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A Study To Determine The Relationship Between Formal Tac-3/Tac-4 Computer Operations Training And Tac-3/Tac-4 Computer System Trouble Calls, Thomas B. Meehan Jr.

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The following goals were established to guide this problem: 1. Identify the types of computer problems that are called into the trouble desk by the five aircraft carriers home ported in Norfolk, Virginia; 2. Identify if the operator having the computer problem had attended the formal TAC-3/TAC-4 operator course; 3. Identify if the trouble call is related to the subject matter taught in the formal TAC-3/TAC-4 operator course; 4. Determine if there is any relationship between the training and the trouble calls.

Edison Community College 2000 Holocaust Memorial Event Schedule Flyer, Edison Community College

Program Schedules

Edison Community College Holocaust Memorial Event Schedule Flyer. April 10-13, 2000.

Supplemental file includes the Edison Community College Holocaust Memorial Evening Program Event Schedule Flyer. April 12, 2000.

The Significance Of Sexed Bodies: An Analysis Of Moira Gatens' "A Critique Of The Sex/Gender Distinction", Anna Gullickson '00

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

United States V General Dynamics: A Reappraisal, Anthony Wylie

University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics

The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons behind Material Services’ acquisitions, the reasons why the Government contested the mergers, and how the Government erred in analyzing the case. We wish to show that the combination of the three coal firms—Material Services, Freeman Coal, and United Electric—occurred for reasons of economic efficiency and practicality, not based on any atavistic desire to monopolize and damage social welfare.

A Note From The Department Chair, Greg M. Shaw

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Kathryn Vojack '00, Todd Zoellick '00

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

National Political Influence And The Catholic Church, Jennifer Nash '00

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

Democratic transitions recently became a topic of great discussion among political scholars as a domino effect of democratization began in Latin America in the 1970s and continued through Eastern Europe in the late 1980s. In many of these transitions, the Catholic Church played a crucial role as the protector of civil society during periods of communist and right-wing authoritarian rule, as well as taking an active role to promote the establishment of democracy. While the Church’s political role in transition is important, significantly fewer scholars have explored how democracy affected the Catholic Church within the national context. Even fewer have …

Daniel Elazar, Bogus Or Brilliant: A Study Of Political Culture Across The American States, Todd Zoellick '00

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

American states each have individual political cultures which are important to our understanding of their political environments, behavior, and responses to particular issues. While voters probably do not consciously think about political culture and conform to that culture on election day, they seem to form cohesive clusters in different areas of the state, creating similar group political ideologies. Because of these similarities, it is possible to measure the dominant political culture within states or areas of a state, gaining insight into the mind-set of state residents. Whatever the state culture, whether liberal or conservative, participatory or exclusive, political culture identifies …

The Role Of Civil Affairs In Mine Action, Cisr

Global CWD Repository

This study, “The Role of Civil Affairs in Mine Action,” is not intended to be read from cover to cover by most users. It has been researched and written with three target audiences in mind: 1) the Mine Action official who would like to learn more about the application of Civil Affairs capabilities to humanitarian demining activities, 2) the Civil Affairs officer who would like to learn more about challenges and actions within the realm of humanitarian demining operations, and 3) US military officials who have a responsibility for, or an interest in, the proper unit design and uses of …

เหตุผลความจำเป็นที่ต้องทำการศึกษาผลกระทบต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม สำหรับโครงการพัฒนาต่างๆ, เสถียร รุจิรวนิช

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

Indoctrination And Assimilation In Plural Settings, Ken Badley

Faculty Publications - College of Education

"A twofold problem faces Canadian education. The first fold involves the indoctrination debate, still unsettled after several decades, yet still bearing decisively on educational policy. The second fold involves the changing Canadian educational landscape, now obviously characterized by increasing cultural, religious, and linguistic plurality. This plurality manifests itself in tribalism and in regular conflicts about normativity in the public square. In the midst of this plurality, many Canadian parents of school-aged children believe that courts, provincial governments, and educational authorities deny them educational justice by determining that their own religion cannot inform what their children learn in schools. Yet, from …

Review Of James Tunstead Burtchaell's The Dying Of The Light: The Disengagement Of Colleges And Universities From Their Christian Churches, Ken Badley

Faculty Publications - College of Education

The thesis that colleges founded by churches eventually cut the cord and drift into secularity is no longer news in discussions of American higher education. And for that reason, one would hardly expect to enjoy yet another repetition of the thesis, especially one running over 800 pages. But James Burtchaell combines careful scholarship in primary sources such as faculty minutes and institutional histories with unpretentious, witty writing to present a highly readable treatment of the old theme. Many books that follow this thesis focus on the mass exodus of Protestant colleges from their churches in the second half of the …

Temperature And Field Dependence Of The Phase Separation, Structure, And Magnetic Ordering In La1-Xcaxmno3 (X = 0.47, 0.50, And 0.53), Q. Huang, J. W. Lynn, R. W. Erwin, A. Santoro, D. C. Dender, V. N. Smolyaninova, Kartik C. Ghosh, R. L. Greene

