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Perspective, Vol. 8 No. 2, Winter 1997, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations. Jan 1997

Perspective, Vol. 8 No. 2, Winter 1997, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations.

Alumni Publications

This issue contains articles on Eastern alums who own restaurants in the Spokane area, Mai Bee Vue and her career as a singer and teacher in Spokane, international students and learning English at Eastern, and the Foundation Annual Report for July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1996.

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Ministry In Small Membership Churches: A Bachelor's Degree Course For The Sudents Of Evangelical Methodist Seminary Of Costa Rica, Oscar Aguilar_Marin Jan 1997

Ministry In Small Membership Churches: A Bachelor's Degree Course For The Sudents Of Evangelical Methodist Seminary Of Costa Rica, Oscar Aguilar_Marin

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Rhodococcus Equi And Arcanobacterium Haemolyticum: Two "Coryneform" Bacteria Increasingly Recognized As Agents Of Human Infection, R. Linder Jan 1997

Rhodococcus Equi And Arcanobacterium Haemolyticum: Two "Coryneform" Bacteria Increasingly Recognized As Agents Of Human Infection, R. Linder

Publications and Research

Rhodococcus equi and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, formerly classified in the genus Corynebacterium, are members of the loosely defined taxon "coryneform" bacteria. Although they are the etiologic agents of distinct human infections, both organisms are frequently overlooked, which results in missed or delayed diagnoses. R. equi, long known as an important pathogen of immature horses, has become in the past three decades an opportunistic pathogen of severely immunosuppressed humans. Most cases are secondary to HIV infection. When specifically sought in throat swab cultures, A. haemolyticum is found responsible for 0.5% to 2.5% of bacterial pharyngitis, especially among adolescents. These two microorganisms represent …

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Voices Of Three African American Female College Presidents: A Qualitative Study Of Their Journeys, Maria Teresa Alves Williams Jan 1997

Voices Of Three African American Female College Presidents: A Qualitative Study Of Their Journeys, Maria Teresa Alves Williams

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

There are many prevailing myths that have influenced society's perception of Black women. As a result, a tradition of negativity surrounds African American women in American society. It is these "negative perceptions and misinterpretation of African American women's behavior that found its way into colleges and universities" (Myers, 1991, p. 9). Unlike White women, and Black men, Black women in academe experience double jeopardy; race and gender biases (Gregory, 1995; Myers, 2002). Research on Black women has found that they are concentrated at the lowest academic ranks, non-tenured, paid less than their male and White female counterparts, and promoted at …

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Grasp--A Language To Facilitate The Synthesis Of Parallel Programs, Todd Alan Gross Jan 1997

Grasp--A Language To Facilitate The Synthesis Of Parallel Programs, Todd Alan Gross

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In the context of this thesis, the name Grasp subsumes three distinct but highly interrelated projects. First of all, Grasp is a programming language that allows the user to define properties of graph-theoretic objects by using high-level nonprocedural descriptions called specifications. Second, Grasp is a translator that converts specifications to standard sequential C functions. Finally, Grasp is a model of computation that has been left largely uninvestigated despite possessing several advantageous properties. Each of these aspects of Grasp is described in a contextually clean and detailed manner, but in the end the theoretical aspects of Grasp are espoused over the …

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Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Nancy P. Gallavan, Le Ann Putney, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Mildred Mcclain, Sheila Gregory, Joyce Nelson-Leaf Jan 1997

Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Nancy P. Gallavan, Le Ann Putney, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Mildred Mcclain, Sheila Gregory, Joyce Nelson-Leaf

College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter

The Clark County School District has long recognized the need to provide training and support for teachers and other staff in the area of multicultural education. In 1992, the development and funding of a multicultural education program, Project MCE, formalized, for the first time, the district's commitment to providing students with a true multicultural education. Project MCE is a part of the CCSD Compensatory Education Division, Elise Ax, Assistant Superintendent.

