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Non-Competition Agreements And Research Productivity In The Biotechnology Industry, Porcher L. Taylor Iii, Joseph E. Coombs Jan 2006

Non-Competition Agreements And Research Productivity In The Biotechnology Industry, Porcher L. Taylor Iii, Joseph E. Coombs

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

This paper examines the impact of the state-level legal structure, namely the legal support for non-competition agreements, on research productivity. Specifically, we study how California’s unique lack of non-competition agreement laws influences product develop when controlling for local munificence and firm-level technological capability. Our results indicate that California’s unique legal structure is negatively associated with research productivity as measured by the number of products in development at the time a biotechnology firm goes public. Further, firm size moderates this relationship such that the effect is stronger for smaller biotechnology firms.

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Towards Health Informatics 2.0: Blogs, Podcasts And Web 2.0 Applications In Nursing And Health Informatics Education And Professional Collaboration, Peter J. Murray, Margaret M. Hansen Edd, Msn, Rn Jan 2006

Towards Health Informatics 2.0: Blogs, Podcasts And Web 2.0 Applications In Nursing And Health Informatics Education And Professional Collaboration, Peter J. Murray, Margaret M. Hansen Edd, Msn, Rn

Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications

Health professionals and students are expected to be proficient in basic information technology so as to mitigate error, communicate effectively, manage information and collaborate with peers. Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, podcasts and wikis are social networking tools that may enhance health professionals' development of such skills. As Web 2.0 application use by health professionals is in its infancy, the purpose of this paper is to present examples of the use of such tools that hold potential for online and mobile information dissemination, knowledge building in education, and professional collaboration. Examples based in a collaborative model of virtual conference …

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Reconsidering The Medical Expert Witness System, Yunwei Jiang Jan 2006

Reconsidering The Medical Expert Witness System, Yunwei Jiang

LLM Theses and Essays

The expert witness is indispensable in a medical malpractice case. However, there are three main defects in the currently existing expert witness system. One is incompetence of expert witnesses. Another is professional negligence of expert witnesses. The other is dishonesty of expert witnesses. To make the expert witness system more efficient, this article examines currently existing rules and offers some proposals regarding the three issues. For the first one, the suggestion of this article is to rely on the standards of expert qualification and admitting expert testimony. For the second one, this article distinguishes expert witnesses from lay witnesses, and …

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Balancing Regulations And Incentives For Foreign Direct Investment: A Case Study Of Mexico And Kazakhstan, Dauren B. Tynybekov Jan 2006

Balancing Regulations And Incentives For Foreign Direct Investment: A Case Study Of Mexico And Kazakhstan, Dauren B. Tynybekov

LLM Theses and Essays

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has a global character. As globalization grows, foreign direct investment grows. This research analyses the relationship between foreign direct investment and developing countries. The main contributors to foreign direct investment are multinational corporations and this research will show the impact of this kind of investment on the economy of developing countries. The research will show the way the developing countries try to benefit from FDI in order to complement their economic growth. This thesis will analyze the incentives and regulations the developing countries use to attract FDI and what needs to be done to make this …

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Using System Dynamics Approach To Construct A Performance Measurement Model For Pharmacy Supply Chain Management, Jiinpo Wu, Charlie C. Chen, Ray Tsai Jan 2006

Using System Dynamics Approach To Construct A Performance Measurement Model For Pharmacy Supply Chain Management, Jiinpo Wu, Charlie C. Chen, Ray Tsai

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

A credible performance measurement system is imperative to evaluate SCM systems effectiveness. However, commonly accepted measurements for evaluating pharmacy supply chain management (SCM) are yet to be developed. This study models the dynamic behavior of pharmacy supply chains to include managerial policies and performance measuring systems based on a well-established theoretical framework. The system dynamics methodology is adopted to simulate three scenarios: (1) demand forecasting policy, (2) market need, and (3) manufacturing errors. Simulation results lead to important policy implications of pharmacy SCM.

