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Pacrim Traders, Sarah Lowe, Vera Fainshtein, Thomas Asmuth

SWITCH

PacRim Traders is a project that uses trading card-style designs to understand each country within the Pacific Rim.

Ladyboys: Human Art, Skyler Thomas

SWITCH

This article explores how gender, sexuality, and beauty are shaped by culture, focusing on the Katoey (Ladyboys) of Thailand.

Pacific Rim Visual Directory, Aaron Siegel

SWITCH

Pacific Rim Visual Directory is an interactive map created to bring together artists from across the region. It visualizes shared interests and acts as a social media tool, allowing users to discover various types of connections.

Information Outlook, January 2006, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2006

Volume 10, Issue 1

When Is A Wetland Not A Wetland, Jonathan Lew

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

No abstract provided.

Development And Delivery Of Coursework: The Legal/Regulatory/Policy Environment Of Cyberforensics, John W. Bagby, John C. Ruhnka

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

This paper describes a cyber-forensics course that integrates important public policy and legal issues as well as relevant forensic techniques. Cyber-forensics refers to the amalgam of multi-disciplinary activities involved in the identification, gathering, handling, custody, use and security of electronic files and records, involving expertise from the forensic domain, and which produces evidence useful in the proof of facts for both commercial and legal activities. The legal and regulatory environment in which electronic discovery takes place is of critical importance to cyber-forensics experts because the legal process imposes both constraints and opportunities for the effective use of evidence gathered through …

Characterisation Of Algal Derived Organic Nitrogen, Phillippa Kate Curtis-Jackson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The molecular level characterisation of compounds comprising the dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) pool is an important task for chemical oceanographers wishing to understand its role in the marine N cycle. Low DON concentrations, problems with saline matrices and a lack of pre-concentration methods have all contributed to DON being ignored and disregarded, until recently. Sub units of DON have been analysed as bulk parameters within which the low molecular weight (LMW; < 1,500 Da) fraction has been proposed to drive regenerated production within the oceans. The largest producers of these compounds are phytoplankton. Dissolved combined amino acids (DCAAs) are proposed to be the largest identifiable component of the LMW fraction. Peptides were chosen as the starting point for this study on DON characterisation, due to their unrivalled detection when analysed via liquid chromatography/ mass spectrometry (LC/MS). A method was developed for the characterisation of low molecular weight peptides, released either actively or passively from the axenically-cultured phytoplankton Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Methods for the separation (high performance liquid chromatography; HPLC), detection (mass spectrometric; MS), de-salination and pre-concentration (solid phase extraction; SPE), of analytes present in the culture water sampled during the period of maximum DON, were developed. The successful chromatographic separation of LMW peptides was achieved using a Phenomenex® Gemini Gig column in conjunction with mobile phases of acidified MeOH and water. The SPE method was developed on a Hamilton PRP-1 column containing a polystyrene divinylbenzene stationary phase (PSDVB). During the extraction process the increased hydrophobicity of the PS-DVB phase was predicted to yield increased recoveries of peptides, when compared to analogous d g phase cartridges. The method was transferred to extraction cartridges (500 mg, StrataX). Further investigations were then carried out into the affects of salt and dissolved organic matter on the extraction process. Samples were prepared by applying the extraction method to 1 L supernatants of culture water samples. The HPLC protocol was used to separate the components of the complex sample prior to data acquisition in both full MS mode and in the data dependent mode (DDMS). Mass spectra and chromatograms of ions unique to the cultured waters were identified. Further instrument manipulation allowed interfering ions to be diverted away from the mass analyser and consequently multistage mass spectrometry (MS²) to be carried out on unique ions that exceeded the threshold intensity of 1 x 105. Unique ions identified in the axenic cultures were two amino acids TYR and a modified structure isomerically/isobarically related to TYR. Seven peptides were partially sequenced. These were H-(VAL, THR, Xxx)-OH, H-(GLN/LYS, ALA, ASN, Xxx)-OH, H-(ASN, ALA, GLU, Xxx)-OH, H-(VAL, GLU, Xxx)-OH, H-(SER, HIS, Xxx)-OH, H- (PRO, XLE,HIS, GLN/LYS, GLY, Xxx)-OH and H-(Xxx, XLE, GLN/LYS, XLE, GLU)- OH. One whole peptide was tentatively proposed as H-TRP-PHE-OH. A significant loss of data was observed between the unique peptide ions identified in the MS analysis and the ions that underwent CID during the DDMS analysis, because they were below the threshold ion count or co-eluted with a more dominant ion. The method development carried out through this study has enabled the successful analysis of samples previously considered incompatible with LC/MS instrumentation. The method can be applied to all aquatic environment samples for both contaminant removal and preconcentration requirements and can be seen as an initial step from which many different avenues of future work may be explored.