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The Impact Of A Substance Abuse Prevention Program: An Evaluation, Julie Ann Hogan Jan 1997

The Impact Of A Substance Abuse Prevention Program: An Evaluation, Julie Ann Hogan

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study tests the theory of risk and protective factors. The risk and protective theory suggests that substance abuse prevention programs, in order to be effective, must decrease risk factors and increase protective factors for youth. Seventeen risk and protective factors are identified in the literature and are tested in this study; To determine the degree to which this theory applies to prevention programming, this study evaluates the effectiveness of a substance abuse prevention program entitled the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP). NYSP is a nationally sponsored summer youth and academic program that includes a prevention education component. Three hundred …

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Testing The Naked Eye Observation Of The Cervix After Application Of Acetic Acid As An Effective Screening Test For Cervical Dysplasia, Carol M Schmidt Jan 1997

Testing The Naked Eye Observation Of The Cervix After Application Of Acetic Acid As An Effective Screening Test For Cervical Dysplasia, Carol M Schmidt

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The Papanicolaou test is the recommended screening for cervical cancer. It has a high false-negative rate. Because of the imperfection of the Papanicolaou other screening tests have been developed. Five studies compared various aspects of different screening techniques with mixed results; A quasi-experimental design study was constructed comparing the naked eye observation of the cervix to the colposcopy observation, and the naked eye observation of the cervix to the Papanicolaou test; The sample of 136 women from the Las Vegas area, being seen at their regular clinics were examined with all three procedures. A physiologic framework directed this study. The …

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Crime And Its Relationship To The University Medical Center, Paul D Shapiro Jan 1997

Crime And Its Relationship To The University Medical Center, Paul D Shapiro

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study explores the relationship between crime and violence and the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. An investigation was conducted to determine how crime and violence affects the medical center from an economic, security, staff and organizational response perspective; Nursing staff and security officer interviews, supplemented with security department incident reports, suggest a perception problem exists. Nurses interviewed believe a major cost of crime and violence at the medical center is the perceived threat to their personal safety by gang members and patients under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Security officer interviews and data from incident reports suggest …

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The Impact And Pattern Of Gene And Genome Duplication In The History Of Increasing Organismal Complexity, Matthew Rand Ronshaugen Jan 1997

The Impact And Pattern Of Gene And Genome Duplication In The History Of Increasing Organismal Complexity, Matthew Rand Ronshaugen

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The increase in phenotypic or morphological complexity in organisms may stem from a corresponding increase in the complexity of the underlying genetic architecture, driven by the process of gene duplication. Gene duplication is a mutational mechanism that can impact the genome through the gradual birth and death of individual genes or clusters of genes, and through infrequent episodic events of whole genome duplication. Functional and pleiotropic differences among genes may impact the probability of fixation of duplicated genes and the facility of gene families to record duplication events across deep history. Phylogenetic inference of the relationship among genes in multigene …

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The Subversive Sentimental : Subversive Narrative Techniques Of African-American Women Novelists From The Antebellum To Postbellum Periods / By Christina Riley Brown, Christina Riley-Brown Jan 1997

The Subversive Sentimental : Subversive Narrative Techniques Of African-American Women Novelists From The Antebellum To Postbellum Periods / By Christina Riley Brown, Christina Riley-Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Doing Justice: A Challenge For Catholic Law Schools Essay., Grace M. Walle Jan 1997

Doing Justice: A Challenge For Catholic Law Schools Essay., Grace M. Walle

St. Mary's Law Journal

The numerous allegations of misconduct against high-ranking United States political figures and the associated attorneys are disheartening, but even more disconcerting is the general public’s acquiescence to these ethical deviations. The common assumption that “all lawyers are crooks” fails to outrage anyone. The fact most, if not all, recent ethical violators attended law schools and began their political careers as lawyers prompts questions of the legal education process. Understanding what justice encompasses may begin in books and the classroom, but justice in legal practice requires far more. The aspiration of “doing justice” may stem from religious belief, but this goal …

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Defining The Limits Of Federal Court Jurisdiction Over States In Bankruptcy Court., Patricia L. Barsalou Jan 1997

Defining The Limits Of Federal Court Jurisdiction Over States In Bankruptcy Court., Patricia L. Barsalou

