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The Marketing Strategies Of Livestock Enterprises In Objective One Regions : A Comparative Study Between Greece And United Kingdom, Lambros Tsourgiannis Jan 2007

The Marketing Strategies Of Livestock Enterprises In Objective One Regions : A Comparative Study Between Greece And United Kingdom, Lambros Tsourgiannis

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This research aims to identify the marketing decisions made by agricultural producers in two E. U. Objective I regions and to provide insights into the reasons that such decisions are made, with a particular focus on meat and milk products. Two farm business surveys; one in the involving sheep and goat farmers in the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace (EMT11) in Greece and one in the sheep and dairy cow fanners in Cornwall, U. K. were undertaken in order to identify their marketing behaviour. This study used robust predictive models incorporating bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques in order to …

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Productivity Management Of The Cacao Agro-Food System In Tabasco (Mexico): A Fitness Approach, Cesar Jesus Vazquez Navarrete Jan 2007

Productivity Management Of The Cacao Agro-Food System In Tabasco (Mexico): A Fitness Approach, Cesar Jesus Vazquez Navarrete

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The farming industry and the agro-food system as a whole are now required to adapt to a challenging and more competitive environment. How the food industry can fit itself into such environment is the main question that is addressed in this study. The fitness approach, an exploratory framework, is applied in order to study the Cacao Agro-food System (CAPS) in Tabasco. Mexico. The final sample consisted of 356 farmers, 37 curing plants, 6 wholesaling firms, and 7 chocolate firms. An anatomical model using correspondence analysis was adopted to understand the main features of every industry in the CAPS. The Pitness …

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The Impacts Of Atmospherically Derived Metals On Coastal Marine Systems, Mohammed Orif Jan 2007

The Impacts Of Atmospherically Derived Metals On Coastal Marine Systems, Mohammed Orif

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The total concentrations of trace metals (Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Na, Cu, Zn, Mo, Ni, V, Cd, Pb) have been determined in the marine aerosol at two contrasting coastal sites, Plymouth UK, (December 2001 to April 2003) and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (August 2002-January 2004). Trace metal concentrations in the Plymouth urban aerosol were lower (2-13 times) than those observed at other comparative UK. urban locations and generally comparable with those observed at European coastal non-urban locations. Statistically significant differences were found in aerosol metal concentrations associated with populations of contrasting air mass sources (i.e. Atlantic and UK/European), being greatest in …

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Marine Biogeochemistry Studies Of Iron And Hydrogen Peroxide Using Flow Injection-Chemiluminescence, Angela Milne Jan 2007

Marine Biogeochemistry Studies Of Iron And Hydrogen Peroxide Using Flow Injection-Chemiluminescence, Angela Milne

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Iron is an essential micronutrient for the growth of planktonic species. It is an integral element of numerous enzymes and proteins with important functions in photosynthesis and respiratory electron transport. In contrast to iron, hydrogen peroxide (H202 is ubiquitous in seawater. Phytoplankton are known to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide and H202 . This production, in conjunction with membrane bound reductases, may affect an organism's ability to access nutrients such as iron. The work presented in this thesis describes the development and optimisation of sensitive flow injection-chemiluminescence techniques to assess redox processes at the cellular level and …

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Os Fundamentos Republicanos Do Direito Internacional Público, Mortimer N.S. Sellers Jan 2007

Os Fundamentos Republicanos Do Direito Internacional Público, Mortimer N.S. Sellers

All Faculty Scholarship

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Rehabilitation Or Revenge: Prosecuting Child Soldiers For Human Rights Violations, Nienke Grossman Jan 2007

Rehabilitation Or Revenge: Prosecuting Child Soldiers For Human Rights Violations, Nienke Grossman

All Faculty Scholarship

International law provides no explicit guidelines for whether or at what age child soldiers should be prosecuted for grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law such as genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. This paper argues that the hundreds of thousands of children under age eighteen participating in armed conflicts around the globe should be treated primarily as victims, not perpetrators, of human rights violations and that international law may support this conclusion. In the case of children, the world community should choose rehabilitation and reintegration over criminal prosecution because of children's unique psychological and moral development, …

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Child Support Harming Children: Subordinating The Best Interests Of Children To The Fiscal Interests Of The State, Daniel L. Hatcher Jan 2007

Child Support Harming Children: Subordinating The Best Interests Of Children To The Fiscal Interests Of The State, Daniel L. Hatcher

