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Evaluation Of Radionuclide Induced Damage In Marine Invertebrates, Josephine Anne Hagger Jan 2002

Evaluation Of Radionuclide Induced Damage In Marine Invertebrates, Josephine Anne Hagger

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Limited studies have been carried out to assess the potential effects of ionising radiation on marine organisms. Therefore the general aims of this thesis were, (a) to assess the cytotoxic, genotoxic and developmental effects of ionising radiation on the embryo-larvae of two ecologically relevant marine invertebrates Mytilus edulis and Platynereis dumerilii, (2) to assess the effects of an environmentally relevant cocktail of radionuclides (3) to monitor the potential impact of radiation in the natural environment and finally (4) attempt to predict the potential effects of radiation at a population level. Following validation of developmental stages and mammalian based cytotoxic and …

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Factors Affecting The Production Of E1 Type Particleboard, Gökay Nemli̇ Jan 2002

Factors Affecting The Production Of E1 Type Particleboard, Gökay Nemli̇

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

This study aimed to determine the best manufacturing variables for the high physical and mechanical properties, and formaldehyde emission of particleboards produced from E_1 type adhesive. In the production of particleboards, two different press temperatures, press times, pressures and three different adhesive use ratios were used. The best manufacturing variables were determined for the particleboard produced from E_1 type adhesive. The effects of these manufacturing variables on formaldehyde emission, bending strength, internal bonding strength and thickness swelling were investigated. According to the results, when the E_1 type adhesive was employed, the use of 11% and 9% adhesive use ratios for …

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Cover And Contents Jan 2002

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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An Evaluation Of Physically Based And Empirically Determined Evapotranspiration Models For Nursery Plants, Hali̇l Kirnak, R. C. Hansen, H. M. Keener, Ted Henry Short Jan 2002

An Evaluation Of Physically Based And Empirically Determined Evapotranspiration Models For Nursery Plants, Hali̇l Kirnak, R. C. Hansen, H. M. Keener, Ted Henry Short

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

A lysimeter study was conducted to determine the evapotranspiration (ET) rates of Red Sunset red maple (Acer Rubrum 'Red Sunset') nursery trees under outdoor conditions in August and September 1997. The average ET rate was 0.084 mm day^{-1}. This measured ET rate was compared with calculated ET rates based on four physical ET (i.e., Penman, Penman-Monteith, Stanghellini and Fynn) and two empirically determined ET models (vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and solar radiation based empirical ET models). The Penman-Monteith and Penman models overestimated the measured ET rate by 15% and 31%, respectively while the Stanghellini and Fynn models underestimated the measured …

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Cover And Contents Jan 2002

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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The Phenotypic Correlations Among Some Physical Characteristics Of Coarse And Down Fibers Obtained From Hair Goat Raising In Turkey, Gürsel Dellal Jan 2002

The Phenotypic Correlations Among Some Physical Characteristics Of Coarse And Down Fibers Obtained From Hair Goat Raising In Turkey, Gürsel Dellal

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

In this research, phenotypic correlations among the physical characteristics of coarse, down and coarse-down fibers obtained from hair goats. Although generally significant (p

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The Relationships Between Colourfullness And Physical Properties Of Down And Coarse Fibres Obtained From Goats Raised In Turkey, Feryal Söylemezoğlu, Zeynep Erdoğan, Gürsel Dellal, Ali̇ Murat Tatar Jan 2002

The Relationships Between Colourfullness And Physical Properties Of Down And Coarse Fibres Obtained From Goats Raised In Turkey, Feryal Söylemezoğlu, Zeynep Erdoğan, Gürsel Dellal, Ali̇ Murat Tatar

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

In this research, the colourfullness and the relationships between colourfullness and physical characteristics in the coarse and down fibres obtained from hair goats raised in the provinces of Antalya, Artvin, Diyarbakır, İzmir, Kars and Konya in Turkey were studied. It was found that the most common colours were black (69%), white (9%) and milky brown (37%), and brown (15%) and white (14%), respectively in the coarse and down fibres for the provinces overall. The difference in fineness between the white and cream colour groups was significant (p

