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The Economic Value Of Companion Animals: A Legal And Anthropological Argument For Special Valuation, Geordie Duckler Jan 2002

The Economic Value Of Companion Animals: A Legal And Anthropological Argument For Special Valuation, Geordie Duckler

Animal Law Review

Mr. Duckler delves into valuation issues that arise in the context of recovery of non-economic damages for death and injury to companion animals. He argues that the special nature of companion animals in society necessitates an assigned monetary worth to such animals that is distinct from and exceeds mere market value. As support for this contention, Mr. Duckler provides relevant legal, sociological, and anthropological analyses.

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Piagetian Developmental Reasoning Levels Of High School Students In Differentiated First Year Chemistry Courses, Pamela Kay Brewer-Michael Jan 2002

Piagetian Developmental Reasoning Levels Of High School Students In Differentiated First Year Chemistry Courses, Pamela Kay Brewer-Michael

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This research studied the developmental reasoning levels of students in three different first year high school chemistry courses as related to achievement defined by cumulative grade point average and course selection. The Lawson Test of Formal Operations modified by Roy Unruh and Bruce Perry at the University of Northern Iowa was used to determine cognitive developmental level of subjects. A consumer type chemistry course, a traditional high school chemistry course, and an honors course under consideration with Marshalltown Community College for credit status were the three courses utilized in this study. Data was collected in a classroom group setting over …

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Improving Student Achievement And Attitude In Middle Grade Social Studies Classes Through Learning Style Instruction And Design, Jennifer D. Vincent Jan 2002

Improving Student Achievement And Attitude In Middle Grade Social Studies Classes Through Learning Style Instruction And Design, Jennifer D. Vincent

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation was designed to improve student achievement and attitude in a middle school social studies class. Students were not performing well on tests and exams after experiencing traditional visual and auditory instructional methods. The Jack of diversity and creativity in delivery of instruction resulted in limited academic achievement and poor attitude towards social studies learning. Furthermore, long-term memory was also negatively affected because the traditional teaching approaches did not emphasize higher level thinking that promotes greater retention. The study integrates theoretical research concerning how students learn to the development of a strong historical rationale for implementing learning styles …

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Identifying And Comparing Misconceptions Held By American And Russian University Students In Mechanics, Alexandra Sokolova Jan 2002

Identifying And Comparing Misconceptions Held By American And Russian University Students In Mechanics, Alexandra Sokolova

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This paper reports on a study of misconceptions held by undergraduate students completing an introductory physics course at the University of Northern Iowa and first-year undergraduate students taking a mechanics course at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. Existence of misconceptions in mechanics among Russian and American students was investigated prior to instruction and at the completion of the one-semester course. Different teaching approaches were used to introduce the students to mechanics. An activity-based approach was emphasized at UNI and a traditional lecture-lab approach was used at Herzen University. The emphasis of the study was placed on identifying misconceptions …

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Thermogravimetric Studies Of Pmma On Silica, Bing Zhang, Frank D. Blum Jan 2002

Thermogravimetric Studies Of Pmma On Silica, Bing Zhang, Frank D. Blum

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The thermal degradation of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) has been studied extensively. It is well accepted that the degradation process is a radical chain reaction involving initiation, depropagation, transfer, and termination reactions. In the degradation process, the factors having observable effects on the decomposition behavior include molecular mass, polydispersity, tacticity, and sample dimensions. The effects of tacticity on the degradation behavior of PMMA were investigated by Kashiwagi et al., Jellinek et al. And Chiamtore et al. The results indicated that both isotactic and syndiotactic PMMA have similar decomposition pathways and activation energies. Isotactic PMMA will decompose at a slightly lower temperature …

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Effect Of Polymer-Surface Mobility On Adhesion In Poly(Methyl Methacrylate)-Tape System, Bhavesh C. Gandhi, Frank D. Blum, Lokeswarappa R. Dharani Jan 2002

Effect Of Polymer-Surface Mobility On Adhesion In Poly(Methyl Methacrylate)-Tape System, Bhavesh C. Gandhi, Frank D. Blum, Lokeswarappa R. Dharani

