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Like Crabs In A Barrel: Economy, History And Redevelopment In Buffalo, John Henry Schlegel

Other Scholarship

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Make-Believe Families And Whiteness, Judy Scales-Trent

Journal Articles

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Construction Of Readership In Ebony, Essence, And O, The Oprah Magazine, Lee Miller, Bonnie Brennen, Brenda Edgerton-Webster

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Miller et al examine the construction of readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah magazine, three popular magazines that purport to be a vehicle of identity and awareness for their target audience. Upon evaluation, they found that Ebony and Essence both challenge the hegemonic process with the incorporation of cultural artifacts that call upon collective memory to form reader association.

Allosteric Models For Multimeric Proteins : Oxygen-Linked Effector Binding In Hemocyanin., Michael Menze, Nadja Hellman, Heinz Decker, Manfred Grieshaber

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

In many crustaceans, changing concentrations of several low molecular weight compounds modulates hemocyanin oxygen binding, resulting in lower or higher oxygen affinities of the pigment. The nonphysiological effector caffeine and the physiological modulator urate, the latter accumulating in the hemolymph of the lobster Homarus Vulgaris during hypoxia, increase hemocyanin oxygen affinity and decrease cooperativity of oxygen binding. To derive a model that describes the mechanism of allosteric interaction between hemocyanin and oxygen in the presence of urate or caffeine, studies of oxygen, urate, and caffeine binding to hemocyanin were performed. Exposure of lobster hemocyanin to various pH values between 7.25 …

Mlp/Rbf Neural-Networks-Based Online Global Model Identification Of Synchronous Generator, Jung-Wook Park, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper compares the performances of a multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPN) and a radial basis function neural network (RBFN) for online identification of the nonlinear dynamics of a synchronous generator in a power system. The computational requirement to process the data during the online training, local convergence, and online global convergence properties are investigated by time-domain simulations. The performances of the identifiers as a global model, which are trained at different stable operating conditions, are compared using the actual signals as well as the deviation signals for the inputs of the identifiers. Such an online-trained identifier with fixed optimal …

Roper V. Simmons And Our Constitution In International Equipoise, Roger P. Alford

Journal Articles

In Roper v. Simmons, the Court unequivocally affirms the use of comparative constitutionalism to interpret the Eighth Amendment. It does not, however, provide an obvious theoretical basis to justify the practice. This Article searches for a theory to explain the comparativism in Roper using the theories advanced in the author's previous scholarship. It concludes that of the colorable candidates, natural law constitutionalism is the most plausible explanation, with the attendant problems associated therewith. The Article concludes with an analysis of the possible ramifications of the Court's comparative approach, suggesting that it may be pursuing a Constitution that is in international …

Spatial Variability Of Nitrous Oxide (N₂0) Emissions And Soil Properties In A Japanese Lowland Soil, Nsalambi V. Nkongolo

Theses and Dissertations

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The Reliability Of Reflective Surfaces, Donna Lee Neal

Theses and Dissertations

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An Adaptive Grid Security Architecture, Raghuveer S. Maan

Theses and Dissertations

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Precipitation Evaluation Of The North Dakota Cloud Modification Project (Ndcmp), Eric A. Wise

Theses and Dissertations

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Planning For Cultural/Heritage Tourism For East Grand Forks, Minnesota, Sharon M. Grzeskowiak

Theses and Dissertations

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Swelling Stress And Strain Analysis Of Untreated, Acetylated, And Hmr Treated Southern Yellow Pine, Blake M. Hofferber

Theses and Dissertations

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Shifts In The Structure Of British Imperialism In The Mid To Late Victorian Period, Josiah J. Patrow

Theses and Dissertations

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Tolerance Of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells To Tars, Devinder Singh

Theses and Dissertations

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Relative Motion Of Two Spacecraft Near The Earth-Moon Triangular Libration Points, Kathryn A. Catlin

Theses and Dissertations

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Synthesis And Characterization Of Poly (L-Lactide)-Poly (D, L-Lactide) Stereo-Block Copolymers, Sachit Chopra

Theses and Dissertations

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The Validation Of The Single-Stage Submaximal Treadmill Equation In Prediction Vo₂Max Using The Maximal And Submaximal Treadmill Running Tests, Stephanie A. Fallas

Theses and Dissertations

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Women In Classical Society : Aspects Of Law, Family And Work, Heidi May Gould

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Exploring Consciousness, Amanda M. Moen

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Securing The Right To Same-Sex Marriage, Christopher S. Pieske

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Fly Ash As A Soil Amendment In The Northern Red River Valley, Amy Decker

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

Combustion of coal occurs worldwide to produce energy for numerous residential and industrial processes. During coal combustion, byproducts including fly ash, bottom ash and slag are formed (Lafarge, 2004). By standard regulations, power plants in the United States and many other countries must effectively capture and dispose of these byproducts. Over 118 million tons of combustion byproducts are produced and captured each year in the United States alone. Disposal of this extraordinary amount of waste is difficult and costly. Finding ways to turn this waste into a resource has been necessary, and at times, profitable.

