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A Biomechanical Analysis Of One-Third Tubular Plates For The Treatment Of Benign Lesions In The Distal Femur, Justin Brantley Jan 2015

A Biomechanical Analysis Of One-Third Tubular Plates For The Treatment Of Benign Lesions In The Distal Femur, Justin Brantley

Biomedical Engineering ETDs

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of one-third tubular plates for the treatment of benign defects in the medial distal metaphysis of the femur. Benign cysts are a common occurrence in long bones, and are of concern in load-bearing bones, such as the tibia and femur. These space-occupying growths are removed by curettage of the affected region. Numerous post-curettage management options have been described in the literature, which generally include filling the defect with either synthetic or biological materials. Unfortunately, complications, such as infectious disease transmission, thermal injury, and a robust inflammatory have all been reported …

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Public Policy Implementation: Recreational Marijuana In Colorado, Sara Elena Shoemate Jan 2015

Public Policy Implementation: Recreational Marijuana In Colorado, Sara Elena Shoemate

Public Administration ETDs

In 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington State voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. These states have the challenging task of creating and implementing a policy framework with which to regulate the now legal cultivation, distribution, and use of marijuana. This is a considerable task due to the lack of precedent and information regarding the issue, and because of the intergovernmental issues involved. This thesis focuses on the issue in regard to local governments in Colorado. The goal of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of the adoption of RME and barriers to the implementation processes of …

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Neural Basis Of Positive, Negative, And Controversial Moral Processing In Incarcerated Adult Males With Psychopathic Traits, Samantha Fede Jan 2015

Neural Basis Of Positive, Negative, And Controversial Moral Processing In Incarcerated Adult Males With Psychopathic Traits, Samantha Fede

Psychology ETDs

Background: Psychopathy is a disorder characterized by antisocial and affective traits and moral violations. It has developed over time from a general sense of moral insanity to a scientifically investigated personality disorder. Prior studies of psychopathy have found abnormal brain activity during moral processing in the amygdala, posterior cingulate, and basal ganglia; however, these studies only examined negatively valenced moral stimuli. Here we aim to replicate prior moral decision-making research in a forensic population and the differences between moral verdict and moral deliberation by psychopathy. We also aim to replicate prior psychopathy research on negative moral judgment and to extend …

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Mutability Of The Green-Eyed Monster: A Functional Approach To Understanding The Distinction Between Benign And Hostile Envy, Rachael G. Falcon Jan 2015

Mutability Of The Green-Eyed Monster: A Functional Approach To Understanding The Distinction Between Benign And Hostile Envy, Rachael G. Falcon

Psychology ETDs

Envy functions in resource competition situations in which a competitor out-competes oneself in a fitness relevant domain (Hill & Buss, 2006, 2008). Research suggests that there are two types of envy, a hostile version, aimed at depriving the envied person of his or her advantage, and a benign version, aimed at gaining an advantage for oneself (Parrott, 1991; van de Ven, Zeelenberg, & Pieters, 2009). Three predictions were derived from the hypothesis that the selection of envy type is functional, taking into account the costs and benefits of a benign versus a hostile response: 1) Hostile envy was expected to …

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Investigating Joint Attention Behaviors And Episodes In 18-Month Toddlers Born Very Low Birth Weight Compared To Toddlers Born Normal Birth Weight, Lauren Rowell Jan 2015

Investigating Joint Attention Behaviors And Episodes In 18-Month Toddlers Born Very Low Birth Weight Compared To Toddlers Born Normal Birth Weight, Lauren Rowell

Psychology ETDs

Background: Prior studies have shown that joint attention (JA) behaviors and episodes, which involve person-person-object awareness, serve an important role in toddlers cognitive and social development. There are two forms of JA behaviors in which a toddler can engage: responding joint attention (RJA) behavior in which the toddler shifts attention to an object to which the mother is attending, and initiating joint attention (IJA) behavior in which a toddler bids for the mother's attention around an object. If a JA behavior is responded to, it becomes a JA episode. Prior research suggests that these different JA behaviors (RJA and IJA) …

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Perceived Social Support And Loneliness As Predictors Of Cardiac Rehabilitation Outcomes, Elizabeth Stein Jan 2015

