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Assessment Framework For The Evaluation And Prioritization Of University Technologies For Licensing And Commercialization, Ahmad D. Rahal Jan 2005

Assessment Framework For The Evaluation And Prioritization Of University Technologies For Licensing And Commercialization, Ahmad D. Rahal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

US corporations have long recognized university related scientific research as an important source of long term economic growth and technological innovation. This dynamic involvement with industry has drastically increased the university technology transfer and licensing activities, and has stretched the human and financial resources of Technology Management and Licensing Offices of many US universities. This research provides a mechanism that can aid in the complex process of properly assessing university-owned technologies and intellectual properties, to identify those with licensing and commercialization potential for the pursuit of truly important breakthrough discoveries. This research focuses on the university technology licensing and commercialization …

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Designing A Document Delivery System For Ucf S Interlibrary Loan Department, Abha Y. Trivedi Jan 2005

Designing A Document Delivery System For Ucf S Interlibrary Loan Department, Abha Y. Trivedi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Interlibrary Loan entails obtaining copies of library materials not found in the library's collection on behalf of the library's patrons (borrowing), as well as providing copies of library materials requested by other libraries (lending). The dynamic nature of today's library environment is well illustrated by the rapid changes occurring in the role of interlibrary loan. The vision statement of the University of Central Florida Library is: The library performs a central role of adding value to information for the academic community by creatively improving and providing information resources and services. The library strives to create an environment that encourages the …

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Stormwater Irrigation Of Saint Augustine Grass: Nitrogen Balance And Evapotranspiration, Ewoud Hulstein Jan 2005

Stormwater Irrigation Of Saint Augustine Grass: Nitrogen Balance And Evapotranspiration, Ewoud Hulstein

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A change in surface condition of a watershed, which is usually caused by development, can have measured effects on the naturally occurring hydrologic cycle and nitrogen cycle. This could result in environmental problems, such as reduced springflow and eutrophication. In an effort to address these issues, a combination of best management practices (BMPs) can be adhered to. The practice of using excess stormwater as a source for irrigation is proposed as a BMP for the minimization of impacts by development to the hydrologic and nitrogen cycles. To study the proposed BMP, a field experiment was installed in an outdoor location …

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Debris Tracking In A Semistable Background, Karthikkalathi Vanumamalai Jan 2005

Debris Tracking In A Semistable Background, Karthikkalathi Vanumamalai

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Object Tracking plays a very pivotal role in many computer vision applications such as video surveillance, human gesture recognition and object based video compressions such as MPEG-4. Automatic detection of any moving object and tracking its motion is always an important topic of computer vision and robotic fields. This thesis deals with the problem of detecting the presence of debris or any other unexpected objects in footage obtained during spacecraft launches, and this poses a challenge because of the non-stationary background. When the background is stationary, moving objects can be detected by frame differencing. Therefore there is a need for …

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Preserving Family: Themes From A Qualitative Study Of Kin Caregivers, Don Cohon, Lisa Hines, Bruce A. Cooper, Wendy Packman, Elizabeth Siggins Jan 2005

Preserving Family: Themes From A Qualitative Study Of Kin Caregivers, Don Cohon, Lisa Hines, Bruce A. Cooper, Wendy Packman, Elizabeth Siggins

Journal of Family Strengths

This article presents themes from a qualitative study of 58 African American female kinship caregivers in San Francisco. Core concepts that emerged describe various paths along which children move into kin homes, and caregivers' mixed emotional reactions to becoming surrogate parents. Women also discussed multiple family roles they assumed after taking in children. Responses highlight three primary reasons for becoming caregivers that center on providing for and protecting these children—particularly from the perceived threat of the public foster care system—and ultimately preserving the family unit. Paradoxically, caregivers' reasons mirror the stated goals of the public foster care system, which they …

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Family Preservation: Perceptions Of Effectiveness, Frank G. Kauffman Jan 2005

