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Anthropological Differences Between Contraception And Natural Family Planning, Richard J. Fehring, William Kurz

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Almost twenty years ago, Pope John Paul II in his apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio called on scholars to study the anthropological and moral differences between the recourse to the natural rhythms of a woman’s menstrual cycle (i.e., natural family planning) and contraception (1). Although natural family planning (NFP) and contraception can both be used to prevent pregnancy, there are conspicuous differences between use of natural methods and contraception. Most people, however, have difficulty in distinguishing what the differences are and in understanding why some religious groups, health professionals, and other members of society consider contraception (but not natural family planning) …

Controlled Comparison Of Emergency Department Charting Software With A Case Simulation Comparator Model, Kirt Walker, Sridhar Rajappan, Todd R. Johnson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

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Comparison Of Abbreviated Injury Scale (Ais) And International Classification Of Diseases In Severe Trama Patients, Noriaki Aoki, Molly C. Shek, Todd R. Johnson, Martin A. Shreiber, John B. Holcomb, Matthew J. Wall, Richard W. Cone, Robert Beck

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

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Effect Of Uncondensed Quasiparticles On Microwave Conductivity In S-Wave Superconductors, Brita L. Nellermoe

Theses and Dissertations

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The Empty State And Nobody's Market: The Political Economy Of Non-Responsibility And The Judicial Disappearing Of The Civil Rights Movement, Kenneth M. Casebeer

University of Miami Law Review

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Nelson V. Mcclatchy Newspapers: What Happens When Freedom Of The Press Collides With Free Speech?, Adam Horowitz

University of Miami Law Review

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Cyberpredators: Police Internet Investigations Under Florida Statute 847.0135, Michael W. Sheetz

University of Miami Law Review

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Small-Scale Variability Of Groundwater-Lake Interaction At Shingobee Lake, Minnesota, Hans F. Kishel

Theses and Dissertations

Groundwater discharge is an important contributor to the water budget of a lake. The variability of hydraulic parameters of lake and groundwater systems causes difficulties in estimating the contribution of groundwater to a lake water budget. This study attempts to show that amount of variability for a small portion of the lake and shore (8 x 15 meter section, starting approximately five meters from shore and extending nine meters into the lake).

Piezometers were installed at a depth of one half and one meter in nests at 70 locations in the rectangular study site. Water levels were collected from the …

Air-Ground Temperature Exchange, William L. Schmidt

Theses and Dissertations

Most borehole paleoclimate studies have been based on the assumption that the exchange of temperature between the air and ground surface remains constant. However, secular changes in boundary-layer factors can generate anomalous ground temperatures. This dissertation is an investigation of factors that cause separation of air and ground temperatures on a seasonal to inter-annual time scale, including snow cover duration, latent energy of ground freezing, daily sunlight, precipitation, and vegetation.

Continual records of surface air and near-surface ground temperatures from five sites in North Dakota show similar trends in seasonal air-ground temperature separation. Statistical regressions of mean annual ground temperatures …

Psychological Empowerment In A Dyadic Advisory Relationship, Shannon T. Woulfe

Theses and Dissertations

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Lawn Dogs And Other Stories, Heather Gaddy

Dissertations and Theses

The wife reminds herself that she must breathe. To find a steady center in the chaos that is her confused rage; this will help to transform her lack of control into that enviable ability to gracefully cope. She knows this from somewhere deep inside of herself, and she also read about it in a book. She takes a big breath, but the calm eludes her. She finds other ways to keep the moment in hand. Counting the husband's movements, watching the crows fly and making decisions about her future according to how they land, combing her hair too hard. Amazingly, …

Design And Evaluation Of A Specialized Computer Architecture For Manipulating Binary Decision Diagrams, Robert K. Hatt

Dissertations and Theses

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are an extremely important data structure used in many logic design, synthesis and verification applications. Symbolic problem representations make BDDs a feasible data structure for use on many problems that have discrete representations. Efficient implementations of BOD algorithms on general purpose computers has made manipulating large binary decision diagrams possible. Much research has gone into making BOD algorithms more efficient on general purpose computers. Despite amazing increases in performance and capacity of such computers over the last decade, they may not be the best way to solve large, specialized problems. A computer architecture designed specifically to …

Integrated Floorplanning And Buffer Insertion For Bus-Based Microprocessor Designs, Faran Rafiq

Dissertations and Theses

In this thesis, we propose a novel algorithm for the interconnect driven floorplanning problem that integrates bus planning with floorplanning. This integrated floorplanner is intended for bus-based designs in which the layout is considered to be a set of blocks connected through buses. Each bus consists of a large number of wires. Our floorplanner allocates the exact location and shape of the interconnect (both above and between the circuit blocks) and ensures routability as well as optimizes the timing goals. Our experiments with benchmarks clearly show the superiority of integrated floorplanning approach over the classical floorplan-analyze-and-then-refloorplan approach. Our initial results …

International Perspective, Douglass Cassel

Journal Articles

I don't think it's accurate to say this panel has six experts on incarceration. I think we really have five experts and one dilettante. I know a bit about international human rights law. I am not an expert on prisons and I am overwhelmed by the expertise and the statistics that we've just received and about which I hope to learn a great deal more. So I apologize to you in advance for supplying nothing more than impressions of the international realities of incarceration. I will then skip quickly ahead to the law.