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Pharmacogenetic Interventions, Orphan Groups, And Distributive Justice: The Role Of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Arti K. Rai Jan 2002

Pharmacogenetic Interventions, Orphan Groups, And Distributive Justice: The Role Of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Arti K. Rai

Faculty Scholarship

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Designing Global Climate Regulation, Jonathan B. Wiener Jan 2002

Designing Global Climate Regulation, Jonathan B. Wiener

Faculty Scholarship

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Vertex-Unfoldings Of Simplicial Manifolds, Erik D. Demaine, David Eppstein, Jeff Erickson, George W. Hart, Joseph O'Rourke Jan 2002

Vertex-Unfoldings Of Simplicial Manifolds, Erik D. Demaine, David Eppstein, Jeff Erickson, George W. Hart, Joseph O'Rourke

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

We present an algorithm to unfold any triangulated 2-manifold (in particular, any simplicial polyhedron) into a non-overlapping, connected planar layout in linear time. The manifold is cut only along its edges. The resulting layout is connected, but it may have a disconnected interior; the triangles are connected at vertices, but not necessarily joined along edges. We extend our algorithm to establish a similar result for simplicial manifolds of arbitrary dimension.

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U.S. Custody Law And Trends In The Context Of The Ali Principles Of The Law Of Family Dissolution, Katharine T. Bartlett Jan 2002

U.S. Custody Law And Trends In The Context Of The Ali Principles Of The Law Of Family Dissolution, Katharine T. Bartlett

Faculty Scholarship

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Meeting The Challenge Of Cyberterrorism: Defining The Military Role In A Democracy, Charles J. Dunlap Jr. Jan 2002

Meeting The Challenge Of Cyberterrorism: Defining The Military Role In A Democracy, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure & The Disappearance Of The Public Domain, James Boyle Jan 2002

Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure & The Disappearance Of The Public Domain, James Boyle

Faculty Scholarship

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Women In Medieval Iberia: A Selected Bibliography, Rafael M. Mérida-Jiménez Jan 2002

Women In Medieval Iberia: A Selected Bibliography, Rafael M. Mérida-Jiménez

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Calculation Of The Stability Index In Parameter-Dependent Calculus Of Variations Problems: Buckling Of A Twisted Elastic Strut, Kathleen A. Hoffman, Robert S. Manning, Randy C. Paffenroth Jan 2002

Calculation Of The Stability Index In Parameter-Dependent Calculus Of Variations Problems: Buckling Of A Twisted Elastic Strut, Kathleen A. Hoffman, Robert S. Manning, Randy C. Paffenroth

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Scholarship

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An Evaluation Of Germ City : Finding A Suitable Design, Suzanne Cherie Lusher Jan 2002

An Evaluation Of Germ City : Finding A Suitable Design, Suzanne Cherie Lusher

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Evaluations are used to determine a program’s merit. “Germ City” utilizes experiential learning of adequate hand washing skills. An elementary school in southwestern West Virginia served to determine if the evaluation design for “Germ City” would prove to be an effective assessment for the hand-washing program. Four hundred and eighty-four participants completed an eight-question pre/post test; one hundred and forty-nine students underwent a hand quadrant evaluation. In addition, a soap and paper towel usage log was recorded. Fifty-four percent of the participants were male, forty-six percent female (n=483) with a mean grade level of 3.6 (n=484). Post test results indicated …

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Speech Perception And Lexical Effects In Specific Language Impairment: The Effects Of Vowel Duration And Word Knowledge On Perception Of Final Alveolar Stop Voicing, Frances L.V. Scheffler Jan 2002

Speech Perception And Lexical Effects In Specific Language Impairment: The Effects Of Vowel Duration And Word Knowledge On Perception Of Final Alveolar Stop Voicing, Frances L.V. Scheffler

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The perception of temporal speech cues, lexical knowledge, and their interactions were examined in children (6;0-9;6) with specific language impairment (SLI). An identification task was used to test four 12-step speech continua: word-word (FEET—FEED), nonword-nonword (ZEST—ZEED), word-nonword (CHEAT—CHEED) and nonword-word (REAT—READ). The stimuli were naturally recorded and digitally edited. The vowel steady state, which varied in duration from 110 to 350 milliseconds in 20-millisecond steps, was the acoustic cue to the voicing characteristic of the final consonant in each stimulus. The analyses revealed that both the TLD and SLI groups used vowel duration as a perceptual cue. For the word-word …

