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You Can't Fight City Hall: Organization And Success In West Virginia, Theodore Malone Jan 2015

You Can't Fight City Hall: Organization And Success In West Virginia, Theodore Malone

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This research centers on the question of 'Who wins?' in criminal and civil cases heard by West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals. The study examines litigant characteristics and whether court winners are favored by virtue of their higher organizational levels, such as being business or government affiliates. The study is a partial small-scale replication of the prior research by Songer and Sheehan (1992) who determined that litigation resources that resulted from higher organizational levels predicated higher win rates in the United States Courts of Appeals. I utilized an array of cross-tabulations of success and litigant organization for a two-year sample …

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Remote Sensing For Monitoring The Mountaintop Mining Landscape: Applications For Land Cover Mapping At The Individual Mine Complex Scale, Aaron E. Maxwell Jan 2015

Remote Sensing For Monitoring The Mountaintop Mining Landscape: Applications For Land Cover Mapping At The Individual Mine Complex Scale, Aaron E. Maxwell

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the potential for mapping land cover associated with mountaintop mining in Southern West Virginia using high spatial resolution aerial- and satellite-based multispectral imagery, as well as light detection and ranging (LiDAR) elevation data and terrain derivatives. The following research themes were explored: comparing aerial- and satellite-based imagery, combining data sets of multiple dates and types, incorporating measures of texture, using nonparametric, machine learning classification algorithms, and employing a geographical object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) framework. This research is presented as four interrelated manuscripts.;In a comparison of aerial National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) orthophotography …

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Ethical Diversity In Strategic Communications: The Hiring, Training, And Mentoring Of Millennial Minorities, Rashidah C. R. Mccoy Jan 2015

Ethical Diversity In Strategic Communications: The Hiring, Training, And Mentoring Of Millennial Minorities, Rashidah C. R. Mccoy

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this research is to examine the challenges and opportunities diversity has for Strategic Communications practitioners and scholars. Its primary aim is to more fully understand this growing phenomenon in the industry, without undervaluing its complexity and abundance and to move towards a more inclusive and truly committed investor approach. This study used triangulated research methods to explore these factors. An online survey of people who have experience with Millennial minorities and reverse mentoring in the Strategic Communications industry was conducted. A series of in-depth interviews was conducted with individuals who have unique experiences with cultural diversity. The …

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Integrated Geochronology And Petrogenesis Of Volcanic Suites For Tectonic Sedimentary Studies: Karoo Basin, South Africa, Matthew P. Mckay Jan 2015

Integrated Geochronology And Petrogenesis Of Volcanic Suites For Tectonic Sedimentary Studies: Karoo Basin, South Africa, Matthew P. Mckay

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

By integrating high-precision, U-Pb zircon geochronology with zircon and whole rock/ tuff geochemistry, the tectonic history of an active margin can be assessed independently from strata preserved in sedimentary basins. This approach is particularly useful in regions where subsequent active tectonism has resulted in extensive igneous intrusion, tectonic dissection, or structural deformation of crustal suites, obscuring the record of previous geologic events. In this work I present 603 U-Pb zircon age coupled with zircon geochemical analyses collected from Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) microanalyses, 15 U-Pb zircon Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS) ages, and 109 U-Pb Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled …

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Development And Evaluation Of An Objective Method For Forensic Examination Of Human Head Hairs Using Texture-Based Image Analysis, Allyce S. Mcwhorter Jan 2015

Development And Evaluation Of An Objective Method For Forensic Examination Of Human Head Hairs Using Texture-Based Image Analysis, Allyce S. Mcwhorter

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In response to criticism of traditional forensic methods of human head hair examination, the goal of this study was to develop and evaluate an objective method using texture-based image analysis. 120 individuals, including 20 from six different maternal groups, were sampled and their hairs evaluated using the developed method. Different variables were evaluated to develop the most efficient method to increase intra/inter ratio, as well as the percentage of well-classified hairs. The variables included different microscope systems, objective lenses, number of hairs examined per individual, hair shaft regions, focus methods, and normalization filter techniques. Statistical analyses included one-way analysis of …

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The Environmental Effects Of Geologically Sequestered Carbon Dioxide Gas And The Enhanced Recovery Of Coal Bed Methane From An Unmineable Coal Seam, Brad David Hega Jan 2015

