainty of its loading and compression measurements. During spring exploitation, the main its parameters stiffness and initial length change since of the metal strain aging. At the spring checking, values of its compression are measured in the necessary range of loading. It is used to describe the spring com...

Phenological shifts in events such as flowering and bud break are important indicators of ecosystem processes, and are therefore of particular significance for carbon (C) cycle research. Using long-term flux data from three contrasting plant functional type (evergreen and deciduous) boreal forest sites, we evaluated and compared the responses of annual C fluxes to multiple spring phenological i...

SPRING 2000 THE JOURNAL OF DERIVATIVES 1 Option prices can reveal implied (risk-neutral) distributions, but it is not clear whether these are useful for forecasting or hedging or for revealing the current sentiment of investors. The authors estimate the implied distribution for stock index options in London as a mixture of two lognormals over the period 1987-1997 and find that this method is mu...

This work investigates the practical issue of mapping existing GIS to the OpenGIS standards. We describe the data models used in three systems (MGE, ARC/INFO and SPRING) and analyse the problems involved when mapping them to OpenGIS. Our conclusion is that the OpenGIS standard has not been defined in a formal and unequivocal way, and therefore, there are indefinitions and competing alternatives...

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