Disappearing Acts: The State And Violence Against Women In The Twentieth Century, Michelle Fine, Lois Weis

Publications and Research

As children we held our breath, our senses filled with the musty smells of elephants, the staccato flashes of twirling plastic flashlights, the terrors of trapeze. With mystery, moustache, and elegance, the magician waved a wand, invited a woman, usually White, seemingly working class, into a box. She disappeared or was cut in half. Applause. Our early introduction to the notion of the sponsored disappearing act. So, too, at the end of the twentieth century, we witness poor and working-class women shoved into spaces too small for human form, no elegance, no wand. And they too disappear. Disappearing from welfare …

The Role Of The Law Review In The Tradition Of Judicial Scholarship, Kenneth F. Ripple

Journal Articles

This article explores one of the most important sources of judicial education, the law review. Part I first examines, by way of introduction, why continued intellectual growth is so important to the American jurist of today. It then sets forth the growth of the law review as an institution within the legal profession. Part II examines the various roles that law reviews play traditionally in the intellectual life of a judge and suggests, with respect to each, certain improvements in the judge-law review relationship designed both to enhance the effectiveness of the law review as an intellectual companion and to …

Examining The Reliability And Validity Of The Hrd Student Evaluation Instrument, Dory Marken

Theses and Dissertations

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Law And Theology: Reflections On What It Means To Be Human From A Franciscan Perspective, John J. Coughlin

Journal Articles

When I was first asked in March of 2000 to speak at this conference on the topic of "law and theology," many thoughts crossed my mind. I could address: the role of religion in American political life, euthanasia, medieval canon law and theology, the death penalty, the Jewish origins of the Pauline perspective on law, the ethics of DNA experimentation, Muslim theology and law, the relation between Marxist political theory and Christian eschatology, or several other "light" issues. Upon second thought, perhaps a more straight-forward approach would be beneficial. I might review the plan of salvation history, and then as …

A Java Graphical User Interface For Large-Scale Scientific Computations In Distributed Systems, X Shen, George K. Thiruvathukal, Wei-Keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, A Singh

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Large-scale scientific applications present great challenges to computational scientists in terms of obtaining high performance and in managing large datasets. These applications (most of which are simulations) may employ multiple techniques and resources in a heterogeneously distributed environment. Effective working in such an environment is crucial for modern large-scale simulations. In this paper, we present an integrated Java graphical user interface (IJ-GUI) that provides a control platform for managing complex programs and their large datasets easily. As far as performance is concerned, we present and evaluate our initial implementation of two optimization schemes: data replication and data prediction. Data replication …

Developing A Parametric Cost Model For Operating Costs Of Army Ground Combat Weapon Systems, James O. Winbush Jr.

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to develop a parametric cost model for predicting operating costs of Army ground combat weapon systems. The model is intended to be used during the first two phases of the Army's acquisition process. The research necessary to develop the model was guided by two questions: what weapon system characteristics (such as weight, horsepower, fuel consumption, primary mission, NBC protection, fire control and night fighting capability) impact directly on operating ground combat systems; and what is the form of the parametric model for operating costs for ground combat systems? The study extends the bounds of …

Development Of A Semantically Rich Logging Protocol For Complete Damage Assessment And Recovery Of A Database, Rumman Sobhan

Theses and Dissertations

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Time Of Day, Aging, And Subjectively Measured Sleep Effects On Neurological Functioning Using The Weschler Memory Scale Iii, Julia R. Fitzgerald Smith

Theses and Dissertations

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Resiliency And The Chronically Ill Adolescent, Joanne M. Thompson

Theses and Dissertations

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Incidence Of Postoperative Throat Discomfort With Nitrous Oxide And Air-Oxygen Administration, Judy L. Rohl

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effects Of Intraoperative Ketorolac On Post Anesthesia Patients, Eric B. Roed

Theses and Dissertations

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Frontier People's Perceptions Of Health Risks And Health Protective And Health Promotional Activities, Michelle Kuntz

Theses and Dissertations

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Effects Of Transdermal Nicotine On Prose Memory, Dmitri Poltavski

Theses and Dissertations

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An Examination Of The Landscape History Of The Northwoods : Human Management Effects On The Landscape At Itasca State Park, Minnesota, Gordon Robertson

Theses and Dissertations

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Efficient Storage Of Transaction Dependency Graph : A Meticulous Tool For Fast Damage Assessment, Chandana Lala

Theses and Dissertations

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Predicting Slag Viscosity From Coal Ash Composition, Jason D. Laumb

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.