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A Relocation Of Prisoner Identity, Willa Payne, Matt Luton

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cuba's De-Dollarization Program: Policy Measures, Main Objectives, And Principal Motivations, Mario A. Gonzalez-Corzo

Publications and Research

This paper examines the main characteristics of Cuba’s de-dollarization program, the objectives of these policy measures, and their principal causes and motivations. The paper is organized in three sections. The first section describes the policy measures associated with the process of de-dollarization, followed by a detailed account of their main objectives (section two), and an analysis of their principal causes and motivations (section three).

Manajemen Pembelajaran Pengetahuan Alam Pada Pelaksanaan Mpmbs Di Smp N 1 Kalasan Sleman, Kristina Eniwati

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) yang dilaksanakan dalam tiga siklus dan difokuskan pada manajemen waktu dan lingkungan dalam pembelajaran Pengetahuan Alam yang memanfaatkan lingkungan sekolah untuk Materi Pokok Perubahan Bentuk Energi. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data dilakukan dengan cara pengumpulan data, reduksi data, penyajian data, dan pengambilan kesimpulan.

Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: pertama, perencanakan penggunaan waktu dibagi (dirinci) untuk setiap kegiatan siswa yang berupa pengamatan, diskusi, dan presentasl Kedua, perencanaan waktu ditetapkan melalui pengarahan guru terhadap siswa tentang macam-macam kegiatan dan lamanya waktu untuk setiap kegiatan. Ketiga, perencanaan penggunaan lingkungan disesuaikan antara …

Pembentukan Karakter Dan Pengembangan Kompetensi Siswa Pendidikan Teknik Di Smk Katolik Santo Mikael Surakarta Melalui Penerapan Total Quality Management, Fx. Supriyono Raharjo

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan proses pembentukan karakter, pengembangan kompetensi siswa, budaya kerja, dan TotalQuaBty Management (TQM) di SMK Katolik Santo Mikael (SMK Mikad) Surakarta.

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif, dengan sumber informasi para pengelola, pelaksana, dan pelanggan. Data penelitian ini dikumpulkan melalui observasi, wawancara, dan studi dokumen yang relevan.

Hasil analisis data menunjukkan pembentukan karakter dan pengembangan kompetensi di SMK Mikael dilakukan melalui empat hal. Pertama_t pelaksanaan proses pendidikan dan pelatihan berbasis produksi atau Production Based Training (PBT) dan penerapan manajemen mutu ISO 9001:2000. Kedua, pelaksanaan kegiatan intrakurikuler (teori dan praktik) dan kegiatan ekstrakurikuler mencakup rekoleksi, retret rohani, …

Studi Komparasi Evaluasi Portofolio Dan Tanpa Evaluasi Portofolio Untuk Mata Pelajaran Kimia, Sri Suciati

Jurnal Penelitian dan Evaluasi Pendidikan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan peningkatan prestasi belajar kimia siswa melalui evaluasi portofolio.

Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas IISMA Negeri 1 Sanden yang terdiri dari 6 (enam) kelas dengan jumlah siswa sebanyak 240 (dua ratus empat puluh). Sampel penelitian terdiri atas 2 (dua) kelas dengan jumlah siswa sebanyak 80 (delapan puluh), ditentukan menggunakan teknik cluster sampling yang dilakukan secara random. Sampel pertama yaitu kelas II 3 sebagai kelompok eksperimen dan sampel berikutnya yaitu kelas II 5 sebagai kelompok kontroL

Hasil pengamatan peneliti dan kolabolator pada kelas yang menerapkan evaluasi portofolio menunjukkan bahwa untuk semua konsep siswa antusias memiliki …

Table Of Contents (Volume 82)

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 31, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2006

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 31, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2006

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.

Masthead

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.

Internet Virtual Storage Sebagai Alternatif Penyimpanan Data, Kuswari Hernawati

PYTHAGORAS : Jurnal Matematika dan Pendidikan Matematika

Hampir seluruh aspek kehidupan manusia saat ini tidak dapat dilepaskan dari teknologi, khususnya teknologi komputer. Revolusi Teknologi Informasi(TI) ikut mengubah perilaku masyarakat modern yang mencoba masuk dan menghirup atmosfer sebuah kebudayaan baru, suatu kecenderungan terciptanya "masyarakat tanpa kertas". Untuk menuliskan suatu dokumen, orang cenderung sudah meninggalkan mesin ketik manual dan sudah digantikan perannya oleh komputer. Selain itu pengarsipan data sudah mulai meninggalkan kertas, dan menyimpannya dalam media penyimpanan seperti disket, CD, hardisk dan sebagainya. Banyaknya kejadian seperti kerusuhan, bencana alam yang terjadi misalnya gempa bumi, banjir yang menghancurkan gedung-gedung perkantoran yang sekaligus menghancurkan komputer beserta data-data didalamnya, telah memunculkan alternatif …

