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Isotopic Signature Of Burial Diagenesis And Primary Lithological Contrasts In Periplatform Carbonates (Miocene, Great Bahama Bank), Tracy D. Frank, Karin Bernet Jan 2000

Isotopic Signature Of Burial Diagenesis And Primary Lithological Contrasts In Periplatform Carbonates (Miocene, Great Bahama Bank), Tracy D. Frank, Karin Bernet

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

The stable isotope geochemistry of Miocene sediments from the leeward margin of the Great Bahama Bank was examined to investigate burial diagenetic processes in periplatform carbonates. Data indicate that, in addition to differences in bulk proportions of neritic and pelagic carbonate along the slope, rhythmic variation in primary carbonate content has controlled patterns of burial diagenesis and associated geochemical signatures throughout much of the succession examined. The present study focuses on Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1006 and 1007, the most distal of five sites drilled from marginal to deep basin environments during Leg 166. These Miocene sections are characterized by …

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An Analysis Of Messages Posted To The Lm_Net Listserv By School Library Media Specialists, Jennifer L. Brown Jan 2000

An Analysis Of Messages Posted To The Lm_Net Listserv By School Library Media Specialists, Jennifer L. Brown

Graduate Research Papers

This research examined messages sent to the LM _NET (School Library Media and Network Communications) listserv by school library media specialists during the month of October, 1999. A content analysis was used to address the first research question: "What areas of concern are school library media specialists who are LM _ NET subscribers addressing with their questions and postings to the LM _ NET community?" The second research question, "Are there underlying patterns addressed in LM _ NET messages posted by school library media specialists?" was approached with a textual analysis. The researcher used a sample of 95 messages that …

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Enhanced Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Of Surfaces Using Multicolor Gratings, Bernard S. Gilbert, Joel H. Blatt Jan 2000

Enhanced Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Of Surfaces Using Multicolor Gratings, Bernard S. Gilbert, Joel H. Blatt

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

Most optical topolography systems use a single-wavelength laser for projection, using a swept spot, a moving line, or a projected grating. In a typical projected grating system, the gratings are shifted and a series of images is used to recover the 3-D shape of the target. When the series of images is analyzed in the normal phase shift manner, the resulting 2-D phase map typically has phase unwrapping problems due to noise and Nyquist limits. Surfaces with large vertical discontinuities present a problem for phase unwrapping 3-D shape recovery. We look at simultaneously projecting multiple wavelengths onto a surface to …

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Interactive Health Information Web Services For Business Settings, Nadezhda Soloukhina Jan 2000

Interactive Health Information Web Services For Business Settings, Nadezhda Soloukhina

Graduate Research Papers

With the increase in the cost of healthcare many business in the United States are becoming self-insured or relying on managed healthcare organizations to provide healthcare. Employee wellness programs are playing a more pivotal role in the healthcare strategies of medium size to large size business. On average, according to the surveys, these companies spend $40 per employee per year on wellness programs. This research summarizes the needs to provide interactive health information services to complement employee wellness program of business in the US, and describes the procedures of developing health information kiosks.

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Protecting Patient Rights Despite Erisa: Will The Supreme Court Allow States To Regulate Managed Care?, Donald T. Bogan Jan 2000

Protecting Patient Rights Despite Erisa: Will The Supreme Court Allow States To Regulate Managed Care?, Donald T. Bogan

Faculty Articles

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International Child Custody Jurisdiction And The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction And Enforcement Act, Robert G. Spector Jan 2000

International Child Custody Jurisdiction And The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction And Enforcement Act, Robert G. Spector

Faculty Articles

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Biology And Ecology Of Rivulus Marmoratus: New Insights And A Review, D. Scott Taylor Jan 2000

Biology And Ecology Of Rivulus Marmoratus: New Insights And A Review, D. Scott Taylor

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Rivulus marmoratus (Pisces: Aplocheilidae) is a small cyprinodontid indigenous to mangroves of the western tropical Atlantic. This species is well known as the only selffertilizing, hermaphroditic vertebrate, and populations normally consist of genetically diverse groups of homozygous clones. However, male fish are known from a few populations, and outcrossing and heterozygosity have been documented from two areas in Central America. Rivulus marmoratus also exhibits a number of behaviors and environmental tolerances unusual in fishes, and since the species is secretive, rare in some habitats and difficult to collect, knowledge of its natural history has been limited until recently. Within the …

