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Alternative Health Practices Of Homebound Adults In Northeast Mississippi, Jenny Barnes

MSN Research Projects

More people are relying on alternative practices and less conventional therapies for a wide variety of problems. Alternative therapies have gained increasing popularity, recognition, and usage in the past decade. Minimal knowledge exists regarding the alternative health care practices of the essentially homebound population who may be more likely to use alternative forms of health care due to the difficulty in leaving home and in following with certain cultural beliefs and practices. The focus of this descriptive study was to describe the alternative health practices of home health clients and how these practices may effect care in the primary care …

Measured Ceiling Fan Performance And Usage Patterns: Implications For Efficiency And Comfort Improvement, Florida Solar Energy Center, Jeffrey Sonne

FSEC Energy Research Center®

Simulations suggest residential cooling energy use can be reduced up to 15% through the use of ceiling fans with thermostat set-up. However, monitoring data from a large scale study of Florida homes found that air conditioning consumption was not lower because thermostats settings were not raised in response to fan use, and many fans were apparently left on for long periods in unoccupied zones. To further study these findings, we collected field data on actual ceiling fan usage patterns and how they might be affected by education. We also studied power characteristics and air moving efficiency of current generation ceiling …

Pacific Review Fall 1998, Pacific Alumni Association

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

The L, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1998, New York Law School

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Liturgia Proclama Evangelio, Gerardo Kempff

Liturgias

Liturgia proclama Evangelio

Guide To Ms348 El Paso Herald Post Records, Melinda K. Mcmartin

Finding Aids

The El Paso Herald-Post records contain the historical files of the El Paso Herald-Post newspapers. The records date 1881 – 1997. The records contain sports files, photographs and clippings about local people and subjects, and the El Paso Herald-Post’s library files.

Learning By Heart (Text Only), Mona J. Gardner

Honorees for Teaching Excellence

No abstract provided.

The Evolution Of Non-Collegiate Private Studio Voice Instruction In Select Samplings In The United States, Samuel Devaughn Shingles

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Women's Voice, August 1998, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Women's Voice (1991-2006)

No abstract provided.

Speleo Spiel, No. 309, July-August 1998, Jeff Butt

Speleo Spiel

Editorial -- Club Matters -- Trip Reports/Articles -- STC Warehouse Sales

Texas Region, Greg W. Lasley, Chuck Sexton, Mark Lockwood, Cliff Shackelford

National Audubon Society Field Notes

No abstract provided.

Miscibility Study Of Polymer Blends By A Novel Phosporescent Quenching System, Lin Qiao

Theses

In this study, a novel phosphorescent quenching system was developed to investigate the phase miscibility of binary polymer blends. The system consists of a benzophenone derivative as the chromophore, and an iodobenzene derivative as the quenching agent. The phosphorescent benzophenone derivative, 4-vinylbenzophenone, was synthesized by the Grignard reaction of bromostyrene and benzonitrile. The vinylfunctionalized iodobenzene, N-(4-iodophenyl)maleimide, was synthesized from iodoaniline and maleic anhydride. The polymers, containing less than 5 wt% of either phosphorescent chromophore or phosphorescent quenching agent, were synthesized by free radical copolymerization of styrene, or methyl methacrylate, with 4- vinylbenzophenone, or N-(4-iodophenyl)maleimide in benzene solution, initiated with AIBN …

Liability Of Municipalities Under The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, And Liability Act (Cercla): Is This A Legal Hazard To The Environment?, Lisa M. Schenck

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Synthetic Files: Enabling Low-Latency File I/O For Qos-Adaptive Applications, Dylan Mcnamee, Dan Revel, Calton Pu, David Steere, Jonathan Walpole

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Files are a tried and true operating system abstraction. They present a simple byte-stream model of I/O that has proven intuitive for application programmers and efficient for operating system builders. However, current file systems do not provide good support for adaptive continuous media (CM) applications - an increasingly important class of applications that exhibit complex access patterns and are particularly sensitive to variations in I/O performance. To address these problems we propose synthetic files. Synthetic files are specialized views of underlying regular files, and convert complex file access patterns into simple sequential synthetic file access patterns. Synthetic file construction can …

Applying An Information Seeking And Processing Model To A Study Of Communication About Energy, Robert J. Griffin, Kurt Neuwirth, Sharon Dunwoody

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Analysis of a survey of two Great Lakes cities develops and tests part of a model that focuses on characteristics of individuals that might predispose them to seek and process information about risks in different ways. Support is found for the model’s propositions that information sufficiency (a person’s sense of the amount of information needed to cope with a health risk) is based partially on affective response to the risk, which is based in part on perceptions of key characteristics of the risk. Support is less strong for the proposition that felt normative pressures to possess information may also affect …

Nsu National Ed.D. Program For Educational Leaders Catalog 1998-1999 (Includes Application And Admission Forms), Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Mdma And Learning: Effects Of Acute And Neurotoxic Exposure, Thomas P. Byrne

Dissertations

In two experiments, the effects of MDMA were examined on the acquisition of lever-press responding by rats exposed to procedures in which water delivery was delayed by 0, 10, or 20 seconds. In the first experiment, naive, water-deprived rats received an intraperitoneal injection of MDMA (0, 1.0, 3.2, or 5.6 mg/kg) prior to one experimental session. Response acquisition was observed under all conditions at all drug doses. MDMA increased both response rates and reinforcers earned in a dose-dependent fashion, but only when reinforcement was immediate. Under conditions of delay, MDMA had no effect on the number of lever presses emitted …

The Epiphany Of A Special Education Teacher, Anita Satterfield Webb

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

A portfolio submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in the Department of Special Education in the Bagwell College of Education of Kennesaw State University

Assortment Of Fall Community Enrichment Programs Offered, Deidra Walters

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The beginning of a new school year is the perfect time to pick up a new hobby or fine tune an old one. Whether your interests focus on music or art, horseback riding or yoga, or elsewhere, The University of Mississippi Institute for Continuing Studies is offering a wide variety of fall non-credit community enrichment programs.