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The interaction between two polymer layers, especially adhesion between them, plays an important role in polymer processing and other applications. Detailed knowledge of the molecular structure and dynamics of polymer interfaces, and how they relate to macroscopic mechanical properties, should help designers construct more functional systems. Unfortunately, there have been few studies where both molecular and macroscopic studies have been performed on similar systems. In previous studies from our group, we have probed the dynamics of poly(methyl acrylate) (PMA) and thermal behavior of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) on silica. These studies helped us paint a picture for strongly bound molecules on …

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Bus Ticket Reservation System, Chin Kuang Tan Jan 2002

Bus Ticket Reservation System, Chin Kuang Tan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Electronic Commerce is one of the most important aspects of the Internet to emerge. It allows people to exchange goods and services immediately and with no barriers of time or distance. Any time of the day or night, people can go on line and buy almost anything they want. Puduraya Bus Ticket Agent (PBTA) System is an application based on the e-commerce technology. Its makes use of client/server architecture to provide people with on line access to bus companies' databases. The main purpose of PBTA is to offer more convenient way for people to get the ticket of bus companies …

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Medical Inference System On Arthritis Using Fuzzy Relational Theory, Chee Kau Lim Jan 2002

Medical Inference System On Arthritis Using Fuzzy Relational Theory, Chee Kau Lim

Student Works (2000-2009)

Fuzzy relational theory is a branch in the study of fuzzy sets theory. According to this theory, mapping among two sets can be carried out in four ways, which arc represented by circle product, sub-triangular product, super-triangular product and square product. Each of these products can be abstracted into inference structures. which is useful in designing the inference engine of an expert system. Based on the revised version [DeBaets and Kerre 1993. Hallam and Yew l998a] of fuzzy relational theory. a series of 18 inference structures, namely sub-K inference structures (denoted as Kt to Kl8) are constructed. Based on these …

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Faculty Senate Minutes 2001 - 2002, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Faculty Senate Jan 2002

Faculty Senate Minutes 2001 - 2002, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Faculty Senate

Minutes & Agendas

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Online Room Reservation And Scheduling System For A Hospital (Orrash), Heng Siong Lee Jan 2002

Online Room Reservation And Scheduling System For A Hospital (Orrash), Heng Siong Lee

Student Works (2000-2009)

Online Room Reservation and Scheduling System For A Hospital (ORRASH) is a system that help the medical staff (nurse, physician) in a hospital to book a room ( a bed of a ward, an operation room) and administrate room scheduling in an easy way by eliminate the conventional manual way. This system also provides the online patient information for the patient and medical staff to view the patient records using network. Before develop this system, an interview was made with the authority of a hospital to know the process of booking a room in the hospital and a research was …

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Creative Wizard On Web, A. Wahab Wahiza Jan 2002

Creative Wizard On Web, A. Wahab Wahiza

Student Works (2000-2009)

Creative Wizard on Web is web site that offer printable and also send via e-mail birthday card. The main idea of this project is to let user make the card themselves, which user is given a blank worksheet and it’s up their creative and imaginative mind to create a birthday card using any images and sentiments provided. The options, either they can start creating the card from scratch or can just select any template they desired. There are few advantages that are crucial to ensure the success of this kind of web site. Most importantly, user can reduce the cost …

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Interactive Multimedia Learning Arithmetic And Iq, Kesavan Raja Gopal Jan 2002

Interactive Multimedia Learning Arithmetic And Iq, Kesavan Raja Gopal

Student Works (2000-2009)

One of the most rapidly changing and exiting areas of education today is the development of computer based learning materials, especially interactive multimedia program that run on personal computer. These new technologies offer children, student and other people access to materials as never before Through the condensed storage capabilities of computer, multimedia can deliver large amount of information in the ways that make it manageable, approachable and useful. And by making it possible to access illustration and photographs, sound and video, as well as large amount of text, interactive multimedia program present learning arithmetic and IQ test to children in …

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Restaurant Ordering And Reservation System, Huey Ling Soo Jan 2002

