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Table Of Contents - Fall 2005

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Academic Leadership Journal Fall 2005 table of contents

America's Public Hospitals And Health Systems, 2003: Results Of The Annual Naph Hospital Characteristics Survey, Jennifer Huang, Joshua Silbert, Marsha Regenstein

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

In 2003, members of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems continued to offer millions of uninsured and underserved individuals access to the medical services so critical for lifelong health and well-being. Delivering these services was difficult, however, given the economic downtown early in the decade and the resulting inadequacies associated with safety net financing. This report examines the operations and activities of NAPH members in 2003, presents the financial challenges they faced, describes the clinical and community services they provided, and profiles the patients they served.

Directions - Fall 2005, Mervyn H. Sterne Library

Directions (Sterne Library, 1985-2015)

No abstract provided.

Simple Electrooptical Sensors For Inorganic Anions, Pavel Anzenbacher Jr., Karolina Jursikova, Manuel Marquez

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Electrooptical sensors consisting of a conjugated chromophore undergoing a change in color and a redox-active moiety such as quinone fused to the chromophore were synthesized. Strong changes in colorimetric and electrochemical properties were observed in the presence of inorganic anions. A unique anion-specific response was observed for fluoride, pyrophosphate, and acetate. DFT (B3LYP/6-31G*) calculations performed for both "on/off" states of a sensor-fluoride model are in good agreement with the observed electrochemical and spectroscopic data.

Gold & Blue, Fall 2005, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Fall 2005 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture And Liturgical Theatrics In New Spain (Book Review), Charlotte M. Gradie

History Faculty Publications

Book review by Charlotte Gradie.

Lara, Jaime. City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.

ISBN 9780268033644

Stratégie Nationale De Contrôle De L'Encéphalopathie Des Cervidés Du Canada, Octobre 2005

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Le but de la Stratégie nationale de contrôle de l'encéphalopathie des cervidés du Canada est d'établir une politique nationale coordonnée et un cadre de réaction à la maladie et de gestion de celle-ci afin de réduire au minimum les répercussions négatives de l'encéphalopathie des cervidés sur la biodiversité, la santé des êtres humains et du bétail et sur l'environnement et l'économie. Le but final de cette stratégie est l'éradication de l'encéphalopathie des cervidés du Canada ou, à défaut, atteindre le contrôle le plus complet possible de la maladie pour qu'elle ne se répande pas dans de nouvelles régions géographiques ou …

Disparity: The Normative And Empirical Failure Of The Federal Guidelines, Albert Alschuler

Articles

No abstract provided.

Recurso 06a-RecepcióN Y Trato Con Nuevos Miembros, Igor Marcelo Schreiber

Evangelismo

Recurso 06a-Recepción y trato con nuevos miembros

Partition-Based Interpolation For Color Filter Array Demosaicking And Super-Resolution Reconstruction, Min Shao, Kenneth E. Barner, Russell C. Hardie

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

A class of partition-based interpolators that addresses a variety of image interpolation applications are proposed. The proposed interpolators first partition an image into a finite set of partitions that capture local image structures. Missing high resolution pixels are then obtained through linear operations on neighboring pixels that exploit the captured image structure. By exploiting the local image structure, the proposed algorithm produces excellent performance on both edge and uniform regions. The presented results demonstrate that partition-based interpolation yields results superior to traditional and advanced algorithms in the applications of color filter array (CFA) demosaicking and super-resolution reconstruction.

The Effect Of Channel Length On The Residual Circulation In Tidally Dominated Channels, Chunyan Li, James O'Donnell

Faculty Publications

With an analytic model, this paper describes the subtidal circulation in tidally dominated channels of different lengths, with arbitrary lateral depth variations. The focus is on an important parameter associated with the reversal of the exchange flows. This parameter (δ) is defined as the ratio between the channel length and one-quarter of the tidal wavelength, which is determined by water depth and tidal frequency. In this study, a standard bottom drag coefficient, CD = 0.0025, is used. For a channel with δ smaller than 0.6-0.7 (short channels), the exchange flow at the open end has an inward transport in deep …

Penrose Conference Report: Kinematics And Geodynamics Of Intraplate Dextral Shear In Eastern California And Western Nevada, Jeffrey Lee, Daniel Stockli, Christopher Henry, Timothy Dixon

Geological Sciences Faculty Scholarship

This conference provided a forum to discuss the range of geological and geophysical datasets from the eastern California shear zone (ECSZ) and Walker Lane belt (WLB) that bear on how intraplate deformation is accommodated and how to integrate the data into a comprehensive, spatially and kinematically coherent view of intraplate deformation through time.

Oct 2005, Unauthored (D.Hunter), Csos Top Issues Remaining In Ifc Perf Standards, Ifc

IFC E&S Performance Standards

No abstract provided.

World News, Blase Kornacki, Abby Okrent, Jennifer Rohlender, Mauro Zinner

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (“FAO”) announced that there is an increased risk of the bird flu spread- ing to North Africa and East Africa. The FAO warns that East Africa in particular will have difficulties containing the flu. The close proximity between humans and animals in East Africa creates an ideal situation for spreading the flu to people. A number of African countries have already responded to predictions of avian flu. For instance, Congo-Brazzaville banned poultry imports. South Africa’s Department of Health placed an urgent request for the flu medicine Tamiflu to be approved for use in the …

Water Privatization And Obstacles To Achieving Millennium Development Goal Seven's Targets For Sustainable Drinking Water, Maria Vanko

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

Militant uprisings in Cochabamaba, Bolivia in 1999 occurred after the private water provider implemented a 300 percent fee increase. In 2003, tariffs increased 700 percent while the water operator’s negligence led to cholera outbreaks in West Manila, Philippines. Increased prices make safe water unaffordable for vulnerable populations, forcing families to make trade-offs between water, schooling, food, and healthcare. Private industry is also less likely to participate in areas where recovery of their investment is riskier.

