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Stealth Celebrity Testimonials Of Prescription Drugs: Placing The Consumer In Harm's Way And How The Fda Has Dropped The Ball, Louis Boyarsky

Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Constitutional Idea-Expression Doctrine: Qualifying Congress’ Commerce Power When Protecting Intellectual Property Rights., Yavar Bathaee

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Optimal Designs For Segmented Polynomial Regression Models And Web-Based Implementation Of Optimal Design Software, Xiangfeng Wu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Collaborative Visual Search, Xin Chen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Cross-Layer Design For Interference Mitigation And Mobility Support In Wireless Access Networks, Vishnu Navda

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Self, Other, And Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs Of African American Women, Wynnetta Ann Scott-Simmons

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Using Critical Race Theory, Critical Literacy, Black Feminist Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the codes of power and registers of language in all-White, all-girl, elite private schools during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In capturing the memories, perceptions, and lived experiences of these women over thirty years later, the journey into a world of divergences was explored--divergent language codes, divergent social, cultural, and economic stratifications, and divergent linguistic expectations, …

Rideability Issues For Asphalt And Concrete Specification Modifications, Brad Rister, Clark Graves

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

Concerns have been raised regarding the differences between the incentive/disincentive determination procedures as well as the pay adjustments for rideability between asphalt and concrete projects. This report will attempt to do the following:

1. Address the differences between concrete and asphalt rideability specifications by looking at Kentucky’s historical rideability specifications and the specifications of peer states.
2. Review the necessity to revise current specifications based on historical rideability data, peer states rideability specifications, technological advancements in placement of roadway materials, and technological advancements in measuring rideability after construction.
3. Evaluate the monetary impact of a revised rideability specification on the latest year’s data. …

Wrongful Convictions And Forensic Science: The Need To Regulate Crime Labs, Paul C. Giannelli

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Civil War Treasures: The Last Bastion Small Collections Offer Details Of The Siege Of Port Hudson, Leah W. Wood

Civil War Book Review

New Acquisitions in the

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections,

LSU Libraries' Special Collections

A Sailor's Life

L’Dor Vador: Remembering The Cleveland Jewish Immigration Experience, Roxanne Feldman

Theses

Jewish people heavily contributed to the growth and development of the city of Cleveland. Their impact extended from creating major businesses to influence in education and culture. Jewish immigration, an integral piece of Cleveland’s history, offers many memories that constitute an interactive, educational, and engaging exhibit. The goal of this interactive project is to inform users about what life was like as a Jewish immigrant or resident in Cleveland by sharing stories of individuals in the community and in my family. Through exploration of photographs, videos, and an interactive map, users will be able to identify noteworthy businesses, organizations, and …

Moving Horizons: Exploring The Role Of Stories In Decolonizing The Literacy Education Of White Teachers, Teresa-Strong Wilson

International Education

Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. A study examined teachers' constructions of difference derived from reading and discussing children's literature. Participants were 18 white teachers in Canada, who read and discussed children's stories once a month in teacher literature circles. Findings revealed the role of stories in participants' educational formation and decolonization. Other findings of the study are discussed.

Subaltern Social Movement Learning And The Decolonization Of Space In India, Dip Kapoor

International Education

Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. A study examined subaltern agency as expressed through social movement learning and decolonization of physical/material space in south Orissa, India. Results revealed how learning within Adivasi—original dweller—movements in south Orissa framed a process of Adivasi activism that reasserted itself over forest and land spaces necessary for reproducing Adivasi lives in accordance with their material and existential rationalizations.

Oral Societies And Colonial Experiences: Sub-Saharan Africa And The De-Facto Power Of The Written Word, Ali. A. Abdi

International Education

Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. The writer examines the devaluing of oral traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa through the written word of various colonial powers.

