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Distance Function Constructions In Topological Spaces, Laurie Jean Sawyer

Doctoral Dissertations

This work investigates the use of distance function constructions in the study of semimetrizable spaces, especially as this relates to developable, K-semimetrizable and 1-continuously semimetrizable spaces.

A distance function for X is a nonnegative, symmetric, real-valued function d: X x X $\to$ $\IR$ such that d(p,q) = 0 iff p = q. A distance function d is developable iff, when d(x$\sb{\rm n}$,p) $\to$ 0 and d(y$\sb{\rm n}$,p) $\to$ 0, then d(x$\sb{\rm n}$,y$\sb{\rm n}$) $\to$ 0; and d is a K-distance function iff whenever d(x$\sb{\rm n}$,p) $\to$ 0, d(y$\sb{\rm n}$,q) $\to$ 0 and d(x$\sb{\rm n}$,y$\sb{\rm n}$) $\to$ 0, then p = …

Concert Recording 1990-04-04, David Sullivan, Jerome Rappaport, Thomas Moore, John Ringley, Phyllis Lee

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto / Arutunian -- Legend / Georges Enesco -- Romanian dances / Bela Bartok

Comparison Of Cybex Isokinetic Trunk Flexion And Extension Test And The Functional Capacity Assessment, Beverly J. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

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1990 Commencement Program, New York Law School

Commencement Programs

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Pitfalls Of Public Policy: The Case Of Arbitration Agreements., Jeffrey W. Stempel

St. Mary's Law Journal

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Practice Behaviors Of Alberta Soccer Coaches, Mary B. Dyck

Theses and Dissertations

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Drugs Of Abuse And Their Interactions With Acetaminophen, Khaja Mohiuddin Ahmed

Theses and Dissertations

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Democracy, Counterinsurgency, And Human Rights: The Case Of Peru, Angela Cornell, Kenneth Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The wave of authoritarianism that swept over Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s focused international attention on the human rights violations committed by military dictatorships. As most Latin American nations experienced transitions to democratic rule in the 1980s, hopes were raised that human rights would be more widely respected. Nevertheless, it is questionable whether a regime change from dictatorship to democracy necessarily entails renewed respect for human rights. Does redemocratization represent a fundamental change in the exercise of political authority—that is, in relations between the state and civil society—or are there conditions under which democratic institutions and constitutional norms …

Predatory Pricing, George A. Hay

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Seed Sisters, Linda Ganstrom

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

The love I've experienced in life has inspired me to explore the positive, creative power of woman. I see woman as a vessel. Within she holds her love, new life, and a host of ideas, emotions and dreams. The potential of women in today's American culture fascinates me. Women face a wide variety of life-choices. For many, these new opportunities in the work-place have been accompanied by fresh dilemmas. How does one juggle family, work, spiritual, and personal responsibilities? Challenged, today's woman is pregnant with possibilities, full of new hope and new life. Yet she also has an eternal side, …

Contract Excuse And Bankruptcy Discharge, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Attitudes Toward Corporate Responsibility: A Psycholegal Perspective, Valerie P. Hans

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

One of the most striking phenomena in the contemporary legal world is the shift toward holding businesses and corporations responsible for harm. Legal theorists and historians maintain that today business corporations are expected to provide compensation for injuries that in earlier times would have been attributed to individuals or to fate. Furthermore, criminal charges against businesses and business executives are becoming commonplace.

Despite a good deal of legal scholarship on the shift toward holding businesses culpable for harms, psychologists have conducted little systematic research on public views of corporate responsibility. How do people conceptualize the civil liability or criminal responsibility …

Manifestations Of A Distributed Operating System, Allison J. Mull

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Prevention Of Adolescent Drug And Alcohol Abuse : A Study Of The Mediating Effects Of Anxiety / By Rosemary Taylor, Rosemary Taylor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Electromagnetic Scattering From Eccentric Circular Cylinders, Rajan P. Parrikar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Microbial Transformation Of Aromatic Compounds, Manish Parekh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Real Property, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Ours is an era during which a whole year's worth of developments rule-wise can be brought up on a desktop screen already broken down by subject and subdivided into discrete topics. In high-tone academic neighborhoods this causes pundits to impose upon this already ordered material a new twist, re-ordering it around themes derived from economics, sociology, or even street corner opinion polling. Bean counting and number crunching are felt necessary, and understandably so, if one is to add something "intellectual" to what the machines have spewed out. The life of an old-fashioned lawyer has become hard indeed in this Republic, …

The Diviners : A Production Study / By Meleia Lechelle Utley, Meleia Lechelle Utley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Statistical Analysis Of Some Parameters Controlling Cavitationerosion And An Examination Of Eroded Debris Characteristics / By Bryan Palmer Tucker, Bryan Palmer Tucker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Epistemology Of Judging: Wittgenstein And Deliberative Practices, Thomas Morawetz

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Rhetorical Pluralism And The Discourse Ideal: Countering Division Of Employment V. Smith, A Parable Of Pagans, Politics, And Majoritarian Rule, Richard K. Sherwin

Articles & Chapters

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Aicpa Committees, 1990-91: Officers, Board Of Directors And Council, Boards And Committees, Staff Organization, State Cpa Societies, Dates Of Board, Council, And Annual Meetings, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