Analisis Pengungkapan Laporan Keuangan Perusahaan Pembiayaan, Intan Herlina Oktaviani, Dwi Martani

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

The aims of the research is to provide empirical evidence about financial statement disclosures of multifinance companies and the factors that determines the disclosure level. The multifinance companies are unique industries because there have various product of financing like leasing, installment sales and borrowing. fhe research examines disclosure level of multifinance company that listed in the database Directorate General Financial Institutions, Ministry of Finance. We use financial statement in 2003 and 2004. The research use the regulation of Directorate General Financial Institution number 1500/2005, financial accounting standard for leasing and factoring as a disclosure guideline, because there is no specific …

Cadmium Toxicity On Arterioles Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, Benny Washington, Shunta Williams, Patrice Armstrong, Charlie Mtshali, John T. Robinson, Elbert L. Myles

Biology Faculty Research

Cadmium (Cd) is frequently used in various industrial applications and is a ubiquitous environmental toxicant, also present in tobacco smoke. An important route of exposure is the circulatory system whereas blood vessels are considered to be main stream organs of Cd toxicity. Our previous results indicate that cadmium chloride (CdCl2) affects mean arterial blood pressure in hypertensive rats. We hypothesized that Cd alters the intracellular calcium transient mechanism, by cadmium-induced stimulation of MAPKs (ERK 1 & 2) which is mediated partially through calcium-dependent PKC mechanism. To investigate this hypothesis, we exposed primary cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) from …

Shellfish Tissue Monitoring In New Hampshire Estuaries 2005, Phil Trowbridge

PREP Reports & Publications

Conducted by a committee of Canadian and US government and university scientists, Gulfwatch examines the effects of decades of development and industrialization on the water quality of the Gulf as it relates to human health as well as its impact on other marine organisms. Gulfwatch scientists collect blue mussels at over 60 US and Canadian sites Gulf-wide, and analyze the organisms’ tissue for potentially harmful levels and concentrations of toxins including heavy metals, chlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). New Hampshire increased the number of Gulfwatch sampling locations from two sites per year in 1997 to …

Town Of Strafford Nroc Projects, Carolyn Page, Al Pratt, Jeff Schloss, Harmony Anderson

PREP Reports & Publications

The three Strafford committees formed through the work with the Natural Resources Outreach Coalition in 2004 and supported by the grant award from the New Hampshire Estuaries Project have succeeded in furthering land protection, water quality protection, and managing growth here in Strafford. The original NROC meetings brought many new volunteer citizens into the process, but even their enthusiasm and willingness to work could not have earned these results without the financial support of the NHEP grant award. Hours of letter writing and personal contact with landowners by the volunteers of the Land Protection Group have raised awareness of the …

An Investigation Of Communication Attitudes, Quality Of Communication, And Locus Of Control In Stutterers And Non-Stutterers, Feng-Chu Tseng, Lin-Fen Hsieh

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Adults with stuttering are not only disfluent in speech, but also have problems in social adjustment and social interactions. That is, stuttering is a speech disorder, as well as a communication disorder. This study was aimed to examine the communication attitudes, the quality of communications, and the locus of control in adults with stuttering. Twenty-five males and six females, aged between 18 and 47 (mean 26.8) participated as the stutter-group in the study. Another group of twenty-five males and six females, aged between 18 and 48, participated as the non-stutter group. All of the participants were administered with Modified Erickson …

Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension With Multiple Ischemic Stroke: A Casereport, Won-Jean Lin, Wai-Keung Lee, Yau-Wai Wai, Li-Rong Chen, Cheng-Chih Liao

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The causes of cerebrospinal fluid leakage leading to intracranial hypotension are generally iatrogenic or due to trauma. Postural headache is usually a characteristic symptom of intracranial hypotension, although other presenting neurologic symptoms occur, such as cranial nerve injury, vomiting, dizziness, photophobia, ataxia, dementia, coma, or death. A spontaneous cause for intracranial hypotension is uncommon. Intracranial hypotension with ischemic stroke, as described herein, has not been previously reported.A 43-year-old man complained of intermittent headaches for approximately one year, but the symptoms remitted with bedrest. He was ultimately sent to the hospital due to a severe headache. Although there were no significant …

Comparison Of Thermal Effect With Ultrasound In Rat Calf Muscles After The Application Of Five Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, Yueh-Ling Hsieh, Chen-Chia Yang, Hui-Wen Kuo

