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Making Research Real: The Multi-Genre Research Project, Jennifer Conrad

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

Next Generation Heterogenous Telemetry Modules, Pierce Brady

Theses

Remote monitoring is used in many applications within the scientific, industrial and commercial communities. These applications can range from the simple monitoring of wind farm generators to the complex behavioural monitoring of a local fox habitat to the simple but extremely urgent monitoring of water depth for a flood prone river. Each application of remote monitoring requires different aspects of the remote monitoring device, but typically, not all these applications can be implemented, as the technologies required for their construction are extremely large, expensive, energy inefficient, slow and do not meet the constraints for the given application.

However with the …

Enhancing Science Education Through Engaging Visual Content, David Kavanagh

Theses

In recent years a decline in the number of Irish students choosing to study science, at second level and on into third level, has become potentially harmful to the desired creation of a science-based knowledge economy. A primary contributing factor towards this decline is a lack of interest in the subject within the classroom, as was established by The Task Force on the Physical Sciences in 2002.

The primary aim of this Masters research is to investigate the role of visualisation in making the study of science more accessible and engaging to students to counter this decline. To this end …

The Development Of Functional Food Ingredients From Yeast Cell Wall Beta Glucans, Susan Keogh

Theses

The intracellular contents of spent yeast can be used to produce flavours and flavour enhancers. However there still remains after this process, a significant quantity of cell wall material, which makes up 20-25% of the dry weight of yeast biomass. A major component of the yeast cell wall is the polysaccharide P-glucan. This project involved the investigation of the extraction and characterisation of p-glucan as well as its evaluation as a functional food ingredient. A preparation of spent yeast p-glucan was obtained from two types of spent yeast species, Saccharomyces cervisiae (brewers yeast) and Kluyveromyces marxianus (dairy yeast) obtained from …

Molecular Epidemiology Of Antibiotic Resistant Salmonella Enterica Strains From Different Animal And Human Sources In Ireland, David George Lee

Theses

In this study, 176 isolates of Salmonella were collected from different laboratories in Ireland. All isolates were confirmed to be of the genus Salmonella by performing bacteriological and biochemical tests. Briefly, all isolates were cultured onto XLD agar after which pure cultures were verified and stocked at this institute. Definitive identification was carried out using the API 20-E system and a separate urease test was also performed on all isolates. After confirmation of the genus, all isolates were prepared for antibiotic susceptibility testing and r-types were determined using sixteen antibiotics. Depending on the antibiotic resistance profiles, isolates were selected for …

Educating The Public About Best Practices In English Language Arts, Patricia Dunn

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

When Talking Makes A Difference: Teachers As Organizers, Cathy Fleischer, Andy Buchsbaum

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

The Listener's Stance, Bill Tucker

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

On The Shoulders Of Giants: Leaders In The Field Of Literacy As Teacher Advocates, Deborah Smith

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

Opportunities For Advocacy: Making Our Pedagogy Public, W. Douglas Baker, Jonathan Bush

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

“Statistical Judo”: The Rhetoric Of Senate Inaction In The Judicial Appointment Process, E. Stewart Moritz

Akron Law Faculty Publications

This article first briefly summarizes the issues that arise in the lower-court judicial confirmation process, and examines how the issues differ from those that arise during the confirmation of Supreme Court justices. The article considers constitutionally-based differences as well as practical differences in Senate and Executive behavior that have developed during more than two centuries of judicial confirmations.

The body of the article offers a chronological history and critique of the rhetoric of both Republican and Democratic senators in discussing lower-court confirmations during the 107th Congress. This congressional session, spanning the years 2001 to 2002, was a particularly interesting one …

State Action Doctrine And The Principle Of Democratic Choice, Wilson R. Huhn

Akron Law Faculty Publications

The state action doctrine is somewhat of a mystery to law students, legal scholars, lawyers, and judges. It is a key component of the Fourteenth Amendment--a threshold requirement that must be satisfied before triggering protection of our fundamental rights--but the doctrine itself seems to be curiously without purpose, a collection of arbitrary rules that impede constitutional protection of liberty, equality, and fairness for no good reason. Nearly forty years ago, Professor Charles Black called the state action doctrine “a conceptual disaster area” and characterized scholarly commentary upon it as “a torchless search for a way out of a damp echoing …

Trafficking In Persons: The 21st Century Version Of Human Slavery, James Nicholson

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Remarks by R. James "Jim" Nicholson, United States Secretary of Veteran Affairs and Ambassador to the Holy See, entitled "Trafficking in Persons: The 21st Century Version of Human Slavery".

The Call For A 21st Century Abolitionist Movement, John R. Miller

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Remarks by John R. Miller, Director of the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, entitled "The Call for a 21st Century Abolitionist Movement".

Putting Lives Back Together: Women Helping Women The Italian Experience Of Women Religious, Eugenia Bonetti

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Remarks by Sister Eugenia Bonetti, Consolata Missionary Sister and Coordinator of the Counter-Trafficking Sector, USMI National (Unione Superiori Maggiori d'Italia), entitled by "Putting Lives Back Together: Women Helping Women the Italian Experience of Women Religious".

