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A Review Of Urinary Stone Analysis Techniques, Rabie E. Abdel-Halim, Mostafa R. Abdel-Halim

Saudi Medical Journal

Knowledge of the chemical composition and structure of urinary stones is of great value in the choice of treatment and prevention of recurrence. This is a brief review and a comparative study of the principles and practical application of various chemical and physical techniques used for urinary stone analysis. The different methods of classifying and grouping urinary stones by results of chemical analytic techniques are, also, compared and evaluated. In addition to reviewing various techniques used for the in-vitro analysis of removed stone samples, the newly emerging physical and radiological techniques for the in-vivo intact-stone analysis are, also, evaluated. These …

Fact Sheet - Sacred Heart University - Fall 2006, Office Of Institutional Research

News, Magazines and Reports

No abstract provided.

Corporate Crisis Planning: Tensions, Issues, And Contradictions, A. Pang, Fritz Cropp, Glen T. Cameron

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Purpose – Crisis planning, which symbolizes an organization's crisis preparedness and often conceptualized at the corporate headquarters, is increasingly decentralized to regional centers of global companies. These centers, in turn, synchronize their crisis master plans with its national units for expeditious management of localized crises. The purpose of this paper is to capture the decision-making processes that practitioners at a regional center faced as they nurtured their master plan from conception to implementation. Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative method is used. This is a case study of a Fortune 500 company with plants in every continent. The company has four regional …

Its News October 2006, Information & Technology Services

RIT Digital Archives

Managing Desktop Computers||Secure Wireless Networks: Separating Myth from Reality||Avoiding Identity Theft: Detecting Online Scams and Phishing||New CAST Building Breaks Ground||Google Jockey: Reining in Student Energy||Changing the Culture—Digital Self Defense and Freshman Orientation 2006||ITS Technology Seminar Series Opens October 24||ITS Organizational News

Rit Dividends Fall 2006

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

The Quaestor Quarterly October 2006, Institute Audit, Compliance & Advisement

RIT Digital Archives

So, It's Your Turn to be Audited (p.1)||Word on the Street (p.2)||Hot Topics (p.2)||Control of the Quarter (p.3)||My Two Cents (p.3)||Ask the Auditor (p.4)||Pop Quiz (p.4)||Fraud Facts (p.4)

2007 Benefits Enrollment Newsletter, Finance And Administration Division - Human Resources

RIT Digital Archives

2007 Open Enrollment Information||Pay-Based Health Care Cost-Sharing Expanded||Medical Opt-Out Benefit Eliminated||2007 Prescription Drug Changes||Beneficiary Designation Update||Advance Care Planning||New RIT Benefits

2007 Benefits Enrollment Newsletter, Finance And Administration Division - Human Resources

RIT Digital Archives

2007 Open Enrollment Information||Pay-Based Health Care Cost-Sharing Expanded||Medical Opt-Out Benefit Eliminated||2007 Prescription Drug Changes||Beneficiary Designation Update||Advance Care Planning||New RIT Benefits

2007 Retiree Benefits Enrollment Newsletter, Finance And Administration Division - Human Resources

RIT Digital Archives

Prescription Drug Plan 2007 Changes for Medicare-Eligible Individuals||Medical Plan for Medicare-Eligible Individuals||Prescription Drug Plan 2007 Changes for Pre-Medicare Individuals||Advance Care Planning: What Is It and Why Is It Important?||New RIT Benefits||For More Information

Criminal Justice Collapse: The Constitution After Hurricane Katrina, Brandon L. Garrett, Tania Tetlow

Duke Law Journal

The New Orleans criminal justice system collapsed after Hurricane Katrina, resulting in a constitutional crisis. Eight thousand people, mostly indigent and charged with misdemeanors such as public drunkenness or failure to pay traffic tickets, languished indefinitely in state prisons. The court system shut its doors, the police department fell into disarray, few prosecutors remained, and a handful of public defenders could not meet with, much less represent, the thousands detained. This dire situation persisted for many months, long after the system should have been able to recover. We present a narrative of the collapse of the New Orleans area criminal …

The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice, And Ownership In Jamaican Dancehall, Peter L. Manuel, Wayne Marshall

