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Surrogacy Agreements, Joshua Saunders

Law Library Student-Authored Works

No abstract provided.

Information Interface - Volume 35, Issue 2 - May/June 2007, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Rub, Fold, And Abrasion Resistance Testing Of Digitally Printed Documents, Nicholas Disantis

Theses

The life cycle of commercially printed digital documents (in particular, marketing and promotional items, direct mailers, business communications, and on-demand color books) was examined to find stress points where potential permanence problems could exist. The stress and life cycle overview covers the stages of processes in printing and finishing, mailing preparation and fulfillment, distribution, usage, and recycling. Stress points found in the different stages of the life cycle, whether physical or chemical, include (but are not limited to) scratching, rubbing, cracking, solvent exposure, light exposure, moisture exposure, heat exposure, and air contamination exposure. Tests for abrasion resistance, folding resistance, solvent …

Testing A Mahalanobis Distance Model Of Black Bear Habitat Use In The Ouachita Mountains Of Oklahoma, Eric C. Hellgren, Sara L. Bales, Mark S. Gregory, David M. Leslie, Jr., Joseph D. Clark

Publications

Regional wildlife–habitat models are commonly developed but rarely tested with truly independent data. We tested a published habitat model for black bears (Ursus americanus) with new data collected in a different site in the same ecological region (i.e., Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, USA). We used a Mahalanobis distance model developed from relocations of black bears in Arkansas to produce a map layer of Mahalanobis distances on a study area in neighboring Oklahoma. We tested this modeled map layer with relocations of black bears on the Oklahoma area. The distributions of relocations of female black bears were …

Conservation Of The Sos Operon, Umudc, In Acinetobacter Species, Ching-Li Lin

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Science & Technology at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science by Ching-Li Lin on May 1, 2007.

Social Skills Group Therapy For Children With Emotional And Behavioral Problems, Lilith Chunn

Social Work Theses

The topic of this research was the utilization of social skills group therapy with children with poor social skills and emotional and behavioral problems. The literature explains that group therapy has many benefits to clients that are not available in individual work with clients. Social skills group therapy is theorized to be helpful for children with mental health disorders, especially children who are physically aggressive. In this type of group therapy, it is effective to teach children the phases of using social skills and using discussion and role-play to understand each social skill. A social skills therapy group was conducted …

Invasive Alien Species In An Era Of Globalization, Laura A. Meyerson, Harold A. Mooney

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

Globalization facilitates the spread of invasive alien species (IAS) as international commerce develops new trade routes, markets, and products. New technologies increase the pace at which humans and commodities can move around the world. Recent research on IAS at the global scale has examined commerce and travel in order to inform predictions, risk analyses, and policy. Due to limited data, regional-scale studies have primarily focused on invasion patterns rather than impacts. Local-scale experimental research can identify mechanisms and impacts of biological invasions, but the results may not be applicable at larger spatial scales. However, the number of information networks devoted …

Analyses Of Unbalanced Groups-Versus-Individual Research Designs Using Three Alternative Approximate Degrees Of Freedom Tests: Test Development And Type I Error Rates, Stephanie Wehry, James Algina

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Three approximate degrees of freedom quasi-F tests of treatment effectiveness were developed for use in research designs when one treatment is individually delivered and the other is delivered to individuals nested in groups of unequal size. Imbalance in the data was studied from the prospective of subject attrition. The results indicated the test that best controls the Type I error rate depends on the number of groups in the group-administered treatment but does not depend on the subject attrition rates included in the study.

Front Matter, Jmasm Editors

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

No abstract provided.

Multinomial Logistic Regression Model For The Inferential Risk Age Groups For Infection Caused By Vibrio Cholerae In Kolkata, India, Krishnan Rajendran, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Dipika Sur

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) modeling is an effective approach for categorical outcomes, as compared with discriminant function analysis and log-linear models for profiling individual category of dependent variable. To explore the yearly change of inferential age groups of acute diarrhoeal patients infected with Vibrio cholerae during 1996-2000 by MLR, systematic sampling data were generated from an active surveillance study. Among 1330 V.cholerae infected cases, the predominant age category was up to 5 years accounting for 478 (30.5%) cases. The independent variables V.cholerae O1 (p<0.001) and non-O1 and non-O139 (p < 0.001) were significantly associated with children under 5 years age group. V.cholerae O139 inferential age group was > 40 years. The infection mediated by V.cholerae O1 had significantly decreasing trend Exp(B) year wise from …

Vol. 6, No. 1 (Full Issue), Jmasm Editors

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

No abstract provided.

Clemson Commencement Program, May 2007, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Faculty Senate Operations Committee, 2007-2008, Vol 39, P 1524, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

The Chanticleer, 2007-05-01 (Summer), Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Acer Enews 05 May 2007, Acer

ACER eNews Archive 2001-2013

No abstract provided.

The Vine (2007-05)

The Vine, 1994-2008

The Vine was a successor to Reflections in Ink, published from 1994 to 2008. It transitioned from a mostly African American student perspective to a multi-cultural one.

