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When 2 Or 3 Come Together, Kelsi Brown Corkran, Tracey L. Meares

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This article investigates policies that are responsive to crime in disadvantaged, urban neighborhoods from a community-based context. The vehicle is an analysis of a community-wide prayer vigil held in Chicago in May of 1997. The vigil resulted from a collaboration between the Chicago Police Department and hundreds of (mostly) African- American churches on Chicago’s West Side. Strikingly, the local police district’s commander facilitated the vigil. We explain the sociological and political significance of this collaboration by drawing upon the “Chicago School” of urban sociology and demonstrating theoretically and empirically the potential for the collaboration, through the integration of key community …

U.S. Supreme Court’S 2004 Term Includes Significant Land Use Decisions With A Trilogy Of Takings Cases, Patricia E. Salkin

Scholarly Works

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Orientation To Nutrition Care Process Standards Improves Nutrition Care Documentation By Nutrition Practitioners, Nancy Hakel-Smith, Nancy M. Lewis, Kent M. Eskridge

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

Objective — To compare documentation of two groups of clinical nutrition practitioners for evidence of the nutrition care process.

Design — This study used a comparative descriptive design. A retrospective chart review was conducted on all nutrition documentation in closed patient records. Documentation of two groups of nutrition practitioners (institution A = practitioners who received initial orientation and routine reinforcement in use of nutrition care process standards; institution B = practitioners who received orientation in use of a further assessment and medical nutrition therapy intervention procedure) was compared for evidence of a six-step nutrition care process.

Sample/Setting — The sample …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 16, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Monstruos 3
Unos Monstruos de Taos 3
La Muchacha de la Carretera 4
Unos Monstruos de Santa Fe 5
2006 Elections in New Mexico 6
Ciencia 1
La Vía Láctea y el Sistema Solar 7
Unas Investigaciones 8
Educación 1
Southwest Hispanic Research Institute 9
Música 1
Dos Arbolitos 10
Personas 2
Chief Joseph 11
Mónica Lovato 12
Unos Repasos 2
Bruja, The Legend of La Llorona, un libro por Lucinda Leyba 13
Es Amor, un CD por Candace Vargas 13
Actividades 1
¿Qué/Quién Soy? 14
Remedios 1
Remedies Made from Herbs and Foods 15
La …

Political Constraints On Supreme Court Reform, Adrian Vermeule

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 30, No. 10, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

Habeas Complications

Hecho en Colombia: Un Producto de Alta Calidad

Sneaky and Nefarious

Voices From Inside

Voices in Solidarity

Crime of the Month

Landscapes Of Power And Identity. Comparative Histories In The Sonoran Desert And The Forests Of Amazonia. Endnotes To The Book., Cynthia Radding

Faculty and Staff Publications

Landscapes of Power and Identity presents three interrelated stories, starting with the authors personal journey over two decades of research and reflection about the relationships between human societies and the environments they create in North and South America. It links her experiences to the histories of conquest, native communities, and the colonial societies they helped to shape in two frontier regions of Spanish America: northwestern Mexico and eastern Bolivia. Beginning with the title, this book explores nuanced meanings of landscapes coming from art history, landscape architecture, history and anthropology. It makes special contributions as a comparative history grounded in extensive …

Agile Modeling, Agile Software Development, And Extreme Programming: The State Of Research, John Erickson, Kalle Lyytinen, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While there are many claims for the successful use of extreme programming (XP) and agile modeling (AM), and the proponents can often be vocal in the extreme regarding their supposed benefits, research evidence supporting proponents' claims is somewhat lacking. Currently, the only research appearing to investigate the phenomena consists of two prominent streams. A small number of case studies and experience reports that generally promote the success of XP in various development environments, and a well-established stream of research into pair programming has generated results that in part support the idea of XP. Research into AM appears to be even …

Managerial Assessments Of E-Business Investment Opportunities: A Field Study, Anandhi S. Bharadwaj, Amrit Tiwana

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Managers charged with assessing investment opportunities for information technologies such as e-business projects face considerable uncertainty in their decision-making processes. Contemporary theories of the firm and the normative prescriptions thereof emphasize the potential for such investments to augment firm-level knowledge and relational capabilities. However, prior research has not examined the relative emphases that managers place on the knowledge and relational capability-augmenting characteristics of the e-business investments. In this paper, we develop a model to assess whether managerial evaluations of e-business investment opportunities are consistent with these normative and theoretical prescriptions. A test of the model using survey data on 485 …

