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The Perils And Politics Of Common Goals : Working Together To Provide Housing In The Aftermath Of Disaster In Grand Forks, Richard A. Fransen

Theses and Dissertations

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Hospital Re-Engineering : Unintended Effects On Nurse Staffing And Patient Outcomes, Marlene E. Brisson

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Children's Environmental Health : A Review Of The Research And A Survey Of Residents Of Grand Forks, North Dakota, Michelle L. Bowles

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High Frequency Pure Tone Audiometry And High Frequency Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions: A Correlational Analysis, Kimberly J. Lavoie

Dissertations and Theses

Previous studies show that pure tone thresholds are strongly correlated with distortion product otoacoustic emission amplitudes when evaluating the frequency range from 1 to 8 kHz (Avan & Bonfils, 1993). Little is known about correlations between these two measures at higher frequencies from 9-16 kHz. This study compared pure tone thresholds and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in this high frequency range for 29 normal hearing subjects ages 18-30. Pure tone thresholds were obtained at 250-16 kHz and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) 2,211-17,675 were measured in the same ears. DPOAE amplitudes were measured using a constant F1/F2 ratio of …

Parallel Software For Processing Hydrographic Data, Dr. M.J. Miller, Geary Layne, Dave Fabre, Dr. Krzysztof Sarnowski

Hydrographic Science Research Center

The Naval Research Laboratory’s Code 7440 Production Enhancement Team at the Stennis Space Center has been tasked to develop ways to speedup hydrographic data processing at the Naval Oceanographic Office [Depn02]. This paper presents the final development of a parallelized version of the Pfm_loader application customized to run on a Beowulf cluster.

This paper specifically covers software development efforts in early FY02 [Sarn02 ]. In a series of algorithms, called Schemes D, E, and F, a parallel algorithm previously implemented in Scheme C (see Figure 1) has been integrated with an improved version NAVO’s of the Pure File Magic (PFM) …

Citizenship And Severity: Recent Immigration Reforms And The New Penology, Teresa A. Miller

Journal Articles

Over the past twenty years, scholars of criminal law, criminology and criminal punishment have documented a transformation in the practices, objectives, and institutional arrangements underlying a range of criminal justice system functions that are at the heart of penal modernism. In contrast to the preceding eighty years of criminal justice practices that were progressively more modern in their belief in the rationality of the criminal offender and their concern for enhancing civilization through rehabilitative responses to criminality, these scholars note that since the mid-198''0s the relatively settled assumptions about the framework that shaped criminal justice and penal practices for nearly …

Due Justice: Amelioration For Law School Compliance With The Solomon Amendment: A Handbook For Law Schools, Chai Rachel Feldblum, Michael Boucai

Other Scholarship

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Triptych: Three Meditations On How Law Rules After Globalization, David A. Westbrook

Journal Articles

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Campbell-Ewald [Encyclopedia Entry], James Pokrywczynski

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

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Cramer-Krasselt [Encyclopedia Entry], James Pokrywczynski, John Mcdonough

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

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Biodiversity And Mom, John Copeland Nagle

Journal Articles

In December 1973, Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The law was the latest, and greatest, federal effort to prevent wildlife from becoming extinct. The members of Congress who voted for the law always mentioned bald eagles, grizzly bears, whooping cranes, alligators, and whales—the animals, in short, that today are most likely to be memorialized as Beanie Babies. They were also aware of the species that had already disappeared from the earth, such as the passenger pigeon and the great auk. Such images yielded an overwhelming vote in favor of the law. President Nixon signed it on December 28, …

Beam Volume Displacement Sensor Design : A Numerical Approach, Sai Prasad Jangiti

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The Influence Of Emotional And Cognitive Responses On Advertising Effects : A Case Of Benetton Ads, Paige M. Leapaldt

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Constraining Funnel Caldera Processes At VolcáN Huaynaputina, Southern Peru, Yan LavalléE

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An Evaluation Of Voice Quality Of Athletic Coaches Preseason And Postseason, Aynsley L. Kluchnik

