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Working Memory And Disinhibition In Children With Adhd, Nicholas Dietlein

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

This research sought to test predictions from Barkley's (1997) theory of disinhibition in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). To this end, the performance differences among younger and older children with and without ADHD were measured. The testing paradigm used in this study was originally developed by Hale, Bronik, and Fry (1997), who sought to measure the verbal and spatial working memory differences in school age children. In this study, ADHD children performed significantly worse on the tasks than did non-ADHD children, indicating that the working memory of the children with ADHD was more subject to interference. Also, younger children performed …

Economics V. Equity Ii: The European Experience, Stephen M. Johnson

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Anything To Act Crazy: Cajun Women And Mardi Gras Disguise, Carolyn E. Ware

Faculty Publications

As women play an increasingly prominent part in many Cajun Mardi Gras runs, they bring their own styles of roleplaying and masking to the celebration. A handful of creative women have taken the lead in commodifying the rural tradition, making and marketing Mardi Gras suits and masks on a large scale. This article looks at Cajun women's disguises as a way of understanding their larger influence on the festival.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 28, No. 1 (March 2001)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• DEFINING HUMAN SERVICES - Chaim Zins
• SOCIAL WORK AND LABOR: A LOOK AT THE NORTH AMERICAN AGREEMENT ON LABOR COOPERATION - Constance Phelps
• CRIME RATES AND CONFIDENCE IN THE POLICE: AMERICA'S CHANGING ATTITUTES TOWARD CRIME AND POLICY, 1972-1999 - Georgia Ackerman, Bobbie Anderson, Scott Jensen, Randy Ludwig, Darrel Montero, Nicole Plante, and Vince Yanez
• THE EFFECTIVENESS AND ENFORCEMENT OF A TEEN CURFEW LAW - Richard D. Sutphen and Janet Ford
• THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF GRANDMOTHER-GRANDCHILD CO-RESIDENCY - Richard K. Caputo
• THE TRANSFORMATION OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL POLICY IN THE TRANSITION TOWARD A MARKET ECONOMY - Isabel Pla Julian …

Why Are There Warriors In Plato's Republic?, John Patrick Coby

Government: Faculty Publications

The warriors are a troublesome addition to the city founded by Socrates. Continuous supervision and a heavy-handed pedagogy are required just to keep them from oppressing the producing class. They also never accomplish the mission they initially are given — the violent taking of adjacent lands. So why are they summoned and set up in power? For that matter, why is spiritedness cultivated instead of discouraged or suppressed? The above questions indicate that there is a case to be made against warriors in the city and spiritedness in the soul. After making that case, the paper turns to constructing a …

Cooperative Behavior Schemes For Improving The Effectiveness Of Autonomous Wide Area Search Munitions, Daniel P. Gillen

Theses and Dissertations

The problem being addressed is how to best find and engage an unknown number of targets in unknown locations using multiple autonomous wide area search munitions. In this research cooperative behavior is being investigated to improve the overall mission effectiveness. A simulation was used to emulate the behavior of autonomous wide area search munitions and measure their overall expected performance. This code was modified to incorporate the capability for cooperative engagement based on a parameterized decision rule. Using Design of Experiments and Response Surface Methodologies, the simulation was run to achieve optimal decision rule parameters for given scenarios and to …

Maternal Deaths In A Developing Country: A Study From The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan 1988-1999, R N. Qureshi, S Jaleel, R Hamid, S F. Lakha

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Objective: The maternal deaths occurring over a twelve-year period (1988-1999) in a tertiary referral center were reviewed. The purpose of the study was to assess the causes of these maternal deaths.
Setting: The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Karachi, Pakistan.
Methods: The medical records of maternal deaths were reviewed. These were women who had either registered for delivery at the hospital; or were referred from another hospital or from home, when an emergency developed. They were either admitted to the Medicine, Surgery and the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Departments at the hospital.Results: A total of 81 maternal deaths were identified, of …

A Precautionary Tale: The International Trade Implications Of Regulating Genetically Modified Foods In Australia And New Zealand, Denise M. Lietz

