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Power As A Factor In Lawyers' Ethical Deliberation, Susan Carle

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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The Effects Of Nutrition On The Cognitive Skills Of Students From Kindergarten Through Third Grades, Rebecca Lorentz

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This research explores the positive relationships between good nutrition and the cognitive skills of students in kindergarten through third grade. This paper discusses how certain nutrients have been found to improve skills such as memory retention, spatial relationships, and pattern skills. Since these are necessary skills of early childhood academics, parents, educators, and the students themselves will benefit from learning more about how nutrition affects those skills.

The Importance Of Early Intervention For Students With Or At-Risk For Emotional Disturbance Or Conduct Disorder, Jesse, Richards

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This action thesis was designed and implemented as a professional development workshop for the educators at Sunnyside Elementary in Huntington, California. Participants included 20 female and 3 male kindergarten through fifth grade teachers from Sunnyside Elementary. The importance of early behavioral intervention for students with or at-risk of an emotional disturbance or conduct disorders was discussed. Additionally, the definitions for emotionally disturbed and conduct disorder were examined and the eligibility criteria for students with emotional disturbances were reviewed. Intervention strategies from the Emotional or Behavior Disorder Intervention Manual were discussed. Hypothetical student cases were discussed using a sample Daily Point …

The Effect Of Vitamin E, L-Arginine, N-Nitro L-Arginine Methyle Ester And Forskolin On Endocrine And Metabolic Changes Of Rats Exposed To Acute Cold Stress, Laila Y. Al-Ayadhi, Aida A. Korish, Ali S. Al-Tuwaijri

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: It is a well documented fact that under stress conditions the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) are stimulated. This results in a series of neural and endocrine adaptations known as the stress response. The current study assessed the effects of acute cold stress on adrenomedullin (ADM) levels in plasma and peripheral tissues (kidneys and heart) of rats, as well as on blood glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides (TG), total proteins both before and after intraperitoneal administration of each of the following: vitamin-E, L-arginine, forskolin and L-NAME. METHODS: The current study was conducted in the Department of Physiology, …

Effect Of Cyclophosphamide On The Course Of Candida Albicans Infection In Normal And Vaccinated Mice, Aziz Japoni, Davood Mehrabani, Abdolvahab Alborzi, Shohreh Farshad, Masumeh Hayati, Mohammad A. Dehyadegari

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the immunomodulating effect of cyclophosphamide (Cy) on the course of Candida albicans (C. albicans). METHODS: We performed this study in the Shiraz Medical School, Shiraz, Iran during April to November 2003. Five groups of 10 mice (vaccinated group) were immunized by 5 equal injections of 2x105, 2.5x105 and 3x105 of the organism intraperitoneally. Then, the group received Cy on day zero and was challenged with lethal doses of C. albicans (7.74x105 colony forming unit) on days zero, one, 3, 6 and 12 post-Cy injection. Another 5 equal groups of 10 mice (non-vaccinated group) received Cy on day …

Transfusion Transmitted Virus In Screened United Arab Emirates Blood Donors, Mubarak S. Alfaresi, Ayat M. Elnazer, Azza S. Alzaabi, Abida A. Elkoush, Adeel A. Islam

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the rate of infection caused by Torque teno virus (TTV) in United Arab Emirates (UAEs) healthy population as a pilot study in detecting TTV DNA in 100 healthy blood donors. METHODS: We randomly choose a total of 100 healthy blood donors who attended Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE from January 20 to May 30, 2005. We carried out a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to detect TTV DNA. RESULTS: Real-time for TTV was positive in 75 (75%) donors. Eight (73%) non-UAE donors were TTV positive while 67 (75%) were UAEs. Among these donors, 72 (77%) …

Water Quality Monitoring For Suitable Juvenile Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Habitat In The Carmel River Lagoon During Minimal Fresh Water Inflow : A Capstone Project ..., Eric M. Lumas

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Carmel River Lagoon (CRL), along the Central California coast, is thought to provide a nursery ground for juvenile Steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), a federally listed species under the Endangered Species Act. Every year during the summer months the Carmel River feeding this lagoon dries up due to the high demand for water by local residents. It is thought that suitable steelhead nursery grounds become limited in the absence of this fresh water inflow and by the increased salinity from winter swells into the lagoon. The purpose of this report was to monitor the water quality for suitable Steelhead trout …