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Use Of Advanced Technologies And Information Solutions For North Sea Offshore Assets: Ambitious Changes And Socio-Technical Dimensions, Jayantha P. Liyanage, Eirik Bjerkebaek Jan 2006

Use Of Advanced Technologies And Information Solutions For North Sea Offshore Assets: Ambitious Changes And Socio-Technical Dimensions, Jayantha P. Liyanage, Eirik Bjerkebaek

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

The use of various forms of advanced technologies and information solutions are in common place to manage industrial assets today. This is widely seen as the way forward in various industrial sectors owing to range of commercial benefits offered by new technologies and its importance to gain competitive advantage. The objective of this paper is to describe such an ongoing major technology-dependent re- engineering process termed Integrated eOperations in oil and gas exploration and production business in North Sea since 2004-2005, and to highlight the nature of ambitious techno-managerial changes and its critical socio-technical dimensions. The change process focuses on …

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Mobile Maintenance Management, Aitor Arnaiz, Christos Emmanouilidis, Benoit Iung, Erkki Jantunen Jan 2006

Mobile Maintenance Management, Aitor Arnaiz, Christos Emmanouilidis, Benoit Iung, Erkki Jantunen

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

The paper gives a short overview of the enabling tools and technology available to the maintenance engineer in manufacturing industry, in relation to the emergence of e-maintenance practices and the introduction of mobile computing devices. An analysis of the main characteristics of the e- maintenance concepts and the associated challenges is provided, highlighting the lack of use of condition-based maintenance strategies. The potential of using ubiquitous computing in industrial maintenance practice is then examined, followed by an original vision for the adoption of mobile maintenance management solutions, which can facilitate the implementation of condition-based- maintenance. This vision is supported today …

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Development Of A Risk Assessment Model For Global Information Technology Outsourcing, June Wei, Brian Peach Jan 2006

Development Of A Risk Assessment Model For Global Information Technology Outsourcing, June Wei, Brian Peach

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Global Information Technology (IT) outsourcing has been recognized to have important potential benefits. However, researchers and practitioners also recognize potential risks involved in global IT outsourcing, which sometimes lead to undesirable consequences. This paper develops a model to assess risks in global IT outsourcing. Specifically, this paper begins by identifying global IT outsourcing risk factors by considering the national infrastructure, organizational infrastructure, and project environment. Second, a Global IT Outsourcing (GITO) engagement model for risk assessment is developed to logically link all these risk factors together. Third, one quantifiable approach based on a relative-weighted assessment model is presented to demonstrate …

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The Coming Age Of Rfid Revolution, Mohsen Attaran Jan 2006

The Coming Age Of Rfid Revolution, Mohsen Attaran

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, has been around for decades and is being used in manufacturing to complement established barcodes for the past 25 years. Recently, many companies are embracing RFID as a competitive weapon that can improve their efficiencies, and provide significant business benefits. Despite many useful applications, the technology's potential has yet to be fully realized. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of contemporary RFID systems, highlight its promises as well as its pitfalls, identify the implementation challenges and key business drivers, survey its application in various industries, and speculate about where this technology …

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Access To And Control Over Plant Genetic Resources For Food And Agriculture In South And Southern Africa: How Many Wrongs Before A Right?, Debbie Collier Jan 2006

Access To And Control Over Plant Genetic Resources For Food And Agriculture In South And Southern Africa: How Many Wrongs Before A Right?, Debbie Collier

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Property Rights Legislation In Agricultural Biotechnology: United States And Argentina, Andres A. Gallo, Jay P. Kesan Jan 2006

Property Rights Legislation In Agricultural Biotechnology: United States And Argentina, Andres A. Gallo, Jay P. Kesan

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Potentially Reduced Exposure Cigarettes: The Need For A Public Health Policy, Christopher N. Banthin Jan 2006

Potentially Reduced Exposure Cigarettes: The Need For A Public Health Policy, Christopher N. Banthin

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Post Bruno's Bankruptcy Planning: An Analysis Of Taxable Emergence Structures, Christopher Woll Jan 2006

Post Bruno's Bankruptcy Planning: An Analysis Of Taxable Emergence Structures, Christopher Woll

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Calves Weaned And Backgrounded On Pasture Respond To Pasture Nutritive Value And Supplements, Edward Barrow Rayburn, Marcella S. Whetsell, Phil I. Osborne Jan 2006

Calves Weaned And Backgrounded On Pasture Respond To Pasture Nutritive Value And Supplements, Edward Barrow Rayburn, Marcella S. Whetsell, Phil I. Osborne

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

How forage quality and feed supplementation effect average daily gain of calves backgrounded on pasture

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General Damages Are Incoherent, Incalculable, Incommensurable, And Inegalitarian (But Otherwise A Great Idea), Richard Abel Jan 2006

General Damages Are Incoherent, Incalculable, Incommensurable, And Inegalitarian (But Otherwise A Great Idea), Richard Abel

DePaul Law Review

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Noneconomic Damages, Suffering, And The Role Of The Plaintiff's Lawyer, Ellen S. Pryor Jan 2006

Noneconomic Damages, Suffering, And The Role Of The Plaintiff's Lawyer, Ellen S. Pryor

