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A Mississippi Moan, Julie Mccaughey

Theses

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Simulated Selves, Erika Gentry

Theses

In an increasingly virtual world, new identities that exist only in cyberspace are being created. Historically rooted, role-playing has been popular long before Shakespeare, and starting in the early 1990s, has moved into the computer. Now more than ever, it serves as a form of entertainment, escape and self-exploration to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. In interactive, text-based computer games that are designed to represent fantasy worlds, players become authors not only of text but of themselves, constructing new selves through social interaction. On a MUD (Multi User Domain) game, places and selves are completely constructed through text. Thus, …

Affixing Blame: Ideologies Of Hiv/Aids In Thailand, Tarik Abdel-Monem

San Diego International Law Journal

This Article focuses on ideologies of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand, one of many nations where the HIV/AIDS pandemic has reached alarming levels. Not unlike other nations struggling with HIV/AIDS, an epidemic of stigma and blame has developed in Thailand with increasing rates of infection among the population. Understandings of whom to blame for the epidemic, and how to realize appropriate solutions, have likewise developed as the epidemic continues to persist and spread. This Article examines these ideologies and how they are mediated through the lens of popular culture in contemporary Thailand. It attempts to examine the reasoning of such …

Utilizing Non-Fat Dried Milk In Sheep, C. Kim Chapman

All Current Publications

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How To Start Growing Beef Calves On Feed, Dale Zobell

All Current Publications

A well developed feeding program will reduce stress on newly weaned beef calves resulting in lower costs of gain. In consultation with a veterinarian and nutritionist effective processing and feeding can be achieved.

Studies On Feeding Wheat Middlings To Beef Heifers And Growing And Finishing Beef Steers, Dale Zobell, K. C. Olson, C. A. Stonecipher, R. D. Wiedmeier, J. S. Murdock, D. A. Chandler

All Current Publications

The type and amount of concentrate included in beef cattle diets can greatly influence production and profitability. Small grains are typically fed in these rations, but the inclusion of by-product feeds, such as wheat middlings (WM), in growing and finishing diets have recently been studied (Dalke et al., 1997; Blasi et al., 1998).

The Applicability, Apprpriateness, And Enforcement Of The "Background Levels" Standard For Contaminated Sediment Cleanup Under California State Water Resources Control Board Resolution 92-49, Benjamin Benumof

San Diego Law Review

This Comment discusses the problem of contaminated sediments in ports and waterways and the scientific, technological, legal, and regulatory barriers to fixing the problem. The author begins by addressing whether California State Water Resources Control Board Resolution 92-49 is applicable to establishing cleanup levels for contaminated marine bay bottom sediments. Next, the author assumes that Resolution 92-49 is applicable and examines the boundaries of its enforcement and limitations of it application. The author then explores what standards Regional Boards might use for cleanup level decisions of bay bottom sediments if Resolution 92-49 was not applicable. The author then addresses whether …

From Baltimore Technologies To The Fai: A Metaphor For The Digital Isle, Ellen Hazelkorn

Other resources

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Vector Garden, Lichun Hsieh

Theses

Vector Garden demonstrates the vital role of vector graphics in web designing. Its purpose is to create a complex, dynamic, multidimensional and interactive virtual fairyland where viewers can escape into a creative world of imagination, hope and fantasy. Put together with Macromedia Flash and Adobe Illustrator, Vector Garden is a non- commercial online experimental design in the vector graphic style website design. By combining a variety of elements of both visual and audio designing, including typographies, colors, layouts, graphics, sounds and ActionScripts, it presents an underlying concept of Vector graphics, their applications in and relationships to the world of designing.