Improving Independent Living Skills Training For Youth Exiting Foster Care In Monterey County, Christy Ann Scaife

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Combining education and fieldwork, I created this multifaceted Capstone Project. I have included a legislative review of ILP and CWS. I conducted surveys of ILP youth and focus groups of social workers in three units of Monterey County DSES. I developed an analysis of the data gathered. With the research gathered primarily and secondarily, I created an ILP Tracking Database for following the outcomes of youth after foster care. These experiences and research also lead to recommendations for keeping up the tracking database and improving ILP training for foster youth. This Capstone fulfills the terms of the CSUMB Vision and …

Role Of Anomalous Warm Gulf Waters In The Intensification Of Hurricane Katrina, Menas Kafatos, D. Sun, Ritesh Gautam, Z. Boybeyi, Ruixin Yang, G. Cervone

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

The year 2005 experienced several strong hurricanes intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall that severely damaged the Gulf States, especially Hurricane Katrina. Remarkable similarities between sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) and major hurricane (categories 3 and higher) activity over the Gulf are identified. However, the intensification of individual hurricanes may not necessarily be temporally and spatially coincident with the distribution of warm waters or high sea surface temperature (SST). High SST values are found in advance of significant intensification of Hurricane Katrina. We emphasize that high SSTA which occurred at the right time and right place was …

Exiting Etatisme? New Directions In State Policy In France And Japan, Gene Park

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

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Reducing Heavy Drinking In College Males With The Decisional Balance: Analyzing An Element Of Motivational Interviewing, Joseph W. Labrie, Eric R. Pedersen, Mitch Earleywine, Hutson Olsen

Heads Up!

The decisional balance, a brief detailing of the advantages and disadvantages of behavior change, serves as a key component to interventions in Motivational Interviewing. The impact of this component alone is not well understood. Forty-seven men completed a Timeline Followback interview assessing alcohol consumption and unsafe sexual practices. They then completed a decisional balance, listing the Pros and Cons of decreasing their drinking, but not one for safer sex. One-month follow-up data showed that they had statistically significant and clinically meaningful increases in their motivation to alter drinking and decreases in the number of drinks that they intended to drink, …

Comparing Electronic-Keypad Responses To Paper-And-Pencil Questionnaires In Group Assessments Of Alcohol Consumption And Related Attitudes, Joseph W. Labrie, Mitch Earleywine, Toby Lamb, Kristin Shelesky

Heads Up!

Electronic versions of questionnaires have the potential to improve research and interventions in the addictions. Administering questionnaires electronically to groups, however, has proven difficult without a multitude of computers, but gathering data electronically from a group could make for easy assessment and quick feedback. Using a sample of 107 college students, we examined the validity of wireless keypad survey responses by comparing them to traditional paper-and-pencil questionnaires. The two formats led to almost identical responses that did not differ significantly from each other (all effect sizes less than g =.15) and high correlations between formats. The wireless, handheld keypad procedure …

Embracing Equity: Discussing Inequity, Deena J. González

Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works

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Intrinsic Linking And Knotting Of Graphs In Arbitrary 3–Manifolds, Erica Flapan, Hugh Howards, Don Lawrence, Blake Mellor

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

We prove that a graph is intrinsically linked in an arbitrary 3–manifold MM if and only if it is intrinsically linked in S³. Also, assuming the Poincaré Conjecture, we prove that a graph is intrinsically knotted in M if and only if it is intrinsically knotted in S³.

Activation Of Toll-Like Receptor 2 Through Tlr2-Lrr Binding Synthetic Peptides, Christopher Benton

Master's Theses and Capstones

Bacterial sepsis and systemic inflammatory immune responses continue to be major causes of illness and death despite extensive research into the development of antimicrobial agents. There is a need for novel therapeutic reagents designed to modulate these responses. Toll-like receptor 2 plays a key role in the development of innate and adaptive immune responses to microbial products that interact with the receptor's extracellular leucine-rich repeat ligand-binding domain. In a preliminary study, five peptides were synthesized that bound to the leucine-rich repeat region of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). We tested the hypothesis that the novel TLR 2 leucine rich repeat binding …

Investigation Of A Submerged Four-Bay Mooring System For Aquaculture, Glen Rice

Master's Theses and Capstones

The August 2003 deployment of a second generation mooring system for fish cages at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) open ocean aquaculture site, south of the Isles of Shoals, NH, is described and evaluated. The new system, a submerged four bay grid similar to those used in inshore aquaculture, uses submerged flotation to maintain its depth and tension. The system's depth and line tensions are sensitive to the deployed anchor locations. Anchors that are not positioned correctly can have reduced holding power or result in problem snap loads.

