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Identifying Compliance Issues In The Community Health Care Clinic Environment, Faye K. Beery Aug 2003

Identifying Compliance Issues In The Community Health Care Clinic Environment, Faye K. Beery

Graduate Theses

This study explored the high number of failed appointments and follow-up appointments at a community health care children’s clinic. A thirty-seven item questionnaire was randomly given to 112 participants seeking health care at the clinic on a random basis. Based on literature reviews, five hypothesis were generated to examine reasons for failing to keep appointments for children: 1. Communication difficulties between healthcare personnel and parents regarding patient comprehension of instructions and bottle directions were anticipated. 2. Patient/physician/clinic relationships were expected to influence patient compliance. The need for more reminder calls for appointments was anticipated to be a factor in patient …

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Goodnight Family (Mss 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2003

Goodnight Family (Mss 148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 148. Letters, legal papers, articles, and data on the Goodnight family, Franklin, Kentucky, and journal, 1868-1880 (102 p.) of Cumberland Presbyterian minister Thomas Mitchell Goodnight. Also includes letters from William Jennings Bryan, J. G. Carlisle, and William Goebel. A scan of Thomas Mitchell Goodknight's journal (Folder 7) has been scanned and is attached as an "Additional File"; click on the link at the bottom of this page.

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2003 Honor Roll Of Donors, Lindenwood University Aug 2003

2003 Honor Roll Of Donors, Lindenwood University

Donor Reports

2003 Lindenwood University donor report.

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Demining In Bihac With 5 Korpusa Of The Bosnian Army, Peter Hindy Aug 2003

Demining In Bihac With 5 Korpusa Of The Bosnian Army, Peter Hindy

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Despite the end to years of brutal fighting in Bosnia, landmines left behind from the war still threaten the safety of local populations. The following article gives a firsthand account of a former Canadian soldier’s demining experience in Bosnia alongside the Bosnian army.

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Multicriterial Analysis Application In Mine Action, Damir Gorseta Aug 2003

Multicriterial Analysis Application In Mine Action, Damir Gorseta

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The author proposes how multicriterial analysis should be used to select areas where demining will have the strongest impact on risk reduction, return of displaced persons, and revitalisation of economic and social life.

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Mine Action Clearance Operations Set To Begin In Tajikistan, Kevin Dansereau, Ian Clarke Aug 2003

Mine Action Clearance Operations Set To Begin In Tajikistan, Kevin Dansereau, Ian Clarke

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in conjunction with the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) signed an agreement in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, at the end of May that will begin the first internationally-supported mine action program in Tajikistan. The following article provides a brief discussion of the landmine situation in Tajikistan and the goals of the new mine action project.

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Summary Of Mag Achievements In Iraq, March–May 2003, Sean Sutton Aug 2003

Summary Of Mag Achievements In Iraq, March–May 2003, Sean Sutton

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

This article highlights the demining efforts and accomplishments of the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) in Iraq during recent months.

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Socio-Economic Impact Of Landmines In Iraq, Cisr Jmu Aug 2003

Socio-Economic Impact Of Landmines In Iraq, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Years of war and internal conflict have left Iraq littered with landmines, UXO and stockpiled munitions. Mr. Johan Van Der Merwe of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and Colonel Lionel Dyck, MineTech chairman, describe the hazards Iraqis face that threaten normal activity and disrupt socio-economic redevelopment.

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An Update On The Mine Action Support Group, Cisr Jmu Aug 2003

An Update On The Mine Action Support Group, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The following article highlights the recent activities of the Mine Action Support Group (MASG). This includes updates on the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

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Bosnia And Herzegovina Mine Problem: Priority Setting, Darvin Lisica Aug 2003

Bosnia And Herzegovina Mine Problem: Priority Setting, Darvin Lisica

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

With so many tasks to complete and limited resources with which to complete them, the importance of priority setting to mine action cannot be overstated. The author describes how priority setting relates to mine action in Bosnia and Herzegovina and suggests how to go about setting such priorities.

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Kosovo After The Unmacc And Beyond, Steven E. Saunders Aug 2003

Kosovo After The Unmacc And Beyond, Steven E. Saunders

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Over the past few years, the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre (UNMACC) has transferred mine action responsibilities to national organizations within Kosovo. The following article discusses how a number of different agencies within Kosovo are working together in various capacities to address mine action issues.

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Mine Action In Bosnia’S Special District: A Case Study, Matthew Bolton Aug 2003

Mine Action In Bosnia’S Special District: A Case Study, Matthew Bolton

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Brčko Municipality, located in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), was a fierce battleground during the war from 1992 to 1995. Because of the Brčko district’s unique, strategic and symbolic significance to all sides of the conflict, it was the only issue left unresolved by the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in December 1995, which had divided the country into two decentralized semi-autonomous “entities”: the Republika Srpska (populated mostly by Serbs) and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (populated mostly by Bosniaks and Croats).

