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Comprehensive Forensic Case Report: The University Of Montana Case #Umfc37, Angela J. Regan

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Ancestry Of North America : A Statistical Craniomorphic Comparison Of Paleoindian Skulls, J. Chad Jones

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Native American Depression : A Cognitive Vulnerability Analysis, Annie Belcourt-Dittloff

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Liquid Meal Enhances Balance Following Exercise In A Healthy Older Population, Leah Paige Versteegen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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A Guide For Buying Electronic Resources In A Consortial Environment: Using Georef As An Example, Adonna Fleming

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Two cultural phenomena have greatly impacted library purchasing trends in the last few years. One, the Internet and its ability to provide instant access to electronic information, which in tum has created a huge demand for libraries to provide their information resources in electronic format; and two, the spiraling downward oflibrary budgets ITom which to pay for these electronic resources. In other words, the "perfect storm" has struck libraries at hurricane force. In order to survive, libraries have formed consortia to increase their purchasing power while offsetting costs. This in tum creates a "one package fits all" purchasing environment with …

Determiner Typology And Universals Evidenced From Three Indo-European Languages, Ira Glenn Bottoms

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Easing Transition: A Resource For High School Students With Disabilities As They Transition Into College, Eric Tanner Strauss

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Emergence And Artificial Life, Nil H. Kilicay, Cihan H. Dagli

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper focuses on emergent phenomena and the utilization of computer simulations, basically agent-based modeling to understand emergent phenomena. Agent-based simulation models have a promising future in the social sciences, from management to economies, political science, sociology and anthropology. This paper attempts to realize their full scientific potential by reviewing recent applications in engineering management and addresses the set of challenges confronted by this method. Common methodology for constructing an agent-based model is also discussed with the aim of highlighting how artificial life and management can be brought together to develop decision making aid tools.

Welcome To The Special Issue: The Best Of The Best, Donald C. Wunsch, Mike Hasselmo, De Liang Wang, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

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John Noonan On Marriage And The Family: Continuity And Change In Doctrine, William J. Wagner

Scholarly Articles

In support of its critique, this article first analyzes Judge Noonan's general methodological vantage and shows how he proceeds, within that vantage, to formulate general moral norms. Next, it compares Judge Noonan's work with trends in the reasoning of the United States Supreme Court between 1965 and the present to suggest that some of Noonan's assumptions about the longer-term consequences of his own methodology for stability and continuity in moral theology may be unwarranted. Finally, it argues that Noonan is not justified in assuming that adjudicative reasoning, without more, suffices for the formulation of general moral norms, or that transcendent …

A Performance Analysis Of Distributed Algorithms In Javaspaces, Corba Services And Web Services, Suresh Sunku

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Implementation of distributed parallel algorithms on networked computers has always been very difficult until the introduction of service-oriented architectures (SOA) like JavaSpaces service, CORBA services and Web Services. Algorithms of the type Master/Worker pattern are implemented with relative ease using the SOAs. This project analyzes the performance of such algorithms on three contemporary SOAs namely JavaSpaces service, CORBA services and Web Services. These architectures make the implementations of distributed algorithms reasonably fault tolerant and highly and dynamically scalable. Also, the systems built on these architectures are generally loosely coupled and operate asynchronously.

In this project we measure and analyze the …

An Architectural Pattern For Adaptable Middleware Infrastructure, Jason J. Mitchell

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Middleware technologies change so rapidly that designers must adapt existing software architectures to incorporate new emerging ones. This project proposes an architectural pattern and guidelines to abstract the communication barrier whereby allowing the developer to concentrate on the application logic.

We demonstrate our approach and the feasibility of easily upgrading the middleware infrastructure by implementing a sample project and three case studies using three different middlewares on the .NET framework.

J2ee Vs. Microsoft Dot Net: A Qualitative And Quantitative Comparison For Building Enterprises Supporting Xml-Based Web Services, Raquel V. Clark

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Increasing speed of networks and worldwide availability has made the World Wide Web the most significant medium for information exchange. Web technologies have become more and more important as large and small businesses continue to make their presence on the web. Today's businesses have more than just a "face" on the worldwide web. The use of a web browser is no longer restricted to viewing static pages. Browsers are becoming more and more a standard interface to a multifaceted reign of programs that live on the worldwide web. Two main technologies stand out for the implementation of web applications, Sun …

Comparison Of Javaspace And Corba Technologies, Anjani Kumar Jha

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With computer industry increasingly moving towards network-centric systems, particularly the Internet, competing technologies that help design and develop such systems are fast emerging in the marketplace. The fundamental characteristics of a networked environment are heterogeneity, partial failure, latency and difficulty of "gluing together" multiple, independent processes into a robust, scalable application. JavaSpaces, a shared memory paradigm, provides high-level coordination mechanism for Java easing the burden of creating distributed systems. Large class of distributed problems can be approached using Javaspaces' simple framework. JavaSpaces allows processes to communicate even if each was wholly ignorant of the others. CORBA on the other hand …