Torch (May/June 2007), Amy Homans, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

News From The Flock, Vol. 2007 Issue 5, Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society

Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, May 2007, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2007

Volume 11, Issue 5

Detecting Duplicates In Geoinformatics: From Intervals And Fuzzy Numbers To General Multi-D Uncertainty, Scott A. Starks, Luc Longpre, Roberto Araiza, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Geospatial databases generally consist of measurements related to points (or pixels in the case of raster data), lines, and polygons. In recent years, the size and complexity of these databases have increased significantly and they often contain duplicate records, i.e., two or more close records representing the same measurement result. In this paper, we address the problem of detecting duplicates in a database consisting of point measurements. As a test case, we use a database of measurements of anomalies in the Earth's gravity field that we have compiled.

In our previous papers, we have proposed a new fast (O(n log(n))) …

Towards Optimal Scheduling For Global Computing Under Probabilistic, Interval, And Fuzzy Uncertainty, With Potential Applications To Bioinformatics, Roberto Araiza, Michela Taufer, Ming-Ying Leung

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many practical situations, in particular in many bioinformatics problems, the amount of required computations is so huge that the only way to perform these computations in reasonable time is to distribute them between multiple processors. The more processors we engage, the faster the resulting computations; thus, in addition to processor exclusively dedicated to this job, systems often use idle time on other processors. The use of these otherwise engaged processors adds additional uncertainty to computations.

How should we schedule the computational tasks so as to achieve the best utilization of the computational resources? Because of the presence of uncertainty, …

Mole Street Journal, May 2007, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dept. Of Chemistry And Biochemistry

Mole Street Journal

No abstract provided.

Atta Cephalotes As A Bioassay Tool To Identify The Presence Of Polar Secondary Compounds In Medicinal Plants Of Monteverde, Costa Rica, May 2007, John Thurston

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Atta cephalotes has shown potential as a bioassay tool for antifungal characteristics of medicinal plants (Hubbel, et al. 1983). This experiment tests a variety of plants with differing secondary compounds to explore further uses of A. cephalotes as a bioassay tool. A polar solvent was used to make crude extractions of twelve different medicinal plants to test the preference of Atta for the extract compared to a control. It was predicted that A. cephalotes would show a negative preference towards plants with antifungal compounds. However, negative preference for Brugmansia suaveolens, a plant with no known antifungal compounds, deterred A. cephalotes …

Dislodged But Not Dead: Survivorship Of A High Intertidal Snail Following Wave Dislodgement, Luke P. Miller, Michael J. O'Donnell, Katharine J. Mach

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

Waves breaking on rocky shorelines impart large forces on intertidal organisms, sometimes dislodging individuals. Dislodged individuals may be deposited in habitats that have a greater risk of predation or that prevent return to preferred regions on the shore. Thus, dislodgement is often assumed to be lethal. We experimentally dislodged Littorina keenae snails from high in the intertidal zone to test the likelihood of survival. Under a variety of wave conditions, we measured return rates to the high shore of 54–90%, so in this species, dislodgement is not equal to death. Snails showed a strong preference for returning to the approximate …

Practitioner's Corner: Nature-Spirit Connection, Joel Light

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

I have been a Christian and been interested in nature for as long as I can remember. Because these values in my life started at the same time, I see the direct correlation between the two. Growing up on a small hobby farm in Northwest Ohio, I had many opportunities to experience the Creation. From the farm animals that I raised, to the ditches that I explored, to the fields I walked, and the country roads where i searched for signs of wildlife; I was aware of being in and part of the Creation. I was created by the same …

Environmental Assessment Bird Damage Management In The Wyoming Wildlife Services Program, United States Department Of Agriculture, Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Wildlife Services (WS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), and Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) propose to continue the current bird damage management program in Wyoming. WS, USFWS, FAA, WGFD, and WDH use an adaptive integrated wildlife damage management (IWDM) approach to reduce bird damage to property, agricultural resources, natural resources, and to protect human health and safety. In addition, under the current program, the USFWS would continue to issue depredation permits based on need and …

The Faculty Notebook, May 2007, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.

Effects Of A Summer Program On The Academic, General, And Emotional Self-Concepts Of Gifted Students, Lindy Settle

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Academic, general, and emotional self-concepts were measured among 140 gifted students at a residential academic summer program. The literature is conflicting concerning the positive (Humes & Campbell, 1980; Kolloff & Moore, 1989) and negative (Olszewski, Kulieke, & Willis, 1987) effects of the participation of gifted students in such programs. Three main hypotheses are posited: First, the academic, general self, and emotional self-concepts of gifted students would increase in the time spent at a summer program. Second, there would be no gender differences found in the areas of academic and general self-concept, but predicted gender differences for emotional self-concept. Third, previous …

Comparison Of Soil Bulk Density After Poultry Litter Application, Philip Price

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

During the Spring and Fall of 2006, a study was conducted at the Agricultural Research and Education Complex of Western Kentucky University to monitor the effects of poultry litter application on soil bulk density. A randomized split block design was used for this study. The soil was a Crider silt loam (Typic Paleudalf). Poultry litter treatments were compared with inorganic fertilizers. The same basic fertility treatments were applied in this study from 2001-2006. Those treatments consisted of poultry litter applied at the nitrogen rate (NPL), poultry litter applied at the phosphorus rate only (PPL), poultry litter applied at the phosphorus …

University Magazine Spring 2007, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations

University Publications

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