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Project Uplift: A Program To Ensure The Promotion Of Students Who Had Previously Failed, Auty G. Horn

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a program that assisted students in Grades 6-8 who had previously failed 2 or more grades in meeting promotion requirements. The setting was Green Acres Middle School, an urban school with a 99% African American student population of 535 and a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 80%. In 2000-2001, 100% of students for whom data were available and who had failed 2 or more times performed below the 5th stanine on the Stanford Achievement Test 9 (SAT-9)for the total battery.

Project Uplift was a program that was designed to meet the needs of these students. It …

Health-Related Quality Of Life As Predictor Of Adherence With Antiretroviral Medication, Rakesh Joshi

Open Access Master's Theses

Title of the Study: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as predictor of medication adherence in patients infected with Human Immune-deficiency Virus (HIV).

Summary: Quality of life (QoL) is a broad term which involves evaluation of all aspects of life including, health, education, family life, housing, friendship, marriage, standard of living, and work. Health is one of the domains that affect our quality of life. The measurement of HRQoL is becoming an increasingly common activity in healthcare systems around the world. Health-related quality of life or biological outcome of treatment might predict adherence to HIV medication. This research is …

Ashcroft V. Aclu: The Fate Of The Child Online Protection Act, Marybeth Eyrich

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

Concerns about the proliferation and accessibility of cyber-porn motivated Congress to pass legislation intended to protect children from on-line pornography. This nascent attempt to regulate the Internet has not yet passed constitutional muster, as Congress's efforts to protect children have been thwarted by First Amendment challenges. Ashcroft v. ACLU examines, but does not resolve, the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act ("COPA"). The issue in Ashcroft was whether COPA's use of "community standards" to identify "material that is harmful to minors" violated the First Amendment. In a plurality opinion, the Court held that COPA's use of "community standards" does …

Clients' Views On Privacy And Security After September 11: Have They Changed? Should They? An Information Technology Lawyer's Perspective, Richard G. Lyon

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

No abstract provided.

Looking For A Crack To Break The Internet's Back: The Listen4ever Case And Backbone Provider Liability Under The Copyright Act And The Dmca, Daniel W. Kopko

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

In August 2002, a group of 13 record labels brought a lawsuit against the four major companies that provide the "backbone" infrastructure of the Internet. The record labels sought an injunction under section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1982 ("DMCA") to compel the defendants to block access to a China-based website, Listen4Ever.com ("Listen4ever"), that offered free downloads of entire albums of copyrighted music from its central server. The labels alleged that Listen4ever located its operations in China specifically to evade U.S. copyright laws. They noted that the site was in English and offered almost exclusively music by …

Personal Jurisdiction: Lost In Cyberspace?, Susan Nauss Exon

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

No abstract provided.

The Erosion Of Online Privacy Rights In The Recent Tide Of Terrorism, Thomas P. Ludwig

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

Imagine a world where any idea or message communicated to another individual is subject to governmental scrutiny for possible criminal, subversive, or terroristic content. The current location of any individual, as well as the places that he or she commonly frequents, can easily be tracked through that person's phone calls, online activity, and financial records, which are all accessible to government agencies. By intercepting e-mails and tracking online browsing, shopping, and other activities, the most intimate details, habits, and preferences of the average individual are readily available to the prying eyes of cyber-criminals and law enforcement officials alike. Scenarios such …

Law, Religion, And Human Rights In Global Perspective, Mark Modak-Truran

MC Law Review

Law and Religion Symposium: Introduction

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Standard Operating Procedures, Donald H. Stedman, Gary A. Bishop

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.