Flow Injection Techniques For Investigating The Biogeochemistry Of Nutrients In Natural Waters, Omaka Ndukaku Omaka

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis describes the development of robust flow injection (FI) techniques for the determination of nutrients, with a focus on phosphorus species, in natural waters. Chapter one presents a general overview of nutrients (P, N and Si) and their aquatic biogeochemistry and analytical methods for nutrient determinations in natural waters. Chapter Two reports a four channel Fl manifold incorporating a thiosulphate stream for on-line masking of arsenate, which is potentially a major interferent in the determination of low concentrations of phosphate in natural waters. The method is suitable for the determination of filterable reactive phosphorus (FRP) in anthropogenically impacted waters …

Foundations In Wisconsin: A Directory [25th Ed. 2006], Mary C. Frenn, Jeremy Blackwood, Katie Morrison, Megan Muthupandiyan, Vance Thomas, Peter Wright

Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory

The 2006 production of Foundations in Wisconsin marks the 25th edition of the print directory and the 6th year of the online version (www.wifoundations.org). The directory is designed as a research tool for grantseekers interested in locating information on private, corporate, and community foundations registered in Wisconsin. Each entry in this new edition has been updated or reviewed to provide the most current information available. Most of the data was drawn from IRS 990-PF tax returns filed by the foundations. However, additional information was obtained from surveys, foundation Web sites, annual reports, and newsletters.

Wisconsin foundations have shown continued growth …

Democratizing Credit: Examining The Structural Inequities Of Subprime Lending, Cassandra Jones Havard

All Faculty Scholarship

This Article critiques the current regime of mortgage lending, which favors economic subordination. Minorities and low-and moderate income persons, regardless of their creditworthiness, are receiving higher loan rates. This is due to three market phenomena- the dominance of sub-prime lenders in the market in which prime lenders are more restricted to lend, the segmentation of the market so that certain products are offered to certain consumers, and the liquidity of the secondary market, which encourages lenders to make loans that are easily sold, but which may be inappropriately and impermissibly priced. Only by incorporating some transparency into the process will …

Scholarly And Scientific Boycotts Of Israel: Abusing The Academic Enterprise, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

Veritas vos liberabit, chanted the scholastics of yesteryear. The truth will set you free, echo their latter-day counterparts in the academy.

Universities like themselves to be perceived as places of culture in a chaotic world, protectors of reasoned discourse, peaceful havens for learned professors roaming orderly quadrangles and pondering higher thoughts-a community of scholars seeking knowledge in sylvan tranquility.

The real world of higher education, of course, is not quite so wonderful.

