Digital Commons Network^™

Bates V. Tandy Corporation

2006 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Izzo V. Comm Social Security

2006 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

What Happens When A Fifth Grade Class Takes An Inquiry Stance Into Their Own Wellness Through A Critical Literacy Lens?, Casey Shalhoub

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to teach wellness to students in a fifth grade class using inquiry and critical literacy books. I taught lessons that incorporate the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Health to find out how this knowledge affected the students' lives. I worked with twenty-four students in a fifth grade class for a sixteen week period during my student teaching. I used a student questionnaire to gather information and also analyzed the student participation during lessons and responses to what was taught. I found that through the teaching of wellness through inquiry and critical literacy …

Perspective Greenhouse Gas Mitigation By Covers On Livestock Slurry Tanks And Lagoons?, Soren O. Petersen, Daniel N. Miller

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Liquid manure (slurry) storage facilities are important point sources of atmospheric pollution. Being point sources, containment of gaseous emissions via improved storage conditions may be possible, and permeable surface covers (natural crusts and artificial covers) are increasingly recognized for their capacity to reduce various gaseous emissions. Microbial transformations in permeable surface covers include bacterial-methane oxidation, but this interface between nitrogen-rich slurry and the atmosphere is also an environment with intense nitrogen turnover that can lead to nitrous oxide emissions. Both methane and nitrous oxide are greenhouse gases, and strategies to reduce environmental impact of slurry stores must consider the total …

Professor Develops New Way To Understand Personality And Answer The Age-Old Question, 'Who Am I?', Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Lanthanide Complexes As Fluorescent Indicators For Neutral Sugars And Cancer Biomarkers, Onur Alptürk, Oleksandr Rusin, Sayo O. Fakayode, Weihua Wang, Jorge O. Escobedo, Isiah M. Warner, William E. Crowe, Vladimir Král, Jeff M. Pruet, Robert M. Strongin

Faculty Publications

Simple water-soluble lanthanum and europium complexes are effective at detecting neutral sugars as well as glycolipids and phospholipids. In solutions at physiologically relevant pH the fluorescent lanthanum complex binds neutral sugars with apparent binding constants comparable to those of arylboronic acids. Interference from commonly occurring anions is minimal. The europium complex detects sialic acid-containing gangliosides at pH 7.0 over an asialoganglioside. This selectivity is attributed, in large part, to the cooperative complexation of the oligosaccharide and sialic acid residues to the metal center, based on analogous prior studies. In MeOH, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a biomarker for several pathological conditions including …

Volume 43, Number 49: June 27, 2006, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: June 27, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

June

No abstract provided.

Scientists Confirm Folk Remedy Repels Mosquitoes, Tobie Baker

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Swatting mosquitoes and dodging other biting bugs is nearly a year-round chore in the Southeast, but such pests are swarming across the country with the advent of summer weather. And with warnings about West Nile virus and other insect-borne diseases out, keeping the pests away has taken on new urgency.

Murray Ledger And Times, June 27, 2006, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Ccu Newsletter, June 26, 2006, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

Annual Report, Arts & Sciences Professional Standards Committee, 2005-2006, Arts & Sciences Professional Standards Committee

Professional Standards Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Public Relations In Crisis Communication Planning And Management: An Analysis Of The Pharmaceutical Industry, Tracey A. Myszka

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines crisis communication and management in the pharmaceutical industry. It analyzes three specific pharmaceutical crises and examines the respective public relations responses.

The researcher prepared a mail survey that was sent to senior public relations professionals, PR professors and crisis communication experts. The data from 20 surveys were analyzed manually to determine respondents' perceptions about the role of PR during a crisis and the state of crisis preparedness in the pharmaceutical industry. The results were tabulated in percentages and presented in graph form.

Findings indicate general agreement about the value and role of public relations during a crisis …

Report To The Regenstrief Foundation Board, Steve Witz

RCHE Presentations

Purpose of presentatin: 1. Provide a summary of activities deuring the second year, 2. Identify future direction for RCHE, 3. Address questions.