The Environmental Effects Of Geologically Sequestered Carbon Dioxide Gas And The Enhanced Recovery Of Coal Bed Methane From An Unmineable Coal Seam, Brad David Hega

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The need to mitigate the alleged effects of anthropogenic carbon dioxide gas (CO2(g)) generation has led to the exploring of specific subsurface environments to house the gas. The geology of the subsurface underlying Marshall County West Virginia makes the area an ideal setting for use as a CO 2(g) repository. A cooperative, pilot study was undertaken by CONSOL Energy Inc., which owns and operates the selected CO2(g) sequestration site, along with personnel from West Virginia University (WVU) and other agencies under the United States Department of Energy (DOE) funded Zero Emissions Research Technology or ZERT program. The repository is an …

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Development Of An Erosion Control Seed Mixture That Includes Native Species, George A. Hilvers Jan 2015

Development Of An Erosion Control Seed Mixture That Includes Native Species, George A. Hilvers

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The West Virginia Divisions of Highways (WVDOH) utilizes the establishment of grass cover as a temporary and permanent management practice to mediate the effects of erosion on highway construction sites. Current West Virginia regulations include five seed mixtures for permanent applications that include combinations of nine species. Six of these species are identified as invasive, and all nine species are considered introduced or both native and introduced. This research developed alternative seed mixtures that included low threat or native species. The alternative seed mixtures were then evaluated in a field test. The research also examined seedbed preparation techniques, the performance …

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Myosin Ii Isoforms In Breast Cancer: Role Of Contractility In Matrix Organization, Cell Migration, And Endothelial Barrier Function, Bridget Ruth Hindman Jan 2015

Myosin Ii Isoforms In Breast Cancer: Role Of Contractility In Matrix Organization, Cell Migration, And Endothelial Barrier Function, Bridget Ruth Hindman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Breast cancer is a devastating and complicated disease. A large proportion of breast cancer related deaths are due to metastasis. Metastasis is when cancer cells leave the primary tumor, travel through the bloodstream, and proliferate in distant sites. Cell contractility is involved in a number of cellular processes associated with metastasis including matrix organization, tumor cell migration, and endothelial cell barrier function. The main regulator of contractility in nonmuscle cells is nonmuscle myosin II. There are three isoforms of this protein: myosin IIA, IIB, and IIC. The specific roles of the individual isoforms in cancer progression and metastasis have yet …

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On The Roles Of Drosophila Notch Signaling And Atonal Autoregulation In The Specification Of R8 Photoreceptors, Adam T. Majot Jan 2015

On The Roles Of Drosophila Notch Signaling And Atonal Autoregulation In The Specification Of R8 Photoreceptors, Adam T. Majot

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Drosophila retinogenesis has long served as a paradigm of tissue patterning. Notch, an anciently conserved signaling pathway, is critical to both the formation of and proper spacing of founding R8 photoreceptors. Notch is intimately interwoven into the activity of Atonal (Ato), a proneural basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) that is required for R8 specification. Ato is expressed through dual enhancers: ato-3' and 5'-ato. ato-3' is activated in response to Notch-independent signaling cues whereas 5'-ato exhibits complex dependence on Notch signaling. First, Notch is required for 5'-ato activation, eliciting formation of Ato intermediate groups (IGs, evenly spaced clusters of 10--20 cells). Subsequently, Notch …

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One Stick In The Bundle: Characterizing Nonparticipating Royalty Interests Under West Virginia Law, Andrew S. Graham, Allison J. Farrell, Lauren A. Williams, Amber M. Moore Dec 2014

One Stick In The Bundle: Characterizing Nonparticipating Royalty Interests Under West Virginia Law, Andrew S. Graham, Allison J. Farrell, Lauren A. Williams, Amber M. Moore

West Virginia Law Review

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Courts Cap The "Trade": Regulation Of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State And Federal Cap-And-Trade Regulation, Steven Ferrey Dec 2014

Courts Cap The "Trade": Regulation Of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State And Federal Cap-And-Trade Regulation, Steven Ferrey

West Virginia Law Review

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Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker Dec 2014

Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker

West Virginia Law Review

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The Linchpin Of Identification Evidence: The Unreliability Of Eyewitnesses And The Need For Reform In West Virginia, Jared T. Dotson Dec 2014

The Linchpin Of Identification Evidence: The Unreliability Of Eyewitnesses And The Need For Reform In West Virginia, Jared T. Dotson

