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Pain And Suffering And Beyond: Some Thoughts On Recovery For Intangible Loss, Robert L. Rabin

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Media Reporting Of Jury Verdicts: Is The Tail (Of The Distribution) Wagging The Dog?, Robert J. Maccoun

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Community-Based Efforts At Reducing America's Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Federal Lawmakers Must Weigh In, Breighanne Aileen Fisher

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mapping Concepts In Medical Error Taxonomies, Min Zhu, Yong Huang, Yang Gong, Juliana J. Brixey, Jiajie Zhang, James P. Turley

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

No abstract provided.

From Soft Tissue To Homing Pigeons (Faith & Science Update), John T. Baldwin

Perspective Digest

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God, The Trinity, And Adventism: An Introduction To The Issues, Denis Fortin

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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The Quest For A Biblical Trinity: Ellen White's "Heavenly Trio" Compared To The Traditional Doctrine, Jerry Moon

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Traveling Waves In A Suspension Bridge System, Robert A. Ain

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In this thesis, we study the traveling waves in a Lazer-McKenna suspension bridge system which is governed by two coupled nonlinear beam and wave equations. The Lazer-McKenna suspension bridge system describes the vertical deflections in the roadbed and supporting cable of a suspension bridge. Based on some basic analysis on the system, we are able to compute traveling waves numerically by using MAPLE. Multiple large-amplitude traveling waves are obtained. The graphs of various traveling waves are displayed and discussed.

Detector Dogs And Probable Cause, Richard E. Myers Ii

Faculty Publications

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A Mass-Spring-Damper Model Of A Bouncing Ball, Mark L. Nagurka, Shuguang Huang

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

The mechanical properties of a vertically dropped ball, represented by an equivalent mass-spring-damper model, are shown to be related to impact parameters. In particular, the paper develops relationships connecting the mass, stiffness and damping of a linear ball model to the coefficient of restitution and the contact time of the ball with the surface during one bounce. The paper also shows that the ball model parameters are functions of quantities readily determined in an experiment: (i) the height from which the ball is dropped from rest, (ii) the number of bounces, and (iii) the time elapsing between dropping the ball …

Copyright And Feminism In Digital Media, Dan L. Burk

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

An Environmental Scan Of Adult Numeracy Professional Development Initiatives, Renee Sherman, Kathy Safford-Ramus, Anestine Hector-Mason, Larry Condelli, Andrea R. Olinger, Nrupa Jani

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Observations Of Triboelectric Charging Effects On Langmuir-Type Probes In Dusty Plasma, Aroh Barjatya, Charles M. Swenson

Publications

Investigation of Earth’s mesosphere using sounding rockets equipped with a myriad of instruments has been a highly active field in the last 2 decades. This paper presents data from three separate instruments: an RF impedance probe, a DC fixed bias Langmuir probe, and an electric field probe, that were flown on a mesospheric sounding rocket flight investigating the presence of charged dust within and/or around a sporadic metal layer. The combined data set indicates a case of payload surface charging, the causes of which are investigated within this paper. A generic circuit model is developed to analyze payload charging and …

A New Economics Of Trademarks, David W. Barnes

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

Conventional wisdom holds that trademarks are nothing like other intellectual property. Copyright and patent law are theoretically based in public goods theory and are designed to promote creation and disclosure of original expressions and novel, useful innovations. By contrast, trademarks are private goods and trademark law is designed to promote trade and encourage competition.

This article challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that trademarks are a type of public good that contributes to the public stock of useful ideas just as patented and copyrighted works do. This economic perspective suggests, again contrary to conventional trademark theory, that competitive markets fail to …

Identification Of Trade Secret Claims In Litigation: Solutions For A Ubiquitous Dispute, Charles Tait Graves, Brian D. Range

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Impact Of A Visual Arts Family-Focused Pre-Kindergarten Intervention, Gigi M. David

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the effect of a visual arts, family-focused school readiness intervention on the parental efficacy and level of family involvement of low-income families. A second, primary focus of the study was to test the potential of academically focused experiences in the visual arts to increase the basic concept development of young children. To increase accessibility, the intervention was conducted in a neighborhood library.