Market Liberalization, Social Programming, And Stability In Latin America: Are They Compatible?, Gretchen Grabowski '03

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

A central axiom of political science research holds that government stability is a key determinant of effective governance. Instability makes policymaking difficult and creates an environment that is inhospitable to foreign or domestic economic investment and, in turn, economic growth. Latin America provides an excellent context in which this relationship can be examined. The region was known for its political instability in the 1970s and 1980s, and the vast majority of countries implemented liberal economic reforms during the 1990s. The expectation was that these reforms would yield the economic growth so desperately needed in the region and, along with democratic …

Environmental Impacts Of Modern Agricultural Technology Diffusion In Bangladesh: An Analysis Of Farmers' Perceptions And Their Determinants, S Rahman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Farmers' perception of the environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology diffusion and factors determining such awareness were examined using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that farmers are well aware of the adverse environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology, although their awareness remains confined within visible impacts such as soil fertility, fish catches, and health effects. Their perception of intangible impacts such as, toxicity in water and soils is weak. Level and duration of modern agricultural technology adoption directly influence awareness of its adverse effects. Education and extension contacts also play an important …

An Interactive Visualisation System For Engineering Design Using Evolutionary Computing, Ian Stephen James Packham

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis describes a system designed to promote collaboration between the human and computer during engineering design tasks. Evolutionary algorithms (in particular the genetic algorithm) can find good solutions to engineering design problems in a small number of iterations, but a review of the interactive evolutionary computing literature reveals that users would benefit from understanding the design space and having the freedom to direct the search. The main objective of this research is to fulfil a dual requirement: the computer should generate data and analyse the design space to identify high performing regions in terms of the quality and robustness …

The Ecosystem Of Partnerships: A Case Study Of A Long-Term University-Community Partnership, Gary Daynes, Scott L. Howell, Nathan K. Lindsay

Faculty Publications

This article presents a case study describing a robust fortyeight- year partnership between the Boy Scouts of America, Brigham Young University, Utah Valley State College, and others in an annual merit badge Powwow1 for Boy Scouts. Service-learning occurs as five hundred university students and faculty prepare for and teach merit badge classes to five thousand Boy Scouts as part of this Powwow. The article presents the history and operation of the Powwow, describes benefits to participants, and identifies some of the factors that contribute to the enduring nature of the partnership. The case study suggests that partnerships are similar to …

Circular Annular Planar Monopoles With Em Coupling, Z. N. Chen, Max Ammann, M.Y. W. Chia, T.S. P. See

Articles

A circular annular planar monopole with electromagnetic coupling shows broadband properties. The planar radiator is electromagnetically coupled with a probe-fed strip, and separated from it by a thin dielectric sheet. The parametric effects on the bandwidth are examined experimentally. The measurements demonstrate that the proposed monopoles have the merit of broad impedance bandwidths in the order of 100% for VSWR=2:1 and of 4:1 for VSWR=3:1 and acceptable radiation patterns across the bandwidths.

Optimization And Comparison Of Broadband Monopoles, Z. N. Chen, M.Y. W. Chia, Max Ammann

Articles

The impedance and radiation properties of four broadband monopoles are compared and the parameters of a new roll monopole are optimised experimentally and numerically. The performances of the roll monopole with various numbers of roll turns are discussed and optimised numerically. The measurements and simulations show that, compared with conventional broadband monopoles, the roll monopole

Design Criteria And Optical Characteristics Of One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Based On Periodically Grooved Silicon, Vladimir Tolmachev, Tatiana Perova, Kevin Berwick

Articles

Photonic bandgap (PBG) regions have been calculated for periodically grooved Si structures, acting as a one-dimensional photonic crystal. The wavelength range of the PBG as a function of the ratio (D_Si/A) is presented, where D_Si is the width of the Si walls and A is the grooved silicon lattice constant. The influence of the parameter D_Si, the refractive index of the space between the Si walls and the number of structure periods, m, on the forming of PBG regions is discussed. A good correlation between the calculated and the experimentally observed …

Pid Compensation Of Time Delayed Processes 1998-2002: A Survey, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

A time delay may be defined as the time interval between the start of an event at one point in a system and its resulting action at another point in the system. Delays are also known as transport lags or dead times; they arise in physical, chemical, biological and economic systems, as well as in the process of measurement and computation. Methods for the compensation of time delayed processes may be broadly divided into proportional integral derivative (PID) based controllers, in which the controller parameters are adapted to the controller structure, and structurally optimised controllers, in which the controller structure …

System Identification Using Higher Order Spectra, Aidan O'Dwyer

Conference papers

This communication will explore the use of particular types of frequency domain concepts, labelled higher order spectra, to help determine the frequency response of a process. This will allow the identification of the parameters of a single input, single output (SISO) model for a process (which includes a time delay), in both open loop and closed loop environments.

