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“Jointly Responsible For Life: Jointly Involved Against Malaria” Political Engagement And Effective Actions (27 September 2003 – 27 September 2004) Sep 2003

“Jointly Responsible For Life: Jointly Involved Against Malaria” Political Engagement And Effective Actions (27 September 2003 – 27 September 2004)

Vincentiana

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Mission Appeal 2003 (Rome, October 15, 2003) Sep 2003

Mission Appeal 2003 (Rome, October 15, 2003)

Vincentiana

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Our Lady Of The Miraculous Medal Shrine Parish, Raymundo Regua C.M. Sep 2003

Our Lady Of The Miraculous Medal Shrine Parish, Raymundo Regua C.M.

Vincentiana

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Shrine Of Our Lady Of Luján (Argentina), Ventura Sarasola C.M. Sep 2003

Shrine Of Our Lady Of Luján (Argentina), Ventura Sarasola C.M.

Vincentiana

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Statistics, Not Memories: What Was The Standard Of Care For Administering Antenatal Steroids To Women In Preterm Labor Between 1985 And 2000?, Cass R. Sunstein, William Meadow, Anthony Bell Sep 2003

Statistics, Not Memories: What Was The Standard Of Care For Administering Antenatal Steroids To Women In Preterm Labor Between 1985 And 2000?, Cass R. Sunstein, William Meadow, Anthony Bell

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

We determined the frequency of antenatal corticosteroid use for mothers with threatened premature delivery in 1985, 1990, 1995, and 2000. We next compared published data to the surveyed recollections of 302 obstetricians who were practicing during these years. Two points emerged. First, published reports reveal that the use of antenatal corticosteroids increased steadily, from 8% in 1985 to 20% in 1990, 52% in 1995, and 75% in 2000 (P < .001). Second, “expert” opinions derived from the recollections of practicing obstetricians consistently overestimated the actual use of antenatal corticosteroids during the year in question—31% versus 8% for 1985, 56% versus 20% for 1990, 78% versus 52% for 1995, and 92% versus 72% for 2000 (all Ps < .001). The use of antenatal corticosteroids by obstetricians in the past 15 years reveals a phenomenon that is widely recognized elsewhere—retrospective memories are often wrong, and when they are wrong they are not randomly wrong. Rather, recollections are systematically skewed toward an outcome that, in hindsight, is considered desirable (the "Monday morning quarterback" phenomenon). We offer a simple proposal. In determining the "standard of medical care," the legal system should rely on statistical data about doctors' performance rather than the recollections of experts about doctors’ performance. The fallible memories of isolated experts are a crude second-best, far inferior to the data that they approximate. Widespread adoption of this view by professional physician organizations would dramatically increase the rationality of expert testimony in medical malpractice tort law. (Obstet Gynecol 2003;102:356–62. © 2003 by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.)

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome In Health Care Professionals In Pakistan, Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Nadim Jafri, Mahesh Maloni, Saeed Hamid, Hasnain Ali Shah, Shahab Abid Sep 2003

Irritable Bowel Syndrome In Health Care Professionals In Pakistan, Wasim Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Nadim Jafri, Mahesh Maloni, Saeed Hamid, Hasnain Ali Shah, Shahab Abid

Section of Gastroenterology

Objective: To evaluate the symptomatology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) among health care professionals attending an IBS symposium in a tertiary care university hospital. Method: A questionnaire designed to incorporate Manning and Rome II criteria was distributed among participants of an IBS symposium, most of them were health care professionals. A total of 100 questionnaires were distributed, 41 had symptoms fulfilling criteria of IBS. In these patients male: female ratio was 28:13 with age range 18-68. Results: The predominant symptom was abdominal pain 87.8 % (36/41) which was aggravated post-prandially 72.2% (29/41), relieved following defecation in 87 % (35/41) with …

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Impacts Of Columbia River Discharge On Salmonid Habitat: 2. Changes In Shallow-Water Habitat, David A. Jay, Tobias Kukulka Sep 2003

