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Detection Of Five Common Cftr Mutations By Rapid-Cycle Real Time Amplification Refractory Mutation System Pcr., Eugene Dempsey, David Barton, Fergus Ryan

Articles

No abstract provided.

Fayetteville State University 15th Winter Commencement 2004, Fayetteville State University

Graduation Exhibit

Commencement Program for Fayetteville State University 15th Winter Commencement December 11, 2004

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between In-Vitro And In-Vivo Ultrasound Image Quality Parameters, Jacinta Browne, Amanda Watson, Cathy Muir, Peter Hoskins, Alex Elliott

Articles

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between Bmode and colour Doppler technical test methods with the clinical perception of Bmode and Doppler invivo test parameters. It was found that technical and clinical comparisons between the Bmode test parameters: lateral resolution versus clinical resolution; anechoic target detection versus clinical noise; and penetration depth versus clinically useful penetration depth, demonstrated moderate correlations, (r= 0.69, p

Studies In Cardiac Defribrillation, Eamonn Mckenna

Masters

Cardiac disease resulting in cardiac arrest is one of the most common fatal diseases in the developed world. Defibrillation is the medical procedure used to correct the irregular cardiac rhythm (ventricular fibrillation (VF)) which is very often detected in patients suffering cardiac arrest. In the work reported in this thesis, two aspects of the defibrillation of patients in VF were examined. The first area of investigation concentrated on the use of multiple defibrillation electrodes to be used during closed chest (transthoracic) defibrillation. This study was carried out in a saline bath and centred on “focusing” electric fields from perimeter electrodes …

Constitutional Law - The Supreme Court Still Hasn't Found What It Should Be Looking For: A Test That Effectively And Consistently Defines Punishment For Constitutional Protection Analysis, William F. Shimko

Wyoming Law Review

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Controlling Water Pollution From Coalbed Methane Drilling: An Analysis Of Discharge Permit Requirements, Sharon Buccino, Steve Jones

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Ethics Of Delaying Persecution, Lisa A. Dolak

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Access Denied: Barriers To Remedies Under The Violence Against Women Act For Limited English Proficient Battered Immigrant Women, Deborah A. Morgan

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

North Dakota Homeland Security Strategy, Susan Reinertson

Theses and Dissertations

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Locating Latinos In The Field Of Civil Rights: Assessing The Neoliberal Case For Radical Exclusion Book Review Essay, Richard Delgado

Essays, Reviews, and Shorter Works

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About Your Masthead: A Preliminary Inquiry Into The Compatibility Of Civil Rights And Civil Liberties Essay, Richard Delgado

Essays, Reviews, and Shorter Works

No abstract provided.

Accuracy And Interferences For Enzyme-Linked Immunoassay Tests For Atrazine, Craig D. Adams, Hua Jiang, Michael Mcguire, Nicole Graziano, Alan Roberson, Michelle Frey

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Atrazine is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the United States, therefore it is a regulatory concern and is extensively monitored in the environment, especially in drinking water. Because of the higher costs of gas chromatography (GC) methods, utility managers and regulators are considering the increased use of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methods for monitoring atrazine. an ELISA test kit was recently approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency. the research in this article points out potential biases and inaccuracies that may occur with such test kits. ELISA test kits for atrazine are typically precise (repeatable) but often …

Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog [2003-2004], Georgia Southern University

Undergraduate & Graduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Meaning Of The Meaningless In The Plays Of Suzan-Lori Parks, Andrea J. Goto

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

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Reconceptualizing Mathematics Education, Melinda Ann Smith

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

This dissertation is to explore theoretically mathematics education in the United States and the need for reconcepualizing mathematics education. Mathematics education needs reconceptualizing because students know very little mathematics by the time they graduate from high school. Mathematics has become a subject to be feared and dreaded for centuries. High school teachers blame middle school teachers, middle school teachers blame elementary teachers, and elementary teachers blame parents for their students' lack of preparedness in mathematics. Elementary teachers express frustration in teaching mathematics because of their own lack of content knowledge and lack of preparation for the mathematics component of their …

The Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Referendum And The Financing Of Public School Capital Projects In Georgia, Kathy Cox Peavy

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

Although taxes have risen across the nation, funding for public school capital projects still remains a critical need in education. The public outcry for no new taxes has given arise to various types of creative funding for capital projects. The use of a 1-cent sales tax for educational purposes is one type of new funding for capital projects. This study was a mixed-method, descriptive design study gathering quantitative and qualitative data on the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum in Georgia. Fifty-seven school districts in Georgia, with an approved SPLSOT referendum on March 18. 1997, along with four school …

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Reavis Heads Georgia Center for Educational Renewal
• Chris Crutcher Lecture
• Children’s Literature Collection Endowed
• Honoring Student Achievement
• 16th National Youth-at-Risk Conference
• COE Soaring Into Action
• Dr. Reynolds Receives Jack Miller Award
• A Day on Campus With Teachers of Tomorrow
• DESTINATION TEACHING: Customized Pathways to Get You There
• Parsons Provides FIPSE Leadership
• Local Kappa Delta Pi Chapter Celebrates 53rd Year
• Professors Who Have Made A Difference
• SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI
• Southern Educator Class Roll
• International Study Opportunity
• Welcome New Faculty/Staff

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Georgia Southern Soccer and COE in Iraq
• PRISM Collaborative for Math & Science
• Kiwanis Support International Study
• Information Sessions for Off-Campus Degrees
• COE Soaring Into Action
• P-16 Partnership for Teaching/Learning Renewal
• College of Education and First District RESA Co-Sponsor the JASON Project
• Guidelines for Happy Teachers
• SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI
• Southern Educator Class Roll
• DESTINATION TEACHING: Customized Pathways to Get You There
• Colonel Robert Guy
• College of Education Board of Advisors Fall Meeting
• Professors Who Have Made A Difference
• Partnering with the UK
• Faculty/Staff Retirements
• PREP Students Attend 21st Century Leadership Activities

Prediction Of Rotor Position At Standstill And Flying Shaft Conditions In Switched Reluctance Machines, M. Krishnamurthy, C. S. Edrington, Babak Fahimi

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Development of a reliable, smooth, and precise position sensor less startup routine is an integral part of the Switched Reluctance Machine (SRM) control. the proposed sensor less startup method presented in this paper represents high grade performance and does not require additional hardware or memory. Further, the proposed sensor less technique is extended to flying shaft conditions. These capabilities are highly demanded by automotive applications such as starter/alternator and electric power steering systems. an assessment of the impact of motor parameters and diagnostic signal measurement on the quality of the sensor less startup method is also included. This will help …

Adaptive Critic Neural Network-Based Object Grasping Control Using A Three-Finger Gripper, Gustavo Galan, Jagannathan Sarangapani

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Grasping of objects has been a challenging task for robots. The complex grasping task can be defined as object contact control and manipulation subtasks. In this paper, object contact control subtask is defined as the ability to follow a trajectory accurately by the fingers of a gripper. The object manipulation subtask is defined in terms of maintaining a predefined applied force by the fingers on the object. A sophisticated controller is necessary since the process of grasping an object without a priori knowledge of the object's size, texture, softness, gripper, and contact dynamics is rather difficult. Moreover, the object has …

Detection Of Basal Cell Carcinoma Using Electrical Impedance And Neural Networks, Rohit Dua, Daryl G. Beetner, William V. Stoecker, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Variations in electrical impedance over frequency might be used to distinguish basal cell carcinoma (BCC) from benign skin lesions, although the patterns that separate the two are nonobvious. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) may be good pattern classifiers for this application. A preliminary study to show the potential of neural networks to distinguish benign from malignant skin lesions using electrical impedance is presented. Electrical impedance was measured in vivo from 1 kHz to 1 MHz at five virtual depths on 18 BCC and 16 benign or premalignant lesions. A feed-forward neural network was trained using back propagation to classify these lesions. …

