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State Of Florida Employees’ Group Health Self-Insurance Plan, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

A booklet about the State of Florida Employees’ Group Health Self-Insurance Plan with a provider directory.

First Coast Service Options, Inc.- Making Our Mark-1998, First Coast Service Options, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

First Coast Service Options, Inc.- Making our Mark-1998.

1998 Summary Annual Reports, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

1998 Summary Annual Reports.

Perspectives Winter 1998, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Winter 1998 employee newsletter published quarterly for employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.

1998 Compensation Program Information Guide, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

1998 Compensation Program guide to pay for performance charts and employee category salary ranges.

The Treaty Of San Ildefonso: Its Role In The Development Of The Mississippi Territory, Donna L. Cox

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 3-19

The Power And The Process: Instructions And The Civil Jury, Elizabeth G. Thornburg

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Legal-Ware: Contract And Copyright In The Digital Age, Michael J. Madison

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

Astrocytes Regulate Microglial Phagocytosis Of Senile Plaque Cores Of Alzheimer’S Disease, David A. Dewitt, George Perry, Mark Cohen, Catherine Doller, Jerry Silver

Faculty Publications and Presentations

We have developed an in vitro model in which isolated senile plaque (SP) cores are presented to rat microglial cells in culture. Microglia rapidly phagocytosed, broke apart, and cleared SP cores. However, when cocultured with astrocytes, microglial phagocytosis was markedly suppressed, allowing the SPs to persist. Suppression of phagocytosis by astrocytes appears to be a general phenomena since microglia in the presence of astrocytes showed reduced capacity to phagocytose latex beads as well. The astrocyte effect on microglia is related in part to a diffusible factor(s) since astrocyte- but not fibroblast-conditioned media also reduced phagocytosis. These results suggest that while …

Covert Contraceptive Use: Prevalence, Motivations, And Consequences, Ann E. Biddlecom, Bolaji M. Fapohunda

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This paper examines women’s covert use of contraceptives, that is, use without the knowledge of their husbands. Covert use may highlight conflict between husbands and wives about family planning, or it may reflect behaviors that spouses find difficult to discuss together. This study addresses three questions: 1) How is covert use measured in different settings? 2) How prevalent is it? and 3) What are the factors underlying covert use? We examine these questions by drawing on existing studies and detailed survey and qualitative data collected in 1997 in an urban setting in Zambia from married women and a subsample of …

The Onset Of Fertility Transition In Pakistan, Zeba Sathar, John B. Casterline

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Recent trends in fertility and contraceptive prevalence indicate that the marital fertility transition in Pakistan, which has been anticipated for three decades, has begun in the 1990s. Before that decade, the total fertility rate had exceeded 6 births per woman for at least three decades, and fewer than 10 percent of married women practiced contraception. The most recent survey data, collected in 1996- 97, show a total fertility rate of 5.3 births per woman and a contraceptive prevalence rate of 24 percent. Underlying this development are macroeconomic trends that have led to widespread economic distress at the household level, and …

The Changing Social Environment For Adolescents In Kassena-Nankana District Of Northern Ghana: Implications For Reproductive Behavior, Barbara Mensch, Daniel Bagah, Wesley H. Clark, Fred N. Binka

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This study reports on a primarily qualitative investigation of adolescent reproductive behavior in the Kassena-Nankana District, a rural isolated area in northern Ghana, where traditional patterns of marriage, family formation, and social organization persist. The study is based on in-depth interviews and focus groups with adolescents, parents, chiefs and traditional leaders, teachers, youth leaders, and health workers, supplemented by quantitative data from the 1996 wave of a panel survey of reproductive-aged women conducted by the Navrongo Health Research Centre. The social environment faced by adolescent boys and girls in the Kassena-Nankana District and its links to reproductive behavior are described. …

The Impact Of Family Planning Household Service Delivery On Women's Status In Bangladesh, James F. Phillips, Mian Bazle Hossain

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Since 1982, the Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Extension Project has compiled longitudinal panel data on rural women’s contact with household service providers who visit homes to discuss family planning and offer services to women on request. This study tests the hypothesis that home-based services reinforce customs of purdah (female seclusion) by sustaining the dependency and isolation of the women served by the program. Results show that household services improve women’s status. This effect is largely attributable to the impact of outreach on effective fertility regulation. Findings do not support the hypothesis that household service delivery is detrimental …