West Virginia Law Review

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Acute Sleep Organization Following Unanesthetized Circumcision Of Neonates, Margeaux M. Gray Dec 2014

Acute Sleep Organization Following Unanesthetized Circumcision Of Neonates, Margeaux M. Gray

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Sleep changes in response to environmental pressures and the needs of individuals. The adaptability of sleep is noticeable following largely stressful or adverse events, and is understood to facilitate recovery. Rapid changes in sleep occur in-utero, during the days following birth, and across the first few postnatal years. These rapid changes are considered adaptive and indicative of normal and healthy development. Elective surgical intervention, such as circumcision, may influence the organization and quality of sleep during this developmentally sensitive period. Neonates undergoing circumcision, a prevalent procedure in the U.S. (American Academy of Pediatrics Circumcision Policy Statement [AAP], 1999, 2005, 2012), …

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Setting Up A Sam In Excel Using Vba, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto Oct 2014

Setting Up A Sam In Excel Using Vba, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto

Regional Research Institute Technical Documents

This technical document describes how to set up a full Social Accounting Matrix from its own partition in a spreadsheet file. This is done using VBA code.

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Using A Spreadsheet Sam For Gams Cge Modeling, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto Oct 2014

Using A Spreadsheet Sam For Gams Cge Modeling, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto

Regional Research Institute Technical Documents

This technical document provides in a single document a template to follow when using spreadsheet Social Accounting Matrix data to drive a GAMS-based Computable General Equilibrium model.

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Remittances And Governance: Does The Government Free Ride?, Durga P. Gautam Sep 2014

Remittances And Governance: Does The Government Free Ride?, Durga P. Gautam

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Through what channel and to what extent does the inflow of remittances affect the quality of governance in the recipient countries? Recent studies suggest that a rise in remittances reduces public goods provision. Scholars generally agree that remittances increase consumption expenditure of the recipient households. This implicit positive correlation between remittances and the ratio of household to government consumption indicates an increasing share of private goods in household consumption. The decreasing share of public goods, on the other hand, tends to reduce households0 incentives to monitor and hold the government accountable. As a result, the external benefits generated by household …

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Technical Document For Price Adjustment, Zheng Tian, Mulugeta Kahsai, Randall Jackson Sep 2014

Technical Document For Price Adjustment, Zheng Tian, Mulugeta Kahsai, Randall Jackson

Regional Research Institute Technical Documents

This document presents the basis for the price adjustment mechanisms in a time series IO model. The essentials of the price adjustment and price change propagation algorithms are presented, along with a matrix permutation algorithm that facilitates the implementation of the price adjustment mechanism. The Matlab function is provided.

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The Ncaa Athletics Arms Race: Theory And Evidence, Adam Hoffer, Brad R. Humphreys, Donald J. Lacombe, Jane E. Ruseki Sep 2014

The Ncaa Athletics Arms Race: Theory And Evidence, Adam Hoffer, Brad R. Humphreys, Donald J. Lacombe, Jane E. Ruseki

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

We develop and empirically test a model of intercollegiate athletic department expenditure decisions. The model extends general dynamic models of nonprice competition and includes the idea that nonprofit athletic departments may simply set expenditure equal to revenues. Own and rival prestige is included in the athletic departments' utility function, generating rivalrous interaction. The model predicts that current own and rival investment has multiperiod effects on prestige since investment is durable. We test the model using data from NCAA Division I athletic programs from 2006-2011; the models incorporate spatial autocorrelation that capture dynamic rivalrous interaction. Results support the prediction of both …

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Variety, Mergers, And Consumer Well-Being: Towards A Capability Approach To Merger Law, Jennifer E. Sturiale Sep 2014

Variety, Mergers, And Consumer Well-Being: Towards A Capability Approach To Merger Law, Jennifer E. Sturiale

West Virginia Law Review

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The Ascending Role Of Crime Vctims In Plea-Bargaining And Beyond, Elizabeth N. Jones Sep 2014

The Ascending Role Of Crime Vctims In Plea-Bargaining And Beyond, Elizabeth N. Jones

West Virginia Law Review

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Minding Your Meds: Balancing The Needs For Patient Privacy And Law Enforcement In Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Devon T. Unger Sep 2014

Minding Your Meds: Balancing The Needs For Patient Privacy And Law Enforcement In Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Devon T. Unger