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Neutron-powder-diffraction measurements, combined with magnetization and resistivity data, have been carried out in the doped perovskite La1-xCaxMnO3 (x50.47, 0.50, and 0.53) to elucidate the structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of the system around the composition corresponding to an equal number of Mn3+ and Mn4+. At room temperature all three samples are paramagnetic and single phase, with crystallographic symmetry Pnma. The samples then all become ferromagnetic (FM) at Tc~265 K. At ~230 K, however, a second distinct crystallographic phase (denoted A-II) begins to form. Initially the intrinsic widths of the peaks are quite large, but they narrow as the temperature decreases …

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

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Standing For Protection Of Collective Rights In The European Communities, Alison Peck

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Thyroid Function In Cord Blood, Gerard Henry, Samia H. Sobki, Najla M. Al-Beshara, Mimmi E. Harkonen, Helen R Miller, Basil J. Al-Nakeeb

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the biochemical parameters of thyroid function in the cord blood of Saudi infants. METHODS: Cord blood samples sent to the Pathology Department for screening for congenital hypothyroidism were used to determine the reference ranges for thyrotropin, free thyroxine, free triiodothyronine, thyroxine-binding globulin and thyroglobulin. All the measurements were carried out by immunoassay (Elisa, microparticle enzyme immunoassay or chemiluminescence immunoassay). Reference ranges were calculated after exclusion of outliers. RESULTS: Reference ranges for thyrotropin, free thyroxine and thyroxine-binding globulin were similar to published values, whereas those for free triiodothyronine and thyroglobulin were different. CONCLUSION: For correct interpretation of the …

A Fatal Pseudallescheria Boydii Brain Abscess, Sonia A. Khan

Neurosciences

We present the clinical and radiological features of pseudallescheria boydii infection in a middle aged woman who presented with right frontal pseudallescheria abscess after two years use of prednisolone for rheumatoid arthritis. Despite early surgical excision and intravenous antifungal treatment she died after 7 weeks despite aggressive therapy.

Clobazam For The Treatment Of Intractable Childhood Epilepsy, Mohammed M. Jan, Ali O. Shaabat

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: Clobazam is a newer 1,5-benzodiazepine used for the treatment of epilepsy. It is better tolerated and less sedating than other benzodiazepines. It has yet to gain wide use for epilepsy in the Middle East. Our objective is to report our experience with clobazam for the treatment of childhood epilepsy. METHODS: A cohort of children with intractable epilepsy, defined as recurrent seizures after at least 3 anti-epileptic medication trials, were included prospectively. Clobazam was added to a maximum dose of 2 mg/kg/day. Follow-up by two pediatric neurologists was performed. Therapeutic response was recorded as complete (no seizures), good (>50% …

Epidemiological Patterns Of Scoliosis In A Spinal Unit In Saudi Arabia, Abdurrahman M. Al-Arjani, Mohamed W. Al-Sebai, Hazem M. Al-Khawashki, Munir F. Saadeddin

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To study the patterns of scoliosis seen in a major Spinal Unit in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: Medical records of 192 Saudi patients with scoliosis seen between 1992 and 1997 at the Spinal Unit of the Riyadh Medical Complex (which is a major spinal unit in the Kingdom) were studied and analyzed and epidemiological data was collected. RESULTS: Fifty nine percent of all cases of scoliosis were idiopathic, 7% were secondary to poliomyelitis and 17% were congenital scoliosis. The mean age of discovery of idiopathic scoliosis was 12.5 years and at presentation was 16 years. The mean Cobb’s angle at …

Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, Roshan L. Koul, Alexander Chacko, Zakia Al-Lamki, Adel M. Al-Amri, Saleh Al-Khusaiby

Neurosciences

Five children (3F:2M), in the age group 1 years to 11 years, with Munchausen syndrome by proxy are reported from the Sultanate of Oman. They were seen over a four years period from 1996-1999. In all these children, the mother came up with history of uncontrolled epilepsy. Carbamazepine was the most common antiepileptic drug used. One of these children remained hospitalized elsewhere for nearly 9 months, as a case of uncontrolled status epilepticus. It took 18 months to 6 years (mean 2.8 years) to establish the diagnosis and the mother was the offender in all. The main lead to diagnosis, …

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome In Type 2 Diabetic Patients, Adnan A. Awada, Sami A. Bashi, Mohammed A. Aljumah, Leroy P. Heffernan

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of carpal tunnel syndrome in type 2 diabetic patients, its clinical profile and its other predisposing factors. METHODS: One hundred and forty six consecutive patients (57 male, 89 female) with type 2 diabetes mellitus seen in the diabetic clinic were examined prospectively and submitted to comprehensive electrophysiological studies to detect carpal tunnel syndrome and sensorimotor neuropathy. Those with carpal tunnel syndrome were compared to others to determine the additional predisposing factors for carpal tunnel syndrome in diabetic patients. RESULTS: The mean duration of diabetes was 11.5 years. Carpal tunnel syndrome was diagnosed in 39% of …

Resident’S Perspective Of Neurology Training In The Kingdom, Abdulrahman M. Al-Shahrani

Neurosciences

No abstract provided.