DePaul Law Review

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Ils En Ont Parle, Mary Elizabeth Roe Jan 2006

Ils En Ont Parle, Mary Elizabeth Roe

Honors Theses

The Dreyfus Affair, which began in 1894. was not only a political clash. It also engulfed the social and cultural worlds of France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the highest politician to the average French citizen, people from ever}' background were aware of the Dreyfus Affair and its implications for France. This Affair divided the people of France in every way possible and impressed itself upon every walk of French life for over a decade. With the aid of modem mass media, the Affair spread to every corner of France. By causing divisions in its cultural, social, and …

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Cotton And Compromise: Charles Pinckney And The Political Unification Of South Carolina 1788-1808, Hunter Glenn Upchurch Jan 2006

Cotton And Compromise: Charles Pinckney And The Political Unification Of South Carolina 1788-1808, Hunter Glenn Upchurch

Honors Theses

This project surveys the life and times of South Carolinian Charles Pinckney after he participated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. My objective was to discern how Pinckney’s political career both mirrored and contributed to South Carolina’s gradual shift away from Federalism towards Jeffersonian-Republicanism, as the western “Up-Country” region slowly took power from the more traditional, coastal “Low- Country.” To achieve this goal, I examined hundreds of pages of primary sources, including Pinckney’s extant speeches, his published articles or pamphlets, and many of his personal letters. To augment my factual and historiographical knowledge of the early national period of United …

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Collaboration: Paradigm Of The Digital Cultural Content Environment, Anne Cuyler Salsich Jan 2006

Collaboration: Paradigm Of The Digital Cultural Content Environment, Anne Cuyler Salsich

Works by Oberlin College Libraries Staff

Government grant-funding agencies have spawned an explosion of images from historical collections on the Internet. They have encouraged collaborative projects in which institutions share resources for capital-intensive digitization projects. These Web ‘exhibits’ are neither publications nor exhibits in the traditional sense, most often without identified authors, curators, designers, or sources. Reviews in journal literature are one mechanism for accountability, but not all humanities journals offer exhibit reviews. In those that do, the space allocated in history and archival studies journals reveals the relative importance they place on peer review of these exhibits, compared with that for book reviews. The type …

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Blended Learning In Social Care Education In Ireland: A New Opportunity, Tom Farrelly, Colm O'Doherty Jan 2006

Blended Learning In Social Care Education In Ireland: A New Opportunity, Tom Farrelly, Colm O'Doherty

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

Using an action research approach this paper examines the complexity of designing and developing an innovative and user-friendly approach to professional social care education that incorporates advances in educational technology. The project has just moved to the operational stage following an 18-month period of consultation and reflection. Therefore, this paper represents and outline of the development phase and a progress report of the first eight weeks of delivery.

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Modulation Of Cell Signaling By Tomoregulins In Embryogenesis And Cancer, Paul William Harms Jan 2006

Modulation Of Cell Signaling By Tomoregulins In Embryogenesis And Cancer, Paul William Harms

All ETDs from UAB

Growth factor signals often regulate similar cellular processes both during embryogenesis and in adult homeostasis. Stringent control of these signals ensures proper embryonic development and correct cell physiology in mature individuals. Recently, a family of two members of Tomoregulin (or transmembrane protein with epidermal growth factor-like and two follistatin domains [TMEFF]) was found to interact with transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) and ErbB signaling pathways, both of which are implicated in development and in cancer biology in the adult. The function as well as the mechanisms of TMEFFs in modulating these two signals has not been elucidated in detail. In this …

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Double-Matching In Anti-Correlated Random Dot Stereograms Of Panum's Limiting Case Reveals The Interactions Among The Elementary Disparity Signals Across Scale, Hwan Sean Lee Jan 2006

Double-Matching In Anti-Correlated Random Dot Stereograms Of Panum's Limiting Case Reveals The Interactions Among The Elementary Disparity Signals Across Scale, Hwan Sean Lee

All ETDs from UAB

A fundamental problem in binocular vision is to understand the rules that govern matching of features in the two eyes. We adopted Panum’s limiting case (PLC) into random-dot stereograms (RDS) to determine whether our visual system permits non-unique binocular matching for stereopsis. Using PLC RDS, we found that i.) the PLC-defined depth was compatible with the disparity-defined depth, which suggests that our visual system detects the relative disparity in PLC; ii.) the upper depth limits discriminating the PLC-defined surfaces and disparity-defined surfaces were almost identical, which suggests that there is a common mechanism – correlation-based stereopsis – responsible for the …

