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Vol. 28, No. 1, Fall 2007: Table Of Contents, Northern Illinois University Law Review

Northern Illinois University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Seismicity In The Vicinity Of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, For The Period October 1, 2002 To September 30, 2003, Ken Smith, David Vin Seggern, John G. Anderson, Richard Quittmeyer, Amy J. Smiecinski

Publications (YM)

Earthquake activity in the Yucca Mountain from October 1, 2002 through September 30, 2003 (FY03) is assessed and compared with previous activity in the region. FY03 is the first reporting year since the 1992 M 5.6 Little Skull Mountain earthquake with no earthquakes greater than M 3.0 within 65 km of Yucca Mountain. In addition, FY03 includes the fewest number of earthquakes greater than M 2.0 in any reporting year since the LSM event. With 3075 earthquakes in the catalog, FY03 represents the second largest number of earthquakes (second to FY02) since FY96 when digital seismic network operations began. The …

Installments, Issue 15, November 2007, Renee Montgomery

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Since You're Here, Volume 1, No. 6, November/December 2007, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Since You're Here

The November/December 2007 issue of the newsletter "Since You're Here."

Fibergramme Vol. 34 No. 6, Weavers Of Orlando

Text Materials of Central Florida

FIBERGRAMME is published in September, November, January, March and May.

A Lie Of The Mind, November 1-3. 2007, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard and directed by Siobhan Bremer.

Synopsis:Beth has been violently beaten - to the point of brain damage - by her overly jealous husband, Jake. As the play begins, she is being cared for by her family. Her brother-in-law, Frankie soon arrives, trying to figure out if Beth survived Jake’s beating. Beth’s father, mistaking Frankie for a deer, shoots him in the leg, and then brings Frankie into their home to care for his injury. Meanwhile, Jake, convinced that he has killed his wife, is slipping into …

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, November 1, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.

World War Ii Memory In The Palmetto State Vs. South Carolina's Civil War Legacy, Fritz Hamer

Faculty and Staff Publications

Presented at the workshop, Generational Memories of World War II: An International Perspective, held November 9-10, 2007 by the Center for the Study of History and Memory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Mice Are Nice, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Presenters share titles whose heroes are of the mouse persuasion. Plots run the gamut from humor to mystery. Titles are divided into those appropriate for early elementary, middle elementary, and upper elementary and middle school. For each title the following information is given: plot summary, name of hero(es), character values portrayed, classroom uses, and related websites.

Technology-Based Learning On At-Risk High School Students: An Evaluation Of The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Technology Center After-School Program, Makenzie Hawley Carpenter

Public Affairs Theses - Archive

Objective. High school students across North Texas are failing to meet the academic standards of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In response, after-school programs have been implemented to support cognitive and communal development of these at-risk youth. Technology can play a role in after-school by expanding the boundaries of the traditional classroom. This study evaluates the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Technology Center (MLK CTC) After-School Program between August 2006 and July 2007. Methods. Evaluation outcomes are based on the MLK CTC program objectives. The evaluation looks also at educational gains within the program and employs a paired …

On Internal Cone Cracks Induced By Conical Indentation In Brittle Materials, J. Yan, Anette M. Karlsson, X. Chen

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

The conditions for cone cracks to develop due to a conical indentation are investigated. Axisymmetric numerical simulations, based on the finite element method, are conducted, assuming a linear-elastic, perfectly plastic material. A superposition scheme is employed to simulate a range of crack geometries, including various lengths and orientations. The results indicate that the class of cracks investigated is prone to develop internally in brittle materials. Based on a reversed analysis, a new technique is proposed for measuring the fracture toughness in bulk material and thick coatings through one simple indentation test when the cone crack appears.

The Effect Of Tibiofemoral Loading On Proximal Tibiofibular Joint Motion, Jacob Scott, Ho Lee, Wael Barsoum, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

The human proximal tibiofibular joint (PTFJ) and its relationship to overall knee joint mechanics have been largely unexplored. This study describes force/displacement data from experiments done on four human cadaveric knee specimens and general conclusions obtained with the help of a statistical modeling technique. Specimens were rigidly affixed at the tibia to a force plate and the femur was attached to a custom made device allowing for manual load application. Motion of the fibular head was tracked relative to the tibial plateau by means of reflective markers and a high speed digital camera synchronized with the force plate data stream. …

High Grade Control Of Linear Induction Motor Drives, Haidong Yu

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Linear induction machines (LIM) have been widely utilized in military, transportation, aerospace due to the impressive advantages such as simple configuration, easy maintenance and high acceleration/deceleration. However, the existence of trailing eddy current effect and magnetic asymmetry effect undermines the expected functionality of vector control even though LIM inherent similarities from its rotary counterpart. As a result, it has been a focal research area to either improve the performance of vector control for LIM or develop a new high grade control strategy. Therefore, the in-depth knowledge of electromagnetic behavior of LIM is necessary. From both finite element analysis (FEA) and …

