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Knowledge And Attitudes Of Female School Students On Medications In Eastern Saudi Arabia, Nada A. Abahussain, Attia Z. Taha

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the knowledge and attitude of female students on medications in Al-Khobar city, the eastern province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: The target population consisted of the third-grade intermediate, and all the 3 grades of secondary school female students in the Al-Khobar area, KSA. A multistage stratified sampling design was adopted at the end of 2001. At the first stage, 13 schools were selected, of which classes were selected in each level using a simple random sampling design. All students in the selected classes were included in the study. The total number of selected students …

Sustainability Meets Profitability: The Convenient Truth Of How The Business Judgment Rule Protects A Board's Decision To Engage In Social Entrepreneurship, Janet E. Kerr

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Antigone Dilemma: When The Paths Of Law And Morality Diverge, J. C. Oleson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Scholarship @ Rit Fall 2007, Rit Libraries Publishing And Scholarship Support Center

RIT Digital Archives

For all the world is a stage; Watch the language; It's not just academics! Understanding student retention; Storytelling as a human resource tool; Robotic platforms go underwater; Examining the work of philosopher Agnes Heller; Sustainability through servicizing; Scientific salami slicing; Students on campus; Developing a brand; Can we teach creativity?; Mathematical symmetry in reflections; An active learning model; Outcomes for graduates of baccalaureate interpreter preparation programs specializing in interpreting in k-12th grade settings; Creating an online community of scholars

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Disability Services Newsletter Winter 2008, Rit Disability Services Office

RIT Digital Archives

What is the RIT Disability Services Office?; What to do when students present their "Disability Services Agreement"

Forgotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decisionmaking, And Misremembering, Justin D. Levinson

Duke Law Journal

In this Article, I claim that judges and jurors unknowingly misremember case facts in racially biased ways. Drawing upon studies from implicit social cognition, human memory research, and legal decisionmaking, I argue that implicit racial biases affect the way judges and jurors encode, store, and recall relevant case facts. I then explain how this phenomenon perpetuates racial bias in case outcomes. To test the hypothesis that judges and jurors misremember case facts in racially biased ways, I conducted an empirical study in which participants were asked to recall facts of stories they had read only minutes earlier. Results of the …

María Antonia González Valerio, El Arte Develado. Consideraciones Estéticas Sobre La Hermenéutica De Gadamer [Reseña Del Libro], Adriana Renero

Publications and Research

El tema central que nos ofrece María Antonia González Valerio es el estrecho vínculo que existe entre la estética y la hermenéutica de Hans-Georg Gadamer. Mediante una comparación de la estética gadameriana con otras teorías y reflexiones estéticas que la anteceden, tales como la Crítica del juicio de Kant, la Estética de Hegel, El origen de la obra de arte y Hölderlin y la esencia de la poesía de Heidegger, la autora se propone mostrar que Gadamer ofrece nuevas reflexiones sobre el arte y sobre la experiencia del arte.

Corporate Governance Reform As Institutional Innovation: The Case Of Japan, Toru Yoshikawa, Lai Si Tsui-Auch, Jean Mcguire

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

To address the convergence-divergence debate in corporate governance, we conduct a multiple-case, multiple-level study to analyze the diffusion of governance innovation in Japan. We argue that Japanese systems of corporate governance neither fully converge to, nor completely diverge from, the Anglo-American model. Rather, Sony-the pioneer of corporate governance reforms-and its followers selectively adopted features from this model, decoupled them from the original context, and tailored them to fit to their own situations to generate governance innovation. However, we find that the spread of innovation across firms and institutional levels is far from linear and straightforward, and that other well-regarded firms …

On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality, Meiqun Hu, Ee Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Ba-Quy Vuong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Wikipedia is presently the largest free-and-open online encyclopedia collaboratively edited and maintained by volunteers. While Wikipedia offers full-text search to its users, the accuracy of its relevance-based search can be compromised by poor quality articles edited by non-experts and inexperienced contributors. In this paper, we propose a framework that re-ranks Wikipedia search results considering article quality. We develop two quality measurement models, namely Basic and PeerReview, to derive article quality based on co-authoring data gathered from articles' edit history. Compared with Wikipedia's full-text search engine, Google and Wikiseek, our experimental results showed that (i) quality-only ranking produced by PeerReview gives …

Measuring Article Quality In Wikipedia: Models And Evaluation, Meiqun Hu, Ee Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Hady W. Lauw, Ba-Quy Vuong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Wikipedia has grown to be the world largest and busiest free encyclopedia, in which articles are collaboratively written and maintained by volunteers online. Despite its success as a means of knowledge sharing and collaboration, the public has never stopped criticizing the quality of Wikipedia articles edited by non-experts and inexperienced contributors. In this paper, we investigate the problem of assessing the quality of articles in collaborative authoring of Wikipedia. We propose three article quality measurement models that make use of the interaction data between articles and their contributors derived from the article edit history. Our Basic model is designed based …

Effects Of Electromagnetic Interference On Control Area Network Performance, Fei Ren, Y. Rosa Zheng, Maciej Jan Zawodniok, Jagannathan Sarangapani

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) on control area network (CAN) communications are investigated by hardware experiments. Distinct CAN bit rates, communication cables, and networks are used to test effects of EMI on CAN bus. Waveforms of CAN data frames in EMI environment are observed and analyzed for figuring out details of effects. Experiments show that the EMI pulses frequently encountered in automobile and off-road machinery can cause the reduction of bit rates and errors in high-speed CAN communications. Replacing traditional unshielded parallel communication cables with shielded communication cables is proved to be an effective method of …

