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An Analysis Of Mentorship In Michigan Police Agencies, Jeffrey G. Swanson

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research is to investigate how newer police officers are familiarized into their agency with respect to the manner in which they were trained and mentored. The concept of mentoring programs has been highly successful in the private and business sectors for many years. Since the concept of formal mentoring programs in law enforcement is largely limited to date, this study incorporates research in several other disciplines, to determine if there may be a corollary regarding law enforcement and other disciplines, and if so, to what degree mentoring exists among patrol officers. A survey was distributed to …

Piano Inside Out: The Expansion Of The Expressive, Technical, And Sonorous Spectrum In Selected Twentieth-Century Art-Music Repertoire For The Modern Acoustic Piano, Mira Kruja

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Art Music for the acoustic piano has changed tremendously during the twentieth century. Some of the techniques and skills pianists need to master in order to be able to perform successfully twentieth-century art piano music include: a refined ability to discriminate varied layers of sonorities; sophisticated pedal combinations; a sometimes percussive technique; and superior control of complex metric and rhythmic passages. New combinations of patterns that require specific technical preparation pose substantial pianistic challenges. Todays pianist needs to master a variety of glissandi, chords, or single melody textures played directly on the strings inside the piano and to combine such …

Studies Of Ergot Alkaloid Biosynthesis Genes In Clavicipitaceous Fungi, Caroline Machado

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Neotyphodium species, endophytic fungi associated with cool-season grasses, enhance host fitness and stress tolerance, but also produce biologically active alkaloids including ergot alkaloids associated with fescue toxicosis in grazing animals. One approach to reduce fescue toxicosis is to manipulate genes in the ergot alkaloid pathway. The gene, dmaW, encoding the first pathway-specific step in ergot alkaloid biosynthesis, was cloned previously from Claviceps spp. and its function was demonstrated by expression in yeast. Putative homologs have been cloned from Neotyphodium coenophialum (from tall fescue) and Neotyphodium sp. Lp1 (from perennial ryegrass). In order to confirm the function of dmaW in ergot …

Isolation And Characterization Of A Second Protein L-Isoaspartyl Methyltransferase Gene In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Qilong Xu

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Conversion of aspartate and asparagine residues to isoaspartate is a prevalent covalent protein modification in cells. The accumulation of these altered residues can lead to the loss of protein function and the consequent loss of cellular function. The L-ISOASPARTATE METHYLTRANSFERASE (EC 2.1.1.77) (PIMT) iteratively methylates abnormal isoaspartyl residues leading to conversion to L-aspartate, thereby mitigating the injurious effects of aging. Arabidopsis thaliana is unique among eukaryotes studied to date in that it possesses two genes (At3g48330 (PIMT1) and At5g50240 (PIMT2)) encoding PIMT. The PIMT2 gene exhibits a complex transcriptional control involving different transcriptional initiation sites and 5'- and 3'- alternative …

Remotely Accessible Solar Energy Laboratory For High School Students, William J. Hutzel, David Goodman

School of Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

A remotely accessible solar energy laboratory has been developed for real-time experimentation using solar heating and photovoltaic equipment that is physically located at Purdue University. Indiana high school students are the first customers for this on-line resource. In addition to sensor data, the web-based laboratory includes lesson plans, tutorials, assessment questions, and a feedback utility. This project is helping science teachers meet new state science standards from the Indiana Department of Education, which call for hands-on laboratory activities and real time data analysis. Remotely accessed labs are becoming popular because they offer the opportunity for large numbers of students to …

Generation Of The Transient Electrical And Spontaneous Magnetic Fields By Solid State Combustion, Karen S. Martirosyan, J. R. Claycomb, J. H. Miller Jr., D. Luss

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

Experiments revealed that transient electric field intensities up to 2.5 V/cm were generated during the initial period of combustion synthesis of the ferromagnetic products before the maximum temperature was reached. This occurred when the iron particles were partially oxidized and the reaction product was mainly magnetite sFe3O4d. The electromagnetic field caused spontaneous magnetization of the product in the postcombustion zone. Magnetic field values up to 4 µT formed after the sample temperature fell below the Curie temperature and the initial reactants were completely converted to the ferromagnetic phase PbFe12O19. Increasing the volume of the samples increases the absolute residual magnetic …

Nova Quarterly: The University Of Texas At El Paso, The University Of Texas At El Paso University Communications

NOVA

Winter 2004, Vol. 42, No. 4; No. 160

Reflecting on the Future of UTEP in 2014

The Prodigal Argument: Mccollum V. Board Of Education, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

From the Introduction

Judges, lawyers, and scholars all cite the 1947 case, Everson v. Board of Education, as the cornerstone of Establishment Clause doctrine. They are right to do so. The Everson Court took two path-breaking steps: incorporation and strict separation. The justices there held, for the first time, that the Fourteenth Amendment made the Establishment Clause applicable to state action. Then they offered a novel account of what non-establishment meant. In sweeping language (which you can find at 330 U.S. 15 - 16) they held that it meant more than equality among religions. By requiring that all government …

Volume 53 (2003-2004)

ELJ Masthead Archive

No abstract provided.

Impacts Of Banking Sector On The Chinese Economy : Research On The Monetary Transmission Mechanism, Shu Yee, Zoe Liaw

Lingnan Theses

Researches on impacts of the banking sector on economic performance are not only provided for those developed economies such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and Japan, but also for those developing economies, such as South American, Asian and Eastern European countries. In this research, empirical approach has been adopted to explain the monetary transmission mechanism to document the characteristics of the bank lending channel in China since her implementation of the open-door policy. We study how bank loans are transmitted into changes in the economy reflected by variables such as real GDP and inflation. Furthermore, the key …

Neonatal Extra-Renal Wilm's Tumour, S Hussain, S Nizami, F Tareen

Section of Paediatric Surgery

No abstract provided.

Exploring Online Brand Choice At The Sku Level : The Effects Of Internet-Specific Attributes, Yanan Wang

Lingnan Theses

E-Commerce research shows that existing studies on online consumer choice behavior has focused on comparative studies of channel or store choice (online or offline), or online store choice (different e-tailers). Relatively less effort has been devoted to consumers’ online brand choice behavior within a single e-tailer. The goal of this research is to model online brand choice, including generating loyalty variables, setting up base model, and exploring the effects of Internet-specific attributes, i.e., order delivery, webpage display and order confirmation, on online brand choice at the SKU level. Specifically, this research adopts the Multinomial Logit Model (MNL) as the estimation …

Terrorism : A New Threat For Indonesia? : An Analysis On The National Security Of Indonesia In The Post-Suharto Period, Wun Yin, Wilson Lau

Lingnan Theses

Indonesia is the fourth most heavily populated nation in the world with over 210 million inhabitants. Almost half of all Southeast Asians live in Indonesia, and it is also the world’s most populated Muslim nation. These features make it a crucial country in the Southeast Asian Region, as well as in the world. Therefore, the national security of this country is very important to the region and the world.

Security or national security covers dealing with the threat(s) to the state, so, in order to study this issue, we need to identify what kind of threat is behind the scenario. …

Practicing Practicing, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Philosophy Faculty Publications

"There is something ludicrous in philosophical discourse," Michel Foucault writes, "when it tries, from the outside, to dictate to others, to tell them where their truth is and how to find it... " (Foucault 1985, 9). In our age of moral relativism and multiculturalism, it is easy to hear in this sentence a simple condemnation of intellectuals who pose as authorities on questions of belief, and it is all too easy to agree; yes, of course, we ought not tell other people what to think. But given the issues, directions, and investments of Foucault's work, especially in The Use of …

Whenu V. Utah, Utah District Court

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

Optimal Design Of Pump And Treat Remediation Systems : Treatment Modeling, Source Modeling And Time As A Decision Variable, Karen L. Endres

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Groundwater optimization and simulation is a maturing science. Research work contained in this thesis extends into areas that have not been fully explored. The incorporation of source and treatment systems selection and design produces information to help decision makers. Further insight is gained by evaluating some of the requirements and standards enforced by regulations such as, remediation time.

The technical aspects of a remediation system are set by the physical properties and the regulatory constraints enforced. As an example, the addition of a realistic treatment system gives more accurate cost estimates, but the pump and treat (PAT) systems parameters do …

Topics In Media: Video Gaming As A Cultural Practice, Katrina Mcneely Farren

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Welcome to Topics in Media: Video Gaming as a Cultural Practice. This project and resulting course grew out of an intense apprehension I have had about the gaming practices of my 11 year-old sons, both avid gamers who like to spend every waking hour playing video games on their PlayStation, computer, or Xbox. They began their gaming career at the age of 4 installing and playing educational games on the computer, but as they have grown older, their preferred genre of gaming has become first-person shooter (FPS) games, all of which tend to be intense and violent in nature. As …

Pupil Phase Apodization For Achromatic Imaging Of Extra-Solar Planets, Weidong Yang

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Direct imaging of extra-solar planets in the visible and infrared region has generated great interest among scientists and the general public as well. However, this is a challenging problem. Diffculties of detecting a planet (faint source) are caused, mostly, by two factors: sidelobes caused by starlight diffraction from the edge of the pupil and the randomly scattered starlight caused by the phase errors from the imperfections in the optical system. While the latter diffculty can be corrected by high density active deformable mirrors with advanced phase sensing and control technology, the optimized strategy for suppressing the diffraction sidelobes is still …

Application Of Well Log Tomography To The Dundee And Rogers City Limestones, Michigan Basin, Usa, Mellisa A. Le M.