The mooring system deployment process and its resulting geometry was examined …

Confronting The Powers: Tillich, Stout, And West On Democratic Principles And Procedure, Jonathan Rothchild

Theological Studies Faculty Works

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Intersection Graphs For String Links, Blake Mellor

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

We extend the notion of intersection graphs for knots in the theory of finite type invariants to string links. We use our definition to develop weight systems for string links via the adjacency matrix of the intersection graph, and show that these weight systems are related to the weight systems induced by the Conway and Homfly polynomials.

Chord Diagrams And Gauss Codes For Graphs, Thomas Fleming, Blake Mellor

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

Chord diagrams on circles and their intersection graphs (also known as circle graphs) have been intensively studied, and have many applications to the study of knots and knot invariants, among others. However, chord diagrams on more general graphs have not been studied, and are potentially equally valuable in the study of spatial graphs. We will define chord diagrams for planar embeddings of planar graphs and their intersection graphs, and prove some basic results. Then, as an application, we will introduce Gauss codes for immersions of graphs in the plane and give algorithms to determine whether a particular crossing sequence is …

Tree Diagrams For String Links, Blake Mellor

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

In previous work, the author defined the intersection graph of a chord diagram associated with string links (as in the theory of finite type invariants). In this paper, we classify the trees which can be obtained as intersection graphs of string link diagrams.

Linked Exact Triples Of Triangulated Categories And A Calculus Of T-Structures, Michael Berg

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

We introduce a new formalism of exact triples of triangulated categories arranged in certain types of diagrams. We prove that these arrangements are well-behaved relative to the process of gluing and ungluing t-structures defined on the indicated categories and we connect our con. structs to· a problem (from number theory) involving derived categories. We also briefly address a possible connection with a result of R. Thomason.

Selfless Offspring: Filial Children And Social Order In Medieval China By Keith Nathaniel Knapp (Review), Robin R. Wang

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Character, Reliability, And Virtue Epistemology, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

Standard characterizations of virtue epistemology divide the field into two camps: virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism. Virtue reliabilists think of intellectual virtues as reliable cognitive faculties or abilities, while virtue responsibilists conceive of them as good intellectual character traits. I argue that responsibilist character virtues sometimes satisfy the conditions of a reliabilist conception of intellectual virtue, and that consequently virtue reliabilists, and reliabilists in general, must pay closer attention to matters of intellectual character. This leads to several new questions and challenges for any reliabilist epistemology.

Review Of Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Luck, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of Jordi Corominas And Joan Albert Vicens, Xavier Zubiri: La Soledad Sonora, Brad E. Stone

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of Michael Depaul & Linda Zagzebski, Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives From Ethics And Epistemology, Jason Baehr

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Violinist And Double Effect Reasoning, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Review Of Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, Morality And The Human Goods: An Introduction To Natural Law Ethics, Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Togetherness Of Thought And Being: A Phenomenological Reading Of Plotinus’ Doctrine ‘That The Intelligibles Are Not Outside The Intellect, Eric Perl

Philosophy Faculty Works

Plotinus’ doctrine that intelligible reality is in and thus one with intellect bears close affinities to certain features of Husserlian phenomenology. For Husserl, consciousness is the immediate apprehension of being, and being is immediately given to consciousness. Within this unity, we find a “seeing” and a “seen,” an intentional grasp and that which is grasped. Thus there is neither mere identity nor extrinsic duality, but an irreducible polarity or togetherness of consciousness and being. For Plotinus, intellect, as the thinking of being, possesses being, and being is in intellect, as that of which it is the thinking. Therefore, intellect and …

Can There Be A Nonconsequentialist Rights-Based Moral Justification Of Terrorism?, Timothy Shanahan

Philosophy Faculty Works

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