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Integrating Power Engineering Topics And Applications In Non-Power Courses, S. Legowski, Badrul H. Chowdhury, J. J. Cupal, R. G. Jacquot, B. J. W. Pierre, A. H. M. S. Ula, B. M. Wilamowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper investigates integrating power engineering material over the breadth of an electrical engineering curriculum. Electrical engineering curricula have a large number of required courses and many subareas for students to study. By introducing power concepts in a variety of courses, students may be motivated to take additional courses in the power area and are better prepared for the diverse background which will be required of them as practising power engineers. The important interrelationships between subareas of electrical engineering are better understood by students when cross discipline applications are discussed. This paper describes the introduction of power concepts and applications …

From Yoder To Yoda: Traditional, Modern And Postmodern Models Of Religion In U.S. Constitutional Law, Rebecca Redwood French

Journal Articles

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Guarding The Gate To The Courthouse: How Trial Judges Are Using Their Evidentiary Screening Role To Remake Tort Causation Rules, Lucinda M. Finley

Journal Articles

The article looks at what trial judges are actually doing in toxic tort cases in the post-Daubert world; it reviews and critiques cases in which judges have in effect adopted a new rule of causation law that requires plaintiffs to rely on epidemiology, and in particular epidemiology that demonostrates an increase in relative risk of 2.0 or greater; the article considers the substantive as well as the normative implications of this legal treatment of epidemiology.

Towering Figures, Enigmas, And Responsive Communities In American Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The first thing Niebuhr and Guttman are telling us to do is to look around and figure out what is going on around us. With that in mind, it has seemed to me that, at the simplest, a lawyer (or a journalist) functions in at least four communities, any one of which might be a community to talk about lawyers' moral questions in.

My inquiry, then, is an inquiry in communitarian legal ethics, using a Guttman-Niebuhr focus on responsibility. I infer a further question about communities of moral discernment—that is, not only where a modern lawyer is responsible but also …

Parental Rights And The Ugly Duckling, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley

Journal Articles

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" is best remembered for its moral, "To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg." Having read and thought about this story many times, we should like to suggest another, less heart-warming, interpretation. The story of the Ugly Duckling, that most resilient of cygnets, masks the tragedy of children who suffer abuse. Its message, that personal spirit will triumph when a child grows up, misrepresents the experience of many victimized children. If we wait for the child to …

Suicide-Related Knowledge Of Teachers On Spirit Lake Nation, Deborah Lynn Jones Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

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Machine Vision Routines For Finding Objects Guided By A Pointer, Jade Yang

Theses and Dissertations

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Brownian Dynamics Of Nonspecific Protein-Dna Interactions, Fan Yang

Theses and Dissertations

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Women Caregivers And Labor Force Participation, Rachel A. Zimmer

Theses and Dissertations

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Perceptions Of Indirect Aggression By Females, Lauren L. Warner

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effectiveness Of Prophylactic Antibiotics In Otitis Media, Rebecca L. C Simonsen

Theses and Dissertations

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Sex Differences In Family Caregiving, Sarah M. Shimek

Theses and Dissertations

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A Gis Approach To Trail System Additions At Turtle River State Park, Joshua D. Stevenson

Theses and Dissertations

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Self-Handicapping And Intercollegiate Athletics, Matthew J. Schultz

Theses and Dissertations

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The Coaching Club, Darcy D. Cascaes

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effects Of Subchronic Dosage Of Ginkgo Biloba On Short Term Memory In A Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Study On Healthy Volunteers, Patricia L. Moulton

Theses and Dissertations

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Perceptual Judgments And Acoustical Properties Of Aging Voices, Cheryl Bodnarus

Theses and Dissertations

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The Impact Of Computer Mediated Phonological Awareness Instruction On Emerging Literacy, Treena Dawn Camphaug

Theses and Dissertations

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Knowledge And Attitudes Of Registered Nurses On Postoperative Epidural Analgesia, Karen A. Bender

Theses and Dissertations

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Effects Of Creatine Monohydrate Supplementation On Human Performance : A Meta-Analysis, Daniel L. Bessetti

Theses and Dissertations

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Communication Adaptation In French Nuclear Industry, James N. Mallory

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Echinacea Awareness Campaign, Monika J. Heinbaugh

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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American Indians And Crime, Bureau Of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department Of Justice, L.A. Greenfeld, S. Smith

Native Health Database Full Text

This report represents a compilation and new analysis of data on the effects and consequences of violent crime among American Indians. The report uses data from a wide variety of sources, including statistical series maintained by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the FBI, and the Bureau of the Census. Data are reported from American Indian crime victims on how they were affected by the victimization and about who victimized them. The report also includes the first BJS estimates of the total number of American Indians under the custody or supervision of the justice system.