Washington International Law Journal

The current international debate surrounding the development of genetically modified ("GM") foods centers around the selection of appropriate regulations to control the new technology's potential food safety risks. Australia and New Zealand have used a precautionary approach to develop their regulatory system for GM foods—a system that will soon include a stringent labeling requirement for all foods containing GM ingredients. The United States, on the other hand, has rejected the precautionary approach to regulating GM foods and does not require mandatory labeling of most GM foods. These differing national regulations may lead to restrictions on the importation of many U.S. …

Assessment Of Immune System Involvement In Tourette Syndrome, Ashley Dawn Levine

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Tourette syndrome (TS) is currently hypothesized to be the result of genetic and immunological components. This study investigated whether TS subjects produce IgG and IgA antibodies that bind to caudate nucleus, hippocampus, frontal cortex, cerebellum, thalamus, globus pallidus interior, exterior and putamen. Thirty- two children (14 TS, 7 family control, and 11 non-family control) and thirty-nine adults (11 TS, 14 family control, and 14 non-family control) were studied. Immunofluorescent studies were performed on basal ganglia tissue using serum from TS children and their family members. Brain antigens were prepared as two fractions (supernatant and pellet) and used as targets for …

Plant-Based Multicomponent Vaccines Against Enteric Diseases, Jie Yu

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

To generate a plant-based multicomponent oral vaccine against cholera, rotavirus and enterotoxigenic E.coli (ETEC), we have constructed transgenic potato plants that synthesize the cholera toxin B and A2 subunits, the rotavirus enterotoxin NSP4 22 amino acid epitope and the ETEC fimbrial antigen CFA/L To use cholera toxin as a carrier molecule for delivery of multiple antigens to the gut-associated lymphoid tissues, the rotavirus NSP4 epitope was linked to the cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) and the ETEC fimbrial antigen CFA/I was linked to the cholera toxin A2 subunit. Cholera toxin-antigen fusion proteins were detected in transformed tuber tissues by immunoblot …

Looking Back At Fluoridation, Allan Mazur

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The author reviews the 50-year history of the debate over fluoridating drinking water as a public health measure.

St. Louise And St. Vincent, Jean-Pierre Renouard C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Fernand Portal: Un Pionnier Du Dialogue Oecuménique Contemporain, Robert Gurtner C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Academic Fads And Fashions (With Special Reference To Law), Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Like everyone else, academics are susceptible to informational and reputational signals. Sometimes academics lack confidence in their methods and beliefs, and they pay a great deal of attention to the methods and beliefs of others. The academic study of law is particularly subject to cascade effects, as people follow signals that they participate in amplifying. Some of these effects run their course quickly, whereas others last a long time. Leaders can play a special role in starting and stopping cascades; external shocks play a special role in the academic study of law; sometimes like-minded people within academia move one another …

Popular Culture And The Rituals Of American Football, Mark Axelrod

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Popular Culture and the Rituals of American Football," Mark Axelrod reflects on meanings of cultural practice in American popular culture. Before globalization -- driven by economics -- became a fact of life with profound implications, there were myths and rituals that provided a kind of insulation from the mysteries of life. These practices were ritualized by "primitive" men and women who, seemingly, did not understand the universe as well as we moderns do. But in fact one only needs to witness throngs of Baltimoreans rushing after a caravan of cars attempting to kiss the Vince Lombardi Trophy …

The Bg News March 1, 2001, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 1, 2001. Volume 86-Issue 107.

Early Geology Books, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Rare Books & Special Collections Publications

This catalog is based on items displayed in early March 2001, for a class visit by Professor Pradeep Talwani’s undergraduate honors-college course in Solid Earth Geology. Most of the books have been in the library since the early 19th century, and some were among the books of Thomas Cooper (1759-1839), professor of chemistry and second president of South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina). These earlier acquisitions have been joined by items of geological interest in the C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin & Darwinana, donated to the library in 1996.

