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Patrick Vinton Kirch. On The Road Of The Winds: An Archaeological History Of The Pacific Islands Before European Contact, George Von-Der-Muhll

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Federal Funding Of Human Embryo Stem Cell Research: Advocating A Broader Approach, Jason R. Braswell

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Note, as one may surmise from the title, advocates a broader approach to federal funding of human embryo stem cell research. It begins with a look at the science of embryo stem cells and examines the medical promise that stem cell technology holds. It also briefly addresses the controversy that surrounds embryo stem cells. The Note then looks at why federal funding is so important to embryo stem cell research and how federal funding for embryo stem cell research is currently handled. Examination of current federal funding methodology leads to several concerns which are addressed, including property rights, flight …

Vertical Polymer Tunneling Sensor Platform By Hot Embossing Technique, Jing Wang

Doctoral Dissertations

Recent development in microfabrication technology has brought much attention to the development of miniaturized, inexpensive and high-accuracy MEMS devices and microsystems. The ultimate goal of our project is to develop a versatile, three-dimensional, high precision sensor platform, which can be used for displacement, velocity or acceleration measurement. The first step, on which this dissertation is based, is to fabricate a one-dimensional (parallel with the Z axis) tunneling sensor, which in turn can be developed into two- and three-dimensional sensor platforms through structural and functional integration.

Since the invention of mini-structured high-sensitivity silicon-based tunneling sensor in 1993, the synthesis and fabrication …

Nanoscale Platinum And Iron -Cobalt Catalysts Deposited In Microchannel Microreactors For Use In Hydrogenation And Dehydrogenation Of Cyclohexene, Selective Oxidation Of Carbon Monoxide And Fischer -Tropsch Process To Higher Alkanes, Shihuai Zhao

Doctoral Dissertations

Chemical Process Miniaturization (CPM) has predominant advantages in heat and mass transfer limited unit operations, synthesis of hazardous materials, and as a process development tool. For years, engineers have been seeking ways to apply CPM to practical applications. Studies of catalysts and catalyst supports that can be applied to microreactors are important for a number of commercially desirable gas phase reactions. Parameters such as surface-to-volume ratio and the pore structure of catalyst supports influence the activity and selectivity of the catalysts.

In this study, platinum, iron and cobalt catalysts were fabricated by sputtering deposition and compared with catalysts deposited by …

Effects Of Diabetes And Aging On Posture And Acceleration Thresholds During Lateral Translations, Samantha Jean Richerson

Doctoral Dissertations

Research objectives. One source of falls in the elderly may be an inability to sufficiently adjust to transient postural perturbations or slips. Identifying useful predictors of fall potential, as well as factors that affect the ability of an individual to detect a movement of the standing support surface may provide insight into postural stability and methods to increase stability in elders. To do this, acceleration thresholds to short, precise, lateral platform translations and the resultant psychophysical responses of adults with early Type 2 diabetes to age-matched controls and young adults were measured.

Methods. Using an innovative SLIP-FALLS platform, …

Machine Learning Approaches For Determining Effective Seeds For K -Means Algorithm, Kaveephong Lertwachara

Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, I investigate and conduct an experiment on two-stage clustering procedures, hybrid models in simulated environments where conditions such as collinearity problems and cluster structures are controlled, and in real-life problems where conditions are not controlled. The first hybrid model (NK) is an integration between a neural network (NN) and the k-means algorithm (KM) where NN screens seeds and passes them to KM. The second hybrid (GK) uses a genetic algorithm (GA) instead of the neural network. Both NN and GA used in this study are in their simplest-possible forms.

In the simulated data sets, I investigate two …

Hollins Columns (2003 Apr 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Greenhouse a go-go for English
• Cocke steps a stage for Trojan ad
• Moody food is good, really, we swear
• New 'Gone Wild' video: Pearl Girls Gone Wild
• Arrests shock campus
• Ulabulastan exists, don't be silly, silly
• Squirrel gains fame
• Crocodile Hunter to get rid of spiders
• Doughboy dies at 71
• Lifetime network movies are the bestest
• Richard Dillard's Buffy dream comes true
• Horoscopes
• Near death experience changes life
• Think your family had the worst car? Think again. No one can beat the ghettoblasting "Ghettoblaster"

The Voice, Spring 2003: Volume 48, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Much of The College Writer Is Written at Dordt; Just Be Who You Are; "The Writer In and From Community"; Band Students Learn by Doing; Campus Capsules; Blackboard Expands Classroom Doors; Bakker Earns Vander Stelt Essay Award; The Purchase of the Kuhl Farm Doubles the Campus; Who Was Harry Kuhl? A Non-Traditional Student Answers: Why Am I Here?; Art Commissions for Campus Center Are Now Complete; Faculty News; Sikkema to Participate in Oxford Seminar; Schaap Edits New Book; Sports Updates; Hulst to Speak at Friends of Dordt Spring Banquet; Matching Challenge Fund Sparks Increase in Annual Fund; Development Notes; Alum …

Monthly Accomplishments For Turnbull National Refuge, April 2003, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge Reports

A monthly report of accomplishments at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge written by Project Leader Nancy Curry.

