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Conducting Epidemiological Research In South Africa: Challenges In The Data Collection Process, Yegan Pillay, Alan J. Flisher Jan 2004

Conducting Epidemiological Research In South Africa: Challenges In The Data Collection Process, Yegan Pillay, Alan J. Flisher

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

This article addresses the challenges faced by research supervisors and research assistants while collecting data to explore the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents in South Africa. The article focuses on budgetary constraints, interviewee expectations, moral issues, limited confidentiality, fatigue factors and racial issues that threatened the completion of the project. These challenges are examined from the emic-etic theoretical paradigm and the interactions between the research supervisors, the research assistants and the research participants are analyzed. The authors propose recommendations that can serve to prepare researchers who embark on conducting research in similar socio-cultural environments.

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Making A Greater Birmingham: The Annexation Of Ensley, Jeremy Campbell Jan 2004

Making A Greater Birmingham: The Annexation Of Ensley, Jeremy Campbell

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 72-81

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Questioning The Warren Report, April Cash Jan 2004

Questioning The Warren Report, April Cash

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 91-97

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Tractor-Trailer Simulation And The Assessment Of Training Scenarios For City-Driving: Skill Building In The Area Of Left And Right Turns, James Whitmire Jan 2004

Tractor-Trailer Simulation And The Assessment Of Training Scenarios For City-Driving: Skill Building In The Area Of Left And Right Turns, James Whitmire

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A simulated inner-city training scenario was found to increase skills in the area of turning when compared with a simulated off-track training scenario. To answer this question, two groups of ten participants (5 women and 5 men) were tested using three scripted scenarios focusing on left and right turns. The first training scenario (control group) is an off-track training scenario, which consists of a large asphalt lot and the use of orange cones; the second training scenario (experimental group) is an inner-city training scenario without the presence of vehicular traffic; and the third scenario (test scenario) is an inner-city scenario …

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The Ecology Of Drift Algae In The Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Julie Lynnae Liss Jan 2004

The Ecology Of Drift Algae In The Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Julie Lynnae Liss

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

To gain an understanding of the ecology of drift algae in the Indian River Lagoon system along the east coast of central Florida, four questions were addressed: 1) What is the composition and rate of accumulation of drift? 2) How much movement and turnover occurs within drift accumulations? 3) Do growth rates differ for drift versus attached algae? 4) Is there a difference in photosynthetic performance in drift versus attached algal species? Manipulative field and laboratory experiments were conducted to address these questions with the green macroalga Codium decorticatum and the red macroalga Gracilaria tikvahiae. Changes in pigment concentration and …

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Multigene Metabolic Engineering Via The Chloroplast Genome, Oscar Nemesio Ruiz Jan 2004

Multigene Metabolic Engineering Via The Chloroplast Genome, Oscar Nemesio Ruiz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The vast majority of valuable agronomic traits are encoded polygenetically. Chloroplast genetic engineering offers an alternate approach to multigene engineering by allowing the insertion of entire pathways in a single transformation event, while being an environmentally friendly approach. Stable integration into the chloroplast genome and transcription of the phaA gene coding for β-ketothiolase was confirmed by Southern and northern blots. Coomassie-stained gel and western blots confirmed hyperexpression of β-ketothiolase in leaves and anthers, with high enzyme activity. The transgenic lines were normal except for the male sterile phenotype, lacking pollen. Scanning electron microscopy revealed a collapsed morphology of the pollen …

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Covering The Uninsured: What Is It Worth?, Wilhelmine Miller, Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor, Willard G. Manning Jan 2004

Covering The Uninsured: What Is It Worth?, Wilhelmine Miller, Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor, Willard G. Manning

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

One out of six Americans under age sixty-five lacks health insurance, a situation that imposes sizable hidden costs upon society. The poorer health and shorter lives of those without coverage account for most of these costs. Other impacts are manifested by Medicare and disability support payments, demands on the public health infrastructure, and losses of local health service capacity. We conclude that the estimated value of health forgone each year because of uninsurance ($65?$130 billion) constitutes a lower-bound estimate of economic losses resulting from the present level of uninsurance nationally.

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Schip-Enrolled Children With Special Health Care Needs: An Assessment Of Coordination Efforts Between State Schip And Title V Programs, Anne R. Markus, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Soeurette Cyprien Jan 2004

Schip-Enrolled Children With Special Health Care Needs: An Assessment Of Coordination Efforts Between State Schip And Title V Programs, Anne R. Markus, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Soeurette Cyprien

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This study explores how the State Children's Health Insurance Program serves children with special needs and assesses the role of the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant program in filling in gaps in coverage. It also discusses the implications of state choices on publicly-funded health coverage for pediatric health care.