West Virginia Law Review

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Better For Business, Better For Justice: Why West Virginia Needs An Intermediate Appellate Court, Stephanie Zwerner Sep 2014

Better For Business, Better For Justice: Why West Virginia Needs An Intermediate Appellate Court, Stephanie Zwerner

West Virginia Law Review

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Restraining The Hand Of Law: A Conceptual Framework To Shrink The Size Of Law, Bryan Druzin Sep 2014

Restraining The Hand Of Law: A Conceptual Framework To Shrink The Size Of Law, Bryan Druzin

West Virginia Law Review

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A Second Chance: Rebiography As Just Compensation, Jamila Jefferson-Jones Sep 2014

A Second Chance: Rebiography As Just Compensation, Jamila Jefferson-Jones

West Virginia Law Review

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Adolescent Steroid Use And Intercollegiate Athletic Incentives, Brad R. Humphreys, Jane E. Ruseki Aug 2014

Adolescent Steroid Use And Intercollegiate Athletic Incentives, Brad R. Humphreys, Jane E. Ruseki

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

We examine the relationship between college athletic scholarships and adolescent use of performance enhancing drugs. Annually, 4.5 million male high school athletes compete for about 132,000 athletic scholarships offered by NCAA Division I and II universities. Estimates from a probit model of self-reported steroid use among US adolescent males using data from the YRBSS suggest each sanction-related athletic scholarship reduction at NCAA institutions in a state increases the probability that high school males in that state report using steroids by 3%. Competition for athletic scholarships generates incentives for adolescent males to improve athletic performance through use of steroids.

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A Multi-Agent Design For Power Distribution Systems Automation, M. Jawad Ghorbani Aug 2014

A Multi-Agent Design For Power Distribution Systems Automation, M. Jawad Ghorbani

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A new Multi Agent System (MAS) design for fault location, isolation and restoration in power distribution systems is presented. In proposed approach, when there is a fault in the Power Distribution System (PDS), MAS quickly isolates the fault and restores the service to fault-free zones. Hierarchical coordination strategy is introduced to manage the agents which integrate the advantages of both centralized and decentralized coordination strategies. In this framework, Zone Agent (ZA) locate and isolate the fault based on the locally available information and assist the Feeder Agent (FA) for reconfiguration and restoration. FA can solve the restoration problem using the …

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Comparison Of Color Accuracy Of Commercial Digital Cameras And Cellular Phonecameras For Laboratory Purposes, Adeline W. Yuh Aug 2014

Comparison Of Color Accuracy Of Commercial Digital Cameras And Cellular Phonecameras For Laboratory Purposes, Adeline W. Yuh

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Accurate shade matching of indirect restorations as well as accurate communication of that information to the laboratory technician is one of the most challenging tasks in the dental office. The objective of this study was to compare the color accuracy of commercial digital cameras used in the dental office with cellular phone cameras. Twenty four color patches and 4 shade tabs on a new Vita classic shade guide (A2, B2, C2, and D2) were photographed 3 times with 4 different cameras: The Canon EOS 30D, the Nikon D700, the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S3. For the light source, a …

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Computational Strategies For Faster Combustion Simulations With Detailed Chemistry, Jose A. Escobar-Vargas Aug 2014

Computational Strategies For Faster Combustion Simulations With Detailed Chemistry, Jose A. Escobar-Vargas

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Combustion of fossil fuels is still the biggest source of power generation in the world. However, pollutants released to the atmosphere from combustion represent a risk for human health and the environment. Hence it is desirable to design a combustor that produces the maximum useful thermal power output while keeping low concentration levels of harmful emissions such as CO, P.M., NOx, and SOx. In the past, combustor design was aided by the compilation of large sets of experimental data and the development of empirical correlations which is an expensive process. Nowadays numerical simulations have become an important tool in the …

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Method To Develop A Control System For A Stable And Guidable Hybrid Projectile, Joseph Close Aug 2014

Method To Develop A Control System For A Stable And Guidable Hybrid Projectile, Joseph Close

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A Hybrid Projectile (HP) is a munition that transforms into an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) after being launched from a tube. In many situations it is desirable for this type of projectile to change its point of impact and depart from its current ballistic trajectory similar to a UAV following a path. A method was created to utilize deflectable control surfaces in conjunction with a guidance system to ensure the HP was statically and dynamically stable and to maneuver the HP to a desired point of impact. Methods were devised to control heading and pitch using vertical and horizontal tail …

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