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Mayg2008, Robert Kelly May 2008

Mayg2008, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From May 2008 Robert Kelly Archive.

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The Role Of Residential Learning Communities In The Faith Development Of First Year College Students, Dayanne Izmirian Phd May 2008

The Role Of Residential Learning Communities In The Faith Development Of First Year College Students, Dayanne Izmirian Phd

Dissertations

Although student development theories have recognized the complex processes of identity development, they have not adequately addressed the development of the spiritual self. Rather than given separate consideration, spiritual development is often discussed in the context of other aspects of development, such as the cognitive. Consequently, student affairs practitioners have not been adequately trained to address, facilitate, nor support the spiritual development of college students. One approach that has been proposed for facilitating the faith development of college students is Residential Learning Communities. Unfortunately, the assertion that Residential Learning Communities are a promising method of facilitating faith development in college …

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How Spirituality Impacts Ethical Leadership: A Cross-Case Analysis Of Eleven Corporate Chief Executive Officers, Mary Rose Johnson Edd May 2008

How Spirituality Impacts Ethical Leadership: A Cross-Case Analysis Of Eleven Corporate Chief Executive Officers, Mary Rose Johnson Edd

Dissertations

Almost weekly, there are news accounts of corporate and government leaders breaching ethical and moral standards. Indeed, in recent years, corporate corruption and misrepresentation of the truth have appeared overwhelming. At the very least, corporate and government scandals suggest that there is currently a crisis in leadership. A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America by Mitroff and Denton, a book called a “landmark contribution” by prominent leadership scholar Warren Bennis, found that individuals and organizations that have a strong sense of spirituality are “far less likely to compromise their basic beliefs and values.” Their data suggested that spirituality may serve as …

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Ecology, Problem Framing And Local Land Use Controls: A Case Study Of Socio-Ecological Governance In Franklin County, Idaho, Alissa Salmore May 2008

Ecology, Problem Framing And Local Land Use Controls: A Case Study Of Socio-Ecological Governance In Franklin County, Idaho, Alissa Salmore

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Due to the continuity of energy and material flows, the persistence of an ecological network necessarily includes a linking of ecological units from local and immediate to regional and broad-ranging scales. Humans are an integral part of ecosystems acting as resource consumers and agents of change, and all systems can be considered combined 'socio-ecological' systems. Where environmental and social systems lack coordination, mismatches between the temporal, spatial or functional scales at which these systems operate lead to resource use inefficiencies and the loss of ecosystem components and functioning. This case study of Franklin County, Idaho documents a recent land use …

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Connexin50 Intercellular Communication And Its Interaction With Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Signaling: Implications For Post Natal Lens Growth, Teresa Inez Shakespeare May 2008

Connexin50 Intercellular Communication And Its Interaction With Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Signaling: Implications For Post Natal Lens Growth, Teresa Inez Shakespeare

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

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Metalloproteinase Activators Of Notch Signaling In Development And Pancreatic Disease, Eric Thomas Sawey May 2008

Metalloproteinase Activators Of Notch Signaling In Development And Pancreatic Disease, Eric Thomas Sawey

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

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Intersections, Lorena Salcedo-Watson May 2008

Intersections, Lorena Salcedo-Watson

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

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Borderlands Of Psyche And Logos In Heraclitus: A Psychonalytic Reading, Jessica Ann Mayock May 2008

Borderlands Of Psyche And Logos In Heraclitus: A Psychonalytic Reading, Jessica Ann Mayock

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

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Biomechanical Promotion Of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation As A Countermeasure To The Development Of Obesity And Osteoporosis, Yen Kim Luu May 2008

Biomechanical Promotion Of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation As A Countermeasure To The Development Of Obesity And Osteoporosis, Yen Kim Luu

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

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Heraclitus On Meaning And Knowledge Legitimation, Matthew P. Meyer May 2008

Heraclitus On Meaning And Knowledge Legitimation, Matthew P. Meyer

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

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Disability And Embodiment: Towards An Ethics Of Welcoming, Dean Rowlan O'Harra May 2008

Disability And Embodiment: Towards An Ethics Of Welcoming, Dean Rowlan O'Harra

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

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A High-Dimensional Feature Clustering Approach To Support Search And Classification In Volumetric Data, Mauricio Rafael Maurer May 2008

A High-Dimensional Feature Clustering Approach To Support Search And Classification In Volumetric Data, Mauricio Rafael Maurer

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

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Synthesis Of Inhibitors Of The Enoyl Reductase In Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Christopher William Am Ende May 2008

Synthesis Of Inhibitors Of The Enoyl Reductase In Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Christopher William Am Ende

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

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Megakaryocyte/Platelet-Restricted Fviii Expression Using A Platelet Factor 4 Promoter, Andrea Leigh Damon May 2008