Impacts Of Columbia River Discharge On Salmonid Habitat: 2. Changes In Shallow-Water Habitat, David A. Jay, Tobias Kukulka

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

This is the second part of an investigation that analyzes human alteration of shallow-water habitat (SWH) available to juvenile salmonids in the tidal Lower Columbia River. Part 2 develops a one-dimensional, subtidal river stage model that explains ~90% of the stage variance in the tidal river. This model and the tidal model developed in part 1 (Kukulka and Jay, 2003) uncouple the nonlinear interaction of river tides and river stage by referring both to external forcing by river discharge, ocean tides, and atmospheric pressure. Applying the two models, daily high-water levels were predicted for a reach from rkm-50 to rkm-90 …

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Impacts Of Columbia River Discharge On Salmonid Habitat: 1. A Nonstationary Fluvial Tide Model, David A. Jay, Tobias Kukulka Sep 2003

Impacts Of Columbia River Discharge On Salmonid Habitat: 1. A Nonstationary Fluvial Tide Model, David A. Jay, Tobias Kukulka

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

This is the first part of a two-part investigation that applies nonstationary time series analysis methods and the St. Venant equations to the problem of understanding juvenile salmonid access to favorable shallow-water habitat in a tidal river. Habitat access is a function of river stage, tidal range, and the distribution of bed elevation. Part 1 models nonstationary tidal properties: species amplitudes and phases and tidal range. Part 2 models low-frequency river stage in the Lower Columbia River and reconstructs historical water levels, using the tidal model from part 1. To incorporate the nonstationary frictional effects of variable river discharge into …

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A Communications Modeling System For Swarm-Based Sensors, Brian A. Kadrovach Sep 2003

A Communications Modeling System For Swarm-Based Sensors, Brian A. Kadrovach

Theses and Dissertations

Today's information age has exploded the amount of data available to decision makers at all levels of the control hierarchy. The miniaturization and proliferation of sensor technology has enabled extensive detection and monitoring and advances in computational capabilities have provided for embedded data analysis and the generation of information from raw data. Additionally, with the miniaturization of mechanical systems it is possible to provide platforms for sensor suites that are capable of mobility and limited autonomy. Swarming or bio-emergent behavior problems, provides a robust scalable mechanism for organizing large numbers of mobile sensor platforms. However, the mobility dynamics of swarm …

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Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications Sep 2003

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: What makes a great wine? The climate, the winemaker, and the dirt; as society has computerized, so have the bad guys; life can be hard for those who drop out of high school. What does it take to rise to the challenge?; the successful relocation of 12,000 Somali Bantu is the mission of two PSU professors; and more.

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Landmine Victim Assistance In South-East Europe: Final Study Report, Sheree Bailey Sep 2003

Landmine Victim Assistance In South-East Europe: Final Study Report, Sheree Bailey

Global CWD Repository

In December 2002, Handicap International Belgium, in co-operation with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines' (ICBL) Landmine Monitor research network, began a research project on behalf of the Reay Group, which was funded through the ITF by Canada and the US State Department. The study should provide the ITF, donors, and service providers, with a clearer picture of the state of victim assistance in South East Europe. It is a starting point that should encourage relevant actors, including government authorities, donors, and local and international program implementers, to share information, to make informed decisions on where to direct resources, or …

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Audit Firm Industry Specialization As A Differentiation Strategy: Evidence From Fees Charged To Firms Going Public, Brian W. Mayhew, Michael S. Wilkins Sep 2003

Audit Firm Industry Specialization As A Differentiation Strategy: Evidence From Fees Charged To Firms Going Public, Brian W. Mayhew, Michael S. Wilkins

School of Business Faculty Research

This paper examines IPO assurance fees to assess the use of industry specialization as a differentiation strategy by audit firms. Theory suggests that as an audit firm’s share of a client industry increases their costs will decrease and their service quality to that industry will increase. In this setting, the impact of industry specialization on fees is indeterminate. We extend existing theory by considering both the supply and the demand for industry specialization. We conclude that the market for audit services is generally price-competitive, suggesting that auditors will be forced to share cost savings with clients. However, when an audit …

