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The Convention On Access To Information, Public Participation In Decision-Making, And Access To Justice In Environmental Matters, Sean T. Mcallister Jan 1998

The Convention On Access To Information, Public Participation In Decision-Making, And Access To Justice In Environmental Matters, Sean T. Mcallister

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


More Words Than Action? Developments In Global Freshwater Policy, Megan Brynhildsen Jan 1998

More Words Than Action? Developments In Global Freshwater Policy, Megan Brynhildsen

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Tensions Escalate Between Canada And The United States Over Salmon, Jennifer Macdonald Jan 1998

Tensions Escalate Between Canada And The United States Over Salmon, Jennifer Macdonald

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Behaviour Of Gilbert's Potoroo (Potorous Gilbertii Gould) In Captivity, Kylie Dijon Burke Jan 1998

Behaviour Of Gilbert's Potoroo (Potorous Gilbertii Gould) In Captivity, Kylie Dijon Burke

Theses : Honours

In late 1994, Gilbert's Potoroo was rediscovered almost 120 years after it was believed to have become extinct. It was found at Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, near Albany, Western Australia. Since then, it has become urgent that detailed studies of the potoroo's behaviour and ecology be undertaken, so as to increase the understanding of the needs of 'this critically endangered marsupial. Due to its critical status, increasing the number of animals is of paramount importance to the continued survival of this species. An understanding of the behavioural repertoire of the species will aid in its recovery and provide the …


The Soil Acarine Fauna Of Selected Agroecosystems Within The York Shire, Derek Juan Swarts Jan 1998

The Soil Acarine Fauna Of Selected Agroecosystems Within The York Shire, Derek Juan Swarts

Theses : Honours

The practice of broadacre, dryland farming is known to affect the physico-chemical structure of the soil but our knowledge or its impact on the biological structure is rudimentary. The soil acarine (mite) communities which inhabit these soils display a variety of responses to this agricultural practice. With the increasing focus on developing ecologically sustainable agricultural techniques, an understanding of the soil acari becomes increasingly important. This study investigated the impact of two agricultural practices (designated here us Conventional and Non-Conventional) upon the abundance and diversity of the soil acari. Conventional agricultural practice involved broad scale chemical application to weeds and …


A Cave Of Their Own: A Comparative Examination Of Recurring Social And Psychological Themes In Gothic Fiction And Gothic Youth Subculture Through The Song Lyrics And Fiction Of Nick Cave, Bradley M. Hunter Jan 1998

A Cave Of Their Own: A Comparative Examination Of Recurring Social And Psychological Themes In Gothic Fiction And Gothic Youth Subculture Through The Song Lyrics And Fiction Of Nick Cave, Bradley M. Hunter

Theses : Honours

The aim of this thesis is to examine the Gothic phenomenon as it pertains to late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction, and extrapolate its social and psychological concerns as they relate to the Gothic revival in the late nineteenth-century Decadent movement and late twentieth-century gothic subculture. This examination focuses on recurrent social and psychological themes in eighteenth/nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, the late nineteenth-century Decadent movement and twentieth-century gothic music and subculture, which, in turn, are compared to the themes and motifs of the song lyrics and fiction of Nick Cave. Within this context, the recurring theme of the psychological exploration of …


Psychological Well-Being In The Victims Of Bullying Among Primary School Children, Catherine A. Rice Jan 1998

Psychological Well-Being In The Victims Of Bullying Among Primary School Children, Catherine A. Rice

Theses : Honours

A replication and extension of Rigby and Slee's (1993) study and an investigation of Seligman, Reivich, Jaycox and Gillham's (1995) theory of self-esteem was conducted in one private primary school in Western Australia. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between the age and gender of victims of bullying with self-esteem of the students and their attitudes towards attending school (Rigby & Slee, 1993), and their explanatory style (Seligman et al., I 995). Four anonymous questionnaires: Peer Relations Assessment Questionnaire (Rigby & Slee, 1997), Self-Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1989), Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (Seligman, Kaslow, Alloy, Peterson, Tanenbaum …