Ergodic Capacity Of Doubly Selective Rayleigh Fading Mimo Channels, Chengshan Xiao, Y. Rosa Zheng

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The ergodic capacity is investigated for doubly selective (frequency selective and time varying) MIMO Rayleigh fading channels. A closed form formula is derived that quantifies the effect of the ISI fading on the ergodic capacity into an ISI degradation factor. It is discovered that, in general frequency selective MIMO channels, the inter-tap correlations of the ISI fading will reduce the ergodic capacity comparing to the frequency flat fading channel. Only in the special case when the ISI fading does not have inter-tap correlations will the ergodic capacity be the same as that of the frequency flat channel. This new formula …

Measuring The Robustness Of A Resource Allocation, Shoukat Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay Siegel, Jong-Kook Kim

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Parallel and distributed systems may operate in an environment that undergoes unpredictable changes causing certain system performance features to degrade. Such systems need robustness to guarantee limited degradation despite fluctuations in the behavior of its component parts or environment. This research investigates the robustness of an allocation of resources to tasks in parallel and distributed systems. The main contributions are 1) a mathematical description of a metric for the robustness of a resource allocation with respect to desired system performance features against multiple perturbations in multiple system and environmental conditions, and 2) a procedure for deriving a robustness metric for …

The Nostalgic Turn And The Politics Of Ressentiment, William M. Reynolds

Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

The Greatest Generation, Band of Brothers, We Were Soldiers, Nick at Night, and the confederate battle flag. We are looking backward, because looking forward is too problematic. We are living within a global conservative restoration, which has gained intensity since 9/11 and gained further solidification since the most recent elections. Ira Shor elaborated the concept of the conservative restoration in his text, Culture Wars: School and Society in the Conservative Restoration 1969-1984 (1986).

Faculty Senate Librarian's Report-2004, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate: Librarian's Reports

No abstract provided.

Faculty Handbook, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Handbooks

Faculty Handbook for Georgia Southern University for the 2004-2005 academic year. The Faculty Handbook is published online by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and archived in Digital Commons@Georgia Southern.

Hermeneutics, Gerry White

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazones Of 2,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehyde, 2,4-Dihydroxyacetophenone And 2,4-Dihydroxybenzophenone, Russell G. Baughman, Kenneth L. Martin, Rajendra K. Singh, James O. Stoffer

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

In 2,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone N,N-dimethylformamide solvate (or 4-[(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-hydrazonomethyl]benzene-1,3-diol N,N-dimethylformamide solvate

Libelle Self-Contained Anti-G Ensemble: Overcoming Negative Transfer, Michael T. Hoepfner, Marian C. Schultz, James T. Schultz

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

G-suits have changed over the years since Dr. Wilbur Franks invented the first anti-g suit. For the past decade the United States Air Force has been using the Combat Edge ensemble and the associated L-1 straining maneuver. The Air Force is now testing the Libelle Self-contained Anti-G Ensemble (SAGE); it uses a unique Libelle Straining Maneuver (LSM). The suit and the straining maneuver were determined to be valid; however, the effects of negative transfer must be addressed or it will have a significant impact on the success of this program.

Quality In Airline Safety: Quality Methods And Tools Are Needed To Manage New Directions, Alan Stolzer, Carl Halford

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Approximately 650 million people fly on U.S. certificated air carriers annually (Department of Transportation: Federal Aviation Administration, 2003). Although statistically air transportation is one of the safest modes of travel, the few airline accidents that occur never fail to garner substantial media attention and concern of the public. The responsibility to seek ways to improve air transportation safety falls on all involved in aviation - practitioners and educators alike. The purpose of this article is to provide, through a review of literature, a brief examination of the past, present, and future state of efforts to address airline safety, and to …