Exclusion And Object Tracking In A Network Of Processes, Yih-Kuen Tsay, Chien-Chung Huang

Computer Science Technical Reports

This paper concerns two fundamental problems in distributed computing---mutual exclusion and mobile object tracking. For a variant of the mutual exclusion problem where the network topology is taken into account, all existing distributed solutions make use of tokens. It turns out that these token-based solutions for mutual exclusion can also be adapted for object tracking, as the token behaves very much like a mobile object. To handle objects with replication, we go further to consider the more general $k$-exclusion problem which has not been as well studied in a network setting. A strong fairness property for $k$-exclusion requires that a …

Coordinating Student Experiences In The Health Care Setting - A Design For Efficient And Effective Learning, Communication And Patient Care, Mary Amundson

Theses and Dissertations

Clinical courses are an essential part of the curriculum for any major involving health care careers. These courses provide the health care student the opportunity to transition from the classroom to the health care environment prior to graduation through guided practice in the provision of patient care. Clinical experiences leave the student with a greater understanding of wellness as well as the pathophysiology of disease, recognition of the relationship between interventions and outcomes, realization of the interplay of culture, spirituality and emotional status with the physical response of the body and provide the student with the ability to provide care …

The Relationship Between The Mmpi-2'S Rc3 Cynicism Scale And Social Support, Blake K. Webster

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The current study examined the MMPI-2's Restructured Clinical Scale 3 (RC3) measuring cynicism from the Tellegen et al. (2003) Restructured Clinical Scales project. While RC3 has shown adequate reliability coefficients, research investigating RC3 has questioned its validity and descriptive abilities. Research suggests that adequate criterion has not been established for the scale. RC3 in this study was correlated with three types of social support: Proactive Coping, Instrumental Support Seeking, and Emotional Support Seeking. Based on a review of the literature of cynicism and social support, it was hypothesized that a negative relationship would exist between the two constructs. The study …

Police Blotter, Unlv Department Of Public Safety

Police Blotter

No abstract provided.

Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, David Ashley, Tony Allen, Mamie Peers, Allison Miller

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of A Scorecard Systems To Determine Supplier Efficency, Santosh Noone

Theses and Dissertations

The new trends of global competition, heightened customer expectations, and harsh economic conditions suggest that future competitiveness will be determined by a company's ability to develop strategies to optimally align and manage an extended network of supplier relationships. To remain in competition every company needs to attract and retain high-caliber suppliers. To accomplish this, firms must accurately evaluate vendor performance and must work with their suppliers to improve areas of weakness.

Scorecards are the matrix system that is used by most companies today to evaluate their supply base. These matrix systems evaluate the suppliers based on various performance factors and …

Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007: Connecting To The Networked Economy, Priscilla Finley

Library Faculty Research

This World Economic Forum report by Dutta (INSEAD) and Mia (WEF) evaluates the penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in 122 economies across the globe.

The High-Tech Sector In Northeast Ohio: 2007 Update, Ziona Austrian, Jill S. Taylor

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report describes trends in the high-tech sector in Northeast Ohio, focusing on the 2004-2006 time period. It is the first update to a baseline report released in February 2007 that analyzed trends between 2000 and 2005. This study follows the baseline report in that it examines the high-tech sector in Northeast Ohio from three perspectives — high-tech industries, high-tech occupations, and research and development activity. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of high-tech industries in terms of employment, average wage, gross regional product (output), and productivity. High-tech occupations are analyzed in terms of employment levels. Research and development activity …

Principles For Managing Fisheries To Facilitate Adaptation To Uncertain Effects Of Climate Change, Gunnar Knapp

ISER Presentations

No abstract provided.