Modeling Noise Coupling Between Package And Pcb Power/Ground Planes With An Efficient 2-D Fdtd/Lumped Element Method, Ting-Kuang Wang, Sin-Ting Chen, Chi-Wei Tsai, Sung-Mao Wu, James L. Drewniak, Tzong-Lin Wu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An efficient numerical approach based on the 2-D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is proposed to model the power/ground plane noise or simultaneously switching noise (SSN), including the interconnect effect between the package and the print circuit board (PCB). The space between the power and ground planes on the package and PCB are meshed with 2-D cells. The equivalent R-L-C circuits of the via and the solder balls connecting the package and PCB can be incorporated into a 2-D Yee cell based on a novel integral formulation in the time domain. An efficient recursive updating algorithm is proposed to fit the …

Self-Organization Of Scroll Waves In Excitable Media : Parallel Simulations On A 64-Opteron Linux Cluster, Igor Kaplun

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Spiral waves have been observed and studied in a variety of biological, physical and chemical systems, known as excitable media. The most famous examples of excitable media include cardiac tissue, the Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction, and aggregation of starving slime mold amoeba.

It had been shown previously that spiral waves could self-organize into multi- armed spirals. A 3D analog of a 2D spiral wave is called a scroll wave. It rotates around a 1D imaginary tube known as a filament. A later study based on the so-called Puschino model has reported formation of multi-armed scroll waves in 3D. But a question …

Reputation Nation: Law In An Era Of Ubiquitous Personal Information, Lior Strahilevitz

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Corrales Mainstreet: Community Economic Assessment, Jeffrey Mitchell, Molly J. Bleecker, Joshua M. Akers

BBER Publications

An analysis of Corrales, New Mexicos MainStreet business district and local market area. Demographic, housing, and economic characteristics of both areas are described. Pull factors and location quotients are used to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the MainStreet district. Data for the MainStreet district and the village of Corrales are compared to Sandoval County and the state. Concludes with a discussion of local opportunities and challenges. Illustrated with charts, data tables, and maps.'

Adobe Medicus 2007 6 November-December, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

No abstract provided.

Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 10, Issue 01, November 2007, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program

OTras Perspectivas: UNM Occupational Therapy Program Newsletter

Acknowledging that the success of the Occupational Therapy Program hinges on the mutual investment of community and friends beyond the local community, the UNM Occupational Therapy Program faculty and staff have initiated this newsletter. The goal is to provide an additional forum for communication, and provide updates about the program's development, faculty, students, alumni, and friends.

Star Institute Receives $901,405 Grant For Teacher Science Education, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Ufa Aac Library Sub-Committee Meeting Minutes, October 2007, Barbara Swartzlander

UFA AAC Library Sub-committee Meeting Minutes

Meeting report from the University Faculty Assembly Academic Affairs Committee's Library Sub-committee meeting at the University of New England.

The Anchor, Volume 121.08: October 31, 2007, Hope College

The Anchor: 2007

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Rotunda - Vol 86, No 8 - Oct 31, 2007, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

Images That Make News & Events Come Alive, Rit University News

University Publications

The Tiger Beat takes you behind the scenes with the members of RIT University News-- the news and public relations division of Rochester Institute of Technology. Get the "story behind the story" and an insider's look at who we are and what we do to publicize RIT news.

Speeches Of Lowell E. Davis, Dean Of Usf St. Petersburg, 1986 - 1989 : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds

Special Collections and University Archives Legacy Finding Aids: All Items

Dr. Lowell E. Davis served as dean during an important phase of USF St. Petersburg's history. He arrived in August 1986 and promptly set into motion an agenda that supported the expansion of course offerings and academic majors at USF St. Petersburg. Davis took a strong position in advocating greater autonomy and independence for the growing campus at a time when many Tampa-based administrators hoped to limit curricular initiatives at the University's "branch" campuses. His untimely death in the fall of 1989 slowed the process but did not extinguish the dreams of greater autonomy. Subsequent administrators at USF St. Petersburg …

Um Scientist To Testify About Climate Change, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2000s

No abstract provided.

Beat Winter Blahs At Freezer Burn Run, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Wakefield Land Conservation Education & Outreach Project, Cindy Barstow, Cheri Schlenker

PREP Reports & Publications

The Town of Wakefield has experienced an unprecedented growth explosion in the past seven years. Pressures to use heretofore undeveloped land for the construction of residential housing has threatened the natural resources of this community. The projected growth rate has the potential to severely impact Wakefield’s natural resources. While the town has undertaken a comprehensive revision of zoning, site plan and subdivision regulations, it is important that voluntary land protection measures are advanced to secure permanent protection of valuable resources.

October 31, 2007, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Globalizing Compassion, Photography, And The Challenge Of Terror, Ariel Dorfman

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Globalizing Compassion, Photography, and the Challenge of Terror," Ariel Dorfman reflects on the use of photography to make global violence visible and to mourn the losses caused by acts of terror. Dorfman draws on events that range from the attacks on the World Trade Center to Pinochet's dictatorship to other similar atrocities and he shows that, while these events always feel singular in the moment, they are best understood comparatively. At the core of the paper is a central question: does the shared practice of using photos to represent terror help build bridges across humanity or does …