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Paramagnetic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Nmr) Studies On The Calcium Binding Site Of [Alpha]-Lactalbumin, Thomas Kurt Ritter

Dissertations and Theses

Paramagnetic NMR has drawn interest as a technique for extending the range of systems that can be investigated. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a combination of paramagnetic two-dimensional and relaxation techniques allows for assigning resonances corresponding to residues forming the metal binding site of proteins in which the metal is coordinated exclusively by amino acid side chains and which have been previously inaccessible to assignment.

α-Lactalbumin (LA) is a calcium binding protein with relatively broad NMR signals; this broadness has prevented complete assignment. LA has been the subject of many studies, because it can form a …

Sacagawea : The History Of A Myth, William Jeffrey Patten

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Sacagawea, the Indian woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been one of the most romanticized figures in Western history. Although Sacagawea received little attention following the Corps of Discovery's return to the United States, she was rediscovered by writers associated with the women's suffrage movement at the end of the nineteenth century. The development of the enduring American legend that formed around Sacagawea was an Anglo-American and twentieth century phenomenon. In myth, she was given credit for the success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and over time she became its savior and leader.

It is the …

Endangered Species Wannabees, John Copeland Nagle

Journal Articles

Environmental law and theories of statutory interpretation have developed side by side in the United States during the past twenty-five years. Many of the leading environmental law cases are also statutory interpretation cases. China is different. China has enacted many environmental statutes, often patterned after foreign laws such as those in the United States, but there are no Chinese environmental law statutory interpretation cases.

This article examines why there are no such cases, and what we may learn from that fact. I am indebted to the work of Professor Stewart, whose engaging article in this symposium issue combines three of …

Joint Custody: Bonding And Monitoring Theories, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley

Journal Articles

Symposium: Law and the New American Family Held at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington Apr. 4, 1997

Who's Responsible? Employer Liability For Supervisors' Hostile-Environment Sexual Harassment: An Analysis Of Faragher V. City Of Boca Raton, Barbara J. Fick

Journal Articles

This article previews the Supreme Court case Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998). The author expected the Court to address the issue of under what circumstances an employer is liabile under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for a supervisor's sexual harassement that creates a hostile work environment.

The Supreme Court's Impact On Marriage, 1967-90, Margaret F. Brinig

Journal Articles

In the twenty years following Loving, the Supreme Court decided a number of cases dealing with the family. Although the Court reasoned that it was protecting marriage and extending such protection to other forms of families, the perverse effect of these decisions was to weaken the most traditional family type of all, the nuclear family. Adults, and particularly pregnant women and unwed fathers, triumphed in this move towards autonomy and rights. The vanquished included those who depended upon the family for love and sustenance: minor children, elderly adults, and longtime homemakers.

This paper discusses these cases from a family law …

Natural Law And The Ethics Of Discourse, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

This essay argues that Plato's critical analysis of the ethics of discourse is superior to Habermas', and more generally that Habermas has no sufficient reason to propose or suppose the philosophical superiority of "modernity." The failure of Hume and Kant and much modern philosophy to understand the concept and content of reasons for action underlies Habermas' attempted distinction between ethics and morality, and Rawls' concept of public reason. A proper study of discourse also yields a metaphysics of the person, and thus reinforces the ethics.

Reflective Remote Method Invocation, George K. Thiruvathukal, Lovely S. Thomas, Andy T. Korczynski

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is available in the current Java language design and implementation, providing the much-needed capability of allowing objects running in different Java processes to collaborate using a variation on the popular Remote Procedure Call (RPC).

Although RMI provides features which are desirable for high-performance distributed computing, its design and implementation are deficient in key areas of importance to the high-performance computing community in general. This paper addresses the key deficiencies of RMI and how these deficiencies affect the design and implementation of distributed object applications.

