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Sources And Seasonal Variability Of Metal And Arsenic Concentrations In The Surface Water Of The Clark Fork River Basin Montana, Temple Elizabeth Mckinnon

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Relationship Of The Conners Continuous Performance Test And Neuropsychological Tests Of Attention In An Adult Population, Jeannine B. Mielke

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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A Comparative Study Of The Feeding Ecology Of Chelonia Mydas (Green Turtle) And The Incidental Ingestion Of Prorocentrum Spp, Karen Gayle Holloway Adkins

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The diets of green turtles from five dissimilar aggregations of juvenile C. mydas on the East Coast of Florida were analyzed. C. mydas were captured by tangle net from four of the study sites and a dietary sample was collected by an esophageal flushing technique. The gut content of stranded individuals was collected for the fifth site. The vegetation in these study areas differs in varying degrees of abundance and diversity. Analysis of the samples revealed the alga types preferred by green turtles from each population and provided the basis for examination of similarities and differences in their diets.

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How Does Dipping Into Your Pension Affect Your Retirement Wealth?, Gary V. Engelhardt

Center for Policy Research

Although pensions, both public and private, are intended to provide income during retirement, a growing number of American workers receive part or all their employer-provided pensions in the form of a cash settlement, called a lump-sum distribution, when they change jobs. They have many choices of what to do with that money: for example, they can roll it over into an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), spend the money or pay or debt, transfer it to the pension plan of a new employer, or even leave the money with the old employer's pension plan. Policymakers are concerned that workers who spend …

Some New Approaches To Formulate And Estimate Friction-Bernoulli Jump Diffusion And Friction-Garch, Chihwa Kao

Center for Policy Research

In this paper we propose a friction model with a Beroulli jump diffusion and a friction with GARCH to examine the exchange rates movements in Taiwan. The proposed model resolves the estimation problem associated with the stepwise movements of observed exchange rates. The specification maintains the desirable economic properties associated with movements in exchange rate returns and is empirically tractable. The AIC apparently favors the model based on Friction-GARCH model.

Geography, Industrial Organization, And Agglomeration Heteroskedasticity Models With Estimates Of The Variances Of Foreign Exchange Rates, Chihwa Kao

Center for Policy Research

This paper proposes a robust estimation procedure, the bounded influence estimate (BIS), which is robust against departure from the conditional normality of the autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) models to describe the behavior of exchange rates. First, the BIE identifies the additive outliers (AO, e.g., Fox 1972) caused by abnormal information arrivals which may be triggered by changes in domestic policies and international shocks. Identification of outliers allows us to analyze the major economic and political factors that contribute directly to the dramatic changes in exchange rates. Second, the performance of the BIE is compared with the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) …

Body Image Distortion In College Females: Effects On Exercise Identity And Commitment, Marie Schroder, Lauren Leslie, Mary Leigh Gregory

Modern Psychological Studies

Body image concerns have been related to behavioral aspects of exercise. This study examined the psychological aspect of exercise on role identity. It was hypothesized that college females who overestimated percentage body fat were more likely to identify exercise as an integral self-concept and commit strongly to exercise than correct or underestimators. Twenty-five undergraduate females, never diagnosed with an eating disorder, completed an Exercise Identity Scale and a Commitment to Exercise scale. Body fat was assessed using calipers at three body sites. Body image distortion is prevalent among normal populations but shows no significant relation to exercise identity and commitment. …

Sex: The Defining Variable In Mate Selection, Shirley A. Forbes, Tanacha Brown, Timothy Adams, Lenore Davis

Modern Psychological Studies

The evolutionary hypothesis of mate selection was tested by combining traits deemed as evolutionarily valued (Cramer, Schaeffer Et Reid, 1996) with pictures showing facial features deemed as physically attractive according to the evolutionary hypothesis (Buss, 1989; Singh, 1995). Traits and pictures not congruent with the evolutionary hypothesis were also presented. Four stimulus persons were presented to ninety-one male subjects and 114 female subjects who were asked to rate their desirability as a mate. The results showed a main effect for stimulus condition, with the physical attractiveness pictures receiving the highest ratings when combined with the valued evolutionary traits, F (3, …

Turning Plateaued And Declining Churches Around, David M. Odom

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this project is to reveal that there is a danger of churches being lulled to sleep and becoming plateaued or in a declining state. The project also offers several reasons why churches stop growing and possible solutions to turn a non-growing church into a growing church.

The Dynamic Analytics Of Property Law, Michael A. Heller

Articles

The standard property trilogy of private, commons, and state has become so outdated that it now impedes imagination and innovation at the frontiers of ownership. This essay suggests two approaches - creating new ideal types and synthesizing existing ones - that may help update our static property metaphors. Using these dynamic approaches to property analytics, legal theory can move beyond polarizing oppositions that have made jurisprudential debates unsolvable and rendered concrete problems invisible.

