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Insured Women's Access To Infertility Care: A Comparative Survey Study, Martha Ellen Griffin

Open Access Dissertations

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Cognitive Function And Food Preparation Ability In Schizophrenia, Margaret M. Knight

Open Access Dissertations

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The Analysis Of Polar Lipid Classes By High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Evaporative Light Scattering Detection, Thomas John Mcnabb

Open Access Dissertations

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Investigation Of Optimized Stationary Phases For The High Performance Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometric Analysis Of Basic Pharmaceuticals, Shane Roy Needham

Open Access Dissertations

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Boundedness, Global Stability, And Periodicity Of Some Difference Equations, Norman Ray Prokup

Open Access Dissertations

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The Effects Of Small-Scale Turbulence On The Physiology Of Marine Dinoflagellates, James Michael Sullivan

Open Access Dissertations

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Nekton Utilization Of Tidally Restricted, Restoring, And Reference New England Salt Marshes, Kenneth Bryan Raposa

Open Access Dissertations

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Staff Support Of Parents In The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: What Are We Doing And Is It What Parents Want, Lori Kay Myren-Manbeck

Open Access Dissertations

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Formation Of Advanced Glycation End Products By Glyceraldehyde And Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate With Proteins, Paula F. G. De Sa

Open Access Dissertations

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Hybrid Magnetic Field Gradient, Rotating Wall Device For Enhanced Colloidal Magnetic Affinity Separations, Alazar Negusse Ghebremeskel

Open Access Dissertations

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Induction Of Embryonic Diapause In The Calanoid Copepod Acartia Hudsonica, David Edward Avery

Open Access Dissertations

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The Influence Of Cultural Values In The Judgment Of Student Behavior, Eliana Shavitt Lesser

Open Access Dissertations

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Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2000-2001, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island Course Catalog.

Creating Postmodern Hybrid Organizational Systems: Exploring The Philosophical Foundations Of Administrative Theory Through A Review Of Literature, Andrew Delonno

Open Access Master's Theses

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Evaluation Of Effect Of Excipients, Temperature And Humidity On The Stability Of Levothyroxine Sodium, Niraj S. Amin

Open Access Master's Theses

Levothyroxine Sodium is one of the most critical drugs for a significant segment of the population. The development of HPLC method of analysis for levothyroxine sodium revealed that there were significant stability problems associated with this drug. On August 14, 1997, FDA announced that there was evidence which shows significant stability and potency problems associated with orally administered levothyroxine sodium products. This lack of stability and potency has a potential to cause serious health consequence to the public. The literature, on determining the stable formulation of levothyroxine sodium is very little. Much of the published work on levothyroxine sodium describes …

Aspects Of Growth For The Northern Quahog, Mercenaria Mercenaria, Craig Lawrence Appleyard

Open Access Master's Theses

The growth of the northern quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria, has been mathematically modeled over both the nursery stage and the complete life so as to develop expectations of growth as a function of environmental suitability. Then, the growth of northern quahogs in an experimental nursery upweller was evaluated as a function of system operating parameters (flow rate and stocking density) and other environmental parameters to determine the limiting factors in this critical phase of shellfish aquaculture.

The von Bertalanffy growth equation was used to predict increases in shell length (millimeters), weight (grams), and the relative growth rate (% increase per …

Relative Impact Of Various Sources Of Pharmacokinetic And Pharmacodynamic Variability On Warfarin Response, Shashikanth Gannu

Open Access Master's Theses

Warfarin is widely used oral anticoagulant and its pharrnacokinetic (PK) and pharrnacodynamic (PD) properties have been extensively studied. It has a narrow therapeutic index and displays poor quality of treatment due to its complex pharmacology and wide inter and intraindividual variability in the dose-response relationship.

This study developed an integrated PK-PD model using STELLA® to describe the dose concentration- effect relationship for warfarin. This model used previously reported\ population PK and PD models and parameter values to generate dose-response data. A one compartment stereo-specific semi-physiological PK model with zero-order drug input was linked to an indirect PD model describing the …

The Impact Of Decision Making On Tourism And The Environment In St. Kitts, William Rodney Gerdsen

Open Access Master's Theses

The wider Caribbean region is at a critical juncture in its development as a tourism dependent regional economy. After more than twenty years of outstanding growth in tourist arrivals and foreign currency earning, the prospects for continued growth depends on maintaining the pristine environment on which tourism has come to rely. However, with more tourists comes increased pressure on the finite natural resources. It is ironic that the tourism industry has become one of the biggest causes of environmental decay and stands to be one of its first victims.