Family Preservation: Perceptions Of Effectiveness, Frank G. Kauffman

Journal of Family Strengths

This qualitative study examines the attributes or perceptions of service providers and overseers as to the effectiveness of intensive family preservation services provided by a social services agency in Tucson, Arizona. The services provided are patterned after the Homebuilders' model developed in 1974 in Tacoma, Washington. Data collection was generated from interviews and focus groups with the in-home service providers, the program supervisor, and investigators and case managers with Child Protective Services (CPS). Although placement prevention rates (PPR) are the dependent variable in most studies on this form of intervention, this study seeks to understand those characteristics of the model …

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Family Reunification Among Two Groups Of Runaway Adolescents Utilizing Emergency Shelters, Sanna J. Thompson, Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Kim Zittel-Palamara Jan 2005

Family Reunification Among Two Groups Of Runaway Adolescents Utilizing Emergency Shelters, Sanna J. Thompson, Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Kim Zittel-Palamara

Journal of Family Strengths

Limited research has addressed reunification of runaway youths with their families following an emergency shelter stay; however, recent studies have shown that those who reunify with their families following a shelter stay have more positive outcomes than those relocated to other residences. This study evaluated differences between two samples of runaway youth utilizing youth emergency shelters in New York (n = 155) and Texas (n = 195) and identified factors associated with reunification among these two groups of adolescents. Less than half (43.7%) of the youths were reunited with their families. Among New York runaway youths, those who had lived …

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Practicing (And Teaching) Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Importing Social Work Principles And Techniques Into Clinical Legal Education, Susan L. Brooks Jan 2005

Practicing (And Teaching) Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Importing Social Work Principles And Techniques Into Clinical Legal Education, Susan L. Brooks

St. Thomas Law Review

Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence ("TJ") requires proponents to advance a particular normative framework. As a clinical social worker turned lawyer, who is now also a clinical law teacher, I believe strongly that the field of social work provides a useful framework for legal education and practice. As I will demonstrate through examples from my teaching and my students' practice experiences, the role of the clinical law teacher is uniquely and well suited to apply social work values, principles, concepts, and techniques. By importing these core social work elements into the clinical legal education, faculty can truly teach future lawyers to practice …

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From Violence And Victimization To Voice And Validation: Incorporating Therapeutic Jurisprudence In A Children's Law Clinic, Carolyn S. Salisbury Jan 2005

From Violence And Victimization To Voice And Validation: Incorporating Therapeutic Jurisprudence In A Children's Law Clinic, Carolyn S. Salisbury

St. Thomas Law Review

This article discusses our Clinic's Voice Project and examines the application of Therapeutic Jurisprudence principles to the group of foster children who created the Trapped mural: girls who are victims of abuse and who are committed to psychiatric facilities. In their self-expression, an overwhelming number of the girls focused on their experiences of being sexually abused and feeling re-victimized within the psychiatric and legal systems. Unfortunately, "[u]nlike most victims of other sexualized violence, the victims of child sexual abuse have had little or no voice, creating a literal as well as figurative absence of narrative about the harm." In this …

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Toward A Common Law Of Ecosystem Services, J B. Rhul Jan 2005

Toward A Common Law Of Ecosystem Services, J B. Rhul

St. Thomas Law Review

This speech was presented on October 6, 2005, at St. Thomas University School of Law, as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series program. Professor Alfred Light made introductory remarks.

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An Empirically-Supported Rational Basis For Prohibiting Adoption, Foster Parenting, And Contested Child Custody By Any Person Residing In A Household That Includes A Homosexually-Behaving Member, George A. Rekers Jan 2005

An Empirically-Supported Rational Basis For Prohibiting Adoption, Foster Parenting, And Contested Child Custody By Any Person Residing In A Household That Includes A Homosexually-Behaving Member, George A. Rekers

St. Thomas Law Review

Representative empirical evidence and common sense reasoning are reviewed below which necessitate the logical conclusion that households with one or more homosexually-behaving adults or adolescents should be prohibited from adoption and from foster parenting, and were found to be less capable of providing the best family structure in cases of contested child custody. Hundreds of additional scientific studies also support these three reasons for this rational basis, but space limitations necessitate the presentation of only a number of representative sources of supporting evidence here.