Reflective RMI (RRMI) is an open RMI implementation which makes better use …

Java Grande Forum Report: Making Java Work For High-End Computing, George K. Thiruvathukal

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This document describes the Java Grande Forum and includes its initial deliverables.Theseare reports that convey a succinct set of recommendations from this forum to SunMicrosystems and other purveyors of Java™ technology that will enable GrandeApplications to be developed with the Java programming language.

Wide-Area Implementation Of The Message Passing Interface, Ian Foster, Jonathan Geisler, William Gropp, Nicholas Karonis, Ewing Lusk, George K. Thiruvathukal, Steven Tuecke

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) can be used as a portable, high-performance programming model for wide-area computing systems. The wide-area environment introduces challenging problems for the MPI implementor, due to the heterogeneity of both the underlying physical infrastructure and the software environment at different sites. In this article, we describe an MPI implementation that incorporates solutions to these problems. This implementation has beenconstructed by extending the Argonne MPICH implementation of MPI to use communicationservices provided by the Nexus communication library and authentication, resource allocation, process creation/management, and information services provided by the I-Soft system (initially) and the Globus metacomputing toolkit …

An Alternative Method For Determining Adjusted Function Points As The Basis For Software Cost Estimating, William Alexander Eldred

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

As software costs become an increasingly higher percentage of total computer system costs, it becomes increasingly more important for software development managers to have the ability to predict development costs with reasonable accuracy early in the software development cycle. Software development cost estimates are based in large measure on software size. Function points are considered by many to be a de facto industry standard as a size metric. The function points technique, unlike lines-of-code, can be applied early in the software development cycle and is language independent. Critics claim that the function point “value adjustment factor,” which purports to capture …

Identifying Health Care Needs Of The Resident Native American Student Population, Lawrence D. Blue

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Development Of Marketing Component For A Product Research And Development Course At The University Of North Dakota, Chad Michael Coauette

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Dreaming : A Study Of Its Incidence During General Anesthesia With The Use Of Propofol And Nitrous Oxide Versus Propofol And Sevoflurane, Mary Bush

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The Effect Of Age And Gender On Length Of Hospitalization Of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft And Cardiac Valve Patients, Jacqueline Devine-Leiran

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Baseline Data Collection On Anxiety And/Or Depression In Female Open Heart Surgery Patients 55 Years And Older, Cathy D. Devincenzi

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A Comparison Of Fish Community Structure In Relation To Habitat Variation In Three North Dakota Streams, David C. Dekrey

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Health Status Of Refugee Children In North Dakota, Rhea J. Ferry

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Navigating The Maze : Family Members Of Disabled Children In Interaction With Support Systems, Siglinde Erbs

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Correlating Crystalloid Fluid Resuscitation And Postoperative Ventilatory Time In The Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patient, Linda S. Dunnam

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Utilization Of Genetic Counseling Services In North Dakota, Mary Ebertowski

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Early Versus Late Extubation Of The Postoperative Coronary Artery Bypass Patient And Its Effect On Length Of Postoperative Hospital Stay, Eric L. Flaten

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Post-Cabg Delirium And Its Effect On Length Of Stay, Michele D. O'Donnell Frank

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The Effectiveness Of Intranasal Midazolam And Intramuscular Fentanyl To Provide Sedation And Pain Relief In Pediatric Closed Reduction Fractures, Patricia L. Gump

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A Case Study Of An Adult Female With Rett Syndrome, Brenda K. Hanson Barta

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Analysis And Modeling Of Cryogenic Transfer Line Cool Down, Kazi Ashraful Haque

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Modeling A Centrifugal Membrane Unit Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Theodore Nathan Kestner

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Simulations Of Star Formation From Cloud Collisions In A Disk Galaxy : Predictions Of Enhanced Star Formation And Tidal Morphology, Joel D. Haugen

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Rotational Peer Mediation Training : Resolving Conflict In The Classroom, Karen C. Grabanski

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Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Speech : An Evaluation Using The Burkeian Pentad, Keri Indvik

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