St. Mary's Law Journal

Sovereign immunity jurisprudence has always been a confusing jumble of assumptions which seem incomprehensible. Despite the confusion, understanding sovereign immunity has become more important in the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida. The constitutional issues raised in Seminole Tribe amount to a reinterpretation of the fundamental balance of power between federal and state governments and the power of Congress to affect that balance. Not all sovereign immunity is sovereign immunity. Many courts use the term to identify both the common-law doctrine and the “immunity” granted to the states through the Eleventh …

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The Food And Drug Administration's Final Rule On Tobacco Advertising Is All Butt Final: Commercial Speech Doctrine Will Be Tested Once More Under A Stricter Central Hudson Analysis In The Aftermath Of 44 Liquormart, Inc. V. Rhode Island Comment., Joe R. Hinojosa Jan 1997

The Food And Drug Administration's Final Rule On Tobacco Advertising Is All Butt Final: Commercial Speech Doctrine Will Be Tested Once More Under A Stricter Central Hudson Analysis In The Aftermath Of 44 Liquormart, Inc. V. Rhode Island Comment., Joe R. Hinojosa

St. Mary's Law Journal

In 1996 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) promulgated regulations affecting the advertising, sale, and promotion of tobacco. President Clinton supported the FDA’s claim it has the power to regulate tobacco products not as drugs, but as medical delivery devices of nicotine. Meaning tobacco sellers, retailer, distributors, and manufacturers would be subject to strict rules concerning how and where tobacco products may be advertised, distributed, and promoted. Despite the FDA’s claims, these measures were oriented toward discouraging children from smoking. Opponents of the regulations claim the restrictions constitute blatant infringement of commercial speech. The FDA argues that while advertising is …

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Quality Of Life Of An Internal Cardiac Defibrillator Patient In Rural North Dakota, Kraig W. Brandt Jan 1997

Quality Of Life Of An Internal Cardiac Defibrillator Patient In Rural North Dakota, Kraig W. Brandt

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Ms 145 Guide To The W. Roy Knowles, Md Amuputation Kit (1938), W. Roy Knowles (1929-2005) Jan 1997

Ms 145 Guide To The W. Roy Knowles, Md Amuputation Kit (1938), W. Roy Knowles (1929-2005)

Manuscript Finding Aids

This collection consists of an amputation or surgical kit, probably German in origin circa 1938. This collection was originally identified as a U.S. Civil War-era amputation kit. See a note in the control folder from Alethea Drexler, archives assistant, explaining why the kit is not circa 1860s. See more at MS 145.

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Republican Roman And Athenian Democratic Criminal Justice : People, Places And Procedures, Jason Ross Nabors Jan 1997

Republican Roman And Athenian Democratic Criminal Justice : People, Places And Procedures, Jason Ross Nabors

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Ethics Of Mediation Evaluation: Some Troublesome Questions And Tentative Proposals, From An Evaluative Lawyer Mediator, James Stark Jan 1997

The Ethics Of Mediation Evaluation: Some Troublesome Questions And Tentative Proposals, From An Evaluative Lawyer Mediator, James Stark

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.

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Anthology Of American Literature - Sixth Edition, Volume One: Colonial Through Romantic, George Mcmichael, J. C. Levenson, Frederick Crews, Leo Marx, David E. Smith Jan 1997

Anthology Of American Literature - Sixth Edition, Volume One: Colonial Through Romantic, George Mcmichael, J. C. Levenson, Frederick Crews, Leo Marx, David E. Smith

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

Contains Title Page, Table of Contents

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Evaluation Of Alternative Gases For Immiscible Cyclic Injection., Sara Shayegi Jan 1997

Evaluation Of Alternative Gases For Immiscible Cyclic Injection., Sara Shayegi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Cyclic gas injection processes have been primarily restricted to the use of pure CO$\sb2$ or CO$\sb2$ that has been slightly contaminated with reservoir gases. However, it is difficult to employ CO$\sb2$ in certain circumstances due to transport, economic, or corrosion problems. This study presents the results of laboratory investigations of the cyclic gas injection process using methane, nitrogen and combinations of these gases with CO$\sb2$. Cyclic gas injections were performed at immiscible conditions in consolidated sandstone cores that contained waterflood residual oil under analogous conditions to previous cyclic CO$\sb2$ injections for comparative purposes. Pure methane recovered approximately the same amount …