Guidelines For The Prevention Of Migraine, Dirk Deleu, Yolande Hanssens

Neurosciences

Treatment of migraine has traditionally been divided into managing acute attacks and prophylactic treatment. Treatment of acute migraine has been the subject of many research papers and review articles in recent literature partly at the cost of prophylactic treatment, which is the focus of this review. The objective of prophylactic therapy is to reduce frequency, duration and severity of attacks in addition to optimize the patient’s ability to function normally. Preventive therapy is usually undertaken in patients who have more than two migraine episodes per month or when less frequent have severely disabling headaches resistant to usual treatment. Beta-blocking drugs …

Attitudes Of Omani Physicians To People With Epilepsy, Samir H. Al-Adawi, Masoud Y. Al-Maskari, Rodger G. Martin, Aziz N. Al-Naamani, Kassim A. Al-Riyamy, Ala’Aldin A. Al-Hussaini

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: This study reports the results of a questionnaire design to elicit doctors views about epilepsy. METHODS: Sixty-two percent of medical staff working in different regions of Oman responded. The questionnaire covered certain topics regarding the source of the knowledge of the doctors on seizure disorders and the personalities and behavior of people with epilepsy. RESULTS: The study suggests that although doctors in Oman gained knowledge on epilepsy prior to medical education, more doctors judged people with epilepsy ‘negatively’ compared to ‘positively’ for normal people. CONCLUSION: A developing country such as Oman needs to inculcate perceptions and attitude that are …

Substance Dependence. A Hospital Based Survey, Nayyer Iqbal

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To collect basic data on multiple and diverse issues such as drugs of dependence, smoking, initiation age, injection related harm, nutritional status, trauma, accidents, abnormal laboratory parameters and co-morbid conditions. METHODS: Seven hundred and ninety nine subjects from a voluntary detoxification unit were studied. Four hundred and ninety seven charts from June 1995 to December 1995 were reviewed retrospectively. For the other 302 subjects admitted between September 1996 to December 1996, information regarding drug use, smoking, trauma, accidents and co-morbid conditions was recorded during the admission interview while the remaining data was later obtained from the charts. RESULTS: Sixty …

Visual Loss After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Reham I. Shaaban, Wafa M. Asfour

Neurosciences

Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy is caused by microvascular occlusion of the prelaminar or laminar portion of the optic nerve head. The main types are arteritic, non-arteritic, and autoimmune. Few cases were reported following coronary artery bypass surgery. A 63-year-old man, who is both diabetic and hypertensive, underwent coronary artery bypass graft complicated postoperatively by sudden visual loss in his right eye. The diagnosis was non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy. Possible predisposing factors were crowded disc and internal carotid artery stenosis.

Childhood Enuresis. Epidemiology, Pathophysiology And Management, Yaser S. Al-Ghamdy, Naseem A. Qureshi, Muzamil H. Abdelgadir

Neurosciences

The goal of this article is to review childhood enuresis, which is a common behavioral condition reported in millions of children worldwide. An online computer search was made, and the literature up to 1997 was screened in order to include relevant data for this review. The prevalence of childhood enuresis varies across reviewed studies. This was attributed to a variety of sociodemographic and cultural dynamics of societies. Similarly, the pathophysiology of this ubiquitous symptom is determined by multiple risk factors including biological, psychological, social, and cultural, but the developmental/maturational delay influenced by genetics remains the most plausible explanation. Although a …

Subdural Hematoma Complicating Middle Fossa Arachnoid Cyst, Ammar F. Mubaidin, Amer A. Shurbaji

Neurosciences

We report a case of a middle aged patient with middle fossa arachnoid cyst that was complicated by subdural hematoma. This was demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging that remain the most useful diagnostic tool, and providing excellent tissue specificity. Patient was treated by irrigating the hematoma through burrholes. Magnetic resonance imaging in the postoperative period showed a reduction in size of the arachnoid cyst.

Methods Of Treatment For Back Pain And Sciatica, Mohammad Z. Zawahri

Neurosciences

No abstract provided.

Morphologic Patterns Of Male Infertility In Saudi Patients, Molham M. Al-Rayees, Ammar C. Al-Rikabi

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To determine the predominant histopathological patterns seen in the testicular biopsies taken during the investigation of male infertility and to compare the obtained histopathological findings with those seen in other similar studies. METHODS: This is a retrospective study performed on 230 testicular biopsies which were examined in the Department of Pathology at King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh over a period of 10 years. The histopathological findings were grouped into 8 different morphologic categories. We have utilized a classification that is principally morphologic but that uses known or suspected clinical associations in the case of karyotypic abnormalities and excurrent …