Dbunifier: A Framework For Automated Unification Of Textual Data In Multiple Remote Data Sources, John S. Dembowski

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Over time, advances in database technology and utilization have resulted in a rapid increase in the number and types of data sources. Simultaneously, numerous methods of unifying these various data sources have emerged. Research has shown that a more comprehensive set of data attribute matches between multiple schemas can be detected by combining a number of the unification methodologies as opposed to using a single method. In this research project, a unification framework, dbUNiFier, has been proposed as an approach to allow for easy integration of both existing and future unification methods and data sources.

Leasing Consumer Goods: The Spotlight Shifts To The Uniform Consumer Leases Act, Ralph J. Rohner

Scholarly Articles

As a participant throughout the drafting process for the Uniform Consumer Leases Act ("U.C.L.A." or "the Act"), I believe that the Act deserves serious consideration in the state legislatures to fill gaps in existing consumer protections for consumer lessees. The Act complements the Uniform Commercial Code ("U.C.C.") Article 2A (Leases), which creates a basic legal framework for all leases of goods, commercial and consumer alike, and the federal Consumer Leasing Act, which prescribes advertising and disclosure rules for consumer leases. The U.C.L.A. is also intended to reinforce, or be reinforced by, certain existing state laws, such as those prohibiting unfair …

Breaking The Stereotypes: Influences And Characteristics Of Academically Talented Women, Joy Leigh Daggs

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

I was in fifth grade when I heard the word "gifted" for the first time. I had little idea what it meant, but once I was identified that way, my life as a student began to change. I was suddenly expected to perform at my highest level with very little room for error. I learned about the expectations of my performance from my peers, teachers, and parents. They sent me very clear messages about how I was to perform as an academically talented woman. My experience has shaped my research interest for this thesis. In this thesis, I will explore …

Opening Words: Why We Celebrate Teaching In Michigan, Jonathan Bush, Allen Webb

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Negotiating Voices: Ethnography Of Interactive Theatre Techniques Within A Classroom, Jana Gymer-Koch

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

During the Spring 2001 semester I had the opportunity to conduct an ethnography of Dr. Karen Mitchell's course "Texts and Contexts: Performance and Social Change" at the University of Northern Iowa. This course is designed to link performance with social change issues, by utilizing personal narrative and Augusto Boal' s Theatre of the Oppressed techniques: forum theatre, image theatre, and invisible theatre. These techniques were chosen by Dr. Mitchell on the basis of their capacity to involve both actors and audiences in the issues to be addressed and because they are based on Paulo Freire' s principles of liberatory education. …

Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Algorithm For A Reverse-Geometry Volumetric Ct System With A Large-Array Scanned Source, Taly Gilat Schmidt, Rebecca Fahrig, Norbert J. Pelc

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

We have proposed a CT system design to rapidly produce volumetric images with negligible cone beam artifacts. The investigated system uses a large array scanned source with a smaller array of fast detectors. The x-ray source is electronically steered across a 2D target every few milliseconds as the system rotates. The proposed reconstruction algorithm for this system is a modified 3D filtered backprojection method. The data are rebinned into 2D parallel ray projections, most of which are tilted with respect to the axis of rotation. Each projection is filtered with a 2D kernel and backprojected onto the desired image matrix. …

Tolstoy And The Christian Lawyer, Raymond B. Marcin

Scholarly Articles

It may be that there is no literate person alive in the Western world who has not heard of Count Lyof Nikolaevich Tolstoi (Tolstoy), author of what some have called the quintessential novel among all recorded literature: War and Peace. It may also be that most literate persons are aware that Tolstoy was a moralist of some renown-of great renown in his day-whose pacifist thought presaged and influenced Mohandas K. Gandhi, the great and saintly Mahatma of India. One doubts, however, whether many are aware that Tolstoy penned what is perhaps the most devastating attack in all religious literature on …

Portrayal Of Women In Magazine Advertisements Targeted Toward Three Age Groups Of Women : A Content Analysis, Stephanie Lynn Cummings

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Prior research has established that women are portrayed in sex roles in magazine advertisements. The purpose of this study was to explore this trend and to examine if the trend appears across audiences of various ages of women. Content analysis was used to analyze advertisements in magazines with female target audiences. Additionally, three categories of magazines, which correspond to the three age groups of women, were explored to see if the advertisements with sex role images of women appear across all three groups of women. The results of the advertisements revealed that teen and young women's magazines contained ads, which …