One, Carina Maggio

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Sequence Stratigraphy And Depositional Facies Of Lower Ordovician Cyclic Carbonate Rocks, Southern Missouri, U.S.A., Robert Brandon Overstreet, Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, Jay M. Gregg

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Lower Ordovician cyclic carbonate strata of southern Missouri were deposited in a warm, shallow, epeiric sea on a fully aggraded carbonate platform. Sedimentological characteristics distinguish the Jefferson City and Cotter dolomites from the underlying Gasconade and Roubidoux formations. Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sedimentation characterizes the Roubidoux Formation, with sandstones accounting for up to 60% of sedimentation. The Gasconade, Jefferson City, and Cotter dolomites exhibit an increased occurrence of chalcedonic chert nodules in very similar shape and texture to the gypsum and anhydrite nodules common on modern sabkha supratidal flats. Casts of halite and ghosts of gypsum laths also exist in the Jefferson …

Comparative Fault To The Limits, Ellen M. Bublick

Vanderbilt Law Review

Comparative-fault defenses rarely attract much public attention. However, a recent lawsuit highlighted the subject. In a suit filed against the archdiocese of Boston stemming from an ongoing sexual abuse scandal, Cardinal Bernard Law asserted that a boy who had been abused by a priest from the time that he was six years old to the time that he was thirteen years old was himself guilty of comparative fault. The defense became the subject of immediate public scrutiny. Commentators described the defense with adjectives ranging from "reprehensible," "appalling," and "not sensitive," to "legalese," "boilerplate," "standard," and even "necessary.'"

The Cardinal's defense, …

Stranded, Kurt Nellis

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Just What The Doctor Ordered: The Admissibility Of Differential Diagnosis In Pharmaceutical Product Litigation, Wendy Michelle Ertmer

Vanderbilt Law Review

In the decade since Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., federal judges have exercised their role as gatekeepers of expert witness testimony to evaluate many different categories of scientific evidence. They have not done so without controversy, however. Because the element of causation in pharmaceutical product litigation is frequently dispositive, the application of Daubert to scientific evidence of causation has been particularly contentious. Plaintiffs in such cases must prove both general causation-that the product is capable of causing an injury of the type from which the plaintiff suffers-and specific causation-that the product was the actual cause of the plaintiffs injury. …

Thermoregulation In Swimming Mallard Ducklings (Anas Platyrhynchos), Aaron James Lynott

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Temperature regulation in birds has been studied for several decades. However, most studies have been limited to the thermal effects of air. This is surprising considering the abundance of waterfowl and the significant amount of time that many birds spend immersed in water. While we do know that water has a thermal conductivity that is 23 times that of air, the effect of water temperature on temperature regulation remains unknown. Though the thermal effect of water seemingly has a strong influence on the thermoregulation of birds, neonatal aquatic birds seem particularly susceptible. Many aquatic neonates, such as mallard ducklings, enter …

A Discipleship Model For Missionaries Establishing Churches In Thailand, Yong Woong Lee

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This project focuses on using a discipleship program for new church plants in Thailand. This is one way to help accomplish world evangelization. This author's experience in Thailand has been under the ministry of Global Partners (GP) and his ministry includes both church planting and campus ministry.

The author develops an indigenous discipleship model for missionaries and the Thai church leaders to use based on the surveys and interviews. A successful mission program depends on training faithful and powerful native leaders.

Discipleship Training through effective and Biblical methods is the best way to shift the Thai Christian's paradigm which is …

Resolving The Patent-Antitrust Paradox Through Tripartite Innovation, Michael A. Carrier

Vanderbilt Law Review

The issues presented by-the intersection of the patent system and the antitrust laws have never been as pressing as they are today. The number of issued patents is skyrocketing. Companies are more frequently entering into arrangements with competitors not only to recover their investment from creating patented products but also to avoid the patent landmines that line the path of innovation. They form patent pools for laser eye surgery, MPEG-2 video compression technology, and DVD formatting; enter into alliances, mergers, and settlements in the biopharmaceutical industry; refuse to license their patented products in various industries; and cross-license their patents in …

Prairie Memories : The Female Pioneer Experience, 1870-1910, Katie Burgum

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Corporate Branding And Design In The Internet Environment, Cory Tan

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Eastern Spirit In Western Form, Ming-Ru Tsai

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Pattern In Painting, Barbara Elsenheimer

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Estimating Community Stability And Ecological Interactions From Time-Series Data, A. R. Ives, B. Dennis, K. L. Cottingham, S. R. Carpenter