Publications and Research

The Jamaican system of recording and performance, from the 1950s to the present, constitutes a distinctive approach to notions of composition, originality and ownership. Emerging from a tradition of live performance practice mediated by (and informing) sound recordings, the relative autonomy of riddims and voicings in the Jamaican system challenges conventional ideas about the integrity of a song and the degree to which international copyright law applies to local conceptions, as enshrined in decades of practice, of musical materials as public domain. With the spread of the ‘riddim method’ to the sites of Jamaican mass migration, as evidenced by similar …

Privacy Enhanced Superdistribution Of Layered Content With Trusted Access Control, Daniel J. T. Chong, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Traditional superdistribution approaches do not address consumer privacy issues and also do not reliably prevent the malicious consumer from indiscriminately copying and redistributing the decryption keys or the decrypted content. The layered nature of common digital content can also be exploited to efficiently provide the consumer with choices over the quality of the content, allowing him/her to pay less for lower quality consumption and vice versa. This paper presents a system that superdistributes encrypted layered content and (1) allows the consumer to select a quality level at which to decrypt and consume the content; (2) prevents the merchant from knowing …

Nutrition & Dietetics 2006 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Nutrition & Dietetics APR self-study report, review team report, response to review report, and initial action plan for Fall 2006, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Voluntary Environmental Regulation In Developing Countries: A Mexican Case Study, Allen Blackman, Nicholas Sisto

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Arizona Water Policy: Management Innovations In An Urbanizing, Arid Region, Edited By Bonnie G. Colby & Katharine L. Jacobs, Margaret J. Vick

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 17, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
La Educación 2
Victoria Davis de Sánchez 3,4,5
An Activity: Make a Book 6,7
Folklore 1
Dos Dichos 8
Literatura 4
Literatura de la Conquista de México 9
Literatura de la Conquista de Nuevo México 10
Nemecio Provincio (WPA) 11,12,13
Una Actividad: Conducir una Entrevista 14
Respuesta al Crucigrama (de etapa #1) 14
La Importancia de Juegos en la Educación 3
Regalos para Nuestro Hijos 15
Poemas por Luisa Crucita Durán 16
El Florón (de Cantemos al Alba) 17
Arte 1
El Proyecto del Torreón (NHCC) por Frederico Vigil 18
La Conservación del Agua 1
Learning …

The Effects Of Ultrashort Pulsed Electric Fields On The Fluorescent Molecule Bodipy Fl C5 Ceramide, Rachael Sara Shevin

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Nanosecond pulsed electric fields are able to manipulate internal cell organelles by taking advantage of the small but finite time required for charge to establish across a capacitive barrier. Pulsed electric fields also affect macromolecular structures such as enzymes and proteins. Application of a single nanosecond pulsed electric field decreases the fluorescence of a commercially available biological dye Bodipy FL C₅ Ceramide, used to observe the Golgi apparatus of living cells. The effect is seen when the fluorophore is exposed to an electric field both in vitro and when incorporated into the Golgi of a living Jurkat cell. Observation …

Open Source, Openness, And Higher Education, David Wiley

Faculty Publications

With the growth of open source software and other related trends, a culture of openness is advancing from the edges of society to the core of academic culture. In this article I provide an overview of how the expansion of open source software in culture at large has affected the world of education, describe how the greater use of open source software in education has unfolded hand-in-hand with the development of open course content and open access research, and argue that this more comprehensive shift towards "openness" in academic practice is not only a positive trend, but a necessary one …

Playing Cowboys And Indians, B. Glenn George

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Bio-Inspired Algorithms For The Design Of Multiple Optimal Power System Stabilizers: Sppso And Bfa, Tridib Kumar Das, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) provide stabilizing control signals to excitation systems to damp out inter-area and intra-area oscillations. The PSS must be optimally tuned to accommodate the variations in the system dynamics. Designing multiple optimal PSSs is a challenging task for researchers. This paper presents the comparison between two bio-inspired algorithms: a Small Population based Particle Swarm Optimization (SPPSO) and the Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA) for the simultaneous tuning of a number of PSSs in a multi-machine power system. The cost function to be optimized by both algorithms takes into consideration the time domain transient responses. The effectiveness of the …