Minutes Of The Council Meeting- November 2002, Virginia Journal Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Full proceedings of the Council Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science at the Science Museum of Virginia, November 2, 2002.

Minutes Of The Virginia Academy Of Science Council Meeting- May 2002, Virginia Journal Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Full proceedings of the Council Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science at Hampton University on May 24, 2002

Crazy (Mental Illness Under The Ada), Jane Byeff Korn

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article examines how people with mental disabilities and mental illnesses have been treated under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Part I addresses the history of mental illness. It argues that while beliefs about the causes and content of mental illness have vacillated over time, the mentally ill have received consistently poor treatment throughout human history. Part II addresses present problems with the definition of mental illness, including how mental illness and mental disability are defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Part III discusses the problems faced by people with mental illness today. The author argues the current state …

Occasional Abundance Of Certain Birds On Or Near Lake Erie, E. L. Moseley

Ohio Cardinal

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 65, No. 1, April 2003, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

An Unusually Colored Red-Backed Salamander (Plethodon Cinerus) From Northern Virginia, Joseph C. Mitchell, Thomas K. Pauley, C. Todd Georgel

Virginia Journal of Science

We describe an orange-pink, patternless, translucent morph of the Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus) found in northern Virginia on 27 September 2001. This is the first description of this unusual phenotype in this terrestrial salamander.

Necrology: Patrick F. Scanlon, Virginia Journal Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Dr. Patrick F. Scanlon, Professor of fisheries and wildlife sciences, died on Wednesday, March 4, 2003.

Fire Blight Of Apples, Pears, And Other Species, Martin A. Draper, Rhoda Burrows, Jerry Mills

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

Getting Control Of Your Money #3: Improving Cash Flow, Jack Davis

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

How much short-term credit does your family farm business need for the year? When and where will cash be generated? A useful tool for finding these answers and managing the financial needs of the family farm is a cash flow budget. The cash flow budget is an estimate of cash receipts and expenditures for a specific time period. The budget only looks at money flows into and out of the business, not at net income or profitability.

Review Of Eternal Values And Personal Growth: A Guide On Your Journey To Spiritual, Emotional, And Social Wellness, By Allen E. Bergin, Eric G. Swedin

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Strategy Uses And Study Time: Relationship With Memory Performance In Older Adults, Karen A. S. Doolittle

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The overall purpose of this study was to foster a greater understanding of age-related memory loss as it pertains to the aging workforce's ability to remain productive and effective in a time of complex change, and to recommend some adjustments that can be made to compensate for these memory declines. The specific intent of this current project was to test one premise of Ericsson and Chase's Skilled Memory Theory, namely that memory skill is a skill that can be developed through enhanced encoding and through practice. By introducing participants to the simple mnemonic strategy of chunking and by allowing two …

Rehabilitating Nature: A Comparative Review Of Legal Mechanisms That Encourage Wetland Restoration Efforts, Royal C. Gardner

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Triage In The Nation's Medicine Cabinet: The Puzzling Scarcity Of Vaccines And Other Drugs, Lars Noah

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3 Spring 2003, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Genetic Organization And Iron-Responsive Regulation Of The Brucella Abortus 2,3-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Biosynthesis Operon, A Cluster Of Genes Required For Wild-Type Virulence In Pregnant Cattle, Bryan H. Bellaire, Philip H. Elzer, Sue Hagius, Joel Walker, Cynthia L. Baldwin, R. Martin Roop

Faculty Publications

Brucella abortus reportedly produces the monocatechol siderophore 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid (2,3-DHBA) in response to iron limitation. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the cloned DHBA biosynthesis locus from virulent B. abortus 2308 and genetic complementation of defined Escherichia coli mutants were used to identify the B. abortus genes (designated dhbC, -B, and -A) responsible for synthesis of this siderophore. Reverse transcriptase PCR analysis of total RNA with dhb-specific primers demonstrated that dhbC, -B, and -A are transcribed as components of an operon, together with dhbE, a functional homolog of the Escherichia coli entE gene. Homologs of the E. coli entD and Vibrio cholerae …

Orange & White - Spring 2003, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

No abstract provided.

Utb/Tsc Commencement – Spring 2003, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

Brownsville Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The "Necessary" History Of Property And Liberty, Richard A. Epstein

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 6, April 2003, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

An eight page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.

Urbanization And Its Relationship To Water Quality Within The Bronson Creek Watershed, Jason Cristopher Creech

Environmental Science and Management Professional Master's Project Reports

A watershed analysis project was undertaken to investigate the impact of urbanization on the water quality with Bronson Creek; a small urban stream in the metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon. Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) have been established for several water quality parameters within the watershed.

Water quality data were collected at nine sampling along Bronson Creek by Clean Water Services, a local public utility charged with storm water management and water quality protection duties. Only seven water quality parameters were included in the analysis; they were 1) temperature, 2) total phosphorous, 3) ortho-phosphate, 4) ammonia, 5) total nitrogen, 6) …