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Non-Conservative Behavior Of Select Naturally-Occurring Radionuclides And Metals In Coastal Waters., Peter Wolfgang Swarzenski Jan 1997

Non-Conservative Behavior Of Select Naturally-Occurring Radionuclides And Metals In Coastal Waters., Peter Wolfgang Swarzenski

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Water column samples from three vastly contrasting coastal regimes (Framvaren Fjord, Norway, the Amazon and Mississippi River outflow regions) were analyzed to study the estuarine transport and scavenging processes of $\sp{210}$Pb, $\sp{210}$Po, $\sp{234}$U and $\sp{238}$U. The Amazon and Mississippi River outflow regions are two of the world's largest river-ocean mixing systems that contrast each other sharply in many physiographical and geochemical features. The Amazon is a tropical, high energy, shelf environment where estuarine physico-chemical processes are strongly influenced by sediment-water interactions. The Mississippi system on the other hand discharges much of its load close to the shelf-break where estuarine geochemical …

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Injection Of Species Under Electrical Field To Enhance Bioremediation., Fazle Rabbi Jan 1997

Injection Of Species Under Electrical Field To Enhance Bioremediation., Fazle Rabbi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Electrokinetics is one of the most viable alternatives for injecting/extracting water, organic and ionic species in low permeability soils as well as heterogeneous media because the transport processes are independent of the pore sizes. A better understanding of the principles offers the opportunity to employ multi-component species transport under electrical fields to inject electron acceptors, nutrients and other process additives for enhancement of in-situ bioremediation in low permeability and heterogeneous media. This study assesses the potential to employ and exploit the principles of multi-component species transport under electrical fields as mean to supplement, enhance and engineer in-situ bioremediation. It was …

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Radio-Frequency Impedance Measurements On Thin Films Of Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide., Vibha K. Pant Jan 1997

Radio-Frequency Impedance Measurements On Thin Films Of Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide., Vibha K. Pant

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition in epitaxial films of YBCO of varying thickness is studied. The phase transition is found to occur in these films in both zero fields and in perpendicular and parallel magnetic fields up to 0.5 T. In addition, the same transition is seen in a lead film of thickness less than the penetration depth in lead. This measurement is used as a calibration to determine the penetration depth in YBCO for both the zero-field case and perpendicular-field case. Once the penetration depth is determined, the effective thickness of the superconducting layer is calculated for all the films. …

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Orientation Effects On African-American Engineering Students: The Lsu Case., Forest Dent Smith Jan 1997

Orientation Effects On African-American Engineering Students: The Lsu Case., Forest Dent Smith

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Extended orientation courses continue to be introduced as curriculum offerings that assist students to persist in post-secondary institutions. Research on the outcomes of such courses in terms of student retention and achievement is, with regard to race, however, not proceeding at the same pace as orientation course research in general. The purpose of this study was to apply the attrition models of Tinto (1987) and Pascarella, Terenzini, and Wolfe (1986) and examine extended orientation as a contributing factor to the retention and achievement of African-American engineering students. The sample of the study consisted of 354 African-American students who were members …

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Coastal Restoration Using Pipeline-Conveyed Sediments., Catherine Faith Voisin Jan 1997

Coastal Restoration Using Pipeline-Conveyed Sediments., Catherine Faith Voisin

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A spreadsheet program was successfully developed which determines the engineering requirements for pipeline transport of sediments from dredge sites to wetland restorations sites. The program called SLURRY.XLS involves several new correlations. A new correlation for determining the critical velocity of particle transport is presented. New correlations were statistically developed for determining the drag coefficient of particles. The spreadsheet also successfully determines settling velocities of the individual particle sizes in any settling regime. A second spreadsheet program entitled "CONSOL.XLS" uses geotechnical principles of consolidation for determining marsh surface elevation with and without hydraulic fill versus time. The CONSOL.XLS program permits the …