Chemotherapy Related Cognitive Impairment In The Rat, Jessica Boyette Davis

Psychology Theses - Archive

Treatment for cancer has been indicated to negatively impact the quality of life for patients. Specifically, chemotherapy has been associated with fatigue, nausea, and peripheral neuropathy. More recently, chemotherapy has also been found to be related to cognitive impairment in various cognitive domains including working memory, information processing speed, and visual attention. At this time, the mechanisms underlying this impairment are not understood and there is currently no treatment for this condition. The purpose of this study was to model chemotherapy related cognitive impairments using an established test of attention in rats. While receiving the chemotherapeutic agent Taxol, animals were …

International Life Saving Federation World Drowning Report 2007, International Life Saving Federation

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Swimming: Steps To Success (3rd Ed.), Stephen J. Langendorfer

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Incremental Procedures For Partitioning Highly Intermixed Multi-Class Datasets Into Hyper-Spherical And Hyper-Ellipsoidal Clusters, Qinglu Kong, Qiuming Zhu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Two procedures for partitioning large collections of highly intermixed datasets of different classes into a number of hyper-spherical or hyper-ellipsoidal clusters are presented. The incremental procedures are to generate a minimum numbers of hyper-spherical or hyper-ellipsoidal clusters with each cluster containing a maximum number of data points of the same class. The procedures extend the move-to-front algorithms originally designed for construction of minimum sized enclosing balls or ellipsoids for dataset of a single class. The resulting clusters of the dataset can be used for data modeling, outlier detection, discrimination analysis, and knowledge discovery.

Regression Model For Prioritization Of Corridors When Retiming Traffic Signals, Manjari G. Mittal

Civil Engineering Theses - Archive

Traffic signals are used by transportation engineers to safely and efficiently manage vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian traffic on roadways. However, to maintain the effectiveness of traffic signals, traffic signals should be adjusted or retimed periodically to match the current traffic patterns. Traffic signal retiming is one of the most cost effective ways available to transportation engineers for reducing delays and mitigating congestion. A region may contain a large number of traffic signals all of which cannot be retimed at once due to limited availability of funds and other resources; only a subset of signals can be retimed at any given …

Predicting The Prison Misconducts Of Women Offenders: The Importance Of Gender-Responsive Needs, Emily M. Wright, Emily J. Salisbury, Patricia Van Voorhis

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

The needs of women offenders may be qualitatively different than the needs of male offenders. The “pathways” and “gender-responsive” perspectives of female offending have recently garnered attention in both practitioner and scholarly arenas. The pathways perspective focuses attention on the co-occurrence and effects of trauma, substance abuse, dysfunctional relationships, and mental illness on female offending, while the gender-responsive perspective also suggests that problems related to parenting, childcare, and self-concept issues are important needs of women offenders. Few studies have examined whether or not these are risk factors for poor prison adjustment. With a sample of 272 incarcerated women offenders in …

Virtual Servers In A Data Center Environment, Terry Yerkan

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

Virtualization entails taking a physical hardware server and emulating several servers via software. This allows the consolidation of several servers to run on one single hardware platform, eliminating the need to have several independent hardware machines. This project entails the research of server virtualization and implantation of virtualization into a data center environment where hundreds of physical servers are running. The problem today is that hardware for servers are not being utilized. The hardware has become so advanced that the average day to day activities just don't need to power of today's computing. Hardware servers are taking up room, power …

A Decade Of Cardiothoracic Surgery At A Tertiary Care Hospital In Karachi, Pakistan, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Shahid Ahmed Sami

Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Objective: The medical records at Aga Khan University were reviewed to analyze the trends, mortality and patients characteristics of cardiothoracic surgeries in the last decade.METHOD: The medical records of all adult cardiac, thoracic and combined cardiothoracic operations performed during January 1995 to December 2004 at the Aga Khan University Hospital were reviewed. Data were retrieved and analyzed for trends, patient characteristics, and procedure mortality.Results: From January 1995 - December 2004, 4553 cases were eligible for the study, of which 73% were males and 9.4% were children. Male to female ratio changed from 1.3:1 to 3:1 from childhood to adulthood. Number …

The Textual Construction Of Femininity In Women's Fitness Magazines, Tracy Lynn Rundstrom Williams