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background and Purposes: Phonophoresis has been defined as the migration of drugs through the skin under influence of ultrasound (US). The phonophoresis of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was studied in vivo through hairless rat skin to determine the temperature changes in superficial and deep tissues in response to NSAID phonophoresis.Study Design and Objectives: To measure and compare the temperature changes in tissues in response to five NSAIDs under phonophoresis. Methods: Male Wistar rats weighing 250 to 350 g had one of five drugs; i.e., piroxicam (Feldene), indomethacin (Indocin), etofenamate (Rheumon), methylsalicylate (Salomethyl), or diclofenac (Voren) applied to one hindlimb followed …

Survey Of Spinal Cord Injuries Due To Diving Accidents In Taiwan, Ya-Wen Tu, Huey-Wen Liang, Yen-Ho Wang, Jiunn-Horng Kang, Liu-Ing Bih, Fuk-Tan Tang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objective: To examine the clinical characteristics of diving-related spinal cord injuries (SCI) in Taiwan.Methods: This study is a retrospective reviewarticle of all hospitalized patients with spinal cord injuries due to diving accidents in three rehabilitation centers between January 1982 and July 2002. Demographic data and clinical features were presented and analyzed. Results: A total of 1216 spinal cord injuries were reviewarticleed, and 16 cases (1.3%) met the inclusion criteria. Their mean age at the time of injury was 26.8 years and 15 (94.0%) of the cases were male. All of the injuries resulted in tetraplegia and 11 (69.0%) were neurologically …

The Influence Of Nasogastric Tube To Post-Stroke Depressive Tendency And Functional Outcome, Nai-Chiung Huang, Ta-Sen Wei, Sen-Yung Liu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Depression is reported in a portion of stroke patients during the period of their stay in acute and rehabilitation hospitals. Depression may influence the patient's motivation to participate in the rehabilitation program and result in slower functional recovery and poor functional outcome. In addition, patients with prolonged usage of nasogastric tube for food intake experience a stronger degree of physical impairment, slower functional recovery, and less motivation. The purpose of our study was to determine the correlation between prolonged usage of nasogastric tube and post-stroke patients' depression tendency, and their effects on the patients' functional outcome. Eighty-six patients participated in …

Therapeutic Effect Of Air-Jet Therapy In Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: A Preliminary Report, Wan-Chia Lee, Cheng-Liang Chou, Cheng-Min Chiu, Tcho-Jen Liu, Rai-Chi Chan

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Lymphedema is a common sequela of breast cancer therapy. The decreased arm function with swelling, pain, numbness, and a limited range of motion, is associated with a psychological distress that affects the quality of life. There is no cure for breast cancer-related lymphedema. Complex physical therapy is currently the mainstream of therapy, combined with manual lymphatic drainage, pneumatic compression pumps and compression bandaging. The purpose of this study is to evaluate compressed air therapy as a new approach to lymphedema management.Eleven women with breast cancer-related arm lymphedema were recruited into the study. Air-jet therapy was performed to massage limb in …

Bilateral Sciatic Neuropathy Due To Drug Overdose With Coma, Susan Y Fan, Chang-Zern Hong, Lin-Fen Hsieh, Yii-Jiun Shao, Hsu-Yi Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Limb compression in an unattended comatous patient often results in peripheral nerve injuries; however, bilateral sciatic neuropathy in these patients has rarely been described in literature. A 37-year-old woman with bilateral numbness and paralysis of the lower limb after drug overdose with coma was reported. After onset of unconsciousness, she was in a seated position with trunk and hips flexed and knees nearly fully extended for approximately ten hours. In the department of emergency, she was found to have bilateral thighs and buttocks swollen as well as myoglobulinuria. Electrodiagnostic studies supported a diagnosis of complete denervation bilaterally in the distribution …

Acute Neuropathy Mimicking Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Casereport, Po-Hong Chen, Hsiu-Fang Hsueh, Chang-Zern Hong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

A 42 year-old woman was admitted in a comatose state after exhibiting polydipsia and progressive body weight loss of 4-week duration. Diabetic ketoacidosis was diagnosed due to an increased blood glucose level (956 mg/dl), metabolic acidosis, and positive urinary ketone bodies. On the fourth hospital day, despite recovery from the critical state of ketoacidosis, the patient suffered from progressively ascending paresthesia and weakness in the lower limbs. On the basis of clinical and electrophysiological findings, axonal Guillain-Barré syndrome presenting as a paraparesis variant, a very unusual neuropathy related to diabetic ketoacidosis, was diagnosed. The patient reached satisfactory functional outcome after …

