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The Effects Of Three Different Ice Bath Immersion Times On Numbness (Sensation Of Pressure), Surface Temperature, And Perceived Pain, Norma E. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

Objectives: Determine if numbness differs in magnitude and duration between 10-, 15-, and 20-min ice bath immersions, when temperature was held constant. Design: Dependant variables; sensation of pressure (g), perceived pain (cm), and skin temperature (º C). A repeated measures 3 X 19 factorial guided this study. Conditions were 10-, 15-, and 20-min ice bath immersions. Measurement times were before immersion, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, and 20 min immersion, and 1.5, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 min postimmersion. Subjects: Eighteen college-aged volunteers. Measurements: Subjects participated in three ice bath immersions (10, 15, …

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Educating The Fallible Firewall, Matt Schmidt

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

People are often considered the weakest link in protecting corporate assets. This project created and implemented an information security training module for Wells Fargo Treasury Management Operations to improve security awareness in the division. Key contributing factors to the module include: an intensive analysis on information security awareness and training, the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association, detailed analysis on corporate security practices, and employee feedback. The module focused on proper information security practices used at work and relevant personal practices like defeating a social engineer and protecting one's identity. Through the use of a facilitated learning environment, the module …

Media Problems Rife In Region, Ladb Staff

NotiCen

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The Iris Project: A New Architecture Or A Small Satellite Imaging Mission, Quinn Young, Todd Mosher, Jared Clements, Pranay Gupta, Matt Warner

Small Satellite Conference

Utah State University students have developed an earth-imaging satellite mission designed for specifically for the promising, low-cost RASCAL launch platform. Designed over a semester-long space system design class, the mission is intended to capture high quality images of earth from a low-Earth orbit. The total mission cost is estimated at $10 million including satellite design, fabrication, launch, and mission operations. Students used the university’s new Space System Analysis Laboratory, a concurrent design center, to assess design trades and develop the system architecture. The mission architecture, mission elements and satellite design are presented.

Show Me The Money – The Dominance Of Wealth In Determining Rights Performance In Asia, Randall P. Peerenboom

ExpressO

No abstract provided.

2004-2005 Operating Budget, Southern University System. Office Of Finance & Administration.

All Southern University System Budgets

The Southern University at Shreveport Operating for Fiscal Year 2004-2005.

Um Grant To Help Educate Health Professionals, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, August 11, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Imaging Techniques And Hardware For Inhomogeneous Mri, David A. Thayer

Theses and Dissertations

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become one of the most important medical imaging modalities over the past few decades because of its flexibility and low risk, along with other useful attributes. For traditional MRI, the static magnetic field, B_0, must be highly homogeneous. Obtaining this homogeneity can be difficult. Traditional MRI also requires linear gradient fields that are directed along the static field direction. Under these conditions a Fourier transform relationship exists between sampled data and the image to be reconstructed. In the case of an inhomogeneous static field, gradient fields that are not linear, or gradients that are not …

Pontiac Resident Awarded Naiw Scholarship, Chelsey Iaquinta

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Tax Planning Update For 2004, Tina N. Barrett

Cornhusker Economics

Although there have not been many changes to the tax law this year, there are a few things to keep in mind with tax planning this fall. In the past couple of years we have seen major law changes with short-term lives. The major change affecting farmers this year is the end of the bonus depreciation allowances.

But What Do They Think It Means? The Text/Image Relationship In Informational Communication, Nicole E. Bartell

Theses

To better understand how an audience processes information transmitted via image, text, or both, this study presented four different versions of the same message to four groups of RIT students. The message consisted of the following content: text only, text with images depicting evenly spaced years, text with images depicting irregularly spaced years, and text with irregularly spaced years. Subjects were instructed to look at the message for a set amount of time and then complete a questionnaire. Those who were given messages that had images and text felt less confused or misled than those who were given messages containing …

The Sociology Of Sexualities: Queer And Beyond, Joshua Gamson, Dawne Moon

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

We identify three trends in the recent sociology of sexuality. First, we examine how queer theory has influenced many sociologists whose empirical work observes sexuality in areas generally thought to be asexual. These sociologists also elaborate queer theory's challenge to sexual dichotomizing and trace the workings of power through sexual categories. Second, we look at how sociologists bring sexuality into conversation with the black feminist notion of “intersectionality” by examining the nature and effects of sexuality among multiple and intersecting systems of identity and oppression. A third trend in the sociology of sexuality has been to explore the relationships between …

Analyst And Broker Dealer Liability Under 10(B) For Biased Stock Recommendations, Ann Morales Olazabal

ExpressO

In the aftermath of the turn-of-the-millennium Wall Street scandals, class action suits have been brought by thousands of investors against securities analysts and their broker-dealer employers, based upon stock research and recommendations that were allegedly biased by such conflicts of interest as analysts' ownership interest in researched stocks or other relationships between analysts and issuers, and the fact analysts’ compensation was tied to their ability to generate investment banking business from issuers. This work exhaustively analyzes federal 10(b) liability for misleading representations and omissions in this context, through the prism of existing general securities fraud precedent, scant existing authority in …