In planning to develop an island economy based on tourism, it …

Retinoid Homeostasis Of An Oviparous Fish, Diane Ellen Nacci

Open Access Dissertations

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The Design And Implementation Of A Depression Prevention Program, Karyn Mary Forsyth

Open Access Dissertations

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Blood Glucose Estimation Accuracy In Children With Diabetes: An Investigation Of Repeated Practice With Latent Growth Curve Modeling, Julie Ann Wagner

Open Access Dissertations

Blood glucose (BG) estimation is an important part of maintaining euglycemia in individuals with diabetes. Interventions to increase accuracy were designed without taking into account the natural effects of practice. The current study investigated the effects of naturalistic practice on BG estimation accuracy. Latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) was used to analyze data from 43 children with insulin dependent diabetes. LGCM consists of two stages. In the first stage, a growth curve was fit to the repeated measures of each individual in the sample. Results indicated that the true growth trajectory was curvilinear, and best represented by a quadratic function. …

African American Identity, Experience With Racism, And Meaning In Life Among Black College Students, Brian L. Ragsdale

Open Access Dissertations

Experience with racism and its relationship to meaning in life (i.e., the degree to which a person feels the world is a safe and caring place), African American identity, and African American acculturation were explored in a sample of Black college students (N = 48) who attended a predominately White, public, state university in the Northeastern United States. Black men and women who have Black nationalistic ideals and were immersed in Black culture reported more lifetime racist experience than those students who were less immersed in African American culture. As a group, Black women who were under the age of …

Development, Characterization And Evaluation Of A Pulsed-Release Tablet Dosage Form For Low Dose Water Soluble Drugs, Suresh Palaniswamy

Open Access Dissertations

Various types of controlled release dosage forms such as wax matrix hydrophilic polymer matrix, osmotic pump and acrylic resin polymer encapsulated slow release for water soluble drugs have been developed and reported. However, there was no significant information available in the literature about the development and scale-up of pulse-release tablet dosage form for low dose water soluble drugs. This investigation was undertaken to develop, characterize and evaluate a new pulsed-release dosage form for a low dose water soluble drug with consistent drug release that combines polymer matrix and aqueous coating technology. The effect of scale-up on granulation, compression and coating …

Bioeconomic Implications Of Modifying The Selectivity Properties Of Fishing Gears, J. J. Agar Donald

Open Access Dissertations

This study investigates the biological and economic consequences of modifying the species selectivity properties of fishing gears in a multispecies context. The objective is to examine whether modifying the species selectivity properties can contribute to rebuild overexploited stocks. To meet this objective, conceptual and empirical bioeconomic models were constructed. The conceptual model was used to investigate the qualitative impacts and the empirical model was used to derive the quantitative impacts of modifying the species selectivity properties of the gear.

In the conceptual part of this study, a stylized model was developed to analyze the long-run equilibrium bioeconomic properties of modifying …

Regulating Tempo In A Continuation Finger-Tapping Task, Arthur Allen Little

Open Access Dissertations

It is well known that people can produce regular rhythms, such as clapping or finger tapping-what is not well known is how such rhythms are maintained over time. One of the simplest activities to measure human rhythms is "continuation finger tapping," in which subjects are first asked to copy an audible rhythm by tapping along with their finger, and then attempt to maintain that tapping rate after the pacer tones stop.

The purpose of this study was to learn more about how tempo is regulated in continuation finger-tapping. In this context, "regulated" refers to the rules, both empirical and hypothetical, …

Interaction Of Neurotransmitters On The Proboscis Muscles Of The North American Channeled Whelk Busycon Canaliculatum, Timothy John Fort

Open Access Dissertations

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Phylogenetic Systematics Of The Albuneidae (Crustacea: Anomura: Hippoidea), With The Description Of A New Family, Christopher B. Boyko

Open Access Dissertations

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Renaissance 2000, University Of Rhode Island

URI Yearbooks

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island yearbook.

Interactive Self-Modeling Mixture Analysis Using Principal Component Approach, Dongsheng Bu

Open Access Dissertations

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Some New Observations On The Cytopathology Of Fin Erosion Disease In Winter Flounder Pseudopleuronectes Americanus, Joel E. Bodammer

Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences Faculty Publications

A light and electron microscopic study was conducted on dorsal fin tissues adjacent to acute fin erosion lesions in winter flounder from 2 polluted sites (New York Bight region and New Haven Harbor) on the northeast Atlantic Coast. The objective of this work was to evaluate these minimally affected, lesion-associated tissues which may precede the acute or severe stages of the disease. The following 4 types of pathological conditions were found in the epidermis of diseased fish from the 2 polluted sites: (1) epithelial cell hyperplasia; (2) mucous cell hyperplasia and hypertrophy; (3) spongiosis; and (4) focal necrosis. The latter …