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Review Of The Rise Of Political Economy As A Science By Deborah Redman, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Of Solemn Oaths And Obligations: The Environmental Impact Of The Icj’S Decision In The Case Of The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project, Stephen Stec, Gabriel Eckstein

Faculty Scholarship

Chapter Extract:

The law of treaties often conjures up images of states as rotund gentlemen with whiskers, vests, and watch-chains proclaiming solemn and chivalric oaths upon their honour. Treaties are sacred in the same way that a man's word is his bond. This type of relationship among states is largely unquestioned since much of the way we live in the world depends upon the assumption of the inviolability of sovereign states and their treaties. Any challenge to these assumptions would surely evoke horror at the unmentionable void that would result-except in lawyers who make their livings shaving nuances. However, in …

What Constitues A Gifted And Talented Student, Stephanie A. Budish

Theses and Dissertations

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Assistive Technology, Tammy Nielsen

Theses and Dissertations

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"Pure Otherness": Directing Sexual Identity In Mac Wellman's Dracula, Darin D. Kerr

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Gap Junctions In Congenital Diseases Of The Heart, Scott Henry Britz-Cunningham

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Background. Gap junctions are thought to have a crucial role in the synchronized contraction of the heart and in embryonic development. Connexin43, the major protein of gap junctions in the heart, is targeted by several protein kinases that regulate myocardial cell-cell coupling. We hypothesized that mutations altering sites critical to this regulation would lead to functional or developmental abnormalities of the heart.

Methods. Connexin43 DNA from 25 normal subjects and 30 children with a variety of congenital heart diseases was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction and sequenced. Mutant DNA was expressed in cell culture and examined for its effect …

Factors Influencing Venom Expenditure During Defensive Bites By Cottonmouths (Agkistrodon Piscivorus) And Rattlesnakes (Crotalus Viridis, Crotalus Atrox), Shelton Scott Herbert

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Although the quantity of venom expended when biting is an important aspect of the natural history of snakes, little is known regarding the quantities of venom expended during bites. Recent studies have shown that rattlesnakes appear capable of selectively allocating their venom reserves during predatory strikes, metering more venom into certain prey types and less into others. Despite much speculation, the quantities of venom expended during defensive bites are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence venom expenditure during defensive bites by cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus), western rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis) and western diamondbacks …

Lincoln, Vallandingham, And Anti-War Speech In The Civil War, Michael Kent Curtis

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

In the early morning hours of May 5, 1863, Union soldiers forcibly arrested Clement L. Vallandigham, a prominent Democratic politician and former congressman, for an anti-war speech which he had given a few days earlier in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Vallandigham's arrest ignited debate about freedom of speech in a democracy during a time of war and the First Amendment rights of critics of an administration. This Article is one in a series by Professor Curtis which examines episodes in the history of free speech before and during the Civil War. In this Article, Professor Curtis explores the First Amendment's guarantee …

Suspicionless Drug Testing And Chandler V. Miller: Is The Supreme Court Making The Right Decisions, Ross H. Parr

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

During the last decade, the United States Supreme Court has rendered four major decisions regarding the validity of suspicionless drug testing policies. Such drug testing policies have become a common way for employers and other interested parties-including the government-both to deter the use of drugs and to determine who is acting under the influence of illegal narcotics. Because government officials often randomly select individuals for drug testing, some of these individuals have charged that a governmental drug testing policy violates the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court found this argument unconvincing in three cases decided between 1989 and 1997, but in …

Physician-Assisted Suicide: State Legislation Teetering At The Pinnacle Of A Slippery Slope, Eunice Park

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Physician-assisted suicide has become the subject of a hotly contested legal and political debate, both in the United States and abroad. In 1997, the United States Supreme Court rendered two decisions concerning physician-assisted suicide, and two states recently enacted legislation on this issue: Oregon in 1997 and Virginia in 1998. Nevertheless, the legality of physician-assisted suicide remains unclear as doctors, pharmacists, legal commentators, and a growing segment of the general population continue to argue over the line between "letting die" and "killing." This Note analyzes both the constitutional and political aspects of the right-to-die debate, focusing primarily on the political …

Dysphagia And Videofluoroscopic Examination In Parkinson's Disease, Shin-Liang Pan, Tyng-Guey Wang, Yeun-Chung Chang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder of the nigrostriatal system, and frequently complicated with swallowing difficulties. This paper reviewed the current studies on the scope of the incidence, the clinical symptoms, the use of videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS), and the management of dysphagia in PD. The awareness of dysphagia in PD patients in previous studies was around 31 to 72 %, however, this figure does not reflect the actual severity of swallowing disorders in this group patients. We found a great variability in the incidence of swallowing disorder on VFSS, depending on the patients selected. Around 31 to 92% …

