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Elliptic Constructions Of Hyperkahler Metrics, Radu Aurelian Ionas Dec 2007

Elliptic Constructions Of Hyperkahler Metrics, Radu Aurelian Ionas

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

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Functional Dissection Of The Proteins Of The Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (Erad) Pathway, Shivanjali Joshi Dec 2007

Functional Dissection Of The Proteins Of The Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (Erad) Pathway, Shivanjali Joshi

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

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Design And Optimization Of Node Architecture For Application Specific Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, Sangkil Jung Dec 2007

Design And Optimization Of Node Architecture For Application Specific Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, Sangkil Jung

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

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Elevation Of Seprase Expression And Promotion Of An Invasive Phenotype By Collagenous Matrices In Ovarian Tumor Cells, Alanna Marie Kennedy Dec 2007

Elevation Of Seprase Expression And Promotion Of An Invasive Phenotype By Collagenous Matrices In Ovarian Tumor Cells, Alanna Marie Kennedy

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

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The Role Of Fgf Signaling In Neural And Mesodermal Fate Choice In The Zebrafish, Eric Londin Dec 2007

The Role Of Fgf Signaling In Neural And Mesodermal Fate Choice In The Zebrafish, Eric Londin

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

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Synapse Formation And Neuromuscular Transmission In A Zebrafish Choline Acetyltransferase Mutant, Meng Wang Dec 2007

Synapse Formation And Neuromuscular Transmission In A Zebrafish Choline Acetyltransferase Mutant, Meng Wang

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

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Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography For Bladder Cancer Diagnosis, Zhenguo Wang Dec 2007

Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography For Bladder Cancer Diagnosis, Zhenguo Wang

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

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Feature-Driven Illustrative Visualization And Graphics, Lujin Wang Dec 2007

Feature-Driven Illustrative Visualization And Graphics, Lujin Wang

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

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Single Photon Counting For Ultra-Weak Fluorescence Detection: System Design, Characterization And Application To Dna-Sequencing., Vinit H. Dhulla Dec 2007

Single Photon Counting For Ultra-Weak Fluorescence Detection: System Design, Characterization And Application To Dna-Sequencing., Vinit H. Dhulla

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

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Identification And Characterization Of Lon Protease As A Component Of Bacterial Trans-Translation, Jennifer S. Parla Dec 2007

Identification And Characterization Of Lon Protease As A Component Of Bacterial Trans-Translation, Jennifer S. Parla

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

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Sequence To Topography Relationship In Membrane-Inserted Hydrophobic Helics, Shyam S. Krishnakumar Dec 2007

Sequence To Topography Relationship In Membrane-Inserted Hydrophobic Helics, Shyam S. Krishnakumar

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

Hydrophobic α-helices have been widely used to study membrane protein sequencestructure relationships in model membranes. Our lab has developed fluorescence methods to determine the topography of membrane-inserted hydrophobic helices, and to understand the equilibria describing their topographic stability. Using this model membrane system, the minimum hydrophobic length necessary to form a transmembrane (TM) helix in membranes was investigated. Sequences with 13 consecutive hydrophobic residues were found to be the minimum necessary to form a predominantly TM state in a bilayer with a biologically relevant width. The ability of these short hydrophobic sequences to form TM helices in the presence of …

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Volume 27, Number 4, December 2007 Olac Newsletter, Jain Fletcher, Jay Weitz, Barbara Vaughan, Amy K. Weiss Dec 2007

Volume 27, Number 4, December 2007 Olac Newsletter, Jain Fletcher, Jay Weitz, Barbara Vaughan, Amy K. Weiss

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2007 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

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Introduction To Law And Economic Development In Latin America: A Comparative Approach To Legal Reform, Thomas H. Hill Dec 2007

Introduction To Law And Economic Development In Latin America: A Comparative Approach To Legal Reform, Thomas H. Hill

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Open Markets, Competitive Democracy, And Transparent And Reliable Legal Systems: The Three Legs Of Development, James R. Jones Dec 2007