University Science Lands Major Grant, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Genetic Algorithm Parameter Optimization: Applied To Sensor Coverage, Ferat Sahin, Giuseppe Abbate

Presentations and other scholarship

Genetic Algorithms are powerful tools, which when set upon a solution space will search for the optimal answer. These algorithms though have some associated problems, which are inherent to the method such as pre-mature convergence and lack of population diversity. These problems can be controlled with changes to certain parameters such as crossover, selection, and mutation. This paper attempts to tackle these problems in GA by having another GA controlling these parameters. The values for crossover parameter are: one point, two point, and uniform. The values for selection parameters are: best, worst, roulette wheel, inside 50%, outside 50%. The values …

A Distributed Evolutionary Algorithmic Approach To The Least-Cost Connected Constrained Sub-Graph And Power Control Problem, Jason C. Tillett, Raghuveer Rao, Ferat Sahin, T. M. Rao

Presentations and other scholarship

When wireless sensors are capable of variable transmit power and are battery powered, it is important to select the appropriate transmit power level for the node. Lowering the transmit power of the sensor nodes imposes a natural clustering on the network and has been shown to improve throughput of the network. However, a common transmit power level is not appropriate for inhomogeneous networks. A possible fitness-based approach, motivated by an evolutionary optimization technique, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is proposed and extended in a novel way to determine the appropriate transmit power of each sensor node. A distributed version of PSO …

Teleportal Face-To-Face System., Jannick Rolland, Ceyhun Akcay, Frank Biocca, Henley Quadling, Mark Quadling, Haocheng Zheng

UCF Patents

A teleportal system which provides remote communication between at least two users. A projective display and video capture system provides video images to the users. The video system obtains and transmits 3D images which are stereoscopic to remote users. The projective display unit provides an augmented reality environment to each user and allows users to view, unobstructed, the other local users, and view a local site in which they are located. A screen transmits to the user the images generated by the projective display via a retro-reflective fabric upon which images are projected and reflected back to the users eyes.

Resolution Of Organelle Docking And Fusion Kinetics In A Cell-Free Assay, Alexey J. Merz, William T. Wickner

Dartmouth Scholarship

In vitro assays of compartment mixing have been key tools in the biochemical dissection of organelle docking and fusion. Many such assays measure compartment mixing through the enzymatic modification of reporter proteins. Homotypic fusion of yeast vacuoles is measured with a coupled assay of proteolytic maturation of pro-alkaline phosphatase (pro-ALP). A kinetic lag is observed between the end of docking, marked by the acquisition of resistance to anti-SNARE reagents, and ALP maturation. We therefore asked whether the time taken for pro-ALP maturation adds a kinetic lag to the measured fusion signal. Prb1p promotes ALP maturation; overproduction of Prb1p accelerates ALP …

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For August 10, 2004, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the August 10, 2004 Board of Regents Meeting

The Statesman, V. 47, I. 57, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 47, i. 57

Voices From The Frontlines: Teachers' Perceptions Of High-Stakes Testing, Brett D. Jones, Robert J. Egley

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether teachers perceived Florida’s high-stakes testing program to be taking public schools in the right direction. More importantly, we sought to understand why teachers perceived the tests to be taking schools in the right or wrong direction. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 12/39 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Voices from the frontlines : teachers, Äô perceptions of high-stakes testing / Brett D. Jones [and] Robert J. Egley.

Design And Evaluation Of The Combined Input And Crossbar Queued (Cicq) Switch, Kenji Yoshigoe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Packet switches are used in the Internet to forward information between a sender and receiver and are the critical bottleneck in the Internet. Without faster packet switch designs, the Internet cannot continue to scale-up to higher data rates. Packet switches must be able to achieve high throughput and low delay. In addition, they must be stable for all traffic loads, must efficiently support variable length packets, and must be scalable to higher link data rates and greater numbers of ports. This dissertation investigates a new combined input and crossbar queued (CICQ) switch architecture.

Some unbalanced traffic loads result in instability …

Ohio Graduation Test And "High-Stakes" Testing To Be Examined During Statewide Conference

News Releases

News release announces that questions regarding Ohio's newest high school graduation requirement will be examined during a statewide conference called "The Ohio Graduation Test: Perspectives on High-Stakes Testing."

Um Hosts 'World's Largest Garage Sale' Sept. 18, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Marriage Moments: An Evaluation Of An Approach To Strengthen Couples' Relationships During The Transition To Parenthood, In The Context Of A Home Visitation Program, Kimberly Ann Rose Lovejoy

Theses and Dissertations

This study evaluates the efficacy of a self-guided, low-intensity curriculum, Marriage Moments, based on Fowers' (2000) virtues model of marital quality that emphasizes friendship, generosity, justice and loyalty. The Marriage Moments program consists of a guidebook and a video that were designed to strengthen marriages during the transition to parenthood and is used in the context of a home visitation program for first-time parents. Participants in the study included 119 married couples who had recently given birth to their first child. They were assigned to either a treatment, comparison or control group. The treatment group received the Marriage Moments curriculum …

August 9, 2004 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Illinois Wesleyan's Frazier Wins Fulbright Scholarship, Chelsey Iaquinta

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.