Megakaryocyte/Platelet-Restricted Fviii Expression Using A Platelet Factor 4 Promoter, Andrea Leigh Damon

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

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Self Destruction Or Self Promotion? Violence, Sexuality, And Decorum In Caravaggio's Religious Works, Danielle Patrice Cipolla May 2008

Self Destruction Or Self Promotion? Violence, Sexuality, And Decorum In Caravaggio's Religious Works, Danielle Patrice Cipolla

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

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Genome Signals And Evolution For Fidelity And Regulation Of Pre-Mrna Splicing, Chaolin Zhang May 2008

Genome Signals And Evolution For Fidelity And Regulation Of Pre-Mrna Splicing, Chaolin Zhang

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

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Pancreas Specific Ablation Of Ss1 Integrin In Mouse: Biology Of Epithelial Cells In A Model Of Chronic Pancreatitis, Lorenzo Bombardelli May 2008

Pancreas Specific Ablation Of Ss1 Integrin In Mouse: Biology Of Epithelial Cells In A Model Of Chronic Pancreatitis, Lorenzo Bombardelli

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

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The Neurogenetic Basis Of Behavioral Inhibition, Eliza Johanna Congdon May 2008

The Neurogenetic Basis Of Behavioral Inhibition, Eliza Johanna Congdon

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

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Neural Mechanisms Of Selective Auditory Attention In Rats, Lung-Hao Tai May 2008

Neural Mechanisms Of Selective Auditory Attention In Rats, Lung-Hao Tai

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

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Ontogeny Of Locomotion In Saimiri Boliviensis And Callithrix Jacchus: Implications For Primate Locomotor Ecology And Evolution, Jesse Wyatt Young May 2008

Ontogeny Of Locomotion In Saimiri Boliviensis And Callithrix Jacchus: Implications For Primate Locomotor Ecology And Evolution, Jesse Wyatt Young

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

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Applying Computer Aided Drug Design To Target Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Salma Banu Rafi May 2008

Applying Computer Aided Drug Design To Target Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Salma Banu Rafi

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

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Improving Screening For Externalizing Behavior Problems In Very Young Children : Applications Of Item Response Theory To Evaluate Instruments In Pediatric Primary Care., Christina Ruth Studts 1971- May 2008

Improving Screening For Externalizing Behavior Problems In Very Young Children : Applications Of Item Response Theory To Evaluate Instruments In Pediatric Primary Care., Christina Ruth Studts 1971-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Externalizing behavior problems in very young children are associated with an array of negative and costly long-term outcomes. Pediatric primary care is a promising venue for implementing screening practices to improve early identification of this social and public health problem. In this setting, screening requires a brief, easily scored instrument which can detect sub-clinical to clinical levels of the latent construct within the context of early childhood development. Further, items used should perform consistently with children of all sociodemographic backgrounds. This study applied item response theory analyses to investigate the precision, utility, and differential item functioning (DIF) of items measuring …

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Lipid Aldehydes Are Substrates And Transcriptional Regulators Of Cytochromes P450., Immaculate Amunom May 2008

Lipid Aldehydes Are Substrates And Transcriptional Regulators Of Cytochromes P450., Immaculate Amunom

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (4-HNE) and propene-2-al (acrolein) are highly reactive á,â-unsaturated aldehydes. 4-HNE and acrolein are generated in vivo as products of lipid peroxidation. These aldehydes are implicated in the onset of several diseases including atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative disease. They also react with nucleophilic cellular macromolecules including proteins, DNA and phospholipids. Some of these reactions in vivo lead to inhibition of enzyme activities, depletion of glutathione and oxidative stress. Because of their pathophysiological relevance, attention has focused during the last decade on the ability of mammals to metabolize these lipid aldehydes. The purpose of this study was therefore to determine the role …

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Reliability And Validity Of Ems Dispatch Code-Based Categorization Of Emergency Patients For Syndromic Surveillance., Matthew Raymond Groenewold May 2008

Reliability And Validity Of Ems Dispatch Code-Based Categorization Of Emergency Patients For Syndromic Surveillance., Matthew Raymond Groenewold

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A retrospective study involving the secondary analysis of public health surveillance records was undertaken to characterize the reliability and validity of an EMS dispatch data-based scheme for assigning emergency patients to surveillance syndromes in relation to two other schemes, one based on hospital ED clinicians' manual categorization according to patients' chief complaint and clinical presentation, and one based on ICD-9 coded hospital ED diagnoses. Comparisons of a sample of individual emergency patients' syndrome assignments according to the EMS versus each of the two hospital categorization schemes were made by matching EMS run records to their corresponding emergency department patient encounter …

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Chemical Signals As A Means Of Determining Health Status And Selecting Mates In Humans., Amy M. Cavanaugh May 2008