Tertiary Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) From Northern Nebraska, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Bruce E. Bailey, Richard G. Corner

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Scarce remains of bats are reported from five localities in northern Nebraska in which other kinds of vertebrates are much more common. ?Oligomyotis or ?Myotis, possibly of an undescribed species, is represented by fragments of jaws and humeri from an early Arikareean (late Oligocene) locality in Dawes County. Several toothless jaw fragments from the late Hemingfordian (middle Miocene) Companion Quarry in Sioux County represent an indeterminate microchiropteran. An indeterminate species of Myotis was encountered in the middle Clarendonian (late Miocene) Ashfall site in Antelope County. A hairy-tailed bat, Lasiurus sp. indet., occurred in late Clarendonian (late Miocene) …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences Table Of Contents: Volume 25 (1999)

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Editorial Contents

Nebraska Academy of Sciences Officers, Policy Committee ................. ii

Editorial Board ................. iv

Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy ................. v

Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science ................. vi

Preparation of manuscripts ................. inside back cover

Papers

Using omissive faults to obtain local convergence in partially connected networks (M. H. Azadmanesh and A. W. Krings) ................. 1

New floristic records for Nebraska-5 (Steven B. Rolfsmeier, Robert F. Steinauer, and David M. Sutherland) ................. 15

A key to dicotyledonous rosettes of eastern Nebraska (Phillip D. Moore) ................. 23

The brine shrimp Artemia franciscana in closed microalgal-based microcosms (biospheres) …

Alaska Native Cancer Survival Report, A.P. Lanier, P. Holck, J. Kelly, B. Smith, T. Mcevoy

Native Health Database Full Text

This report presents Alaska Native cancer survival rates and stage of disease at diagnosis. Data on survival and stage at diagnosis are given for all cancers combined, and for select primary cancer sites (the organ in which the cancer first began). Survival rates are given for only those cancers for which there were enough patients to calculate reliable estimates. The focus is on five-year relative survival rates because these rates are most commonly used in the cancer literature and most appropriate for comparisons between populations.

Editorial: Mental Health Needs Assessments Performed By Four Urban American Indian Organizations, D.K. Novins

Native Health Database Full Text

In 1991, the Indian Health Service funded a nationwide initiative with the goal of determining the need for culturally appropriate mental health services among American Indian people residing in urban areas. In the author's opinion, the assessment method used in this initiative is a valuable, fresh approach that is a significant change from flawed attempts to make these assessments in the past.

Capital Investment Decisions Of Large Industrial Firms In Major European Countries, Faith Yilmaz

Plymouth Business School Theses

Using large-company panel data, this thesis empirically analyses investment decisions in major European countries. We particularly concentrate on three issues: the taxation of capital in the EU, the role of agency costs of debt on investment decisions, and the empirical analyses of the investment-uncertainty relationship. First, based on a dynamic system in capital and Tobin's q ratio, some simplified analytical results are derived to simulate various tax policy effects on investment. Also, for a single investment project, a model is developed to consider jointly the role of uncertainty and irreversibility in the taxation of capital. The simulation results cast doubt …

A Submersible Battery-Powered Flow Injection (Fi) Sensor For The Determination Of Nitrate In Estuarine And Coastal Waters, Arj David, T Mccormack, Pj Worsfold

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The design, construction and performance of a remotely deployed submersible flow injection-based nutrient (total oxidized nitrogen) sensor are described. The sensor featured a custom-built microcomputer and a solid-state, flow-through spectrophotometric detector, and the derivatization chemistry was based on in-line coppercadmium reduction of nitrate to nitrite, and diazotization with N1NED and sulphanilamide. The limit of detection was 0.0014 mg l-1 NO3-N and the linear range was 0.0014- 0.77 mg l-1 with a 260 μl sample volume and a 20 mm path length flow cell. Results from submersed deployments in the Tamar estuary and North Sea are also reported.

An Examination Of The Antecedents To Small And Medium Enterprise Co-Operation, And Their Effect On Network Propensity And Behaviour., John White

Plymouth Business School Theses

Business co-operation in the small firm sector has in recent years been the beneficiary of both considerable academic debate and public sector funding for its facilitation. This thesis reviews the pertinent literature in the fields of business co-operation, trust, commitment and personality psychology. The limitations of existing networking - co-operation SME research are identified, and in particular the dearth of empirical based research. Where such research exists, no attempt is made to isolate variables which might determine whether individuals are likely to co-operate with others, and / or the likely success of their co-operative activities. As a means of addressing …