Mirror Writing After Left Anterior Cerebral Artery Infarction: A Casereport, Rong-Bin Hong, I-Hsien Wu, Yi-Ming Lo, Hui-Chun Juan, Mei-Ju Ko, Willy Chou

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Mirror writing is characterized by the writing of alphanumeric characters in the direction opposite to normal. It has been reported infrequently in patients with stroke. We present a 67-year-old male patient who is left-handed but writes with his right hand. He developed sudden onset of right side weakness. CT scan and MRI both revealed acute left anterior cerebral artery infarction involving cingulated gyrus and corpus callosum. His right side weakness gradually improved after rehabilitation. Mirror writing was found when he wrote with his left hand but not with his right hand. The frequency of his mirror writing gradually dropped and …

The Relationship Between Nasogastric Tube Feeding And Hemineglect In Patients After Right Hemisphere Stroke, Kwo-Shieng Tuo, Shu-Fen Sun, Ken-Hao Hsu, Jue-Long Wang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The purpose of this study was to evaluate impairment of swallowing, nasogastric tube feeding, feeding function, and complications of pneumonia in 42 patients hospitalized following a right hemispheic stroke with or without hemineglect. Twenty-three patients with diagnoses of right hemispheric stroke and left hemineglect, as demonstrated by computed tomographic scan or magnetic resonance imaging, comprised the experimental group. The diagnosis of hemineglect is based on the Schenkenberg test (i.e., line bisection test) of greater than 10% right deviation. Nineteen age-, lesion-, and Brunnstrom stage-matched right hemispheic stroke patients without hemineglect were designated as the control group. The 23 patients with …

The Effect Of Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation On Local Skin Temperature, Chien-Ting Liu, Pei-Ying Chao, Shin-Liang Pan, Chein-Wei Chang, Yen-Ho Wang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Previous reports have shown that transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) can accelerate the rate of chronic wound healing, but the mechanism for such is unknown. It has been proposed that TENS may enhance healing by increasing cutaneous blood flow. In the present study, we investigated the effects of TENS on local skin temperature. Infrared thermography was used to measure the changes of local skin temperature after treatment with TENS. Twelve subjects, 6 men and 6 women, were enrolled and underwent the following four different TENS modes in random sequences: (1) sham stimulation (control), (2) perception threshold TENS, (3) below motor …

Rehabilitation Of Heat Stroke With Cerebellar Motor Dysfunction: A Casereport, Tsung-Ming Yang, Jo-Tong Chen, Wei-Chih Hung, Nai-Wen Guo, Ta-Shen Kuan

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Heat stroke is a medical condition, which in its severest form, may lead to multiple organ failure and death. A previous study showed that most survivors recover completely without sequelae, but some survivors have long-term neurological dysfunction, especially cerebellar motor dysfunction. The rehabilitative outcome of such patients with neurological dysfunction has rarely been reported.We present herein a case of a 31 year old male who suffered from heat stroke, followed by acute rhabdomyolysis, renal failure, respiratory failure, cardiac arrhythmia, and cerebellar motor dysfunction. He was transferred to our rehabilitation ward 36 days after the heat stroke injury due to ataxia, …

Gabapentin For Treatment Of Neuropathic Pain In Patients With Spinal Cord Injury, Chao-Min Wang, Yen-Ho Wang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The patients with spinal cord injury suffer from motor and sensory impairment with bowel and bladder dysfunction. However, chronic neuropathic pain is also a common complaint after spinal cord injury and is usually refractory to many therapies. The exact mechanism of relieving hyperalgesia and allodynia is still unknown, but most believed it is related to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor and voltage-dependent calcium channel. Gabapentin is supposed to be an antagonist of NMDA receptor complex which mediates an influx of calcium ions when activated. In addition, gabapentin inhibits neuronal calcium influx in a calcium channel by binding to the α2δ subunit of …

Effect Of Kinesio Taping Over Frontal Region On The Attention Of Normal Subjects, Wei-Chi Hsieh, Su-Hsien Lin, Hung-Chih Hsu, Alice May-Kuen Wong, Ka-Kit Siu, Yu-Cheng Pei

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

”Kinesio taping” is a newly developed technique frequently used for the treatment of soft tissue lesions. The Kinesio Tex tape has the skin like elastic property and can be applied with tension at the soft tissue lesion site. This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of ”Kinesio taping” on the attention in normal subjects. In several ways that can be used to assess attention, the well-known Posner paradigm was chosen. This paradigm can assess visual spatial attention by presenting the target participants with cues that direct attention to regions of the visual space within which an imperative stimulus may …