Open Markets, Competitive Democracy, And Transparent And Reliable Legal Systems: The Three Legs Of Development, James R. Jones

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In the 1990s, reform swept through Latin America. Open markets replaced closed economies. Real democracy replaced one-party rule and rigged elections. For about half of the region's population, economic and political conditions improved—yet the gap between the rich and poor widened. The poor half received little or no tangible benefits from these economic and democratic reforms. This article argues that the most difficult and probably most important reform remains to be accomplished: the reform of the legal and regulatory systems throughout Latin America. Until that happens, dreams of first-world recognition and respectability will elude Latin nations.

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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role Of Law And Markets And The Case Of Developing Countries, Antonio Vives Dec 2007

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role Of Law And Markets And The Case Of Developing Countries, Antonio Vives

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In order for the corporation to engage in responsible practices, many obstacles must be overcome. One such obstacle is the belief of many managers that the corporation would be violating its fiduciary responsibility if it engaged in activities that go beyond what is required by the law. Another obstacle is that many of those practices have a real cost but are perceived not to have a corresponding tangible benefit. The article discusses and dismisses these perceived obstacles and argues that it is both through law and the workings of the market that responsible behavior can enhance society's welfare. It is …

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Uncertainty And Loss In The Free Speech Rights Of Public Employees Under Garcetti V. Ceballos, Sarah F. Suma Dec 2007

Uncertainty And Loss In The Free Speech Rights Of Public Employees Under Garcetti V. Ceballos, Sarah F. Suma

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Resolving a circuit split, the Supreme Court declared in Garcetti v. Ceballos that the First Amendment does not protect speech made pursuant to a public employee's work duties, regardless of whether the speech relates to a matter of public concern or the government's restrictions are justifiable. This article argues that a bright line rule eliminating First Amendment protection for job-duty speech is inconsistent with the theories underlying free speech protection. Further, this article explores practical drawbacks to Garcetti's bright-line rule, including inconsistent judicial determination of the scope of job duties, a disincentive to report government abuse through one's chain-of-command, …

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Use Of Filtering To Improve The Estimates Of Low-Cost Gps Systems Using Known Geometric Configurations Of Multiple Gps Receivers, Husein Anshur Dec 2007

Use Of Filtering To Improve The Estimates Of Low-Cost Gps Systems Using Known Geometric Configurations Of Multiple Gps Receivers, Husein Anshur

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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R2bm Retrotransposon: Dna-Protein Interactions, Arturo Menchaca Dec 2007

R2bm Retrotransposon: Dna-Protein Interactions, Arturo Menchaca

McNair Scholars Research Journal

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The Race Gap: Education Of Black Youth In Boston, Alix Cantave Ph.D., Cheryl Holmes Ph.D., Barbara Lewis Ph.D. Dec 2007

The Race Gap: Education Of Black Youth In Boston, Alix Cantave Ph.D., Cheryl Holmes Ph.D., Barbara Lewis Ph.D.

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

On April 23, 2007, The William Monroe Trotter Institute held a Roundtable convening more than fifty individuals at UMass Boston for a two-hour conversation on the education of black children in Boston. Roundtable attendees represented a balanced mix of professional and lay persons, including educators, advocates, academics, elected officials and policymakers, and donors. Attendees included the Suffolk County Sheriff, the Acting Superintendent of Boston Public Schools (BPS), and the president of the Boston Teacher’s Union.

