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Recruitment Of Engaged Couples For Premarital Counseling: An Empirical Examination Of The Importance Of Program Characteristics And Topics To Potential Participants, Kieran T. Sullivan, Carmen Anderson Oct 2002

Recruitment Of Engaged Couples For Premarital Counseling: An Empirical Examination Of The Importance Of Program Characteristics And Topics To Potential Participants, Kieran T. Sullivan, Carmen Anderson

Psychology

The recent emphasis on prevention in helping couples to avoid marital distress may be limited by lack of participation in prevention programs by engaged couples. The purpose of this study is to understand what potential participants perceive are attractive characteristics in premarital prevention approaches. Eighty-six engaged couples completed questionnaires assessing demographics, personality and the relative importance of premarital program characteristics. The results indicate that leader characteristics, content, and topics such as communication, finances, and problem-solving are the most important elements of premarital counseling to couples. Differences based on gender and risk level are reported. Suggestions are made for more effective …

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Runaway/Thrownaway Children: National Estimates And Characteristics., Heather Hammer, David Finkelhor, Andrea J. Sedlack Oct 2002

Runaway/Thrownaway Children: National Estimates And Characteristics., Heather Hammer, David Finkelhor, Andrea J. Sedlack

Crimes Against Children Research Center

Presents national estimates of children who ran away from or were thrown out of their homes, based on surveys of households and juvenile facilities. The Bulletin, which is part of a series summarizing findings from the Second National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART–2), also analyzes characteristics of runaway/thrownaway children and episodes. Of the estimated 1,682,900 youth with a runaway/thrownaway episode during the study period, 37 percent were missing from their caretakers, and 21 percent were reported to authorities for help in locating them. Two-thirds of youth with a runaway/thrownaway episode were ages 15–17, and 71 …

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Study Of Transport Properties Of Inas Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Satyanadh Gundimada Oct 2002

Study Of Transport Properties Of Inas Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Satyanadh Gundimada

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

The present research is aimed at ascertaining the usefulness of InAs semiconductor material for single photon avalanche photo detectors operating in the Geiger mode at 2 μm wavelengths. InAs is considered as the material suitable for the purpose because of its less bandgap and lower effective mass of the electrons when compared to other semiconductor materials presently in use. Hence, theoretically transient transport properties of bulk InAs are superior and the velocity overshoot phenomena stronger. InAs is a relatively less explored material when compared to other materials like GaAs. The choice of the material is justified with thorough exploration of …

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Yet Another Algorithm For Pitch Tracking (Yaapt), Kavita Kasi Oct 2002

Yet Another Algorithm For Pitch Tracking (Yaapt), Kavita Kasi

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This thesis presents a pitch detection algorithm that is extremely robust for both high quality and telephone speech. The kernel method for this algorithm is the Normalized Cross Correlation (NCCF) reported by David Talkin [16]. Major innovations include: processing of the original acoustic signal and a nonlinearly processed version of the signal to partially restore very weak F0 components; intelligent peak picking to select multiple F0 candidates and assign merit factors; and, incorporation of highly robust pitch contours obtained from smoothed versions of low frequency portions of spectrograms. Dynamic programming is used to find the ''best" pitch track among all …

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Phase-Sensitive Detection Electronics For Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy Experiments, Tyrone Pate Oct 2002

Phase-Sensitive Detection Electronics For Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy Experiments, Tyrone Pate

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) is a non-intrusive detection technique, which enables the measurement of several parameters such as pressure, concentration, and temperature of a species of interest by analyzing the latter's absorption lineshape profile. The method employs a synchronous modulation and detection apparatus to increase the signal to noise ratio and hence the sensitivity of the measurement. Phase-sensitive detection and demodulation of the signal is performed at the modulation frequency and its harmonics. Research at ODU demonstrates that each particular measurement can be performed optimally at an appropriate harmonic of the modulation frequency. The most suitable harmonic depends on many …

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The Effects Of Communication Modality On Teamwork Processes, Thomas D. Fletcher Oct 2002

The Effects Of Communication Modality On Teamwork Processes, Thomas D. Fletcher

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Since the onset of the digital age, organizations have been able to make use of teams of individuals distributed geographically to remain competitive. While strides have been made to understand the effectiveness of collocated teams, research has yet to sufficiently explore the effects of emerging technologies on team processes and effectiveness. A laboratory study, where dyads were asked to create a spreadsheet by following a set of explicit instructions (i.e., a psychomotor task), was conducted to manipulate the communication modalities most commonly used between collaborators (i.e., face-to-face vs. audio) and compare the effects of adding a shared workspace application. The …