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Bayesian Spectrum Analysis For Laser Vibrometry Processing, Walter F. Buell, Bradley Allan Shadwick, Robert W. Farley Jan 2000

Bayesian Spectrum Analysis For Laser Vibrometry Processing, Walter F. Buell, Bradley Allan Shadwick, Robert W. Farley

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

Laser vibration sensing provides a sensitive non-contact means of measuring vibrations of objects. These measurements are used in industrial quality control and wear monitoring as well as the analysis of the vibrational characteristics of objects. In laser vibrometry, the surface motion is monitored by heterodyne laser Doppler velocimetry, and the received heterodyne signal is sampled to produce a time-series which is processed to obtain a vibrational spectrum of the object under test. Laser vibrometry data has been processed with a traditional FM discriminator approach and by spectrogram and time-frequency distribution processing techniques. The latter techniques have demonstrated improved performance over …

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Alumni Profile , Teresa Young Reeves Jan 2000

Alumni Profile , Teresa Young Reeves

Human Rights Brief

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A Global Court? U.S. Objections To The International Criminal Court And Obstacles To Ratification, Teresa Young Reeves Jan 2000

A Global Court? U.S. Objections To The International Criminal Court And Obstacles To Ratification, Teresa Young Reeves

Human Rights Brief

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News From The Inter-American System , Terri J. Harris Jan 2000

News From The Inter-American System , Terri J. Harris

Human Rights Brief

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Human Rights Violations Against Muslims In The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Of Western China, Natasha Parassram Concepcion Jan 2000

Human Rights Violations Against Muslims In The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Of Western China, Natasha Parassram Concepcion

Human Rights Brief

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Competing Values: Taking A Broad View On The Narrowing Conservation Regime Of The 1982 United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea, Sean Hern Jan 2000

Competing Values: Taking A Broad View On The Narrowing Conservation Regime Of The 1982 United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea, Sean Hern

American University International Law Review

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Awareness Of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points, Gayle Brosseau Jan 2000

Awareness Of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points, Gayle Brosseau

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This study was an attempt to identify the awareness of principles of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) by individuals who completed an eight-hour food handlers' class at Los Angeles Mission College. A six-item questionnaire was distributed to one hundred eighty individuals enrolled in the food handlers' classes during the winter of 1999-2000. One hundred twenty-five questionnaires were returned and tabulated during the spring 2000. Data analysis revealed that there is limited awareness of HACCP principles by trainees. The study, coupled with the literature review, indicates that there is a need for HACCP training. Other research showed a correlation between …

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Patient Satisfacation At Visiting Nurse Service, Richard Williams Jan 2000

Patient Satisfacation At Visiting Nurse Service, Richard Williams

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Home Health Care is one of the fastest growing industries in the health field. The potential customers are the largest growing new population - the elderly. Quality service and patient satisfaction will be a big issue with the baby boomers as they move into the senior citizen arena. The purpose of this thesis is to describe the relationship between patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction at Visiting Nurse Service using the elements of the Service Profit Chain.

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Migration From Client/Server Architecture To Internet Computing Architecture, Fauzan Ahmad Jan 2000

Migration From Client/Server Architecture To Internet Computing Architecture, Fauzan Ahmad

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The Internet Computing Architecture helps in providing a object-based infrastructure that can be used by the application developers to design, develop, and deploy the ntiered enterprise applications and services. For years of distributed application development, the Internet Computing Architecture has helped in providing various techniques and infrastructure software for the successful deployment of various systems, and established a foundation for the promotion of re-use and component oriented development. Object-oriented analysis is at the beginning of this architecture, which is carried through deploying and managing of finished systems. This architecture is multi-platform, multi-lingual, standards-based, and open that offers unparalleled integration capability. …

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The Evolution Of Internet Interconnections, Sean Butler Jan 2000

The Evolution Of Internet Interconnections, Sean Butler

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In 1995, the NSF officially shut down the NSFNet backbone, thereby ending the nascent Internets early architecture as a single backbone network. Today, the Internet is a group of loosely interconnected networks run by many diverse companies. These interconnections are in no way controlled by any industry or government agency, and are therefore held together only by the market demands of the Internet community. Although the FCC has traditionally maintained a stance of "unregulation" of all information and computer networks, they have increasingly show interest in ensuring the rapid deployment of Internet access. In addition, as more and more critical …