Instead of a feast for unfettered intellectual curiosity, much of the modern academy is dominated by curricular deconstructionists who disdain western civilization, people who call themselves multiculturalists but, …

European Integration And European Identity : Case Study : The European Dimension In Secondary Schooling, Sandra Barkhof

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis explores some of the issues concerning the concept of European identity. In particular, the aim is to assess how far school education is a suitable method to foster a European identity and support for European integration. In this context, the thesis aims to investigate whether the historic and more recent political and national developments in England and Germany have resulted in different attitudes to European integration, European identity and subsequently to a European dimension in education. The analysis also compares the general attitude towards national and European identity and European integration in England and Germany and assesses if …

Using Organisational Learning Theory As A Means Of Mobilising Knowledge Resources In The Control Of Infection, Andy Nichols

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This research investigates learning and infection control knowledge within hospitals in the United Kingdom (UK). Fundamental infection control practices are not always carried out by clinical staff caring for patients, as a result infections are transmitted (Pittet et al 2000). Failure to carry out infection control practices may reflect a division between the espoused and actual practice of clinicians (Huzzard and Ostergren 2002). This division may be contributed to by infection control teams and educationalists relying on classroom based, pedagogic teaching and failing to investigate the value of other learning theories (Courtney 1998). This study is based upon an investigation …

The Navy As The Ultimate Guarantor Of Freedom In 1940?, Anthony John Cumming

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The widely held public view that Britain was saved from invasion during 1940 because the RAF denied the Luftwaffe control of the air is challenged here. Although the heroism of `the few' is not in question, the ability of Fighter Command to act as a serious physical barrier to German plans is refuted with the Luftwaffe holding the initiative between 24 August and 6 September and its ability to bomb Britain by night for months virtually unopposed. Archival and other evidence show that even without adequate fighter cover, the Royal Navy retained considerable potential to resist German air attacks on …

Sustainable Development : The Reflexive Governance Of Risk, Gregory John Borne

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

In the face of increase global environmental phenomena such as global warming, social, political and knowledge structures are being reformulated in order to better accommodate these events into governance frameworks. For Ulrich Beck, increased risk has created a World Risk Society which is defined by a state of 'reflexive' modernity (RM) where the central tenets of modernity are re-examined and current developmental patterns are drawn into question. In political and social discourse increased risk has created the need to achieve a sustainable development (SD). In light of criticisms that Beck makes broad and unsubstantiated theoretical assertions, this thesis examines the …

Articulations Of Equity: Practice, Complexity And Power In Facilitated Art Projects, Gill Claire Melling

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This is a practice-based research project which analysis how democracy and facilitation are articulated within two different social contexts. The purpose of this research is to make apparent, through two facilitated art projects- the Elder Flowers project and the Exwick Image Project - the contingency of meanings and methods of making democratic choice with participants. The argument is that my methods of facilitation, which embrace social and cognitive difference by 'attending to' (that is, using methods of empathic listening and responsive action), their outcomes and meanings are contingent to each specific interaction. These acts of creative facilitation ask new questions …

Creative Acts: Curating And Writing With Artists, Tracey Karen Warr

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The published texts and curatorial practice collected together in this PhD interrogate the nature of the creative act in contemporary visual art practices. They focus on the complex of co-creation in relation to: - creative acts of dialogue between the practices of artists, curators and writers - creative acts of experiencing the world - creative acts of making art about experiencing. They form a coherent programme of research addressing: - site-based and contextually engaged curated projects since the 1950s - relationships between, and definitions of, the roles of curator, writer and artist in contemporary practices - the nature of authorship …

Development Of An Ontology Based Forensic Search Mechanism: Proof Of Concept, Jill Slay, Fiona Schulz

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

This paper examines the problems faced by Law Enforcement in searching large quantities of electronic evidence. It examines the use of ontologies as the basis for new forensic software filters and provides a proof of concept tool based on an ontological design. It demonstrates that efficient searching is produced through the use of such a design and points to further work that might be carried out to extend this concept.

The 2006 Analysis Of Information Remaining On Disks Offered For Sale On The Second Hand Market, Andy Jones, Craig Valli, Iain Sutherland, Paula Thomas

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

All organisations, whether in the public or private sector, use computers for the storage and processing of information relating to their business or services, their employees and their customers. A large proportion of families and individuals in their homes now also use personal computers and, both intentionally and inadvertently, often store on those computers personal information. It is clear that most organisations and individuals continue to be unaware of the information that may be stored on the hard disks that the computers contain, and have not considered what may happen to the information after the disposal of the equipment.

