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Exponent, Vol. 35, No. 28, 2004-06-30, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2004

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Health Research & Services Fas Evaluation Ethnographic Update Report Of The Alaska Multidisciplinary Fasd Teams, Alexandra Edwards

ISER Reports

No abstract provided.

June 30th 2004, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

No abstract provided.

Boston Harbor South Watersheds 2004 Assessment Report, Neponset River Watershed Association, Urban Harbors Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston, Boston Harbor Association, Fore River Watershed Association, Weir River Watershed Association

Urban Harbors Institute Publications

This report includes assessments covering the four individual watersheds that discharge into Boston Harbor from south of the City of Boston — the Neponset, Weir, Fore and Back River Watersheds — plus an assessment for those portions of the City of Boston which border the Harbor itself south of the Charles River, hereinafter referred to as “Boston Inner Harbor Watershed.” The companion to this report is the “Boston Harbor South Watersheds 2004-2009 Action Plan,” which spells out a comprehensive set of responses needed to remedy problems identified here.

This document does not cover the two major watersheds that discharge to …

A Decision Support Tool For Accepting Or Rejecting Donations In Humanitarian Relief Organizations, Francisco Javier Ruiz-Brand

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the increase in the occurrence of disasters (natural and man-made) that leave people injured, handicapped or dead, the disaster management theory is gaining more importance. As a consequence, human assistance and disaster relief organizations are managing increasingly more inventories anticipated to help people in need. Donations are the common means used by humanitarian relief organizations for procuring commodities to support some of their programs. Previous experiences have indicated that donations become a burden instead of offering relief when they do not match actual victims' needs. Accepting or rejecting donations is a key issue that can produce not only economic …

Murray Ledger And Times, June 30, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Brain Motion And Deformation During Closed Head Injury In The Presence Of Cerebrospinal Fluid, Charles F. Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper presents a new analysis of the physics of closed head injury following brief, intense acceleration of the head. It focuses upon the buoyancy of the brain in cerebrospinal fluid, which protects against damage, the propagation of strain waves through the brain substance, which causes damage, and the concentration of strain in critical anatomic regions, which magnifies damage. Numerical methods are used to create animations or "movies" of brain motion and deformation. Initially a 1 cm gap filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) separates the brain from the skull. Whole head acceleration induces artificial gravity within the skull. The brain …

An Examination Of Perceptions For Family Acculturation, Family Leisure Involvement, And Family Functioning Among Mexican-Americans, Owen D. Christenson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between acculturation and aspects of family functioning (cohesion and adaptability) and family leisure involvement from Mexican-American parent, youth, and family perspectives. Acculturation of parents, youth, and families was measured using the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (BAS). Family leisure involvement was measured using the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP). Aspects of family functioning were measured using the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES II). Sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, generation, family size, income, and education were also used to help predict levels of acculturation for family perspectives. The …

A Study Of George S. Kaufman's Metatheatrics, Nancy Alease Jarrell

Theses and Dissertations

Known for his comedic plays, George S. Kaufman became one of the most successful playwrights in American theatre history. Part of his success stems from his metatheatrical writing techniques, which he used by incorporating people from his life into his plays and by writing about the business he experienced first hand. To date, no sources link Kaufman and the metatheatrics of his work. Therefore, this thesis highlights these links and explores how far Kaufman took his metatheatrical viewpoints, why he chose to use this method, and what statements he made by using these techniques. In order to prove this thesis, …

Annual Report Of The University, 2003-2004, Volumes 1-4, University Of New Mexico

UNM Annual Reports

Center for Academic Program Support Annual Report 2003-2004 Submitted by Karen R. Olson Significant Developments As of July 1, 2003, the Center for Academic Program Support separated administratively from the General Library, becoming responsible for all budgetary concerns (student employment, hiring, and payroll; staff hiring, payroll, and leave; purchasing and budget reconciliation) and for its technology. CAPS began the fall semester 2003 with TutorTrac, a commercial, web-based, scheduling, payroll, and reporting program. TutorTrac replaced the customized program that CAPS had used for over ten years. Student users now log-in using their student ID number for all appointments and drop-in labs …

