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Mechanism Of Iron Uptake By Cation Exchange Resins In Boiling Water Reactors Used In The Nuclear Power Industry, Sebnem Karakoc

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Characterizatioin Of Hf/H₂O Vapor Phase Etching Of Sio₂, Bang Bui

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Reactive Ion Etching Of Sio₂ Using Chf₃/Co₂ Gas Mixture, Anthony Hyunwoo Chung

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Martian Communications Network Design Trade Study, Mark Steven Danehy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Mechanism Of Magnetic Recording Head Contamination, Yanan Li

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Water Based Process For Polyaniline Composites, Ming-Hung Shih

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Sodium Chloride Hideout In A Simulated Steam Generator Tube And Tube Support Plate Crevice, Paul M. Rogers

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Voluntary Turnover Among Engineers : A Descriptive Analysis, Parisa Sobhani

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Reconceptualizing Chevron And Discretion: A Comment On Levin And Rubin, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

Professors Ronald Levin and Edward Rubin want to change the way we think about important administrative law concepts. Ronald Levin's paper, The Anatomy of Chevron: Step Two Reconsidered,1 argues that Chevron's2 currently ill-defined second step ought to be reconceptualized as an application of arbitrary or capricious review. Edward Rubin's paper, Discretion and Its Discontents,3 is part of his ongoing project to reconceptualize the way we think-and, more importantly, the way we talk-about the modern administrative state. Professor Rubin suggests that the oft-used word "discretion" does not usefully describe the bureaucratic operation of the modern managerial state and that it profitably …

Trypanosoma Cruzi: Recombinant Antigen Studies Of Immune Responses In Infected Mice, Todd Alan Minning

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A cDNA library from in vitro culture forms including metacyclic trypomastigote stages of Trypanosoma cruzi (Tulahuén) was prepared in a γgt 11 vector. The library was screened using serum from a rabbit immunized with irradiated metacyclic stages of T. cruzi to detect clones which produced β-galactosidase fusion proteins bearing epitopes recognized by the metacyclic-specific antiserum. Eleven recombinant bacteriophage clones were excised in vitro , yielding 11 bacterial clones containing recombinant phagemids. Recombinant antigens corresponding to native T. cruzi antigens of 48, 102, and 158 kDa were prepared in Escherichia coli . These recombinant antigens detected parasite specific antibodies in the …

Personality And Cognitive Characteristics Of Students In Science And Engineering, Scott Duncan

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was a longitudinal investigation into the relationship of personality and cognitive variables to persistence and success behaviors at a technological institute. Personality was assessed with the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Cognitive measures were the Learning Environment Preferences (LEP) and the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA). The sample included the entire class (N = 354) matriculated in the Fall of 1990 at a private technical institute. Multiple regressions, discriminant analyses, and cluster analyses were utilized to test five hypotheses. Dependent variables were: grade point average, persistence to degree in a regular curriculum, and persistence …

The Effects Of Two Brief Intervention Strategies On Homophobia And Negative Attitudes Toward Women, Bradley Benjamin Huffey

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the effects of a gay and lesbian panel and a videotape on homophobia and negative attitudes toward women. The sample consisted of 96 undergraduate students from a variety of introductory courses at a midwestern university. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups: (1)Educational videotape with posttest; (2)Educational videotape with pretest and posttest; (3) gay and lesbian panel with posttest; and (4) gay and lesbian panel with pretest and posttest. The dependent variables included scores of homophobia (Index of Attitudes toward Homosexuals; Hudson & Ricketts, 1980) and scores of attitudes toward women (Attitudes toward Women-Simplified; Spence, …

Dynamic Motion Of Small Objects Within A Velocity Field, Rufus Sizer Drury

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Development Of A New 12 Volt Bipolar Analog Process, Steven R. White

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Adaptive Interference Canceling Using Higher Order Statistics, Andrew B. Napell

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Trimodal Particle Size Distribution On Sintering Of Al₂O₃ Ceramics, Dale L. Anderson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Ultimax Cement And Nondestructive Testing Of High Strength Concrete, Emma B. Aquino

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Interdiffusion In Copper Nickel Bilayers, Tim Westmore

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Resource Management Decision Support Tools - Brief Model Descriptions, Campbell White & Associates Pty Ltd

Farm Systems and Economics published reports

During the past 10 years, a number of financial models have been developed within Agriculture Western Australia to assist decision making in resource management. Various approaches have been taken including whole farm, development and partial budgets.

Natural resource managers within Agriculture Western Australia, have identified a need to preserve these decision support systems in a central library. The models should be readily accessible to new staff, and the library should provide an 'engine' through which the models can be promoted, and information relating their application distributed. Recent technology such as the development and mainstream adoption of the World Wide Web …

An Evaluation Of What Factors Effect Burst Test Results Using Rigid Porous Packages, Michael Johnson

Theses

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Expert Opinion Pleading: Any Merit To Special Certificates Of Merit?, Jeffrey A. Parness, Amy Leonetti

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Civil litigation reform to reduce frivolous civil lawsuits was a hot topic in the most recent Presidential debates. It has stirred much recent interest and action in state and federal legislatures. Some new developments involve special pleading norms. Lawmakers will likely debate and implement new special pleading requirements in coming years, often involving certificates of merit. Such certificates are now required for most or some professional malpractice claims in several states. Illinois adopted a certificate of merit standard for product liability actions, while certificates of merit for certain childhood sexual abuse claims are necessary in both California and Louisiana. As …

Individualism And Evolutionary Psychology (Or: In Defense Of 'Narrow' Functions), David J. Buller

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Millikan (1993) and Wilson (1994) argue, for different reasons, that the essential reference to the environment in adaptationist explanations of behavior makes (psychological) individualism inconsistent with evolutionary psychology. I show that their arguments are based on misinterpretationso f the role of referencet o the environmenti n such explanations. By exploring these misinterpretationsI, develop an account of explanation in evolutionary psychology that is fully consistent with individualism. This does not, however, constitute a full-fledged defense of individualism, since evolutionary psychology is only one explanatory paradigm among many in psychology.

Glacial Deposits, Vol. 25, 1996-1997, Department Of Geography-Geology

Glacial Deposits

Newsletter of the Department of Geography-Geology

Intellectual Property Rights In Data?, J. H. Reichman, Pamela Samuelson

Vanderbilt Law Review

The international intellectual property system founded on the Paris and Berne Conventions in the late nineteenth century has been dominated by the patent and copyright paradigms, which articulate the legal protection of technological inventions and of literary and artistic works, respectively. Although this patent-copyright dichotomy was never as strictly observed abroad as in the United States, it nonetheless charted a relatively clear theoretical line of demarcation between legal incentives to create and the public interest in free competition. Any publicly disclosed technologies or information products that failed to meet the eligibility requirements of the domestic patent and copyright laws became …

A Comparison Of Personality Characteristics Of Male And Female Engineering Students, Erin Beth Williams

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between personality characteristics of female and male freshmen, engineering students. A secondary purpose was to ascertain whether personality characteristics of freshmen, engineering students were different from those of general collegiate students of the same sex. The Millon Index of Personality Styles (MIPS) was administered to a sample of 72 female and 86 male freshmen, engineering students at a private midwestern engineering institution. The MIPS college normative sample of 1,600 college students was used as a comparison group. A total of 24 personality characteristics were assessed in the domains of motivation aims, …

Data Envelopment Analysis With Integral Targets, Gunter P. Sharp, Timothy R. Anderson

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) inherently assumes that the feasible targets for inputs and outputs are continuous. This paper develops and illustrates extensions to DEA that allow for integer valued inputs and outputs. It is found that DEA?s implicit assumption of continuous targets can be significant in certain applications.

Long-Inverse Pcr To Generate Regional Peptide Libraries By Codon Mutagenesis, Dominic P. Eisinger, Bernard L. Trumpower

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: Baby boomers are telling a PSU prof what life will be like when they’re sixty-four; students give PSU’s new inquiry courses high marks—and so do some key national foundations; the Helen Gordon Center comes of age as the first child of an alum joins its sandbox student body; thwarting electronic sabotage and theft is the research subject of four computer scientists an alumna is helping people who are battling poverty help themselves; the university is honoring its own coaches and student athletes from Vanport to today; and more

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet January 1997, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The January 1997 Monthly packet includes the January agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 1996.

Cyclic Amp And Its Receptor Protein Negatively Regulate The Coordinate Expression Of Cholera Toxin And Toxin-Coregulated Pilus In Vibrio Cholerae, Karen Skorupski, Ronald K. Taylor

Dartmouth Scholarship

Insertion mutations in two Vibrio cholerae genes, cya and crp, which encode adenylate cyclase and the cyclic AMP (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP), respectively, derepressed the expression of a chromosomal cholera toxin (CT) promoter-lacZ fusion at the nonpermissive temperature of 37 degrees C. In the classical biotype strain O395, the crp mutation increased the production of both CT and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) in vitro under a variety of growth conditions not normally permissive for their expression. The most dramatic increase in CT and TCP was observed with the crp mutant in Luria-Bertani (LB) medium pH 8.5, at 30 degrees C. El …