Perceived Social Support And Loneliness As Predictors Of Cardiac Rehabilitation Outcomes, Elizabeth Stein

Psychology ETDs

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is the most common means of targeting risk factors related to cardiovascular disease, but there are still uncertainties regarding what components of CR are most essential to successful rehabilitation. The current research focuses on perceived social support and loneliness and how these psychosocial factors influence health directly or indirectly by moderating perceived stress. Patients (n= 122) who completed a 12 week CR program agreed to participate, and they completed measures at both baseline and program completion. Multiple regression was used to determine if the direct or indirect moderation model best accounts for changes in days spend exercising, …

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Measure Development Of An Assessment Of 'Hitting Bottom' For Individuals With Alcohol Problems, Megan Kirouac Jan 2015

Measure Development Of An Assessment Of 'Hitting Bottom' For Individuals With Alcohol Problems, Megan Kirouac

Psychology ETDs

Alcohol problems are a serious public health concern but few individuals with alcohol problems and alcohol use disorders (AUDs) ever receive formal treatment (SAMHSA, 2009). To understand and address this phenomenon, it is important to understand why individuals decide to seek treatment, which may help clinicians facilitate treatment entry and completion among individuals with AUDs. Research on reasons individuals cite for seeking treatment and their success in recovering from AUDs suggests that hitting bottom' may be important (e.g., Sobell, Sobell, Toneatto, & Leo, 1993). Accordingly, evaluating the concept of 'hitting bottom' may provide insight into why individuals seek and complete …

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The Support And Encouragement For Expression Of The Circle Of Courage Values By Special Education Teachers, Daisy Thompson Jan 2015

The Support And Encouragement For Expression Of The Circle Of Courage Values By Special Education Teachers, Daisy Thompson

Special Education ETDs

The study examined whether [or not] Special Education teachers were familiar with or utilized the Circle of Courage values (mastery, independence, generosity, and belonging) of Native American children with disabilities including intellectual disability in daily classroom interaction at three levels (elementary, middle, and high school). This study sought to examine the methods and strategies utilized by the teachers based on three research questions: (1) Are urban special education teachers familiar with the Circle of Courage values of belonging, mastery, generosity, and independence? (2) How do urban special education teachers support and encourage [or not] the expression of the Circle of …

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Efficacy Of A Magnetic Drug Delivery System And Development Of An Orthotopic Lung Tumor Imaging Model, Amber Mcbride Jan 2015

Efficacy Of A Magnetic Drug Delivery System And Development Of An Orthotopic Lung Tumor Imaging Model, Amber Mcbride

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

The aim of this work was the development of a novel drug delivery vehicle termed nano-in-microparticles (NIMs) to evaluate the magnetic-field dependent targeting of dry powder NIMs administered endotracheally using an ex vivo and in vivo rodent model. NIMs are a novel dry powder drug delivery vehicle containing 70% lactose (w/w), 20% SPIONs (w/w) and 10% fluorescent nanospheres (w/w). Mice were insufflated with NIMs delivery vehicle in the presence of magnetic field dependent targeting to the left ventral lung after thoracotomy; controls were insufflated with the NIMs in the absence of magnetic field dependent targeting. Quantification of deposition of the …

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Boarding Patients Who Require Involuntary Mental Health Examinations In Florida, Laura H. Brennaman Jan 2015

Boarding Patients Who Require Involuntary Mental Health Examinations In Florida, Laura H. Brennaman

Nursing ETDs

This study addressed the gaps in knowledge about psychiatric boarding with the aims of (a) determining the extent of psychiatric boarding in Florida hospitals for individuals meeting criteria for involuntary psychiatric examination and (b) explaining what health services system resources and individual patient determinants contribute to psychiatric boarding. Individuals who go to general hospital emergency departments (EDs) in need of involuntary mental health examinations sometimes must wait in EDs for admission to inpatient units because of the critical shortage of inpatient or crisis mental health services. The process of keeping patients in the ED who are waiting 4 hours or …

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"Fat For An Asian": The Embodiment Of Asian Stereotypes In An Online Community, Mallory Fallin Jan 2015