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Topological Sweep In Degenerate Cases, Eynat Rafalin, Diane Souvaine, Ileana Streinu Jan 2002

Topological Sweep In Degenerate Cases, Eynat Rafalin, Diane Souvaine, Ileana Streinu

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Topological sweep can contribute to efficient implementations of various algorithms for data analysis. Real data, however, has degeneracies. The modification of the topological sweep algorithm presented here handles degenerate cases such as parallel or multiply concurrent lines without requiring numerical perturbations to achieve general position. Our method maintains the 0(n2) and 0(n) time and space complexities of the original algorithm, and is robust and easy to implement. We present experimental results.

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Privacy Wrongs In Search Of Remedies, Joel R. Reidenberg Jan 2002

Privacy Wrongs In Search Of Remedies, Joel R. Reidenberg

Faculty Scholarship

The American legal system has generally rejected legal rights for data privacy and relies instead on market self-regulation and the litigation process to establish norms of appropriate behavior in society. Information privacy is protected only through an amalgam of narrowly targeted rules. The aggregation of these specific rights leaves many significant gaps and fewer clear remedies for violations of fair information practices. With an absence of well-established legal rights, privacy wrongs are currently in search of remedies. This Article first describes privacy rights and wrongs that frame the search for remedies in the United States. It explores public enforcement of, …

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Crime And Consciousness: Science And Involuntary Acts , Deborah W. Denno Jan 2002

Crime And Consciousness: Science And Involuntary Acts , Deborah W. Denno

Faculty Scholarship

This Article confronts this clash between legal and scientific perspectives on consciousness by proposing new ways to structure the voluntary act requirement so that it incorporates the insights of modern science on the human mind. Part I examines the criminal law's voluntary act requirement, particularly in the context of the MPC's influential provision, which reflects the law and psychology of the era in which the MPC was originally developed--the 1950s. Part II analyzes the new science of “consciousness,” a term that typically refers to the sum of a person's thoughts, feelings, and sensations, as well as the everyday circumstances and …

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When Legislatures Delegate Death: The Troubling Paradox Behind State Uses Of Electocution And Lethal Injection And What It Says About Us, Deborah W. Denno Jan 2002

When Legislatures Delegate Death: The Troubling Paradox Behind State Uses Of Electocution And Lethal Injection And What It Says About Us, Deborah W. Denno

Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses the paradoxical motivations and problems behind legislative changes from one method of execution to the next, and particularly moves from electrocution to lethal injection. This article first examines the constitutionality of electrocution, contending that a modern Eighth Amendment analysis of a range of factors, such as legislative trends toward lethal injection, indicates that electrocution is cruel and unusual. It then provides an Eighth Amendment review of lethal injection, demonstrating that injection also involves unnecessary pain, the risk of such pain, and a loss of dignity. The article next presents the author's study of the most current protocols …

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On Thanksgiving And Collective Memory: Constructing The American Tradition, Amy Adamczyk Jan 2002

On Thanksgiving And Collective Memory: Constructing The American Tradition, Amy Adamczyk

Publications and Research

Relying on the approach by Maurice Halbwachs who argued that collective memory is based on contemporary interests and concerns, this article shows how Thanksgiving has changed over time in accordance with the ideas of the day. Aspects of the analysis support Barry Schwartz’s theory that commemoration reflects the historical past. Similar to the pilgrims’ celebration, many people commemorate Thanksgiving by, for example, feasting and praying. But in contrast to Schwartz’s thought, this paper also shows that there are other elements of traditions that have minimal connection with the original event. Forms of commemoration like the Macy’s Day Parade challenge the …

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Dynamic Modelling Of A Two-Stage Atm Tandem Banyan Switch, Hon Loke Tham Jan 2002

Dynamic Modelling Of A Two-Stage Atm Tandem Banyan Switch, Hon Loke Tham

Student Works (2000-2009)