Restaurant Ordering And Reservation System, Huey Ling Soo

Student Works (2000-2009)

In order to compete the more demanding business would, the project, Restaurant Ordering and Reservation System is aimed to provide a cost-effective solution for both the restaurant customer and the restaurant/wait staff at a time to provide customer a quality service in a friendly and timely manner. The author had chosen the waterfall model as the development approach. During the development cycle, few techniques to gather information will be applied, namely documentary research, internet surfing, questionnaire and interview. The Restaurant Ordering and Reservation System will be developed using Windows 2000 server, Palm OS 4.0, Parity Software, Appforge and utilizing Micrisoft …

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Interactive Biology Learning System (Ibls), Ganapathy Pillay Vija Kumar Jan 2002

Interactive Biology Learning System (Ibls), Ganapathy Pillay Vija Kumar

Student Works (2000-2009)

Interactive Biology Learning System (IBLS) is a web-based learning-teaching system for upper secondary school level specifically to students who are taking the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Secondary school students and teachers are the target of this system. It can be a teaching tool or as a self-learning program. The strenght if IBLS is that it provides lessons to educate users on the meaning of biology specifying on the topics namely Life Processes, Green Plants, Human as an Organism, Varition, Inheritance and Evolution. There are tutorials that test the student’s and worksheets that canbe downloaded for further practice. Games …

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Sistem Pakar Pergigian, Ibrahim Muhammad Nazim Jan 2002

Sistem Pakar Pergigian, Ibrahim Muhammad Nazim

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem pakar pergigian adalah suatu program berkomputer yang direkabentuk untuk memodelkan kebolehan untuk membantu dalam menjaga gigi dengan betul selain dari memberi maklumat tentang gigi dari segi rawatan, penyakit serta keadaan gigi. Ia berkebolehan memberi ulasan, cadangan dan penerangan. Komponen utama sistem pakar ini ialah pangkalan pengetahuan (knowledge base (KB)) dan enjin tadbir (inference engine). Pangkalan pengetahuan (KB) ialah komponen yang mengandungi segala bentuk pengetahuan yang khusus diperolehi dari pakar pergigian. Enjin tadbir (IE) pula bertindak sebagai pemproses pengetahuan yang bekerja dengan maklumat yang disediakan pada masalah yang diberikan bersama-sama dengan pengetahuan yang disimpan di dalam pangkalan pengetahuan tadi. Sistem …

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Glass Transition Behavior Of Thin Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Films On Silica, Moses T. Kabomo Jan 2002

Glass Transition Behavior Of Thin Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Films On Silica, Moses T. Kabomo

Masters Theses

"Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry (MDSC) was used to study the glass transition behavior of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) adsorbed onto silica substrates from toluene. Untreated fumed amorphous silica and silica treated with hexamethyldisilazane were used for the adsorption to probe the effect of polymer- substrate interactions. To test the effect of molecular weight on the Tg of adsorbed polymers, low polydispersity PMMA samples of varying molecular weights were used. The results revealed a broadening of the glass transition towards high temperatures. The observed increase in the glass transition breadth varied with adsorbed amount and the type of silica used for …

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Stratigraphy And Diagenesis Of The Paleoproterozoic Bushy Park Zinc-Lead Deposit, South Africa, William Daniel Baugaard Jan 2002

Stratigraphy And Diagenesis Of The Paleoproterozoic Bushy Park Zinc-Lead Deposit, South Africa, William Daniel Baugaard

Masters Theses

“The Bushy Park zinc-lead deposit is located in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The sulfides are hosted by karst-related breccias that were formed in carbonate shelf deposits of the Neoarchean (2.55 Ga) Campbellrand Subgroup. These rocks are dolomitized completely and silicified partially but have not undergone major metamorphism and thus display remarkable preservation of depositional fabrics. The stratigraphic interval includes the Papkuil and Klippan Formations (> 210 m), a sequence of cyclic microbial laminates interbedded with domed and columnar stromatolites. The Klippan is distinguished from other formations b intense silicification and brecciation. These strata are overlain by the Kogelbeen …

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