Towards Semantic Service Request Of Web Service Composition, Qianhui Althea Liang, Jen-Yao Chung, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

When meeting the challenges in automatic and semi-automatic Web service composition, capturing the user's service demand and preferences is as important as knowing what the services can do. This paper discusses the idea of semantic service requests for composite services, and presents a way to model the elements of a composite service request as user preferences and constraints. The model is based on an interactive and iterative strategy meant to obtain the exact requirements from potential service consumers. The markup vocabularies and associated inference mechanism of OWL-S are used as a means to bring semantics to service requests. Language constructs …

The Ninth Annual Scientific Meeting Of The Institute Of Cardiovascular Science And Medicine & The Fifth Scientific Conference On Cardio Vascular Sciences Across The Strait

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

No abstract provided.

A Pilot Study Of Intravenous Urapidil, Α1- Adrenergic Blockade In The Treatment Of Severe Congestive Heart Failure, Guo-Gan Wang, Hao Wang, Wenqiao Xu, Jun Zhu

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of small dose urapidil in the treatment of patients with severe congestive heart failure.Methods: Thirty patients with severe (NYHA class IV) congestive heart failure (male 16, female 14; mean age 55.3 ± 15.6 years) were randomly assigned to open-labeled treatment with urapidil (Group A, 15 patients) or nitroglycerin (Group B, 15 patients). Five patients had old myocardial infarction, 2 had essential hypertension, 22 idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, and one had peripartum cardiomyopathy. Both groups were comparable in respects of age, heart rate and blood pressure. Urapidil (100 μg/min) …

Tachycardia Amongst Subjects Recovering From Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars): A Prospective Case Study, Suet-Ting Lau, Wai-Cho Yu, Ngai-Shing Mok, Ping-Tim Tsui

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

Background: SARS is a new infection in humans with unknown medium or long-term complication. Palpitation in the form of tachycardia is common amongst patients recovering from SARS. We studied the extent and possible cause of tachycardia in these patients. Methods: Prospective cross-sectional case series of patients treated in Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong recovering from SARS who had resting heart rate of more than 90 beats per minute (BPM) at follow up about 2 months from onset of illness was recruited for assessment of heart rate and rhythm, cardiac function, pulmonary function, laboratory tests, Quality of Life score and …

A Systematic Review On The Role Of Diet And Nutritional Supplements For Prevention Of Cardiovascular Diseases, Yap-Hang Chan, Hung-Fat Tse, Sheung-Wai Li, Chu-Pak Lau

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

According to the diet-heart hypothesis, dietary factors play a pivotal role in atherogenesis. Modulation of the diet has therefore been considered a means to achieve better cardiovascular health and a major subject of public health importance. Five major types of diet have been identified: the low-carbohydrate diet, low glycemic index diet, very-low-fat diet, the Mediterranean diet and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet. Clinical studies have shown that none of these diets are universally efficacious. The results from various clinical trials on the use of diet to prevent cardiovascular diseases are commonly conflicting due to unadjusted caloric intake …

Net Impact Estimates For Services Provided Through The Workforce Investment Act, Kevin Hollenbeck, Daniel Schroeder, Christopher T. King, Wei-Jang Huang

External Papers and Reports

Researchers working under the auspices of the Administrative Data Research and Evaluation (ADARE) Project are conducting a series of research and evaluation projects examining participation in, services provided through, and outcomes from the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and related federal programs in nine states. This paper reports on the net impacts, or "value-added," of WIA services on employment, earnings, and other outcomes of interest using administrative data from seven of the nine ADARE states: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Texas and Washington State.

Conjugate Gradient Method For Solving System Of Nonlinear Equations, Abhijit Prakash Honrao

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

In this thesis, the conjugate gradient method will be extended to solve symmetric and non-symmetric nonlinear equations. Several variations of the conjugate gradient method are introduced and investigated. To extend the conjugate gradient method for nonlinear problems, there are four methods discussed; the pre-conditioning conjugate gradient method, the pre-conditioning conjugate gradient method for better initial guess, the fixed point conjugate gradient method and the fixed point conjugate gradient method for better initial guess. The four methods are discussed in detail and tested on various numerical examples. The linear numerical examples include a two dimensional structural frame problem, a Hilbert matrix …

An Analysis Of A Finite Element Human Brain In Low Speed Rear Impact Automobile Collision Comparison, Model Development And Study Using Tno Rear Impact Dummy, Mangesh S. Kadam

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

According to the National Safety Council, rear-end collisions are the most common types of collisions with approximately two and a half million cases reported every year. Crash tests indicate a change of vehicle velocity of 4km/h (2.5 mph) may produce occupant symptoms. Vehicle damage may not occur until 14-15km/h (8.7 mph) (Davis CG, 1998). Occupants, in rear-end vehicle impacts sustain a motion associated with whiplash, where the head snaps backwards quickly, resulting in linear and/or angular acceleration forces acting on the brain. This angular motion tends to subject the brain to shear deformations from rapid rotation. This study is a …

Sonic Boom Prediction Using Euler/Full Potential Methodology, Isik Ali Ozcer

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Sonic Booms of two different bodies, a double cone configuration and a modified F-SE aircraft, are predicted using Euler solvers for the near field, and a Full Potential Propagation method for the far field. The problem is considered inviscid since viscous effects in high Reynolds number flows are negligible in Sonic Boom propagation. To enhance the accuracy of the predictions, elaborate shock fitting and grid adaptation routines are developed that can handle complicated shock topologies. The far field propagation code using the full potential equation is the first three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics code in literature that can march the solution …

New Methodology For Robust Control System Design And Analysis For Single Parameter Uncertain Systems, Charles J. Player

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Due to the conservative nature of the standard singular value robustness tests there is ambiguity in the results that they provide. The tests only establish a sufficient condition and therefore provide little insight to the stability robustness of a system that fails the test. However, for a single parameter uncertain system that is modeled using structured uncertainty, an Evans root locus can be derived that shows how system closed-loop poles change with the magnitude of the single parameter uncertainty. This technique provides clear stability robustness insight. Further, another Evans root locus can be derived that shows how system closed-loop zeros …

Development And Application Of A Gg-Irms Reductive Pyrolysis Reactor Interface For The Δ34S Determination Of Sulfur In Individual Organic Compounds, N. Deborah Hewlett

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

The incorporation of sulfur into sedimentary organic matter is an important aspect of organic carbon preservation. A better understanding of the sulfur cycle and the formation of organo-sulfur compounds are necessary if we are to better understand the interaction of biogeochemical cycles of C, N, O, H. and S. Currently, the determination of ³⁴S/³²S in organic matter is limited to bulk organic samples. The sulfur isotopic analysis of individual organo-sulfur compounds within the sediments should allow for a more complete understanding of the sulfur cycle and the processes which lead to sulfur incorporation into organic matter. This …

Improved Patient Notes From Medical Students During Web-Based Teaching Using Faculty-Calibrated Peer Review And Self-Assessment, Teresita Mccarty, Marie Parkes, Teresa Anderson, Jan Mines, Betty Skipper, James Grebosky

UME Faculty and Staff Educational Scholarship

Background: This study examines the effectiveness of Calibrated Peer Review (TM) (CPR), a Web-based writing development program, to teach and assess medical students' patient note-writing skills in a standardized fashion. Method: At the end of the clerkship year, 67 medical students were divided inot three groups, introduced to CPR, and instructed in patient note-writing. Students then wrote notes for three clinical cases, presented in different order to each group. After training on faculty-calibrated standards, students evaluated their peers; notes and tehir own notes. Trained faculty, blinded to author, order, and group, also graded student notes. Results: Faculty gave lower scores …

The Circle And The Cross: Reflections On The Holy Wells Of Ireland, Walter L. Brenneman Jr.

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Hydrology And Administration Of Domestic Wells In New Mexico, W. Peter Balleau, Steven E. Silver

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

On Regulating New Mexico's Domestic Wells, Frank B. Titus

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Water Availability And Economic Development: Signs Of The Invisible Hand - An Empirical Look At The Falkenmark Index And Macroeconomic Development, Jeffrey Edwards, Benhua Yang, Rashid B. Al-Hmoud

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

The Forest Service And Western Water Rights: An Intimate Portrait Of United States V. New Mexico, G. Emlen Hall

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Transboundary Water Law In Africa: Development, Nature, And Geography, Jonathan Lautze, Mark Giordano

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

State Ex Rel. Martinez V. City Of Las Vegas: The Misuse Of History And Precedent In The Abolition Of The Pueblo Water Rights Doctrine In New Mexico, Martha E. Mulvany

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Large Dams: Dealing With Social, Environmental, Institutional And Political Costs, By Thayer Scudder, Charles W. Howe

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Field Guide To The Sandia Mountains, Edited By Robert Julyan & Mary Stuever, Nancy Harbert

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.