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Activity-Dependent Regulation Of Actin Depolymerizing Factor/Cofilin At Synaptic Sites, Matthew W. Miller

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Utilization Of Selected Physical Fitness Measures In Predicting A Fire Fighter Entrance Exam Time, Michael Keith Mietz

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The Effects Of Cigarette Smoking On The Phonatory Function Of Older Female Adults, Lygia R. Melanchuk

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An Investigation Of The Relationship Between High-Frequency Hearing Loss And Exposure To Loud Sounds Among Female College Students, Tania Langhan Lafournaise

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Variables Affecting Inclusion And Transition Of High School Students With Disabilities : Case Study, Linda K. Novacek

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Body Parts : Reflections On Figure Drawing, Kelly Jane Swenseth

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Is The Emotional Contagion Scale A Predictor Of Contagious Depression In Dating Couples, Joni E. Kraft

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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A General-Purpose Distributed Computing Architecture, Ariston Edward Johnson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Nonprofit Leadership Certificate Program : Program Development And Documents, Kiley Clapper

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Creativity, Intelligence, Cognitive Inhibition And Thought Organization : Links Among A Non-Clinical Schizotypal Population, Erica R. Hoff

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Farm-Level Pesticide Use In Bangladesh: Determinants And Awareness, S Rahman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Farmers' awareness of beneficial and harmful effects of pesticides and factors determining use of pesticides were analyzed using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Pesticide cost accounts for about 7.7% of the gross value of output in cotton, 3.6% in vegetables, 2.5% in potato, 1.8% in modern rice, 1.6% in spices and less than 1% in other cereal and non-cereal crops. About 77% of farmers (highest 94% in Comilla) used pesticides at least once (37% applied once and 31% applied twice, and the rest applied for 3-5 times) in a crop season. Cultivation of traditional …

The International Telecommunications Sector : A Financial Investigation Of Post Privatisation Performance, Nasser Mubarak Shafi Al-Shafi

Plymouth Business School Theses

The focus of this thesis is an investigation of the post-privatisation performance of the international telecoms sector. Firstly, the general hypothesis (1) of this thesis has been pursued, which states that the privatised telecoms companies perform differently from their non-privatised (private) counterparts. Several tests were applied; namely, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis. The principal finding was that there was no significant difference in performance. Secondly, the next hypothesis (2) states that the financial performance of each company is positively related to that of the other two selected companies. For this purpose, multiple regression tests were performed to investigate any inter-relationships …

An Empirical Study Of Malaysian Firms' Capital Structure, Sharifah Raihan Syed Mohd Zain

Plymouth Business School Theses

It is sometimes purported that one of the factors affecting a firm's value is its capital structure. The event of the 1997 Asian financial crisis was expected to affect the firms' gearing level as the firms' earnings deteriorated and the capital market collapsed. The main objective of this research is to examine empirically the determinants of the capital structure of Malaysian firms. The main additional aim is to study the capital structure pattern following the 1997 financial crisis. Empirical tests were conducted on two different data sets: the first data set is the published data extracted from Datastream and consists …

A New Hplc‐Elsd Method To Quantify Indican In Polygonum Tinctorium L. And To Evaluate Β‐Glucosidase Hydrolysis Of Indican For Indigo Production, Lg Angelini, E Campeol, S Tozzi, Et Al

Peninsula Medical School

A method to quantify the indigo precursor indican (indoxyl-β-d-glucoside) in Polygonum tinctoriumL. has been developed. Plant material was extracted in deionized water, and indican was identified and quantified using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled to an evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD). Results confirmed that with this method it is possible to measure indican content in a short time, obtaining reliable and reproducible data. Using this method, leaf indican content was quantified every 15 days during the growing season (from May to October) in P. tinctorium crops grown in a field experiment in Central Italy. Results showed that indican increased …

Analysis And Development Of A Vibration Isolation System For The Agicultural Camera : (Agcam) Remote Sensing Camera System, Adam L. Webster

Theses and Dissertations

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