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Women Deminers In Croatia, Cisr Jmu Aug 2003

Women Deminers In Croatia, Cisr Jmu

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Female deminers are a minority in a region where, at present, Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA) is the only organization in which women are working as deminers. Vanja Raznjevic, Silvija Bogdany and Vjekoslava Goricanec are three women who were hired by NPA to work as deminers in Croatia.

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The Effects Of Religious Beliefs In Marriage And Family, Loren Marks Aug 2003

The Effects Of Religious Beliefs In Marriage And Family, Loren Marks

Marriage and Families

No abstract provided.

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Front Matter/ Webwise, Marriage &. Families Aug 2003

Front Matter/ Webwise, Marriage &. Families

Marriage and Families

No abstract provided.

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Partners In Poultry Science, August 2003, Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food, And Life Sciences (University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville). Center Of Excellence For Poultry Science Aug 2003

Partners In Poultry Science, August 2003, Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food, And Life Sciences (University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville). Center Of Excellence For Poultry Science

Partners

No abstract provided.

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The Ethic Of Care And The Problem Of Wild Animals, Grace Clement Aug 2003

The Ethic Of Care And The Problem Of Wild Animals, Grace Clement

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

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An Extended General Location Model For Causal Inference From Data Subject To Noncompliance And Missing Values, Yahong Peng, Rod Little, Trivellore E. Raghuanthan Aug 2003

An Extended General Location Model For Causal Inference From Data Subject To Noncompliance And Missing Values, Yahong Peng, Rod Little, Trivellore E. Raghuanthan

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Noncompliance is a common problem in experiments involving randomized assignment of treatments, and standard analyses based on intention-to treat or treatment received have limitations. An attractive alternative is to estimate the Complier-Average Causal Effect (CACE), which is the average treatment effect for the subpopulation of subjects who would comply under either treatment (Angrist, Imbens and Rubin, 1996, henceforth AIR). We propose an Extended General Location Model to estimate the CACE from data with non-compliance and missing data in the outcome and in baseline covariates. Models for both continuous and categorical outcomes and ignorable and latent ignorable (Frangakis and Rubin, 1999) …

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Inference For The Population Total From Probability-Proportional-To-Size Samples Based On Predictions From A Penalized Spline Nonparametric Model, Hui Zheng, Rod Little Aug 2003

Inference For The Population Total From Probability-Proportional-To-Size Samples Based On Predictions From A Penalized Spline Nonparametric Model, Hui Zheng, Rod Little

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Inference about the finite population total from probability-proportional-to-size (PPS) samples is considered. In previous work (Zheng and Little, 2003), penalized spline (p-spline) nonparametric model-based estimators were shown to generally outperform the Horvitz-Thompson (HT) and generalized regression (GR) estimators in terms of the root mean squared error. In this article we develop model-based, jackknife and balanced repeated replicate variance estimation methods for the p-spline based estimators. Asymptotic properties of the jackknife method are discussed. Simulations show that p-spline point estimators and their jackknife standard errors lead to inferences that are superior to HT or GR based inferences. This suggests that nonparametric …

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On The Formation Of Weighting Adjustment Cells For Unit Nonresponse, Sonya Vartivarian, Rod Little Aug 2003

On The Formation Of Weighting Adjustment Cells For Unit Nonresponse, Sonya Vartivarian, Rod Little

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

A method is proposed for weighting adjustments for unit nonresponse based on a crossclassification by the estimated propensity to respond and by the predicted mean of a survey outcome. Simulations to assess the performance of the method are described.

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All The News That’S Fat To Print: The American "Obesity Epidemic" And The Media, Natalie Boero Aug 2003

All The News That’S Fat To Print: The American "Obesity Epidemic" And The Media, Natalie Boero

Faculty Publications, Sociology

Increasingly the term epidemic is being used to describe the current prevalence of fatness in the United States. Skyrocketing rates of obesity among all groups of Americans, particularly children, the poor, and minorities, have become a major public health concern. Indeed, it is difficult to open a newspaper or magazine without encountering a discussion of the expanding American waistline and the health problems associated therewith. In this paper I use 751 New York Times articles on obesity to examine the media construction of the obesity epidemic. I show that there is not one dominant discourse (i.e. medicine) constructing this epidemic, …

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World Day For Laboratory Animals, Marti Kheel Aug 2003

