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How The Court Got It Wrong In Woodford V. Ngo By Saying No To Simple Administrative Exhaustion Under The Plra, Karen M. Harkins Slocomb May 2007

How The Court Got It Wrong In Woodford V. Ngo By Saying No To Simple Administrative Exhaustion Under The Plra, Karen M. Harkins Slocomb

San Diego Law Review

Congress has estimated that the number of people who have been sexually assaulted in America's prisons over the past twenty years tops one million. Some inmates are sexually assaulted by guards, and some by other inmates, facilitated by guards. The problem is so rampant that Congress enacted the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. Though the State has a constitutional obligation to "provide humane conditions of confinement," sometimes it fails. To receive compensation for or relief from such harm, a prisoner must conform to the guidelines provided in the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA), which requires an inmate …

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College Athletes’ Human Figure Drawings, Kaitlin Taggart May 2007

College Athletes’ Human Figure Drawings, Kaitlin Taggart

EVMS School of Health Professions Theses & Dissertations

The demands of both lean and non-lean sports upon male athletes can lead to body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders. This study explored whether the Human Figure Drawing (HFD) is a valid method for assessing male college athletes’ body image. A total of 86 male athletes who were competitive on a lean (cross-country or wrestling) or non-lean (football or ice hockey) sport participated in the study. The score recorded on the Male Body Attitude Scale (MBAS) (Tylka, Bergeron, & Schwartz, 2005), a 24-question survey administered to each participant, focused specifically on assessing muscularity, body fat, and height attitudes of these …

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A State Fact Sheet For Grandparents And Other Relatives Raising Children, Unknown Unknown May 2007

A State Fact Sheet For Grandparents And Other Relatives Raising Children, Unknown Unknown

All Current Publications

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Monitor Newsletter April 30, 2007, Bowling Green State University Apr 2007

Monitor Newsletter April 30, 2007, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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The Free Press Vol. 38, No. 20, 04-30-2007, Angelique Carson Apr 2007

The Free Press Vol. 38, No. 20, 04-30-2007, Angelique Carson

Free Press, The

Are we SAFE at school? - USM students take on homelessness - A USM News year in review - Pinching pennies gets easier - Retention Rate Update: USM struggles to keep students - Perspectives - Letter From the Editor - Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda - From Caribou to Culture Beat Live! - Arts & Entertainment - The art outlasts the politics - The Free Press Answers - Amusements - Classifieds - USM sports as a lifestyle - Sports

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Prevalence And Correlates Of Neural Tube Defect In South West Iran Retrospective Analysis, Ahmad Behrooz, Mohammad H. Gorjizadeh Apr 2007

Prevalence And Correlates Of Neural Tube Defect In South West Iran Retrospective Analysis, Ahmad Behrooz, Mohammad H. Gorjizadeh

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objective: In view of the large number of pregnancies complicated by neural tube defect (NTD) in Khuzestan, south west Iran, this study assesses the prevalence of NTD and its ecological and social factors. Methods: This is a retrospective study, based on medical documents using an analytic assessment of NTDs in pregnant women attending the Jundi Shapur University hospitals in Ahvaz from 21 March 2002 to 20 March 2004. Results: The total number of pregnant women was 13,262 and 56 pregnancies were complicated with NTD. A large number of the infants with NTDs were female (70%) and the most common anomaly …

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The Advocate, April 26, 2007, Minnesota State University Moorhead Apr 2007

The Advocate, April 26, 2007, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

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Object-Relational Mapping As A Persistence Mechanism For Object-Oriented Applications, Jeffrey M. Barnes Apr 2007

Object-Relational Mapping As A Persistence Mechanism For Object-Oriented Applications, Jeffrey M. Barnes

Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Honors Projects

Many object-oriented applications created today, especially Web applications, use relational databases for persistence. Often there is a straightforward correspondence between database tables on the one hand and application classes on the other. Application developers usually write a great deal of code to connect to and query the database, code which differs little from class to class and is often tedious to write. Moreover, the parallel class and table structures constitute a duplication of information, which requires duplication of work and increases the likelihood of errors. Ideally, we could automate this duplication, rendering it invisible to developers. This is the idea …

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Biomarker Evaluation Using The Controls As A Reference Population, Ying Huang, Margaret Pepe Apr 2007

Biomarker Evaluation Using The Controls As A Reference Population, Ying Huang, Margaret Pepe

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

The classification accuracy of a continuous marker is typically evaluated with the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve. In this paper, we study an alternative conceptual framework, the "percentile value". In particular the controls only provide a reference distribution to standardize the marker. The analysis proceeds by analyzing the standardized marker only in cases. The approach is shown to be equivalent to ROC analysis. Advantages are that it provides a framework more familiar to biostatisticians and it opens up avenues for new statistical techniques in biomarker evaluation. We develop several new procedures based on this framework for comparing biomarkers and for comparing …