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The Effect Of A Predator Gradient On Female Oviposition Site Selection And Larval Performance, Josef F. Rieger Oct 2002

The Effect Of A Predator Gradient On Female Oviposition Site Selection And Larval Performance, Josef F. Rieger

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Patterns of larval amphibian distribution and abundance have historically been ascribed to direct predation. However, adult oviposition site selection is an alternative mechanism that can produce identical patterns and significantly influence community assembly. Although such behavioral habitat selection has been documented in several amphibian species whose larvae lack particular anti-predator defenses, the sensitivity of adult amphibians in detecting predator cues and avoiding these habitats has not yet been determined. If larval survivorship is greatly reduced in sites containing predatory fish, selection to detect and avoid habitats with low fish densities should be strong. I conducted three experiments which, (1) evaluated …

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A Russian Legal Revolution: The 2002 Criminal Procedure Code - Part Two, Leonard Orland Oct 2002

A Russian Legal Revolution: The 2002 Criminal Procedure Code - Part Two, Leonard Orland

Connecticut Journal of International Law

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Copyright Restoration Under § 104a: Rethinking Copyright Law's First Amendment Immunity, John Presper Oct 2002

Copyright Restoration Under § 104a: Rethinking Copyright Law's First Amendment Immunity, John Presper

Connecticut Journal of International Law

A copyright is a property right that exists in an original work of authorship as soon as that work is fixed in a tangible medium of expression.' In addition to arising under American law, this property right is recognized in more than one hundred countries that are signatories of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works ("Berne Convention" or "Berne"),2 the leading forum for international copyright protection.' As world markets have become globalized in recent years, the importance of copyright protection across international borders has increased greatly.4 Major exporters of copyrighted works, such as the United …

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Ireland's Secular Revolution: The Waning Influence Of The Catholic Church And The Future Of Ireland's Blasphemy Law, Kathryn A. O'Brien Oct 2002

Ireland's Secular Revolution: The Waning Influence Of The Catholic Church And The Future Of Ireland's Blasphemy Law, Kathryn A. O'Brien

Connecticut Journal of International Law

This comment explores the prior and existing influence of the Catholic Church over the interpretation of the Irish Constitution. Section II examines the Irish Constitution's religious provisions and looks at methods of judicial constitutional interpretation. Section III delves into the major secular trends that have effected constitutional changes in Ireland over the last few decades, focusing on the decriminalization of homosexuality, the lift of the ban on divorce, and the relaxation of Ireland's abortion prohibition. The comment concludes in Section IV with an overview of the Irish Constitution's blasphemy provision, including its roots in English law, and analyzes the possibility …

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The Globalization Of Corporate Governance: Shareholder Protection, Hostile Takeovers And The Evolving Corporate Environment In France, Perry E. Wallace Oct 2002

The Globalization Of Corporate Governance: Shareholder Protection, Hostile Takeovers And The Evolving Corporate Environment In France, Perry E. Wallace

Connecticut Journal of International Law

After years of relative isolation as a primarily U.S. and British phenomenon, shareholder activism has finally shown signs of going global. Particularly in European companies, shareholders are beginning to reject their traditionally passive roles and are engaging corporate managements about such issues as "lack of corporate transparency, low dividend payouts, voting-rights restrictions and the absence of stock incentives for management."' Further, while no small amount of the activist initiative comes from U.S. institutional investors, "European institutional investors are themselves taking a second look at the governance of their corporate investments, often joining forces with local shareholder groups and assorted corporate …

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A Copernican View Of Health Care Antitrust, William M. Sage, Peter J. Hammer Oct 2002

A Copernican View Of Health Care Antitrust, William M. Sage, Peter J. Hammer

Law and Contemporary Problems

Sage and Hammer use the analogy of Copernican astronomy to suggest that understanding the dramatic change wrought by managed care requires a conceptual reorientation regarding the meaning of competition in health care and its appropriate legal and regulatory oversight. Both share the belief that misperceiving the world limits potential for technical and social progress.

