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Emergent Readers' Joint Text Construction: A Descriptive Study Of Reading In Social Context, Mary Lee Prescott Griffin

Open Access Dissertations

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An Investigation Of Children's Timing Abilities As A Model For Understanding The Nature Of Adhd Deficits, Timothy John Heitzman

Open Access Dissertations

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Cognitive Function And Food Preparation Ability In Schizophrenia, Margaret M. Knight

Open Access Dissertations

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Historical Uncertainty And Moral Ambiguity In Postwar America: An Examination Of Selected Black Humor Novels Of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Jeffrey Matthew Foster

Open Access Dissertations

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Lars Saabye Christensen's "Beatles": A Study In Literary Translation And Cross-Cultural Influence, Kerstin Elizabeth Ketteman

Open Access Dissertations

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Early Estimates Of The Economic Impacts During Microelectronics Product Design, Zhongwei Wang

Open Access Dissertations

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Whose Story Is It, Anyway, Janet L. Massa

Open Access Dissertations

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Sensors: An Optical Waveguide Strain Sensor And An Electrochemical Oxygen Sensor, Kimberly A. Thomas

Open Access Dissertations

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Dyspnea As A Perceptual-Interpretive Response Process: A Qualitative Inductive Study Of The Concept In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Dawn Marie Delaurentis Schultz

Open Access Dissertations

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Three Papers That Evaluate Stock Portfolio Rebalancing And Delisting Influences On Empirical Asset Pricing Tests, Wentworth Boynton

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The Influence Of Cultural Values In The Judgment Of Student Behavior, Eliana Shavitt Lesser

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Isotopic And Trace Element Variations Along The Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (40 Degrees-50 Degrees S): An Evaluation Of Regional Plume-Ridge Interaction And Large Scale Mantle Heterogeneities, Jill Douglass

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State Constitutionalism And The Domain Of Normative Theory, Daniel B. Rodriguez

San Diego Law Review

Positive constitutionalism means not only describing but also theorizing about elemental questions of constitutional structure and theory. Key positive questions include: Why do certain constitutional forms emerge and survive? What is the role of political choice, by legislators and by citizen voters, in constructing constitutions and constitutional discourse? What is the relationship between constitutionalism and constitutional law? By normative constitutional theory, I mean the critical evaluation of constitutions. The key normative question is: What ought a particular constitution say? Those of us interested in both positive constitutionalism and normative constitutional theory would like to think that we are bringing together …

Democracy Within Federalism: An Attempt To Reestablish Middle Ground, Alexander Hanebeck

San Diego Law Review

the conflict between the two levels of government, state and federal, is a very old one. The main battleground of this debate, however, has been over states' rights and the protection of individual rights by federal courts. As John Hart Ely observed, this is not where federalism hangs in the balance. He correctly points out what is becoming obvious in recent Supreme Court decisions. For the existence of states as independent entities, it is more important where legislative competence lies. 3 This Article is concerned with the groundwork for a debate over the distribution of legislative competence, because it attempts …

"Waive" Goodbye To Tort Liability: A Proposal To Remove Paternalism From Product Sales Transactions, Richard C. Ausness

San Diego Law Review

This Article argues that waivers of tort liability should be permitted in connection with product sales. Currently, sellers cannot limit their liability under tort law for personal injuries caused by defective products even though such waivers are allowed, albeit reluctantly, under principles of negligence and warranty law.

Alternative Liability In Litigation Malpractice Actions: Eradicating The Last Resort Of Scoundrels, Lawrence W. Kessler

San Diego Law Review

The legal malpractice tort, however, has managed to withstand the winds of legal change. Particularly crucial has been the refusal to apply alternative causation doctrines. The refusal to apply causation doctrines that have been embraced in other areas has significant social effects. As a result, the consumers of legal services receive less protection from the courts than do the consumers of products or medical services.