The research design for this descriptive study included qualitative and quantitative components. Data collection consisted of a non-randomized one group pre-test/posttest design from students on a standardized instrument and from primary caregivers using self-report questionnaires. …

Reforming Rhetoric: Gender Equity, The American Association Of University Women, And The New White, Kim Golombisky

Iowa Journal of Communication

During the 1990s, the American Association of University Women tried to put gender equity back onto a U.S. education agenda that had rolled back equity programming during the 1980s and turned toward standards and testing in the 1990s. Conservatives labeled the AA UW radical feminists and argued black schoolboys represent the greatest at-a-risk student population, a logic that prioritized race over gender and boys over girls. Nonwhite non-Anglo women criticized the AA UW for glossing over differences among girls and women. In its 1998 Gender Gaps, the AA UW wrote a rhetorical alliance with its critics on the right and …

A Sustainable, Systematic Process For Continuous Program Improvement, Nikos J. Mourtos

Faculty Publications

The USA Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) adopted recently a new set of criteria for evaluating engineering programmes. One of these (criterion 3) refers to programme outcomes and assessment. In this article, the author describes the design and implementation of a sustainable, systematic process for defining and assessing programme outcomes. This process involves analysing each outcome into elements, defining a set of attributes for each element, selecting outcome indicators and performance targets, and developing special rubrics for an accurate assessment of student skills. The author also describes a systematic way of addressing specific programme outcomes through course and …

Incorporating Remote Sensing Information In Modeling House Values: A Regression Tree Approach, Danlin Yu, Changshan Wu

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This paper explores the possibility of incorporating remote sensing information in modeling house values in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. In particular, a Landsat ETM+ image was utilized to derive environmental characteristics, including the fractions of vegetation, impervious surface, and soil, with a linear spectral mixture analysis approach. These environmental characteristics, together with house structural attributes, were integrated to house value models. Two modeling techniques, a global OLS regression and a regression tree approach, were employed to build the relationship between house values and house structural and environmental characteristics. Analysis of results indicates that environmental characteristics generated from remote …

A Multigrid Method For Variable Coefficient Maxwell's Equations, Jim E. Jones, Barry Lee

Mathematics and System Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper presents a multigrid method for solving variable coefficient Maxwell's equations. The novelty in this method is the use of interpolation operators that do not produce multilevel commutativity complexes that lead to multilevel exactness. Rather, the effects of multilevel exactness are built into the level equations themselves-on the finest level using a discrete T -V formulation and on the coarser grids through the Galerkin coarsening procedure of a T - V formulation. These built-in structures permit the levelwise use of an effective hybrid smoother on the curl-free near-nullspace components and permit the development of interpolation operators for handling the …

Common Data Set, 2005-2006, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Common Data Set (2001-present)

Common Data Set 2005-2006 for Illinois State University

Finite Element Modeling And Computer Simulation Of Stresses And Strains In Diamond Anvil Cell Devices, Andreiy I. Kondrat’Yev

All ETDs from UAB

Diamond anvil cells (DAC) are extensively utilized in the study of material proper-ties at extreme conditions of pressures and temperatures. The pressures in excess of 400 GPa and temperatures in excess of 4000 K have been reported in DAC devices. Most studies on the optimization of diamond geometry and gasket materials used in diamond anvil cell devices have been carried out by trial and error using experimental high pressure data. This dissertation addresses design and optimization issues in DAC using finite element modeling (FEM) and computational analysis. The computational approach is centered around the recent advances in the growth of …

Intestinal Peptides And Ethnic Differences In Insulin Secretion, Paul B. Higgins

All ETDs from UAB

African Americans (AA) exhibit greater insulin responses following either an oral or intravenous glucose challenge relative to their European American (EA) counterparts. The etiology of this difference is not fully understood nor has it been confirmed with a more physiologically relevant mixed meal. Insulin secretion is regulated by a variety of factors. Significant among these are the enteric peptides glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP). The role of the incretin system in the ethnic differences in post challenge insulinemia has received little attention. Hence, the purpose of the study was two-fold. First, determine whether AA have higher fasting …

Surface Reconstruction Using Gamma Shapes, Ying Sun

All ETDs from UAB

Surface reconstruction from a set of sample points is important in many applications, including computer graphics, reverse engineering, computer vision and medical imaging. In this dissertation, several surface reconstruction techniques are investigated and the Alpha Shapes method is studied in detail. A new method, called Gamma Shapes, is introduced and implemented for reconstructing surfaces from a set of unorganized sample points. The Alpha Shapes method requires that the data point set be uniformly sampled in order to reconstruct an acceptable surface. Gamma Shapes method is an extension of the Alpha Shapes method with the advantage that the Gamma Shapes method …

Attitude And The Ada: A Survey Of Public Employees In Alabama., Amy Philips

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

The Ionic Mechanism Of Action Potential Duration Restitution, Its Memory Effect, And Stability., Xiaozhong Chen

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

A Trust-Relationship Management Framework For Federated Virtual Organizations., Jill Gemmill

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Embedded Clustering Systems With Biological Data Mining Applications., Yonghui Chen

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Some Topological Results On The Influence Of Critical Points In Rational Dynamics., Douglas Karl Childers

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Contributions Of The Left And Right Hemisphere To Ratio Scaling., Tracy S. Kretzmer

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.