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Growing U.S. Security Interests In Central Asia, Elizabeth Wishnick Dr. Oct 2002

Growing U.S. Security Interests In Central Asia, Elizabeth Wishnick Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author assesses U.S. security interests and military activities in Central Asia. She notes that strengthening the Central Asian states against terrorism and assisting their transition to stable and prosperous nations are difficult and fraught with danger. In particular, there is the risk that the U.S. military presence in the region and security assistance to repressive regimes might taint America. If not astutely managed, this strategy could have the opposite of the intended results and generate increased instability, spark anti-Americanism, and antagonize Russia and China. To avoid this, Dr. Wishnick advocates a multilateral strategy that integrates the military, political, and …

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Dragon On Terrorism: Assessing China's Tactical Gains And Strategic Losses Post-September 11, Mohan Malik Dr. Oct 2002

Dragon On Terrorism: Assessing China's Tactical Gains And Strategic Losses Post-September 11, Mohan Malik Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The U.S. relationship with China and the global war on terrorism are the two most significant strategic challenges faced by the Bush administration. Both are vital and complex; the way the administration manages them will shape American security for many years. While there is a growing literature on both key strategic issues, little analysis has been done on the intersection of the two. This monograph fills the gap as the author assesses how the war on terrorism has affected China. He concludes that the war on terrorism radically altered the Asian strategic environment in ways that negated China's foreign policy …

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Physica Junior!: The Newsletter Of Utep’S Department Of Physics, Utep Department Of Physics Oct 2002

Physica Junior!: The Newsletter Of Utep’S Department Of Physics, Utep Department Of Physics

The Department of Physics

Electronic newsletter for high school students interested in physics, Fall 2002.

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Evaluation Of Buffalograss Germplasm For Resistance To Blissus Occiduus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), Tiffany Heng-Moss, Frederick P. Baxendale, Terrance P. Riordan, John E. Foster Oct 2002

Evaluation Of Buffalograss Germplasm For Resistance To Blissus Occiduus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), Tiffany Heng-Moss, Frederick P. Baxendale, Terrance P. Riordan, John E. Foster

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Blissus occiduus Barber has emerged as an important insect pest of buffalograss, Buchloe dactyloides (Nuttall) Engelmann, in Nebraska. This research evaluated selected buffalograss germplasm for resistance to B. occiduus. Eleven buffalograss selections were screened for chinch bug resistance in three greenhouse studies and two field evaluations. Based on chinch bug damage, NE91-118, ‘Tatanka’, ‘Bonnie Brae’, and ‘Cody’ were rated highly to moderately resistant. These four buffalograsses exhibited minimal damage, even though all were heavily infested with chinch bugs. NE84-45-3 and ‘378’ were highly susceptible to B. occiduus. Field evaluations confirmed chinch bug resistance ratings under field conditions. NE91-118 …

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Sternalis. An Anatomic Variant Of Chest Wall Musculature, Muhammad Saeed, Khalid R. Murshid, Amin A. Rufai, Salah E. Elsayed, Muhammad S. Sadiq Oct 2002

Sternalis. An Anatomic Variant Of Chest Wall Musculature, Muhammad Saeed, Khalid R. Murshid, Amin A. Rufai, Salah E. Elsayed, Muhammad S. Sadiq

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of sternalis muscle in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and resolve the question of its genesis by studying the innervation of this uncommon variant of anterior chest wall musculature. METHODS: A morphological study of 75 adult cadavers of both sexes was carried out over a 5-year period by macroscopic dissection. We also retrospectively studied the medical records of 1580 adult females who had undergone screening and diagnostic mammographic imaging at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, KSA, from 1997 to 2001. RESULTS: Out of 75 cadavers studied, 3 cases of sternalis muscle were observed. Two …

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Clinical Pattern Of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus In Western Saudi Arabia, Faiza A. Qari Oct 2002

Clinical Pattern Of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus In Western Saudi Arabia, Faiza A. Qari

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to demonstrate the clinical laboratory, treatment and course of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS: A total of 65 patients with positive double strand antibodies were collected at the Immunology Laboratory of King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over a 2 year period between January 2000 and December 2001. The data included personal data, clinical manifestations, laboratory, results, and different modalities of treatment and outcome of treatment. Group results were presented as median +/- standard deviation or as a percentage. RESULTS: Sixty-five patients with SLE were included in the study. The …

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Training Radial Basis Neural Networks With The Extended Kalman Filter, Daniel J. Simon Oct 2002