All Faculty Scholarship

This Article examines the government policy of seeking reimbursement of welfare costs through child support enforcement. Under our welfare program, Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), custodial parents applying for benefits are required to establish child support obligations against the absent parents and to assign the resulting child support payments to the government. As a result, half of the $105 billion in national child support debt is owed to the government rather than to children. The government's fiscal interests are in direct conflict with the best interests of the children - the controlling legal standard in child support matters. The …

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Educating Lawyers Now And Then: Two Carnegie Critiques Of The Common Law And The Case Method, James Maxeiner Jan 2007

Educating Lawyers Now And Then: Two Carnegie Critiques Of The Common Law And The Case Method, James Maxeiner

All Faculty Scholarship

The 2007 Carnegie Foundation report on legal education, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, is eerily reminiscent of the Foundation's 1914 Report, The Common Law and the Case Method in American University Law School. This article compares the two reports. It commends the 1914 report for its broad comparative civil/common law perspective that is unsurpassed to this day. It shows how the two reports view the case method similarly, but with significantly different emphases. The 2007 report counts the case method as academic, while the 1914 report sees it as practical. It shows how the two reports, while …

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Harmonization Through Condemnation: Is New London The Key To World Patent Harmony?, Max Oppenheimer Jan 2007

Harmonization Through Condemnation: Is New London The Key To World Patent Harmony?, Max Oppenheimer

All Faculty Scholarship

Since 1790, when two U.S. patent applicants have claimed the same invention, the patent has been awarded to the first inventor. Today, the United States stands alone in the industrialized world, and many argue that the United States should, in the interest of world patent harmony, change its system so as to award a contested patent to the first applicant. Of the arguments advanced to justify the change, the only ones that withstand scrutiny are that "all the other countries are doing it" and the hope that some concessions in other aspects of intellectual property or trade might be obtained …

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Exorcising The Exercised: A Response To Professor Gordon, Kenneth Lasson Jan 2007

Exorcising The Exercised: A Response To Professor Gordon, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

I have always welcomed honest criticism of my work, as I hope other scholars do of theirs. If Robert W. Gordon's lengthy review of my book, Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, were the launching pad for a thoughtful essay on postmodern critical legal studies, I would not feel compelled to respond. Unfortunately, despite (and perhaps because of) Gordon's considerable notoriety as a CLS theorist, his disagreement with what I perceive to be the primary ills of the modern academy seriously misreads both the substance and satire of my book. More troubling still …

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A Generic Architecture For Insider Misuse Monitoring In It Systems, Aung Htike Phyo Jan 2007

A Generic Architecture For Insider Misuse Monitoring In It Systems, Aung Htike Phyo

Other Faculty of Science and Engineering Theses

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been widely deployed within many organisations' IT nenvorks to delect network penetration attacks by outsiders and privilege escalation attacks by insiders. However, traditional IDS are ineffective for detecting o f abuse o f legitimate privileges by authorised users within the organisation i.e. the detection of misfeasance. In essence insider IT abuse does not violate system level controls, yet violates acceptable usage policy, business controls, or code of conduct defined by the organisation. However, the acceptable usage policy can vary from one organisation to another, and the acceptability o f user activities can also change depending …

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Mis-Guided Exploration Of Cities: An Ambulant Investigation Of Participative Politics Of Place, Simon Bernard Persighetti Jan 2007

Mis-Guided Exploration Of Cities: An Ambulant Investigation Of Participative Politics Of Place, Simon Bernard Persighetti

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The politics of place and walking as an arts practice form the core concerns of my research. The research is being conducted with particular reference to the ongoing Mis-Guide projects, conceived and produced by the site-specific arts company, Wrights & Sites, of which I am a member. Our apparent rejection of performance-making for an audience has led to walking with spectators as collaborators in the work, and has made the physical journeys and verbal exchanges along the way an integral part of the practice. Through this work, which revolves around place, site-specific arts and urban walking, I am harnessing existing …

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The Rape Of Mary Raymond : A Radical View Of Rape In Mary Hays's The Memoirs Of Emma Courtney And The Victim Of Prejudice, Sarah Ann Oliver Jan 2007

The Rape Of Mary Raymond : A Radical View Of Rape In Mary Hays's The Memoirs Of Emma Courtney And The Victim Of Prejudice, Sarah Ann Oliver

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

The thesis is an examination of Mary Hays's first and second novels, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and The Victim of Prejudice (1799) in order to claim a reworking of political and gender constructions of women that underwrite rape narratives produced in the Long Eighteenth Century. To discuss ways in which Hays's novels challenge the assumptions and constructions of femininity disseminated in earlier rape texts I have selected examples of polemic and narratives written between the 1670s and the 1790s together with some of the contemporary Radical texts which exhibit similar concerns and views expressed in the writer's feminist …