Feat Monochromator User's Guide, Gary A. Bishop

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.

Infra-Red Divergences In 2+1 Dimensional Gauge Theories, Zakaria Mazumder

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Quantum field theories generally exhibit divergences. Ultra-violet divergences are treated through the renormalisation programme. Infra-red divergences, which accompany massless particles, are a characteristic of unbroken gauge theories and make it difficult to extract physical predictions. In this thesis we analyse various approaches to the infra-red problem and apply them to 2+1 dimensional gauge theories. These are useful as toy models, are related to the high temperature limit and are important in condensed matter physics. After briefly reviewing various responses to the infra-red problem in 3H-1 dimensions, we begin our study of gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions by performing a one …

Analytical Investigations In Magnetic Recording, Stephen J. C. Brown

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The Fourier method is used to provide new analytic solutions for idealized mathematical models of double-element shielded magnetoresistive (MR) recording heads. The general two-dimensional model allows analysis of various recording head configurations; a single pole head, a ring head, a dual stripe head and a differential head. The analysis accommodates both longitudinal recording (with no soft magnetic underlayer present) and perpendicular recording (in the presence of a soft underlayer). Typical field, spectral response function and output voltage pulse plots for double-element MR heads are given and compared to published, approximate solutions. The integrals arising in the determination of the Fourier …

An Investigation Into Reinforced Brickwork Beams Using Quetta Bond, Colln Southcombe

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This study considered the design, development and testing of a new type of reinforced grouted cavity clay brickwork beam, the University of Plymouth Quetta Style Beam (the "Beam"). Under experimental load, the beam format results in asymmetric, non-linear, elastic bending and shear stress contours. This is contrary to beam behaviour acknowledged, in the codes, for reinforced brickwork and other structural materials. A suggested hypothesis is "evidence has been produced of excessive tensile stress beyond the steel yield stress, which may or may not be due to brick tensile strength". This hypothesis is based on a relatively small sample and upon …

Formal Concept Matching And Reinforcement Learning In Adaptive Information Retrieval, Rohana Kithsiri Rajapakse

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The superiority of the human brain in information retrieval (IR) tasks seems to come firstly from its ability to read and understand the concepts, ideas or meanings central to documents, in order to reason out the usefulness of documents to information needs, and secondly from its ability to learn from experience and be adaptive to the environment. In this work we attempt to incorporate these properties into the development of an IR model to improve document retrieval. We investigate the applicability of concept lattices, which are based on the theory of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), to the representation of documents. …

A Correlation Framework For Continuous User Authentication Using Data Mining, Harjit Singh

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The increasing security breaches revealed in recent surveys and security threats reported in the media reaffirms the lack of current security measures in IT systems. While most reported work in this area has focussed on enhancing the initial login stage in order to counteract against unauthorised access, there is still a problem detecting when an intruder has compromised the front line controls. This could pose a senous threat since any subsequent indicator of an intrusion in progress could be quite subtle and may remain hidden to the casual observer. Having passed the frontline controls and having the appropriate access privileges, …

Intelligent Vision-Based Navigation System, Kheng Lee Koay

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis presents a complete vision-based navigation system that can plan and follow an obstacle-avoiding path to a desired destination on the basis of an internal map updated with information gathered from its visual sensor. For vision-based self-localization, the system uses new floor-edges-specific filters for detecting floor edges and their pose, a new algorithm for determining the orientation of the robot, and a new procedure for selecting the initial positions in the self-localization procedure. Self-localization is based on matching visually detected features with those stored in a prior map. For planning, the system demonstrates for the first time a real-world …

From The Editors, Neal Lerner, Elizabeth Boquet

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Writing Centers And Writing-Across-The Curriculum: An Important Connection, Carol Peterson Haviland

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Independence And Collaboration: Why We Should Decentralize Writing Centers, Louise Z. Smith

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

How Was Your Session At The Writing Center? Pre- And Post-Grade Student Evaluations, Julie Bauer Morrison, Jean-Paul Nadeau

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Close Vertical Transcription In Writing Center Training And Research, Magdalena Gilewicz, Terese Thonus

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.