Social Networks And The Diffusion Of Fertility Control, Mark R. Montgomery, John B. Casterline

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Theories of the fertility transition now routinely reserve a place for diffusion effects. Two fundamental behavioral mechanisms account for such effects: social learning and social influence. Social learning refers to the acquisition of information from others. The information might have to do with a new technology or with the health, social, and economic consequences of decisions. In the case of fertility, individuals might learn from others about the availability of a new contraceptive, or about health side effects of certain contraceptives, or about the apparent gains and losses from having fewer children and investing in their schooling. Social influence refers …

Finding What Was Lost: Sorting Out The Custodian’S Privilege Against Self-Incrimination From The Compelled Production Of Records, Peter J. Henning

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Allure of Subpoenaing an Investigative Target

III. Privacy, Papers, and the Privilege: Overcoming the Legacy of Boyd v. United States

IV. Fisher v. United States: What Does “Authentication” Mean at the Investigative Stage ... A. The Irrelevance of Authentication before the Grand Jury ... B. Distinguishing the Investigative and Trial Phases in the Act of Production Analysis ... C. Once Lost, Can the Privilege be Reasserted?

V. Braswell v. United States: Limiting Use at Trial of the Custodian’s Act of Production

VI. Compelling a Custodian’s Testimony as “Auxiliary” to the Act of Production ... …

The Ada Interactive Process: The Employer And Employee’S Duty To Work Together To Identify A Reasonable Accommodation Is More Than A Game Of Five Card Stud, Sam Silverman

Nebraska Law Review

Since the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) took effect, employers have struggled when trying to apply the act to real employment situations. Originally, federal protection against handicap discrimination was established in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of handicap with regard to any program or activity receiving federal assistance. Precedent arising from cases decided under the Rehabilitation Act have served as guidance for ADA determinations. As ADA case law becomes more developed, however, courts are relying less on the Rehabilitation Act case law. In enacting the ADA, Congress specifically required that the Equal …

A Review Of Issues Concerned With Aerial Hijacking And Terrorism: Implications For Australia's Security And The Sydney 2000 Olympics, Michael S. Simons

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Panel Discussion From Indian Nations On The Eve Of The Twenty-First Century, Frank Pommersheim, Christopher Schneider, James Abourezk

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Strain Analysis Of The Kapidagi Peninsula Shear Zone In The Ocaklargranitoid, Nw Turkey, Rahmi̇ Aksoy

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Kapidagi Peninsula shear zone is a W-to NW-trending, moderately to steeply dipping, sinistral strike-slip shear zone that runs almost parallel to the northern coast of the peninsula. It is a minimum of 28 km in length and extends from Rikoz Cape in the west to the north of Çakil village in the east. A quantitative strain analysis is presented for the shear zone evolved in the Ocaklar Granitoid by a syn-shear granitod intrusion. Deformed autoliths in the granitoids were used as strain markers. Long, intermediate and short axes of autoliths were measured in 66 subareas across the shear zone. …

Fine Structure Of The Chloride Cell In The Gill Epithelium Of Brachydaniorerio(Cyprinidae, Teleostei), Sema Isisağ, Hatice Karakişi

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The main ultrastructural properties of the gill epithelium of the zebrafish, Brachydanio rerio are investigated. The pavement cells are distinguished with their microvilli, infolding protrusions and construction of an intercellular channel system, while the chloride cells sited in filamental and especially respiratory lamellar epithelia are characterized by a high number of well developed, large mitochondria and an expansive, membranous tubular system. The close relationship observed between these cell types indicates that, at least ultrastructurally, chloride cells are communicated with the external milieu via the channel system of the pavement cells.

