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Collaborative Visual Search, Xin Chen

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

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Structure Determination Of Nanocrystalline Materials, Frederick Marc Michel

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

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Cross-Layer Design For Interference Mitigation And Mobility Support In Wireless Access Networks, Vishnu Navda

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

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問題導向學習於大學部兒科護理學之應用, 雅玲 李, 碧霞 高, 媚 張, 曉玲 楊, 淑芬 蔡

Journal of Medical Education

This research was aimed at integrating Problem- Based Learning (PBL) into a pediatric nursing bachelor program in order to explore the nursing students' understanding of the teaching method, the learning state of the students and the student's satisfaction with the teaching outcomes. A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the nursing students who had selected the pediatric nursing course for a continuous four semesters. The total valid sample size was 62. Among them, 88.7% indicated that ”small-group discussion” was the important method of PBL, and ”collaborative discussion” was the students' role in the PBL. Students who had completed the PBL …

高雄醫學大學附設中和紀念醫院一般醫學內科訓練示範中心運作經驗分享, 育志 林, 程遠 王, 苓怡 陳, 姿蓉 方, 宜純 蔡, 正賢 顏

Journal of Medical Education

高雄醫學大學附設中和紀念醫院一般醫學內科訓練病房成立於西元2006年二月並於西元2007年獲得行政院衛生署補助成立示範中心。成立的目的是為了改善一般醫學內科之臨床教學，以及落實全人照顧的願景。我們有對臨床教育具有極大熱忱的固定臨床教師團隊，也有深具教學經驗的資深內科主治醫師加入教學陣容。我們以ACGME提出之六大核心能力為藍本，針對不同學員對象訂定不同的學習目標以及專屬的教學計畫。藉由各種不同的教學活動來協助學員達成學習目標。另外，我們也透過各種適當的評估評量方式，對課程是否有滿足學員的需求、學員的學習成效、教師的教學品質與能力以及病患照護的品質進行考核回饋。目前一般醫學內科訓練中心仍有許多可進步的空間，我們仍會努力持續發展下去。

Self, Other, And Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs Of African American Women, Wynnetta Ann Scott-Simmons

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Using Critical Race Theory, Critical Literacy, Black Feminist Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the codes of power and registers of language in all-White, all-girl, elite private schools during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In capturing the memories, perceptions, and lived experiences of these women over thirty years later, the journey into a world of divergences was explored--divergent language codes, divergent social, cultural, and economic stratifications, and divergent linguistic expectations, …

Rideability Issues For Asphalt And Concrete Specification Modifications, Brad Rister, Clark Graves

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

Concerns have been raised regarding the differences between the incentive/disincentive determination procedures as well as the pay adjustments for rideability between asphalt and concrete projects. This report will attempt to do the following:

1. Address the differences between concrete and asphalt rideability specifications by looking at Kentucky’s historical rideability specifications and the specifications of peer states.
2. Review the necessity to revise current specifications based on historical rideability data, peer states rideability specifications, technological advancements in placement of roadway materials, and technological advancements in measuring rideability after construction.
3. Evaluate the monetary impact of a revised rideability specification on the latest year’s data. …

Archaeology Of The Late Holocene Taquara/Itararé Culture In Argentina, José Iriarte, J. Christopher Gillam, Oscar Marozzi

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Wrongful Convictions And Forensic Science: The Need To Regulate Crime Labs, Paul C. Giannelli

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Rise Of Agricultural Animal Welfare Standards As Understood Through A Neo-Institutional Lens, Elizabeth Ransom

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

In recent years agricultural animal welfare standards have increasingly been placed on the agenda of international, regional, and national governance bodies, as well as private agrifood organizations. Standards, long the domain of economists, are now recognized as one of the most significant emerging practices for governing food, and as such, a growing number of scholars have focused on the role that powerful actors have in setting standards and the distributional benefits of standards implementation. However, much of the existing literature relies on consumer-demand arguments for explaining the rise of animal welfare standards. This article uses sociological neo-institutionalism, specifically institutional isomorphism, …

Effects Of An Angled Starting Block On Sprint Start Kinematics, Nathaniel A. Brown