The Birds And Habitat Of Kings Park, Bradley W. Cox Jan 1998

The Birds And Habitat Of Kings Park, Bradley W. Cox

Theses : Honours

Kings Park is a large urban park in the centre of Perth with extensive areas of semi-natural bushland. The park is an important refuge for birds in the metropolitan area but is losing species through habitat disturbance. Understanding the way in which birds are related to their habitat helps to understand the effect of habitat disturbance on the bird community. The aim of this project was to generate guidelines which will aid in the management and conservation of birds in the park, through an understanding of the relationship of the birds to their habitat. The avifauna and various habitat factors …


To Develop And Implement A Quality Assurance System Based On Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (Haccp) To A Cook-Freeze Operation: Research Project, Denisa Baca Jan 1998

To Develop And Implement A Quality Assurance System Based On Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (Haccp) To A Cook-Freeze Operation: Research Project, Denisa Baca

Theses : Honours

The purpose of this study was to identify and develop a suitable quality assurance system based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), which was implemented to the ‘cook-freeze' operation, currently employed at Healthcarc Foods. In addition, the quality assurance system was implemented as a systematic approach to food quality, and as a means of ensuring food safety. The samples, which consisted of all the chicken dishes, were used in the development of the HACCP plans comprising of flowcharts and HACCP control charts. These dishes are regarded as 'high risk', in terms of microbiological growth, and therefore, were chosen to …


The In Vitro Propagation Of Seagrasses : Halophila Ovalis, Ruppia Megacarpa And Posidonia Coriacea, Melissa Grace Henry Jan 1998

The In Vitro Propagation Of Seagrasses : Halophila Ovalis, Ruppia Megacarpa And Posidonia Coriacea, Melissa Grace Henry

Theses : Honours

Seagrass communities are of high ecological and economic significance. They provide a nursery area for commercial and recreational juvenile fish and crustacea. Seagrasses also play an important role in influencing the structure and function of many estuarine and nearshore marine environments. Unfortunately, the decline of seagrasses, as a result of human impact, has increased in recent years. This decline has become a major problem throughout the world. Current methods used to restore degraded seagrass beds are limited, the most promising being transplanting material from healthy donor beds. This approach is expensive because it is labor intensive and damages the donor …


Parent And Teacher Attitudes To Pharmacological Management Of Medically Diagnosed Attention Deficit Primary School Children, K. J. Angel Jan 1998

Parent And Teacher Attitudes To Pharmacological Management Of Medically Diagnosed Attention Deficit Primary School Children, K. J. Angel

Theses : Honours

The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of parents and teachers to the use of pharmacological management or intervention for the child with ADHD in the classroom. Particular focus was placed on differences in attitude toward the use of stimulants, for the management of emotional/behavioural, cognitive/academic, social and classroom organizational behaviours of children with ADHD. Thirty female Western Australian primary school teachers and 90 female parents participated in the present investigation. Participants included: (a) parents of non-medicated children with ADHD, (b) parents of medicated children with ADHD, (c) teachers in regular primary schools, and (d) parents of …


Results Of Investigations Into The Groundwater Response And Productivity Of High Water Use Agricultural Systems 1990-1997 4. Tkk Engineering's Catchment (Williams), A D. Smith, Richard J. George Dr, P R. Scott, D L. Bennett, R J. Rippon, G J. Orr Jan 1998

Results Of Investigations Into The Groundwater Response And Productivity Of High Water Use Agricultural Systems 1990-1997 4. Tkk Engineering's Catchment (Williams), A D. Smith, Richard J. George Dr, P R. Scott, D L. Bennett, R J. Rippon, G J. Orr

Resource management technical reports

High water use vegetation systems for salinity control were trialed on a 70 ha catchment located about 15 km north of Williams, Western Australia. The catchment receives about 545 mm annual rainfall and 1870 mm annual evaporation. Development of salinity is characterised by passive discharge upslope from a dolerite dyke. Because recharge exceeds the discharge capacity of current seeps, there is potential for new seeps to develop in the mid to lower slopes.


Tort Law - Turning Blood Into Whine: Fear Of Aids As A Cognizable Cause Of Action In New Mexico - Madrid V. Lincoln County Medical Center, Eric J. Knapp Jan 1998

Tort Law - Turning Blood Into Whine: Fear Of Aids As A Cognizable Cause Of Action In New Mexico - Madrid V. Lincoln County Medical Center, Eric J. Knapp

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.