The Millennium Development Goals And Hiv/Aids, J.C. Sylvan

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

In the countries hardest hit by the epidemic, the problem is compounded by the reality that many national health care systems, which will bear the burden of improving available treatments, are themselves in crisis. In years past, many developing countries, encouraged by international financial institutions and trusting in privatization, cut their health care budgets. As a result, health care has been chronically under-funded in many of these countries. According to a recent report by the UN Millennium Project, “[p]overty, misplaced priorities, and years of externally imposed restrictions on social spending have left health services for over two billion people dysfunctional, …

Conditional Cash Transfers: Progress Towards The Millennium Development Goals, Blase Kornacki

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

Conditional cash transfer programs are transforming Latin America’s approach to social welfare. CCTs provide money to families living in extreme poverty in exchange for the commitment to invest in human capital. The programs aim at replacing the “traditional supply-side mechanisms” with “demand-side interventions to directly support beneficiaries.” Traditional mechanisms battled poverty with subsidies or direct investments in public goods, whereas the new approach channels support directly to the people and promotes investment in human capital, using market approaches as an incentive to use social services such as primary and secondary education and local health centers.

Protecting Children And Their Mothers: The Millennium Development Goals Push Lofty Heath Targets, Frank Pigott

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report 2005 (“UN report”) shows that child mortality is strongly related to poverty level, as poor countries have less access to advances in child survival treatments than wealthier countries. Five diseases are responsible for fifty percent of all deaths of children under five – pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and AIDS. The data suggests that nutrition is the most important preventative measure, because malnutrition weakens the immune system. According to the UN report, safe water, better sanitation, education, and higher income levels can also increase a child’s life expectancy. Other measures to reduce child mortality …

Promoting Gender Equality Through Global Education Targets- The Third Millennium Development Goal, Nikka Thakker

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

Achieving this goal by 2015 seems optimistic; the first half of the goal was not fulfilled since a gender gap still exists in primary and secondary education. In a report released in 2003, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (“UNICEF”) urged that “accelerated action” must be taken to get more girls into school over the next two years, otherwise other MDGs, including goals to reduce poverty and improve the human condition, would also not be realized. By keeping the girls away from the classroom, they will lack the knowledge necessary, for example, to keep themselves out of poverty and …

Establishing Sound Chemicals Management A Prerequisite For Achieving The Millennium Development Goals, Kelly Rain

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

Modern society could not maintain its current standard of living without chemicals; however, sound chemicals management is necessary to prevent harm to human health and the environment. The United Nations Environment Programme – along with governments, relevant intergovernmental groups, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders – has begun the process of establishing a Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (“SAICM”). The importance of this process is far-reaching, demonstrated by the fact that hazardous chemicals hinder the achievement of development targets, such as the Millennium Development Goals (“MDGs”).

Education As A Lynchpin Of Development: Legal And Policy Considerations In The Formation Of The Education For All- Fast Track Initiative Catalytic Trust Fund, Sophie Smyth, Anna Triponel

PEEL Faculty Scholarship

The provision of education requires resources, and finding those resources is an ongoing challenge. In the case of the developing world, where some 115 million children remain out of school – two-thirds of them girls, and most of them poor or otherwise disadvantaged, this challenge is particularly acute. This need, however, is not being ignored and efforts are being taken at several levels to address it. The formation of the World Bank’s Education For All – Fast Track Initiative Catalytic Trust Fund is one such effort. This article describes the background to the fund and analyzes the legal and policy …

The Admissibility Of Expert Testimony In North Carolina After Howerton: Reconciling The Ruling With The Rules Of Evidence, William A. Woodruff

Campbell Law Review

Part II of this paper briefly describes the federal rule in order to appreciate the context of the North Carolina approach to expert testimony. Part III traces the development of North Carolina's expert testimony law from the common law to codification in the rules of evidence through the decision in Howerton and reveals that the North Carolina test for reliability is, essentially, an evaluation of the credibility of the testifying expert. Part IV argues that Howerton's adoption of a less stringent and credibility-based substantive test for reliability but retention of the Daubert procedural "gatekeeping" role of the judge in determining …

Remembering World War Ii Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Elithea Whittaker, Edward Curry Woodward, St. Petersburg Times (Firm)

Special Collections and University Archives Legacy Finding Aids: All Items

Ron Brackett, a news director at the St. Petersburg Times, solicited letters to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II. This collection includes submissions to the newspaper. Some of the materials in this collection appeared in a commemorative section published by the St. Petersburg Times.

Table Of Contents And Masthead (V. 14, No. 1)

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Why Justice Breyer Was Wrong In Van Orden V. Perry, Erwin Chemerinsky

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

The Supreme Court And The Ten Commandments: Compounding The Establishment Clause Confusion, Jay A. Sekulow, Francis J. Manion

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Upholding The Unbroken Tradition: Constitutional Acknowledgment Of The Ten Commandments In The Public Square, Greg Abbott

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

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

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Comparative And Noncomparative Justice: Some Guidelines For Constitutional Adjudication, Raleigh Hannah Levine, Russell Pannier

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

A Brief History Of The Fifth Amendment Guarantee Against Double Jeopardy, David S. Rudstein

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.