Sexual Harassment Policies And Procedures In South Florida Community Colleges: Perceived Affects On Teaching Learning, Lyn J. Pont

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The purposes of this research were to determine: 1.) if sexual harassment policies, content, communication and subsequent related training, or lack thereof, subject South Florida community colleges to legal risk; and 2.) the perceptions of how sexual harassment policies and procedures affect students and faculty, their interactions, and how students learn and how faculty teaches, being mindful of a possible cultural component.

In determining if the sexual harassment policies and training subjected the colleges to legal risk, a sexual harassment policy and procedural grid was used to analyze the policies in place at all four South Florida community colleges. The …

Risk Factors Associated With Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection In A Cohort Of Newborns From Birth To 24 Months Of Age In A Rural Community Of Bangladesh, Khundkar Zahid Hasan

All ETDs from UAB

Little is known about incidence, risk factors, and etiology of acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRI) and pneumonia among the very young children from the rural communities of the developing countries. This study examined incidence and risk factors for ALRI and etiology and risk factors for pneumonia in a group of infants in Bangladesh. A cohort of 252 newborns was prospectively followed from birth to 24 months of age. Data on respiratory symptoms and feeding habits were collected routinely by household visit. Socioeconomic information was collected during census and during enrollment of the children. Laboratory tests for bacterial and viral …

Temporal Variations In United States Infant Death From Perinatal Related Causes, By Race, Birth Weight And Time Period Of Birth, Amanda Jane Liddle

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Objectives . This population-based study was conducted to examine the effects of various technologies, that evolved in the late 1980s and early 1990s to improve infant survival, on time to death. The study examined the temporal variations in time to infant death from perinatal related causes, at varying birth weights and for two races, between 1985 and 1995, and considered the implications of the findings for future perinatal policy and interventions. Methods . Non-experimental, retrospective, population based design, utilizing US national and state secondary vital records data linking births with infant deaths from 1985 to 1995. The outcome variable was …

The Power Of Suggestion: Inertia In 401k Participation And Savings Behavior, Brigitte C. Madrian, Dennis F. Shea

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we analyze the 401(k) savings behavior of employees in a large U.S. corporation before and after an interesting change in the company 401(k) plan. Before the plan change, employees were required to affirmatively elect participation in the 401(k) plan. After the plan change, employees were automatically and immediately enrolled in the 401(k) plan unless they made a negative election to opt out of the plan. Although none of the economic features of the plan changed, this switch to automatic enrollment dramatically changed the savings behavior of employees. We have two key findings. First, 401(k) participation is significantly …

A Multi-Dimensional Outcome Study Of Chronic Back Pain, Long-Term Characterization Of Three Treatments: Intrathecal Opioid Administration, Residential Pain Treatment Program, And Oral Opioid Therapy., Jessica Lynn Brown

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Growth Hormone Receptor Dimerization And Mechansisms Of Receptor Proteolysis And Growth Hormone Binding Protein Generation., Yue Zhang

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The Influence Of Perceived Parental Monitoring And Perceived Peer Norms On The Risk Behaviors Of African American Seventh -Grade Intervention Participants., Scott Duane Rhodes

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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (Yrbss) Trends In Alabama: Implications For Educational Leadership., Feng Sun

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Workplace Violence Experienced By Registered Nurses In Hospital Emergency Care Settings., Martha Phillips Catlette

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Analysis Of Caregiver -Care Recipient Interaction., Tricia Lynn Wessel-Blaski

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Molecular Population Genetics Of Streptococcus Pneumoniae., David Ashley Robinson

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Impact Of Social Support And Stress On Health-Related Quality Of Life Among People Living With Hiv And Aids., Hao Tang

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Role Sending Strategies Used By Deans Of Schools Of Nursing To Influence Faculty Performance., Linda Diane Norman

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Regulation Of Angiotensin Ii-Induced Vascular Smooth Muscle Protein Synthesis By Multiple Signaling Cascades., Petra Rocic

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Transcription And Processing Of Guide Rnas In Trypanosoma Brucei., Jayleen Mary Grams

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Wellness Program Influence On Health Risk Factors And Medical Costs Among Seventh -Day Adventist Workers., Barbara Rose James

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Accelerometry: A New Technique For Objectively Measuring Real-World Actual Amount Of Use Of An Impaired Extremity In Rehabilitation Patients., Gitendra Uswatte-Aratchi

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Validity And Reliability In Nursing Multiple -Choice Tests And The Relationship To Nclex -Rn Success: An Internet Survey., Diane Den Bleyker Depew

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Nursing -Sensitive Quality Indicators: Nosocomial Urinary Tract Infection In A Thai Hospital., Rachanee Sujijantararat

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Exercise Compliance In Older Adults With Arthritis., Nadine Theresa James

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