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Child Welfare Workers' Perceptions Of Reunification Services: Are Timeframes Feasible?, Nancy Razo Calderon, Elisa Adriana Hernandez

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of current child welfare policy, specifically the Adoption Assistance and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA), on the perceptions of child welfare workers about their decisions.

Foster Caregivers' Opinions On The Causes Of Multiple Placements Among Foster Children, Erika Yolanda Alatorre, Angelica Lemus

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the study was to gather data that could help minimize the number of placements that foster children often experience. The results of this study are intended to help California child welfare agencies and other foster care agencies develop additional policies that support the development of stable foster care placements for dependent children.

Online Solicitation Management System For The Office Of Technology Transfer And Commercialization, Chia-Chi Wang

Theses Digitization Project

The Online Solicitation Management System (OSMS) is a web-based system designed for California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC) to run grant proposal solicitations more efficiently. The system accepts grant proposals, finds the best matched evaluators, calculates evaluation scores, and generated reports. Users in the system are divided into five (5) different roles: system administrator, program officer, staff, evaluator and applicant.

Improving Basic Organic Chemistry Skills Among High School Chemistry Students Through The Use Of A Webquest, Jill Elizabeth Nation

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to develop an Internet resource for high school teachers who teach higher level chemistry, which includes organic chemistry. This Organic Chemistry WebQuest will foster a student-directed learning environment that will enable students to do two things: (1) students will learn basic and organic chemistry nomenclature and be able to write chemical equations involving organic molecules, and (2) students will be able to use various technologies to present items to their peers and others.

Cc: Connecticut College Magazine, Winter 2004-2005, Connecticut College

Alumni News/Connecticut College Magazine

No abstract provided.

Two Purified Domains Of Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase Reconstitute Sequence-Specific Interactions With Rna, C. M. O'Connor, Cary K. Lai, Kathleen Collins

Biology Faculty Publications

Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and telomerase RNA (TER) function together to create a uniquely specialized polymerase. Here we have described for the first time domains of bacterially expressed Tetrahymena TERT that interacted directly with TER in the absence of assembly chaperones. We used quantitative binding assays to define TER sequence requirements for recognition by the high affinity RNA binding domain and an independent N-terminal RNA interaction domain. The TERT RNA binding domain and N-terminal RNA interaction domain had distinct, nonoverlapping requirements for TER sequence and structure that together accounted for all of the sites of TER contact inferred for full-length …

Msu Update, 2005, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

MSU Update Newsletters for 2005.

2005-2006. Catalog., Hope College

Hope College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Overview Of Gene Structure, John Spieth, Daniel Lawson

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Architecture And Adhesive Activity Of The Haemophilus Influenzae Hsf Adhesin, Shane E. Cotter, Hye-Jeong Yeo, Twyla Juehne, Joseph W. St. Geme Iii

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Complex Transcriptional Control Links Nikabcde-Dependent Nickel Transport With Hydrogenase Expression In Escherichia Coli, Jessica L. Rowe, G. Lucas Starnes, Peter T. Chivers

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

The Lim Protein Ajuba Influences Interleukin-1-Induced Nf-Κb Activation By Affecting The Assembly And Activity Of The Protein Kinase Cζ/P62/Traf6 Signaling Complex, Yungfeng Feng, Gregory D. Longmore

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Noncapsulated Klebsiella Pneumoniae Bearing Mannose-Containing O Antigens Is Rapidly Eradicated From Mouse Lung And Triggers Cytokine Production By Macrophages Following Opsonization With Surfactant Protein D, Elena Kostina, Itzhak Ofek, Erika Crouch, Rotem Friedman, Lea Sirota, Gil Klinger, Hany Sahly, Yona Keisari

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Antimalarial Activity Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Protease Inhibitors, Sunil Parikh, Jiri Gut, Eva Istvan, Daniel E. Goldberg, Diane V. Havlir, Philip J. Rosenthal

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

The Multiple Biological Roles Of The 3’→5’ Exonuclease Of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Dna Polymerase Δ Require Switching Between The Polymerase And Exonuclease Domains, Yong Hawn Jin, Parie Garg, Carrie M. W. Stith, Hanan Al-Refai, Joan F. Sterling, Laura J. W. Murray, Thomas A. Kunkel, Michael A. Resnick, Peter M. Burgers, Dmitry A. Gordenin

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Pgc-1Α Coactivates Pdk4 Gene Expression Via The Orphan Nuclear Receptor Errα: A Mechanism For Transcriptional Control Of Muscle Glucose Metabolism, Adam R. Wende, Janice M. Huss, Paul J. Schaeffer, Vincent Giguere, Daniel P. Kelly

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Neutrophil Elastase Is Important For Pml-Retinoic Acid Receptor Α Activities In Early Myeloid Cells, Andrew A. Lane, Timothy J. Ley

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

The University Of Texas Of The Permian Basin Undergraduate Catalog, 2005-2007, The University Of Texas Of The Permian Basin

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Digital Image Processing, Jonathan Blackledge

Books/Book chapters

Newspapers and the popular scientific press today publish many examples of highly impressive images. These images range, for example, from those showing regions of star birth in the distant Universe to the extent of the stratospheric ozone depletion over Antarctica in springtime, and to those regions of the human brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Processed digitally to generate spectacular images, often in false colour, they all make an immediate and deep impact on the viewer’s imagination and understanding.