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Trends On (Inter-Country) Adoption By Gay And Lesbian Couples In Western Europe, Paul Vlaardingerbroek Jan 2005

Trends On (Inter-Country) Adoption By Gay And Lesbian Couples In Western Europe, Paul Vlaardingerbroek

St. Thomas Law Review

In this article I will analyze Western European developments in the field of (inter-country) adoption by homosexuals. Some countries have accepted the legal possibility of adoption by homosexual individuals and/or couples, although this does not mean that in all cases children can be adopted by lesbian and gay persons. There are several restrictions on intercountry adoption. The jurisprudence of the European Court on Human Rights with regard to adoption by homosexuals is still rather restrictive. In this article, I will analyze the following questions: whether it is a human right to adopt or to be adopted; and, if adoption should …

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The Inner Lives Of Children In Lesbigay Adoption: Narratives And Other Concerns, Lynn D. Wardle Jan 2005

The Inner Lives Of Children In Lesbigay Adoption: Narratives And Other Concerns, Lynn D. Wardle

St. Thomas Law Review

This article attempts to review some of the serious, non-stereotyped concerns that underlie some of the objections of thoughtful legal commentators to adoption of children by gay and lesbian couples or partners. These objections fall into four categories of significant concern: (1) the best interests of children, (2) the integrity of the legal institution of adoption, (3) inappropriate judicial behavior, including manifestation of bias and animus, and the exercise of (legislative) policy-making prerogatives, and (4) the failure to explore, much less carefully consider, alternative solutions (and the hasty abandonment of processes of careful, incremental change to embrace a radical, but …

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Family Norms In Adoption Law: Safeguarding The Best Interests Of The Adopted Child, Camille S. Williams Jan 2005

Family Norms In Adoption Law: Safeguarding The Best Interests Of The Adopted Child, Camille S. Williams

St. Thomas Law Review

Because a number of negative circumstances or outcomes correlate with non-conjugal couple household structures and alternative sexualities, 6 lowering the high standard for adoptive parents that has been the hallmark of best adoption practices in the U.S. may not be the best option for addressing the needs of children whose biological parents cannot care for them.

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Adult Sexual Desire And The Best Interest Of The Child, Richard G. Wilkins, Trent Christensen, Eric Selden Jan 2005

Adult Sexual Desire And The Best Interest Of The Child, Richard G. Wilkins, Trent Christensen, Eric Selden

St. Thomas Law Review

In Lofton v. Secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit sustained Florida's legislative decision to restrict adoption to heterosexual married couples or unmarried individuals not engaged in homosexual conduct. The court rejected claims by prospective homosexual parents that Florida had impermissibly intruded upon their familial privacy rights, unconstitutionally burdened their right to private sexual intimacy, and - by treating homosexual applicants for adoption differently than heterosexual applicants - transgressed the commands of the Equal Protection Clause. The court properly rejected these contentions. All of the plaintiffs' claims ultimately …

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The Shield 2005, Shield Jan 2005

The Shield 2005, Shield

Murray State University Yearbooks

Murray State University Yearbook, 2005

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Biphasic Functions Of The Kinase-Defective Ephb6 Receptor In Cell Adhesion And Migration, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hiroya Obama, Meghan Kelly, Toshimitsu Matsui, Masaru Nakamoto Jan 2005

Biphasic Functions Of The Kinase-Defective Ephb6 Receptor In Cell Adhesion And Migration, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hiroya Obama, Meghan Kelly, Toshimitsu Matsui, Masaru Nakamoto