Systematic Study Of The Validity Of Clinical Performance Assessments In Entry-Level Athletic Training Education, Gayle A. Thompson

Dissertations

PPerformance assessment (PA) is essential to determining the competency of clinical skills in allied health education, yet little research has been conducted to determine what validity evidence supports the interpretations made from PA currently utilized in athletic training clinical education. This study examined current PA practice and associated effectiveness of PA used by athletic training clinical practicum course instructors. Current research suggests the most predominant method of PA utilized in athletic training follows a behavioral approach that emphasizes observation of specific skills in standardized ways, as exemplified by the 'check-list' method. An alternative to the behavioral approach is the holistic …

Fluxes Of Iron And Manganese Across The Sediment-Water Interface Under Various Redox Conditions, Svetlana V. Pakhomova, Per O.J. Hall, Mikhail Yu Kononets, Alexander G. Rozanov, Anders Tengberg, Andrei V. Vershinin

Faculty Publications

Fluxes of dissolved forms of iron and manganese across the sediment-water interface were studied in situ in the Gulf of Finland and the Vistula Lagoon (Baltic Sea), and in the Golubaya Bay (Black Sea) from 2001 to 2005. Fluxes were measured using chamber incubations, and sediment cores were collected and sliced to assess the porewater and solid phase metal distribution at different depths. Measured and calculated benthic fluxes of manganese and iron were directed out of sediment for all sites and were found to vary between 70-4450 and 5-1000 μmole m- 2 day- 1 for manganese and iron, respectively. The …

Markov Semigroups And Estimating Functions, With Applications To Some Financial Models, Jerome A Goldstein, Rosa Maria Mininni, Silvia Romanelli

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

Moments And Commutators Of Probability Measures, Luigi Accardi, Hui Hsiung Kuo, Aurel Stan

Faculty Publications

Let a0, a- and a+ be the preservation, annihilation, and creation operators of a probability measure μ on ℝd, respectively. The operators a0 and [a -, a+] are proven to uniquely determine the moments of μ. We discuss the question: "What conditions must two families of operators satisfy, in order to ensure the existence of a probability measure, having finite moments of any order, so that, its associated preservation operators and commutators between the annihilation and creation operators are the given families of operators?" For the case d = 1, a satisfactory answer to this question is obtained as a …

The Barbarous Voice Of Democracy: American Captivity In Barbary And The Multicultural Specter, Jacob Rama Berman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Feedback On The Accuracy Of Completing Flight Checklists, William G. Rantz

Masters Theses

This study examined whether pilots completed airplane checklists more accurately when they received post-flight graphic and verbal feedback. Participants were 8 college student pilots with instrument rating. The task consisted of flying flight patterns using a Personal Computer Aviation Training Device. The main dependent variable was the number of checklist items completed correctly per flight. A multiple baseline design across pairs with reversal was used. During baseline, the average number of correctly completed items per flight varied considerably across participants, ranging from 21 to 39 out of 40. It increased to near perfect levels for all participants after they were …

Building Swift Clan Control In Complex It Projects, Cecil Eng Huang Chua, Wee-Kiat Lim, Christina Soh, Siew Kien Sia

CCX Research

Clan control is often essential in complex multi-stakeholder projects for project success. Furthermore, clan control is especially important during requirements analysis which occurs at project inception. How can controllers quickly institute clan control in complex IT projects? Through the case analysis of a large IT project, we observed that clan control can be accelerated by the purposeful application of formal controls to build social capital. Our findings corroborate the notion that, properly structured, clan control can emerge quickly in a multi-stakeholder project to improve the likelihood of IT implementation success.

Sharing Tacit Knowledge Among Expert Teaching Professors And Mentees: Considerations For Career And Technical Education Teacher Educators, Han Sik Shim, Gene L. Roth

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

This case study provides viewpoints of knowledge sharing by expert teaching professors and their mentees. Professors who were recognized as expert teachers with an annual award at a mid-western USA university were the units of analysis of this study. Expert teaching professors had difficulty articulating much of their teaching expertise. The difficulty was rooted in three characteristics of teaching expertise. Sharing tacit knowledge was also noted as a difficult task because the nature of tacit knowledge prevented it from being articulated. Methods of sharing tacit knowledge were categorized in two ways: observation and “bringing it to surface.” Recommendations for additional …