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Finite Element Modeling And Computer Simulation Of Stresses And Strains In Diamond Anvil Cell Devices, Andreiy I. Kondrat’Yev Jan 2006

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 …

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Students' Perceptions Of Mentoring In A University Cooperative Education Program, Matthew M. Fifolt Jan 2006

Students' Perceptions Of Mentoring In A University Cooperative Education Program, Matthew M. Fifolt

All ETDs from UAB

The purpose of this study was to examine students’ perceptions of mentoring in a university cooperative education (co-op) program. Within this setting, students report to a supervisor. This supervisor has direct responsibility for the student and may influence the quality of the co-op experience by providing a mentoring role. A need existed to examine the interactions between students and supervisors during this transitional phase between school and work. Results from this study could be used as a source of information for enhancing student-supervisor interactions in co-op and for increasing awareness of the role mentoring may play in shaping the co-op …

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Kiss1 Metastasis Suppressor Secretion Is Required For Metastasis Suppression, Kevin T. Nash Jan 2006

Kiss1 Metastasis Suppressor Secretion Is Required For Metastasis Suppression, Kevin T. Nash

All ETDs from UAB

Failure to reduce the number of cancer deaths over the last 50 years is due to the inability to selectively target metastatic disease. Recently, the KISS1 metastasis suppressor has emerged as a promising molecular agent for the management of metastatic disease. Although KISS1 has been implicated in the regulation of the metastatic phenotype in human cancers and in in vivo mouse models, little is known about its mechanism. Recent evidence suggests that KISS1 is a neuropeptide that is processed and secreted to interact with its cognate receptor GPR54 in the hypothalamus to trigger puberty and maintain the reproductive state. However, …

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Simultaneous And Sequential Multi-Site Impact Response Of Composite Laminates, Shane D. Bartus Jan 2006

Simultaneous And Sequential Multi-Site Impact Response Of Composite Laminates, Shane D. Bartus

All ETDs from UAB

The unique feature in this study was the investigation of the response of polymer composite material to impact by multiple high velocity projectiles. Energy absorption, new surface creation, and failure mechanisms from both sequential and nearsimultaneous multi-site, high velocity impact were compared to assess synergistic and cumulative effects. A single-stage light-gas gun capable of launching three projectiles with controlled impact location and velocity in both near-simultaneous and sequential impact modes was developed to study these effects. Two test programs were conducted to evaluate these impact scenarios on thin S-2 glass/epoxy laminates. In the first program, the effect of laminate thickness …

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Model-Driven Integration Of Software And Service Components, Wei Zhao Jan 2006

Model-Driven Integration Of Software And Service Components, Wei Zhao

All ETDs from UAB

Building applications by composing pre-developed components has much prom-ise for reuse and software engineering industrialization. Expressing integration require-ments in a model and its supporting tools not only elevates the abstraction of the devel-opment and automates reoccurring low-level integration code, but also leverages the inte-gration tools for various supporting functionality such as analysis, transformation, simu-lation, optimization, and monitoring. This dissertation addresses integration of compo-nents using two model-driven approaches. 1. There is an ongoing demand and trend of exposing software applications as IT services and utilities. We first discuss a model-driven approach to integration of service components. The integration requirements are depicted …

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Surface Reconstruction Using Gamma Shapes, Ying Sun Jan 2006

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 …

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Development Of Efficient Algorithms For Fluid-Structure Interaction Framework And Its Applications, Young Ho Kim Jan 2006

Development Of Efficient Algorithms For Fluid-Structure Interaction Framework And Its Applications, Young Ho Kim

All ETDs from UAB

Computer-based simulation tools are becoming integrated to solve multiphysics and interactions between different disciplines. One of such problems that is of importance is fluid structure interaction (FSI). The goal of this study is to develop efficient and robust algorithms for a FSI framework. Due to the advantages of reusability of wellvalidated simulation codes for fluid and structural analysis, loosely-coupled methods are now dominant over directly-coupled methods. In loosely-coupled methods, it is important to transfer data efficiently and accurately between inherently unmatched grids used in different disciplines. In addition, efficient moving grid algorithms and time mapping techniques are essential. A new …

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Walking The Line Between Contract And Tort In Construction Disputes: Assessing The Use Of Negligent Misrepresentation To Recover Economic Loss After Presnell, Steven M. Henderson Jan 2006

Walking The Line Between Contract And Tort In Construction Disputes: Assessing The Use Of Negligent Misrepresentation To Recover Economic Loss After Presnell, Steven M. Henderson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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