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Toward A Contextualized Church In A Unified Korea/Corea: Exploring Resources In Wesleyan Theology And Eastern Philosophies, Ohoon Kwon Jan 2006

Toward A Contextualized Church In A Unified Korea/Corea: Exploring Resources In Wesleyan Theology And Eastern Philosophies, Ohoon Kwon

ATS Dissertations

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The Islamic Threat To Eastern Central Asia, Stephen R. Bowers, Bakhodir Musayev, Steven A. Samson Jan 2006

The Islamic Threat To Eastern Central Asia, Stephen R. Bowers, Bakhodir Musayev, Steven A. Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Utilizing the works of Uzbek scholars and journalists, the authors offer an analysis of the emergence of a culture of violence in post-Soviet Central Asia. This violence has been expressed in the form of terrorist strikes against security personnel as well as suicide attacks on civilian targets. What began as a cultural reawakening throughout Central Asia is evolving into a jihadist campaign to undermine secular authority. Thus, regional violence has been steadily increasing over the past five years.

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Francis Lieber, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

Francis Lieber, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Schumaker, Kiel, Heilke: Great Ideas/Grand Schemes Study Guide, 1998-2006, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

Schumaker, Kiel, Heilke: Great Ideas/Grand Schemes Study Guide, 1998-2006, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Great Ideas/Grand Schemes is a systematic treatment of twelve ideologies by means of an elaborate conceptual framework. This twelve-point analytic grid, which is comprised of six substantive political principles, four philosophical bases, and two political bases, is introduced in the first chapter. Subsequent chapters focus on the ideologies themselves.

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Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy Study Guide, 2001-2006, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy Study Guide, 2001-2006, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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David Kupelian: The Marketing Of Evil Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

David Kupelian: The Marketing Of Evil Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Harm De Blij: Why Geography Matters Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

Harm De Blij: Why Geography Matters Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Mary Beard And John Henderson: Classics: A Very Short Introduction Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

Mary Beard And John Henderson: Classics: A Very Short Introduction Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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John Fonte: Why There Is A Culture War Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

John Fonte: Why There Is A Culture War Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Christian Reconstruction, Steven Samson Jan 2006

Christian Reconstruction, Steven Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Robert D. Kaplan: When North Korea Falls Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2006

Robert D. Kaplan: When North Korea Falls Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Parents As Navigators: How Caregivers Of Children With Mental Health Difficulties Find Supports In The Workplace, Eileen M. Brennan, Marlene Penn, Katherine J. Huffstutter, Jennifer R. Bradley, Julie M. Rosenzweig Jan 2006

Parents As Navigators: How Caregivers Of Children With Mental Health Difficulties Find Supports In The Workplace, Eileen M. Brennan, Marlene Penn, Katherine J. Huffstutter, Jennifer R. Bradley, Julie M. Rosenzweig

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Presentation given at the 19th Annual Research Conference: A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base, Tampa, FL, February 2006.

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"Come Pick Up Your Child!" Integrating Work And Family Life For Parents Of School-Aged Children With Mental Health Challenges, Eileen M. Brennan, Ana Maria Brannan, Judy Kendall, Jennifer R. Bradley, Katherine J. Huffstutter Jan 2006

"Come Pick Up Your Child!" Integrating Work And Family Life For Parents Of School-Aged Children With Mental Health Challenges, Eileen M. Brennan, Ana Maria Brannan, Judy Kendall, Jennifer R. Bradley, Katherine J. Huffstutter

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Our research team sought to discover the factors that lead to the unemployment of parents of children with mental health disorders. Our preliminary analyses and findings are reported in this presentation. We controlled for factors that affect participation in the paid workforce for parents in general: (a) child age, (b) level of caregiver education, and (c) the number of children in the household. We also introduced factors that pertain specifically to families that have children with emotional or behavioral disorders: the level of the child's internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and the number of child absences from school. Our research was …

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Managing Employees Dependent Care Challenges: Human Resource Professionals' Perspectives, Jennifer R. Bradley, Katherine J. Huffstutter, Eileen M. Brennan, Julie M. Rosenzweig Jan 2006

Managing Employees Dependent Care Challenges: Human Resource Professionals' Perspectives, Jennifer R. Bradley, Katherine J. Huffstutter, Eileen M. Brennan, Julie M. Rosenzweig

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

PDF version of a presentation given at the 86th annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Palm Springs, CA.

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Religious Liberty And The Law, Stephen Wermiel Jan 2006

Religious Liberty And The Law, Stephen Wermiel

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Power As A Factor In Lawyers' Ethical Deliberation, Susan Carle Jan 2006

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 Jan 2006

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.

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The Importance Of Early Intervention For Students With Or At-Risk For Emotional Disturbance Or Conduct Disorder, Jesse, Richards Jan 2006

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 …

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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 Jan 2006

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, …

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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 Jan 2006

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 …

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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 Jan 2006

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%) …

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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 Jan 2006

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 …

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Improving Independent Living Skills Training For Youth Exiting Foster Care In Monterey County, Christy Ann Scaife Jan 2006

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 …

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Role Of Anomalous Warm Gulf Waters In The Intensification Of Hurricane Katrina, Menas Kafatos, D. Sun, Ritesh Gautam, Z. Boybeyi, Ruixin Yang, G. Cervone Jan 2006

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 …

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Exiting Etatisme? New Directions In State Policy In France And Japan, Gene Park Jan 2006

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 Jan 2006

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, …

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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 Jan 2006

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 …

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Embracing Equity: Discussing Inequity, Deena J. González Jan 2006

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 Jan 2006

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.

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Activation Of Toll-Like Receptor 2 Through Tlr2-Lrr Binding Synthetic Peptides, Christopher Benton Jan 2006

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 …

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