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of an angled proto-type starting block on sprint start kinematics. The angled starting block rotates the foot medially at a 16 degree angle, which emulates the 16 degree angle of the ankle on the medial axis of the foot. This 16 degree should allow for the athlete to apply more force against the block, resulting in a higher velocity at take-off and a faster block clearance time. In the present study, six female collegiate sprinters were filmed and analyzed using the angled starting block and a standard starting block. …

Foraging Behavior And Habitat Use By The Carolina Chickadee (Poecile Carolinensis) In West-Central Indiana, Ihan Chen

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

I studied the effect of environmental conditions on the foraging behavior of Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) in Kiewig woods, property of Indiana State University, in West Terre Haute in west-central Indiana. My study method uses Optimal Foraging Theory (Brown 1988) to measure the giving up density (GUD) of Chickadees under different environmental conditions ( different resource abundances, different habitat types, different resource types and different seasons). For my experiment, I set up 24 feeding stations in three kinds of habitats ( open area, secondary growth woods and mature woods) within 4 sites and paired trays in each habitat X site. …

Seasonal Changes In Thermal Conductance Of Bat Pelage: A Comparison Of The Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus Borealis) And Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus Fuscus), Daniel Justin Judy

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Two species with different ecologies and natural histories use different morphological characteristics and thermoregulatory strategies to survive seasonal environmental changes. The purpose of this project was to investigate two such species, the eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) and big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Red bats roost in the foliage of trees and occasionally leaf litter and have dense fur, as well as a furred interfemoral membrane. These two species differ in their morphology and roosting ecology in that big brown bats are generally larger with less dense fur, no fur on the interfemoral membrane, and are less exposed to environmental …

Online And Face-To-Face Student Attrition At A Wisconsin Technical College, Fredrick Sheldon Rice

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Institutions of higher learning have long been concerned about the issue of student attrition. The problems and issues surrounding the attrition of undergraduate students in four-year colleges and universities have been well documented. Two-year colleges may not be able to apply all the same strategies used by four-year institutions to improve the persistence rates of students. Adding to the already complex issue of student persistence is the emergence of distance education. Attrition improvement strategies and practices are not necessarily universal in design. Systematic analysis of individual institutions is required in order to develop improvement initiatives for its specific student population. …

Shared Parasitoids In A Metacommunity: Indirect Interactions Inhibit Herbivore Membership In Local Communities, James T. Cronin

Faculty Publications

The interaction between species, mediated by a shared natural enemy (i.e., apparent competition), has been the subject of much theoretical and empirical investigation. However, we lack field experiments that assess the importance of apparent competition to metacommunity structure. Here, I conducted a series of field experiments to test whether apparent competition, mediated by shared egg parasitoids (Anagrus nigriventris and A. columbi), occurs between two abundant planthopper species (Delphacodes scolochloa and Prokelisia crocea) of the North American Great Plains. The two planthoppers feed on different plant species within prairie potholes (wet depressions) and, thus, do not interact directly. At the scale …

From Population Sources To Sieves: The Matrix Alters Host-Parasitoid Source-Sink Structure, James T. Cronin

Faculty Publications

Field experiments that examine the impact of immigration, emigration, or landscape structure (e.g., the composition of the matrix) on the source-sink dynamics of fragmented populations are scarce. Here, planthoppers (Prokelisia crocea) and egg parasitoids (Anagrus columbi) were released among host-plant patches that varied in structural (caged, isolated, or in a network of other patches) and functional (mudflat matrix that impedes dispersal vs. brome-grass matrix that facilitates dispersal) connectivity. Planthoppers and parasitoids on caged patches exhibited density-dependent growth rates, achieved high equilibrium densities, and rarely went extinct. Therefore, experimental cordgrass patches were classified as population sources. Because access to immigrants did …

Police In Peril: Determining The Work-Induced Stressors Affecting Officers And The Subsequent Use Of Individualized Coping Strategies, Ami Möller

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identifying what stressors affect an officer and how he or she copes is essential in maintaining psychologically healthy officers. Studies have found that police officers consider the organizationally based aspects of the job to greatly influence their level of stress. The present research used the Police Stress Survey and COPE Inventory to identify common stressors and coping strategies among forty-five officers in the state of Indiana. The study attempted to determine whether or not a chronic overall stress -produced by frequent organizational stressors existed, and if this stress led to an increased use of maladaptive coping strategies. Results indicated a …

