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President's Report & Honor Roll Of Donors Fy 2005, Merrimack College

Merrimack Magazine

No abstract provided.

Daily Announcements December 2005, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

The Forum (Volume 35, Number 5), Valparaiso University School Of Law

Valparaiso Law School Forum

No abstract provided.

Partners, December 2005, Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food, And Life Sciences (University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville). Center Of Excellence For Poultry Science

Partners

No abstract provided.

Tempo Magazine, Fall 2005, Office Of Student Life

Tempo Magazine

Tempo Magazine is Coastal Carolina University's student-produced feature magazine. TEMPO #14. Editor: Krystin Mementowski. Faculty advisor: Nelljean Rice.

Openws-Transaction: Enabling Reliable Web Service Transactions, Ivan Vasquez, John A. Miller, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

OpenWS-Transaction is an open source middleware that enables Web services to participate in a distributed transaction as prescribed by the WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction set of specifications. Central to the framework are the Coordinator and Participant entities, which can be integrated into existing services by introducing minimal changes to application code. OpenWS-Transaction allows transaction members to recover their original state in case of operational failure by leveraging techniques in logical logging and recovery at the application level. Depending on transaction style, system recovery may involve restoring key application variables and replaying uncommitted database activity. Transactions are assumed to be defined in …

Cognition And Motor Execution In Piano Sight-Reading: A Review Of Literature, Brenda Wristen

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

Sight-reading is an integral part of the musical experience for all musicians. Pianists, in particular, often find themselves confronted with situations that necessitate adequate sightreading skills. The widespread need for sight-reading at the piano may be due to pianists’ widespread participation in collaborative music making. The size of the piano literature also contributes to this need, in that the repertoire is so voluminous that no one player can be familiar with all of the solo and collaborative pieces written for piano, nor do recordings of every piece in the literature exist. This is particularly the case with the pedagogical literature. …

Limits Of Temperature Tolerance Of Leishmania Enriettii And Leishmania Hertigi In A Real-Time Pcr Assay, Christina Salinas

Theses & Dissertations

Protozoans of the genus Leishmania are intracellular parasites found across five continents. They cycle between a promastigote form inside the digestive tracts of blood-feeding female sand flies and an amastigote form within mammalian host macrophages. Temperature is an important factor that must be defeated in order for the parasites' survival and continuance. This paper studies the limits of temperature tolerance by Leishmania enriettii and Leishmania hertigi. It was hypothesized that a correlation would exist between the limits of temperature tolerance to body temperature of their host. I explored growth characteristics at 21,27,29, 33, 35, 37, and 39° C. It was …

Vampires In Literature: A Postmodern Study Of Bram Stoker And Anne Rice, Christina Marie Link

Theses & Dissertations

M. H. Abrams explains that postmodern authors "blend literary genres, cultural and stylistic levels, the serious and the playful, [and] that they resist classification according to traditional literary rubrics". Bram Stoker and Anne Rice both fall into this category of postmodernism. Bram Stoker puts his own spin on the literary vampire, changing the vampire from an aristocratic figure into a monster and adding such features as shape-shifting. He also utilizes various styles throughout the novel under the pretense of several different narrators and narration sources, since Dracula is an epistolary novel that combines the different characters' journals, letters, and even …

Elder Abuse: More Is Expected Unless Society And Newspapers Intervene, Betty Lou Guckian

Theses & Dissertations

Elder abuse is a social illness of epidemic proportions in the United States and older Americans constitute one of the largest age groups in the nation. Ironically, there exists no comprehensive scientific study on the national incidence or prevalence of elder abuse in both institutional and domestic settings. However, state-based studies conducted over more than two decades show rampant elder abuse is a fact. Many factors contribute to the lack of research on a national scale including victims' underreporting of abuse for fear of retaliation. Lack of strong federal oversight of inconsistent, state-based laws and investigative procedures as well as …

Hunting For American Relatives, Anita Carlsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

News From The Swenson Center, Anne Jenner

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Christmas As Celebrated In My Childhood, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