The Basic Unit Of A Myofascial Trigger Point, Ta-Shen Kuan, Shu-Min Chen, Jo-Tong Chen, Chang-Zern Hong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

This report summarized recent studies on the basic structures of a myofascial trigger point (MTrP). A MTrP is a hyperirritable spot in a palpable taut band of skeletal muscle fibers. Spot tenderness, recognized pain, and taut band are now demonstrated to be reliable diagnostic criteria of an MTrP. Referred pain (ReP) or local twitch response (LTR) is a confirmatory sign of MTrP. There are multiple loci in an MTrP region. The basic unit of an MTrP is the MTrP locus which contains a sensory component (the sensitive locus) and a motor component (the active locus). A sensitive locus is the …

The Relationship Between Congenital Muscular Torticollis And The Development Of Dominant Hand, Shu-Yi Wang, Chau-Peng Leong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

We studied dominant hand development in 158 patients with congenital muscular torticollis who had received physical therapy in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, from 1989 to 1995. There were 97 boys and 61 girls in the study group. The congenital muscular torticollis was right side in 84 patients and left side in 74 patients. We also enrolled 512 healthy children, aged from 3 to 5 years old, as the control group. Ninety-one percent of the control subjects were right handed, and nine percent of them were left handed. Subjects with right congenital muscular torticollis were right handed in 63.1% of …

Paraplegia Following Epidural Anesthesia: A Casereport, Yu-Ching Lin, Yen-Ho Wang, Kou-Mou Huang, Tien-Shang Huang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

This article reports the case of a 36-year-old woman who experienced a sudden sharp pain in her lower back and became paraplegic after epidural anesthesia for a cesarean section. Three months later, the appearance of an ascending sensory level despite motor recovery raised the prssibilite of another lesion causing the new neurologic symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed arachnoiditis with subarachnoid cysts that severely compressed the thoracic spinal cord. Surgical decompression relieved the neurologic symptoms at first, but the symptoms soon deteriorated due to re-formation of adhesions and probably intrinsic cord damage. Based on our experience, carefully history taking and detailed …

Acquired Hip Subluxation And Dislocation In Cerebral Palsy, Li-Chen Tung, Chun-Hou Wang, Yu-Hui Huang, Liu-Ing Bih

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The study group comprised eighty-nine cerebral palsy patients, 46 males and 43 females. The average age was 6.0±3.4 years old. Pelvic frontal view radiographs were made in a total of 178 hips. The migration percentage and acetabular index were measured by pelvic X-ray in all patients. Either hip subluxation or dislocation was diagnosed according to the criteria of Reimers, who considered a migration percentage greater than 33% to denote subluxation and a percentage greater than 100% to be denoted as dislocation. An overall incidence of hip subluxation and dislocation of 48.3% was found. According to the Pearson correlation coefficients data, …

Decolonizing The Mind With Ngugi Wa Thiong'o And Chinua Achebe: Searching For A Voice In Postcolonial African Literature, Steven M. Almquist

Theses and Dissertations

Any discussion of postcolonial African literature requires consideration of both the inherent diversity of “African” and the complex history of colonialism throughout Africa. Ngugi wa Thiong’o claims there are “broad affinities” among the diverse peoples of sub-Saharan Africa which allow for a broad discussion of the common experiences of colonialism, but it is necessary to complement these broad affinities with specific cultural references and historic contexts. This paper attempts to delineate some of the common struggles facing postcolonial African peoples by focusing on the specific writings of Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe. Though they are from disparate …

Xcert Software, Inc., Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The case on Xcert Software, Inc., illustrates the operational and strategic issues encountered by a startup IT company in the Internet security business. Xcert faces difficulty in a number of areas: (1) finances, (2) future direction and leadership, (3) organizational structure, experience and size, and (4) marketing. This is a discussion case that introduces students to the competitive world of Internet business and provides them an opportunity to discuss and debate the myriad issues facing the founders of Xcert.

