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Fatal Cysticercosis By Taenia Crassiceps (Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae) In A Presumed Immunocompromised Canine Host, Eric P. Hoberg, William Ebinger, James A. Render Dec 1999

Fatal Cysticercosis By Taenia Crassiceps (Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae) In A Presumed Immunocompromised Canine Host, Eric P. Hoberg, William Ebinger, James A. Render

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Cysticercosis in a canine host (Canis jamiliaris) attributable to the taeniid cestode Taenia crassiceps is reported for the first time in North America. Numerous parent and daughter cysticerci occurred in a massive intrapleural and intraperitoneal infection in an apparently immunocompromised host. The largest cysticerci were ovoid to elongate. 5-9 mm in maximum length. and armed with 32-34 rostellar hooks in two rows; small hooks measured 114-143 μm long (avg. = 124 ± 8.2 μm). and large hooks were 156-180 μm (avg. = 163 ± 7.4 μm). Taenia crassiceps is widespread in boreal North America and, like a number …

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Self-Reported Feeding Advice By Physicians For Common Childhood Illnesses, S Q. Nizami, Z A. Bhutta Dec 1999

Self-Reported Feeding Advice By Physicians For Common Childhood Illnesses, S Q. Nizami, Z A. Bhutta

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: A nutritious diet is important for recovery during illnesses. Dietary advice by physicians and consumption of food by the patients are often based upon their hot and cold concepts and beliefs about various foods rather than on scientific basis.
Objectives: To look at the food-advising behaviour of physicians during illnesses and to know the maternal concepts about various foods being hot or cold.
Methods: A questionnaire was served to the physicians participating in a continuous medical education session held at the Aga Khan University and Hospital, asking them to write the foods they advise or restrict during different illnesses …

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Disparate Cultures In Contact: Review Of The Brainerd Journal: A Mission To The Cherokees, 1817-1823, Ed. Joyce B. Phillips, Paul Gary Phillips, And Philip Viles., Rowena Mcclinton Dec 1999

Disparate Cultures In Contact: Review Of The Brainerd Journal: A Mission To The Cherokees, 1817-1823, Ed. Joyce B. Phillips, Paul Gary Phillips, And Philip Viles., Rowena Mcclinton

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

An important primary source for Cherokeer culture, the Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823, is composed of notes written almost daily by two New England missionaries, Cyrus Kingsbury and Ard Hoyt. Their contribution to Cherokee history is valuable because, other than government accounts that parallel this same era, little literature survives about these crucial years preceding forced removal in 1838-39.

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A Symbol For Transcendence : The Human Figure In The Visual Arts As A Symbol Of Psychological Wholeness As Related To The Archetype Of Divine Androgyny And The Reconciliation Of The Anima-Animus., Mason Cowell Dec 1999

A Symbol For Transcendence : The Human Figure In The Visual Arts As A Symbol Of Psychological Wholeness As Related To The Archetype Of Divine Androgyny And The Reconciliation Of The Anima-Animus., Mason Cowell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

From a Jungian perspective, this thesis investigates the ideal of androgynous transcendence by identifying the Jungian anima-animus archetype within three specific artworks produced by three differing traditions. As a result, this thesis contributes to the discipline of art history by providing a nontraditional approach to the interpretation of visual art. Although 'New Art History' is receptive to a Jungian approach in the analysis of visual art, this relatively recent and major new direction within art history does not readily embrace a Jungian understanding of the visual arts. A Jungian perspective towards the interpretation of visual art presents fascinating insights concerning …

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Economic Dispatch And Optimal Sizing Of Battery Energy Storage Systems In Utility Load-Leveling Operations, Chin H. Lo, Max Darwin Anderson Dec 1999

Economic Dispatch And Optimal Sizing Of Battery Energy Storage Systems In Utility Load-Leveling Operations, Chin H. Lo, Max Darwin Anderson

