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Toward Predicting Barrier Island Vulnerability: Simple Models For Dune Erosion, Laura A. Fauver

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this study is to quantify the accuracy of two engineering models for dune erosion (SBEACH and EDUNE), and to determine which of the two models is best suited for predicting barrier island vulnerability due to extreme storm events. The first model, SBEACH, computes sediment transport using empirically derived equations from two large wave tank experiments. The second model, EDUNE, theoretically relates excess wave energy dissipation in the surf zone to sediment transport. The first mechanism for model comparison is sensitivity testing, which describes the response of the model to empirical, physical, and hydrodynamic variables. Through sensitivity tests, …

The Invisible Handshake: Interpreting The Job-Seeking Communication Of Foreign-Born Chinese In The U.S., Hongmei Gao

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Building upon Granovetter’s well-known study of the job search behaviors of white males, this research extended the degree to which his findings apply across cultures to Chinese minorities, and across time to the Internet age. Using quantitative and qualitative data collected through systematic observation, questionnaire surveys, and in-depth interviews, this research investigated the impact of culture, Internet usage, gender and age on the communication patterns of foreign-born Chinese jobseekers in the U.S.

It is found that jobseekers adopt either one or a combination of traditional (printed publications and direct application), institutional (the Internet, job fairs, and employment agencies), and personal …

Maximizing The Benefits Of Its Deployments Based On Idas Performance Measures And B/C Ratios, Cuthbert R. Gibson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Traditional transportation planning models are not very sensitive to many of the benefits derived from Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies. With the recent availability of ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS), there is an opportunity to conduct detailed cost-benefit analyses of ITS Alternatives. IDAS is able to estimate the impacts, benefits, and costs resulting from the deployment of many ITS components. This is accomplished by comparing the average cost of deploying and integrating the appropriate technologies, to the estimated benefits experienced by the network. The ratio of average benefits to average costs is termed the B/C ratios. While the use of …

Growth And Characterization Of Diamond And Diamond Like Carbon Films With Interlayer, Roja Gottimukkala

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Diamond and diamond-like carbon films, with their exceptionally good mechanical, chemical, and optical properties, are the best materials as protective hard coatings for electronic devices and cutting tools. The biocompatibility of these materials makes it suitable for bone implants. The wide range applications of these films are hindered because of the high compressive stresses developed during the deposition. Use of carbide and nitride interfacial layers has emerged as one of the methods to reduce the compressive stresses.

The present research focuses on the study of different materials as the interfacial layers for diamond and tetrahedral amorphous carbon films. For tetrahedral …

Systematic Study Of Amyloid Beta Peptide Conformations: Implications For Alzheimer’S Disease, Jeffy Pilar Jimenez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The amyloid beta peptide particularly the 40 and 42 amino acid residues are the responsible for plaque formation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Extra cellular plaque formation has been recognized after incessant investigations along with the formation of intracellular tau protein tangles as the hallmarks of AD. Furthermore, the plaque formation has been linked mostly as a cause of the disease and the tangles mostly as a consequence. Our investigation is focused on studying the formation of AD plaques. The amyloid beta (Aß) is a physiological peptide secreted from neurons under normal conditions, along with other soluble forms cleaved from …

Simulating The Electric Field Mediated Motion Of Ions And Molecules In Diverse Matrices, Joseph Hickey

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Electroporation is a methodology for the introduction of drugs and genes into cells. This technique works by reducing the exclusionary nature of the cell membrane [125, 129, 186, 189]. Electroporation has successfully been used in electrochemotherapy and electrogenetherapy [57, 68, 86, 87, 110, 112, 131]. The two major components of electroporation are an induced transmembrane potential and the motion of the deliverable through a compromised cell membrane into the target cell [38, 55, 62, 114, 131]. These two components are both dependent on the electrophoretic motion of charged species in an applied electric field [45, 64, 75, 77, 177].

Currently, …

Sorption Of Organic Vapors By Copolymers Of Poly (Styrene-Butadiene) Using A Piezoelectric Microbalance, Anant K. Upadhyayula

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Thickness shear mode (TSM) sensors, also known as quartz crystal microbalances (QCM) are a class of acoustic wave sensors that have been used for gas phase sensing. In this thesis this device is used to measure vapor-liquid equilibrium data for copolymers of poly(styrene-butadiene) at 294K.

Copolymers of poly(styrene-butadiene) with varying percentages of styrene (85%, 45% and 21 %) were studied with benzene, n-hexane, dichloroethane and chloroform as solvents. Literature data for pure polystyrene/benzene and polystyrene/chloroform and polybutadiene/benzene were obtained to complement the measured data.

Obtained experimental data were fit with a modified Flory-Huggins model and compared with the predictions of …

Language Deficiency And The Occupational Attainment Of Mexican Immigrants, Elizabeth Planas '05

Undergraduate Economic Review

The number of Mexican immigrants that have entered the U.S. has greatly increased over the past decade. The occupational attainment of these immigrants provides insight into how successful they are in the host country and language deficiency has an effect on this occupational attainment. By controlling for language proficiency, human capital characteristics and other variables from the IPUMS database, this project uses probit analysis to predict the probablity that an immigrant will be employed in a favorable occupation in the U.S. Results show that language deficiency reduces the probability of attaining a favorable occupation, but having no English language skills …

Characterisation Of An Acrylamide-Based Photopolymer For Holographic Data Storage, Hosam Sherif

Masters

An acrylamide-based photopolymer, formulated in the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics, was investigated as a recording material for holographic data storage applications. Holographic data storage (HDS) is an optical storage technique, which theoretically allows densities as high as tens of TB/cm2 with data transfer rates of many GB/s/. HDS has unique advantages, such as the ability to perform parallel data searches (associative recall) and implement novel encryption techniques. At present, many materials have been investigated to determine their suitability for use as HDS media. As yet, no one material possesses all the properties that are required to realise the …

The Original Meaning Of The Establishment Clause, Robert G. Natelson

Faculty Law Review Articles

The article builds on Establishment Clause studies conducted by Noah Feldman and Philip Hamburger, which utilize ratification materials to explain the founding generation's free exercise ideology and the emergence of the Establishment Clause from that ideology. In this article, the author demonstrates how the "religion terms" of the Gentlemen's Agreement clarifies the meaning of the Establishment Clause so that persistent interpretive difficulties largely disappear.