Methodology And Theory Building In Mis Research, Nancy Lightner, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper reports on the stage of maturity of MIS research according to the McGrath (1979) model, as evidenced by the theory building occurring in two top MIS research journals. While MIS as a discipline continues to grow, its development depends on establishing a cumulative tradition of good research (Keen 1980). Of the published papers surveyed that are relevant to theory building, 81% of them relate to theory development, while 18% address theory testing. Of the papers involving data collection, more than half use field studies as the methodology. In order to advance MIS as a mature field, it is …

Measurement Of Triple Gauge Wwγ Couplings At Lep2 Using Photonic Events, R. Barate, Manoj Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A study of events with photons and missing energy has been performed with the data sample obtained with the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies from 161 to 184 GeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of about 80 pb−1. The measured distributions are in agreement with Standard Model predictions, leading to constraints on WWγ gauge coupling parameters Δκγ and λγ. The results from the fit to the cross sections and to the energy and angular distributions of the photons are: Δκγ=0.05+1.15−1.10(stat)±0.25(syst), λγ=−0.05+1.55−1.45(stat)±0.30(syst).

Tuple Source Relational Model: A Source-Aware Data Model For Multidatabases, Ee Peng Lim, Roger Hsiang-Li Chiang, Yinyan Cao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In some integration projects, complete integration of database instances may not be necessary. It may also be too costly and impossible to do so due to poor local data quality and insufficient instance-level knowledge. In this research, we study how multidatabases with global schemas should be represented and manipulated when the data instances from the local databases do not require to be fully integrated. We propose the tuple source (TS) relational model to represent multidatabases under such an integration requirement. This model extends the classical relational model by augmenting every relation with a source attribute to identify the local database …

Otter Realm, November 30, 1998, Vol. 4 No. 5, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Faculty Rally with Student Support -- Housing Crunch on CSUMB Campus -- Sparse Superfund Information Invites Student Unrest -- Student Voice Doubles Stipends -- Who Helps When? Clarifying the Housing Mystery -- Employment housing Program Needs Student for Board -- Get Out of the Relationship: Dealing with Domestic Violence -- The Cricket Capers -- MIRA Student Observatory Hosts First Public Star Party -- Reducing Stress Leads to Healthier Living -- Winter Festival '98 -- Thanksgiving in Otterland -- Life Off Campus -- The Final Episode of Kate's Adventures in Alaska

Columbia Chronicle (11/30/1998 - Supplement 1 Of 2), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

A special edition of the student newspaper from November 30, 1998 entitled Vitality: The Arts & Entertainment Section of Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 7 pages

Fortnightly - November 30, 1998

Fortnightly

No abstract provided.

Ty, O Oral History Interview: Class Projects, Elsa Wachter

Class Projects

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: November 30, 1998, Eastern Illinois University

November

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Vassiliev Invariants: A New Framework For Quantum Gravity, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Griego, Jorge Pullin

Faculty Publications

We show that Vassiliev invariants of knots, appropriately generalized to the spin network context, are loop differentiable in spite of being diffeomorphism invariant. This opens the possibility of defining rigorously the constraints of quantum gravity as geometrical operators acting on the space of Vassiliev invariants of spin nets. We show how to explicitly realize the diffeomorphism constraint on this space and present proposals for the construction of Hamiltonian constraints. © 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

Mustang Daily, November 30, 1998

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Abp. Michael J. Sheehan's Notes On Fr. Robert Malloy, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Records related to Fr. Robert Malloy

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Reconsidering The Hiv/Aids Prevention Needs Of Latino Women In The United States, Marcela Raffaelli, Mariana Suarez-Al-Adam

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The HIV/AIDS epidemic represents an ever-increasing threat to Latino populations in the United States, with women being most affected by this deadly disease. In this chapter, we explore the challenges Latino women face as they attempt to reduce their risk of sexual transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Our main interest lies in examining how the economic, cultural, and social realities of women's lives contribute to their risk of HIV infection and constrain their ability to reduce that risk. Because there is neither a cure for AIDS nor a vaccination to block HIV transmission, prevention of infection is …

Essay On Deprivation, Poverty And Well-Being., Diganta Mukherjee Dr.

Doctoral Theses

Issues like inequity, deprivation and poverty have been a focus of interest for social scientists for a long time. The present thesis explores a few aspects of the above issues. It ermbodies the fruit of my intellectual perambulation in the Economic Research Unit of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) during the years 1995 - 97. The text is divided into six chapters. The first chapter gives a general overview of different aspects of measuring inequality, deprivation and poverty. The second, third and fourth chapters take up the issue of deprivation measurement in detail. They contain discussions on deprivation ordering, indices and …