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Relationship Between Durophagy And Feeding Biomechanics In Gray Triggerfish, Balistes Capriscus: Intraspecific Variation In Ecological Morphology, Christopher J. Durie, Ralph G. Turingan Jan 2001

Relationship Between Durophagy And Feeding Biomechanics In Gray Triggerfish, Balistes Capriscus: Intraspecific Variation In Ecological Morphology, Christopher J. Durie, Ralph G. Turingan

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

The relationship between oral jaw biomechanics and consumption of hard prey was compared between Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) and Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic) populations of gray triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) to examine intraspecific ecomorphological variation between these fish. Gut content analysis revealed that Atlantic fish fed more on hard-shelled invertebrates, such as crabs and sea urchins, than Gulf conspecifics. Difference in the relative magnitude of durophagy between Gulf and Atlantic triggerfish was associated with intraspecific differences in key biomechanical properties of the prey-capture and processing mechanism. The more durophagous Atlantic B. capriscus had more massive jaw bones and muscles than Gulf fish. …

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Dino Hayz At The Putnam Museum Of History And Natural Science: Introducing Creative Drama, Theatre For Youth And Participation Theatre As Educational Tools In The Museum Setting, Tess Marlene Lassen Jan 2001

Dino Hayz At The Putnam Museum Of History And Natural Science: Introducing Creative Drama, Theatre For Youth And Participation Theatre As Educational Tools In The Museum Setting, Tess Marlene Lassen

Graduate Research Papers

The intent of this study is to show how the principle of teaching in role through Theatre for Youth, Participation Theatre and Creative Drama were used by Dino Hayz to teach young people about exhibits at the Putnam Museum of History and Natural Science in Davenport, Iowa from 1990 to 2001. When it began, the Heritage Theatre at the Putnum Museum offered short plays or monologues performed in and relating to the museum exhibits. These pieces were performed for the general public, adults and youth. The Theatre Coordinator was Margo Stites. Under the direction of Dino Hayz the role of …

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Making Electronic Resources Available To Patrons, Robert Linz Jan 2001

Making Electronic Resources Available To Patrons, Robert Linz

Faculty Articles

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The Application Of Universal Human Rights Law To People With Mental Disabilities, Debra Benko, Brittany Benowitz Jan 2001

The Application Of Universal Human Rights Law To People With Mental Disabilities, Debra Benko, Brittany Benowitz

Human Rights Brief

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The Optional Protocols To The Un Convention On The Rights Of The Child On Sex Trafficking And Child Soldiers, Cris R. Revaz Jan 2001

The Optional Protocols To The Un Convention On The Rights Of The Child On Sex Trafficking And Child Soldiers, Cris R. Revaz

Human Rights Brief

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Guatemala: Children's Rights Case Wins Judgment At Iachr, Ismene Zarifis Jan 2001

Guatemala: Children's Rights Case Wins Judgment At Iachr, Ismene Zarifis

Human Rights Brief

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Legislative Focus: Patriot Act, Mary Ellen Tsekos Jan 2001

Legislative Focus: Patriot Act, Mary Ellen Tsekos

Human Rights Brief

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Male Rape In U.S. Prisons: Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Shara Abraham Jan 2001

Male Rape In U.S. Prisons: Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Shara Abraham

Human Rights Brief

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China's Crackdown On Falun Gong, Erin Chlopak Jan 2001

China's Crackdown On Falun Gong, Erin Chlopak

Human Rights Brief

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Harvest Of Danger: The Child Farmworker In The United States , Teresa Young Reeves Jan 2001

Harvest Of Danger: The Child Farmworker In The United States , Teresa Young Reeves

Human Rights Brief

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News From The Inter-American System , Terri J. Harris Jan 2001

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

Human Rights Brief

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The Impact Of The Protocol To Prevent, Suppress And Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women And Children, Kelly E. Hyland Jan 2001

The Impact Of The Protocol To Prevent, Suppress And Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women And Children, Kelly E. Hyland

Human Rights Brief

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Awas Tingni V. Nicaragua: A Landmark Case For The Inter-American System , Claudio Grossman Jan 2001

Awas Tingni V. Nicaragua: A Landmark Case For The Inter-American System , Claudio Grossman

Human Rights Brief

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The Right Of Self-Determination: Is East Timor A Viable Model For Kashmir?, Amardeep Singh Jan 2001

The Right Of Self-Determination: Is East Timor A Viable Model For Kashmir?, Amardeep Singh

Human Rights Brief

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News From The International Criminal Tribunals , Alexandra L. Wisotsky, Kelly D. Askin Jan 2001