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Comparative Analysis Of Moisture Vapor Transmission Rate Data: Mocon Vs. Usp, Anthony Maiola Jan 2000

Comparative Analysis Of Moisture Vapor Transmission Rate Data: Mocon Vs. Usp, Anthony Maiola

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The primary objective of this study was to directly compare two distinctly diverse package moisture permeation test methods. The two methods that were compared were the USP <671> Containers Permeation: Single Unit Container and Unit Dose Containers for Capsules and Tablets and the MOCON Modulated Infrared Sensor Method (ASTM F 1249). The tests generate a value known as an MVTR (Moisture Vapor Transmission Rate) value. The focus of this study was to determine whether there is a significant statistical difference between results of the two methods, specifically for unit dose blister packaging. Since MVTR is a package integrity characteristic, it is …

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Graph Coloring Heuristics From Investigation Of Smallest Hard To Color Graphs, Andrew Radin Jan 2000

Graph Coloring Heuristics From Investigation Of Smallest Hard To Color Graphs, Andrew Radin

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Vertex coloring of graphs is an NP-complete problem. No polynomial time algorithm is known to color graphs optimally. The best we can do to handle vertex coloring of graphs is to create heuristics which provide a guess as to an optimal coloring. This thesis examines a number of known vertex coloring heuristics, and compares their performance to a brute-force optimal coloring. These comparisons are made for relatively small graphs with low numbers of vertices. The behaviors of the existing heuristics is examined to aid in the creation of new heuristics. The new heuristics are compared against the existing heuristics for …

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The Causes And Effects Of Job Dissatisfacation Among Emergency Room Nurses, Karen Shuptar Jan 2000

The Causes And Effects Of Job Dissatisfacation Among Emergency Room Nurses, Karen Shuptar

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Statistics point to the fact that there is a nursing shortage. The number of people entering the field of nursing is declining and the number of nurses leaving the field is increasing. According to past studies, one of the reasons nurses are leaving the field is due to job dissatisfaction. This paper focuses on emergency room nurses at Strong Memorial Hospital, in Rochester, New York. The causes of their job dissatisfaction are studied as well as the effect their dissatisfaction has on their nursing careers. The results of this study indicate that emergency department nurses at Strong do not want …

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The Japanese Bank, Bangkok Branch: A Case Study Of Teamwork Empowerment In Japanese Corporate Culture, Parichat Kamolratana Jan 2000

The Japanese Bank, Bangkok Branch: A Case Study Of Teamwork Empowerment In Japanese Corporate Culture, Parichat Kamolratana

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In the competitive world at present time, the continuous improvement of one company to be outstanding among its rivals is elemental factor. The service business in the bank also experiences many competitors. The alternative for the bank to make the productive gain thus involves a foremost improvement on the personnel realm. To maintain the quality of service, the bank employees, as members of teamwork, are the central part. The teamwork empowerment of the bank will serve as the way to fulfill the team members' fundamental commitment of their work environment. This satisfaction will influence subsequently to the customer satisfaction. On …

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A Comparative Pricing Analysis Of Sabre Versus Travelocity, Kathleen Muldermans Jan 2000

A Comparative Pricing Analysis Of Sabre Versus Travelocity, Kathleen Muldermans

Theses

The scope of the problem [presented in this thesis] is a comparative study on costs for the traveling public using an Internet travel site versus the traditional computer reservation system...this study will strictly look at price differences between one CRS and one Internet travel site.

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Black Coffee Before Armageddon, Sotirios Rasiotis Jan 2000

Black Coffee Before Armageddon, Sotirios Rasiotis

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Not provided.

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A Comparative Study Of The Compression Strength Of Corrugated Shipping Containers And Corrugated Board, Based On Different Corrugation Directions, Richard Curatalo Jan 2000

A Comparative Study Of The Compression Strength Of Corrugated Shipping Containers And Corrugated Board, Based On Different Corrugation Directions, Richard Curatalo

Theses

This study evaluates compression damage to corrugated shipping containers used in the small parcel delivery system. A client is experiencing an unacceptable level of end-to-end compression resistance during shipment through small parcel companies, while never experiencing any top-to-bottom compression damage. According to small parcel company workers, there is a need for more end-to-end compression strength in corrugated shipping containers. This study examines the effect of corrugation direction on corrugated shipping containers and corrugated board. Box compression testing (BCT) is performed on regular-slotted containers with different corrugation directions. Edgewise compression testing (ECT) is also used in comparing the compression strengths of …