"Fat For An Asian": The Embodiment Of Asian Stereotypes In An Online Community, Mallory Fallin

Sociology ETDs

Previous research has suggested that different racial groups have differing expectations of body size, but Asian Americans have largely been absent from this literature. Thick Dumpling Skin, a blog that focuses on body image issues and eating disorders in the Asian American community, provides an opportunity to study this unexplored topic. Thick Dumpling Skin is highly interactive and features submitted posts from multiple users. Using qualitative content analysis to code archived blog posts from 2011 to 2014, this paper studies how online users in this community come to embody stereotypes regarding the Asian body. In my analysis, I discuss how …

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A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, And The Rhetorical Construction Of Aldo Leopold, Daniel Cryer Jan 2015

A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, And The Rhetorical Construction Of Aldo Leopold, Daniel Cryer

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation explores the changing, multifaceted ethos of Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), one of the twentieth centurys most versatile environmental communicators. Drawing on scholarship in environmental rhetoric, rhetorical genre theory, citizenship theory and ecofeminism, I argue that throughout his career Leopold offered evolving rhetorical versions of himself as ideals of ecological behavior to be emulated by his readers. The chapters analyze Leopold's ethos as it was constructed in his early-career writings in the New Mexico Game Protective Association Pine Cone, a wildlife protection broadsheet; in the Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States, his first book; in reports …

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Abq Free Press, January 28, 2015, Abq Free Press Jan 2015

Abq Free Press, January 28, 2015, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

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Court Decisions Regarding Golf-Related Injuries: A Quantitative Content Analysis And Binary Logistic Regression, Kyongmin Lee Jan 2015

Court Decisions Regarding Golf-Related Injuries: A Quantitative Content Analysis And Binary Logistic Regression, Kyongmin Lee

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

This study investigated specific injury patterns among injured plaintiffs on or near golf courses, the characteristics of golf injury lawsuits brought against golf courses, as well as the most influential factors that can affect a golf courses success in golf-injury lawsuits. For these purposes, the study analyzed 147 golf-related injury legal cases between 1930 and 2013 using quantitative content analysis. Among cases reviewed, male plaintiffs suffered more golf-related injuries as compared to female plaintiffs. An overwhelming majority of people injured by golf course accidents were adults. The top cause of golf-related injuries was golf ball accidents. A substantial number of …

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A 3d Computational Fluid Dynamics Model Validation For Candidate Molybdenum-99 Target Geometry, Lin Zheng Jan 2015

A 3d Computational Fluid Dynamics Model Validation For Candidate Molybdenum-99 Target Geometry, Lin Zheng

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

As part of its nuclear nonproliferation mission, the U.S. Department of Energys Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) is working to develop a sustainable means for producing the critical medical isotope molybdenum-99 (99Mo) without using highly enriched uranium (HEU). 99Mo is the parent product of technetium\xad99m (99mTc), a radioisotope used in approximately 50,000 medical diagnostic tests per day in the U.S. The primary uses of this product include detection of heart disease, cancer, study of organ structure and function, and other applications. 99Mo has a short half-life (66 hours) and cannot be stockpiled. U.S. demand is approximately 50% of the world …

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Collaboration For Success In Young Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury, Barbara Cechanowicz Jan 2015

Collaboration For Success In Young Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury, Barbara Cechanowicz

Nursing ETDs

Aim. The aim of this study was to explore self-efficacy and success in young adult survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and provide the opportunity for participants to communicate their perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and concerns. Background. Many of those affected by TBI are young adults who are establishing their social and work lives. Young adults face challenges and choices that are pivotal in establishing a course for their lifetime. Self-efficacy theory provided the conceptual framework for the study. The TBI Self-Efficacy Questionnaire and General Self-Efficacy Scale were used to measure self-efficacy, and the Glasgow Outcomes Scale-Extended was used to measure …

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Role Discrepancy, Maternal Hardiness And Depression In Mothers Of Toddlers: A Qualitative Exploration, Angela Delgrande Jan 2015

Role Discrepancy, Maternal Hardiness And Depression In Mothers Of Toddlers: A Qualitative Exploration, Angela Delgrande

