A list of books of interest to mission study classes, prepared by the department of Library extension service.

At head of title: University of Michigan. Extension division.

The state library agency; its functions and organization, statement by the A. L. A. Library extension board, adopted by the A. L. A. executive board (for present use, subject to revision).

Appendices: State library extension agencies by form or organization. State library agencies by states.

A state monopoly of workmen's compensation insurance plus a political administration of same equals the ultimate bankruptcy of the whole scheme : the state of Washington after five years' practical experience has solved this problem; examinations by the Department of Auditor of State Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices; startling disclosures and denunciations in the language and logic of the state examiners /

Mode of access: Internet.

By the time he's 12 : a summary of the Wisconsin plan for the extension of child welfare services to all political subdivisions by 1975 /

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The original, and present state of man, briefly considered; : wherein is shewn, the nature of his fall, and the necessity, means, and manner of his restoration, through the sacrifice of Christ, and the sensible operation of the divine principle of grace and truth, held forth to the world by the people called Quakers. : To which are added, some remarks on the doctrine of predestination, the scriptures, worship, and the kingdom of heaven. /

Smith, J. Friends' books

History of the discovery and settlement of the valley of the Mississippi, by the three great European powers, Spain, France, and Great Britain, and the subsequent occupation, settlement, and extension of civil government by the United States until the year 1846 /

References: Howes, U.S.IANA, no. M.722.

Extension of tenure of government control of railroads : hearings before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, third session, on the extension of time for relinquishment by the government of railroads to corporate ownership and control.

Vol. 1. Hearings, January 3 to February 21, 1919.- -v. 2. Appendix. Hearings before the Joint Subcommittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, November 20, 1916 to May 9, 1917.-- v. 3. Appendix. Hearing before the Joint Subcommittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, November 1, 1917 to December 19, 1917.

Occupational survey, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Sponsored by the Poughkeepsie Board of Education in cooperation with the Advisory Board for Vocational and Extension Education.

Mode of access: Internet.

Dr. Lee's refutation of the charges brought against him by the Rev. Dr. Chalmers and others : in reference to the questions on church extension and university education ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Shall the extension or recreating of the Camden & Amboy Railroad monopoly be permitted by the people of New Jersey, and made perpetual?

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Integrating group Delphi, fuzzy logic and expert systems for marketing strategy development:the hybridisation and its effectiveness

A hybrid approach for integrating group Delphi, fuzzy logic and expert systems for developing marketing strategies is proposed in this paper. Within this approach, the group Delphi method is employed to help groups of managers undertake SWOT analysis. Fuzzy logic is applied to fuzzify the results of SWOT analysis. Expert systems are utilised to formulate marketing strategies based upon the fuzzified strategic inputs. In addition, guidelines are also provided to help users link the hybrid approach with managerial judgement and intuition. The effectiveness of the hybrid approach has been validated with MBA and MA marketing students. It is concluded that the hybrid approach is more effective in terms of decision confidence, group consensus, helping to understand strategic factors, helping strategic thinking, and coupling analysis with judgement, etc.

Evaluating the impact of institutional logic on the corporate Internet reporting by Egyptian listed companies

This study explores the institutional logic(s) governing the Corporate Internet Reporting (CIR) by Egyptian listed companies. In doing so, a mixed methods approach was followed. The qualitative part seeks to understand the perceptions, believes, values, norms, that are commonly shared by Egyptian companies which engaged in these practices. Consequently, seven cases of large listed Egyptian companies operating in different industries have been examined. Other stakeholders and stockholders have been interviewed in conjunction with these cases. The quantitative part consists of two studies. The first one is descriptive aiming to specify whether the induced logic(s) from the seven cases are commonly embraced by other Egyptian companies. The second study is explanatory aiming to investigate the impact of several institutional and economic factors on the extent of CIR, types of the online information, quality of the websites as well as the Internet facilities. Drawing on prior CIR literature, four potential types of logics could be inferred: efficiency, legitimacy, technical and marketing based logics. In Egypt, legitimacy logic was initially embraced in the earlier years after the Internet inception. latter, companies confronted radical challenges in their internal and external environments which impelled them to raise their websites potentialities to defend their competitive position; either domestically or internationally. Thus, two new logics emphasizing marketing and technical perspectives have emerged, in response. Strikingly, efficiency based logic is not the most prevalent logic driving CIR practices in Egypt as in the developed countries. The empirical results support this observation and show that almost half of Egyptian listed companies 115 as on December 2010 possessed an active website, half of them 62 disclosed part of their financial and accounting information, during December 2010 to February 2011. Less than half of the websites 52 offered latest annual financial statements. Fewer 33(29%) websites provided shareholders and stock information or included a separate section for corporate governance 25 (22%) compared to 50 (44%) possessing a section for news or press releases. Additionally, the variations in CIR practices, as well as timeliness and credibility were also evident even at industrial level. After controlling for firm size, profitability, leverage, liquidity, competition and growth, it was realized that industrial companies and those facing little competition tend to disclose less. In contrast, management size, foreign investors, foreign listing, dispersion of shareholders and firm size provided significant and positive impact individually or collectively. In contrast, neither audit firm, nor most of performance indicators (i.e. profitability, leverage, and liquidity) did exert an influence on the CIR practices. Thus, it is suggested that CIR practices are loosely institutionalised in Egypt, which necessitates issuing several regulative and processional rules to raise the quality attributes of Egyptian websites, especially, timeliness and credibility. Beside, this study highlights the potency of assessing the impact of institutional logic on CIR practices and suggests paying equal attention to the institutional and economic factors when comparing the CIR practices over time or across different institutional environments in the future.

Contradiction versus Selfcontradiction in Fuzzy Logic

* This work is partially supported by CICYT (Spain) under project TIN 2005-08943-C02-001 and by UPM-CAM (Spain) under project R05/11240.

Application of Fuzzy Logic on Image Edge Detection

In this paper a novel method for an application of digital image processing, Edge Detection is developed. The contemporary Fuzzy logic, a key concept of artificial intelligence helps to implement the fuzzy relative pixel value algorithms and helps to find and highlight all the edges associated with an image by checking the relative pixel values and thus provides an algorithm to abridge the concepts of digital image processing and artificial intelligence. Exhaustive scanning of an image using the windowing technique takes place which is subjected to a set of fuzzy conditions for the comparison of pixel values with adjacent pixels to check the pixel magnitude gradient in the window. After the testing of fuzzy conditions the appropriate values are allocated to the pixels in the window under testing to provide an image highlighted with all the associated edges.