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Pest Risk Assessment For Feral Pigs In Oregon, Bruce Coblentz, Cassie Bouska Apr 2007

Pest Risk Assessment For Feral Pigs In Oregon, Bruce Coblentz, Cassie Bouska

Other Publications in Wildlife Management

Feral pigs, wild boars, and hybrids either currently inhabit, or have been successfully introduced to every continent except Antarctica, and many oceanic islands. There are thirteen current known localities of feral pigs in Oregon (see Appendix A), distributed in various locations in southern and central Oregon. The biology of feral pigs indicates that these animals are capable of inhabiting virtually all available habitat west of the Cascade mountains, and the majority of the habitat east of the Cascades, with preference for riparian regions. Reports of feral pig biology and ecology in other regions in the United States, as well as …

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Florida Sentinel Bulletin, April 27, 2007, Gwen Hayes Apr 2007

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, April 27, 2007, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The April 27, 2007, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

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Mother/Infant Interaction In The Context Of Four Maternal Risk Factors, Deirdre Ann Winder Apr 2007

Mother/Infant Interaction In The Context Of Four Maternal Risk Factors, Deirdre Ann Winder

Dissertations and Theses

Social-emotional skill acquisition in infancy can effect positive outcomes in all developmental domains as the child matures. Caregiver/infant interaction provides a critical context for positive social-emotional development in the infant (i.e., attachment, emotional regulation, communication). Within interaction, these three areas of infant social-emotional development are fostered by the dyadic relationship between caregiver and infant. However, infant skill acquisition within these areas of social-emotional development may be interrupted by risk factors in the caregiving environment. Four maternal risk factors (i.e., mental health, literacy level, age, income) associated with a negative impact on developmental outcome and on interaction were the focus of …

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The Relationship Of Waist Size To Blood Pressure And Cholesterol Among College Students, Stephanie M. Miller Apr 2007

The Relationship Of Waist Size To Blood Pressure And Cholesterol Among College Students, Stephanie M. Miller

Senior Honors Theses

The relationship between food consumed and the resulting body size is not easy to understand. Considering the vast array of nutritional input, numerous hypotheses have been tested for connections among diet constituents and the shape of the human body. The purpose of this study was two fold: to determine the correlation between the level of blood cholesterol and waist size among college students and to determine the correlation between blood pressure and waist size among college students. Volunteers from an upper level Kinesiology class at Liberty University were measured around the waist, screened for blood pressure, and administered a cholesterol …

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Observer, Central Washington University Apr 2007

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for April 26, 2007

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April 26, 2007, Council On Academic Affairs Apr 2007

April 26, 2007, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

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Volume 44, Number 69: April 26, 2007, University Of North Dakota Apr 2007

Volume 44, Number 69: April 26, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Expansion Of The Calcium Hypothesis Of Brain Aging And Alzheimer's Disease: Minding The Store, Olivier Thibault, John C. Gant, Philip W. Landfield Apr 2007

Expansion Of The Calcium Hypothesis Of Brain Aging And Alzheimer's Disease: Minding The Store, Olivier Thibault, John C. Gant, Philip W. Landfield

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

Evidence accumulated over more than two decades has implicated Ca2+ dysregulation in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD), giving rise to the Ca2+ hypothesis of brain aging and dementia. Electrophysiological, imaging, and behavioral studies in hippocampal or cortical neurons of rodents and rabbits have revealed aging-related increases in the slow afterhyperpolarization, Ca2+ spikes and currents, Ca2+transients, and L-type voltage-gated Ca2+ channel (L-VGCC) activity. Several of these changes have been associated with age-related deficits in learning or memory. Consequently, one version of the Ca2+ hypothesis has been that increased L-VGCC activity drives many of the other Ca2+-related biomarkers of hippocampal aging. …

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The Lipid Lowering Effect Of Plant Sterol Ester Capsules In Hypercholesterolemic Subjects, Robert V. Acuff, David J. Cai, Zhi Ping Dong, Doris Bell Apr 2007

The Lipid Lowering Effect Of Plant Sterol Ester Capsules In Hypercholesterolemic Subjects, Robert V. Acuff, David J. Cai, Zhi Ping Dong, Doris Bell