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

The Michigan Basin is located in the upper Midwest region of the United States and is centered geographically over the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It is filled primarily with Paleozoic carbonates and clastics, overlying Precambrian basement rocks and covered by Pleistocene glacial drift. In Michigan, more than 46,000 wells have been drilled in the basin, many producing significant quantities of oil and gas since the 1920s in addition to providing a wealth of data for subsurface visualization.

Well log tomography, formerly log-curve amplitude slicing, is a visualization method recently developed at Michigan Technological University to correlate subsurface data by utilizing …

Design And Implementation Of A 3d Computer Game Controller Using Inertial Mems Sensors, Ali Pezeshk

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Though 3D computer graphics has seen tremendous advancement in the past two decades, most available mechanisms for computer interaction in 3D are high cost and targeted for industry and virtual reality applications. Recent advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) devices have brought forth a variety of new low-cost, low-power, miniature sensors with high accuracy, which are well suited for hand-held devices. In this work a novel design for a 3D computer game controller using inertial sensors is proposed, and a prototype device based on this design is implemented. The design incorporates MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes from Analog Devices to measure the three …

Development Of Ion Exchange Models For Water Treatment And Application To The International Space Station Water Processor, David Robert Hokanson

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

The International Space Station (ISS) requires a substantial amount of potable water for use by the crew. The economic and logistic limitations of transporting the vast amount of water required onboard the ISS necessitate onboard recovery and reuse of the aqueous waste streams. Various treatment technologies are employed within the ISS water processor to render the waste water potable, including filtration, ion exchange, adsorption, and catalytic wet oxidation. The ion exchange resins and adsorption media are combined in multifiltration beds for removal of ionic and organic compounds.

A mathematical model (MFBMODEL™) designed to predict the performance of a multifiltration (MF) …

Optimizing The Compression Stress Relief Process For 7050al Forgings, K. Escobar, B. Gonzales, J. Ortiz, P. Nguyen, C. Iskandar, P. Tiscareno, M. Castro, J. Gutierrez, J. Foyos, J. Ogren, Omar S. Es-Said, D. M. Bowden, E. W. Lee

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Works

Structural components machined from aluminum forgings can exhibit distortion and poor dimensional quality due to residual stresses formed primarily during heat treatment. To alleviate these problems, mechanically stress-relieved tempers are used in which a small amount of plastic strain is introduced after solution heat treatment and prior to aging. For hand-forged billets and die forgings, this strain is introduced by compression. Process specifications for compression stress relief typically allow a range of strains, and this process variability can in turn lead to inconsistent forging performance in machining. In addition, since cold work is known to accelerate the aging response and …

Antonio Possevino: From Secretary To Papal Legate In Sweden, John Donnelly

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Lengthening Shadow Of Androcentrisim Symposium: Innate Differences: Responses To The Remarks By Lawrence H. Summers, Bryan K. Fair

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Third Annual Albert A. Destefano Lecture On Corporate Securities & Financial Law: Panel Discussion: Celebrating Thirty Years Of Market Regulation, Kenneth M. Rosen, Brandon Becker, Robert Colby, Andrew Klein, Richard Ketchum, Catherine Mcguire, Annette Nazareth, Lee A. Pickard

Articles

No abstract provided.

Aicpa Annual Report 2003-04; Aicpa: Where Cpas Come Together, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

AICPA Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

2004 Georgia Southern University Men's Soccer Media Guide, Georgia Southern University

Men's Soccer Records

• Georgia Southern Eagles 2004 Men's Soccer

2004 Georgia Southern University Men's Soccer Statistics, Georgia Southern University

Men's Soccer Records

• 2004 Men's Soccer Cumulative Statistics - Georgia Southern University Athletics

2004 Georgia Southern University Women's Soccer Statistics, Georgia Southern University

Women's Soccer Records

• 2004 Review

Coastal Empire Economic Monitor, 3rd Quarter, 2004, Armstrong Atlantic State University Center For Regional Analysis

Coastal Empire Economic Monitor

The Coastal Empire Economic Indicators are designed to provide continuously updating quarterly snapshots of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area economy. The coincident index measures the current economic heartbeat of the region. The leading index provides a short term forecast of the region’s economic activity in six to nine months.