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Beetles For Breakfast: What The Fda Should Be Telling You, Kaycee L. Wolf Dec 2007

Beetles For Breakfast: What The Fda Should Be Telling You, Kaycee L. Wolf

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Imagine sitting down to breakfast and eating strawberry yogurt with a glass of grapefruit juice. You think you are eating a healthy meal, but along with vitamins, calcium, and nutrients, you are getting a side of crushed beetles. Cochineal extract and carmine, two color additives derived from the cochineal beetle, color many foods such as strawberry yogurt. When people consume products with color additives, most do not realize that they could be ingesting insects, which can also be potentially dangerous, not to mention possibly unappetizing or upsetting. Imagine that one minute you are sitting down to eat a healthy cup …

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Finite Element Modeling Of Soft Tissue Deformation., Hongjian Shi Dec 2007

Finite Element Modeling Of Soft Tissue Deformation., Hongjian Shi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Computer-aided minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has progressed significantly in the last decade and it has great potential in surgical planning and operations. To limit the damage to nearby healthy tissue, accurate modeling is required of the mechanical behavior of a target soft tissue subject to surgical manipulations. Therefore, the study of soft tissue deformations is important for computer-aided (MIS) in surgical planning and operation, or in developing surgical simulation tools or systems. The image acquisition facilities are also important for prediction accuracy. This dissertation addresses partial differential and integral equations (PDIE) based biomechanical modeling of soft tissue deformations incorporating the …

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New Teacher Job Satisfaction : Effects Of General Job Facets And Teacher Job Specific Facets., Aimee G. Webb Dec 2007

New Teacher Job Satisfaction : Effects Of General Job Facets And Teacher Job Specific Facets., Aimee G. Webb

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study addressed the job satisfaction of new teachers in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS). in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The JCPS district is the 29th largest in the United Sates and serves over 98,000 students. Understanding what contributes to the satisfaction and retention of new teachers in a large urban school district has implications for cost effective human resource management and student achievement. The researcher mailed a district-wide survey questionnaire about new teacher job satisfaction using procedures developed by Dillman (2000). The survey mailing yielded a sample of 630 participants. The researcher computed: (a) descriptive statistics, (b) principal components factor …

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Constructing The Robert Kingsley Papers., Heidi Caudill Dec 2007

Constructing The Robert Kingsley Papers., Heidi Caudill

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a documentation of my efforts to organize the Robert Kingsley Papers held in the Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville. Motivated by the desire to preserve a record of his life's work, Louisville architect Robert K. Kingsley donated the collection of personal papers in 1993, shortly before his death from brain cancer. The Kingsley papers remained in its original state of disorder from 1993 to 2007, when I took on the role of archivist with the intention of making the collection available to researchers and scholars. I organized the five boxes of records …

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The Effects Of Transition Intervention On Students With Mild Disabilities., Yvonne Anton Kelley Niemann 1939- Dec 2007

The Effects Of Transition Intervention On Students With Mild Disabilities., Yvonne Anton Kelley Niemann 1939-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The process of transition from high school to adult life is particularly important for students with mild disabilities because these students show a pattern of overwhelmingly low expectations and progress. Transition services, self-determination, and focus on outcomes are essential to improve success. Curriculum designed around the interests and abilities of the student, with assistance to meet goals through a coordinated set of activities, academics, work experiences, and personal insight is essential. The STEP Grant supported students with mild disabilities in collaboration with the University of Louisville and a metropolitan school district in Kentucky. Helping students obtain their high school diplomas …

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The Mausoleum Of Augustus : Expanding Meaning From Its Inception To Present Day., Susan L. Fugate Brangers 1970- Dec 2007

The Mausoleum Of Augustus : Expanding Meaning From Its Inception To Present Day., Susan L. Fugate Brangers 1970-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation I examine the meaning of the Mausoleum of Augustus and how this meaning has evolved and expanded over its two thousand years of existence. The discussion of the meaning of the tomb has often been neglected in previous scholarship due to the continuing debates over possible reconstructions of its appearance, probable antecedents for its design and questions concerning its date of construction. I propose the Mausoleum was constructed primarily as a victory monument. This message is conveyed through the use of architectural elements typical of victory monuments that can be found in and around the city of …

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The Learner In The Learning Environment : A Multiple-Case Study Of Nursing Students In The Hospital Clinical Setting., Rhonda Stuart Helm 1951- Dec 2007