Training Radial Basis Neural Networks With The Extended Kalman Filter, Daniel J. Simon

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks provide attractive possibilities for solving signal processing and pattern classification problems. Several algorithms have been proposed for choosing the RBF prototypes and training the network. The selection of the RBF prototypes and the network weights can be viewed as a system identification problem. As such, this paper proposes the use of the extended Kalman filter for the learning procedure. After the user chooses how many prototypes to include in the network, the Kalman filter simultaneously solves for the prototype vectors and the weight matrix. A decoupled extended Kalman filter is then proposed in order …

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What Is A Search? Two Conceptual Flaws In Fourth Amendment Doctine And Some Hints Of A Remedy, Sherry F. Colb Oct 2002

What Is A Search? Two Conceptual Flaws In Fourth Amendment Doctine And Some Hints Of A Remedy, Sherry F. Colb

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Electrically Mediated Delivery Of Vector Plasmid Dna Elicits An Antitumor Effect, L. Heller, D. Coppola Oct 2002

Electrically Mediated Delivery Of Vector Plasmid Dna Elicits An Antitumor Effect, L. Heller, D. Coppola

Bioelectrics Publications

In vivo electroporation is an efficient means of increasing plasmid DNA delivery to normal tissues, such as skin and muscle, as well as directly to tumors. In the experiments described here, plasmid DNA was delivered by in vivo electroporation to B16 mouse melanomas using two very different pulsing protocols. Reporter expression increased 21- or 42-fold, respectively with electroporation over injection alone. The growth of experimental melanomas with an approximate diameter of 4 mm on the day of treatment was monitored after electroporation delivery of reporter plasmid DNA. Remarkably, short-term complete regressions using one of these pulsing protocols occurred in up …

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Nova Quarterly: The University Of Texas At El Paso, The University Of Texas At El Paso University Communications Oct 2002

Nova Quarterly: The University Of Texas At El Paso, The University Of Texas At El Paso University Communications

NOVA

Fall 2002, Vol. 39, No. 1; No. 151

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Jews And Mormons: Two Houses Of Israel Frank J. Johnson And Rabbi William J. Leffler, David E. Bokovoy Oct 2002

Jews And Mormons: Two Houses Of Israel Frank J. Johnson And Rabbi William J. Leffler, David E. Bokovoy

BYU Studies

Frank J. Johnson and Rabbi William J. Leffler. Jews and Mormons: Two Houses of Israel. Hoboken, New York: Ktav Publishing, 2000.

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Judicial Review Of Administrative Policymaking, Charles H. Koch Jr. Oct 2002

Judicial Review Of Administrative Policymaking, Charles H. Koch Jr.

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Editor's Note, Joseph Drew Oct 2002

Editor's Note, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

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Salt Creek, Richard J. Hawkins Oct 2002

Salt Creek, Richard J. Hawkins

Inscape

No abstract provided.

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10-01-02 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 20, Issue 5) Oct 2002

10-01-02 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 20, Issue 5)

2002 -- 2003

No abstract provided.

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Federal Judicial Selection As War, Part Three: The Role Of Ideology, Michael J. Gerhardt Oct 2002

Federal Judicial Selection As War, Part Three: The Role Of Ideology, Michael J. Gerhardt

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Market Failure And Intellectual Property: A Response To Professor Lunney, Wendy J. Gordon Oct 2002

Market Failure And Intellectual Property: A Response To Professor Lunney, Wendy J. Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

Professor Lunney's piece in this volume is interesting enough that I forgive him for misportraying my own work. In this short reply I will clarify my position, and then examine both the place of my market failure argument and the place of some of Professor Lunney's arguments within the future of Intellectual Property scholarship as a whole.

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The Effects Of An Induced Negative Mood State On Ground- Based Learning In Student Pilots, Angela Sophia Wendell Oct 2002

The Effects Of An Induced Negative Mood State On Ground- Based Learning In Student Pilots, Angela Sophia Wendell

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The United States Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Instructors Handbook (D.O.T.) (1999) emphasizes that aviation students must maintain a healthy and positive state of mind in order to succeed at learning. Factors such as worry, lack of interest, physical discomfort, and anxiety are all listed as obstacles to a student's ability to learn successfully during flight instruction. In addition, numerous studies support the idea that a negative mood state will have a detrimental effect on learning. This study attempts to investigate the effects of an induced negative mood state on ground- based learning in student pilots.

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