Theory Minimalism, Stanley Fish

San Diego Law Review

We must begin with a sense of what theory is, and I shall derive mine from a question Herbert Wechsler often put to his students. "Ask yourself," he would say, "'Would I reach the same result if the substantive interests were otherwise?"" The challenge of the question is to the student who has determined where the right lies in a disputed matter, and who now must demonstrate that, even if every circumstantial particular of the case were varied-if the plaintiff were a woman instead of a man, if the object of hate speech was a descendant of someone who came …

Is Lowering The Age At Which Juveniles Can Be Transferred To Adult Criminal Court The Answer To Juvenile Crime? A State-By-State Assessment

San Diego Law Review

The trend toward "get tough" policies concerning juveniles has swept through just about every state in the nation, affecting younger and younger minors. In Texas in 1997, not long after a tougher law was passed, a fourteen-year-old girl accused of murder became the youngest juvenile ever to stand trial as an adult in Tarrant County. Texas lowered the age from fifteen to fourteen in a 1995 revision of the state's juvenile justice code. In Michigan, an eleven-year-old boy, Nathaniel Abraham, became one of the youngest persons in the United States to be tried for murder as an adult; he allegedly …

Addressing Inequities In The Collection Of Social Security Taxes For U.S. Citizens Working Abroad

San Diego Law Review

Social Security and Medicare taxes are imposed on employee wages and self-employment earnings prior to retirement. One half of the tax is. paid by the employer and one half by the employee, with the employer's portion being paid out of the general funds of the business and the

employee's portion being subtracted from her wages. With a self- employed individual, the outcome changes. The totality of the tax

remains the same; however, the self-employed individual assumes responsibility for both halves of the Social Security and Medicare taxes!

The same amount of tax is paid, but it is paid completely by …

Addiction And Causation, Michael Corrado

San Diego Law Review

Is it possible for a compatibilist to capture the notion of a choice that is resistible but very, very hard to resist? And, along the same lines, is it possible for the compatibilist to capture the notion of degrees of responsibility, of greater or lesser moral responsibility? Of course, duress may lessen responsibility, and in general the aversiveness of the alternatives facing an agent may lessen her responsibility for an action: The more aversive the alternatives, the less responsible the agent-or at least the less inclined we are to punish the agent. That way of ranking responsibility is clearly intelligible …

A Primer On The Civil Trial Of A Sexually Violent Predator, Joan Comparet Cassani

San Diego Law Review

Involuntary commitment' for sexually violent predators became the law in California in 1996. This law, the Sexually Violent Predator Act, provides for a civil jury trial.! This trial is unique, since some of the procedural protections afforded a criminal defendant apply. For example, a unanimous jury must find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the individual is a sexually violent predator.

The Act provides for the treatment of the individual if committed, and carefully crafts the procedures for the mental health evaluation and review process. Unfortunately, the part of the statute that provides for the civil trial is not as tightly …

A Guide To Challenging Option Repricing, Amanda K. Esquibel

San Diego Law Review

For many years, companies have used stock option plans to attract and keep quality employees and to align employees' interests with those of shareholders.' Stock options give company employees the right to buy a certain number of shares of stock from the company at a predetermined exercise price for a limited period of time. The exercise price is usually at or above the market price of the company's stock at the time the option is issued.

Relative Impact Of Various Sources Of Pharmacokinetic And Pharmacodynamic Variability On Warfarin Response, Shashikanth Gannu

Open Access Master's Theses

Warfarin is widely used oral anticoagulant and its pharrnacokinetic (PK) and pharrnacodynamic (PD) properties have been extensively studied. It has a narrow therapeutic index and displays poor quality of treatment due to its complex pharmacology and wide inter and intraindividual variability in the dose-response relationship.