The Learner In The Learning Environment : A Multiple-Case Study Of Nursing Students In The Hospital Clinical Setting., Rhonda Stuart Helm 1951-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The clinical experience represents a critical component in nursing education. During the clinical, students apply classroom theory to nursing practice and become socialized into the nursing profession. Because of the current nursing shortage, understanding clinical education is vital and may help in retaining and graduating increased numbers from nursing programs (Vollman, 1989). This multiple-case study is grounded in the literature on the history of clinical education and the perspectives of students, faculty teachers, and clinical staff nurses of nursing clinical education. Narratives of the three students clinical experiences were constructed from data from interviews, observations, and document analysis. Data from …

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The Research Practices And Needs Of Non-Profit Organizations In An Urban Center, Randy Stoecker Dec 2007

The Research Practices And Needs Of Non-Profit Organizations In An Urban Center, Randy Stoecker

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

How do nonprofit organizations use data and research? What challenges do they face in conducting research and managing data? In spring of 2004, 80 nonprofit organizations in Toledo, Ohio returned a survey on their research and data needs and practices. The survey found that nonprofits collect data on a wide variety of topics, but do not use much of the data that they collect, and do not collect much data that could be useful for other groups, particularly neighborhood organizations. The average nonprofit in the survey has five employees and four volunteers who, together, spend 56 hours per week collecting, …

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Dismantling The Master's House : Deconstructing The Roots Of Antiblack Racism And The Construction Of The "Other" In Judaism, Christianity And Islam., John Chenault Dec 2007

Dismantling The Master's House : Deconstructing The Roots Of Antiblack Racism And The Construction Of The "Other" In Judaism, Christianity And Islam., John Chenault

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This critical inquiry into the social constructions of "black" and "white" identities analyzes the roles of the three "western" monotheisms (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) in the cognitive and sociohistorical developments of racial slavery and antiblack racism. Specifically, it investigates the sociohistorical consequences of the inherent dualisms of the "western" monotheisms and how those dualisms are expressed in the production of social theories and systems that rely on believer/non-believer oppositions and binaries defined by a Manichaean view of the universe and a teleological conception of history that fosters and sustains an eternal holy war against infidels. What emerges from this analysis …

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Spiral Disk Opacity From Occulting Galaxy Pairs In The Sloan Digital Sky Survey., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, A. Bolton Dec 2007

Spiral Disk Opacity From Occulting Galaxy Pairs In The Sloan Digital Sky Survey., Benne W. Holwerda, W. C. Keel, A. Bolton

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

A spiral galaxy partially overlapping a more distant elliptical offers a unique opportunity to measure the dust extinction in the foreground spiral. From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR4 spectroscopic sample, we selected 83 occulting galaxy pairs and measured disk opacity over the redshift range z ¼ 0:0Y0:2 with the goal of determining the recent evolution of disk dust opacity. The enrichment of the ISM changes over the lifetime of a disk, and it is reasonable to expect the dust extinction properties of spiral disks as a whole to change over their lifetime. When they do, the change will …

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Effects Of Subchronic Dietary Lead Exposure On Dmtp And Dnmtp Performance In Fisher 344 Rats, Joshua D. Vardigan Dec 2007

Effects Of Subchronic Dietary Lead Exposure On Dmtp And Dnmtp Performance In Fisher 344 Rats, Joshua D. Vardigan

Masters Theses

Recent attention has focused on the possibility that even low-level Pb exposure can produce subtle neurological impairments in the absence of overt signs of toxicity. Previous behavioral assessments of learning and memory using DMTS procedures have documented learning impairments in monkeys exposed to Pb during early postnatal development, and although a variety of operant behavioral assays have documented detrimental effects of dietary Pb treatment in rats, the DMTS procedure has not been examined in rats following short-term low levels of Pb through dietary exposure. Thus, the objective of this study was to measure the degree of cognitive impairment produced by …

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