Chemical Signals As A Means Of Determining Health Status And Selecting Mates In Humans., Amy M. Cavanaugh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of my dissertation research was to determine the role of chemical signals in conveying information regarding an individual's health status and suitability as a mate in humans and to examine the role that commensal microflora play in this system. Chemical signals in humans have been theorized to play a role in disassortative mating relative to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and in selection of mates based on fluctuating asymmetry. In addition, chemical signals have been shown to communicate health status in rodents. Commensal microflora are a necessary component of such chemical signaling systems since it is the microflora …

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Drawing As An Investigation Of Perception., Nicholas Croghan 1981- May 2008

Drawing As An Investigation Of Perception., Nicholas Croghan 1981-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My recent work juxtaposes dualities such as natural/artificial, macro/micro, instantaneous/changing, and conscious/unconscious. As a process oriented artist, I enjoy creating tactile, illusionistic surfaces by building translucent layers through calligraphic gestures. This includes drawings on stone, mushrooms, wood panel, and paper using silverpoint, copperpoint, prismacolor, acrylic, ink, watercolor, graphite, charcoal, tusche, clay, eggshells, coffee, and tea. From afar, the background washes appear random and chaotic, but as one approaches intricate details engage the curious in multiple surprises. The silverpoint, which will tarnish and darken over time, is most evident against the white gesso ground as synthesized forms representing images the viewer …

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Food Restriction Compromises Immune Memory In Deer Mice (Peromyscus Maniculatus) By Reducing Spleen-Derived Antibody-Producing B Cell Numbers, Lynn B. Martin, Kristen J. Navara, Michael T. Bailey, Chelsea R. Hutch, Nicole D. Powell, John F. Sheridan, Randy J. Nelson May 2008

Food Restriction Compromises Immune Memory In Deer Mice (Peromyscus Maniculatus) By Reducing Spleen-Derived Antibody-Producing B Cell Numbers, Lynn B. Martin, Kristen J. Navara, Michael T. Bailey, Chelsea R. Hutch, Nicole D. Powell, John F. Sheridan, Randy J. Nelson

Integrative Biology Faculty and Staff Publications

Immune activity is variable in many wild animals, despite presumed strong selection against immune incompetence. Much variation may be due to changes in prevalence and abundance of pathogens (and/or their vectors) in time and space, but the costs of immune defenses themselves may also be important. Induction of immune activity often increases energy and protein expenditure, sometimes to the point of compromising fitness. Whether immune defenses are expensive to maintain once they are generated, however, is less well appreciated. If so, organisms would face persistent challenges of allocating resources between immunity and other expensive physiological processes, which would mandate trade-offs. …

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Profiles And Perspectives: Learning Through Descriptive Inquiry At The Cypress Hills Community School, Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Cecilia M. Espinosa, Sarah Ferholt, Michael Loeb, Berky Lugo-Salcedo, Cecilia Traugh May 2008

Profiles And Perspectives: Learning Through Descriptive Inquiry At The Cypress Hills Community School, Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Cecilia M. Espinosa, Sarah Ferholt, Michael Loeb, Berky Lugo-Salcedo, Cecilia Traugh

Publications and Research

This paper describes the work of a collaborative study group on exploring the multiple literacies of students at one school in Brooklyn, NY. Through descriptive review, the group developed knowledge about how to support student language and bilingualism through responsive techniques.

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International Partnerships To Combat Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Paul I. Bernstein May 2008

International Partnerships To Combat Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Paul I. Bernstein

WMD Occasional Papers

Building international partnerships is a central element of U.S. strategy to combat weapons of mass destruction (WMD). U.S. policy recognizes that the proliferation problem is far too large, complex, and important for any one nation to tackle alone. Meaningful and sustained progress in combating WMD requires active collaboration among all states that have a stake in managing the problem and the will and capacity to contribute. Current policies build on a foundation of global cooperation that dates back decades, even as they reflect significant changes in emphasis to adapt to contemporary proliferation challenges.

These challenges result in large part from …

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Library Media Specialists Are Not Ready To "Radically Change:" The Use Of Radical Change Children's Books In New Jersey School Media Centers, Elena Brown May 2008

Library Media Specialists Are Not Ready To "Radically Change:" The Use Of Radical Change Children's Books In New Jersey School Media Centers, Elena Brown

Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this study were to (a) determine if LMSs were using titles from a suggested list of titles found in Radical Change with kindergarten to third grade students, (b) determine how LMSs were using books with Radical Change characteristics; and (c) determine if LMSs were not using books with Radical Change characteristics, what were the reasons why they were not using or did not own the books. From the results of the questionnaire, the majority of the respondents had not heard of Dr. Eliza Dresang and her theory of Radical Change. It was also determined that many of …

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