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Battery energy storage (BES) systems show promise of savings for both the utility and the customer. An algorithm combining multi-pass dynamic programming (MPDP) with a time-shift technique has been developed for two purposes: economic dispatch of BES and finding optimal BES power and energy capacities in a power system. Due to the daily cyclic nature of the load curve, a 168-hour load curve is decomposed into seven 24-hour subsections for easy management. Each subsection is treated independently. Decomposition can save computation time and computer memory. A time-shift technique provides better starting state values and improves the finding process of the …

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Effects Of Turbidity On The Foraging Abilities Of Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis) And Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus Dolomieu), John A. Sweka Dec 1999

Effects Of Turbidity On The Foraging Abilities Of Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis) And Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus Dolomieu), John A. Sweka

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Sedimentation is the major pollutant of waters in North America. Most research on the effects of increased sedimentation has focussed on its effects on stream habitat and its ramification on the reproductive potential of fish. Although relatively large sediment loads may be necessary to alter stream habitat, only small loads are needed to raise mean stream turbidity levels. Turbidity may be an important, yet relatively unexamined factor in stream fish production. With this, I sought to determine the influence of elevated turbidity on the foraging abilities of two predatory species representing both cold and warm water stream habitas, brook trout …

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Physiological And Genetic Mechanism(S) Of Cold Acclimation In Rhododendron, Chon Chong Lim Dec 1999

Physiological And Genetic Mechanism(S) Of Cold Acclimation In Rhododendron, Chon Chong Lim

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

An in vitro laboratory protocol for assessing cold hardiness (CH) in rhododendrons based on electrolyte-leakage was developed. The raw leakage data were transformed into percent-adjusted injury, which showed high correlation with injury data based on visual observations. The percent-adjusted injury data---fitted to the Gompertz function coupled with the Jackknife method---allowed for reliable and statistically sound estimations of Rhododendron leaf freezing-tolerance (LFT). Utilizing this method, Tmax values for Rhododendron cultivars, species, and populations were determined and ranked relatively. Our observation of a continuous distribution of LFT in F2 and backcross (BC) populations derived from a R. catawbiense x R. fortunei cross …

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Evaluation Of Ceramic Candle Filters Degradation And Damage Location Using Four-Point Bending Tests, Wu Tseng Peng Dec 1999

Evaluation Of Ceramic Candle Filters Degradation And Damage Location Using Four-Point Bending Tests, Wu Tseng Peng

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The structural integrity of ceramic candle filters is a key element for hot gas cleanup systems. Ceramic candle filters used in demonstration plants have experienced degradation and fracturing. Preliminary examination of these ceramic filters indicated that damage of the filters may have resulted from strength degradation due to persistent high temperature operation, thermal transient events, excessive ash accumulation and bridging, and pulse cleaning. This study proposes a nondestructive evaluation of the structural properties of these ceramic filters. The ceramic candle filter is a slender structure made of layers of porous materials. The structure has high acoustic attenuation, which has greatly …

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How Permanent Became Temporary In Del Monte Dunes, Michael C. Levine Dec 1999

How Permanent Became Temporary In Del Monte Dunes, Michael C. Levine

Duke Law Journal

Regulatory takings are like car accidents. They fascinate us. We cannot help slowing down to look. What a disaster, we say to ourselves. We are so glad it did not happen to us. But we wonder if we could be next, We think about who is at fault, who should pay for the damages, and how it all could have been avoided in the first place And we question how the rules of the road could be improved so that such collisions in the future could be averted.

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The Vertical Separation Of Powers, Victoria Nourse Dec 1999

The Vertical Separation Of Powers, Victoria Nourse

Duke Law Journal

Standard understandings of the separation of powers begin with the concept of function. Professor Nourse argues that function alone cannot predict important changes in structural incentives and thus serves as a poor proxy for assessing real risks to governmental structure. To illustrate this point, the Article returns to proposals considered at the Constitutional Convention and considers difficult contemporary cases such as Morrison v. Olson, Clinton v. Jones, and the Supreme Court's more recent federalism decisions. In each instance, function appears to steer us wrong because it fails to understand separation of powers questions as ones of structural incentive and political …

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Liberating Lawyers: Divergent Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson Dec 1999

Liberating Lawyers: Divergent Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson

Duke Law Journal

Professor Atkinson hopes William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust will replace Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird as our favorite story of lawyerly virtue. In both stories, a white male lawyer and his protege try to free a black man falsely accused of a capital crime. But below these superficial similarities, Professor Atkinson finds fundamental differences. To Kill a Mockingbird, with its father-knows-best attorney, Atticus Pinch, celebrates lawyerly paternalism; Intruder in the Dust, through its aristocratic black hero, Lucas Beauchamp, and his lay allies, challenges the rule of lawyers, if not law itself The first urges us to serve others …

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The International Criminal Court: Assessing The Jurisdictional Loopholes In The Rome Statute, Melissa K. Marler Dec 1999

The International Criminal Court: Assessing The Jurisdictional Loopholes In The Rome Statute, Melissa K. Marler

Duke Law Journal

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Mining Multiple-Level Association Rules In Large Databases, Jiawei Han, Yongjian Fu Dec 1999

Mining Multiple-Level Association Rules In Large Databases, Jiawei Han, Yongjian Fu

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

A top-down progressive deepening method is developed for efficient mining of multiple-level association rules from large transaction databases based on the Apriori principle. A group of variant algorithms is proposed based on the ways of sharing intermediate results, with the relative performance tested and analyzed. The enforcement of different interestingness measurements to find more interesting rules, and the relaxation of rule conditions for finding `level-crossing' association rules, are also investigated in the paper. Our study shows that efficient algorithms can be developed from large databases for the discovery of interesting and strong multiple-level association rules.

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Multimedia Databases, S. R. Subramanya Dec 1999

Multimedia Databases, S. R. Subramanya

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The acquisition, generation, storage and processing of multimedia data in computers and transmission over networks have grown tremendously. Databases have been developed to cope with huge amounts of data in different applications. Multimedia databases (MMDB) are essential for efficient management and effective use of this data. They are however still in their infancy. Most current MMDB system prototypes are closely bound to narrow application areas. Experiences gained from developing and using novel multimedia will help advance the multimedia database technology.

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Analysis And Average-Value Modeling Of An Inductorless Synchronous Machine Load Commutated Converter System, J. T. Alt, Scott D. Sudhoff, B. E. Ladd Dec 1999

Analysis And Average-Value Modeling Of An Inductorless Synchronous Machine Load Commutated Converter System, J. T. Alt, Scott D. Sudhoff, B. E. Ladd

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Synchronous machine fed load-commutated converters (SMLCCs) are commonly used for dc power sources in marine and aircraft power systems. The focus of this paper is to set forth a model for SMLCCs for use in transient stability studies involving these systems. Although there has been considerable work in this area, much of this work has assumed the existence of a dc link inductor whereupon the dc link current is approximately constant. In practice, this filter is often eliminated, whereupon previous models are no longer valid. A new average-value model is set forth for SMLCCs in which there is no dc …

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As Different As Night And Day: Palamon And Arcite Reconsidered, William Hamilton Dec 1999

As Different As Night And Day: Palamon And Arcite Reconsidered, William Hamilton

Masters Theses

Through an analysis of characterization and the sub-text of infernal allusions to the myths of Orpheus and the ravishment of Proserpina, my thesis demonstrates that the Theban cousins Palamon and Arcite are not only distinct but diametrically opposed characters who are more central to The Knight' s Tale than the present critical consensus allows. Chapter I analyzes Charles Muscarine, who so convincingly put an end to the once lively debate over the characterization of the cousins that the proposition that they are indistinguishable remains an a priori assumption in the criticism of the poem to this day. Chapter II analyzes …

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Computational Geometry Column 36, Joseph O'Rourke Dec 1999

Computational Geometry Column 36, Joseph O'Rourke

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Two results in "computational origami" are illustrated.