Nursing ETDs

Maternal depression is a serious mental health and public health issue with the majority of research focused on depression occurring within the first postnatal year. Studies exploring maternal depression beyond the postpartum period have been conducted however the focus is typically the negative effects of maternal depression on child development. Thematic analysis was used to understand the subjective experience of mothering a toddler from the perspective of both depressed (n = 5) and non-depressed (n = 16) women with children between 12 to 24 months of age, using Mercer's role transition theory, Becoming a mother, Higgin's Self-discrepancy Theory and a …

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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Elective Cesarean Deliveries And Trial Of Labor, Elisa Patterson Jan 2015

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Elective Cesarean Deliveries And Trial Of Labor, Elisa Patterson

Nursing ETDs

Every year, one-third of the 4 million child-bearing women in the United States have a cesarean delivery. Of these, 91% have a repeat cesarean delivery with the birth of subsequent children. Cesarean deliveries account for more than half of childbirth-related hospitalization expenses totaling approximately $8 billion every year. A repeat cesarean delivery has a 40% greater hospital cost than a vaginal delivery. Yet, the cost of the delivery for the health-care payer is rarely addressed in the published peer-reviewed literature. The purpose of this research was to determine the cost-effectiveness of elective repeat cesarean deliveries (ERCD) compared with trials of …

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Using Worked Examples For Training Nutrition Professionals To Diagnose Nutrition Problems And Use International Dietetics And Nutrition Terminology, Kirsten Bennett Jan 2015

Using Worked Examples For Training Nutrition Professionals To Diagnose Nutrition Problems And Use International Dietetics And Nutrition Terminology, Kirsten Bennett

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

This study investigated two types of modular worked examples; process-oriented (PSWE) and product-oriented (PDWE), for performance, cognitive load, and efficiency for nutrition diagnosis. One hundred and four students (104) from a 200-level course in human nutrition participated in the main study. Participants studied the worked examples and completed the practice phase during one regularly scheduled class period. Two weeks later the participants completed the maintenance phase during half a regularly scheduled class period. Both the practice and maintenance phases involved making nutrition diagnoses, using the correct International Dietetics and Nutrition Terminology (IDNT) and writing a diagnostic statement for two cases. …

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Pre-Service Teachers' Self-Efficacy For Teaching Mathematics, Shannon Mccampbell Jan 2015

Pre-Service Teachers' Self-Efficacy For Teaching Mathematics, Shannon Mccampbell

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

Teachers self-efficacy beliefs start forming upon entering their teacher education programs and continue to develop throughout their first few years of teaching. They then remain relatively stable for the remainder of their teaching careers. Teachers' self-efficacy beliefs have been shown to influence teachers' job satisfaction, resilience, burnout rates, health, motivation, teaching behaviors, and students' academic achievement. It is important to understand how they form and what influences their development. The purpose of this study is to better understand the complex relationships involved during the formation PSTs' self-efficacy beliefs. The study examined the relationships between PSTs' self-efficacy beliefs for teaching and …

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Modes Of Engagement: Multi-Modal Curriculum And Instruction; A School-Wide Curricular Design Without Textbooks, Gael Keyes Jan 2015

Modes Of Engagement: Multi-Modal Curriculum And Instruction; A School-Wide Curricular Design Without Textbooks, Gael Keyes

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

One of the most challenging aspects of teaching and studying teaching is that the domain of teaching is so complex. This complexity has made it difficult for teachers to design curriculum and critique that evolving curriculum through ongoing reconsideration and revision in order to improve the effectiveness of instruction. An alternative curricular/instructional construct, called Modes of Engagement, was created and has been sustained for 24 years, by the principal and faculty at Desert Willow Family School, a K-8 Albuquerque Public Schools' alternative school. The Modes of Engagement, as they are employed in the teaching of mathematics at Family School, are …

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Identification Of Electrorefiner And Cathode Processing Failure Modes And Determination Of Signature-Significance For Integration Into A Signature Based Safeguards Framework For Pyroprocessing, Philip Lafreniere Jan 2015

Identification Of Electrorefiner And Cathode Processing Failure Modes And Determination Of Signature-Significance For Integration Into A Signature Based Safeguards Framework For Pyroprocessing, Philip Lafreniere