AICPA Committees

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The Heath Anthology Of American Literature - Volume Two, Paul Lauter, Juan Bruce-Novoa, Jackson Bryer, Elaine Hedges, Amy Ling, Daniel Littlefield, Wendy Martin, Charles Molesworth, Carla Mulford, Raymund Paredes, Hortense Spillers

Covers, Titles, and Tables: The Formations of American Literary Canons in Anthologies - Archive

Contains Title Page, Table of Contents

Analysis For Creep, Shrinkage And Temperature Effects On Expansion Joint Movements In Composite Prestressed Concrete Bridges., Keith Joseph Rebello

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A rigorous and efficient analytical model to predict the long-term deformation behavior of bridges with multiple, precast, pretensioned, prestressed concrete girders supporting cast-in-place-concrete deck slabs, was developed. The analytical procedure uses the finite element method with three-dimensional 20-node isoparametric elements to realistically model bridge geometry. Time dependent effects due to load and temperature history, creep, shrinkage and aging of concrete are included in the analysis. Creep and shrinkage strains are evaluated at different times using the more commonly used procedures, namely, the ACI-209, Bazant-Panula II and CEB-FIP procedures. Temperature strains are calculated from an assumed typical bridge temperature distribution based …

The Relationship Of Serum Killing, Phagocytosis And Oxidant Production By Bovine Monocyte-Derived Macrophages To Intracellular Survival Of Brucella Abortus., Denise Ida Bounous

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Functional activities of monocyte-derived macrophages and serum killing ability in a population of Brucella abortus-naive cows were evaluated. The ability of these macrophages to phagocytize and control intracellular survival of B.abortus and to produce oxidant was measured. Fresh normal bovine sera killed significantly more B.abortus than reactor serum or fetal bovine serum. When heated to destroy complement, none of the sera were capable of significant killing. The ability of sera from B.abortus-naive cows to kill the bacteria was normally distributed, with all animals within $\pm$ 2 sd of the mean. Phagocytosis of bacteria opsonized with autologous or reactor sera was …

The Effect Of Severity Of Closed Head Injury On Memory Functioning., Linda Marie Brown

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was undertaken to examine the relationship between neuroanatomy of memory, the structural mechanics of closed head injury and the resulting effects on memory functioning. The experimental groups were composed of 30 closed head injured individuals equally divided by severity of injury based on posttraumatic amnesia (PTA). The first group included 15 mild head injured patients whose PTA was defined as less than 60 minutes. Group two was composed of 15 severely head injured patients whose PTA was greater than 24 hours. The comparison group consisted of 15 non-head injured volunteers matched to the experimental group by age, gender, …

The Social Integration-Deviance Hypothesis In Sociology: The Case Of Teenage Fertility., Stephen Joseph Caldas

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this dissertation is to construct and test an elaborated version of the social integration-deviance model. Social integration theory traces its origins to Emile Durkheim, who postulated the existence of two forms of social integration, today known as normative and functional integration. In his classic work Suicide (1897/1951) Durkheim first empirically tested his theory of social integration, though arguably only for normative integration. Others have since elaborated on his theory, and have tested various versions of it (Hirschi, 1969; Collette, Webb, & Smith, 1979). The current work conceptualizes teenage childbearing in the United States as deviancy from an …

Interaction Properties Of Geogrids In Reinforced Soil Walls, Testing And Analysis., Khalid A. Farrag

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The considerable development of the geosynthetics and their increasing use in soil reinforcement made it necessary to develop methods of measuring the interaction properties and modeling load transfer in reinforced soil structures. The current testing procedures demonstrate significant limitations related to the testing methodology and data interpretation. In order to address these limitations, a pull-out box and direct shear box were constructed. The design of these boxes overcomes most of theses limitations and provides the capability of conducting displacement-rate controlled tests for the evaluation of short-term behavior of the soil-reinforcement system, and load-controlled tests to evaluate their time-dependent performance. The …

Ecology Of Erwinia Chrysanthemi, Causal Agent Of Bacterial Stem And Root Rot On Sweet Potato And Etiology Of Souring., Valmir Duarte

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

During three seasons, mother storage roots of Beauregard sweetpotato were inoculated with Erwinia chrysanthemi in March, and the pathogen was recovered from them the day they were bedded, 7 days later, and at the first and second pullings of slips as well as from underground stems at harvest in September and October of the first and second transplantings, respectively. Little stem rot occurred in the fields during the three seasons. Thirteen strains of E. chrysanthemi, 8 isolated originally from sweetpotato and 5 from other hosts, and one strain of E. carotovora subsp. carotovora were inoculated on sweetpotato and 12 different …

The Relation Between Depression Scores And Social Skills Scores In Children: A Cross-Sectional Study Of Self-Report And Parent-Report Measures., Larry Ray Friedt

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The relationship between depressive symptoms and social skills in children was examined. Three depression measures (Children's Depression Inventory, Reynolds' Child/Adolescent Depression Scale, Depression Self-Rating Scale) and two social skills measures (Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters, Social Skills Rating System) were used to obtain parent-report and self-report data. One hundred fifty-eight children in six different grades (3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th) were the subjects of the study. Reliability of each measure was examined using internal consistency reliability coefficients (Cronbach's alpha) which indicated all the measures except the Depression Self-Rating Scale parent-report yielded coefficients of.80 or greater. The validity …