Natural Resource Policy, Unforgiving Geographies, And Persistent Poverty In Alaska Native Villages, Gigi Berardi Jan 1998

Natural Resource Policy, Unforgiving Geographies, And Persistent Poverty In Alaska Native Villages, Gigi Berardi

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.


Cloning And Expression Of Heterologous Proteins In Bacteria And Yeast, Urvi J. Desai Jan 1998

Cloning And Expression Of Heterologous Proteins In Bacteria And Yeast, Urvi J. Desai

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Heterologous proteins are proteins produced by foreign hosts. The ability to overexpress commercially important proteins in various biological systems has revolutionized the field of biotechnology. In this project three proteins, namely Taq DNA polymerase, E. coli β-galactosidase, and S. cerevisiae topoisomerase I, were cloned and overexpressed in heterologous host. Conventional methods to obtain DNA polymerase from T. aquaticus were cumbersome. Cloning of the gene had been reported but the purification scheme required several steps. To simplify the purification procedure and improve the yield, the DNA polymerase gene from T. aquaticus was cloned into E. coli expression vector pUC18. A single …


A Blueprint For Improved Global Change Monitoring Of The Terrestrial Biosphere, Steven W. Running Jan 1998

A Blueprint For Improved Global Change Monitoring Of The Terrestrial Biosphere, Steven W. Running

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

The Kyoto Earth Summit recently ended, amid substantial disagreement over current and future global change, and their significance to humankind. The core of the problem is that many global leaders are unconvinced that significant global change is now occurring. Further, there is insufficient confidence in the accuracy of global-scale computer models that project future changes to initiate the political and economic re-directions that would be required to alleviate the problem. As was first said years ago, we are conducting the first global-scale biogeochemistry experiment, the outcome of which is not known, and which could severely impact the habitability of the …


The Occurrence Of Snail Kite Nests With Four Fledglings In Florida, Victoria J. Dreitz, Malene R. Shannon Jan 1998

The Occurrence Of Snail Kite Nests With Four Fledglings In Florida, Victoria J. Dreitz, Malene R. Shannon

Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications

During 1997 we monitored Snail Kite nests throughout their range in central and southern Florida as part of a larger, ongoing study of demography of Snail Kites in Florida. We monitored 345 nests of which 7 (2.0%) contained 4 eggs. Of these large clutch nests, two nests successfully fledged four young. These nests were located 0.34 km apart in Water Conservation Area-3A (WCA-3A), which is a 23,700 ha impoundment located in Dade and Broward counties 25 km west of Miami to the north of Highway 41 and to the south of Interstate-75.


Recent Developments In Modern Finance, Subroto Roy Jan 1998

Recent Developments In Modern Finance, Subroto Roy

IIMB Management Review

While it has become commonplace to speak of whirlwind changes in global financial markets, the lay investor is often faced with mysterious new terms without being given an adequate description of the concepts behind them. An attempt has been made to demystify some of the myths and mysteries connected with these developments.


Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis And Evolutionary Biology, Michael Dietrich Jan 1998

Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis And Evolutionary Biology, Michael Dietrich

Dartmouth Scholarship

A review of a book by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis titled Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis\r\nand Evolutionary Biology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).


Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist, Michael Dietrich Jan 1998

Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist, Michael Dietrich

Dartmouth Scholarship

A review of Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist by Vitezslav Orel. Oxford University Press, 1998.


Stability And Weight Smoothing In Cmac Neural Networks, David Paul Campagna Jan 1998

Stability And Weight Smoothing In Cmac Neural Networks, David Paul Campagna

Doctoral Dissertations

Although the CMAC (Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller) neural network has been successfully used in control systems for many years, its property of local generalization, the availability of trained information for network responses at adjacent untrained locations, although responsible for the networks rapid learning and efficient implementation, results in network responses that is, when trained with sparse or widely spaced training data, spiky in nature even when the underlying function being learned is quite smooth. Since the derivative of such a network response can vary widely, the CMAC's usefulness for solving optimization problems as well as for certain other control system …


Prolactin Immunomodulation : Signaling To Pim-1mrna Expression, Joshua S. Krumenacker Jan 1998

Prolactin Immunomodulation : Signaling To Pim-1mrna Expression, Joshua S. Krumenacker

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Ms 053 Guide To Earl J. Brewer, Md Papers (1960-1996), Earl J. Brewer (1928-2015) Jan 1998

Ms 053 Guide To Earl J. Brewer, Md Papers (1960-1996), Earl J. Brewer (1928-2015)

Manuscript Finding Aids

Earl J. Brewer, MD papers consist primarily of professional correspondence; organization and protocols for national and international cooperative medical studies; grant applications and correspondence regarding a wide range of local, state and national research and coordinated care/case management projects concerning chronic illnesses in children; various organizations' board meeting and committee meeting minutes and reports; drafts, manuscripts, and reprints of published professional papers and books. See more at MS 053.