Bear Behavior In The Vicinity Of Supplemental Feeding Stations In Western Washington, Dale L. Nolte, Timothy J. Veenendaal, George J. Ziegltrum, Philipp Fersterer

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Black bear can inflict severe negative Impacts on timber stands in the northwestern United States. A supplemental feeding program to provide bears an alternative food source during spring is practiced in the stat e of Washington, and to a lesser extent in other states. We initiated concurrent studies to assess characteristics of bear that forage at feeding stations, the interactions of bears around feeders, and impacts of the program on bear territories. Numerous bears fed at stations, including females with and without cubs, yearlings. and males. Bear feeding bouts at stations were generally short, less than 15 minutes. Bears generally …

Examples Of The Motif Of The Shrew In European Literature And Film, Louise O. Vasvári

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Examples of the Motif of the Shrew in European Literature and Film" Louise O. Vasvári presents the shrew-taming story as a masterplot of both Eastern and Western folklore and literature concerned with establishing the appropriate power dynamic between a married couple. Vasvári firts reviews the comparative groundwork of the story she has documented in her earlier studies of the topic. In addition to tracing the bundle of motifs that make up the shrew story from medieval Arabic and European versions to the present, she then devotes attention to Hungarian folklore traditions. In the second part of the …

Motor Control Of Human Gait: A Dynamic Systems Perspective, Gary P. Austin

All PTHMS Faculty Publications

Fundamentally, gait permits humans to move intentionally and independently from place to place and to interact with the environment. Human gait, as ordinary as it may seem, is a wonderful illustration of the complex, yet precise action emerging from the interplay of the organism and the environment. As a result of this precision, the locomotor system functions safely and efficiently regardless of the ever-varying environmental conditions. Successful movement ultimately depends on the control, coordination, and integration of the many resources offered by the locomotor system and the environment.

Straight From The Heart, Volume 2, Number 6, Division Of University Relations

News, Magazines and Reports

Highlights: Faculty authors contribute to scholarship -- Professors McAllister, Neu reach out to Salvadorans -- Gov. Rowland, six others to be feted at Discovery Dinner -- Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Studies (REAPS) pursues links with Australian church educators -- Coaches Corner: Brian Reardon -- Accomplishments -- Briefly noted -- Calendar.

Ethj Vol-39 No-1

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Jane Mcmanus Storm Cazneau And The Galveston Bay And Texas Land Company, Linda S. Hudson

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Crossing Myriad Borders: A Dimensional Analysis Of The Migration And Health Experiences Of Indigenous Oaxacan Women, Sharon Mcguire Phd, Op, Msn, Rn-C

Dissertations

The growing feminization of the migration of ethnic indigenous women, such as Mixtecs, Zapotecs and Triquis from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, are altering the dynamics and configuration of traditional Mexican migration, making it especially significant for the health professions. Informed by a postcolonial ecofeminist paradigm, this bi-national grounded theory study explored the migration and health experiences of indigenous Oaxacan immigrant/migrant women. Data collection using participant observation and interviewing occurred in Oaxaca, Mexico, along the US-Mexico border, and the interior of California. Dimensional analysis was used as the method of data analysis to generate theoretical understandings of these phenomena. …

Religion And The First Amendment: Some Causes Of The Recent Confusion, Carl H. Esbeck

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Biophilia, The Endangered Species Act, And A New Endangered Species Paradigm, L. Misha Preheim

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Religion, Democracy, And Autonomy: A Political Parable, Steven D. Smith

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Accommodation And Equal Liberty, Lisa Schultz Bressman

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Philosophical Counseling For Counselors, Lou Matz

College of the Pacific Faculty Presentations

One promising form of philosophical practice is to conduct workshops on philosophical counseling for counselors. Since licensed professionals, such as Marriage and Family Counselors and Licensed Clinical Social Workers sometimes confront situations that raise philosophical issues and usually have a philosophical perspective that informs their practice, they could profit from a workshop on philosophical counseling; the workshop also qualifies for continuing education units (CEUs) that are typically required to renew their licenses. This paper describes the principal purposes of a workshop for counselors, the structure of two such workshops, and suggestions for improvement of future workshops.

Disrupting Evolutionary Processes: The Effect Of Habitat Fragmentation On Collared Lizards In The Missouri Ozarks, Alan R. Templeton, Robert J. Robertson, Jennifer A. Brisson, Jared Strasburg

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Humans affect biodiversity at the genetic, species, community, and ecosystem levels. This impact on genetic diversity is critical, because genetic diversity is the raw material of evolutionary change, including adaptation and speciation. Two forces affecting genetic variation are genetic drift (which decreases genetic variation within but increases genetic differentiation among local populations) and gene flow (which increases variation within but decreases differentiation among local populations). Humans activities often augment drift and diminish gene flow for many species, which reduces genetic variation in local populations and prevents the spread of adaptive complexes outside their population of origin, thereby disrupting adaptive processes …