News From The International Criminal Tribunals , Alexandra L. Wisotsky, Kelly D. Askin

Human Rights Brief

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Minors In Haiti's Prisons , Ismene Zarifis Jan 2001

Minors In Haiti's Prisons , Ismene Zarifis

Human Rights Brief

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The World Commission On Dams' Contribution To The Broader Debate On Development Decision-Making, Daniel D. Bradlow Jan 2001

The World Commission On Dams' Contribution To The Broader Debate On Development Decision-Making, Daniel D. Bradlow

American University International Law Review

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Volume Management In San Environment, Chang-Soo Kim, Gyoung-Bae Kim, Bum-Joo Shin Jan 2001

Volume Management In San Environment, Chang-Soo Kim, Gyoung-Bae Kim, Bum-Joo Shin

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Logical volume managers have long been key components of a storage system. Their key features are creation of logical or virtual views of physical storage devices and support for various software RAID levels. These make it possible to overcome the limits to capacity, availability and performance of a physical storage device. Most logical volume managers are operated in a single system environment. They are not adequate for SAN (storage area network) environments where several hosts share and access a logical volume at the same time. Some recent logical volume managers are run in a multi-host environment. However, they cannot support …

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A Simple Performance-Based Index For Assessing Multiple Agroecosystem Functions, Mark A. Liebig, Gary E. Varvel, John W. Doran Jan 2001

A Simple Performance-Based Index For Assessing Multiple Agroecosystem Functions, Mark A. Liebig, Gary E. Varvel, John W. Doran

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Evaluating the impact agricultural practices have on agroecosystem functions is essential to determine the sustainability of management systems. This paper presents an approach to determine the relative sustainability of agricultural practices. A simple ranking procedure using a relative scoring method is proposed to discriminate among treatments based on the status of crop and soil parameters within different agroecosystem functions. Summing scores across agroecosystem functions allows for the identification of agricultural practices that are performing optimally based on functions included in the procedure. An example, using data from a long-term cropping systems experiment in the western Corn Belt, found the indexing …

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A Guideline For Initiating An Environmental Management System In Academia, David Turkow Jan 2001

A Guideline For Initiating An Environmental Management System In Academia, David Turkow

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Managing environmental concerns in an academic environment poses unique challenges to colleges and universities. Many college EHS professionals face an uphill battle to promote environmental improvement in an organized, systematic, and sustainable fashion - an Environmental Management System (EMS) is designed to do just that. Some inherent difficulties encountered in an academic setting include 1) lack of management support and 2) the perception that colleges do not have major environmental compliance issues (contributing factor to #1). By identifying issues unique to academia and differences in perception between EHS professionals and academic senior management, chances for successfully initiating/implementing an EMS are …

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Design Of An Advanced On-Street Parking Meter, Yaotsung Tung Jan 2001

Design Of An Advanced On-Street Parking Meter, Yaotsung Tung

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Contaminated Equipment Packing And Transportation, Vladimir Zado Jan 2001

Contaminated Equipment Packing And Transportation, Vladimir Zado

Theses

The nuclear power plants are significant source of the equipment contamination by radioactive particles. Versatile equipment is used during plant operation and/or maintenance and is contaminated while performing required operations. Usually, the decontamination of used equipment is performed but in many cases the residual level of contamination is still higher than allowed for unconditional release. The usual routine is to apply the same equipment for the maintenance works of other nuclear power plants. Such approach gains the problem of packaging of the contaminated equipment into applicable containers and transportation of these containers to other nuclear facility where equipment is unpacked …

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Environmental Supply Chain Management Integration Into The Purchase Of Finished Electrical Products, Cavan Kelsey Jan 2001

Environmental Supply Chain Management Integration Into The Purchase Of Finished Electrical Products, Cavan Kelsey

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Representatives from the electronics equipment industry were surveyed and selected companies were interviewed to determine the current level of environmental supply chain integration into the purchase of finished electrical products. Based on the information gathered, a summary of best practices was defined which included insights into effective buyer/supplier relationships and establishing environmental product requirements. As electronic equipment manufacturers change from a vertically integrated marketing structure to one of a horizontal supply chain, there is an increasing need to outsource manufacturing of or to procure finished products made by another supplier and subsequently branded by the buying manufacturer. The manufacturer's environmental …

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Cleaner Production Among Multinational Corporations In Southeast Asia, Nguyen Phan Duy Nguyen Jan 2001

Cleaner Production Among Multinational Corporations In Southeast Asia, Nguyen Phan Duy Nguyen