Legal Scholarship At The Crossroads: On Farce, Tragedy, And Redemption Commentary, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr. Jan 1998

Legal Scholarship At The Crossroads: On Farce, Tragedy, And Redemption Commentary, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.

Essays, Reviews, and Shorter Works

No abstract provided.


Laboratory Studies Of The Bioavailability And Toxicity Of Silver In Aquatic Systems / By Perry Lee Rogers, Perry Lee Rogers Jan 1998

Laboratory Studies Of The Bioavailability And Toxicity Of Silver In Aquatic Systems / By Perry Lee Rogers, Perry Lee Rogers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Holmes And The Romantic Mind, Anne Dailey Jan 1998

Holmes And The Romantic Mind, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Applications Of Band Ratioing At Fort Irwin, California., Alexander Wright Taylor Jan 1998

Applications Of Band Ratioing At Fort Irwin, California., Alexander Wright Taylor

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation describes the results of two projects that demonstrate the power of band ratioing of remote sensing data. The first method, Band Ratio Differencing (BRD), challenges the more traditional techniques for detecting environmental disturbance of the surface in and terrains. These traditional techniques are inadequate because they cannot identify the nature of the change (physical, chemical, biological) or the processes (natural, anthropogenic) involved in causing the change. In contrast, BRD of Landsat TM data has the advantage of providing information about changes in the composition of alluvial surfaces. These compositional changes, when combined with empirical field data provides insight …


A Description Of The Instructional And Assessment Practices Of Selected Elementary Teachers., Mary D. Morris Jan 1998

A Description Of The Instructional And Assessment Practices Of Selected Elementary Teachers., Mary D. Morris

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Three distinct teachers, recognized by their administrators as excellent, were chosen to participate in a study designed to describe a recent phenomena in education. All three teachers were members of a faculty that was recognized as a Professional Development School in collaboration with the Benedum Foundation. Traditionally educators have looked to their local school district to provide continuing education. This professional development covers a wide range of topics and is given with a random approach. Recently there have been schools that have decided that their instruction and assessment could change to incorporate more alternative methods to accommodate a variety of …


The Role Of Hyperinsulinemia, The Sympathetic Nervous System And Nitric Oxide In Cardiovascular Function During The Development Of Obesity-Induced Hypertension., Agatha T. Borne Jan 1998

The Role Of Hyperinsulinemia, The Sympathetic Nervous System And Nitric Oxide In Cardiovascular Function During The Development Of Obesity-Induced Hypertension., Agatha T. Borne

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The interaction of hyperinsulinemia, the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and nitric oxide (NO) was examined in lean and obese unilaterally lumbar sympathectomized dogs. Six lean and six obese dogs were studied while on a treadmill, during hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp (HIEC) procedures with and without concurrent nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibition with nitro-L-arginine (LNA). Changes in plasma insulin, femoral vascular resistance (FVR), heart rate (HR) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) were measured prior to and during a 7-week overfeeding period, and response to LNA administration was examined in the lean and obese state. Body weight increased from 19.9 $\pm$ 0.70 to …


Temporal Variation In Larval Fish Condition Indices., Michael John Burger Jan 1998

Temporal Variation In Larval Fish Condition Indices., Michael John Burger

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A sensitive methodology for the determination of RNA and DNA concentrations was developed which allowed for the quantification of nanogram amounts of both DNA and RNA. The method uses a combination of thiazole orange, a non-specific nucleic acid stain, and the RNA degrading enzyme RNase. Thiazole orange had high fluorescence yield. The fluorescence was additive for combinations of RNA and DNA. The addition of proteinase-K increased the fluorescence of the tissue sample by 100%. Recovery of nucleic acid standards added to tissue extracts yielded $\sim$100% recovery. The method is compatible with assays for protein concentration and electron transport system (ETS) …