Healthcare Quality Partnerships: An Emerging Educational Frontier For Industrial Engineering Technology Programs, Susan Scachitti, Heather (Woodward) Hagg, Lash Mapa

RCHE Publications

Wtih the understanding that the industrial engineering profession has grown out of industrial/manufacturing oganizations, it is important to note that the profession has gradually matured to the point where it is readily being accepted in service industries, such as hospitals, retail stores and banking. Today, this means that industrial engineers are among the most versatile of the engineering professions, spanning various degrees of functions within various types of organizations. Therefore, educational institutions that offer Industrial Egnieering (IE) and Industrial Engineering Technology (IET) curriculum must also offer a versatile curriculum that will allow their graduates to gain experience in various areas …

Assessing Effects Of Iq On Sociable And Withdrawn Behaviors In Children With Language Impairment, Amanda Lyn Bradshaw

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of IQ on subtypes of sociable and withdrawn behaviors in children with language impairment (LI). Research has suggested that children with LI are more likely to experience difficulty with social interaction than their typically developing peers (Brinton & Fujiki, 1999; Rice, 1991). The Teacher Behavior Rating Scale (Hart & Robinson, 1996) was used to compare sociable and withdrawn behaviors in 19 children with LI and 19 children with typically developing language. IQ scores for each participant were obtained by administering the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (Bracken & McCallum, 2003). These …

June 26, 2006 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, June 26, 2006, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 71, June 26, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Rhythm Method As Cause Of Embryonic Death Based On Flawed Assumptions, Richard J. Fehring

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Response to "The rhythm method and embryonic death" by L. Bovens in Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 32 (2006): 355-356.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, June 25, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2006

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 25, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2006

No abstract provided.

A Short Tutorial On Reconstructability Analysis, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

This talk will present the basic ideas of Reconstructability Analysis. RA is a general modeling methodology developed in the systems community since the early 60s (pioneered by Ross Ashby) for exploratory (data mining, machine learning) and confirmatory modeling. RA is based in graph theory, set theory, information theory, and statistics. It is applicable to qualitative (nominal) and, via binning, to quantitative (continuous) data, with both statistical & non-statistical applications. It overlaps and augments more widely known methods, e.g., log-linear modeling and Bayesian networks.

Keywords: Reconstructability Analysis, Log-Linear Modeling, categorical data, multivariate statistics, exploratory modeling, confirmatory modeling

Dead Man Waiting: Death Row Delays, The Eighth Amendment, And What Courts And Legislatures Can Do, Kate F. Mcmahon

ExpressO

Is there a point at which a person’s tenure on death row has lasted so long or has become so stressful that his sentence begins to violate the Constitution? This argument, dubbed the Lackey claim, has surfaced before in both the international and domestic arenas. Whereas over the last five years the Eighth Amendment has substantially chipped away at the constitutionally permissible parameters of capital punishment in the United States, the current legal landscape surrounding the death penalty may be poised for more upheaval.

My article, entitled “Dead Man Waiting: Death Row Delays, the Eighth Amendment, and What Courts and …

The Optimal Law Enforcement With Mandatory Defendant Class Action, Nelson Rodrigues Netto

ExpressO

In this article we argue that the optimal law enforcement system is based on an ideal mechanism to prevent and redress harms in the mass information society. This goal is achieved by means of mandatory defendant class actions.

The idea of mass society has evolved in time since the beginning of the industrialization in the 18th century. At that time, the transformation of the means of production from artisanal craftwork to large scale machinery work, forged the concept of mass production. Nowadays, massive and expeditious relationships are created by sophisticated communications links, especially the Internet, furnishing services and goods, which …

June 24, 2006 (Pages 3077-3220), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 36 (2006)

No abstract provided.

Multivariate Analysis And Visualization Of Splicing Correlations In Single-Gene Transcriptomes, Mark C. Emerick, Giovanni Parmigiani, William S. Agnew

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Through ‘combinatorial splicing’, RNA metabolism may create enormous structural diversity in the proteome. Functional interactions among multiple alternative domains can have a disproportionate impact on the phenotype, requiring integrated RNA-level regulation of molecular composition. Splicing correlations within molecules expressed from a single gene, where these effects would be greatest, provide valuable clues to functional relationships and targets for splicing regulation. We present tools to visualize complex splicing patterns in full-length cDNA libraries. Developmental changes in pair-wise correlations are presented vectorially in ‘clock plots’ and linkage grids. Higher-order correlations are assessed via a loglinear model and Monte Carlo analysis with an …

The Environment Transport Of Radium And Plutonium: A Review By Brice Smith And Alexandra Amonette, Institute For Energy And Environmental Research (Ieer), Brice Smith, Alexandra Amonette

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)

In this report we will provide a brief review of the environmental transport of two specific radionuclides. In Chapter Two we will consider the mobility of radium. This naturally occurring radionuclide is part of the uranium and thorium decay series, and is thus a potential concern in many areas where these elements have been mined or processed. In addition to the large number of sites with radium bearing waste, we chose to focus on this radionuclide in part due to the high concentrations of radium-226, and its thorium-230 parent, in the raffinate waste from the former Fernald Feed Material Production …

June 23, 2006, Ohio University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ohio University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees.

Pnc Bank Na V. Ppl Elec Util Corp

2006 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania