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Report Of The Focus Group Workshop On Victim And Casualty Data Collection And Support Requirements For Imsma Version 4, Cisr

Global CWD Repository

The Mine Action Information Center (MAIC) at James Madison University (JMU) hosted a focus group workshop on 15-16 August 2005 in support of the development of version 4 of the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA). Mr. Alan Arnold, the IMSMA program manager, tasked the MAIC to organize and host the workshop in order to bring together subject matter experts in the fields of Mine Risk Education (MRE) and Mine Victim Assistance (MVA). The objective was to elicit, categorize and record comment on and suggestions for the proposed design of Victim and Casualty Data Collection and Analysis modules for …

Landmine Impact Survey Data And Planning For Reconstruction, Bob Eaton

Global CWD Repository

This report is the result of a Survey Action Center consultancy for the UN Mine Action Centre Afghanistan on collecting reconstruction and/or planning data and how it can be combined with Landmine Impact Survey data for follow-up on reconstruction/planning, casualty reduction, and surveillance and development of field reporting systems.

Healing During Physician-Patient Consultation, Waris Qidwai, Ss Ali, S Ayub, S Ayub

Department of Family Medicine

OBJECTIVE: To determine the patient perceptions regarding healing during a physician-patient consultation.
DESIGN: A questionnaire-based survey.
PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Family Practice Center of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, in June 2004.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: A questionnaire was designed that included the demographic profile of patients comprising age, gender, education and occupation as well as questions in line with the study objective. It was administered to 111 patients, visiting outpatient department of the hospital. Participants were explained the study objective, a written consent was taken and full confidentiality was assured.
RESULTS: The mean age of …

Patient Expectations From An Emergency Medical Service, Waris Qidwai, Ss Ali, M Baqi, S Ayub

Department of Family Medicine

BACKGROUND: Patient expectation survey at the Emergency Medical Services can improve patient satisfaction. A need was established to conduct such a survey in order to recommend its use as a quality improvement tool.
METHODS: The study was conducted on patients visiting the Emergency Medical Services, Aga Khan University, Karachi. A questionnaire was used to collect information on the demographic profile, and expectations of patients. The ethical requirements for conducting the study were met.
RESULTS: A hundred patients were surveyed. The majority was relatively young, married men and women, well educated and better socio-economically placed. The majority of the …

Structural Interpretation And The New Federalism: Finding The Proper Balance Between State Sovereignty And Federal Supremacy, Casey L. Westover

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Beyond Modesty: Privacy In Prison And The Risk Of Sexual Abuse, Kim Shayo Buchanan

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Revising Wisconsin's Government Immunity Doctrine, Linda M. Annoye

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Milwaukee Cases, Irvin B. Charne

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mathias V. Accor Economy Lodging: Just Deserts?, Booker T. Coleman Jr.

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Panzer V. Doyle: Wisconsin Constitutional Law Deals The Governor A New Hand, James J. Wawrzyn

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Introduction To The Restorative Justice Symposium, Andrea Kupfer Schneider

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Manual: The Blue Foundation For A Healthy Florida – 2005-2006 Media Coverage (Part One), Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

A Blue Foundation for a healthy Florida Manual fro 2005-2006 Media coverage Part 1.

Outline: “The Blue Foundation For A Healthy Florida: 2005 Annual Plan And Budget Goals & Strategies", The Blue Foundation For A Healthy Florida

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

No abstract provided.

Gimp Theory And The Ada’S “Feedback Loop”, Melissa Cole Essig

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Ctl Bulletin- 2005, Ctl Staff

Center for Teaching and Learning Bulletin

Occasional information sheet; dates included are: Jan. 15; Feb 15; Mar. 15; Apr. 15; Sept. 1, 15

Jewel Box Series: 2005-2006 Season, Jewel Box Staff

Jewel Box Series

Jupiter Trio, Camerata Chicago, Leon Bates, Rose Ensemble, Torosian & Schrader, Tai Murray, Colorado String Quartet, Erin Wall, Cuartetango, Zephyros Winds, Molinaro-Levy Project,

The Killing Machine Of Exception: Sovereignty, Law, And Play In Agamben’S State Of Exception, Puspa Damai

English Faculty Research

Giorgio Agamben’s slender but profound monograph on the state of exception is an intervention into a world that is becoming more and more exceptionalist. The events of 9/11, the War on Terror, and the successive decrees and acts authorizing fingerprinting, interrogation, and indefinite detention of suspects in terrorist activities, all testify to Agamben’s prophetic portrayal of contemporary politics in which the state of exception—normally a provisional attempt to deal with political exigencies— has become a permanent practice or paradigm of government. When the exception becomes the rule, it results, argues Agamben, not only in the appropriation of the legislative or …

Soft-Decision Equalization Techniques For Frequency Selective Mimo Channels, Shoumin Liu

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) technology is an emerging solution for high data rate wireless communications. We develop soft-decision based equalization techniques for frequency selective MIMO channels in the quest for low-complexity equalizers with BER performance competitive to that of ML sequence detection.