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Macro Creatine Kinase, V. Wiwanitkit, P. Intaratut Sep 2003

Macro Creatine Kinase, V. Wiwanitkit, P. Intaratut

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Montclarion, September 04, 2003, The Montclarion Sep 2003

The Montclarion, September 04, 2003, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

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Holy Fools, Secular Saints, And Illiterate Saviors In American Literature And Popular Culture, Dana Heller Sep 2003

Holy Fools, Secular Saints, And Illiterate Saviors In American Literature And Popular Culture, Dana Heller

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture," Dana Heller identifies and analyzes characteristics of the holy fool figure in American literature and culture. Heller defines the holy fool, or divine idiot, as a figure central to U.S. myths of nation. One encounters such figures in American literature as well as in American folklore, popular culture, and mass media. In American culture, the Divine Idiot is a hybrid form which grows out of the crossings of numerous literary and historical currents, both secular and non-secular. This unwieldy hybridity -- the fact that …

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Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Team Of News Sleuths, Pamela M. Rose M.L.S. Sep 2003

Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Team Of News Sleuths, Pamela M. Rose M.L.S.

Against the Grain

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Webworthy, Pamela M. Rose Sep 2003

Webworthy, Pamela M. Rose

Against the Grain

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The Expression Of Oestrogen And Progesterone Receptors In The Gilt Uterus At Different Stages Of The Oestrous Cycle, Sayamon Sukjumlong, Kongkiat Srisuwatanasagul, Adisorn Adirekthaworn, Kriengyot Sajjarengpong Sep 2003

The Expression Of Oestrogen And Progesterone Receptors In The Gilt Uterus At Different Stages Of The Oestrous Cycle, Sayamon Sukjumlong, Kongkiat Srisuwatanasagul, Adisorn Adirekthaworn, Kriengyot Sajjarengpong

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Ovarian steroid hormones are known to be an important modulator in the regulation of reproductive function in the female. The levels of oestrogen and progesterone have been well documented whilst interacting during the entire oestrous cycle but their specific receptors in the target cells are less understood. Therefore, a comparative study of oestrogen (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR) at certain oestrous stages should be of help in the prediction of their interaction in specific uterine compartments. Tissue samples were collected at different stages of the oestrous cycle: oestrus (n=3), early dioestrus (n=3) and late dioestrus (n=3). They were fixed in …

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Employer Tros Are All The Rage: A New Approach To Workplace Violence, Kyle Riley Sep 2003

Employer Tros Are All The Rage: A New Approach To Workplace Violence, Kyle Riley

Nevada Law Journal

This Article examines the emerging phenomenon of the Employer TRO - a remedy that allows employers to obtain TROs in response to the threat of workplace violence. The author argues that the employer TRO arms employers with new substantive rights, increases the protection of employees, and reduces the employer's liability for incidents of workplace violence. A comprehensive examination of the current responses to workplace violence indicates that employers and employees lack a response to the imminent workplace assault.

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Judicial Selection And Evaluation, Center For Democratic Culture At Unlv Sep 2003

Judicial Selection And Evaluation, Center For Democratic Culture At Unlv

Nevada Law Journal

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Section 1446(B) Federal Removal Jurisdiction And The Thirty-Day Clock: Should A Motion To Amend Trigger The Time Bomb?, Briant S. Platt Sep 2003

Section 1446(B) Federal Removal Jurisdiction And The Thirty-Day Clock: Should A Motion To Amend Trigger The Time Bomb?, Briant S. Platt

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Shutting The Barn Door Before The Horse Is Stolen: How And Why State Public Utility Commissions Should Regulate Transactions Between A Public Utility And Its Affiliates, Judy Sheldrew Sep 2003

Shutting The Barn Door Before The Horse Is Stolen: How And Why State Public Utility Commissions Should Regulate Transactions Between A Public Utility And Its Affiliates, Judy Sheldrew

Nevada Law Journal

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The Most Technologically Progressive Decade Of The Century, Alexander J. Field Sep 2003