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While Lot Of Nothing Going On: The Civil Rights Remedy Of The Violence Against Women Act, Christopher James Regan Dec 1999

While Lot Of Nothing Going On: The Civil Rights Remedy Of The Violence Against Women Act, Christopher James Regan

Notre Dame Law Review

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Population History And The Islamization Of The Iberian Peninsula: Skeletal Evidence From The Lower Alentejo Portugal, James L. Boone, Garnett P. Mcmillan Dec 1999

Population History And The Islamization Of The Iberian Peninsula: Skeletal Evidence From The Lower Alentejo Portugal, James L. Boone, Garnett P. Mcmillan

Anthropology Faculty & Staff Publications

Despite the wealth of documentary evidence regarding the development of Andalusian civilization in the Iberian Peninsula following the first Muslim invasions in a.d. 711, considerable controversy surrounds the issue of how to interpret the political, cultural, and demographic impact of Islamization on what is now Spain and Portugal. That Islamic civilization had a profound impact on the culture and language of Iberia cannot be questioned. Much debate, however, centers around the issue of the demographic impact of immigrating North African Berber and Arab settlers into Al-Andalus. Was the rise of Andalusian civilization primarily a process of conquest, immigration, and demographic …

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Satire, Journalism, And Madrid's Gedeón: National Images And National Characters In The Spanish-American War Of 1898, Aurora G. Morcillo Dec 1999

Satire, Journalism, And Madrid's Gedeón: National Images And National Characters In The Spanish-American War Of 1898, Aurora G. Morcillo

Colonial Latin American Historical Review

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A Perturbation Of A Periodic Hamiltonian System, Gregory S. Spradlin Dec 1999

A Perturbation Of A Periodic Hamiltonian System, Gregory S. Spradlin

Publications

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Statistical Controller Design For The Linear Benchmark Problem, Chaouki T. Abdallah, V. Koltchinskii, M. Ariola, Peter Dorato Dec 1999

Statistical Controller Design For The Linear Benchmark Problem, Chaouki T. Abdallah, V. Koltchinskii, M. Ariola, Peter Dorato

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper some fixed-order controllers are designed via statistical methods for the benchmark problem originally presented at the 1990 American Control Conference. Based on some recent results by the authors, it is shown that the statistical approach is a valid method to design robust controllers. Two different controllers are proposed and their performance are compared with controllers with the same structure, designed using different techniques.

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A Comparative Approach To European Folk Poetry And The Erotic Wedding Motif, Louise O. Vasvari Dec 1999

A Comparative Approach To European Folk Poetry And The Erotic Wedding Motif, Louise O. Vasvari

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "A Comparative Approach to European Folk Poetry and the Erotic Wedding Motif," Louise O. Vasvari posits that while the corpus of folk poetry in any one area of Europe always differs from neighboring traditions, of greater interest is the existence of a large amount of related material across the continent. Nevertheless, while research in folk poetry has been rich in field collecting and cataloguing, there exists little in-depth comparative study of folk poetry. Doubtless, this is owing in part to the fact that the great majority of the texts are accessible only in the original language or …

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Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, And Postmodern Nostalgia In (Con)Texts Of Return, Patricia D. Fox Dec 1999

Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, And Postmodern Nostalgia In (Con)Texts Of Return, Patricia D. Fox

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Patricia D. Fox discusses in her article, "Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, and Postmodern Nostalgia in (Con)Texts of Return," the meditations, in novel and essay, of variously positioned writers and protagonists as each contemplates return to a never glimpsed or long-lost geographical and cultural center. Attempting to decipher the grounding in place and time, by heritage or tradition, Fox's analysis juxtaposes selected texts: Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity and Culture (Richard Teleky, 1997); Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (Keith B. Richburg, 1998); Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel (Cristina García, 1992); The Hundred Secret Senses (Amy Tan, 1995); Next …

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Literature, "In-House" Writers, And Processes Of Success In Publishing, Frank De Glas Dec 1999

Literature, "In-House" Writers, And Processes Of Success In Publishing, Frank De Glas

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Frank de Glas discusses in his article, "Literature, 'In-House' Writers, and Processes of Success in Publishing," the fact that too many studies of twentieth-century publishing practices concentrate on individual case studies while neglecting more general patterns and that too little use is made of theoretical concepts developed in the sociology of cultural production. He argues that one of the contributing elements in the economic and artistic success of a publishing house is the bringing together of a productive group of "in-house authors." To build up and to maintain such a group, publishers steadily launch new authors who they hope will …