A Computer/Tutorial System Compared With A Workbook/Tutorial System For Presenting Instructional Material To At-Risk Elementary School Students, Vincent O. Hodge

Dissertations

Two different ways of presenting instructional material and reacting to students’ responses were compared. One, taking advantage of several features of multimedia instruction involved a desktop computer and various computer-presented consequences of correct and incorrect responses (largely chosen by the student). The other consisted in presenting the same instructional materials (the SRA primary curriculum) in a workbook form with tutors' comments and praise as the main form of response consequence. The two methods were compared with respect to various measures of student and system performance, including student accuracy (percent correct responses), types of errors, amount of correct response repetition (over-responding), …

Louisiana's "Megan's Law": The Need For A Principled Approach, Hilliard Trey Kelly

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

School Desegregation From Brown To Fordice, 1954-1992: A Case Study In American Individualism, Albert Leon Samuels

Department of Political Science and Geography Faculty Publications

In United States v. Fordice (1992), the Supreme Court declared that racially nondiscriminatory admissions and hiring policies alone failed to satisfy the state of Mississippi's "affirmative duty" to dismantle a previously de jure system of segregated higher education. However, the justices declined to define precisely what the state must do to satisfy its constitutional obligations, leaving in its wake a host of unresolved questions. Of particular concern to many African Americans is the fact that the future status of public black universities was left in the balance.

Using a case study approach, this dissertation argues that higher education desegregation cannot …

Self-Help In The Digital Jungle, Kenneth W. Dam

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Differential Expression Of Homing-Associated Cell Adhesion Molecule, Very Late Antigen-4 And L-Selectin In Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Trafficking Between The Marrow And Blood, Caroline Brigitte Fultz

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the hypothesis that the following cell adhesion molecules (CAMs): homing-associated cell adhesion molecule (HCAM), very late antigen-4 (VLA-4) and L-selectin play a role in the trafficking of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) between the bone marrow microenvironment and the peripheral circulation. In order to ascertain differences in CAM expression based on physiologic compartment, the expression of HCAM, VLA-4 or L-selectin per CD34⁺ myeloid progenitor cell was assessed between paired samples of blood and marrow. CAM expression was flow cytometrically quantitated in paired samples obtained from patients treated with mobilizing doses of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) or from …

Cd4(+) T Cells Tolerized Ex Vivo To Host Alloantigen By Anti-Cd40 Ligand (Cd40l:Cd154) Antibody Lose Their Graft-Versus-Host Disease Lethality Capacity But Retain Nominal Antigen Responses., Bruce R. Blazar, Patricia A. Taylor, Randolph J. Noelle, Daniel A. Vallera

Dartmouth Scholarship

A major goal of the transplant field is to tolerize donor T cells to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) (1). We describe an ex vivo approach in which the blockade of CD40 ligand (CD40L:CD154):CD40 interactions, a pathway required for optimal T cell expansion, induces donor CD4(+) T cells to become tolerant to host alloantigens (2). High doses of tolerized cells did not cause GVHD lethality in vivo. T cells had intact responses to antigens not present during tolerization. Tolerance was long lived and not readily reversible in vivo. These data have significant implications for the use of tolerization approaches to prevent …

Arc-H: Uniform Cpu Scheduling For Heterogeneous Services, David K.Y. Yau

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Silicon Valley Meets Norwalk, Timothy Louwers, William R. Pasewark, Eric W. Typpo

Eberhardt School of Business Faculty Articles

The article discusses financial reporting issues raised by the U. S. corporations in the increasing use of the Internet. The Internet is affecting traditional statements and audits as companies explore online options. Financial information is now easily available online, creating a new readership. CPAs must consider how to help make this information useful to the expanded public. Companies need to identify who will use their sites and provide appropriate features. Search engines help users connect information from all over a given Web site. Analysts may want to download financials into spreadsheets.

High School Block Scheduling As A Stimulus: A Multiple-Site Case Study, William H. Phelps

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify the processes that have been used for implementing the alternative scheduling plan of block scheduling in high schools. The study attempted to discover what professional development activities were used for the change, if teachers altered instruction, and what additional staff development was needed. The qualitative method of case study research was selected for the study. The investigator chose five public high schools, representing city and county systems and different professional development budgets and types of instructional support. Central office administrators who were responsible for the implementation of block scheduling, principals, and a …

Community Empowerment And Social Policy Design: A Case Study Of The Creation Of A School-Based Health Center, R. Ian Costello

Masters Theses

Studies of community empowerment have shown the benefits of involving recipient communities in the process of designing and implementing social aid programs. One of these benefits is the empowerment of previously disenfranchised individuals and communities. Through qualitative ethnographic research, this thesis shows how residents of one low-income community in South-West Michigan have become more empowered through their involvement in the design and implementation of a school-based health center.

The Lost Treasure Of Valencia: Fugitive Muslims From The Kingdom Of Valencia 1290-1410, Michael A. Ryan

Masters Theses

The fourteenth century, an epoch infamous for war, disease, famine, and devastation across the whole of Europe, also saw an increase in the number of fugitive Muslims from the Christian kingdom of Valencia. Due to the reconquest of Valencia in the thirteenth century, an immense Muslim populace found itself subject to a dominant Christian minority. These Muslims had been either enslaved outright for resisting the Christian domination, or had been placed into a semi-free status. The members of this latter group were known as the Mudejars, and like the Muslim slaves, fled when their social and political standings were in …