The Jacob Fahlstrom Challenge, Elinor Barr

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Lars Ljungmark In Memoriam, Dag Blanck

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

I Found The Needle!, Jan Sokody Asp

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Genealogical Queries

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Full Issue Vol. 25 No. 4

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

Deposit Collectors, Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

2005 Winter Boise State University Commencement Brochure

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The Role Of An Explicit Causal Framework In Affected Sib Pair Designs With Covariates , Constantine E. Frangakis, Fan Li, Betty Q. Doan

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

The affected sib/relative pair (ASP/ARP) design is often used with covariates to find genes that can cause a disease in pathways other than through those covariates. However, such "covariates" can themselves have genetic determinants, and the validity of existing methods has so far only been argued under implicit assumptions. We propose an explicit causal formulation of the problem using potential outcomes and principal stratification. The general role of this formulation is to identify and separate the meaning of the different assumptions that can provide valid causal inference in linkage analysis. This separation helps to (a) develop better methods under explicit …

Keynoter, December 2005, Boise State University Association Of Office Professionals

Boise State University Association of Office Professionals - Keynoter

President's Address

Nominations and Elections

ACE Report

National Conference 2005!

Program Report

ACAEOP Events

PSP – Professional Standards Program

Membership Update

Scholarship Information

Professional Development Update

Holiday Auction Recap

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Archival Chronicle: Vol 24 No 3, Bowling Green State University. Center For Archival Collections

Archival Chronicle

A description of the contents of and uses for the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

New Expression: December/January 2005 (Volume 28, Issue 11), Columbia College Chicago

New Expression

December/January 2005, Volume 28, Issue 11, edition of New Expression, a news publication researched, contributed, written, and edited by Chicago high school journalists

From The Editor-In-Chief, Jeanie M. Forray

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

Rhizomes For Understanding The Production Of Social Science, Gustavo Seijo

Organization Management Journal

This article is about the social processes which produce social science knowledge. It is based on a discourse analysis of DELOS, a European research project into organizational learning in clusters of SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises). The substantive focus is on the researchers’ core theoretical object: the “cluster of SMEs.” This construct remained a highly contested artifact which, for complex reasons, defied singular definition. The analysis draws on, among others, the labyrinthine novels of Franz Kafka and the theoretical musings of Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomic forms of organization in connection with actor-network theory. It is argued that the intrinsic …

Liening On Dhr Construction, Llc, Herbert Sherman, Daniel James Rowley

Organization Management Journal

This case describes the attempts of a small residential construction company to close on a home that they have built. The problem for the characters in question is how to proceed in this situation given the fact that a third party lien has been put against their properties because the developer they bought the properties from had not paid his landscaper. The case has a difficulty level appropriate for a freshmen and/or sophomore level course. The case is designed to be taught in one to two class periods based upon the authors’ prior experiences in teaching this case. Instructional time …

An Empirical Investigation Into The Power Behind Empowerment, Raymond D. Gordon

Organization Management Journal

Using the four dimensional frame that Hardy and Leiba-O’Sullivan (1998) developed to conceptually explore the “power behind empowerment” the study empirically illustrates how a police organization’s reform program, which was designed to empower lower level officers, foundered on its own innocence. The reform program adopts a resources dependency approach to power, which resonates with the first of the four dimensional frames of power; unobtrusive forms of power embedded at a deeper level of the organizations social system, which are consistent with the third and fourth dimensional frames, remain unaccounted for. A research and methodological framework is developed to bring the …

Rhizomes For Understanding The Production Of Social Science, Gustavo Seijo

Organization Management Journal

This article is about the social processes which produce social science knowledge. It is based on a discourse analysis of DELOS, a European research project into organizational learning in clusters of SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises). The substantive focus is on the researchers’ core theoretical object: the “cluster of SMEs.” This construct remained a highly contested artifact which, for complex reasons, defied singular definition. The analysis draws on, among others, the labyrinthine novels of Franz Kafka and the theoretical musings of Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomic forms of organization in connection with actor-network theory. It is argued that the intrinsic …