The Most Technologically Progressive Decade Of The Century, Alexander J. Field

Economics

Because of the Depression’s place in both the popular and academic imagination, and the repeated and justifiable emphasis on output that was not produced, income that was not earned, and expenditure that did not take place, it will seem startling to propose the following hypothesis: the years 1929–1941 were, in the aggregate, the most technologically progressive of any comparable period in U.S. economic history.1 The hypothesis entails two primary claims: that during this period businesses and government contractors implemented or adopted on a more widespread basis a wide range of new technologies and practices, resulting in the highest rate of …

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2003 Grizzly Football Yearbook, University Of Montana--Missoula. Athletics Department Sep 2003

2003 Grizzly Football Yearbook, University Of Montana--Missoula. Athletics Department

Grizzly Football Yearbook, 1939-2018

Annual yearbook of the University of Montana’s Athletics Department. This volume covers the period from fall 2003 through spring 2004.

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The Takings Clause And The Separation Of Powers: An Essay, John A. Humbach Sep 2003

The Takings Clause And The Separation Of Powers: An Essay, John A. Humbach

Pace Environmental Law Review

Environmental regulation is ultimately the regulation of private property. This article examines the development of takings law as an outgrowth of the Constitution's due process clause, and the opposing goals of takings law and environmental regulation.

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The Transition To Sustainable Development Law: Ninth Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture On Environmental Law, J. William Futrell Sep 2003

The Transition To Sustainable Development Law: Ninth Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture On Environmental Law, J. William Futrell

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Legal Requirements For Widespread Implementation Of Co2 Sequestration In Depleted Oil Reservoirs, Stephanie M. Haggerty Sep 2003

Legal Requirements For Widespread Implementation Of Co2 Sequestration In Depleted Oil Reservoirs, Stephanie M. Haggerty

Pace Environmental Law Review

This comment explores the potential of carbon sequestration as a means to address global warming. The author discusses whether the Underground Injection Control Program of the Safe Drinking Water Act provides a regulatory structure for carbon sequestration, as well as other amendments to the current statutory framework to facilitate the use of carbon sequestration.

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Applying World Trade Organization Rules To The Labeling Of Genetically Modified Foods, Michele M. Compton Sep 2003

Applying World Trade Organization Rules To The Labeling Of Genetically Modified Foods, Michele M. Compton

Pace International Law Review

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The Role Of Research In Expanded Regional Management Of Double-Crested Cormorants, Scott C. Barras, Mark E. Tobin Sep 2003

The Role Of Research In Expanded Regional Management Of Double-Crested Cormorants, Scott C. Barras, Mark E. Tobin

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

The number of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) breeding in the Great Lakes states and provinces has increased during recent decades. Their abundance and foraging habits have thrust this species into conflict with the aquaculture industry and fisheries interests. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a change in the management of double-crested cormorants recently to alleviate these conflicts, especially with aquaculture, natural resources, and federal fish hatcheries. Research activities should be an integral component of these expanded efforts to manage cormorants, including further investigations on cormorant impacts to the aquaculture industry and evaluations of the added benefits …

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Blood Lead Levels And Y-Glutamyl Transferase Activity In Battery Factory Workers In Jordan, Mohamad K. Nusier, Zeyad J. El-Akawi, Ibrahim Bani-Hani Sep 2003

Blood Lead Levels And Y-Glutamyl Transferase Activity In Battery Factory Workers In Jordan, Mohamad K. Nusier, Zeyad J. El-Akawi, Ibrahim Bani-Hani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to investigate blood lead levels in workers of lead acid battery factories and the relationship between those levels and the activity of y-glutamyl transferase (y-GT). METHODS: Samples of blood were collected during the period from July 2001 to August 2001 from 95 workers of the 2 lead-acid battery factories in Amman, Jordan. They were categorized into 2 groups based on the nature of their work: direct (high exposure) and indirect contact (low exposure) groups. Lead concentration in whole venous blood and y-GT activity was measured. RESULTS: Mean blood lead levels were 51.4 +/- …

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