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William Andrews Nesfield [1794-1881] Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans Jan 2007

William Andrews Nesfield [1794-1881] Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Contrary to past opinions William Andrews Nesfield's garden layouts were not solely designed to provide appropriate accompaniments to the Elizabethan and Jacobean revival architecture of his brother-in-law Anthony Salvin (1799-1881). Nor were they conceived chiefly to provide his wealthy patrons with a variation on the French seventeenth-century parterre-de-broderie. Undoubtedly, this device helped to forge a sympathetic bond between Nesfield and his patrons, for it had been a symbol of power and status in seventeenth-century France when it was associated with the upper echelons of French society. It therefore represented to the aristocracy and upper gentry of nineteenth-century Britain, during the …

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Performance And The Page: An Artist's Investigation Of The Dialogue Between The Musical Event And The Written Score, Michael Joseph Mcinerney Jan 2007

Performance And The Page: An Artist's Investigation Of The Dialogue Between The Musical Event And The Written Score, Michael Joseph Mcinerney

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

This thesis is in two parts. Volume 1 is a discourse on notation and the musical event; Volume 2 contains a body of original works (scores, recordings and performance documentations). The relationship between the two is symbiotic; the works might be seen as exemplification of the ideas propounded in the written discourse, or the written discourse may be seen as providing an analytical context for the works as a consistent body of creative research activity. All the works in volume two were either created, or realised to performance, during the research period in which the discourse was written (November 1999 …

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William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881) Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans Jan 2007

William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881) Artist And Landscape Gardener, Shirley Rose Evans

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Contrary to past opinions William Andrews Nesfield's garden layouts were not solely designedt o provide appropriatea ccompanimentsto the Elizabethana nd Jacobean revival architecture of his brother-in-law Anthony Salvin (1799-1881). Nor were they conceived chiefly to provide his wealthy patrons with a variation on the French seventeenth-centuryparterre-de-broderieU. ndoubtedly,t his device helpedt o forge a sympathetic bond between Nesfield and his patrons, for it had been a symbol of power and statusi n seventeenth-centurFy rancew hen it was associatedw ith the upper echelonso f Frenchs ociety. It thereforer epresentedto the aristocracya nd upper gentry of nineteenthcenturyB ritain, during the time Nesfield was …

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Tarmac Cowboys : An Ethnographic Study Of The Cultural World Of Boy Racers, Zannagh Hatton Jan 2007

Tarmac Cowboys : An Ethnographic Study Of The Cultural World Of Boy Racers, Zannagh Hatton

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Through my varying degrees of engagement with the street car culture which existed around the area where I lived in Cornwall, I had become aware of the extent to which cars played an important role and represented the norm of daily discourse, entered into by others, and particularly young men. Yet as one of the dominant forms of mobility, the car appears to have been a neglected topic within sociology, cultural studies and related disciplines. Furthermore, I was unable to find a great deal of academic literature on the combined subjects of young men and motorcars, and in particular how …

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A Practice Of Painting : Living With The Reception And Generation Of Image On The Visual Threshold, Gladin Fryer Jan 2007

A Practice Of Painting : Living With The Reception And Generation Of Image On The Visual Threshold, Gladin Fryer

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

My work as an artist takes an image on a journey beginning with a photographic source image and ending in a painted image, passing through the remembered, imagined and perceived. It is important for me that the images in my work are encountered physically through the materials constituting the surface of the painting and mentally through the 'language' of images. Each viewer uniquely completes the image's journey of becoming a painting. My paintings explore and realise the materiality of an image through the layering of paint, varnish, pebbles, gravel and found objects. Through the activity of painting these 'textured' images …

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Migration & Economy In Cornwall, Stuart James Burley Jan 2007

Migration & Economy In Cornwall, Stuart James Burley

Other Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business Theses

Cornwall is arguably the poorest county in England, but since the 1960s it has been the recipient of some of the highest levels of in-migration. The result of this has seen Cornwall experience some of fastest rates of population growth. This has taken place in the context of counterurbanisation, a process that has been argued to be economically beneficial. Cornwall therefore seems to provide two paradoxical conditions; first, comparative economic poverty has not deterred large numbers of people wishing to live in the county and second, sustained population growth seems to have failed to lift Cornwall from economic poverty. This …

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Sayre: Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Jan 2007

Sayre: Undergraduate Catalog 2007-2008, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Undergraduate Catalogs

This catalog describes courses offered at Southwestern Oklahoma State University at Sayre, Oklahoma during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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Graduate Catalog 2007-2008, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Jan 2007

Graduate Catalog 2007-2008, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Graduate Catalogs