This dissertation studies the dynamic modelling of Two-State ATM Tandem Banyan Switch. First of all, ATM technology and ATM switch are introduced, then the ATM switch's architecture and its functions are discussed in detail. A Two-State ATM Tandem Banyan Switch has been selected as a model to be simulated. MATLAB's Simulink tool has been used to dynamically model the ATM switch. The ATM switch simulated is a simple two-stage Banyan Switch. It consists of 2 lnports x 2 Outports, with a switching algorithm included. The algorithm covers all cell flow patterns that are possible in a 2 lnports x 2 …

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Animal Law And Animal Rights On The Move In Sweden, Helena Striwing Jan 2002

Animal Law And Animal Rights On The Move In Sweden, Helena Striwing

Animal Law Review

Ms. Striwing, an attorney at law in Sweden, provides a glimpse into Swedish laws and practices affecting animals in that country. She discusses the development and characteristics of such laws and offers suggestions regarding implementation and enforcement that may also be utilized by other countries in their quests to afford animals greater legal protections.

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The World Trade Organisation Rules: A Legal Analysis Of Their Adverse Impact On Animal Welfare, Peter Stevenson Jan 2002

The World Trade Organisation Rules: A Legal Analysis Of Their Adverse Impact On Animal Welfare, Peter Stevenson

Animal Law Review

Mr. Stevenson analyzes the free trade rules of the World Trade Organisation and discusses their detrimental impact on certain measures designed to protect animals. Specifically, he discusses U.S. laws to safeguard dolphins and sea turtles, as well as proposed EU laws regarding leghold traps and cosmetic testing on animals. Mr. Stevenson provides an analysis of current WTO rule interpretation, identifies ways in which the rules should be reformed, and provides a less restrictive interpretation that would permit the existence of measures designed to improve animal welfare.

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Shoot First, Talk Later: Blowing Holes In Freedom Of Speech, Jacqueline Tresl Jan 2002

Shoot First, Talk Later: Blowing Holes In Freedom Of Speech, Jacqueline Tresl

Animal Law Review

Ms. Tresl examines the constitutionality of hunter harassment laws. When a five-step doctrinal analysis is applied to hunter harassment statutes, it is clear that the statutes are content-based and subject to the strictest of scrutiny. Because the statutes fail the strict scrutiny test, they therefore violate the American citizenry’s First Amendment right to free expression.

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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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Could A Chimpanzee Or Bonobo Take The Stand?, Angela Campbell Jan 2002

Could A Chimpanzee Or Bonobo Take The Stand?, Angela Campbell

Animal Law Review

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Environmental Justice In An Era Of Devolved Collaboration , Sheila R. Foster Jan 2002

Environmental Justice In An Era Of Devolved Collaboration , Sheila R. Foster

Faculty Scholarship

Environmental decision-making is undergoing a profound shift. Traditional forums and processes are being displaced by mechanisms emphasizing local, "place-based" decision-making. These emerging decision-making mechanisms are orchestrated through collaborative processes featuring stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. This transformation is evident in a number of recent governmental initiatives, including those by the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), most notably its Community-Based Environmental Protection ("CBEP") initiative. Other federal agencies, particularly those with land or species management responsibilities, have similarly advocated a greater role for local decision-makers and collaborative problem-solving. This Article examines the points of convergence and divergence between devolved collaboration …

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Job Segregation, Gender Blindness, And Employee Agency Symposium: Law, Labor, And Gender - New Perspectives On Labor And Gender, Tracy E. Higgins Jan 2002

Job Segregation, Gender Blindness, And Employee Agency Symposium: Law, Labor, And Gender - New Perspectives On Labor And Gender, Tracy E. Higgins

Faculty Scholarship

Almost forty years after the enactment of Title VII, women's struggle for equality in the workplace continues. Although Title VII was intended to "break[] down old patterns of segregation and hierarchy," the American workplace remains largely gender-segregated. Indeed, more than one-third of all women workers are employed in occupations in which the percentage of women exceeds 80%. Even in disciplines in which women have made gains, top status (and top paying) jobs remain male-dominated while the lower status jobs are filled by women. This pattern of gender segregation, in turn, accounts for a substantial part of the persistent wage gap …

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