The past fifty years has …

The Survival Of The Great Plains States: Saving North Dakota, Gregg Schmidt

Theses and Dissertations

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Media Coverage Of Athletes In Legal Proceedings : An Analysis Of The Kobe Bryant Case, Brooke Holmquist

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand the media's impact when reporting on high-profile athlete's legal proceedings. Through the use of text analysis, the study examined whether sports journalists gave preferential treatment to "home-town heroes" in the Kobe Bryant case. The study also attempted to find differences and similarities between sports reporters and sports columnists with regard to positive and negative treatment of the case.

Design And Cloning Of A Hammerhead Ribozyme Targeted Tohiv-1p7fmrna, Katherine L. Anderson, William H. Jackson

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

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The Unionid Mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionidae) Of The Big Blue River Basin Of Northeastern Kansas And Southeastern Nebraska, Ellet Hoke

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

A survey of 96 locales in the Big Blue River and its minor tributaries supplemented by museum vouchers documented the presence or former presence of 25 native unionid mollusk species and one introduced bivalve. Including the previously reported Little Blue Basin, the total documented unionid inventory ofthe Big Blue Basin consists of twenty-six species. Over a third of these species may have been extirpated from the basin, and many of the surviving species appear to have experienced significant range reductions. Habitat in the region is adversely impacted by surface and subsurface water withdrawals, erosion/siltation, and grazing. Chemicals and other pollutants …

The Degree Of Chlmpanzee Theory Of Mind And The Evolution Of Modularity, Benjamin Grant Purzycki

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Whether or not chimpanzees have the ability to mentally represent others' mental states or theory of mind (ToM) has yet to be definitively established. This results from three problems. First, modular theory of mind accounts lead researchers to adopt an either/or approach to psychological faculties which obfuscates both within- and across-species variability. Second, present research continues to rely on the continued trend to polarize nature and nurture. Third, the bulk of the work compares humans with chimpanzees rather than looking at the entire range of primate species. I propose "degree approach" by way of the Integrated Causal Model which particularizes …

Transactions Ofthe Nebraska Academy Of Sciences: Volume 30, 2005 Table Of Contents

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

EDITORIAL CONTENTS

Nebraska Executive Committee, Policy Committee ................. ii

Editorial Board ................. iv

Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy ................. inside front cover

Nebraska Association of Teachers of Science ................. inside front cover

Preparation of manuscripts ................. inside front cover

PAPERS

Predicting student performance in a statistics course using the mathematics and statistics perception scale (MPSP) (Isabelle D. Cherney and Ramie R. Cooney) ................. 1

Nuclear physics problem solving: a case study of expert-novice differences (Isabelle D. Cherney, Jordan Winter, and Michael G. Cherney) ................. 9

Plant composition of mixed-grass prairie of Cedar Point Biological Research Station, Keith County, …

2005 Navajo Middle And High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey Report, Primary Navajo Yrsb Team

Native Health Database Full Text

From 1997 to 2005, the Navajo Youth Risk Behavior Surveilance System (YRBS) was implemented to be used to monitor health-risk behaviors among youth in middle and high schools. Unhealthy risk behaviors can lead to unhealthy health conditions or injuries, and could enventually lead to health or social problems as chronic diseases, disability and drug or alcohol addictions.

Blessed Are The Poor : The German Peasant's War And The Sandinista Revolution In Comparison, Eu Kit Lim

Theses and Dissertations

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Non-Traumatic Aortic Emergencies--Experience From A Tertiary Care Centre In Karachi, Pakistan, Nadeemullah Khan, Junaid A. Razzak, Hasanat Sharif, Saqib Hamid Qazi

Section of Cardiology

Objective: To review the incidence, clinical presentation and outcome of Non traumatic Aortic emergencies in a tertiary care hospital and its evaluation in the Emergency department (ED).Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of cases presented to the ED at Aga Khan University Hospital during 15 year period (1988 - 2002) who had final diagnosis of Aortic Dissection or Ruptured Aortic Aneurysm. Patients without confirmatory investigations were excluded. We aimed at looking for the incidence, clinical presentation, evaluation in the ED and final outcome.Results: Of the 12 cases, 7 had aortic dissection while the remaining 5 had ruptured aortic aneurysm. For …