Childhood Depression And Resiliency : An Evaluation Of The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Program, Sarah Carroll Jones

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Some researchers have investigated the use of resiliency-building programs to prevent childhood depression in at risk populations (Comer, 1985; Gladstone & Beardslee, 2000; Seligman, 1995). The following study investigates the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Program (DECA). The DECA Program is designed to build resiliency in preschool children by increasing factors that have been found to be related to resiliency: initiative, self-control, and attachment. The study evaluated the short-term effectiveness of the DECA Program. Two Head Start Centers participated in the study. Pretest DECA rating scales were completed by the classroom teachers. For the next three months the experimental classrooms used …

The Effects Of The Breathe-Right Nasal Strip On Oronasal Maximum Voluntary Ventilation, Sean Michael Linck

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

In recent years coaches and athletes have given attention to the Breathe-Right nasal strip (BRNS) to help improve breathing and possibly enhance exercise performance. The BRNS is placed on the outer nose and is supposed to lift and expand the flexible cartilage of the nasal valve and make it "easier to breathe." This study was conducted to determine whether the application of the BRNS will improve maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) using both nasal and oral breathing ( oronasal breathing). An MVV test is often used to simulate breathing at peak exercise and is the best indicator of overall function of …

The Design And Evaluation Of A Plc-Based Model Predictive Controller For Application In Industrial Food Processes, Bryan T. Griffen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a viable control strategy for industrial processes that display relatively large variations in the process variable, have complex process variable interactions, or display a large amount of process deadtime. The objective of using MPC in manufacturing is to reduce overall process variability, the result being an increase in process accuracy, precision and efficiency. This study focused on the implementation of model predictive control techniques on an industrial sugar cooking process. The goal was to implement a successful MPC solution directly on a programmable logic controller (PLC) rather than on a personal computer (PC). Although there …

Toward A Unified Theory Of Cognition: A Kantian Analysis, Clayton Daniel Austin

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this paper is to provide classroom teachers a more unified theory of cognition. The current cognitive theories of information processing, schema theory, and constructivism exhibit limitations and a lack of cohesion that make their implications for teachers unclear. This paper will be presented in five sections. 1) The first describes problems with current cognitive theories and the need for a unified theory of cognition 2) The second provides a review of the literature of current cognitive theories. 3) The third section consists of research in the history of cognitive theory both in philosophy and psychology. 4) The …

Young Children’S Responses To Conflictual Adult Conversation, Jessica A. Cartozian

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The current study evaluated relationships among children's cognitions following exposure to scripted conflictual interactions between adults. Thirty- five mother-child dyads were assessed using self-report measures, and continuous measures of behavioral and physiological distress (cardiac function, skin conductance). Four hypotheses were investigated: Exposure to conflict would be related to greater distress following the conflictual script; attributional errors would be related to greater distress; child distress would be positively correlated with parental conflict at home; maternal psychopathology would be positively related with distress responses to the stimulus. All hypotheses were found to be non-significant. Explanations for non-significance include the normative sample, the …

The United Student-Athletes Of America: Should College Athletes Organize In Order To Protect Their Rights And Address The Ills Of Intercollgiate Athletics?, Marc Jenkins

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

This note will focus on the legal feasibility and practicality of forming a student-athlete players association or union. It assumes that a strike is a possible avenue the CAC may take in the future. Unlike the professional sports unions, the make-up of athletes on college campuses is in constant flux. This will obviously make it harder to initiate a strike. Part I of the note will concentrate on the realities of major college sports and the athletes that play them. This background will establish why student-athletes may want to form a players association. Part II will analyze the NCAA governing …

Pop Goes The Commercial: The Evolution Of The Relationship Between Popular Music And Television Commercials, Nora Miles

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Although the use of new pop songs in commercials is a recent development, the fact that music plays an important role in advertising is certainly not news. Music is and has always been an integral part in nearly all commercial advertising campaigns. Since the advent of radio and television the consumer public has been exposed to marketing through music. In order to understand the implications of the trends in music advertising, this note examines the more traditional schemes of music in advertising. To that end, there are several different routes an advertiser can choose when selecting music for a particular …

Lack Of Copyright Term Harmony With The European Union Strikes A Sour Chord For Performing Artists And Labels, Alisa Roberts

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Everyday, more performing artists and labels in the United States lose a valuable revenue stream as their sound recordings fall into the public domain in the European Union (E.U.). While the rights of authors, composers, visual artists, and even film directors are protected under the E.U.'s copyright scheme for the life of the author plus seventy years, "related rights"--which include sound recordings--receive protection for a term of only fifty years. The fifty-year term, established by a 1993 European Union Council Directive ("Directive"), is not only lacking synchrony with author's rights within the E.U., but also puts the term of protection …