New Mexico Labor Market Review 06-30-2004, New Mexico Department Of Labor

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review is a monthly publication presenting statistical data and analysis on labor market conditions throughout New Mexico. Issues examine statewide and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labor force estimates, industry activity, wages, occupational demand, and related economic conditions, often accompanied by feature articles on topics affecting the state’s economy. This issue covers May 2004.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session June 30, 2004, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Acceptance of the Agenda

Closed Informal Session

Remarks by the Chair

Remarks by the President Bailey

Approval of the Minutes of the April 16 Formal Session

Personnel Report

Grant Report

Program Change Proposals

Name Change - Department of Communication to School of Communication

Majors

Concentrations within the Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership

Degree Programs

Gift Report

Public Safety Resolutions/Third Public Hearing

Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital Ground Lease

Statement of Fair Contracting Commitment

Cash Investment Performance Report

Annuity and Life Income Funds Investment Performance Report

Facility Presentation

Public Comments

The Bg News June 30, 2004, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. June 30, 2004. Volume 94-Issue 154.

Vision 2023: An Environmental Vision Plan For Chicago Heights And South Chicago Heights, Green Communities Steering Committee

Green Communities

This document describes the environmental vision plan created by and for the City of Chicago Heights and Village of South Chicago Heights. This plan focuses on clean air, clean land and brownfield redevelopment, quality of water, protection and restoration of natural areas and open space, and compatible development. In addition, the document includes a history, list of participants, and implementation plan.

Quantification And Visualization Of Ld Patterns And Identification Of Haplotype Blocks, Yan Wang, Sandrine Dudoit

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Classical measures of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between two loci, based only on the joint distribution of alleles at these loci, present noisy patterns. In this paper, we propose a new distance-based LD measure, R, which takes into account multilocus haplotypes around the two loci in order to exploit information from neighboring loci. The LD measure R yields a matrix of pairwise distances between markers, based on the correlation between the lengths of shared haplotypes among chromosomes around these markers. Data analysis demonstrates that visualization of LD patterns through the R matrix reveals more deterministic patterns, with much less noise, than …

Modeling School Choice: A Comparison Of Public, Private-Independent, Private-Religious And Home-Schooled Students, Clive R. Belfield

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

U.S. students now have four choices of schooling: public schooling, private–religious schooling, private–independent schooling, and home-schooling. … Here, we use two recent large-scale datasets to assess the school enrollment decision: the first is the National Household Expenditure Survey (1999), and the second is micro-data on SAT test-takers in 2001. ...

Caring As Catalyst; A Model For Health Possibilities, Brenda A. Becker

Theses and Graduate Projects

This graduate field project presents a conceptual model based on the theoretical frameworks of Brentano, Frankl, Rogers, Merry, Benner, and Wrubel and is designed to facilitate the life journey to more complex levels. The model has a foundation in chaos theory and in the search for meaning. Key concepts of catalyst, presence, polarization, and participation are defined and described. Presence is defined at three levels: physical, psychological, and therapeutic. Participation is defined as a sharing of the life and experience between nurse and person. Polarization, or change in pattern, is also defined at three levels: active, collaborative, and passive. The …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/30 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Modeling school choice : a comparison of public, private-independent, private-religious and home-schooled students / Clive R. Belfield.

Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Donald Eugene "Don" Nicoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park, Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College …

The Ipperwash Inquiry - Symposium On Government/Police Relations: The Idea Of The Political "Independence" Of The Police: International Interpretations And Experiences, Philip Stenning

Conferences and Workshops

This chapter serves to clarify some of the key concepts. By graphically illustrating the relationship between degrees of ‘control’ and degrees of accountability it is argued that the two concepts are not incompatible. The term independence is then used in the chapter to refer only to decision-making that falls in what is pictured as the fourth quadrant: ‘full accountability’ with ‘no control’. The chapter then outlines the scope or range of the potentially ‘independent’ decision-making tasks.