World Day For Laboratory Animals, Marti Kheel

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

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Perceptions Of Discrimination Among Persons With Serious Mental Illness, Patrick Corrigan, Vetta Thompson, David Lambert Phd, Yvette Sangster, Jeffrey G. Noel, Jean Campbell Aug 2003

Perceptions Of Discrimination Among Persons With Serious Mental Illness, Patrick Corrigan, Vetta Thompson, David Lambert Phd, Yvette Sangster, Jeffrey G. Noel, Jean Campbell

Faculty Publications

Objectives: The authors sought to gain further perspective on discrimination experienced by persons with mental illness by comparing self-reports of discrimination due to mental illness to self-reports of discrimination due to other group characteristics, such as race, gender, and sexual orientation. Methods: A total of 1,824 persons with serious mental illness who participated in a baseline interview for a multistate study on consumer-operated services completed a two-part discrimination questionnaire. The first part of the questionnaire assessed participants' perceptions about discrimination due to mental illness as well as more than half a dozen other group characteristics. The second part of the …

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Effect Of Achilles Tendon Lengthening On Neuropathic Plantar Ulcers: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Michael J. Mueller, David R. Sinacore, Mary Kent Hastings, Michael J. Strube, Jeffrey E. Johnson Aug 2003

Effect Of Achilles Tendon Lengthening On Neuropathic Plantar Ulcers: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Michael J. Mueller, David R. Sinacore, Mary Kent Hastings, Michael J. Strube, Jeffrey E. Johnson

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

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Vowel Tetragrams Revisited, Susan Thorpe Aug 2003

Vowel Tetragrams Revisited, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A Vowel Tetragram (VT) is a group of 4 vowels unbroken by any consonants. There are 625 different VTs (125 beginning with each of A, E, I, O, and U), ranging from AAA, AAAE through UUUO, UUU. Words which contain a VT can be called Vowel Tetragram Words (VTWs). Relatively few words in current everyday usage include a VT. AQUEOUS, QUEUE, ONOMATOPOEIA, COOEE, HAWAIIAN and SEQUOIA are perhaps the most familiar.

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The Setonian, August 2003, Seton Hall University Aug 2003

The Setonian, August 2003, Seton Hall University

2003

No abstract provided.

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Burstein V. Retirement Account Aug 2003

Burstein V. Retirement Account

2003 Decisions

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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Investigation Of The Relationship Between Particulate Bound Mercury And Properties Of Fly Ash In A Full-Scale 100 Mwe Pulverized Coal Combustion Boiler, Sen Li Aug 2003

Investigation Of The Relationship Between Particulate Bound Mercury And Properties Of Fly Ash In A Full-Scale 100 Mwe Pulverized Coal Combustion Boiler, Sen Li

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

There is an increasing concern over mercury emissions from coal-fired boilers. Coal-fired power generation accounts for approximately 33% of total mercury emission in the United States. Once it is emitted into the atmosphere and deposited on land or water, mercury can transform into methylmercury, an organic form. Mercury can then enter the food chain, which poses a potential threat to human health and the environment. To study the relationship between particulate bound mercury and fly ash properties, fly ash samples were collected from the mechanical hopper (MHP) and the electrostatic precipitator (ESP) of a 100 MWe pulverized coal-fired boiler and …

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Stories Of Mothers And Child Welfare (Full Report), Gary Cameron, S. Hoy Aug 2003

Stories Of Mothers And Child Welfare (Full Report), Gary Cameron, S. Hoy

Partnerships for Children and Families Project

The voices we hear describing the lives of mothers who come into contact with child welfare agencies are usually those of service providers and researchers. How do mothers make sense of their own lives and what happened to their families when they became involved with child welfare? This report provides an opportunity to listen to what 16 of these mothers had to say over conversations averaging 5 - 6 hours with each woman. Aspects of these stories will be familiar to some readers. Nonetheless, these stories challenge both popular and professional perceptions of who these mothers are and how they …

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Family Talk: Parents And Children Involved With The Child Welfare And Children's Mental Health Systems (Summary Report), Marshall Fine, Deena Mandell Aug 2003

Family Talk: Parents And Children Involved With The Child Welfare And Children's Mental Health Systems (Summary Report), Marshall Fine, Deena Mandell

Partnerships for Children and Families Project

Our project focussed on families who had been involved in services with child welfare and children’s mental health. Sixteen families were interviewed and asked to describe their experiences as clients, including positive and negative experiences, what they experienced as helpful and unhelpful, changes they identified as a result of their involvement, and characteristics and practices of the workers they liked most and least. We present their perspectives in order to build understanding of what contributes to making a positive difference in the lives of families in difficulty.

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