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Western Mediations In Reevaluating The Communist Past: A Comparative Analysis Of Gothár's Time Stands Still And Andonov's Yesterday, Roumiana Deltcheva Dec 1999

Western Mediations In Reevaluating The Communist Past: A Comparative Analysis Of Gothár's Time Stands Still And Andonov's Yesterday, Roumiana Deltcheva

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Roumiana Deltcheva's article, "Western Mediations in Reevaluating the Communist Past: A Comparative Analysis of Gothár's Time Stands Still and Andonov's Yesterday," offers a comparative analysis of two films, Peter Gothár's Time Stands Still and Ivan Andonov's Yesterday. Both films appeared in the 1980s, in Hungary and Bulgaria, respectively, and were highly acclaimed by the critics and the audience. Both films deal with the Communist past of these two countries. In her analysis, Deltcheva's adopts the perspective of "in-between peripherality," a particular manifestation of the post-colonial paradigm in its application to East Central and Central Europe. The two films use similar …

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The New Comparative Literature: A Review Article Of Work By Bassnett, Bernheimer, Chevrel, And Tötösy, Joseph Pivato Dec 1999

The New Comparative Literature: A Review Article Of Work By Bassnett, Bernheimer, Chevrel, And Tötösy, Joseph Pivato

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Effects Of Watershed Land Use On The Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages In Ridge And Valley Streams In Chattanooga, Tennessee, Paul Leiper Freeman Dec 1999

Effects Of Watershed Land Use On The Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages In Ridge And Valley Streams In Chattanooga, Tennessee, Paul Leiper Freeman

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

A total of 20 sites in five Ridge and Valley streams located in Chattanooga, Tennessee were sampled May 8, 1998 to June 18, 1998 using quantitative and qualitative macroinvertebrate sampling techniques. All streams sampled were part of the Tennessee River drainage system and eventually contribute to Nickajack Reservoir. The 20 sites were second to fourth order streams with drainage areas of 3.8 to 46.9 (km2) and elevations of 195 to 232 (m). Sites with different percentages of agricultural, urbanized and forested land-use were selected to best evaluate the resulting impacts of urbanization and other anthropogenic activities on the invertebrate community …

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Dielectric Plug-Loaded Two-Port Transmission Line Measurement Technique For Dielectric Property Characterization Of Granular And Liquid Materials, K. Mubarak, R. Zoughi, Aaron D. Benally, Karl Joseph Bois, Larry F. Handjojo Dec 1999

Dielectric Plug-Loaded Two-Port Transmission Line Measurement Technique For Dielectric Property Characterization Of Granular And Liquid Materials, K. Mubarak, R. Zoughi, Aaron D. Benally, Karl Joseph Bois, Larry F. Handjojo

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

There are numerous dielectric property characterization techniques available in the microwave regime each with its own uniqueness, advantages and disadvantages. The two-port completely-filled waveguide (transmission line) technique is a robust measurement approach which is well suited for solid dielectric materials. In this case, the dielectric material can be relatively easily machined to fit inside the waveguide and the subsequent measurement of the scattering parameters of this two-port device renders the dielectric properties of the material filling the waveguide. However, this technique is not well suited for measuring the dielectric properties of granular and liquid materials. These materials are used in …

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Wildlife-Caused Losses For Producers Of Channel Catfish Ictalurus Punctatus In 1996, Alice P. Wywialowski Dec 1999

Wildlife-Caused Losses For Producers Of Channel Catfish Ictalurus Punctatus In 1996, Alice P. Wywialowski

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

The National Agricultural Statistics Service surveyed by telephone and mail in January and February 1997 all known producers of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus to acquire current information about wildlife-caused losses in calendar year 1996. Many producers tried to prevent wildlife-caused losses of their catfish by shooting (57%), vehicle patrol (55%), or frightening (36%), at an estimated cost of >$5 million. Yet, 69% of catfish produces cited some wildlife-caused losses. Birds were most frequently cited as a cause of losses, and double-crested cormorants Phalacrocorax auritus was the species cited most frequently (53%). The next most frequently cited bids were herons Ardea …

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