Nuclear Engineering ETDs

The traditional method of safeguarding nuclear facilities, nuclear material accountancy (NMA), faces many challenges when applied to pyroprocessing facilities. To aid in the safeguarding of these facilities, process monitoring (PM) is being investigated as a complementary method to NMA. PM takes general process data, such as density, current etc., and applies it to safeguards through the use of a statistical framework. Signature Based Safeguards (SBS), a proposed statistical framework for the application of PM techniques, identifies anomalous scenarios and subsequently identifies and detects their respective PM signatures from a system of sensors. This work focuses both on assisting SBS through …

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Delaunay-Laguerre Geometry For Macromolecular Modeling And Implicit Solvation, Michelle Hummel Jan 2015

Delaunay-Laguerre Geometry For Macromolecular Modeling And Implicit Solvation, Michelle Hummel

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

We develop and implement geometric methods to study three-dimensional structures of proteins, the knowledge of which is critical to the understanding of the molecules and their interactions. Delaunay and Laguerre methods, which concern sets of overlapping spheres and their interrelationships, are well suited to the study of molecules. We discuss and implement algorithms for the calculation of molecular volume, atomic solvent accessible surface areas, their gradients and discontinuities. This is used for a detailed analysis of parameters obtained by the implicit solvation method, Semi-Explicit Assembly (SEA). We introduce the concept of Laguerre-Intersection cells which consist of the intersection of the …

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Defect Investigations In Inas/Gasb Type-Ii Strained Layer Superlattice, Brianna Klein Jan 2015

Defect Investigations In Inas/Gasb Type-Ii Strained Layer Superlattice, Brianna Klein

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

InAs/GaSb type-II strained layer superlattices are a material used for infrared detection. By adjusting the thickness of the InAs and GaSb layers, the material bandgap can be tuned to absorb photons from 3-30 um. Compared to competing materials such as HgCdTe and InSb, InAs/GaSb superlattices are more mechanically robust, have reduced tunneling currents, and can use strain to suppress Auger recombination. In spite of these advantages, this material still faces several challenges, including low minority carrier lifetime, resulting from trap levels that cause Schockley-Read-Hall recombination. These low lifetimes lead to reduced signal-to-noise ratio and higher dark current. Therefore, increasing the …

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Environment Restoration Operations Consolidated Quarterly Report - January 2015, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm Jan 2015

Environment Restoration Operations Consolidated Quarterly Report - January 2015, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Environmental Restoration

Environmental Restoration Operations Consolidated Quarterly Report, January 2015 for the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia National Laboratories that addresses all quarterly reporting (July through September 2014) required under the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Module of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Permit, the Compliance Order on Consent and the Chemical Waste Landfill Post-Closure Care Permit for Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico, Environmental Protection Agency identification number NM5890110518.

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January 22, 2015 Special Finance & Facilities (F&F) Committee Meeting, Evp For Administration Jan 2015

January 22, 2015 Special Finance & Facilities (F&F) Committee Meeting, Evp For Administration

Finance and Facilities Committee

Documents related to the January 22, 2015 Special Meeting of the Board of Regents' Finance and Facilities Committee. (Agenda, Minutes, eBook, Notice)

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Deposition Of Annette Klimka 2015, Catholic Church. Archdiocese Of Santa Fe (N.M.) Jan 2015

Deposition Of Annette Klimka 2015, Catholic Church. Archdiocese Of Santa Fe (N.M.)

Depositions

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Deposition Of Fr. Lucian C. Hendren, Hall & Monagle, Llc Jan 2015

Deposition Of Fr. Lucian C. Hendren, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Other Depositions

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Deposition Of William E. Foote, Ph.D., Hall & Monagle, Llc Jan 2015

Deposition Of William E. Foote, Ph.D., Hall & Monagle, Llc

Expert Depositions

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Peru’S New Youth Employment Law Sparks Protests, Calls For Repeal, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A Jan 2015

Peru’S New Youth Employment Law Sparks Protests, Calls For Repeal, Elsa Chanduvã­ Jaã±A

NotiSur

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