ETSU Faculty Works

Background. Foods enriched with phytosterols have been proven to be an effective therapy to improve blood lipid profiles. However, none of the studies have investigated the efficacy in lipid lowering of plant sterol esters (PSE) in capsule form. The objective of this study is to determine if the plant sterol esters (PSE) in capsule form (1.3 grams of PSE/day) lowered plasma cholesterol levels and lipid ratios in free-living hypercholesterolemic subjects during a 4-week intervention period. Methods. Sixteen subjects participated in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, sequential study with a 4-week placebo phase followed by a 2-week wash-out period and a 4-week treatment …

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The Relationship Between Nutritional Knowledge And Application, Enas Shakkour Apr 2007

The Relationship Between Nutritional Knowledge And Application, Enas Shakkour

Senior Honors Theses

The FDA has proposed a number of actions to address the problem of unhealthy eating behaviors. Among these recommendations is educating the consumer. Education, however, could only be effective if the people did indeed alter their dietary behavior. This thesis studied the effect that educating a consumer can make on the consumer’s diet. Twenty college students were selected randomly for the study. The subjects were ten females and ten males. The subjects were given a nutritional assessment to test their nutritional knowledge. The subjects were then placed in one of three groups depending on their test scores. The subjects were …

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Spartan Daily, April 26, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Apr 2007

Spartan Daily, April 26, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 48

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The Register, 2007-04-25, North Carolina Agricutural And Technical State University Apr 2007

The Register, 2007-04-25, North Carolina Agricutural And Technical State University

NCAT Student Newspapers

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Spartan Daily, April 25, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Apr 2007

Spartan Daily, April 25, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 47

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April 2007 - Advisory Council Meeting Apr 2007

April 2007 - Advisory Council Meeting

ALEC Committee Minutes

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Unh Students Win Gold At North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge, Beth Potier Apr 2007

Unh Students Win Gold At North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Unh Intercollegiate Dressage Association Team Wins Northeast Region For First Time: Competes In Nationals April 27 - 29, Beth Potier Apr 2007

Unh Intercollegiate Dressage Association Team Wins Northeast Region For First Time: Competes In Nationals April 27 - 29, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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The Kugeria Women Water Project: A Mixed-Methods Evalutation Of A Women’S Micro-Initiative Project, Malinda Nanetté Hill-Schmidtke Apr 2007

The Kugeria Women Water Project: A Mixed-Methods Evalutation Of A Women’S Micro-Initiative Project, Malinda Nanetté Hill-Schmidtke

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Advisor: John DeFrain

The Kugeria Women Group (KWG) of Murinduko, Kenya, founded in 1989, built an 11- kilometer water pipeline to provide potable water. Almost 20 years later, the pipeline is still providing water to over 300 families and is considered an example of a successful women’s micro-initiative. The two major goals of this dissertation were: 1) to investigate the organizational structures to determine which elements aided KWG in its successfully maintaining a water pipeline, and 2) to analyze KWG’s water consumption to ascertain if KWG stayed within its own pre-described regulations.

Result Mapping found the KWG’s success is an …

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Potret Buram Pelayanan Kesehatan Lanjut Usia Di Indonesia, Indang Trihandini Apr 2007

Potret Buram Pelayanan Kesehatan Lanjut Usia Di Indonesia, Indang Trihandini

Kesmas

Jumlah dan proporsi kelompok lanjut usia (lansia) di seluruh dunia, terus meningkat, dan cenderung menjadi masalah kesehatan dan sosial sehingga mendapat perhatian dan dukungan yang serius. Resolusi PBB no 46/ 1991, 16 Desember 1991 menghimbau agar seluruh negara di dunia memberikan hak yang layak kepada kelompok lansia. Di Indonesia, populasi lansia pada tahun 2000 (17,2 juta) meningkat 3 kali lebih besar dari pada tahun 1970 (5,3 juta). Pada tahun 2020, jumlah dan proporsi kelompok lansia di Indonesia diprediksi akan mencapai 28 juta jiwa dan 9,5%. Aspek legal telah menempatkan lansia Indonesia pada tempat yang respek dan terhormat, tetapi, kenyataan memperlihatkan …

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Unh Students Without Borders Draw Water From The Sand, Debra Johnybear Apr 2007

Unh Students Without Borders Draw Water From The Sand, Debra Johnybear

Media Relations

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Botanicals Conference Gathers Researchers From Around The World To Discuss Industry Issues, Mitchell Diggs Apr 2007

Botanicals Conference Gathers Researchers From Around The World To Discuss Industry Issues, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - When scientists and regulatory officials from around the world gather in Oxford later this month, their discussions promise to play a major role in ensuring that dietary supplements remain safe and effective for millions of consumers.

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Spartan Daily, April 24, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Apr 2007

Spartan Daily, April 24, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 46

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