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International Law - New Actors And New Technologies: Center Stage For Ngos, John King Gamble, Charlotte Ku Jan 2000

International Law - New Actors And New Technologies: Center Stage For Ngos, John King Gamble, Charlotte Ku

Faculty Scholarship

Technology and the information age are changing the allocation of power and authority in the international system with non-state actors such as intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) assuming decision-making roles previously reserved primarily to states. Professor David Johnston sees the information age as "creating deep and broad disruptive breaches in our society, disruptions equal to those of the agricultural or industrial revolutions." Professors Keohane and Nye believe that the information age will alter the power structure of governments. Jessica Mathews's stimulating article in Foreign Affairs argues both that the information revolution is shaking the foundations of state authority, …

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Telemedicine Application At The University Of Rochester Medical Center Strong Memorial Hospital In Conjunction With The New York State Department Of Corrections, Jeannine Christensen Jan 2000

Telemedicine Application At The University Of Rochester Medical Center Strong Memorial Hospital In Conjunction With The New York State Department Of Corrections, Jeannine Christensen

Theses

Telemedicine has been around for several years and it is inevitable that this technology will shape the current healthcare environment. Doctors are often faced with the challenges of the laws of time and distance. With the presence of telemedicine, the idea of having access to a physician at any given time becomes a reality. This paper will present an exciting concept of telemedicine for today and tomorrow with an emphasis on the advancement of health care delivery systems. This thesis will also attempt to present the cost saving factors that telemedicine can provide not only to patient care but also …

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Wireless Communications In The New Millennium And Third Generation Wireless Networks, Oz Yakuphanogullarindan Jan 2000

Wireless Communications In The New Millennium And Third Generation Wireless Networks, Oz Yakuphanogullarindan

Theses

At the end of the 20 century, and at the beginning of this one, wireless communications are making large advances. The new technologies are on the way to provide a high-speed, high-quality information exchange between handheld terminals, and information repositories. The so called 2,5 generation networks, using the techniques like the HSCSD1, GPRS2, EDGE3, and the 3r generation wireless systems will help the wireless world to reach those goals. In this thesis I will start from the first and second-generation wireless networks, and then look into the 2,5 generation and 3rd generation wireless communications more in detail. The latest advances …

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Illusory Coerrelations In School Psychologists' Diagnoses Of Learning Disabilities, Marc Renzoni Jan 2000

Illusory Coerrelations In School Psychologists' Diagnoses Of Learning Disabilities, Marc Renzoni

Theses

Illusory correlation is the perception of an association between two uncorrected variables such as intersubtest scatter on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III) and the presence of a learning disability. This study assessed the extent to which school psychologists are influenced by this illusory correlation. Three independent variables were varied systematically. One variable was relevant to the diagnosis of a learning disability (a discrepancy between expected and actual levels of achievement on the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT)). Another was irrelevant to the diagnosis (intersubtest scatter on the WISC-III). The third independent variable was used as …

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Protocol And Etiquette For Doing Business In Italy, Howard Dixon Jan 2000

Protocol And Etiquette For Doing Business In Italy, Howard Dixon

Theses

This project builds a basic knowledge for the business traveler visiting Italy about protocol and cultural awareness. For those who have not been to Italy or lived there, this guide will enlighten those contemplating a trip to Italy and advise them about what to expect. The protocol and cultural characteristics will be addressed. This will include: country familiarization, culture differences, cultural awareness, language briefing, social dos and don'ts, business practices, procedures and knowledge of business in Italy. In addition, this project builds added awareness from several seasoned travelers. Each of these travelers have spent considerable time doing business in Italy. …

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Design Of A Wristwatch Pda, Kun-Chi Wu Jan 2000

Design Of A Wristwatch Pda, Kun-Chi Wu

Theses

This thesis concerns the design of a Wrist Device for assisting a person in one's daily tasks. Wouldn't it be nice if we could fit all the communication and data management tools we ever needed on our wrist? I personally like the idea. It is not because I am a watch collector that I chose to design a wrist style PDA.1 I think to put a PDA on your wrist is not only a very cool idea, but also the best way of carrying a really personal device with you. Since we are already used to putting a watch on …

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