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Trace Elements Over The North Atlantic Ocean: Sources And Transport Pathways, Suilou Huang

Open Access Dissertations

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Optimum Window Function For Sensitivity Enhancement In Nmr And Fluorine-19 Nmr Of Arylamine-Dna Adducts, Masoumeh Rajabzadeh

Open Access Dissertations

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Quantum Integrability And Nonintegrability Of Hamiltonian Systems With Two Degrees Of Freedom, Vyacheslav V. Stepanov

Open Access Dissertations

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Practitioners' Familiarity With Psychotherapy Research And Their Relative Weighting Of Research And Experience In Formulating Beliefs, Charles Miga Boisvert

Open Access Dissertations

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The Golf Course As A Nature Reserve: An Evaluation Of Land Use And Diversity Applied To Ecosystem Design, Barry Edward Devine

Open Access Dissertations

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Photodetachment Of Metastable Helium Molecules From Helium Clusters, Chih-Ching Hu

Open Access Dissertations

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Maid In Voyage: Maid Marian And Female Heroism In Twentieth Century Retellings Of The Legend Of Robin Hood, Evelyn Mooar Perry

Open Access Dissertations

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The Effect Of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation On Marine Planktonic Ciliate Survival And The Penetration Of Ultraviolet Irradiance On Georges Bank, Elena Berneita Martin-Webb

Open Access Dissertations

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Meander-Induced Exchange Across The Gulf Stream, Jayendran Rajamony

Open Access Dissertations

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Self-Efficacy In Women Following Myocardial Infarction: An Investigation Into The Effects Of A Cognitive-Interactive Nursing Intervention On Efficacy Enhancement, Joanne F. Roy

Open Access Dissertations

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Transport Phenomena In Nanoscale Systems, Armen Boris Stepaniants

Open Access Dissertations

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Applications Of Image Analysis In The Development Of Recombinant Protein Processes, Roderick William Geldart

Open Access Dissertations

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How Diverse Is Ethnic Diversity In Books For Young Children, Jacque Lynne Washkwich

Open Access Dissertations

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Spatial Patterns In Ocean Color And Temperature Maps: Fronts, Fractals, And Ecological Considerations, Christine Chan

Open Access Dissertations

Heterogeneity in ocean patterns is at once intriguing and problematic. Processes such as primary production or mixing occur on a range of scales in time and in space; variability must be captured at appropriate scales with tools flexible enough to detect changes in pattern-generating processes. Frontal and fractal analyses were applied to satellite-derived sea surface temperature and ocean color imagery to describe patterns in Northwestern Atlantic shelf and slope seas. On a seasonal scale, climatological thermal fronts were most frequent in winter and were found on the continental shelf south of the NY Bight and alongshore in the Gulf of …

Regulation Of Stability Of Marketed Pharmaceuticals, Brahmaiah Kommanaboyina

Open Access Master's Theses

The United States Pharmacopeia I National Formulary (USP/NF) sets the standards and maintains monographs for the evaluation of various dosage forms, especially during the storage and distribution channels. This document is compiled with the critical review of the stability testing of pharmaceutical products. In particular, it considers the progress toward globalization and harmonization, attention being directed to monitoring stability in the distribution channels. It is also focussed on the implications of Mean Kinetic Tempearature (MKT) concept and the effect of temperature spikes on MKT values, thus effecting the stability of drug products. The assignment of conformance period to the tablets …

The Effect Of Demographics And Plan Characteristics On The Cost Of Pharmaceuticals In A Private Third-Party Prescription Program, Soyal R. Momin

Open Access Master's Theses

Objective: Using prescription claims data, the objectives of this study were: (1) to compare the proportion of variation in cost of pharmaceuticals that could be explained by available demographic variables and plan characteristics within various therapeutic categories; (2) to examine the relationships among plan characteristics and cost of pharmaceuticals; and (3) to evaluate whether utilization differed among various demographic variables and plan characteristics after controlling for appropriate covariates.

Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional study. Data

Collection: Data for this study were obtained from 1996 prescription claims information for the commercial population administered by a Rhode Island-based pharmacy benefit management …

The Foundation Of Radical Ecological Philosophy In Karl Marx’S View Of Nature, Elizabeth Marsis

Open Access Master's Theses

The three main non-traditional schools of environmental philosophy - social ecology, feminism and deep ecology - contain divergent views of and claims regarding the universalization of their particular world views. One example of this divergence of views concerns the status of human/non-human relationships. Like many other contemporary non-traditional liberation movements and theories, these three environmental movements and schools of thought have been influenced by the theories of Karl Marx.

Therefore, in order to clarify and understand the way in which, and the extent to which, key proponents of each of these environmental movements and philosophies universalize their particular philosophic world …

Prescribing Patterns And Clinical Outcomes In Asthmatic Children: A Historical Cohort Study, Alexandra Jane Ward

Open Access Dissertations

NIH guidelines recommend treatment of moderate or severe childhood asthma with preventive anti-inflammatory medication (inhaled corticosteroids. cromolyn or nedocromil). The guidelines also emphasize providing patient education.

The study objectives were a) to determine if the NIH guidelines for the treatment of childhood asthma were implemented by prescribing preventive medication. b) to determine if the NIH guidelines for the treatment of childhood asthma were implemented by providing patient education and c) to measure the influence of primary care physicians prescribing in accordance with the NIH guidelines on adverse clinical outcomes. Adverse clinical outcomes were measured by severe asthma exacerbations resulting in: …

How Subject Characteristics Influence Attention Task Performance: A Structural Modeling Approach, Kristen A. Mckiernan

Open Access Dissertations

This research project presented and tested a theoretical model of auditory sustained attention. The model includes the personal, or subject characteristics that are believed to influence a person's ability to sustain attention. These characteristics are positive affect, negative affect, motivation, arousal, and concentration. Auditory sustained attention is represented by performance on a computerized continuous performance test (CPT); the CPT is widely used in both research and clinical settings. Three hundred and eleven participants were recruited for this study. Data from 286 of them were included in these analyses. All participants received some form of course credit for their participation. The …

Between Two Faiths: The Arabization Of The Knights Templar During The Crusades, Paula Regina Stiles

Open Access Master's Theses

The military orders , especially the first, the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon (Knights Templar) played a critical role in the preservation of the Crusader kingdoms in Palestine between 1119 and their fall in 1291. It is generally acknowledged that part of the Templars' success, in both Palestine and Spain, stemmed from their ability to deal with the Muslim enemy in a variety of situations. This naturally involved some assimilation of the Templars into the local culture during the 12th and 13th centuries.

This thesis explores the nature of that assimilation (either arabization or islamization), …

Residential Perception Of Tourism In Towns Neighboring Cancun, Mexico, Alison Macrae

Open Access Master's Theses

This thesis examines local perception of tourism in two towns neighboring Cancun, Mexico. In response to the economic success of Cancun, tourism development in other nearby towns is growing at a rapid pace. In order to mitigate unwanted impacts and guide tourism development in smaller towns, it is necessary to identify residential attitudes toward local tourism as well as the type of tourism displayed in Cancun. The two towns chosen for this study are experiencing different stages of tourism development, and are also differentially located with respect to Cancun. This thesis tests three hypotheses: a) the two towns will demonstrate …

Gravity-Capillary Waves And Their Influence On Air-Sea Interaction Under Non-Stationary Conditions, B. Mete Uz

Open Access Dissertations

There is renewed interest in short wind-waves because they are actively involved in most exchange processes between the ocean and the atmosphere, because they are the basis of radar remote sensing measurements, and also because new methods are available to measure them. Wind generated gravity-capillary waves have been measured along with wind parameters both in a wind-wave tank, using a scanning laser slope gauge capable of good wavenumber and frequency resolution. The experiments address the classical issues of the generation and subsequent evolution of short wind-waves, their modulation by fluctuating wind forcing and their contribution to the momentum flux from …

1999 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials for 1999.