This study developed an integrated PK-PD model using STELLA® to describe the dose concentration- effect relationship for warfarin. This model used previously reported\ population PK and PD models and parameter values to generate dose-response data. A one compartment stereo-specific semi-physiological PK model with zero-order drug input was linked to an indirect PD model describing the …

Can The Influence Of Base Rate Information Be Distinguished From The Influence Of Gender Stereotypes In The Psychiatric Diagnostic Decision Making Process?, Maureen Mccormick

Open Access Dissertations

A correct diagnosis may be critical to the implementation of an appropriate treatment plan for a patient. Many factors contribute to the difficulty of assigning a correct psychiatric diagnosis, including misuse, or less than optimal use, of information. Many studies have documented underutilization of base rate data in prediction. Research into the use of stereotypes has demonstrated that too much reliance on an individual's membership in a group may also affect decision making. What is the appropriate use of base rate data and group membership in psychiatric diagnosis? It was hypothesized that participants would underutilize base rates in a low …

To Parcel Or Not To Parcel: The Effects Of Item Parceling In Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Brett A. Plummer

Open Access Dissertations

When testing confirmatory factor analysis (CF A) models, the researcher may either utilize individual items as the manifest variables for the model, or use item parcels or composites, i.e., the sum or average of a set of individual items. Utilizing parcels instead of items may affect the chance of obtaining a proper solution, the fit of the model, and model parameter estimates. Unfortunately there is little previous research to guide the decision to choose between a parcel-level analysis and an item-level analysis. This investigation examined the current status of parceling in the literature and the impacts of parceling through three …

Regulating Tempo In A Continuation Finger-Tapping Task, Arthur Allen Little

Open Access Dissertations

It is well known that people can produce regular rhythms, such as clapping or finger tapping-what is not well known is how such rhythms are maintained over time. One of the simplest activities to measure human rhythms is "continuation finger tapping," in which subjects are first asked to copy an audible rhythm by tapping along with their finger, and then attempt to maintain that tapping rate after the pacer tones stop.

The purpose of this study was to learn more about how tempo is regulated in continuation finger-tapping. In this context, "regulated" refers to the rules, both empirical and hypothetical, …

A Mediational Coping Model Of Sociopersonal Well-Being And Quality Of Life, William Burton Disch

Open Access Dissertations

The current study assessed relationships between composite and latent measures of stress, coping, and sociopersonal well-being and quality of life. A latent variable mediational coping model was proposed and it was hypothesized that coping would be a significant mediator between measures of stress and measures of quality of life. The process of mediational coping is theoretically explained using a pragmatic and teleological application of need motivation and goal directed behavior (Maslow, 1968, 1971), and behavioral specificity, delay of gratification, and context (Mischel, 1973, 1986). Social learning and humanistic concepts are synthesized within a discussion of ontological, epistemological, and methodological congruence …

Dan Cooper, American Designer (1901-1965), Diane Joyce Montenegro

Open Access Master's Theses

Dan Cooper (1901-1965) merits greater attention than he has received for his contributions to twentieth-century American interior design. During his forty-one-year career, he was a keen observer of changes in American society and was in the vanguard of interior designers offering attractive and usable products.

From 1924 to 1965, Cooper decorated the interiors of large private residences, hotels, public spaces, government housing projects, and corporate headquarters as well as several modes of transport. He helped validate his chosen profession by setting standards and advocating solid business practices. He offered furniture, fabrics, and accessories for almost every pocket book.

With an …

Analysis Of A Traffic Diversion Strategy Using Corism Traffic Micro-Simulation Software, Daniel Ryan Abedon

Open Access Master's Theses

Throughout the United States metropolitan area freeways are operating at or near capacity. Any disturbance in the traffic flow on these freeways, planned or unplanned, can result in varying degrees of congestion. Incident management programs have been established in urban areas nationwide to help reduce the magnitude of incident induced congestion. These programs focus mainly on the incident identification and response stage, and have only recently begun to develop the tools and techniques needed to manage the recovery stage. One technique that has been becoming more widely employed, with the increased focus incident management and overall traffic systems management, is …

Are Iq Discrepancies Between Ses Groups Primarily The Result Of Verbal Scale Differences?, Carol Lee Macnaught

Open Access Dissertations

Historically, comparison groups of children from low socioeconomic status (SES) have done less well on intelligence tests than their more well-to-do counterparts. This study was undertaken to explore the contribution of verbal ability to general intelligence and to consider the possibility of developmental change in the relative contributions of the verbal and performance scales. The analyses used verbal, performance, and full scale scores of a subgroup of the standardization sample of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III). The scores used were attained by children in three age groups (7, 11, and 15 years) with four levels …