Dartmouth Scholarship

Natural ecological communities are continuously buffeted by a varying environment, often making it difficult to measure the stability of communities using concepts requiring the existence of an equilibrium point. Instead of an equilibrium point, the equilibrial state of communities subject to environmental stochasticity is a stationary distribution, which is characterized by means, variances, and other statistical moments. Here, we derive three properties of stochastic multispecies communities that measure different characteristics associated with community stability. These properties can be estimated from multispecies time-series data using first-order multivariate autoregressive (MAR(1)) models. We demonstrate how to estimate the parameters of MAR(1) models and …

Genomic And Proteomic Profiling Of Responses To Toxic Metals In Human Lung Cells, Angeline S. Andrew, Amy J. Warren, Aaron Barchowsky, Kaili A. Temple, Linda Klei, Nicole V. Soucy, Kimberly A. O'Hara, Joshua W. Hamilton

Dartmouth Scholarship

Examining global effects of toxic metals on gene expression can be useful for elucidating patterns of biological response, discovering underlying mechanisms of toxicity, and identifying candidate metal-specific genetic markers of exposure and response. Using a 1,200 gene nylon array, we examined changes in gene expression following low-dose, acute exposures of cadmium, chromium, arsenic, nickel, or mitomycin C (MMC) in BEAS-2B human bronchial epithelial cells. Total RNA was isolated from cells exposed to 3 M Cd(II) (as cadmium chloride), 10 M Cr(VI) (as sodium dichromate), 3 g/cm2 Ni(II) (as nickel subsulfide), 5 M or 50 M As(III) (as sodium arsenite), or …

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: Michelangelo Aust keeps in touch while traveling through Europe; Urban and Public Affairs Dean Nohad Toulan steps down after 31 years; computer engineering professor is looking for new meaning in medical monitor data; why are violent crime victims in Oregon not seeking compensation from the state?; Aesop’s Fables can teach the principles of strategic management; player, manager, coach: Tom Trebelhorn dedicates his life to baseball; and more.

Miedo, Amor, Ternura ... ¿Qué Sienten Los Animales? Emociones A Lo Bestia, Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

A brief inquiry into the question of whether or not animals have feelings, emotions, or possess consciousness. Reviews the current state of scientific research and how it attempts to answer this question.

The Fifty-Fifth Annual Cardozo Memorial Lecture: The Law's Evolution: Long Night's Journey Into Day, Albert M. Rosenblatt

Cardozo Law Review

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Punishing The Faithful: Freud, Religion, And The Law, Davida A. Williams

Cardozo Law Review

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Paper Session I-A - Learning About Life On Space Station, John J. Uri, Cynthia P. Haven, Gary C. Jahns

Space Congress® Proceedings

The International Space Station as humanity’s outpost in low Earth orbit, is an ideal platform for studying how to live in space, as well as to conduct research to learn more about life. A long-duration microgravity platform such as ISS allows the study of biological and physiological processes free of the one constant force to which they have been subjected since the origin of life on Earth: gravity. Although construction of ISS is still under way, the US Laboratory Module Destiny has been outfitted with its full complement of 10 research facilities, two of them dedicated to life sciences research. …

Paper Session I-A - Microencapsulation Of Drugs: New Cancer Therapies And Improved Drug Delivery From Microgravity Research, Dennis R. Morrison Ph.D., Ruwaida S. Haddad Ph.D.

Space Congress® Proceedings

Experiments on the ISS include encapsulation of several different anti-cancer drugs, magnetic triggering particles, and encapsulation of genetically engineered DNA. Eight experiments, using the MEPS-II apparatus, were conducted to study the limitations of the fluid shear and g- dependent forces. These studies included: 1) formation of anti-tumor microcapsules containing drugs for “Chemoembolization” of vascularized tumors, 2) formation of microcapsules containing a photo-activated drug which can be used for Photo Dynamic Therapy of solid tumors by activation with near infrared light (630 nm), 3) coencapsulation of magnetic trigger particles and anti-tumor drugs, and 4) encapsulation of plasmid DNA. The Microencapsulation Electrostatic …

April 30, 2003 Cal Poly Report Digest, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

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