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Environmental Risk Factors In Hospital Suicide., Daniel Z Lieberman, Harvey L P Resnik, Vicenzio Holder-Perkins Jan 2004

Environmental Risk Factors In Hospital Suicide., Daniel Z Lieberman, Harvey L P Resnik, Vicenzio Holder-Perkins

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Faculty Publications

Suicide of hospitalized patients is the most common sentinel event reviewed by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Shorter lengths of stay, sicker patients, and higher patient to staff ratios challenge the ability of the hospital to maintain safety. Risk factors associated with the physical environment of the inpatient psychiatric unit, cited as the most common root cause of inpatient suicide, may be neglected because evaluation of these factors is generally not included in medical education and training. Minimization of fixtures that can facilitate strangulation and other high risk aspects within the hospital environment is an important element …

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Washington University Magazine, Fall 2004 Jan 2004

Washington University Magazine, Fall 2004

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Washington University Magazine, Winter 2004 Jan 2004

Washington University Magazine, Winter 2004

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Gated Electron Transfer As A Probe Of The Configurational Dynamics Of Peptide−Protein Complexes, Liu Liu, Jing Hong, Michael Y. Ogawa Jan 2004

Gated Electron Transfer As A Probe Of The Configurational Dynamics Of Peptide−Protein Complexes, Liu Liu, Jing Hong, Michael Y. Ogawa

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Gated electron-transfer measurements are used to probe the configurational dynamics of complexes formed between small metallopeptides and cytochrome c. The results show that that an apparently subtle chemical alteration of the metallopeptide produces significant changes to the dynamics of the peptide−protein complex.

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Undergraduate Catalog - The School Year 2003-2004, Prairie View A&M University Jan 2004

Undergraduate Catalog - The School Year 2003-2004, Prairie View A&M University

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

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Hope On, Hope Ever: Josephine Garis Cochran And The Dish-Washing Machine, Irene Herold Jan 2004

Hope On, Hope Ever: Josephine Garis Cochran And The Dish-Washing Machine, Irene Herold

All Faculty Articles

During the period of 1880s to the 1910s, Josephine Garis Cochran was an inventor, entrepreneur, manufacturer, and business owner of dish-washing machines. Several factors—social, legal, political and economic—combined to give women new freedoms and opportunities that reflected greater societal changes of the Guilded Age and the Progressive Era in the United States. Cochran’s life and work to advantage of these changes and applies to many diverse areas of historical study: women’s history, the history of technology, business history, patent development, influence of world’s fairs, such as the World’s Columbian Exposition, history of invention, Chicago history, urban development, widowhood, woman’s suffrage, …

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Research Annual Report 2003, Children's Mercy Hospital Jan 2004

Research Annual Report 2003, Children's Mercy Hospital

Research Annual Reports

Annual report of the research at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City MO, a pediatric medical center.

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History Of Research On African Factory-Printed Cloth And Current Approaches In The Field, Michelle Willard Jan 2004

History Of Research On African Factory-Printed Cloth And Current Approaches In The Field, Michelle Willard

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper examines the significance of factory-printed cloth in Africa and its potential to communicate various messages through its use as clothing. Factory-printed cloth also has unintended communicative value when it is displayed outside Africa in museum contexts. I will introduce the topic with a brief history of research carried out on African factory-printed cloth and its appearance in museum and gallery exhibitions. This has led to contemporary forms of art historical and anthropological research. Some of the latter, including my own, has involved field collecting of commemorative cloths in West Africa. My research resulted in a museum exhibition of …

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Wooster Magazine: Winter 2004, Lisa Watts Jan 2004

Wooster Magazine: Winter 2004, Lisa Watts

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the Winter of 2004. Host families for International Students are highlighted on pages nine to thirteen. Angene Hopkins Wilson '61 and Jack Wilson '61 reflect on their experience as Peace Corps volunteers. The letters from Signe Helgeson '01 from their time in Benin. The Class Notes section is from page twenty-eight to sixty.

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An Experience With Free Scapular Flap For Reconstruction Of Lower Extremity Defects At Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pervaiz Mehmood Hashmi Jan 2004

An Experience With Free Scapular Flap For Reconstruction Of Lower Extremity Defects At Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pervaiz Mehmood Hashmi

Section of Orthopaedic Surgery

Background: Reconstruction of large composite tissue defects with exposed vital structures and weight bearing surfaces are extremely difficult for reconstructive surgeons. Coverage of such difficult defects can be achieved with free tissue transfer provided microsurgical expertise is available. This study was carried out to determine the outcome of free scapular flaps performed for lower extremity defects.
Methods: Clinical records of the patients were reviewed and important variables included demographic data, etiology of soft tissue defects, site and size of defect, complications and percentage of wound coverage by flap. Patient satisfaction and objective assessment of flap coverage and motion of involved …

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Successful Use Of Angiographic Embolization To Control Hemorrhage From Blunt Pelvic Trauma In A Pediatric Patient, Z A. Qasim, R Masood, M A. Mateen Jan 2004

Successful Use Of Angiographic Embolization To Control Hemorrhage From Blunt Pelvic Trauma In A Pediatric Patient, Z A. Qasim, R Masood, M A. Mateen

Section of Paediatric Surgery

No abstract provided.