In …

Computer Forensics Field Triage Process Model, Marcus K. Rogers, James Goldman, Rick Mislan, Timothy Wedge, Steve Debrota

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

With the proliferation of digital based evidence, the need for the timely identification, analysis and interpretation of digital evidence is becoming more crucial. In many investigations critical information is required while at the scene or within a short period of time - measured in hours as opposed to days. The traditional cyber forensics approach of seizing a system(s)/media, transporting it to the lab, making a forensic image(s), and then searching the entire system for potential evidence, is no longer appropriate in some circumstances. In cases such as child abductions, pedophiles, missing or exploited persons, time is of the essence. In …

Graduate Catalog 2006-2007, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Graduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

2006 Lynn University Women's Softball Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2006 Lynn University Softball Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

2005-2006 Lynn University Men's & Women's Tennis Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2005-2006 Lynn University Men's & Women's Tennis Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

2006 Lynn University Women's Soccer Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2006 Lynn University Women's Soccer Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

2006-2007 Lynn University Women's Basketball Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2006-2007 Lynn University Women's Basketball Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

2006-2007 Lynn University Men's Basketball Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2006-2007 Lynn University Men's Basketball Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

Relationship Between Antipyretic Effects And Cytokine Levels In Uncomplicated Falciparum Malaria During Different Treatment Regimes, Elisabeth Hugosson, Scott M. Montgomery, Zul Premji, Marita Troye-Blomberg, Anders Bjorkman

Pathology, East Africa

We have previously shown that both chloroquine and paracetamol (acetaminophen) have antipyretic activity during treatment of acute uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children 1-4 years old. Here, we studied if this effect was accompanied by changes in plasma cytokine levels. The 104 children were treated with either chloroquine or sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine (SP) alone, SP + chloroquine or SP + paracetamol for 4 days. Cytokine levels were determined days 0, 2 and 3, body temperature every sixth hour until 72 h and parasitemia once daily for 4 days. At admission, body temperature correlated with levels of IL-10, IFN-γ and IL-6, and parasitemia …

The Value Of Black And White In An Era Of Color: A Textual Analysis Of Black And White Illustrations In Picture Books, Theresa Forret

Graduate Research Papers

Children's picture books have aesthetic, personal, and educational value. The illustrations within picture books may capture the attention of young readers, create a positive attitude toward books and reading, enhance the story, and may assist with comprehension. A majority of the children's picture books published today are illustrated with bright, vibrant colors. Books illustrated in black and white are less common and perhaps less appealing to children. This study investigated three questions. Are there identifiable commonalities within the visual elements in black and white picture book illustrations? Are there commonalities and patterns in the mood, genre, and setting of picture …

A Fait Acompli For The Pbgc And Us Taxpayers: How The Last Hope For Redemption Was Missed In The 2005 Bankruptcy Code Revisions And Subsequent Court Decisions, John P. Henry

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Getting The Sand Out Of The Eyes Of The Law: The Need For A Clear Rule For Sand Suppliers In Texas After Humble Sand & (And) Gravel, Inc. V. Gomez., Victor E. Schwartz, Mark A. Behrens, Andrew W. Crouse

St. Mary's Law Journal

Health risks associated with the inhalation of silica dust have been known for a very long time. In the United States, the American Foundrymen’s Society has distributed literature addressing silica exposure hazards to its members for over 100 years. For years, litigation against industrial sand manufacturers concerning silica exposure was stable, though recently there has been a marked increase in the number lawsuits. While the number of suits continues to climb, the government reports silica-related deaths have declined dramatically. It appears plaintiffs’ attorneys are manufacturing silica claims using the same lawsuit-generating devices developed during the asbestos context. Tort law recognizes …