Fdtd Evaluation Of The Sar Distribution In A Human Head Near A Mobile Cellular Phone, Selçuk Paker, Levent Sevgi̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is used to calculate the Specific Absorbtion Rate (SAR; defined as the power absorbed by unit mass of the tissue) distribution in a human head near a hand-held cellular phone. A three dimensional FDTD algorithm is built in cartesian coordinates. A discrete human head model, derived from a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) image by semi-automatic algorithm, is located within FDTD volume together with a discrete hand-held receiver model. FDTD simulations are carried out for both european GSM (operating at 900MHz) and DECT (operating at 1.8GHz) systems with a quarter-wavelength antenna, mounted on top …

Elastic Scattering Of 344.5 Mev ^{12}C Ions From ^{11}B Nucleus, S.A.E. Khallaf, M.A. Abdel-Rahman, S.K. Abdel-Rahman, S.W.Z. Mahmoud

Turkish Journal of Physics

The angular distribution of the elastic scattering differential cross section of 344.5 MeV $^{12}$C ions from $^{11}$B nucleus is calculated and compared with the experimental data as well as the previously published calculations. The real part of the central optical potential is derived using the double-folding and single-folding procedures assuming Gaussian forms of the nucleon-nucleon and alpha-nucleon interactions, respectively. A nuclear matter density distribution function of $^{11}$B consisting of a spherical part plus a quadrupole term is used. The inclusion of the quadrupole term is found necessary to obtain good fits to the experimental data.

Audits Of Futures Commission Merchants, Introducing Brokers, And Commodity Pools, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Commodity Practice Aid Task Force; American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Stockbrokerage And Investment Banking Committee

AICPA Committees

No abstract provided.

Marketing Advantage. Ii. New Ideas On Getting And Keeping Clients, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Pcps Management Of An Accounting Practice Committee

AICPA Committees

No abstract provided.

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

No abstract provided.

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

No abstract provided.

Intentional Changes In Sound Pressure Level And Rate: Their Impact On Measures Of Respiration, Phonation, And Articulation, Christopher Dromey, Lorraine Olson Ramig

Faculty Publications

The purpose of the study was to compare the effects of changing sound pressure level (SPL) and rate on respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory behavior during sentence production. Ten subjects, 5 men and 5 women, repeated the sentence, "I sell a sapapple again," under 5 SPL and 5 rate conditions. From a multi-channel recording, measures were made of lung volume (LV), SPL, fundamental frequency (F0), semitone standard deviation (STSD), and upper and lower lip displacements and peak velocities. Loud speech led to increases in LV initiation, LV termination, F0, STSD, and articulatory displacements and peak velocities for both lips. Token-to-token variability …

Approximations Of Open Quotient And Speed Quotient From Glottal Airflow And Egg Waveforms: Effects Of Measurement Criteria And Sound Pressure Level, Christopher Dromey, Christine M. Sapienza, Elaine T. Stathopoulos

Faculty Publications

Summary: Noninvasive measures of vocal fold activity are useful for describing normal and disordered voice production. Measures of open and speed quotient from glottal airflow and electroglottographic (EGG) waveforms have been used to describe timing events associated with vocal fold vibration. To date, there has been little consistency in the measurement criteria used to calculate quotient values. In this study, criteria of 20% and 50% were applied to the AC amplitude of glottal airflow and inverted EGG waveforms for measurement of open quotient. Criteria of 20%, 50%, and 80%, and a midslope criterion that segmented the waveform between 20% and …

Is Sound Just Noise, Joshua D. Coval, Tyler Shumway

Faculty Publications

This paper analyzes the information content of the ambient noise level in the Chicago Board of Trade's 30-year Treasury Bond futures trading pit. Controlling for a variety of other variables, including lagged price changes, trading volumes, and news announcements, we find that the sound level conveys information which is highly economically and statistically significant. In particular, we find increases in the sound level precede periods of high price volatility and increased trading volumes. Increases in the sound level also presage the placement of block trades and relative increases in customer-driven trading. Our results add to our understanding of the market …

Family Generativity And Generative Counseling: Helping Families Keep Faith With The Next Generation, David C. Dollahite, Brent D. Slife, Alan J. Hawkins

Faculty Publications

Counselors who are concerned with strengthening and healing relationships between generations can draw on the concept of generativity to assist them. This chapter invites counselors to grant a more prominent place for generativity in clinical work with families by (a) presenting the concept of family generativity as a logical extension of the generativity concept and (b) presenting some initial ideas on the new approach to clinical work designed to help families develop and sustain family generativity, which we call generative counseling. Generative counseling is illustrated by use of a clinical example, which is introduced briefly in a subsequent section …