The Proven Key: Roles And Rules For Dictionaries At The Patent Office And The Courts, Joseph Scott Miller, James A. Hilsentege

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

2004 Patent Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Steven C. Cherny, David A. Nelson, Kenneth G. Schuler, Peter N. Witty, Sasha Mayergoyz, Amanda J. Hollis

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Report - Report On Plus & Minus Grading, Wku Institutional Research

Student Government Association

Report of study conducted by WKU Institutional Research in trial plus/minus grading for the period January 2005 through December 2006.

A Free-Market Environmentalist Approach To Genetically Engineered Foods, Christie Laporte, Walter Block

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

Although great numbers of the world's population still suffer from starvation, the possibility for genetically engineered foods to alleviate the problem creates great controversy. The authors address common concerns raised by anti-market opponents of the genetically engineered food industry and offer free-market approaches to the apparent dilemma. While such opponents always promote government intervention to alleviate the possible negative outcomes to the genetically engineered food solution, the authors illustrate the market's aptitude and methods by which it could prevail over the still existing starvation problem in the absence of any government intervention.;The paper also reinforces that the market is a …

National Identity And Liberalism Law: Three Models, Justin Desautels-Stein

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

The Language Of Higher Education Assessment: Legislative Concerns In A Global Context, Bonnie Urciuoli

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Globalization and Education Symposium

Reflection On Criminal Justice Reforms In Chile, James P. Carey

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Seeking Justice In Transitional Societies: An Analysis Of The Problems And Failures Of The Judiciary In Nigeria, Okechukwu Oko

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

The Ali Principles On Transnational Intellectual Property Disputes: Why Invite Conflicts?, Rochelle Dreyfuss

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Distortional Buckling Of Cold-Formed Steel Members In Bending, Cheng Yu, Benjamin W. Schafer

American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Specifications, Standards, Manuals and Research Reports (1946 - present)

Laterally braced cold-formed steel beams generally fail due to local and/or distortional buckling in combination with yielding. For many cold-formed steel (CFS) studs, joists, purlins, or girts, distortional buckling may be the predominant buckling mode. However, distortional buckling of CFS beams remains a largely unaddressed problem in the current North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members (NAS). Further, adequate experimental data on unrestricted distortional buckling in bending is unavailable. Therefore, two series of bending tests on industry standard CFS C and Z-sections were performed and presented in this dissertation. The testing setup was carefully designed in …

Producers Guide To Livestock Manure Management Systems, Bridget Johnson, Ron Weiderholt

NM Series – Nutrition Management

No abstract provided.

Maltese Fisheries And The Sustainability Of Resources Around The Maltese Islands, Matthew Camilleri

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Despite the socio-cultural importance of Maltese fisheries, a very limited number of studies and reports on the industry have been published, and scientific studies on the interaction between the Maltese fishing fleet and the fisheries resources exploited have never been carried out. Data collection schemes to monitor Maltese fisheries were also found to be extremely limited, however, this study has analysed the information arising from recently initiated data collection programmes, coordinated by the author, related to the fleet, its activities and the resources exploited; these programmes were namely a fishing fleet census, catch and effort sampling schemes and trawl surveys. …

Canadian Speaker Session 6: Canada U.S. Approaches To Health Care - Canadian Speaker, Barrie Mckenna

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.

U.S. Speaker Session 5: Canada And U.S Approaches To The Movement Of People - U.S Speaker, Ellen G. Yost

Canada-United States Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Discussion Following The Speeches Of Mr. Hodgson And Mr. Halpern, Discussion

Canada-United States Law Journal

offshoring, nearshoring, employment--Canada, employment--United States

Copy Right And Copy Wrong: Dvd Jon And 321 Studios Take On The Movie Industry, Stephen Liu

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

International Intellectual Property, Melvyn J. Simburg, Suong T. Nguyen, Julie Lipscomb, Bruce Horowitz

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Comparative Advertising In The United States And In France, Charlotte J. Romano

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Comparative advertising has been widely used for over thirty years in the United States. By contrast, the use of this advertising format has traditionally been-and still is-very marginal in France. The term "comparative advertising" refers to any form of advertising in which a trademark owner draws a comparison between his product, service, or brand and that of a competitor. The central issue of this article is to determine why, despite identical guiding policies, comparative advertising remains unusual in France while it is commonplace in the United States. Attempting to answer that question unavoidably raises numerous related issues: can the two …

A Deadly Dilemma: The Failure Of Nations’ Organ Procurement Systems And Potential Reform Alternatives, Christy M. Watkins

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The Sacrifice Of Jean Kambanda: A Comparative Analysis Of The Right To Counsel In The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda And The United States, With Emphasis On Prosecutor V. Jean Kambanda, Kelly Xi Huei Lalith Ranasinghe

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.