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Peer Review Audit Of Trauma Deaths In A Developing Country, Aa Jat, Mr Khan, Hasnain Zafar, Aj Raja, Q Hoda, R Rehmani, Rh Lakdawala, S. Bashir Jan 2004

Peer Review Audit Of Trauma Deaths In A Developing Country, Aa Jat, Mr Khan, Hasnain Zafar, Aj Raja, Q Hoda, R Rehmani, Rh Lakdawala, S. Bashir

Section of General Surgery

OBJECTIVES: Peer review of trauma deaths can be used to evaluate the efficacy of trauma systems. The objective of this study was to estimate teh proportion of preventable trauma deaths and the factors contributing to poor outcome using peer review in a tertiary care hospital in a developing country.
METHODS: All trauma deaths during a 2-year period (1 January 1998 to 30 December 1998) were identified and registered in a computerized trauma registry, and the probability of survival was calculated for all patients. Summary data, including registry information and details of prehospital, emergency room, and definitive care, were provided to …

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Risk Of Disease From Wildlife Reservoirs: Badgers, Cattle, And Bovine Tuberculosis, M. Scantlebury, M. R. Hutchings, D. J. Allcroft, S. Harris Jan 2004

Risk Of Disease From Wildlife Reservoirs: Badgers, Cattle, And Bovine Tuberculosis, M. Scantlebury, M. R. Hutchings, D. J. Allcroft, S. Harris

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

Livestock face complex foraging options associated with optimizing nutrient intake while being able to avoid areas posing risk of parasites or disease. Areas of tall nutrient-rich swards around fecal deposits may be attractive for grazing, but might incur fitness costs from parasites. We use the example of dairy cattle and the risks of tuberculosis transmission posed to them by pastures contaminated with badger excreta to examine this trade-off. A risk may be posed either by aerosolized inhalation through investigation or by ingestion via grazing contaminated swards. We quantified the levels of investigation and grazing of 150 dairy cows at badger …

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Scwds Briefs: Volume 19, Number 4 (January 2004) Jan 2004

Scwds Briefs: Volume 19, Number 4 (January 2004)

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications


• A highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus (H5N1) recently has been reported among domestic poultry in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. This virus also has been responsible for 23 confirmed human cases, including 18 deaths.
• U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman announced a “presumptive positive” case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow from the state of Washington.—Report on completed investigation.
• Proposed Rule in the Federal Register regarding a chronic wasting disease (CWD) herd certification program and interstate shipping requirements for captive deer and elk.
• Another BIG Year for …

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Extradural Granulocytic Sarcoma Causing Acute Paraparesis, Arshad A. Siddiqui, Naim-Ur Rehman Jan 2004

Extradural Granulocytic Sarcoma Causing Acute Paraparesis, Arshad A. Siddiqui, Naim-Ur Rehman

Section of Neurosurgery

A case of 9 years old female presenting with rapidly progressive paraparesis during remission phase of acute myeloblastic leukemia is reported. Radiological imaging revealed an extradural mass in the upper dorsal spine producing significant cord compression. The patient showed a dramatic neurological recovery after spinal cord decompression and subsequently treated with appropriate chemotherapy and local radiotherapy.

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Power Plays: Reallocating Power Under The New Russian Federation Code Of Criminal Procedure, Lauren Chen Jan 2004

Power Plays: Reallocating Power Under The New Russian Federation Code Of Criminal Procedure, Lauren Chen

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

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Ippp Um Research Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 1, 2004, Institute Of Research Management & Monitoring University Of Malaya Jan 2004

Ippp Um Research Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 1, 2004, Institute Of Research Management & Monitoring University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

Now, known as UMR Bulletin

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Ippp Um Research Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 2, 2004, Institute Of Research Management & Monitoring University Of Malaya Jan 2004

Ippp Um Research Bulletin, Volume 4, Number 2, 2004, Institute Of Research Management & Monitoring University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

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Aei News, Volume 2, Number 2, 2004, Asia-Europe Institute University Of Malaya Jan 2004

Aei News, Volume 2, Number 2, 2004, Asia-Europe Institute University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2000s)

No abstract provided.

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Immobilized Enzymes And Cells, Microbial Indicators : Application And Technology, Chee Woon Wang Jan 2004

Immobilized Enzymes And Cells, Microbial Indicators : Application And Technology, Chee Woon Wang

Archival Material (2000s)

"An inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Malaya on 20 February 2004".

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Secured Lending And Its Uncertain Future, Douglas G. Baird Jan 2004

Secured Lending And Its Uncertain Future, Douglas G. Baird

Articles

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'Agreeing To Disagree': Filling Gaps In Deliberately Incomplete Contracts, Omri Ben-Shahar Jan 2004

'Agreeing To Disagree': Filling Gaps In Deliberately Incomplete Contracts, Omri Ben-Shahar

Articles

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