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

Women in the first decade of the 21st century encounter competing ideologies of traditional femininity and empowered femininity. Language, in particular Discourse Analysis, provides a means for investigating what these ideologies, or discourses, are and how they are perpetuated. One source of language which encodes and perpetuates ideologies of femininity is women's magazines. As pervasive, monthly texts directed specifically at women, women's magazines provide a rich source of contemporary ideologies of femininity. Given the rise of health and fitness magazines over the past 20 years, it appears that one primary focus of contemporary femininity is the body. Previous research has …

Technology-Based Learning On At-Risk High School Students: An Evaluation Of The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Technology Center After-School Program, Makenzie Hawley Carpenter

Public Affairs Theses - Archive

Objective. High school students across North Texas are failing to meet the academic standards of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In response, after-school programs have been implemented to support cognitive and communal development of these at-risk youth. Technology can play a role in after-school by expanding the boundaries of the traditional classroom. This study evaluates the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Technology Center (MLK CTC) After-School Program between August 2006 and July 2007. Methods. Evaluation outcomes are based on the MLK CTC program objectives. The evaluation looks also at educational gains within the program and employs a paired …

Comparison Of Probabilistic Boolean Network And Dynamic Bayesian Network Approaches For Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks, Peng Li, Chaoyang Zhang, Edward J. Perkins, Ping Gong, Youping Deng

Faculty Publications

Background: The regulation of gene expression is achieved through gene regulatory networks (GRNs) in which collections of genes interact with one another and other substances in a cell. In order to understand the underlying function of organisms, it is necessary to study the behavior of genes in a gene regulatory network context. Several computational approaches are available for modeling gene regulatory networks with different datasets. In order to optimize modeling of GRN, these approaches must be compared and evaluated in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

Results: In this paper, two important computational approaches for modeling gene regulatory networks, …

What Pertinent Skills And Strategies Do Paraeducators Need In Order To Provide Effective And Meaningful Support To A Child With Autism In Public School Classrooms?, Cheryl Phillips

Education Masters

The rates of children diagnosed with autism in the United States today are steadily increasing. Children with autism are enrolling in the public school system in increasing numbers, and many require support from paraeducators. Engaging a child with autism in learning can be a tremendous challenge that requires specialized skills and strategies. Therefore paraeducators need specialized skills and strategies when working with a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder to insure meaningful and effective support for students. Exactly what skills and strategies do paraeducators need? A review of the literature as well as research is undertaken to examine what autism is, …

In One Ear And In The Other: The Net Effect Of Advertising Frequency, Brent Andrew Wiethoff

Communication Theses - Archive

This research used both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to explore the possible effects and functions that advertising may perform in developing individuals' attitudes. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model (Petty & Cacioppo, 1984) and Cultivation Theory (Gerbner, 1979), advertising is viewed as a frequently repeated, consistent set of messages that reinforce consumer ideas and values. The net effect of advertising is examined through focus group discussion of high-media/high-materialist individuals. Results of the study show four themes emerging from advertising (advertisements as an entrance to participation in culture, advertisements as a landscape, advertisements as validation and legitimacy, and advertisements as need-generators). Discussion …

Robot-Assisted Prostate Brachytherapy, Yan Yu, Tarun Podder, Y D. Zhang, W S. Ng, V Misic, J Sherman, L Fu, D Fuller, D J. Rubens, J D. Strang, R A. Brasacchio, E M. Messing

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

Abstract: In contemporary brachytherapy procedures, needle placement at the desired target is challenging due to a variety of reasons. A robot-assisted brachytherapy system can potentially improve needle placement and seed delivery, resulting in enhanced therapeutic delivery. In this paper we present a 16 DOF (degrees-of-freedom) robotic system (9DOF positioning module and 7DOF surgery module) developed and fabricated for prostate brachytherapy. Strategies to reduce needle deflection and target movement were incorporated after extensive experimental validation. Provisions for needle motion and force feedback were included into the system for improving robot control and seed delivery. Preliminary experimental results reveal that the prototype …

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

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Eagleville Times,Volume 5, Issue 21, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

The Dynamics Of Implementing And Managing Modularity Of Organizational Routines During Capability Development: Insights From A Process Model, Shan Ling Pan, Gary Shan Chi Pan, Adela Chen, Ming Huei Hsieh

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Past research using the resource-based view of a firm suggests that it is important to consider how firms develop, manage, and deploy resources and capabilities to influence the overall process of strategy formation and implementation. Relatively little research has been conducted in conceptualizing how firms implement and manage modularity of organizational routines during capability development. Yet, most companies would benefit from implementing modularity in organizational routines when competing in dynamic market conditions. Such implementations may require fundamental organizational reorientation that incurs significant coordination costs, and in some cases, such modularization attempts may fail, costing organizations significant amounts of valuable resources. …