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Cleaner Production (CP) represents the change from a conventional end-of-pipe treatment attitude to a proactive approach to pollution prevention and increased production efficiency. CP has been successfully implemented in developing countries, including the countries of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN is becoming an economic development center in Asia, attracting a large amount of foreign direct investments from multinational corporations during the last two decades. However, success in economic development has been accompanied by environmental problems. Understanding the level of CP practices among ASEAN's multinational corporations (MNCs) and National Cleaner Production Centers/Cleaner Production (NCPCs/CP) organizations is important to …

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Utilizing Re-Engineering Of Competitive Packages To Stimulate Innovative Packaging Development, Jeffrey Gibb Jan 2001

Utilizing Re-Engineering Of Competitive Packages To Stimulate Innovative Packaging Development, Jeffrey Gibb

Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how the tool of re-engineering can successfully be used to dissect competitive packaging and, in turn, stimulate new, innovative packaging developments. The organizational challenges and hurdles in achieving innovation have changed in recent years. Mergers and acquisitions have resulted in the creation of mega-corporations. The result has been a change in business philosophy from generalization to specialization for maximum profitability. The challenge of specialization is that it stifles creativity, and this includes the development of innovative packaging. One of the ways the packaging engineer can overcome these challenges and drive innovation is …

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Ina Brand Motor Oil Packaging System Optimization, Ivan Kresic Jan 2001

Ina Brand Motor Oil Packaging System Optimization, Ivan Kresic

Theses

This paper explores the possibility of INA brand motor oil packaging system optimization. Research has been conducted in order to recognize the typical failure pattern of one-liter motor oil container, according to ASTM D2659-84. The findings of this study identify an opportunity for improvement in primary package design, as well as an overall reduction in expenditure for motor oils packaging as a function of improved distribution process. Based on significant cost savings achieved by packaging system optimization, this project study recommends implementation of the project at INA Maziva Rijeka.

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On The Classical Ramsey Number R(3,3,3,3), Susan Fettes Jan 2001

On The Classical Ramsey Number R(3,3,3,3), Susan Fettes

Theses

The classical Ramsey Number R(3, 3, 3, 3), which is the smallest positive integer n such that any edge coloring with four colors of the complete graph on n vertices must contain at least one monochromatic triangle, is discussed. Basic facts and graph theoretic definitions are given. Papers concerning triangle-free colorings are presented in a historical overview. Mathematical theory underlying the main result of the thesis, which is Richard Kramers unpublished result, i?(3,3,3,3) < 62, is given. The algorithms for the com putational verification of this result are presented along with a discussion of the software tools that were utilized to obtain it.

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Identification End Evaluation Of Packaging Design For Internet Kiosk Depending On Feasible On-Site Service Support Level, Nedeljko Medvedec Jan 2001

Identification End Evaluation Of Packaging Design For Internet Kiosk Depending On Feasible On-Site Service Support Level, Nedeljko Medvedec

Theses

The Internet Kiosks are fast emerging telecommunication products that have a main function to enable "public mobility". The estimated market size in 2000 is 2,4 Billion US$ worldwide, with prognoses to grow in next 3 years to the level of 7 Billion US$. One of the features offered to the market is "plug and play" capability, but due to the size and weight of the kiosks, this should be conditionally treated. Some portion of on-site service support at the installation should be considered, the amount of which depends on applied product design and package design solution. Product design and package …

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A Comparison Of Airline Websites, Hui Zhang Jan 2001

A Comparison Of Airline Websites, Hui Zhang

Theses

The online travel business is widely expected to be one of the Internet's biggest commerce breakthroughs by the millennium. Airlines have focused their web efforts on reinforcing their relationship with their customers. As the largest airline and the fourth-largest airline in the world respectively, both United Airlines and Northwest Airlines, the leaders of e-commerce in the transportation industry, have established a strong presence at the emerging travel purchase outlets being used by a growing number of airline consumers . The literature review focuses on the application of Blur's effects (Davis, 1998) on the two and describes their main development in …

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Optimization Of Distrubution Packaging For The New Warehouse Of Pharmaceutical Products In Pliva, Viktorija Tica Jan 2001

Optimization Of Distrubution Packaging For The New Warehouse Of Pharmaceutical Products In Pliva, Viktorija Tica

Theses

Optimization of the Distribution Packaging is one of the several most advisable studies to work on when a new warehouse project is initiated. The study reviews the current Distribution packaging status and proceeds with evaluation of the improved transport boxes with a better Area and Cube Pallet efficiency. Data collection and recognition of the used 100 different types of folding cartons and bundles is followed by evaluation of their packaging into new proposed transport boxes, according to the specified packaging demands. Therefore, the basic evaluation tool of this study was the computer program that matches unit pack dimensions and their …

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