Employer Liability For Harassment Under Title Vii: A Functional Rationale For Faragher And Ellerth, Michael C. Harper

San Diego Law Review

In two decisions concerning sexual harassment, Faragher v. City of Boca Raton' and Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, The Supreme Court, on the last day of its 1997-1998 term finally articulated coherent vicarious liability rules critical for bounding the scope of the discrimination prohibitions in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Court did so by explaining the meaning of the inclusion of "any agent" in Title VII's definition of "employer.'" The meaning of "agent" in this definition is critical for establishing employer liability because almost all Title VII-protected employees work for corporations and other legal fictions …

The First Women Members Of The Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, Mary L. Clark

San Diego Law Review

In 1879, Belva A. Lockwood of Washington, D.C., became the first woman member of the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court. Lockwood had applied for admission to the bar three years earlier, but had been refused on the ground that no woman had ever been admitted and thus there was no precedent for women's admission. Not easily defeated, Lockwood lobbied Congress to amend the rules governing admission of attorneys to the Supreme Court bar to allow for women as well as men. In February, 1879, Congress adopted "an Act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women," which authorized women …

Jerry-Building The Road To The Future: An Evaluation Of The White Commission Report On Structural Alternatives For The Federal Courts Of Appeals, Joseph N. Akrotirianakis, Paul Garo Arshagouni, Zareh A. Jalotorssian

San Diego Law Review

For years, critics have argued that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should be divided because it has grown too large to manage its caseload effectively.' They blame the Ninth Circuit's size for alleged increases in intra-circuit conflicts, inefficiency, delay, and a lack of collegiality among its judges.! In recent years, conservative

congressmen in the Pacific Northwest have criticized the San Francisco- based circuit for its "liberal" rulings on everything from the environment

to the death penalty?

Legal Rules And Social Reform, Emily Sherwin

San Diego Law Review

Rules are designed to reduce error by prescribing actions that, in the run of cases, will produce better results than the subjects of rules would obtain if they judged for themselves what to do. At the same time, rules sometimes produce errors when applied to particular cases. If the sum of error under rules is less than the sum of error rules prevent, then the rule-making authority has reason to issue "serious" rules-rules to be followed in every case. Because rules are imperfect, however, the subjects of rules do not always have good reason to follow them. This means that …

The Rule In A Contribution Action Between Third-Party Insurers Wherein The Plaintiff Insurer Seeks Reimbursement Of Defense Costs From The Defendant Insurer After A Collusive Fraud On The Plaintiff Insurer Under California Law

San Diego Law Review

This Comment addresses five sub- issues, as follows:

1. Does or should an insurer have a duty to defend when it "knows" that the insured is involved in collusive fraud? 2. Assuming there is "substantial" but inconclusive evidence of collusive fraud, does an insurer who refuses to defend thereby commit a breach of duty? 3. In connection with a contribution action, are there any "gatekeeper" duties owed by the payer to the non-payer which must be satisfied? 4. Given that the non-payer denied coverage on the basis of collusive fraud, what must be proven in a subsequent contribution action? 5. …

The Devil Made Me Do It: Replacing Corporate Directors' Veil Of Secrecy With The Mantle Of Stewardship, Constance E. Bagley, Karen L. Page

San Diego Law Review

This Article argues that the nature of the corporate form coupled with an exclusive focus on shareholder value leads to economically and socially inefficient results. The "profit maximization" view of directors' duties ignores the historical reasons why corporations were given special privileges, such as limited liability, by the state. This narrow view should be replaced with a doctrine of stewardship that imposes a more comprehensive view of the corporation's and directors' responsibility to manage the vast resources held in corporate form. This broader view is consistent not only with the values of a free market economy, but also with modem …

A Jurisprudence In Disarray: On Battery, Wrongful Living, And The Right To Bodily Integrity, Mark Strasser

San Diego Law Review

The right to bodily integrity is firmly entrenched in the right to privacy jurisprudence. An individual who has that right violated by being subjected to an unwanted touching can sue for damages. For example, an individual who receives medical treatment against her will can bring an action for battery, even if that treatment provides her a net benefit.' Yet, the determination of whether our current system provides either sufficient compensation for the victim of a nonconsensual physical invasion or a sufficient disincentive to possible tortfeasors to prevent such invasions is only possible after the potential damages for such invasions are …