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2007 Lynn University Women's Softball Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics Jan 2007

2007 Lynn University Women's Softball Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2007 Lynn University Softball Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

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Investigation Into Workplace Culture For Medication Error Reporting In Pharmacy, Tamala Lavelle Gulley Jan 2007

Investigation Into Workplace Culture For Medication Error Reporting In Pharmacy, Tamala Lavelle Gulley

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study determined impacts on reported medication errors in pharmacy by analyzing the culture in an undisclosed pharmacy in Florida. SPSS Statistical Software was used to determine the relationship between medication errors and workplace culture. Workplace culture was analyzed by distributing a 43-question culture survey to the pharmacists. There were two treatment groups, Control and Intervention, and the culture survey was two-fold, pre-survey and post-survey, utilizing identical questions to note the difference in a comparative analysis. During the pre-survey, the pharmacists in the Intervention Group received an informational sheet which contained information on a non-punitive culture as well as information …

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The Preliminary Impact Of 2001 Florida Tort Reform On Nursing Facility Litigation In One County, Deborah K. Hedgecock Jan 2007

The Preliminary Impact Of 2001 Florida Tort Reform On Nursing Facility Litigation In One County, Deborah K. Hedgecock

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Since a substantial increase in lawsuits, settlements, jury trial awards, and insurance premiums involving nursing facilities began in the mid 1990s, addressing litigation has been a growing concern for the industry, consumers and their families, insurance carriers, and state and national elected officials. Curbing lawsuit growth has mirrored medical malpractice containment efforts, focusing on the addition of laws to inhibit litigation. The state of Florida initiated such tort reforms along with mandatory increased nursing facility staffing in 2001. Through secondary data analyses, this study examined the initial effects of Florida's tort reform measures. Lawsuits filed (N = 546) against any …

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Robot Data And Control Server For Internet-Based Training On Ground Robots, Dmitry Kalyadin Jan 2007

Robot Data And Control Server For Internet-Based Training On Ground Robots, Dmitry Kalyadin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

To facilitate the emerging need for remote robot training and reach back, this thesis describes a system that allows for convenient web browser based robot operation over the Internet, while providing the means for recording and playback of all video, data and user actions. Training of first responder personnel on rescue robots is hindered by the fact that these devices are very expensive and are only affordable by a few specialized organizations that make them available by request at the time of a disaster. The system described in this thesis will allow first responders to practice on the robots without …

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Fabrication: Corporate And Governmental Crime In The Apparel Industry, Danielle Mcgurrin Jan 2007

Fabrication: Corporate And Governmental Crime In The Apparel Industry, Danielle Mcgurrin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine both the gendered and racialized nature of workplace risk and compensation in the manufacturing industry of apparel. The author selects this industry because of its low-wage, labor intensive, and "deskilled" work, performed in often unsafe employment environments with minimal governmental regulations and limited unionization. The apparel industry is also characterized by its large percentage of racial and ethnic minorities, especially immigrant employees, that further disadvantage them in terms of communication barriers, threat of deportation, and the multiple and intersecting marginalizations associated with occupying a low-wage, minority and/or immigrant status. The gendered effects …

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Libqual+ 2007 Survey: Utah State University, Association Of Research Libraries, Utah State University Libraries Jan 2007

Libqual+ 2007 Survey: Utah State University, Association Of Research Libraries, Utah State University Libraries

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

This notebook contains information from the 2007 administration of the LibQUAL+® protocol. The material on the following pages is drawn from the analysis of responses from the participating institutions collected in 2007.

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Urban Sustainability Through Green Building, Andrea Anzalone, Virginia Sawyer, Robert Woolsey Jan 2007

Urban Sustainability Through Green Building, Andrea Anzalone, Virginia Sawyer, Robert Woolsey

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This analysis is presented on urban sustainability through the use of "green building" in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. This paper discusses the current practices used by the City of Las Vegas and compares them to the top 5 sustainable cities throughout the United States (as identified by the U.S. Green Building Council). Through comparison of nationwide initiatives and policies, this paper outlines recommendations the City of Las Vegas can adopt to increase their position as one of the leading sustainable cities.

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ร่างทรงกับนอมินี, Chaiyot Hemaratchata, Somchai Bovornkitti Jan 2007

ร่างทรงกับนอมินี, Chaiyot Hemaratchata, Somchai Bovornkitti

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

No abstract provided.

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ศัพท์สับสน Ngv เป็นแก๊สหรือยานยนต์102, Somchai Bovornkitti Jan 2007

ศัพท์สับสน Ngv เป็นแก๊สหรือยานยนต์102, Somchai Bovornkitti

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

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