Professor Jonathan Blackledge’s erudite but very useful new treatise Digital Image Processing: Mathematical and Computational Methods explains both the underlying theory and …

Spatial Analysis Of Urban Stormwater Quality

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

Urban stormwater non-point source pollutants are recognized as a major cause of receiving waters quality deterioration. To date most research has focused on specifying temporal variations of stormwater quality parameters which includes high uncertainties and also increases the risk of pollution control structures failure. Traditionally, the temporal variations of quality parameters in forms of either pollutograph or Event Mean Concentration (EMC) is obtained by sampling stormwater at the outlet of urban catchments for quality analysis in addition to measurement of flow rate over years. Spatial variations of the runoff quality are the key factor in non-point source pollution studies. This …

About The Contributors, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

‘Oh Happy Day’ As 480 Graduate, Linfield Magazine Staff

Linfield Magazine

Cool, cloudy skies – but no rain – greeted nearly 480 candidates for graduation during the 2005 commencement ceremonies in the Oak Grove May 29. Six faculty and administrators, including President Vivian A. Bull, presiding over her final commencement before retiring, received emerita/us honors.

On Democratic Personalities, Robert W. Daly

Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce

In Part I, I describe and discuss the ideal traits of a democratic personality, note the contribution of education to the acquisition of these traits, and describe other immature traits of personality that impede or preclude the emergence of a democratic personality. In Part II, I note how the traits of a democratic personality are or are not acquired through the processes of identity formation in late adolescence and early adulthood. Finally, I contrast the ideal traits of a democratic personality with other traits that can frustrate attempts to develop a democracy but which can contribute to successful adaptation in …

Polymorphic Self-* Agents For Stigmergic Fault Mitigation In Large-Scale Real-Time Embedded Systems, Derek Messie, Jae C. Oh

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

Organization and coordination of agents within large-scale, complex, distributed environments is one of the primary challenges in the field of multi-agent systems. A lot of interest has surfaced recently around self-* (self-organizing, self-managing, self-optimizing, self-protecting) agents. This paper presents polymorphic self-* agents that evolve a core set of roles and behavior based on environmental cues. The agents adapt these roles based on the changing demands of the environment, and are directly implementable in computer systems applications. The design combines strategies from game theory, stigmergy, and other biologically inspired models to address fault mitigation in large-scale, real-time, distributed systems. The agents …

Test 1855: John Deere 4720 Ehydro Diesel Hydrostatic, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA

The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data.

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES

Purpose

The purpose of …

Test 1854: John Deere 4520 Ehydro Diesel Hydrostatic, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA

The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data.

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES

Purpose

The purpose of …

Nebraska Summary 571: Case-Ih Jx1085c Diesel 16-Speed, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA

The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data.

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES

Purpose

The purpose of …

Protein Sequence Entropy Is Closely Related To Packing Density And Hydrophobicity, H Liao, W Yeh, D Chiang, R L. Jernigan, Brooke Lustig

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

We investigated the correlation between the Shannon information entropy, ‘sequence entropy’, with respect to the local flexibility of native globular proteins as described by inverse packing density. These are determined at each residue position for a total set of 130 query proteins, where sequence entropies are calculated from each set of aligned residues. For the accompanying aggregate set of 130 alignments, a strong linear correlation is observed between the calculated sequence entropy and the corresponding inverse packing density determined at an associated residue position. This region of linearity spans the range of Cα packing densities from 12 to 25 amino …

Relationship Between Habitat Distribution, Growth Rate, And Plasticity In Congeneric Larval Dragonflies, S. J. Mccauley

Biological Sciences

The relationship between habitat distribution, growth rate, and plasticity was examined in the larvae of three species of dragonfly in the genus Libellula L., 1758. Growth rates were compared under three conditions: in the absence of predation risk, in the presence of sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819; Pisciformes: Centrachidae), and in the presence of invertebrate predators. I assessed how the habitat distributions of the three species of dragonfly, specifically how commonly they occur with fish, were related to growth rates and to the level of growth plasticity under different levels of perceived predation risk. There was a negative relationship …

Proposals Submitted In Fiscal Year 2005, Grants Development Office

Grants Development Office Reports

No abstract provided.