Biology Faculty Publications

EphB6 is a unique member in the Eph family of receptor tyrosine kinases in that its kinase domain contains several alterations in conserved amino acids and is catalytically inactive. Although EphB6 is expressed both in a variety of embryonic and adult tissues, biological functions of this receptor are largely unknown. In the present study, we examined the function of EphB6 in cell adhesion and migration. We demonstrated that EphB6 exerted biphasic effects in response to different concentrations of the ephrin-B2 ligand; EphB6 promoted cell adhesion and migration when stimulated with low concentrations of ephrin-B2, whereas it induced repulsion and inhibited …

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Luncheon, William Luers, Sir David Hannay Jan 2005

Luncheon, William Luers, Sir David Hannay

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

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Pilj Functions As A Mcp And Directs Assembly Of Type Iv Pili In Response To Environmental Stimuli, Tracy Lynn Collins Jan 2005

Pilj Functions As A Mcp And Directs Assembly Of Type Iv Pili In Response To Environmental Stimuli, Tracy Lynn Collins

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Growth Mechanism And Properties Of Novel Carbon Nanocomposite Foams, Thomas Edwin Beechem Jan 2005

Growth Mechanism And Properties Of Novel Carbon Nanocomposite Foams, Thomas Edwin Beechem

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Parallel Evolutionary Feature Mining For Pattern Classification, Karthik Ganesan Pillai Jan 2005

Parallel Evolutionary Feature Mining For Pattern Classification, Karthik Ganesan Pillai

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Between You And Me: Parental Disclosure Of Their Bipolar Disorder To Offspring, Erica D. Prigg Jan 2005

Between You And Me: Parental Disclosure Of Their Bipolar Disorder To Offspring, Erica D. Prigg

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Immunolocalization Of Alpha Smooth Muscle Actin And Type Iv Collagen During Lens Regeneration In The Newt, Notophthalmus Viridescens, Matthew Wayne Sander Jan 2005

Immunolocalization Of Alpha Smooth Muscle Actin And Type Iv Collagen During Lens Regeneration In The Newt, Notophthalmus Viridescens, Matthew Wayne Sander

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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The Perceptions Of Socioeconomic Factors Related To School Readiness, Heather A. Mcdowell Jan 2005

The Perceptions Of Socioeconomic Factors Related To School Readiness, Heather A. Mcdowell

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Borderline Personality Disorder And Antisocial Personality Disorder: Gender Differences In Manifestations Of Psychopathy, Gregory J. Pennline Jan 2005

Borderline Personality Disorder And Antisocial Personality Disorder: Gender Differences In Manifestations Of Psychopathy, Gregory J. Pennline

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Synthesis And Desilylation Reactions Of Some N-2-(Trimethylsilyl)Ethyl-N-Nitrosocarbamates, Arpitha Thakkalapally Jan 2005

Synthesis And Desilylation Reactions Of Some N-2-(Trimethylsilyl)Ethyl-N-Nitrosocarbamates, Arpitha Thakkalapally

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Understanding And Control Of Multifunctional Graphitic Foam Properties, Gregory James Rosebrock Jan 2005

Understanding And Control Of Multifunctional Graphitic Foam Properties, Gregory James Rosebrock

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Scanning Probe Microscopic Characterization Of Flexible Circuits, Vijayaraghava Nalladega Jan 2005

Scanning Probe Microscopic Characterization Of Flexible Circuits, Vijayaraghava Nalladega

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Regulation Of Twitching Motility In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa By The Las And Rhl Quorum-Sensing Systems And The Distribution Of The Narg Gene Of Escherichia Coli Among Denitrifying Bacteria, Alex Lee Glessner Jan 2005

Regulation Of Twitching Motility In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa By The Las And Rhl Quorum-Sensing Systems And The Distribution Of The Narg Gene Of Escherichia Coli Among Denitrifying Bacteria, Alex Lee Glessner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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An Investigation Into Novel Cellular Roles Of Lasb Elastase In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Michelle M. Farrell Yingling Jan 2005

An Investigation Into Novel Cellular Roles Of Lasb Elastase In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Michelle M. Farrell Yingling

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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