Pfiesteria Hysteria, Agriculture, And Water Quality In The Chesapeake Bay: The Extension Bridge Over Troubled Waters, De Terlizzi

Journal of Extension

Public fear of environmental problems from toxic chemicals to toxic microbes can lead to overreaction in consumer behavior and public policy. When the dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida became synonymous with water quality degradation in the Chesapeake Bay and was linked to human health concerns, the agricultural and environmental communities were polarized. Public fear in spite of relatively low risk led to the passage of the Water Quality Improvement Act in 1998. An Extension education program to reduce public fear and clarify the science is presented as a case study of Extension education in the midst of conflict over environmental issues.

Integrated Farming Systems And Pollution Prevention Initiatives Stimulate Co-Learning Extension Strategies, Christy Getz, Keith Douglass Warner

Journal of Extension

Increasing environmental regulatory pressure on agriculture is stimulating increased attention to integrated farming systems and more participatory forms of Extension. Agro-environmental partnerships, which have become the primary strategy for agricultural pollution prevention strategies in California, demonstrate the potential of alternative pest management strategies. We argue that the organizational structure of these partnerships, which facilitates co-learning strategies and greater participation, has been key to their success. The shift from a "transfer of technology" model to participatory co-learning and decision-making making support could improve Extension's service delivery and serve as an important strategy for Extension to engage a broader client constituency.

A Different Model For The Right To Privacy: The Political Question Doctrine As A Substitute For Substantive Due Process, Patrick M. Garry

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Google Book Search And Fair Use: Itunes For Authors, Or Napster For Books?, Hannibal Travis

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Block Grants, Early Childhood Education, And The Reauthorization Of Head Start: From Positional Conflict To Interest-Based Agreement, Eloise Pasachoff

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

A Redheaded Eskimo: Maryland's Fair Share Health Care Fund Act A.K.A. The Wal-Mart Bill, Kris Harrison

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Plan B Contraceptive And The Role Of Politics In Medicine: A Comparative Analysis Of The "Switch" Of Emergency Contraception From Prescription To Non-Prescription In The United States, France, The United Kingdom, And Canada, Mary E. Armstrong

ExpressO

Of the approximately 6 million pregnancies in the United States each year, almost half are unintended. Of these unintended pregnancies, approximately four in ten will end in abortion. Plan B emergency contraception is a drug that has the potential to reduce the number of abortions performed each year in half. Despite contentions from various religious and political sects, Plan B is not an abortifacient. It acts by preventing a pregnancy from starting rather than terminating a pregnancy that is already established. On December 16, 2003, a panel of medical and scientific experts gathered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), …

Bill Cosby, Center For Performing Arts

Center for Performing Arts Memorabilia

Playbill insert for the September 30, 2006 performance by Bill Cosby.

Kankakee’S Newest Option For Higher Education, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Originally built in 1883, Kankakee’s Clock Tower Centre, formerly known as the Arcade Building, has served many different purposes in its history. Hidden within its newest guise as a multi-use office center, is an important development in the economic and educational growth of the Kankakee region.

In May, Governors State University opened the Kankakee Education Center (KEC) in the building. The KEC is a natural extension of the university. GSU draws students from a large radius, which includes Kankakee, Chicago and its suburbs, Northwest Indiana, and the Joliet region. Students are attracted to the university’s 47 professional, accredited degree programs …

Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships - Interagency Volunteer Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2006, Margaret N. Rees

Get Outdoors Nevada

• Volunteer database increased 9.5% over last quarter. Database now contains 2,698 records.
• Website activity decreased, recording an average of 42,488 hits per month, with an average of 4,435 pages viewed per month (3.6% decrease in pages viewed).
• Volunteer recognition ceremony scheduled for November 4 at the Renaissance Hotel, Las Vegas.
• Fall 2006 volunteer training schedule finalized.
• National Public Lands Day volunteer projects successfully executed at Red Rock Canyon NCA and Lake Mead NRA, with a total of 232 community volunteers contributing more than 1,000 hours toward clean-up and restoration of Southern Nevada’s public lands.
• Team charter presented to the federal …