Stenning discusses the growth of the ‘doctrine of police independence’. It is argued that what we might assume is a widely held value favouring …

Treatment Of Hypertriglyceridemia With Omega-3 Fatty Acids: A Systematic Review, Amanda Gloria Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: To 1) critically appraise available randomized controlled trials (RTCs) addressing the efficacy of long-chain ω-3 fatty acids as a secondary prevention agent of hypertriglyceridemia, and 2) make recommendations for clinical practice.

Data Sources: All RCTs identified from several databases from 1993-2003 were reviewed by two independent reviewers who extracted data from each study and used the previously tested Boyack and Lookinland Methodological Quality Index (MQI) to determine study quality.

Results: Ten studies reported long-chain ω-3 fatty acids to be effective in the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia. The average decrease in triglycerides (TG) was 29%, total cholesterol (TC) 11.6%, very low …

Efficacy Of Quality Criteria To Identify Potentially Harmful Information: A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Web Sites, Muhammad Walji, Smitha Sagaram, Deepak Sagaram, Funda Meric-Bernstam, Craig Johnson, Nadeem Q Mirza, Elmer V Bernstam

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Many users search the Internet for answers to health questions. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a particularly common search topic. Because many CAM therapies do not require a clinician's prescription, false or misleading CAM information may be more dangerous than information about traditional therapies. Many quality criteria have been suggested to filter out potentially harmful online health information. However, assessing the accuracy of CAM information is uniquely challenging since CAM is generally not supported by conventional literature. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to determine whether domain-independent technical quality criteria can identify potentially harmful online CAM content. …

Quantitative Methods For Tracking Cognitive Change 3 Years After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Sarah Barry, Scott L. Zeger, Ola A. Selnes, Maura A. Grega, Louis M. Borowicz, Jr., Guy M. Mckhann

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Background: The analysis and interpretation of change in cognitive function test scores after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG). Longitudinal studies with multiple outcomes present considerable statistical challenges. Application of hierarchical linear statistical models can estimate the effects of a surgical intervention on the time course of multiple biomarkers.

Methods: We use an "analyze then summarize" approach whereby we estimate the intervention effects separately for each cognitive test and then pool them, taking appropriate account of their statistical correlations. The model accounts for dropouts at follow-up, the chance of which may be related to past cognitive score, by implicitly imputing the …

Contributions To Emerging Techniques In Survey Sampling., Sanghamitra Pal Dr.

Doctoral Theses

This dissertation contains seven Chapters. The contents in the respective Chapters may be briefly recounted as follows.A topic of classical interest in survey sampling is how to ensure the existence of a uniformly non-negative (UNN) unbiased estimator for the mean square error (MSE) of a homogeneous linear estimator (HLE) for a finite survey population total. Hájek (1958), Vijayan (1975), Rao and Vijayan (1977) and Rao (1979) developed a number of results which boil down to the folowing as narrated in the monograph by Chaudhuri and Stenger (1992).If there exist non-zero constants w, and the unknown values y, of the variable …

The Work And Goals Of The Sts Task Force On Information Literacy For Science And Technology, Virginia A. Baldwin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

"The Work and Goals of the STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology" presentation was given as part of the program of the Science and Technology Section (STS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries Division of the American Library Association at the 2004 American Library Association Annual Conference. The intent of the presentation was to outline the history, process, feedback methods, and outcome of the STS Task Force on Information Literacy for Science and Technology.

June 28, 2004 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Largest Ever Air Quality Study Poised To Begin In Seacoast Nh, David Sims

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Board Of Trustees Minutes, June 28, 2004, Eastern Washington University

Board of Trustees Minutes

No abstract provided.

Tyson, Cyril Degrasse, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Cyril Degrasse Tyson was born in Harlem in the early 1930’s and frequently moved around Harlem and eventually made his way into the Bronx at an early age. He discusses his family history and when his parents first moved to New York. His parents were both born in the West Indies on the island of Nevis and moved to New York after the first World War. They moved to an area of Manhattan which was referred to as the San Juan Hills at the time. He describes it as a pocket of blacks from the south and West Indies, Puerto …

Sts Task Force On Information Literacy For Science And Technology, Virginia Baldwin, Sheila Young, Ibironke Lawal, Catherine Wong

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.