Escape To Freedom: A Former Slave's Story, Francis Bok

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Remarks by Francis Bok, (Former child slave from Sudan. In 2000, Mr. Bok became the first escaped slave to testify before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in hearings on Sudan.) entitled "Escape to Freedom: A Former Slave's Story".

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act: A Work In Progress, Terry Coonan

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

From the time when Congress passed and the President enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ("TVPA"), this innovative law has changed the contours of the U.S. legal landscape.I Given even more teeth by the subsequent passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 ("TVPRA"), the law provides unprecedented tools for U.S. governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations ("NGOs") to combat trafficking in persons, both within the U.S. and abroad. While neither the law's format nor its implementation has been without problems, significant progress has been made since its enactment in countering trafficking and prosecuting traffickers. Such progress …

Attitudes, Knowledge, And Intention To Support Breastfeeding Among Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses, Nicole Olivia Wilson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored) And The Tuskegee Airment : A Comparative Study, Amanda M. Nagel

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Nurse-Patient Relationships In Selected Play Texts, Tiffany K. Doering

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The Selective Progress Of Liberalization : An Analysis Of Regional Variation Among Attitudes Toward Homosexuals, Brittany A. Hanstad

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Compositional Effects On Gas-Oil Interfacial Tension And Miscibility At Reservoir Conditions, Daryl Sean Sequeira

LSU Master's Theses

Minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is an important optimization parameter for an enhanced oil recovery process involving Carbon Dioxide or hydrocarbon gas injection. Therefore an accurate experimental measurement is required to determine the MMP. The MMP for a gas-oil system is directly related to the interfacial tension between the injected gas and the reservoir crude oil. When CO2 gas contacts the reservoir oil at reservoir temperature, the interfacial tension between the fluid-fluid phases reduces as the miscibility is approached and the interface between the fluid-fluid phases eventually disappears at miscibility i.e. the interfacial tension becomes zero. Hence, a pressure condition of …

Books And Letters Vol. 20, No. 2, University Libraries, Molly Boyd, Anne Marie Candido, Tom W. Dillard, Juana R. Young, Andrea E. Cantrell, Russell Cothren, J. D. White, Lee Holt

Books and Letters

Forensic Anthropologist Speaks at Mullins Library; Educational Poster Series; Libraries Host International Visitors; Borchard Reception; Expanded Research Commons Brings More Students to Library; Art Exhibits Enliven Student Experience; Processing the Hammerschmidt Papers; Save The Date: Arkansas Architecture Conference; New Head of Library Systems Welcomed; Stay More Booklets Issued, Researcher Publishes Letters from Special Collections; Pi Mu Epsilon Creates Runcinated Dodecaplex; A Note of Thanks!

Vehicular Pursuits : Policy Analysis And Recommendations For The Missoula Police Department, Nickolas J. Kuntz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Role Of Islamic Educational Values In Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills, Abdullah A. Alghamdi

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Contract Law, Pey Woan Lee, Pearlie Koh, Chee Ho Tham

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The issue of contract formation arose in the unusual context of civil procedure in Wellmix Organics (International) Pte Ltd v Lau Yu Man [2006] 2 SLR 117 (see also para 10.60 on “Mistake”). The plaintiff in this case unsuccessfully sought to enforce a consent unless order against the defendant. Andrew Phang Boon Leong J (as he then was) emphasised that, keeping in view its very drastic consequence of depriving a party of his cause of action, such an order will only be established where the terms of the agreement are clear and unambiguous. It was clear on the facts that …

Singapore: Intimations Of A Budding Global City, Kheng Boon, Eugene Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.

Application Of Different Levels Of Byproducts From Quinua (Chenopodium Quinoa Willd.) In The Preparation Of Rations For Guinea Pigs (Cavia Porcellus L.) In The Growing And Fattening Stages, Grover Antonio Aduviri Paredes

Theses and Dissertations

From quinua crop residue it is possible to obtain byproducts that can be used to feed small animals, especially guinea pigs. These byproducts can become an alternative feed to ameliorate food deficiencies generally present in the Altiplano. This study compared the effect of consumed quinua meal rations on guinea pig body weight increase and food and economic conversion. This project was developed in two phases: pre-experimental and experimental. In the first phase, genetic material appropriate for the project and the initial rations for consumption was acquired. The second phase included the experimental design where the treatments were developed. The study …

An Assessment Of Female Freshman Students' Nutrition Education Needs At The University Of Montana, Kristin Sara Rohfleisch

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

No Vaccine Against Hiv Yet--Are We Not Perfectly Equipped?, Mahender Singh

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Enormous effort has been devoted to the development of a vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). But it is proving to be an unprecedented challenge to create an effective vaccine mainly due to the high genetic variability of the virus and the necessity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) for containing the infection. Currently pursued vaccine strategies appear to induce CTL in nonhuman primate models but in the early clinical trials, these strategies fail to fully control the viral infection. New strategies that can cover the vast genetic diversity of HIV are needed for the development of a potent vaccine.