Battle On The Bay: The Civil War Struggle For Galveston, Andrew Duppstadt

Civil War Book Review

The Civil War in Texas

A Look at the Battle of Galveston

Civil War Treasures: The Last Bastion Small Collections Offer Details Of The Siege Of Port Hudson, Leah W. Wood

Civil War Book Review

New Acquisitions in the

Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections,

LSU Libraries' Special Collections

A Sailor's Life

Rediscovering Civil War Classics: Civil War Books Not Yet Written, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Civil War Books Not Yet Written

Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, And The State In The Anthracite Regions Of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868, Michael T. Smith

Civil War Book Review

The Economy of the Civil War

Explaining the Role of Labor and Business

Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders, Paul Ashdown

Civil War Book Review

Knowledge through Reading

The Intellectual Lives of Antebellum New Englanders

A Maryland Bride In The Deep South: The Civil War Diary Of Priscilla Bond, June Pulliam

Civil War Book Review

A Southern Woman's Diary

Revealing the Personal Side of the Civil War Experience

No Pardons To Ask, Nor Apologies To Make: The Journal Of William Henry King, Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, William A. Spedale

Civil War Book Review

Notes from a Louisiana Infantryman

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign Of 1864, Ethan S. Rafuse

Civil War Book Review

Analyzing Military Strategy and Execution

New Perspectives on the Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Annotations, Cwbr_Editor

Civil War Book Review

No abstract provided.

Uncommon Valor: A Story Of Race, Patriotism, And Glory In The Final Battles Of The Civil War, Gregory J.W. Urwin

Civil War Book Review

Understanding Courage in Battle

A Recombinant Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Expressing Two Additional Copies Of Gk Is More Pathogenic Than Wild-Type Virus In Two Different Strains Of Mice, Kevin R. Mott, Guey Chuen Perng, Yanira Osorio, Konstantin G. Kousoulas, Homayon Ghiasi

Faculty Publications

The effect of glycoprotein K (gK) overexpression on herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection in two different strains of mice was evaluated using a recombinant HSV-1 virus that expresses two additional copies of the gK gene in place of the latency-associated transcript (LAT). This mutant virus (HSV-gK 3) expressed higher levels of gK than either the wild-type McKrae virus or the parental dLAT2903 virus both in vitro (in cultured cells) and in vivo (in infected mouse corneas and trigeminal ganglia [TG] of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice). gK transcripts were detected in the TG of both HSV-gK 3-infected mouse strains …

The Herpes Simplex Virus Ul20 Protein Functions In Glycoprotein K (Gk) Intracellular Transport And Virus-Induced Cell Fusion Are Independent Of Ul20 Functions In Cytoplasmic Virion Envelopment, Jeffrey M. Melancon, Preston A. Fulmer, Konstantin G. Kousoulas

Faculty Publications

The HSV-1 UL20 protein (UL20p) and glycoprotein K (gK) are both important determinants of cytoplasmic virion morphogenesis and virus-induced cell fusion. In this manuscript, we examined the effect of UL20 mutations on the coordinate transport and Trans Golgi Network (TGN) localization of UL20p and gK, virus-induced cell fusion and infectious virus production. Deletion of 18 amino acids from the UL20p carboxyl terminus (UL20 mutant 204t) inhibited intracellular transport and cell-surface expression of both gK and UL20, resulting in accumulation of UL20p and gK in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in agreement with the inability of 204t to complement UL20-null virus replication …

Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis Of Edwardsiella Ictaluri Identifies Virulence-Related Genes, Including A Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 Class Of Type Iii Secretion Systems, Ronald L. Thune, Denise H. Fernandez, Jennifer L. Benoit, Maria Kelly-Smith, Matthew L. Rogge, Natha J. Booth, Christie A. Landry, Rachel A. Bologna

Faculty Publications

Edwardsieila ictaluri is the leading cause of mortality in channel catfish culture, but little is known about its pathogenesis. The use of signature-tagged mutagenesis in a waterborne infection model resulted in the identification of 50 mutants that were unable to infect/survive in catfish. Nineteen had minitransposon insertions in miscellaneous genes in the chromosome, 10 were in genes that matched to hypothetical proteins, and 13 were in genes that had no significant matches in the NCBI databases. Eight insertions were in genes encoding proteins associated with virulence in other pathogens, including three in genes involved in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis, three in genes …