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Sediment Transport Processes In Coarse Gravel-Bed Rivers: An Example From Costa Rica., Karolien Johanna Zita Debusschere Jan 1997

Sediment Transport Processes In Coarse Gravel-Bed Rivers: An Example From Costa Rica., Karolien Johanna Zita Debusschere

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was aimed at gaining a better understanding of the sedimentological and morphological characteristics of boulder-dominated, coarse gravel-bed rivers associated with alluvial fans in humid tropical climates and the transport processes of boulder-size clasts within these systems. The study focused on the Rio Toro Amarillo, a braided, coarse gravel-bed river in Costa Rica which drains an active volcano within the Atlantic Watershed of Costa Rica. The investigation involved mapping and measurement of the distribution of braid complexes and channels; gradient, grain-size distribution, lithofacies, and micromorphology of the channel-beds and bar surfaces; elevational differences between channel bed and bar surface; …

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The Moral Atmosphere Of The Elementary School And The Question Of Gender., Suzanne Beauclair Roy Jan 1997

The Moral Atmosphere Of The Elementary School And The Question Of Gender., Suzanne Beauclair Roy

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the moral atmosphere of the elementary school and ask: How does the elementary school principal contribute to the moral atmosphere of the elementary school? In addition to this question, this study also explored the likenesses and differences between male principals and female principals in regard to the degree to which the principal practiced either an "ethic of care" or an "ethic of justice." Four case studies were constructed using data collected from observations and interviews that were conducted in four elementary schools. Also, two female principals and two male principals were …

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The Effects Of Sleep Deprivation On Information Processing, New Learning, And Memory In Mildly Head-Injured Subjects With Post-Concussion Symptoms., Brian Betz Jan 1997

The Effects Of Sleep Deprivation On Information Processing, New Learning, And Memory In Mildly Head-Injured Subjects With Post-Concussion Symptoms., Brian Betz

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Subjects who had sustained a mild head injury (MHI) and uninjured control subjects were examined before and after 36 hours of sleep deprivation. MHI subjects and uninjured controls were selected from among individuals who scored above the 50$\rm\sp{th}$ percentile on the Postconcussion Syndrome Checklist (PCSC), a measure designed to assess the frequency, intensity and duration of postconcussion symptoms. Sixty subjects were divided into four groups: Head injured/sleep deprived, head injured/non-sleep deprived, uninjured/sleep deprived, and uninjured/non-sleep deprived. Performance was compared among the groups on the Selective Reminding Test (SRT) and the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT), which are designed to …

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Fathers As Intervention Agents: Parent Training With Fathers Of Children With Developmental Disabilities., Deirdre West Russell Jan 1997

Fathers As Intervention Agents: Parent Training With Fathers Of Children With Developmental Disabilities., Deirdre West Russell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Previous research on parent training with children who have developmental disabilities has typically failed to include fathers. Compared to research on mothers of children with disabilities and fathers of normally developing children, little is known about fathers of children who have disabilities. In the present study, effects of behavioral parent training on fathers' parenting behaviors (instruction giving, positive attention, and correct consequences) were evaluated. The experimenter trained four fathers of children with developmental delays in the home using written handouts, verbal instructions, modeling, and performance feedback. Training was directed at increasing correct use of fathers' instruction giving, positive attention following …

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Lie Theory Of Differentiable Transformations On Banach-Type Manifolds., Amadou Belly Guisse Jan 1997

Lie Theory Of Differentiable Transformations On Banach-Type Manifolds., Amadou Belly Guisse

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Let M be a manifold modeled on a Banach space B, and let U be an open subset of M containing the domain of some chart $\varphi$. The aim of this work is to set mathematical foundations (topological, algebraic geometrical) for the theory of pseudosemigroups of local transformations S on M and their infinitesimal generators $L\sp{r}(S,\ U).$ In the first part of this dissertation we define the topology of local uniform convergence, the most suitable in this case, similar to the compact open topology in the finite dimensional case, and show what relationship it has with different topologies. In the …

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