We first propose soft decision equalization (SDE), and demonstrate that decision feedback equalization (DFE) based on soft-decisions, expressed via the posterior probabilities associated with feedback symbols, is able to outperform hard-decision DFE, with a low computational cost that is polynomial in the number of symbols to be recovered, and linear in the signal constellation size. Building upon the probabilistic …

Ecology Of Larval Fishes And Large Zooplankton In The Keweenaw Current Region Of Lake Superior, With Special Focus On Lake Herring, Coregonus Artedi, Jason K. Oyadomari

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

I assessed the influence of the Keweenaw Current and spring thermal bar on the distribution of larval fishes and large zooplankton in Lake Superior. In 1998 and 1999, samples were collected from inshore (0.2 – 3.0 km from shore) and offshore (5.0 – 9.0 km from shore) locations on three transects off the western coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. For larval fishes, density and size distribution patterns of lake herring (Coregonus artedi), rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax), burbot (Lota lota), deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsoni), and spoonhead sculpin (Cottus ricei) suggest …

Countermeasures Against Scour At Bridge Abutments, Hua Li

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Scour at bridge abutments can cause damage or failure of bridges and result in excessive repairs, loss of accessibility, or even death. To mitigate abutment scour, both clear-water and live-bed laboratory experiments in a compound channel were performed using parallel walls and spur dikes as countermeasures, respectively. In addition, collars were tested under clear-water conditions only. It was found that both parallel walls and spur dikes can efficiently protect the abutment from scour provided that they are properly designed. Design guidelines were discussed for both countermeasures. Preliminary clear-water tests of collars as countermeasures against scour showed some promising results although …

Study Of Particle Movement In The Nearshore Region Of Lake Superior With Radioisotope Tracers, Yingtao Chai

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Biogeochemical processes in the coastal region, including the coastal area of the Great Lakes, are of great importance due to the complex physical, chemical and biological characteristics that differ from those on either the adjoining land or open water systems. Particle-reactive radioisotopes, both naturally occurring (²¹⁰Pb, ²¹⁰Po and ⁷Be) and man-made (¹³⁷Cs), have proven to be useful tracers for these processes in many systems. However, a systematic isotope study on the northwest coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior has not yet been performed.

In this dissertation research, field sampling, laboratory measurements and …

Establishing Legal Permanence For The Child, Donald N. Duquette

Book Chapters

This chapter is intended to identify options for legal permanency that state law and the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) commonly recognize to better serve children in foster care. Ideally, the child will ultimately return safely to his or her home of origin. But when a return home is not possible, the child welfare legal process should result in a safe and legally secure alternative permanent placement for the child. The emphasis on legally secure permanent placement is meant to provide the child with psychological stability and a sense of belonging, and limit the likelihood of future disruption …

Messianic-City: Ruins, Refuge And Hospitality In Derrida, Puspa Damai

English Faculty Research

‘‘Listen first to those who, like myself, did not have to watch TV to know that SOME of L.A. was burning,’’ Derrida wrote to a newsletter in response to the riots triggered by the Rodney King events in 1992, adding, ‘‘L.A. is not anywhere, but it is a singular organization of the experience of ‘anywhere’’’ (‘‘Faxitexture’’ 28). At a time when one hardly needs to watch TV to know that many cities around the world are burning, or are targeted and wounded, bombed and invaded—as if the Biblical injunction, ‘‘Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge …

Doc 2005-02 Change In Exam Schedule For 2005, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Executive Committee

Senate Documents

Official document of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton. This document was originally classified as DOC I-05-02. The Academic Senate unanimously favored the original calendar.

Doc 2004-09 Sense Of The Senate Document, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Select Calendar Committee

Senate Documents

Official, approved document of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton. This document was originally classified as DOC I-04-09.

Doc 2004-06 Faculty Maternity Leave Policy , University Of Dayton. Faculty Affairs Committee

Senate Documents

Official, approved document of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton. This document was revised January 23, 2009. It was originally classified as DOC I-04-06.

Navigating Into The New "Safe Harbor": Model Interest Surveys As A New Tool For Title Ix Compliance Programs, John J. Almond, Daniel A. Cohen

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

The policy debate and the divergent views expressed in the mainstream media have provided little practical advice regarding the Additional Clarification or the Model Survey to the well-intentioned academic institution seeking to comply with Title IX in a cost-effective manner. This Article is intended to be a source of such practical advice. This Article discusses the Additional Clarification from the perspective of the academic institution and seeks to help it evaluate whether to implement the OCR's recommendations, including the Model Survey, as part of its Title IX compliance program. The Article does not engage in the policy debate regarding the …

Images Of God: The Effect Of Personal Theologies On Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, And Religious Behavior, Christoper Bader, Paul Froese

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

Social scientists often explain religious effects in terms of religious group affiliations. Typically, researchers identify religious groups by denomination or some broader popular categorization, such as “fundamentalist” or “evangelical.” To capture religious differences more effectively, Steensland et al. (2000) propose an intricate classification of American denominations that takes into account the theology and historical development of various American religious traditions to predict individual attitudes and behaviors. We believe that equal care and attention should be devoted to the development of key measures of belief that may cross denominational lines. In this article, we propose one such measure: personal conceptions or …

Deep Play, Sean Ennis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Environmental Issues In Latin America And The Caribbean - Preface, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Sarah E. West

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.